I remember a company that went bankrupt because they spent so much in SAP ( or was it Oracle? ) It was in the news.
Anybody? HP On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Dawn Wolthuis <dw...@tincat-group.com>wrote: > I have only seen SAP implementations from a bit of a distance and > through reading stories, but in every case, my understanding was that > those in charge of the project were gone before SAP went live. I have > seen systems analysts and programmers survive the project, with plenty > of stories once they do. It sounds like a really brutal ERP > installation. I have not kept current on this front enough to know > that people were still selecting it, although a whole lot of people > are still maintaining it. > > Best wishes, Scott, and thanks for taking the time to write up your > notes regarding some of those in the industry who have helped you. > Cheers! --dawn > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Holt, Jake <jh...@samsill.com> wrote: > > I thought no one actually ever finished implementing SAP? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto: > u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of iggch...@comcast.net > > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:31 PM > > To: U2 Users List > > Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL > > > > > > > > Don't worry, we're not going to implement anything that's going to do > damage. Well, unless you call the outrageous cost a damage :) > > > > > > > > Any thoughts on the CONCURRENT option? > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > From: "Wjhonson" <wjhon...@aol.com> > > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:14:19 PM > > Subject: Re: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL > > > > > > Well you used to be. After SAP sucks ten years out of the life of your > company, we'll see > > > > > > > > << I am being moved to our corporate office to join a eam of 10 who will > be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP to meet the eeds of the best > wine and spirits distribution company in the world. Ok, I'm > > little partial... >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: iggchamp <iggch...@comcast.net> > > To: U2 Users List <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> > > Sent: Wed, May 23, 2012 11:11 am > > Subject: [U2] File Sizing using concurrent option AND FAREWELL > > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > uv 10.2.7 / hpux 11.11 > > > > First things first (skip this section if you don't care for goodbyes)... > > > > > > I wanted to say thanks to all of the contributors to this list. I have > learned > > tremendous amount from all of you. The passion that many of you have > for your ork is really inspiring. I am being moved to our corporate office > to join a eam of 10 who will be learning, configuring, and customizing SAP > to meet the eeds of the best wine and spirits distribution company in the > world. Ok, I'm > > little partial... All of you deserve a great deal of credit for my > pportunity as you have all contributed to the things that I've been able to > ccomplish with my current system. Without the great system that we here in > llinois have developed, I'm sure that noone would trust in my abilities to > eliver in a different environment. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > blockquote> > > > > special thanks to a couple of people I have been blessed to work > directly ith. I cannot recommend their services enough! > > /blockquote> > > > > > > blockquote> > > > > > > ony Gravagno ( http://www.nebula-rnd.com/ ): When each division of SWS > was > > sked to provide a web service that would interface our sales force > automation > > nits to our business systems, I was terrified. I had never had the > opportunity > > o work with web technology and, based on a heavy workload, did not have > the > > ime to dive in at that time. I did take the web developer that Universe > > ffered for a spin. Pretty cool tool. While I was able to develop a web > > ervice that could work had I set the requirements myself, I could not > get it to > > eet the requirements that corporate was developed. I even worked with > one of > > he IBM engineers and he could not get it done. Keep in mind that I have > always > > elieved in my abilities to provide solid solutions using the tools that > we have > > n the multivalue world. It killed me to have to bring in a resource > from the > > utside. I swallowed my pride and turned to Tony. I was amazed at the > > ncredible service that he provided. He developed a service for me that > has > > een rock solid. I am still amazed that I have never had to revisit it > after > > ears of pounding by our sales force. This is plug, play, and forget > about it > > t its best! Not only that but our web service which provides incredibly > > owerful and complicated pricing blows the web service developed on our > > orporate as400 system out of the water from a performance standpoint. > Thanks > > ony, you've made me look a lot better than I really am :) > > /blockquote> > > > > > > > > eff Fitzerald ( http://www.fitzlong.com/ ): Your write-ups on file > performance > > ave really helped me to ensure that our system is always operating at a > high > > evel. I wish I could get everyone around here to read it. I was also > > ortunate enough to have been allowed to use your file maintenance > product - > > AST. I can't tell you how much time that this saved me. When I first > arrived > > t this company, all the files were dynamic. I made the mistake of > converting > > hem all to static because I believed the performance was much better. I > was > > ight and the system was screaming. The reason I use "mistake" is that it > > brought me into a whole new world of ensuring the thousands of files > used by > > he application continued to perform by spending all my weekends sizing. > Yuck! > > y allowing me to break away from managing the monster that I had created > by > > sing your product, I had my weekends free again. Yay! Not only that, > your > > roduct was doing a much better job than I ever did. Unfortunately, > budgets > > ere cut and I could no longer continue to use it. Thanks Jeff, you > helped me > > o spend my time moving the company forward by developing great tools > rather > > han maintaining files. > > /blockquote> > > > > > > ILE SIZING question: > > > > As mentioned, I'm moving on. Before leaving I'm trying my best to ease > the > > urden on my friends here in Illinois by automating many of the things > that I > > ever got around to doing for myself . That being said, I put together a > > outine that will analyze our files and resize as necessary. It's pretty > slick > > ut not near the software offered by fitzlong.com - refer to previous > section. > > > > I would like to set it up to execute from cron so that noone has to > babysit. > > eing the scaredy cat that I am, I've always phantomed off the process and > > onitored over the weekend to ensure that noone is accessing the files in > > uestion. I put the CONCURRENT option in there as a safeguard but never > really > > rusted it enough to turn the program loose without policing. > > > > My questions regarding CONCURRENT are these: > > 1. Is the option trustworthy enough to use on a live system while > users > > re possibly accessing the files? > > 2. Are there any sort of performance issues? In other words, would a > file > > hat takes 2 hours to size take 8 hours to size while users are > accessing? The > > outine keeps a history of various statistics including how much time it > took to > > o its business. > > 3. Does it slow the application that is accessing the file? > > 4. Any other considerations? > > > > > > hanks in advance for your response and for all of the tremendous help > that > > ou've all been over the years. > > > > Scott Thompson > > ______________________________________________ > > 2-Users mailing list > > 2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org > > ttp://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > > U2-Users mailing list > > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > _______________________________________________ > > U2-Users mailing list > > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > _______________________________________________ > > U2-Users mailing list > > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > > > -- > Dawn M. Wolthuis > > Take and give some delight today > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > -- *hp* _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
