This sounds very tempting, using MV as a data warehouse to a non-MV (or MV) primary application. Does anyone else have any insight on how this flies, management-wise or technically.
I like it as all of the original reports are already written and tested and it keeps the customer a MV customer. Thanks Mark Johnson > > I have one client that uses Great Plains. Although an old version I > felt that the system was not as aligned to the work flow as many PICK > systems are. There was also a trap similar to the old spreasheets in > the report generator, where the calculations are directional ir verticle > or horizontal. Ie if you calculate horizontal then April's Open Bal is > calculated from March's Closing Balance before March Closing Balance has > been calculated. > > We currently suck data out of the Great Plains General Ledger and build > it into a Multidimensional Warehouse based on Universe and actually do > all the forecasting, Budgeting and Reporting from Universe. One > application allows users from Excel spreadsheet to view the journals in > Great Plains related to the line item and this is through Universe. We > do this online through the SQL features in UvBasic. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
