subject: Sap Business One Recovering And Preserving Software Licenses Investment [print this page] Accounting software implementation industry is very competitive by its nature and large numbers of consultants break away from their former employer and form new consulting firms or pursue independent practice. At the same time ERP applications have to compete with each other and some of them win but others have to give up and disappear. There is also the factor of accounting product life cycle which begins with modern architecture and design followed by gaining respective market share and then triumphing on the former achievement and slowdown in technology innovations. These descriptions probably give you an idea that consulting industry is pretty turbulent and even veterans have to come through regular training and certification activity as well as trying to incorporate learning curve into consulting proposals. For end customer all these facts might mean that some of the implementation projects might fail. We would like to come through typical scenarios with high tendency of project failure:
1.Large Scale Customization or is it a good way to undertake? When native ERP code is composed the next steps include testing through large number of hypothetical transactions often via scripts and macro play. This is not all as testing a portion of logic should be followed by testing the whole module as combination of parts and then cross modules integration testing. When you have to program your unique customization it might be difficult to budget following deep testing and quality assurance. Plus custom programming is vulnerable to such possible scenarios as native table, form or business logic change where your modification have to be realigned. All these arguments are here to convince you that if you plan to do some tailoring to chosen application try to restrict their scope. If the system doesnt fit at least 80% then continue with market research and find another system which covers higher percentage of requirements in the native functionality
2.Historical Data Migration or in other words we want everything to be converted from our legacy accounting. This is another underwater rock which might cause the project catastrophe or at least partial fiasco. When your consultant has to bring over something like huge number of historical sales orders he or she has to deploy native migration tool which imitates order entry and posting all the way through modules and to its final destination in General Ledger. If you have millions of documents to bring over such migration tool might be too slow to be feasible. Instead of bringing over everything try to consider the option to keep old accounting running in the corner for possible data inquiry and future audit. If this is not possible which might be the case when your software licenses were based on subscription then consider exporting your legacy ERP documents into open format meaning something like Microsoft Access or SQL Server database. These methods if they are possible should be able to save you a lot of consulting budget as well as prevent possible project disaster
3.Second Opinion. When you feel that your implementation is stumbling on the same place and the budget is showing the signs to begin approaching the depletion first of all you should get reassured that second opinion is possible the same way as in medical practice. It is not a good idea to write off software licenses investment and rush into starting all over. The help could be around the corner where around the corner often means Google or Yahoo search pages and not real proximity to your office
4.SAP B1 instruments. Software development is usually done in Microsoft Visual Studio with references to Software Development Kit code snippets in VB or C#. Data conversion in its moderate version is recommended in Data Transfer Workbench where you have to fill CSV templates for each object subject to migration
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