Re: BPCS Sizing Issues -Reply

       Anthony C Kleier@ROBBINSINC
       09/18/98 10:26 AM
       
       My advice on Uservison...Don't use it.  There are other report
       writers on the market that do a much better job.  We tried for
       several months to create reports in Uservision before going
       live, and had very little success.  Too much time was spent
       fighting the Uservision interface and performace instead of
       thinking about the information we wanted.

       If you do use Uservision though, one thing we learned is that
       speed is greatly improved when using a routed connection such
       as Netsoft instead of the direct tcp/ip method.  Even using
       this, performance was still very bad.

       Tony Kleier




       <BPCS-L@midrange.com> AT INTERNET-MAIL on 09/18/98 06:57:47 AM

       To:   BPCS-L@midrange.com AT INTERNET-MAIL@ccMail
       cc:    (bcc: Anthony C Kleier/ROBBINSINC)
       Subject:  BPCS Sizing Issues -Reply

We went through the same sizing issues and came up with a RISC 530
model 2150, actually bigger than what their sizing recommendations
were!!!.  We have 1 GBytes of main storage, 70GB of disk and
approximately 100 users.  We are on 6.0.4 cum Tape of April which is
their latest release.  I can tell all of you we have been at this with
SSA now since October 1996 and are still not live.  We now have
considerable performance problems on the testing of order entry,
inventory, mrp etc.  SSA has an answer "We have a new sizing
document that will help" yeah!!! Yeah translation "Bigger machine is
needed"  who are we kidding, the bottom line is they at us more
hardware  at their software problem. Hey what about ODW when do we
get product, has anyone tried User/Vision another joke the performance
on that will ring any system to its knees. My quest is to get SSA
implemented and then re-evaluate the entire relationship. In the mean
time more $$$$$ to be spent I'm sure.
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