RE: User Vision

All these products mentioned so far have their own strengths and weakness'.
Most can be overcome with a bit of "back-end" tweaking, usually by a DBA or
AP.

Crystal has a problem linking Text fields with Numeric fields.
eg - Salesman# in BPCs is defined differently in different tables so we
created views on the AS400 that had the saleman# defined in both types.

We experienced performance problems with Impromptu & Powerplay.
eg Where number of rows in a table was were greater than 400,000. We again
built a view that summarised the data for us.

Building views does have an impact on performace, so I would strongly
recommend that only people with a good understanding of BPCS & Transaction
volumes have access to creating Views.

There are many factors to consider, but I guess the main one is the amount
of funding that you have. A company that I used to work for pumped most of
its BPCS data down to a SQL server and then ran most of their reports from
that DB. They weren't too concerned whether people use "MS Access" to get at
the data as it was "read-only". This was a cheap solution, but it suited the
budget.

Hope this helps

Cheers

Mickj
 



-----Original Message-----
From: Weston, Jeff (ICP) [mailto:Jeff.Weston@icpusa.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 2 May 2001 0:49
To: 'BPCS-L@midrange.com'
Subject: User Vision 
Importance: High


We are looking at various options to replace User Vision.    One of the main
contenders is Microsoft Access.  

Has anyone used this approach?    If so, we would be interested in setting
up a dialog and possibly sharing Access programs. 

Thank You 

Jeffrey M Weston 
International Comfort Products 
Lewisburg, TN  

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