RE:MAPICS Analytics

[Tom.Orr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Responding to Eric Wolf,

Over  a  year ago, I implemented MAPICS Analytics.  The implementation went
very well.  It took around two weeks and I had users using the software for
their sales reporting.   Because my company modified MAPICS, I needed a few
custom  changes  to MAPICS Analytics.  Vanguard/MAPICS helped me with those
custom  changes.  I did not need to purchase an extra module (the extension
builder  module)  to make those changes.  The reason why I bring this up is
because  someone in this thread made a statement that you MUST purchase the
extension builder module to make changes.  You only need that module if you
want to make changes yourself.

AS/400  performance:   I  have  not  seen  much of a performance hit on our
AS/400  from  the  data warehouse.  In fact, the data warehouse took away a
lot  of CPU intense processes on the AS/400.  Before the data warehouse was
implement,  my  users  kicked  off  large  SQL/queries to get some of their
custom  sales  reports.    Now  it  is  sent  to  them  nightly through the
warehouse.   No more large queries hitting the system.

My  experience  so  far  with  MAPICS  Analytics has been very positive for
myself and my company.  It has made my life as an IT professional easier!

I would be happy to answer questions from anyone about this product.

Tom Orr
Data Warehouse Manager
Biomet Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: mapics-l-admin@midrange.com
Behalf Of Eric Wolf
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 2:11 PM
To:
Subject: MAPICS Analytics

To the list,

Has anyone implemented or plan on implementing MAPICS Analytics? If you have
or are in the process, how long did it take (or taking), how well did it go,
were there any "gotchas", etc. Was it easy to install?

My customer has MAPICS MMA and is looking at Analytics (and Silvon's version
of MMA).  The AMOLIB took 10 GB when the entire AMFLIB for the same
environment was 10GB.

TIA...
Eric A. Wolf
MAPICS Independent Consultant