Note after being involved in 12 to 15 conversions, I've had some behavior
like you describe, and on others the conversion is virtually 100%
"clean". The key is the conversion logs which Infor can review during
your validation. Note I have had very good success w/ the development team
at Infor addressing most of the conversion issues (after looking at the
logs). The key is providing them the logs that they need to review what
did/didn't convert over. It has a history of this i believe and will be
proactive way of finding this (vs letting the users "find out" and loose
confidence in system)
I guess my point is their is a method here to debug this and Infor will
respond (so you just need to push them a little bit.) Note the biggest
area's I've still seen (from 2 customers that went over in July) were Work
Benches. We had another customer report subsets that didn't convert. It
was entriely hit/miss.
I brought over a company in 2004 w/ 150+ business objects (to Rel 7.6) and
the business objects all converted. (so not sure what has changed or the
varability here in your installation)
Anyway, definitely work with Infor! While they seem backed up at times
(availability to get to the developers is a hit/miss; I believe most are
tied up trying to get R7.8 deployed), when they do get involved they can
typically identify and fix the conversion issues. They do a good job.
Kevin
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To: "MAPICS ERP System Discussion" <mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Morrison, Doug" <dmorrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent by: mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 07/31/2007 10:10AM
Subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] Conversion to PowerLink
We had similar troubles with our conversion and ended up have to
manually recreate about a dozen objects out of our ~110 user objects.
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From: mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Otto Meyn
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:57 AM
To: MAPICS-L SUBMIT
Subject: [MAPICS-L] Conversion to PowerLink
We are having trouble, (several) with the browser to powerlink
conversion. Infor is working on them.
Secondary objects seem to be one, some subsets do not convert, and other
items just don't seem to work.
I thought after this much time the conversion would be all inclusive,
wrong.
We have done a lot of stuff in Browser, has everyone else have the same
trouble.
We had to move our target date out because of these item.
I'm hoping that everything does not have to be recreated.
Otto "Skip" Meyn
MIS Manager
Morris Coupling Company
2240 W15th Street
Erie, Pa. 16505
814-452-3538 meyno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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