Re: Having much trouble working with our ERP vendor

Don,

It sounds like you may be caught in that unwieldy tract of no-man's land. You may want to replace the vendor's system with your own. But you're not ready to cover all the functional bases that they cover. Management may be putting pressure on you to justify the cost of your operations, in addition to the cost of the vendor's software. You may be thinking that one or the other may come up short, and you'd rather that it to be the vendor. You may be proposing one modernization strategy with Lansa for the Web, while the vendor may be proposing another.

I don't know if any of that is correct, but it has a familiar ring.

-Nathan.




----- Original Message ----
From: Don Cavaiani <dcavaiani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, April 27, 2010 8:17:59 AM
Subject: Having much trouble working with our ERP vendor

We cannot seem to work out a mutually beneficial way to move our ERP software up to a new IBM Systemi Server.
If I understand correctly, NOT licensing our ERP software on the faster IBM server models will render all the vendor programs run from the standard vendor ERP menus unusable.
We have for years now been modifying a large percentage (40-50%) of these ERP programs (modifications have been made to the original RPG source code). In addition, we have developed several major 'bolt-ons' - using just the existing file structures and LANSA for the WEB. We are investigating the possibility of dropping all the ERP menus and programs entirely, if/when moving to the new server.
I am asking the group for a 'reasonableness' check on the possibility of this approach.
TIA


Don F. Cavaiani

Amerequip Corp.
920-894-7063

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