You are not alone when you are switching or migrating from Accpac, MYOB, MAS 90, QuickBooks, or even legacy in-house made accounting ERP application to Microsoft Great Plains.
May 3, 2007 (Press Release) --
Alba Spectrum, http://www.albaspectrum.com help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918
You are not alone when you are switching or migrating from Accpac, MYOB, MAS 90, QuickBooks, or even legacy in-house made accounting ERP application to Microsoft Great Plains. This is typical situation and from time to time majority of midsize or small businesses should come through this. Do not be overwhelmed with potential problems expectation, relax, think about your options and ways to go. In this small article we would like to give you some orientation on the possible steps to undertake and pitfalls. First you should think and explore data conversion possibilities and their classification:
Setup. Consider transferring existing setup features from your legacy application to GP. In GP we have clear concept of setup files (compared to master records, work, open and historical records). The scope if setup is usually limited to company name, users and their access rights to your GP companies, Modules settings: GL, AR, AR, SOP, POP, IV, UPR. Please try to be patient, before you burst with emotions lets us give you the argument setup is typically built into the heart of the MRP architecture, this is why you should not expect it to be transferred by the wizard
Master Files. Customers, Vendors, Employees, GL Accounts should be migrated no doubt about it. You are the judge if the number of your customers is 50 or so you may simply to have somebody of your employees to manually key them in. If this is not the case (you have 50 thousand customers), then GP integration manager module is needed or if this is too expensive you may have your GP consulting partner to use SQL scripts to bring master records over to GP
Work Transactions. GP has concept of work, open and historical transactions, when operator enters invoice it is in so-called work status, when you post it it is in open status and then you move it to history when your review open files longevity. When you are migrating from legacy ERP it is good approach to post or transform to equivalent of open or historical status all your legacy transactions prior to migration to GP
Alba Spectrum, http://www.albaspectrum.com help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, serving USA, Canada nationwide: Quebec, Ontario, Calgary, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, IL, CA, GA, MN, MI, WI, IN, NY, WA, DC, TX, OR, local service is available in Chicago area: Naperville, Aurora, Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Schaumburg, Wheaton, Joliet, Chicago downtown, Alsip, Lyons, Niles, Lombard, Oswego, and in Houston: Richmond, Rosenberg, Safford, Sugar Land, Missouri City, Pearland, Friendswood, Mission Bend, Pasadena, Bellaire, Galena Park, plus internationally via remote support: UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
You are not alone when you are switching or migrating from Accpac, MYOB, MAS 90, QuickBooks, or even legacy in-house made accounting ERP application to Microsoft Great Plains. This is typical situation and from time to time majority of midsize or small businesses should come through this. Do not be overwhelmed with potential problems expectation, relax, think about your options and ways to go. In this small article we would like to give you some orientation on the possible steps to undertake and pitfalls. First you should think and explore data conversion possibilities and their classification:
Setup. Consider transferring existing setup features from your legacy application to GP. In GP we have clear concept of setup files (compared to master records, work, open and historical records). The scope if setup is usually limited to company name, users and their access rights to your GP companies, Modules settings: GL, AR, AR, SOP, POP, IV, UPR. Please try to be patient, before you burst with emotions lets us give you the argument setup is typically built into the heart of the MRP architecture, this is why you should not expect it to be transferred by the wizard
Master Files. Customers, Vendors, Employees, GL Accounts should be migrated no doubt about it. You are the judge if the number of your customers is 50 or so you may simply to have somebody of your employees to manually key them in. If this is not the case (you have 50 thousand customers), then GP integration manager module is needed or if this is too expensive you may have your GP consulting partner to use SQL scripts to bring master records over to GP
Work Transactions. GP has concept of work, open and historical transactions, when operator enters invoice it is in so-called work status, when you post it it is in open status and then you move it to history when your review open files longevity. When you are migrating from legacy ERP it is good approach to post or transform to equivalent of open or historical status all your legacy transactions prior to migration to GP
Alba Spectrum, http://www.albaspectrum.com help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, serving USA, Canada nationwide: Quebec, Ontario, Calgary, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, IL, CA, GA, MN, MI, WI, IN, NY, WA, DC, TX, OR, local service is available in Chicago area: Naperville, Aurora, Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Schaumburg, Wheaton, Joliet, Chicago downtown, Alsip, Lyons, Niles, Lombard, Oswego, and in Houston: Richmond, Rosenberg, Safford, Sugar Land, Missouri City, Pearland, Friendswood, Mission Bend, Pasadena, Bellaire, Galena Park, plus internationally via remote support: UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
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