olsonbeast
Member
After searching previous posting, quest presentations and google, I decided it's time to post our situation here and see what the lords of jde can advise.
Have a look at the following, apologize for length but wanted to include all details:
Current situation:
- midsized city in Ontario (population around 90,000)
- on Xe since 2001 (SP23Q1) with everything including test/crp/prod on one iseries model 810 box plus one windows server for batch jobs
- about 20 fat clients, 80 thin clients via two windows 2003 citrix 4.5 presentation servers, no web client
- running Financials, HR, Payroll/Vertex, basic purchasing
- mostly vanilla, very little modification on JDE objects (maybe 5 to 10 small mods on programs)
- around 150 custom reports and 10 custom programs
- about 25 inbound and/or outbound Z table interfaces
- one man show for JDE administration - CNC, 2nd level business support, JDE projects, basic development work
- not currently using Websphere or OAS in our organization
Reason for platform change:
- current iseries running out of disk space necessitating either hardware upgrade or archive project
- get our organization in line with where Oracle is headed (better long term development/support for red stack versus blue stack)
- single source vendor
- our organization has been building a lot of Oracle DB expertise and gradually moving away from iseries
- want to implement high availability and better backup procedures, our iseries expertise here is lacking
- want to reduce iseries licensing costs
Reason for upgrade:
- access to new functionality including new HR modules and enhanced procurement and financials
- better reporting tools and easier end user access to data
- get prepared well in advance of 2013 sustaining support for XE
Where we think we want to go
- IBM system x platform, Linux OS, Oracle DB, OAS, Oracle Portal, IE browser
- version 9.0 or 9.01, whichever is most appropriate for a mid year 2010 implementation
- no new modules to begin with, add these on in a second phase (potentially requisition self serve, eRecruit, Employee self serve, depending on business case)
- unicode if necessary
Project assumptions:
- we get all the testing support we need from the business
- user training is outsourced
- day to day support of XE is backfilled leaving the current CNC/JDE adminstrator for full time project work
- Oracle DBA available 25% for project work
- Applications/data architect available 25% for project work
What I'm looking for:
- amount of technical consultant help required for planning/installation/upgrade
- amount of development consultant help required for recoding custom objects
- elapsed time of project
- any increased JDE support requirements going forward
- any major flaws in our plan
That's about all I can think of, just trying to get some real high level estimates so we can begin planning the pain. Thanks in advance, Kris Olson.
Have a look at the following, apologize for length but wanted to include all details:
Current situation:
- midsized city in Ontario (population around 90,000)
- on Xe since 2001 (SP23Q1) with everything including test/crp/prod on one iseries model 810 box plus one windows server for batch jobs
- about 20 fat clients, 80 thin clients via two windows 2003 citrix 4.5 presentation servers, no web client
- running Financials, HR, Payroll/Vertex, basic purchasing
- mostly vanilla, very little modification on JDE objects (maybe 5 to 10 small mods on programs)
- around 150 custom reports and 10 custom programs
- about 25 inbound and/or outbound Z table interfaces
- one man show for JDE administration - CNC, 2nd level business support, JDE projects, basic development work
- not currently using Websphere or OAS in our organization
Reason for platform change:
- current iseries running out of disk space necessitating either hardware upgrade or archive project
- get our organization in line with where Oracle is headed (better long term development/support for red stack versus blue stack)
- single source vendor
- our organization has been building a lot of Oracle DB expertise and gradually moving away from iseries
- want to implement high availability and better backup procedures, our iseries expertise here is lacking
- want to reduce iseries licensing costs
Reason for upgrade:
- access to new functionality including new HR modules and enhanced procurement and financials
- better reporting tools and easier end user access to data
- get prepared well in advance of 2013 sustaining support for XE
Where we think we want to go
- IBM system x platform, Linux OS, Oracle DB, OAS, Oracle Portal, IE browser
- version 9.0 or 9.01, whichever is most appropriate for a mid year 2010 implementation
- no new modules to begin with, add these on in a second phase (potentially requisition self serve, eRecruit, Employee self serve, depending on business case)
- unicode if necessary
Project assumptions:
- we get all the testing support we need from the business
- user training is outsourced
- day to day support of XE is backfilled leaving the current CNC/JDE adminstrator for full time project work
- Oracle DBA available 25% for project work
- Applications/data architect available 25% for project work
What I'm looking for:
- amount of technical consultant help required for planning/installation/upgrade
- amount of development consultant help required for recoding custom objects
- elapsed time of project
- any increased JDE support requirements going forward
- any major flaws in our plan
That's about all I can think of, just trying to get some real high level estimates so we can begin planning the pain. Thanks in advance, Kris Olson.