Company Name Change

[Dave Kahn...]

World 7.3 cum 11.

Our company is planning a change of name. We are therefore currently looking at all the things we will have to do to accommodate this - everything from headed notepaper on up.

Within JDE World we are trying to identify the things that will need changing. So far we've covered most of the obvious items including:

- #MENUTTL data dictionary item
- Company names in F0010, particularly 00000
- Address book entries
- Company name hardcoded into menu titles and options.

Things that are visible outside the company are obviously the most critical. Things that are visible to users as part of the application come next. Other things, such as comments in program sources, I feel probably should not be changed at all.

Does anyone else have any bright ideas, or has anyone been through this exercise before?

We will obviously need to test everthing in a non-production environment and then be ready to make the production switch overnight. We currently have no idea what the new company name will be incidentally.

 

[ssolberg]

Do you use any third-party "forms" product (like CreatePrint) to pretty up stuff (like invoices, PO's, checks) coming out of JDE. Those may have Company stuff on the form templates, including logos and such.

I'm sure there are plenty of DreamWriter/World Writer reports that might have the company name hardcoded in the titling as well? That's likely more internal though, not a drop-dead issue.

 

[patpong_w]

All report headers/titles in DREAM, WW (STAR and FASTR if in case the title
is hardcoded), also in any UDC (if used).



HTH

ppw



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From: Dave Kahn... [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 4:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Company Name Change



World 7.3 cum 11.

Our company is planning a change of name. We are therefore currently looking
at all the things we will have to do to accommodate this - everything from
headed notepaper on up.

Within JDE World we are trying to identify the things that will need
changing. So far we've covered most of the obvious items including:

- #MENUTTL data dictionary item
- Company names in F0010, particularly 00000
- Address book entries
- Company name hardcoded into menu titles and options.

Things that are visible outside the company are obviously the most critical.
Things that are visible to users as part of the application come next. Other
things, such as comments in program sources, I feel probably should not be
changed at all.

Does anyone else have any bright ideas, or has anyone been through this
exercise before?

We will obviously need to test everthing in a non-production environment and
then be ready to make the production switch overnight. We currently have no
idea what the new company name will be incidentally.

Dave... Any views expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect those
of Stolt Offshore

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[Dave Kahn...]

Thanks, Sannan. We use Optio, but that's already covered by a different group. It's only core JDE that my group is looking at.

It sounds as though we have everything covered, but I wanted to check whether anyone else had encountered any "gotchas".

 

[Nichelle]

Don't forget to inform all of your 3rd party software vendors of the
company name change, including Oracle, and depending on the
circumstances prompting the company name change there could be
additional license fees involved to relicense with the new company name.