by Loren Saunders | Apr 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Andrews Engineering, Inc. had converted from Sema4 to Vision 2 years prior to them calling me. PROBLEM: Sema4 didn’t handle the project work breakdown structure as well as Vision does, and consequently, a lot of companies were converted incorrectly, with a mix...
by Loren Saunders | Apr 11, 2012 | All Case Studies, Configuration Topics, General Topics, Implementation Topics, Special Projects
Ronald Lu & Partners, HK had implemented Deltek Vision 5.1 in 2008 and had been live for 2 years. I received an email from the founder’s son, Bryant Lu saying that although they had been live for 2 years, their accounting department was still doing a lot of...
by Loren Saunders | Apr 10, 2012 | Custom Reports, Implementation Topics
Since I’ve been developing a lot of custom reports for Deltek Vision 6 and above, I’ve noticed a lot of commonalities between requests for custom reporting. Custom reports in SSRS against Deltek Vision can be quite time consuming and thus expensive for...
by Loren Saunders | Apr 10, 2012 | Configuration Topics, General Topics, Implementation Topics
As a developer, programmer, business systems analyst, ERP implementations guy and consultant, I’ve adopted some simple, fundamental rules to go by on projects. Some examples are: If adding data to your database means you have to change code underlying a form or...
by Loren Saunders | Apr 3, 2012 | General Topics, Implementation Topics, Infocenter Automation
Ah… the magical stored procedures! I have heard people talk about stored procedures for Vision, heard people ask about them, heard people say they can write them. But what exactly IS a stored procedure? A stored procedure is a batch of programming code written...
