New Awesome E10 Upgrade

CMS Solutions just finished another awesome Vantage 8 to Epicor 10 upgrade.  When they reached out to us, the customer had a highly customized system that was fraught with errors.  We did a very detailed Business Process Review to determine what functions they needed.  From that we developed a comprehensive plan and set a good schedule in place.  The client was open to any improvements and worked hard to vet out the TEST system. 
 
The customer did not want to upgrade their servers, but also did not want to utilize the Epicor hosting services, so we compromised.  We found them a great independent hosting service that performed the upgrades and provided the access.  The access is much simpler and worked perfectly. 
 
We went live with a minimum of issues, had no order or job issues, and missed no shipments.  Basically, we had only one impact.  (Note to self:  When extracting data from a progress database, check all DMT imports with Notepad ++ prior to pushing them.)  My old nemesis “hexadecimal’ showed up in a few reports until we pulled the data and cleaned it. 
 
In the end we had 67 custom fields that the customer uses, along with a few customizations and BPM’s.   
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