Pick/MultiValue systems are still abundantly active! Typically running as legacy applications, Pick/MultiValue systems are often running mission-critical business processes. This post is a reference for Pick and MultiValue systems.
So, you want to print custom labels from an iPad (or Android tablet, phone, whatever)? We recently finished this exact project. Here’s how we did it… First, a little background: our custom labels are price labels we print for our customers. The labels must contain the following: The retail price (not the price we charge… Read More »
Today’s tech story is about do-it-yourself integration between a legacy system and a cloud application.There is no budget for this project. We are trying to migrate our sales reps away from their 7-year-old PDA infrastructure to something that works with their existing iPads. We found handshake-app.com and it appealed to us for several reasons…
I’ve never worked on a Sonicwall firewall, but we’ll be gaining one shortly. This weekend, we’re moving a data center from Vermont to PA and incorporating it into our existing data center. We have very little documentation — none really. So we don’t know the traffic requirements for the data center we are inheriting. The… Read More »
Manhattan Associates Warehouse Management System (WMS) is listed as a “leader” in Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant for warehouse management systems. I have brief (but INTENSE) experience with Manhattan WMS. One of the reasons it’s such a good WMS is that it keeps track of inventory throughout the warehouse. When a product is received, it’s “on… Read More »
Figuring out Epicor Web Service One of the bigbenefits of Epicor is that every business object has a corresponding web service call. This is a big plus if you are in the business of integrating disparate systems, which my company is often tasked to do. However, putting this feature into practice isn’t as easy as I… Read More »
Most of our FTP clients send order data on a predetermined schedule. We might, for example, receive order files at 7:00 am, noon, and 3:00pm each day. If files come at a fixed time, we can write processes that are scheduled to run at a fixed time also, so that the entire process is automated.… Read More »
I’ve been working on a 2-year integration project with a large Fortune-500 company. We scoped out the project up front and were approaching the final testing phase. As often happens when a project is about to be completed — the project scope changed. This project involves a legacy AIX application and the scope change required… Read More »
I’ve been wearing my management hat for many months, with little time to do any actual programming. Since this is our IT department’s slow time of the year, I like to use this time to search for performance improvements (while also putting my programming skills to use before they die from inactivity). One of the… Read More »
Over the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to learn some new approaches to software development. One of the most exciting (for a geek like me) is the Agile Software Development movement, which includes these values: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. Working software over comprehensive documentation. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation. Responding to… Read More »