Re: Informix/PeopleSoft advice & tips

In article <717e68$2dp$1@news.xmission.com>, Matt Pletcher <matt.pletcher@wholefoods.com> wrote: > > We are currently considering new ERP software for our company, and are > currently an Informix shop. PeopleSoft is one of the ERP vendors under > consideration. > > I am curious about any advice that current PeopleSoft customers might > have regarding the setup and maintenance of the software, and particular > trouble spots you've identified. Also, if you've had to use their tech > support, how helpful their input has been. Any comments about the > workability of the development environment would be great. Any staffing > changes you've needed would also be appreciated. > > Particulars about our potential installation: > -Sun E10000, 24 processors, Solaris 2.5.1 for database and app servers > -Informix 7.30UC5 engine > -approx. 100 concurrent users on 10/100Mb Ethernet > -approx. 100 concurrent users on 56k-512k WAN > -all PeopleSoft modules under consideration, version 7.5 > > Thanks in advance for your comments! > > Regards, > Matt Pletcher > Systems Analyst > Whole Foods Market, Inc. > Austin, Texas > > Matt, We are running PeopleSoft 7.5 at Domino's on Informix 7.30 UC3 on AIX. We have gone live on financials, and are getting going on Distribution (OM, Inventory etc). We are working through some WAN issues with performance using 3-Tier. No show stoppers, but some work ahead. Informix works fine - no big issues there. Some smaller ones. You definitely need a good DBA - lots of index changes and other things to tune it. We have 40+ full time equivalents working on the project between IS and users. You need "functional" (analyst type) people with a lot of testing (we outsourced a lot of it). Need someone to do performance stuff. Hope that helps. Bruce Franson -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own