ERP Associates, Inc.

Well, another project is getting ready to go live.  This one has kept me consistently busy as evidenced by my lack of postings since the end of last summer.  But it’s been good and I’ve learned a lot, and much of what I learned is eventually going to make it to the blog.  For example, I figured out a fundamental concept of Jakarta JMeter and now I can make it work predictably as a performance testing tool (and all around scripting tool for that matter).  The performance testing gurus out there will wonder how I got anything to work without it.

The 3rd party batch scheduling integration concept I blogged about last November is getting ready to go live.  So far all systems are go, I’ll post a follow up and let you know what worked and what didn’t.

Another thing I want to write about is how to replace PeopleSoft’s PostRpt daemon with a custom one to get away from the XML files and read the parameters from the database.  There are some advantages to doing it this way that I’d like to share.   Besides, there might be some folks interested in just how to use the API to get external content into Report Manager.

We did some cool things from an administrative point of view.  I don’t usually blog about how to identify and group customizations for an upgrade, what goes in to an accurate Level of Effort estimate, or how I track the development effort but maybe there’s some interest out there.  At any rate I’d like to put my thoughts on such topics out there and see what kind of feedback I get.

As with all good projects, I’ll be rolling off at some point in the next few months.  If you’re planning an implementation or upgrade toward the middle of the year and think I could help, please let me know.