Implementation of the System
Despite Lassiter’s interest and urging, implementing the new system took much longer than was planned. Delays in issuing the purchase order and testing the software only added to the time to make the system operational. Training finally took place in August 2006. The training went well, but data migration became a serious problem. On the final day of training, Lassiter told Kovecki to migrate the data in the current workstation systems to the new system. Kovecki had considerable problems doing so as less than 15 percent of the data rolled over into the proper assignments. Because there was no documentation on the old software to refer to, it took him until late 2006 to get the data migrated to the new system. In the meantime, most of the MSCC workstations were essentially inoperable. Requests for lists and labels for mailings could not be fulfilled. And word processing, payment and invoice posting, data changes, and list management were very difficult during this time. Lassiter was also finding it very difficult to gain information from Kovecki as to the progress and status of the system conversion. It seemed that Kovecki, frustrated with the problems he was having and irritated with the staff coming to him to ask for assistance, was going out of his way to avoid staff members. UNITRAK came through, however, and by the end of the year the system was up and running—and at no additional cost (beyond the initial hardware and software cost) to the MSCC. Problems still remained, however, as it soon became clear that the system had severe limitations—most importantly the lack of a relational database management system. Nevertheless, the MSCC managed to get by with the UNITRAK software through 2007. Then in February 2008, a more severe problem cropped up—UNITRAK was experiencing serious financial problems and filed for bankruptcy protection. Soon thereafter, UNITRAK’s existing support staff was dismissed, and the MSCC was left with no technical support. To alleviate this problem, Lassiter hired an outside consultant, Zen Consulting, to write programs, generate new reports, and assist in the maintenance/support of the software.
ดำเนินงานของระบบ Despite Lassiter’s interest and urging, implementing the new system took much longer than was planned. Delays in issuing the purchase order and testing the software only added to the time to make the system operational. Training finally took place in August 2006. The training went well, but data migration became a serious problem. On the final day of training, Lassiter told Kovecki to migrate the data in the current workstation systems to the new system. Kovecki had considerable problems doing so as less than 15 percent of the data rolled over into the proper assignments. Because there was no documentation on the old software to refer to, it took him until late 2006 to get the data migrated to the new system. In the meantime, most of the MSCC workstations were essentially inoperable. Requests for lists and labels for mailings could not be fulfilled. And word processing, payment and invoice posting, data changes, and list management were very difficult during this time. Lassiter was also finding it very difficult to gain information from Kovecki as to the progress and status of the system conversion. It seemed that Kovecki, frustrated with the problems he was having and irritated with the staff coming to him to ask for assistance, was going out of his way to avoid staff members. UNITRAK came through, however, and by the end of the year the system was up and running—and at no additional cost (beyond the initial hardware and software cost) to the MSCC. Problems still remained, however, as it soon became clear that the system had severe limitations—most importantly the lack of a relational database management system. Nevertheless, the MSCC managed to get by with the UNITRAK software through 2007. Then in February 2008, a more severe problem cropped up—UNITRAK was experiencing serious financial problems and filed for bankruptcy protection. Soon thereafter, UNITRAK’s existing support staff was dismissed, and the MSCC was left with no technical support. To alleviate this problem, Lassiter hired an outside consultant, Zen Consulting, to write programs, generate new reports, and assist in the maintenance/support of the software.
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