Re: XA Today

Kevin,

 

If you are not satisfied with your local affiliate, I'm pretty sure Infor will assign another.

 

We at Guide Technologies supply XA support world wide and would be more then willing to assist in any endeavors your company wished to embark on.

 

Please advise me or one of the 'cc' Company Vice Presidents if we can assist further.

 

Good Luck,

 

Jeff Snyder,  CPIM, CSCP

Guide Technologies, LLC

 


 
> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:18:40 -0500
> From: [email protected]
> To: mapics-l-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]
> Subject: [MAPICS-L] XA Today
> 
> As the initial "ranter", I am happy to see that Infor is active in these
> discussions also. To Kevin Fox and Ross, Yes I have seen the
> presentations on the future of XA, and I am exited about what we will
> be able to do. I have seen many very promising things that are available
> or will be available soon. I would agree that Infor is doing many good
> things that Mapics didn't or couldn't do. But I believe that this
> discussion has also shown an area where Infor may be lacking compared to
> the "good old days". In order for me to learn about these new
> applications from Infor, I have had to seek out places to see these
> presentations which have been out of state. I am grateful that these
> existing affiliates or former affiliates have allowed me to see these
> presentations. Under Mapics, we had 3 local affiliates in my area. They
> all had consultants that were well trained and very knowledgeable about
> the latest applications. They would offer presentations at their
> facilities as well as promote and run the local Mapics user group. It
> was easy to find someone that had experience with these new products. If
> there was a policy change, such as with source code, these changes would
> be made known to us through one of these channels. These local
> affiliates could also recognize that we are not all the same. They
> realized that they were dealing with $10 million dollar single site
> companies with 20 users and $500 million dollar companies with multi
> sites and a 1000 users. I would like to think that an issue such as the
> one that started this topic would not have gone this far. Is it really
> Infor's intention to prevent me from downloading 2 or 3 print file
> source codes and 2 or 3 source codes for PTF's that I'm trying to apply
> over previously modified code? Or to pay an ALF fee on top of what was
> all ready paid for these 5 or 6 downloads a year? Were there some users
> abusing the download option and downloading entire apps?
> 
> It seems that from the varied responses that have come across this
> topic, that not everyone is getting the same information. In order for
> me to move my company forward, I have to convince my management that
> these new applications are worth the investment and that they will not
> be dinosaurs tomorrow. There are several packages or concepts that
> Mapics has marketed to be the wave of the future but have ended up
> fizzling out. Unfortunately, once management has bought in to one of
> these that has gone nowhere, it makes it that much more difficult to
> convince them. This is especially true when all I can do is show them a
> Power Point presentation. There is no one to give them a first hand
> experience of how this is working and how it will work in our situation.
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> Thanks,
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> 
> Kevin
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> 
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