Entries from Road to CA tagged with 'conversion'
Getting Closer
We've been very busy as live conversion approaches. Too busy for postings to the blog, it seems! Here's what we've been up to. Mimic of Live Conversion Our mimic of live went well, with one fairly significant glitch. Timing went...
Mimic of Live Conversion This Week
This week Todd and I are running our mimic of live conversion. Beginning on noon Monday we will run the pre-processes, the conversions, and the post-processes in the same time frame we will be running the live conversion. For those...
Progress Report
We are making good progress on our to-do list highlighted in our last post. Todd and I are whipping through the computed columns and subroutines needed for reports and downloads, while Matt is working on creating and testing the documents...
Conversion 3 Complete
Conversion 3 was completed in 4 working days, plus about a half day to run post-conversion processes. We had expected it to take about a week, so it looks like we are right on track. Our goal for this conversion...
Another Busy Month!
We've been very busy since our last few posts. Here's some of what we've been up to: Conferences and Training Todd, Matt and I - along with 8 others from Allegheny - attended DUG 2009 in the DC area earlier...
It's a Date!
After much discussion, a final date for conversion has been set. We will begin at 5 pm Thursday August 6th and be up and running by 8 am Tuesday August 11th. Benefactor will go down at noon Thursday August 6th,...
First Conversion Complete!
This weekend we are officially closing the door on Conversion Test #1! We ran the last of our conversions 17 days ago, and since then have been running post-conversion processes and evaluating the data that converted over. In doing so...
First Test Nearing Completion
We are nearly finished with our first test conversion. Things have gone pretty smoothly, with most conversions giving a manageable number of errors. Todd and her team have been fixing these errors as we go along. Once that work is...
First Day of Test conversion
Over the weekend Pete created a new clone of production for our conversion environment and this morning we ran our first test conversions. We were very pleased with the low number of errors we got at the validation stage. At...
Almost Ready for First Conversion!
Datatel recommends that we run through the conversion process three times before we do our live conversion - and we're just about ready to start our first conversion test! Up to this point things have gone smoothly. We've had very...
We're Still Here!
We've been so busy with the conversion that we forgot to update the blog for the past two weeks! Here's what we've been up to: Constituent Management Collaboration Workshop. On November 3rd we had a 3 hour teleconference workshop with...
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