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SERVICES - CA Masterpiece/Net

Planning | Implementation | Training | Maintenance | Seagate Integration

 

CA Masterpiece/Net - Planning

Proper planning is critically important to the success of any system implementation. A major reason for our firm's long-term success has been our emphasis on helping clients plan their implementations in detail. Our planning capabilities fall into two categories: generic and product-specific.

Generic planning involves such activities as:

  • Definition of user requirements
  • Mapping of workflows
  • Cost/benefit analysis of alternatives
  • Recommendation of network, hardware, and software tools and configurations
  • Development of detailed system specifications

Many of our clients choose to do much of the initial planning on their own. They often come to us with specifications already developed to some degree. If these specifications call for implementation of Masterpiece, there are several Masterpiece-specific planning tools that we employ to complete the planning process. These Masterpiece-specific tools are:

  • CA-ServicePack for Migration Analysis
  • MP-MHIgration Planning Kit
  • MHIgration Shortcut Review
  • Integration Planning

 

CA-ServicePack for Migration Analysis

For clients interested in taking advantage of all of the features and capabilities of Masterpiece, Myers-Holum offers the CA-ServicePack for Migration Analysis. The CA-ServicePack:

  • Educates clients about the new release, examining in detail the specific client needs addressed by the new release.
  • Produces a detailed deliverable in the form of a workplan - i.e. a "roadmap" for the client's migration to a newer version of Masterpiece.
  • Provides estimates of the accounting and IS resources that will be needed for specific migration tasks, thereby allowing clients to precisely budget resources required for varying migration scenarios.
  • MP-MHIgration Planning Kit

Some clients require somewhat less assistance with migration planning. They already know exactly what they want. Their focus is on installing the new release and converting their data quickly and cheaply. However, they also want guidance on their customization efforts, as well as estimates of resource requirements and time-to-completion. MHI has developed an approach that will help these clients to customize their migrations efficiently, as well as provide them with the resource planning estimates they require. Contact your local MHI office for a MHIgration Planning Kit.

In addition to the above services, Myers-Holum offers a wide spectrum of other products, services and training for Masterpiece/Net, as well as earlier Masterpiece, SI and ABS releases. Since 1981, we have accumulated over ½ million hours of Masterpiece consulting experience with more than 1400 clients. Consequently, we have been able to compile an impressive array of procedures, proprietary software tools, and experiences that can shave significant resource hours and days-to-complete from virtually any Masterpiece project. Over the years, many clients have called on us to work on projects that were foundering for want of a solution that we had already developed for other clients. Whether or not your Masterpiece project requires the intensive involvement of our staff in its planning stage, we strongly recommend that you give us a chance to review your project plan for resource-saving shortcut opportunities.

In addition, we offer a full range of planning, implementation, training, and maintenance services with the following complementary best of breed software tools:

  • Seagate Software: Crystal Reports, Info, Analysis, and Holos
  • BroadVision: One-To-One Enterprise, Financial, Knowledge, and Tools
  • Informatica: Powercenter, Powermart, Business Component, Powerconnect, and Powerplugs

Our clients are generating increasing volumes of data and requiring that information drawn from this data be analyzed and shared in increasingly sophisticated ways. We provide them with solutions - not only for their Masterpiece-specific needs - but also in seamlessly integrating the complementary products that are necessary to meet the information requirements of their enterprises. We strongly believe that the seamless integration of these complementary products is difficult, if not impossible, to accomplish without detailed planning

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CA Masterpiece/Net - Implementation

Since 1981, we have accumulated over ½ million hours of Masterpiece consulting experience with more than 1400 clients. Consequently, we have been able to compile an impressive array of procedures, proprietary software tools, and experiences that can shave significant resource hours and days-to-complete from virtually any Masterpiece project. Myers-Holum offers a wide spectrum products and services for Masterpiece/Net, as well as earlier Masterpiece, SI and ABS releases including:

  • Installations, migrations, and upgrades.
  • Chart of Account design and conversions.
  • Chart of Account and Reporting Analysis.
  • Customization and enhancements.
  • Database restructuring.
  • Hardware and software conversions.
  • Special interfaces to/from non-CA software.
  • VRW and SRW reporting.
  • Fixed Assets short tax years, and any special projects dealing with CA financial software.

In addition, we offer a full range of planning, implementation, training, and maintenance services with the following complementary best of breed software tools:

  • Seagate Software: Crystal Reports, Info, Analysis, and Holos
  • BroadVision: One-To-One Enterprise, Financial, Knowledge, and Tools
  • Informatica: Powercenter, Powermart, Business Component, Powerconnect, and Powerplugs

Our clients are generating increasing volumes of data and requiring that information drawn from this data be analyzed and shared in increasingly sophisticated ways. We provide them with solutions - not only for their Masterpiece-specific needs - but also in seamlessly integrating the complementary products that are necessary to meet the information requirements of their enterprises.

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CA Masterpiece/Net - Training

Nobody else comes close to matching the collective Masterpiece consulting experience of Myers-Holum. If you want Masterpiece rookies training your personnel, there are plenty of firms who will do the job. But if you want your people to benefit from the experience of the most seasoned group of Masterpiece veterans anywhere, only one firm fits this description. Since 1981, we have accumulated over ½ million hours of Masterpiece consulting experience with more than 1400 clients. Consequently, we have been able to compile an impressive array of procedures, proprietary software tools, and experiences that can shave significant resource hours and days-to-complete from virtually any Masterpiece project. In addition to the "by the book" Masterpiece training offered elsewhere, we can teach your people about the Masterpiece shortcuts and solutions that aren't taught in training manuals.

The information flows within our own organization are structured to maximize our ability to learn from each other's consulting experiences - and to allow this information to flow into our training materials. Consequently, our training capabilities are continually evolving and improving. Our training capabilities also benefit from the diverse nature of our engagements. As is noted elsewhere on this site, Myers-Holum offers a wide spectrum products and services for Masterpiece/Net, as well as earlier Masterpiece, SI and ABS releases, including:

  • Installations, migrations, and upgrades.
  • Chart of Account design and conversions.
  • Chart of Account and Reporting Analysis.
  • Customization and enhancements.
  • Database restructuring.
  • Hardware and software conversions.
  • Special interfaces to/from non-CA software.
  • VRW and SRW reporting.
  • Fixed Assets short tax years,and any special projects dealing with CA financial software

Our clients are generating increasing volumes of data and requiring that information drawn from this data be analyzed and shared in increasingly sophisticated ways. We provide them with solutions - not only for their Masterpiece-specific needs - but also in seamlessly integrating the complementary products that are necessary to meet the information requirements of their enterprises. We strongly believe that user training for these integrated systems should be as seamless as the operations of the systems' hardware and software.

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CA Masterpiece/Net - Maintenance

Since 1981, we have accumulated over ½ million hours of Masterpiece consulting experience with more than 1400 clients. Consequently, we have been able to compile an impressive array of procedures, proprietary software tools, and experiences that can shave significant resource hours and days-to-complete from virtually any Masterpiece maintenance or upgrade project.

Our maintenance capabilities also benefit from the diverse nature of our engagements. As is noted elsewhere on this site, Myers-Holum offers a wide spectrum products and services for Masterpiece/Net, as well as earlier Masterpiece, SI and ABS releases, including:

  • Installations, migrations, and upgrades.
  • Chart of Account design and conversions.
  • Chart of Account and Reporting Analysis.
  • Customization and enhancements.
  • Database restructuring. Hardware and software conversions. Special interfaces to/from non-CA software. VRW and SRW reporting Fixed Assets short tax years, and any special projects dealing with CA financial software

In addition, we offer a full range of planning, implementation, training, and maintenance services with the following complementary best of breed software tools:

  • Seagate Software: Crystal Reports, Info, Analysis, and Holos.
  • BroadVision: One-To-One Enterprise, Financial, Knowledge, and Tools
  • Informatica: Powercenter, Powermart, Business Component, Powerconnect, and Powerplugs

Our clients are generating increasing volumes of data and requiring that information drawn from this data be analyzed and shared in increasingly sophisticated ways. We provide them with solutions - not only for their Masterpiece-specific needs - but also in seamlessly integrating the complementary products that are necessary to meet the information requirements of their enterprises. We strongly believe that maintenance and ongoing evolution of these integrated systems should be as seamless as the operations of the systems' own hardware and software.

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Integrating Seagate with CA - Masterpiece

  • Integrate Crystal Info with the CA-Masterpiece environment resulting in a true client/server solution that delivers strategic enterprise information to Windows 95 and Windows NT workgroup clients.
  • Multi-tier architecture offloads querying and report generation to workgroup servers to provide fast results without overtaxing host and local system resources.

  • Provides enterprise-wide report distribution through email or Internet/Intranet web access.
  • Accesses the CA-Masterpiece database via industry standard ODBC and requires no proprietary code.
  • Supports and enforces CA-Masterpiece security.
  • Allows scalibilty through clustering.
  • Provides On-line Analytical Processing (OLAP) for budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, detail drill-down and enterprise EIS.

 

 

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