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Trends like the internet are forcing finance professionals to increasingly change their software. Mike Dawson of MERANT shows how they can manage this process.
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The following are some of the most common problems related to managing changes in ERP-based financial applications:
- Change identification. You cannot determine, in a timely manner, what changes have been made to forms, reports, libraries or databases. It may not be immediately apparent what the vendor has changed, or what the users have customised, without laborious code sleuthing.
Furthermore, database administrators and developers may spend hours attempting to find out why code works in TEST but not in PROD. They spend more hours determining why code that worked fine yesterday is broken today. What has changed?
- Assessing the impact of change. It is not possible to perform impact analysis on modifications to forms, libraries and database objects in a timely manner. Other parts of the application will break, costing downtime and research time to resolve the problem.
Inconsistencies will appear in the application because some modules needing modification will be missed.
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