REVIEWER: Anthony Miller software engineer network
administrator for navigator business solution.
BACKGROUND: Navigator Business Solutions is one of the largest
SAP partners working with the SAP Business One application. We focus on small to
medium-sized businesses.
PLATFORMS: We run the xFusion Studio product on a Microsoft
Windows XP professional desktop, and use it to migrate our customers’ and their
data from legacy systems to Windows Server 2003-2008 running MS SQL 2005 and SAP
Business One.
PROBLEM SOLVED: We help our customers migrate data from their
existing platform to a new one running MS SQL and SAP Business One. As our
customers are running dozens of different business solutions, we needed a
software utility that could manage the movement of data in this environment and
ensure an accurate and complete transfer. Migrating mission-critical customer
data leaves us with no room for error in this process.
PRODUCT FUNCTIONALITY: xFusion Studio offers an easy-to-use
interface that can move large amounts of data from Excel and other formats to
the new SAP Business One system. As SAP Business One is a comprehensive and
secure business management solution, it requires that data enter the system only
through an application program interface (API). xFusion Studio is certified to
this API and is able to migrate data into each of the SAP applications’ objects
and tables with no errors. There isn’t another solution out there that I am
aware of that can do this.
STRENGTHS: xFusion Studio has a template for every SAP Business
One business object, which helps us get started on a new customer project. These
templates are reusable and this saves us time by having a repeatable process in
place for future projects. We have also been pleased with the accuracy of the
xFusion Studio data processing.
WEAKNESSES: The learning curve is steep, but the manufacturer
does provide training. It helps to have a good understanding of SQL, SAP
Business One, and migration methodology processes.
SELECTION CRITERIA: We decided to use xFusion Studio for
several reasons. It can import data into every business object in SAP Business
One, and the accuracy of the data transfer after the migration is perfect. Data
migrations have a tendency to produce a lot of contaminated data after
everything is done. XFusion Studio provides data quality functions and
post-migration quality checks to help us ensure that these corruption problems
are avoided. Also, after each test migration a report is generated that shows
any errors that need to be fixed prior to doing the migration on the real
system.
DELIVERABLES: We were provided an account on the manufacturer’s
customer portal, where we gained access to the software and templates related to
our project. These needed to be customized to our specific customer project. The
xFusion Studio software improved our data migration process, in two ways; the
speed and reliability of processing large sets of data. The software also helped
us to test the data migration prior to doing it on the production server. This
process repeatability minimizes system downtime for our customers.
VENDOR SUPPORT: Vendor support is great. When we contact them
for help there is never a hold time, which is unheard of. The support staff is
very knowledgeable with SQL and SAP Business One. They always had helpful
answers for me, with very little wait time.
xFusion Studio
Software Labs, Inc.
1225 Pleasant Grove Blvd., Suite 100
Roseville, CA 95678
(916)773-6272
www.softlabsco.com
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