Hi, COMF: You asked so-o-o-...As you know, I'm no techie. I'm a user putting up with an overworked I.S. Dept. and an Oracle system that isn't delivering what the Sales people said it could do with an HR database. My own personal gripe is getting the information out of Oracle once it goes in. I'm sick of hearing "Oracle won't do that!" and "We don't have the time to make up that report right now; we'll put it on the list". It seems instead of Oracle meeting our needs, we have to design our needs around what Oracle can do which was not what was told to the "powers that be" by those wonderful Sales people 4 years ago. I work in the Human Resources Dept. and we depend almost entirely on downloading human resource data reports. We have Noetix (sp?) but they are having problems getting it to work properly with Oracle (why am I not surprised!). Noetix enables you to customize the reports you need...if it works. I finally gave up and took an Access database class just as a back up to use by exporting Oracle data into Excel and using Access to sort the data around and "marry" two reports together to get what I need.
It also cannot generate a selective telephone/address report and is not compatible with our SuperOffice software (a telephone/address database) so SuperOffice has been chucked. So we are still doing our Emergency Contact Directory by hand via Excel spreadsheet. Ridiculous!
It doesn't run our marine payroll satisfactory and that's been going on for 4 years.
It also isn't the easiest thing in the world to learn for those of you contemplating purchasing it for your Company. Think TRAINING, TRAINING, TRAINING.
Other than that, everything's just DUCKY!
Trot....trying to
"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love".... Aristotle. You can love and obey Christ without intervention from an organization.
