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v11 Customizations & Timing

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I happened to be thinking after the webinar today that I need to budget money to get help with converting custom reports and screens, and most likely adjustments to the web site. It's hard to plan for this now and the release date and deadline for the upgrade will affect when this has to be done. If you release in October as mentioned in the webinar, and we have 6 months, that leaves us in the same fiscal year and I'm concerned that we will be short of resources.

I don't know what the answer is, just putting it out there as a topic of discussion. What are other people doing? Have you budgeted money for this conversion?

Gloria

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    Gloria,

    I think that this is a great topic.  I just finished my capital budget and I in fact had $100,000 budgeted for Tessitura integration stuff for next year.  Yes you read that right, had!  The issue was that it was very hard to tell what it was that we needed to budget for.

    From my understanding the web services which we use today with v10 will work with v11.  We of course won't be able to take advantage of those new features until we reprogram our website.  We felt that budgeting a random amount without a specific project might make results hard to measure.  We know that we eventually want to reconfigure our "My Account" section and better interface with the new constituency model.

    That being said we are going to wait till later in the year once everything is installed and we have folks working.  We expect that there is some minor configuration stuff that we will need to do but nothing that is outside of a capital budget but it is a modest amount.

    We had already budgeted and implemented the SQL server changes and the other prerequisites that we had to do for this year.  In that area we did some upgrades as well as reconfiguration and that totaled around 8k - 12k.  This was mostly for upgrading servers and adding some additional virtual infrastructure to support the new software.

    I think our largest costs will come in time and training.  The interface is different enough that we feel we will have to train users which takes time!

    I would be happy to speak with you more about what it is that we are going to do and have done.

    Thanks,

    Dave Alton
    CIO
    Center Theatre Group

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    Gloria,

    I think that this is a great topic.  I just finished my capital budget and I in fact had $100,000 budgeted for Tessitura integration stuff for next year.  Yes you read that right, had!  The issue was that it was very hard to tell what it was that we needed to budget for.

    From my understanding the web services which we use today with v10 will work with v11.  We of course won't be able to take advantage of those new features until we reprogram our website.  We felt that budgeting a random amount without a specific project might make results hard to measure.  We know that we eventually want to reconfigure our "My Account" section and better interface with the new constituency model.

    That being said we are going to wait till later in the year once everything is installed and we have folks working.  We expect that there is some minor configuration stuff that we will need to do but nothing that is outside of a capital budget but it is a modest amount.

    We had already budgeted and implemented the SQL server changes and the other prerequisites that we had to do for this year.  In that area we did some upgrades as well as reconfiguration and that totaled around 8k - 12k.  This was mostly for upgrading servers and adding some additional virtual infrastructure to support the new software.

    I think our largest costs will come in time and training.  The interface is different enough that we feel we will have to train users which takes time!

    I would be happy to speak with you more about what it is that we are going to do and have done.

    Thanks,

    Dave Alton
    CIO
    Center Theatre Group

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