Lessons Learned on V9 Migration from On-Prem to Cloud!
Teresa Zobrist
President & CEO driving Digital Merchandising & Commerce at Zobrist Software Group
On August 2, we celebrated the launch of the Bishop Company on V9. While this seems like an ordinary migration, there are several lessons learned that we would like to share with you. Some may help with your architecture decisions while some may give you inspiration to try something new.
The Problem
The first decision we made was to move the WCS server from an on-premise Windows server to the cloud. There is a clear fear of latency when we move the Commerce server away from the I Series 570 running A+ , an ERP legacy into the cloud. To our horror, that fear became a reality when we did our Integration testing. An order was taking 10 times longer to complete. The Director, Keith McCormick, was in charge of Use Acceptance Testing. Keith’s face turned white during his preliminary testing and his voice was shaky when his repeated tests kept showing the same results. His fear was confirmed. So we huddled around Keith to figure out what was going on.
The Solution
We quickly found out that there was a very simple solution to this...(continue reading)
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President & CEO driving Digital Merchandising & Commerce at Zobrist Software Group
5 年The latency issue was real from our move of an on-Prem server to the cloud, changing the connection to the ERP iSeries from a couple feet away to hundreds or thousand of miles away. It’s an engineering feat to discover a solution readily available and applying it. The rest is good business sense from Keith McCormick. Thank you for your kind remarks! #hcl #cloudconsulting #iseries #commerce
Chief Executive Officer at b2bmarketing.digital
5 年What struck me was that the process for moving, was less about the cloud, but more about an external interface (the ERP -pooling and the default logic of taking price from it). ?Dare I say the V9 migration actually went pretty cleanly ( with an experienced SI of course) Kudos
Financial Advisor/Debt Consultant
5 年Great takeaways!