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July/August2011
Agora's Indian Affiliate Goes Live on Advantage
Through much of the past year, ACS has partnered with Agora to complete an in-conversion from Equity Master, Agora’s office in India. Equity Master provides information about more than 500 leading companies in India, which account for over 90% of India’s market value. Through Equity Master, customers can gain access to various stock market recommendations, archives, and special reports.
The project of converting Equity Master data into Advantage encompassed customer, promotion, and electronic subscription data; as well as implementing the AMB module for the first time at Agora. To account for the online data-entry into Advantage, the team made adjustments to the website to make use of the AMB capsule calls provided through the Advantage WEB module.
Read MoreCongratulations to Barbara Smith--Soon-To-Be Retiree
Barbara Smith, senior software engineer, is officially retiring from ACS at the end of August. For a time after that, however, she will continue working to finish up several current projects.
We don’t want to say goodbye to Barbara. But who could begrudge her a retirement she has so thoroughly earned? In her eleven years at ACS, her contribution has been tremendous. Barbara served as the lead engineer on many implementations and other assorted projects, many of them for international clients. She has spent significant amounts of time in London, Paris, Copenhagen and Oxford and enjoyed each city. Each has its own special charm, she says, explaining that Paris is gorgeous and impressive, while London is more home-y and she likes knowing the language. Oxford’s storied university buildings make it interesting to walk around and Copenhagen is historic and quaint, with many old, old buildings. She likes to visit landmarks but also to explore each area and discover new places of interest.
Welcome Mark Sauter
We are happy to welcome Mark Sauteras a full-time employee, in the Implementation and Engineering Services group led by Karl Davis. Mark worked at ACS previously as a summer intern before he graduated from Grand Valley State University this past May. Mark earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Grand Valley, although his first major was actually creative writing. He enjoys the problem-solving aspects of computer programming and the satisfaction of building something from the ground up and then seeing it in action.
Advantage 2011r1 Requires 64-bit Versions
It’s always a balancing act between moving forward with technology upgrades while not abandoning products which are still being used. At ACS, we try to bridge as wide a span as we possibly can, in order to accommodate the needs of all clients. Sometimes, however, changes need to be made.
Therefore, starting at Advantage 11r1, the minimum system requirements will be 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008.
This shift allows us to prepare for supporting a scale out (clustered application server) deployment model. Requiring 64-bit OS and SQL also supports vastly greater system resources, particularly memory. This is important for running Advantage, since we typically recommend that 10-20% of the total database size be available for caching.
"Move Order" at MSTDAT
By Molly Mathe
Starting at 2011R1, a new right-click action is available at MSTDAT/FST, MSTDAT/MST, SVCDAT/MST, and the Master Orders tab at MSTDAT/CTG. The action allows you to move one or more orders from any closed control group, or any control group you have open, to any other closed control group, or to any other control group that you have open.
One effect of this change is that if you are closed out of Advantage while at MSTDAT/FST, you no longer need to go to MSTDAT/CTG to close and reopen your control group. Instead, go to MSTDAT/FST and press the Current Control Group button, where the list will contain the control group you were just in. Select this control group and click the Open button, and you will be presented with the option of reopening the control group.
Tips for Using Duplicate Consolidation
by Mike Miklosovic
This Tech Tip outlines four guidelines for using the duplicate consolidation functionality in Advantage. The four involve these activities:
1. Matching levels customer types
2. Creating consolidation sets dialog during customer service
3. DUPSET review when more than two customers match
4. The consolidate one set button – (starting at revision 9R2)
Highlights of Advantage 2011r2
Here are some of the features you’ll find in the second Advantage release of this year. Contact your account manager for more information.
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New set of AMB tables
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"Replacement" subscription modification
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Dedicated AMBREN/ARN view
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Auto-renewal chain functionality at AMB
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Access point subset in AMB
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New CIR package synchronization process
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Master contract in Royalty
Visit the Advantage Booth at FOLIO:/Audience Development
FOLIO:/Audience Development
November 1 - 3
Marriott Marquis, New York City
ACS Exhibited at SSP
Bob Thornton at the SSP (Society for Scholarly Publishing) Conference in Boston in June.