2010 User Conference April 23 rd – 25 th, Philadelphia, PA 2010 User Conference Enterprise Version Round Table Discussion: Earth Sun Moon Presentation - Tim Levine

2010 User Conference April 23 rd – 25 th, Philadelphia, PA Prerequisites Domain Controller Active Directory DNS Are users logging in to your domain? Do you have a plan for backups?

2010 User Conference April 23 rd – 25 th, Philadelphia, PA Advantages of Enterprise Speed Stability Scalability Order Manager with SQL becomes a platform for custom development

2010 User Conference April 23 rd – 25 th, Philadelphia, PA Recommendations Turn On Snapshots: ALTER DATABASE yourdatabase SET READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT ON GO Rebuild Indexes on Key Tables Nightly (with Backups) Have enough RAM / Monitor Page Life Expectancy (see: Setup Notifications for when Jobs Fail

2010 User Conference April 23 rd – 25 th, Philadelphia, PA Tools for Enhancements: SQL Server Management Studio is your friend SQL Views SQL Server Agent Jobs SQL Triggers Using Access as a interface

2010 User Conference April 23 rd – 25 th, Philadelphia, PA Questions The long tutorial post I wrote on SQL:

2010 User Conference April 23 rd – 25 th, Philadelphia, PA Data Integration Todd Morris BrickHouse Security

2010 User Conference April 23 rd – 25 th, Philadelphia, PA About BHS 5.5 years old Rapid Growth with Organic chaos Call Center, Marketing, ops (NO IT) Low cost open systems

2010 User Conference April 23 rd – 25 th, Philadelphia, PA Why are we here: We are here for our customers Find them, Close them & Serve them IT is NOT our core business

2010 User Conference April 23 rd – 25 th, Philadelphia, PA Don't be an IT hog Network, Workstations, Servers, are a commodity expense Business systems can be an investment Partner where you can, invest in your business

2010 User Conference April 23 rd – 25 th, Philadelphia, PA What is Data Integration? Getting the right info to the right systems to reduce manual work & errors A process that never ends & needs to be managed closely Optimize & integrate where you can save/make $ or gain insight to do the same

2010 User Conference April 23 rd – 25 th, Philadelphia, PA How to do it You need a MAP Walk the path before you pave it. Its ok to walk through the mud to get to a dirt road.

2010 User Conference April 23 rd – 25 th, Philadelphia, PA Choose systems wisely Open systems keep your options open Data schema API Its YOUR Data

2010 User Conference April 23 rd – 25 th, Philadelphia, PA Don't be stupid Documentation Backup