1. 1 CHEMS ANNUAL TRAINING 2009

2. 2 Topics For Today CHEMS Status CHEMSPRO, The Next Step

3. 3 CHEMS – New County Welcome Eau Claire County – In the process of converting to AREV CHEMS – Should be up and running by year end Others Investigating CHEMSPRO – Attend the training sessions – Ask questions, get answers

4. 4 CHEMS – Software Status Version 4.72 (Jan) Global – New Equipment Rates – Printer Driver(s) / Minor fixes Version 4.73 (Aug) * Beta * – Winter Rate update in January – Printer Drivers / Fuel Interface Global release 4.73 (Dec) – Equipment Rate Updates – Check the release notes for information

5. 5 CHEMS – Server Don’t change your CHEMS server No server needed for CHEMSPRO Citrix Servers – AREV CHEMS NOT Supported, CHEMSPRO OK Can’t use a slow link (1-3MB T1 / Radio) – AREV CHEMS NOT Supported, CHEMSPRO OK Do NOT get rid of your existing server! - Unplug it but don’t let it out of your sight

6. 6 CHEMS – Workstation Just about any newer version of Windows is OK Many counties are running Win XP-pro – MS will retire Windows 2K July 2010 – Not sure about Windows 7 coming out – Should really be on XP, Vista or Windows 7 Computer – Bigger & Faster is always better – Any Windows capable computer will work Can’t use a 64bit workstation OS for CHEMS – Windows Vista (32 bit only 4GB or less memory)

7. 7 CHEMS – Summary Support with little or no coding expected Daily business operations continue Equipment rate updates Do what makes sense for your county Any questions on AREV CHEMS ?

8. 8 CHEMS – Contact Info Primary – jon.gray@dot.wi.gov – 608-873-0665 – http://www.graytech.info/cs http://www.graytech.info/cs Alternate – 608-266-5005 – jon@graytech.us jon@graytech.us

9. 9 CHEMSPRO – Status Training / Review / Testing Coding Finished (99%) Database / Infrastructure  User Acceptance Testing  One County Goes Live

10. 10 CHEMSPRO – Acceptance Test Starts next week – 10/19-10/23 – All counties / All users / Test data – Duplicate your work in CHEMSPRO – Report any problems and I will fix them Thursday 10/22 @ 10AM ~ Noon – All users do something in CHEMSPRO – Want 100+ concurrent users Final verification – I expect hardware/software issues… – Let’s find anything now in “test”

11. 11 CHEMSPRO – Live Parallel Test Successful Acceptance Testing… – Resolved the outstanding issues – Winnebago will Parallel Test - 11/1 ? Successful Parallel Testing… – Winnebago will go “live” – Another county will parallel (Dev Sites) Successful Parallel Test(s) – Others parallel now if they wish – Convert remaining counties

12. 12 CHEMSPRO – Who Goes Next ? All depends on how ready you are – Hardware / Software / Internet ? – All Users prepared ? – Did you do the acceptance testing? Checklist / Survey in your booklet – http://www.graytech.info/checklist.pdf http://www.graytech.info/checklist.pdf Turn in at the end of the meeting

13. 13 CHEMSPRO - Conversion When it’s time to convert your county… Same process we are using now – Upload your data on a Friday – I convert your data on the weekend – Start using CHEMSPRO on Monday If it doesn’t work for some reason – Use existing AREV CHEMS system

14. 14 CHEMSPRO Any Questions on CHEMSPRO?