Thread: Developing a finance system

Again guys thanks for the additional information. I have already done some background work with the users with their current system which I am currently maintaining but it is a struggle as it was not documented and implemented by previous developers who have since left. I have had a number of meetings with the finance team to see what they do/ what works/ doesn't work and what we can do to improve the overall system for them. I am...

Quote: Originally Posted by davetherave2 Again thanks for all the insight and hopefully I can pull this off somehow. You can't on your own! Seriously, you're making a rod for your own back by not speaking up now. Seriously, you will look like more of an idiot, and doubtless get fired, if after six months of them paying your wages you still haven't got anything to show them.

I have to agree with with Slyfox's comments. Firstly - there is no silver bullet for these types of system. Every company has it's own ways and thus requires customisation in whatever way required. Cost effective implementors either use a COTS product that supports the level of changes within the COTS's development environment, or, they reuse a framework "solution" that they have created which allows them to...

Page rank[CENTER] 5 [/CENTER] Quote: Originally Posted by davetherave2 But boy did I underestimate the amount of work involve you mention a systems upgrade to finance people and they want everything plus the kitchen sink adding into the new system That's of the problems with non techy people. They ask for feature xxx without realising exactly what a pain in the ass and the amount of planning/development time that feature takes to...

To be honest this project is perhaps a major turning point in your career to become a "developer" and not just a "programmer" I think it's perhaps unfair to say you can't do it because none of us on here know you well enough as a person either personally or professionally, so only you can know yourself. DO NOT kid yourself though, it really is going to be a huge task. However, what I will say is...

Quote: Originally Posted by davetherave2 Right long story short I am looking to create an internal finance system for an application that I have. Currently the application uses a third party product and the data is pushed to the package from our application. Due to our current system being a bit outdated and having so many patches/ remedial work done to it the decision has been taken to design and redevelop the system. Depending if you are...

Quote: Originally Posted by ~J~ Christ! Reports galore!! (again make a point of doing this at an early stage to validate your data) Quote: Originally Posted by ~J~ Christ! Reports galore!! (again make a point of doing this at an early stage to validate your data) Quote: Originally Posted by ~J~ Christ! Reports galore!! (again make a point of doing this at an early stage to validate your data) Oh, and after all that, there's... Quote:...

Quote: Originally Posted by davetherave2 thanks for the info. Many of the points that you offered are things that i have already discussed with the finance team/ or are things we currently have with our existing third party package. But boy did I underestimate the amount of work involve you mention a systems upgrade to finance people and they want everything plus the kitchen sink adding into the new system I really should have kept my mouth...

OT: what is tis page rank stuff that's appearing in your posts, suarve? OP: This is a mother of an undertaking. Stuff like this takes guys that know what they are doing months even years to hone the system. I've found from my own limited experience that even 'simple' CRUD front ends to replace old access DBs take ages to set up and get working.

Have you thought about looking at products already on the market, like accounting products from Sage.co.uk for instance? Rgds