1. 2010 User Conference April 23 rd – 25 th, Philadelphia, PA 2010 User Conference Enterprise Version Round Table Discussion: Earth Sun Moon Presentation - Tim Levine

2. 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?

3. 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

4. 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: http://www.ehow.com/how_6174266_run-perfmon.html)http://www.ehow.com/how_6174266_run-perfmon.html Setup E-mail Notifications for when Jobs Fail

5. 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 E-mail Triggers Using Access as a interface

6. 2010 User Conference April 23 rd – 25 th, Philadelphia, PA Questions The long tutorial post I wrote on SQL: http://www.stoneedge.net/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7010

7. 2010 User Conference April 23 rd – 25 th, Philadelphia, PA Data Integration Todd Morris BrickHouse Security

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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.

13. 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

14. 2010 User Conference April 23 rd – 25 th, Philadelphia, PA Don't be stupid Documentation Backup