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COMMANDseries Version2 Roadmap and Product Forum

COMMANDseries Version2 Roadmap and Product Forum. Mandy Cherry COMMANDseries Product Development Manager mcherry@commandalkon.com 205-879-3282 Ext. 1173. Session Objective.

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COMMANDseries Version2 Roadmap and Product Forum

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  1. COMMANDseries Version2 Roadmap and Product Forum Mandy Cherry COMMANDseries Product Development Manager mcherry@commandalkon.com 205-879-3282 Ext. 1173

  2. Session Objective This session will outline the COMMANDseries Version 2 product direction for the future and review the progress that has been made to the application over the past year, including new features. This is also your opportunity to discuss your ideas for the future of COMMANDseries Version 2. This session is geared toward Executives, Managers, and Administrators responsible for the long term planning of your COMMANDseries installations. COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  3. Current Product Release • COMMANDseries 2.16 • General Availability as of Monday (10/29) • Supports: • Oracle 10g R2 • Oracle 11g R2 • SQL Server 2005 • SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 • Windows 7 • Windows 8 will be supported with a future service pack to Uniface – Compuware is in the testing phase • More information in the coming months • COMMANDtrack 2.7 SP4 • COMMANDfleet 2.12 SP17 COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  4. Looking Forward

  5. COMMANDseries Looking Forward • Quarterly Releases for the next year • 2.16 released Monday 10/29 • 2.17 to be released in January • 2.18 to be released in April • 2.19 to be released in July • Quarterly releases will each contain approximately 1400 hours of development • A mix of enhancements and defect corrections • Each Quarterly release will be supported by Service Packs on an as needed basis • Typically about on per month COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  6. COMMANDseries Looking Forward COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  7. COMMANDseries Looking Forward Features planned for 2013 and forward: • Integration Projects • Pump & Conveyor Truck Management • Next major Uniface upgrade… • Significant look and feel improvements • Technological improvements COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  8. Investment Process Product Development Lifecycle • IDEA • CUSTOMER & MARKET INPUT • DESIGN • BUILD • PACKAGE & • GO TO FIELD • RUN MODE Integrating Command Alkon Products (MGT-004, Management Track)

  9. Investment Process Current Status For Integration • Apex & ERP Integration • CMDbatch& ERP Integration • COMMAND replenish • ERP & CS08 Integration • Apex & CMDseriesIntegration • Integra & CMDqc Integration • CMDbatch& CMDqc Integration • Concrete Production Manager (CPM) • CMDbatch & betonMIX Integration • Import test results from external labs into COMMANDqc • CMDseries & CMDqc Integration • CS-CB: Order Management • CMDseries & betonTEC integration

  10. COMMANDseries Looking Forward COMMANDtrack is the tracking program of choice! COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  11. COMMANDseries Looking Forward • COMMANDseries releases with COMMANDtrack Version 2.7 SP4 • COMMANDtrack release will be included with each COMMANDseries release • Each releases will each contain a mix of enhancements and defect corrections • EXP tracking will continue to be supported in 2013 • Feature set will not increase; defect corrections will continue COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  12. COMMANDtrack Looking Forward • Improved EXP configuration migration process • Enhanced security detail level that will allow an administrator to controls rights to configuration tabs or even to the field level. • Currently we only allow Read or Write at the configuration level as a whole; all or nothing. • Pump truck support • Tracking support for pump trucks, • Gantt chart view of resource allocation for pump and other truck types for enhanced dispatch planning. COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  13. COMMANDtrack Looking Forward • User creatable views • Currently we support tracking, standard scheduling, 2-grid, 4-grid and 6-grid scheduling, … • Future direction will allow the user to create new instances of tracking and scheduling, arrange them as they see fit, and then save that grouping of screens a view. • In this manner, you can create a 1 tracking with 3 scheduling screens cube or 2 tracking on top with 2 scheduling below; configurations that are not possible now. • Within each tracking and scheduling screen, independent configurations can be chosen to show a particular plant list and appropriate settings. • All this saved and configurable after the fact from each window. COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  14. 2012 Feature Additions

  15. COMMANDseries 2012 Features • .NetPrinting Improvements • Enables printing to USB printers and Terminal Services Easy Print Drivers • Project Product Level Notes added • Interface Batch Code Descriptions • This modification provides a mechanism by which plant-specific batch code descriptions can be sent to the batch system via the batch interface COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  16. COMMANDseries 2012 Features Licensing Enhancements • COMMANDseries licensing has been updated to make license installation and maintenance much easier, and to facilitate additional COMMANDseries expansion. • COMMANDseries licenses are now available as XML files that can easily be imported into a system. COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  17. COMMANDseries 2012 Features Project Level Credit Checking • A new field, Maintain Project Credit Limit, has been added to the Projects-Accounting tab. • The Credit Limit Report has been updated to include Project Credit information • Same validation rules as Customer level credit checking will be followed COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  18. COMMANDseries 2012 Features Export Reports to Excel COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  19. COMMANDseries 2012 Features E-Mail Invoices • Ability to e-mail invoices to your customers • Requires the use of HTML Invoices • Can configure each customer to either print; e-mail or both COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  20. COMMANDseries 2012 Features • Truck Status Time Stamps • COMMANDseries will now record when a truck changes status as well as the source of the changed status • Must be enabled in the configuration screen • Configuration > Distribution > Enable for Record Source of Truck Status • A new table has been created that contains the status history of the ticket • A new report has been created that reports on source of ticket status • A purge routine has also been created to purge the detail data from the database COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  21. COMMANDseries 2012 Features • Concrete Sampling Report • A Sampling Schedule report that presents a sampling schedule for a particular testing laboratory or a group of laboratories for the selected date • For each scheduled Project Product the Sampling Schedule report specifies a number of samples required to satisfy target testing frequency • The customer can order additional samples when an order is entered • Sampling Schedule report can be run from a Dispatching Reports menu or can be produced and stored automatically on a scheduled basis COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  22. COMMANDseries 2012 Features Sample Scheduling (license code SS) is required • When SS is in the license, the following ‘Sample Scheduling’ features are available • Concrete Sampling Report • Sampling setups in Configuration • Sampling setups in the Project • Sampling setups for Automated Data In/Out (ADIO) manager COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  23. COMMANDseries 2012 Features Configure Sampling report Menu: Files/ General Information/ Configuration, Testing/ Sampling tab Setup Testing Laboratories form to setup Testing Laboratories • Menu: • Files/ Item Information/ Testing Laboratories • For each Laboratory enter • Testing Laboratory • Description • Short Description COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  24. COMMANDseries 2012 Features • AssignTesting Laboratory and enter of Sampling Interval Override (if needed) • Menu: Files/ Customer and Project l Information/ Projects, Products Tab • Testing Laboratory Code – to assign a testing laboratory to the project • Sampling Interval Overrides – allow override of system wide sampling interval for all products on the project COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  25. COMMANDseries 2012 Features During order entry assign additional samples to the order if needed • Contracted Samples – calculated number of samples required to satisfy target sampling frequency • Additional Samples – number of additional samples ordered by the customer • Total Samples to Take – total number of samples to take for the order COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  26. COMMANDseries 2012 FeaturesConcrete Sampling Report Menu Run Concrete Sampling Report Menu: Dispatch/ Dispatching Reports/ Concrete Sampling Report • The report Selection criteria includes: • Report Options • Sampling Schedule Report • Sampling Compliance Report • Report Date • Testing Laboratory • Customer Code • Project Code • Include Specimen Details flag COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  27. Concrete Sampling Report Concrete Sampling Schedule Report LayoutWithout Specimen Details Contracted Samples = Rounded Up[(Shipped Qty + Ordered Qty)/ Sample Frequency – Samples Taken] Additional Samples = Samples requested during Order Entry in addition to Contracted Samples Samples to Take = Contracted Samples + Additional Samples COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  28. COMMANDseries 2012 FeaturesConcrete Sampling Schedule Report LayoutReport with Specimen Details COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  29. COMMANDseries 2012 FeaturesConcrete Compliance Report Layout COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  30. Concrete Production Manager 2012 • CPM / EDX – 12 Months At A Glance Since our last Customer Conference we have been working hard to finalize CPM and make it available to our customers • Finalized Product Feature Set • Utilized Feedback from our users / sales / support staff • Added Features / Fine Tuned Functionality / Reduced Complexity • Conducted Extensive Field / In-House Testing • Completed Several Successful CPM installations • Both New Installations and Migrations • Developed CPM “like” Interfaces • Reinforced our vision of how we plan to connect different systems • COMMANDbatch<>betonMIX (Command Alkon, KP Brazil Division) • COMMANDbatch<>SAP COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  31. Concrete Production Manager 2012 To learn more about Concrete Production Manager Please See: • Concrete Production Manager (CPM) • Thursday 9:30 – 10:20 • Friday 9:30 – 10:20 COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  32. COMMANDseries 2012 Features Comm Manager as a Service • COMM Managers can now be run as a Windows Service COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  33. COMMANDseries 2012 Features • Data Archiving Module • The COMMANDseries Archiving Module is a licensed module that provides a mechanism to save “old” data to an archive database while simultaneously purging it from the production database. • The configuration of the module assures that you can always view both current and historical COMMANDseries data.  COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  34. COMMANDseries 2012 Features • Data archiving provides a mechanism to maintain your operational database while simultaneously maintaining an archival database. • Archiving is a two-step process • Archive • Purge (remove old/historical data from production database) • Implementing archiving involves the creation of a second database to house the archive. • Read only access to Archive Database COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  35. COMMANDseries 2012 Features COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  36. COMMANDseries 2012 Features • A second database is used for the archive. • The archive database does not have to be of the same database type as the production database; you can archive from Oracle to SQL Serveror from SQL Server to Oracle. • To create an archive database on the same database engine as your production database, simply create a copy of the production database with a new database name, user name and tablespace name but without any data. COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  37. COMMANDseries 2012 Features • Two different cmdseries assignment files are needed. • COMMANDseries Installation Folder • Archive Folder • Clients Folder • In production mode, COMMANDseries will have full access to both the production and archive databases. • This mode will handle standard business activity as well as the process of copying/moving data to the archive database. • The assignment file will need connection information for both databases. COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  38. COMMANDseries 2012 Features • The Assignment File Wizard has been updated to generate the correct configuration based on user input. COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  39. COMMANDseries 2012 Features • Pressing the Define Archive button will open a new screen in which you can enter the archive database information. COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  40. COMMANDseries 2012 Features • Archive mode allows you to access the archive database to review orders, run reports, etc. (Read Only) • Where Production uses the \Clients directory under the CMDseries folder, a new folder, \Archive is required to access the archive data. COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  41. COMMANDseries 2012 Features • There are two types of archive routines: Full Archive – archives the entire database Table Archive – archives only selected tables • Most companies will probably archive the entire database. COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  42. COMMANDseries 2012 Features • Enter an Archive Date. Transactional data earlier than this date will be archived. This value cannot be more current than the Days to Save Detail field on the Configuration-Distribution tab. • Enter a Commit interval. This value determines how many records will be written to the database in a single transaction. COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  43. COMMANDseries 2012 Features • Select the tables to be archived by selecting from the list to the left. You can also select one of four groups in the drop-down selector  All Tables (Required once to allow Archive access)  Audit/Log Tables  Master Tables  Transactional Tables COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  44. Concrete Production Manager 2012 To learn more about Data Archiving Please See: • COMMANDseries Data Archiving • Thursday 8:30 – 10:20 COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  45. COMMANDtrack 2012 Calendar/Date Control Search Box Tabbed Displays Upper Display Tracking or Scheduling Lower Display Orders to Load/Truck Information Totals and Zoom COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  46. COMMANDtrack 2012 • 2012 COMMANDtrack Achievements: • Performance and memory footprint improvement • Virtualized the controls • Down to 3 code files from 15 last year • Install footprint is now under 200mb • A significant improvement over last year • Performance is as much as 5 times faster than last year • Installations at many sites including a few very large implementations • Both new installations and migrations • Worked with customers to improve both the functionality and usability COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  47. COMMANDtrack Looking Forward To learn more about COMMANDtrack please see: • CC-003 COMMANDtrack for COMMANDseries • Thursday 3:00-4:50 • Friday 1:00-2:50 Hands-on Practice! COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  48. COMMANDoptimize 2012 • COMMANDoptimize • Over 1000 development hours spent to improve functionality and usability COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  49. COMMANDseries 2012 Features For information on Optimization Roadmap and feature additions please see: • Dispatch Optimization Roadmap • 2:00 – 2:50 Wednesday COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

  50. COMMANDseries Product Info Don’t forget that you can get product information for all of our products from our customer portal: Users.commandalkon.com Password: Release Sign up to receive release announcements for all products! COMMANDseries V2 Product Roadmap and Forum

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