In the spring of 2006 we assisted a customer in converting 60+ Advanced Accounting 5.1 companies into Advanced Accounting 6.1.
In December of 2009, for one tax/accounting provider we remotely converted 66 companies that existed in three different legacy versions (24 Advanced Accounting 3.0 companies in two different installations, 9 Advanced Accounting 4.0 companies and
33 Advanced Accounting 5.1 companies) into one combined Advanced Accounting 7i installation resulting in ultimately over 8,100 installed data files with 100% of the original data succesfully transferred.
In February of 2010, we upgraded a system we have been supporting since Oct. 1996 with custom data structures from a now over 13-year old Adv 5.1 version to the latest Adv 7i version including three archived companies and
which is running on a 64-bit version of Pervasive 10 (SP3) on a Windows 2008 Server platform.
In July of 2011 we converted a user who had been continuously using the 5.1 version since December of 1996 (and who had not updated the 5.1 version since 1998) that makes extensive lengthy and multi-level use of the bills of material module and had accumulated a significant amount of data
to the 7i version and with all of their data intact.
Also in July of 2011, we converted an Advanced Accounting 3.0 user (1989 vintage, and who had some third party program modifications in 1994 and had been using the software continuously and without any support or updates ever since) to the 7i version moving all
of their data foward in connection with a system that was over 20 years old; for this user (as we would with any user with a version this old) we also ran additional utilities to resolve various century date issues.
In December of 2011 we converted a system that had been continuously using Advanced Accounting 5.1 since January of 1998 and that was still running on Windows 95. We provided pre-hardware consultation, they migrated to newer hardware and we remotely converted all of their 5.1 data into the 7i version.
In January of 2012, Advanced Accounting 5.1 users continued to migrate to the newer version (we still support the 5.1 version in any event). A user who had been using the 5.1 software since February of 1998 moved forward with the 7i version
during the first week of the new year, and all of their 5.1 data was moved successfully into the 7i version. Custom programs were also moved into the newer version. A 5.1 user who was only using the payroll module and had been using the 5.1 version since
March of 2005 was also fully converted to the 7i version including a custom timeclock import program.
In March of 2012, we converted a standard Advanced Accounting 5.1f multi-user system containing 28 companies to the Advanced Accounting 7i version.
Windows 7 was already in use as the main host or gateway PC along with several Windows 7 and XP Pro clients. Four of the 28 companies were actively being used and the remaining 24 companies represented prior period archives. Every record in all 28 companies was brought into the 7i version.
In performing a conversion like this and in coordination with IT staff or consultants, we often install the software remotely, assist with networking related chores including establishing network shares and other network performance enhancing settings, provide advice with respect to data backups anti-virus and related software exclusions,
and we often also have access to other clients on the same network and assist in the client setup and testing. (We frequently do this as well in connection with providing support for PC/server migrations where we are sometimes asked to check the desktop of every PC on the network.)
In January of 2013, we successfully and without incident converted a 6.1 user's 94 companies (all contained in a single installation of the software) to 7i involving some new and restructured files totaling over 1,500 impacted data files on a multi-user Windows 7 system using the legacy 32-bit Btrieve 6.15 engine.
Also in January of 2013, we assisted a user we have worked with since early 1997 in migrating their Adv 5.1 system running still on Windows 98 to Advanced Accounting 7i running on a completely 64-bit operating system based network consisting of Windows 8 as the gateway PC and Windows 7 and Windows Vista client PC's, and also assisted in setting up the folder sharing and network mapping and
establishment of appropriate settings on all PC's including the Windows 8 gateway PC.
In 2014, after not having much reason to use TAS 3.0 for a number years, several TAS 3.0 users with custom business systems emerged, one of which we moved selected portions of into 7i, and for two other highly customized 3.0 systems, we provided consultation and programming.
Following a review of a complex completely custom system written in TAS 4.0 involving over 140 source files and having moved its data dictionary, data and source forward into a 7i environment in late 2014, by January 2015 we had converted all 140+ programs used in the system retaining them in a legacy format but now runnable from 64-bit operating systems and with Windows printing capabilities. These include menuing, data entry and reporting programs each one of which was individually reviewed and tested.
In December of 2015, we began the review of a custom 5.1 system that may ultimately have an accounting software interface, converted the data dictionary and four programs including one complex data entry program as well as a report program utilizing library files that we have developed over the years to handle certain RUN program and legacy printing issues.
In May of 2016, we migrated an Adv 5.1 user that we have worked with since 1995 to an all Windows 10 Pro network consisting of about five PC's and established settings to access the software on all of the PC's remotely.
In January of 2017, we converted an Adv 5.1 system that had been in continuous use since at least 1996, and that was still running on a Novell 3.4 server, to a Windows 7 Pro workgroup, including converting the data by running utilities on the Novell Server from an XP Pro client, and then using an intermediate PC to copy files to the Win 7 gateway PC, and finally completing the setup of the four-user Win 7 network remotely accessing all four PC's. The invoice line history file alone had nearly 850,000 records. And in February of 2017, we migrated another system where Advanced Accounting 5.1 had been used continuously for well over 20 years from an XP Pro gateway PC to a Windows 2008 Server.
In May of 2017, we converted a Books 2.04 (1988 version) user to Advanced Accounting 7i (running on Windows 10).
The first Adv 5.1 to Adv 8 conversion was completed successfully on Sept. 10, 2019 with all prior data converted to the newest version.
From December of 2019 to mainly February 2020 (and continuing to later in 2020), we developed a workaround for Adv 5.1 users that encountered the 1920-2019 short date problem and without making any changes to end user data (i.e. short dates remain short dates). Some Adv 5.1 users chose to update to the latest version of the software. But a number of users with in some cases extensive custom modifications were not ready to make that change and/or decided to remain on the Adv 5.1 version. The custom modified users had to be dealt with individually depending on what version of the Adv. 5.1 system they were on. In the course of doing that, we had a few users running standard 5.1 versions without custom modifications that wanted to remain on the 5.1 version, so we ended up making a standard version "2020 date fix" to some 60+ programs. All prior Adv 5.1 updates must be first installed (there were at least eight major releases from 1999 to 2007 - see
Advanced Accounting 5.1 updates for more information).
In 2020, working with one of the highly customized Adv 5.1 users, we implemented socket calls to a cloud-based service management program using a combination of both Adv/TAS 5.1, TAS Premier 7i, and Delphi DLL's.
By the end of 2020, we completed a complex data conversion (along with custom programming changes) for a highly customized Adv/TAS 3.0 user, incorporating mission critical program logic into the Adv 8 version and moving all TAS 3.0 data to Adv 8 for further testing, with the system to go live in 2021).
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