Speaking from what I saw and heard at Perspectives from people and the live demonstration of the product.
1. Epicor is not trying to eliminate the IQS product, however they are developing their own product that is integrated fully into the Epicor Vantage product.
2. IQS is not underneath the PM that Epicor is developing.
3. I believe the PM will be an addon module that will cost additional $$ to license and maintain. No idea how that cost compares to IQS.
4. I don't believe there is anything online but I would suggest contacting your CAM to see if they can get you a copy of anything from Perspectives that was made public.
From a personal perspective, to me it makes sense for Epicor to create something of their own. They then retain the money that was going externally previously, and second the features are integrated fully with the rest of the E9 platform.
We looked at IQS and while it has some excellent features, however we did not want to run another application on the shop floor for users to manage. We didn't like that all the data was not flowing fully back and forth between the products, and there are some issues with its ability to support multi-company.
(On a side note we met with IQS reps at Perspectives and they blamed Epicor for the problems of not fully synching data back and forth - that certain methods and objects weren't available to do it, and Epicor reps said all the features were there to do it - so who knows).
So, if you don't need to commit to any product immediately, I would suggest waiting for the Epicor PM to be released with 9.05 and compare cost/features at that time and make a decision.
1. Epicor is not trying to eliminate the IQS product, however they are developing their own product that is integrated fully into the Epicor Vantage product.
2. IQS is not underneath the PM that Epicor is developing.
3. I believe the PM will be an addon module that will cost additional $$ to license and maintain. No idea how that cost compares to IQS.
4. I don't believe there is anything online but I would suggest contacting your CAM to see if they can get you a copy of anything from Perspectives that was made public.
From a personal perspective, to me it makes sense for Epicor to create something of their own. They then retain the money that was going externally previously, and second the features are integrated fully with the rest of the E9 platform.
We looked at IQS and while it has some excellent features, however we did not want to run another application on the shop floor for users to manage. We didn't like that all the data was not flowing fully back and forth between the products, and there are some issues with its ability to support multi-company.
(On a side note we met with IQS reps at Perspectives and they blamed Epicor for the problems of not fully synching data back and forth - that certain methods and objects weren't available to do it, and Epicor reps said all the features were there to do it - so who knows).
So, if you don't need to commit to any product immediately, I would suggest waiting for the Epicor PM to be released with 9.05 and compare cost/features at that time and make a decision.
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Sweny, Matt" <matts@...> wrote:
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> Does anyone use the 3rd party quality product from IQS? And if so, does anyone have/use the maintenance/calibration modules? I have looked at both of these and they look fairly good, but of course pricey and you have to purchase a core group of quality modules to get the maintenance/calibration modules to work.
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> We looked at this a year ago, because our maintenance folks use an old 3rd party product and refuse to migrate to vantage for purchasing. We did have this great idea of marrying vantage to the 3rd party maint using service connect so we bought the $15K packaging and it sits collecting dust today.
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> Is Epicor trying to eliminate the IQS product? Is the 9.05 prevent maint. the IQS product underneath? or something new? Is it an add on module for 9.05? will it cost to purchase or is it part of the software maint. upgrade?
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> Does someone know were I could find the Perspective Presentation on this prevent maint. functionality?
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> > We are in the same boat. We use different documents for tracking machine tool maintenance and calibrations and would like to tie it together under one package.
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> > We were told early last year that Epicor may have been developing a preventative maintenance module. So I sent a message this morning to our Epicor sales rep. and asked if there is any update regarding a preventative maintenance module for Vantage or Epicor 9. I will be sure to post his response once it is received.
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