Am sure you'll get differing opinions - my humble opinion and experience :-) We did purge when we converted. We wanted a clean database of donors. Our previous major capital campaign had been 4-5 years earlier. We have an annual campaign with option for each solicitor to add any prospects they wish...

Hi Penny, We are working with Student Info System and just recently brought Payroll 7 on board. We had been using Payroll 6 and found it to be fine for our 250 to 350 employees. One had the option of posting in detail or summary and, of course, we chose summary. Now Payroll 7 does not offer the option...

Anyone who has converted from Datatel's Benefactor (or any other database) to Raiser's Edge, we were wondering, was there anythings you neede to do before you took the old system down? Any processes, Major reports, anything (Be as specific as you can, please)? We are in the final leg of our conversion...

Did anyone have a problem with the State withholding not processing? Thanks!

Has anyone upgraded Raiser's Edge 7 to SQL Server 2008? Currently we are on SQL 2000 and I want to upgrade to SQL 2008. SQL Upgrade Advisor did not find any problems but I'm wondering about the Raiser's Edge side of things. Thanks

We are beginning out upgrade from RE 7.71 to RE 7.85. We bought a new Dell Server (1950) which has Duo Quad core processors and 32 Gb of memory. We are moving from a much older server...with only 4 Gb memory and a single processor. We have upgraded out 32 bit Windows 2000 OS to 64 bit Windows 2008 Server...

We had the exact same format (7#s, C+7#s for corps) in our old system. We converted the old ID# as an alias (We can then search on it when looking up constituents) and just had RE auto-assign consistent IDs for all records. This has worked out well as all of our RE IDs are the same format and we no longer...

I would like to hear from anyone who converted existing data into the Registrar's Office component of Student Information System. Any input regarding conversion issues, especially on the Degree Requirements tab and transcripts, would be much appreciated. I know only of those who have chosen not to...

Does anyone have conversion task plans, or evaluation docs? Ie. what went right, what could have gone better? I will be converting three different databases into our RE account. One is very basic access file, the other is a conversion from another RE system and the last is a conversion from an AS400...

Dear Katie, Thanks for sharing this! I will be converting three databases into RE over the next few months. An access file, another RE database and an AS400 system. We'll have multiple users from multiple sites and this is a fantastic document to have in preparation. If there are any other helpful...