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Since the first day I started developing E4SE (Epicor for Service Enterprises by Epicor) with ICE 1.x, I always wondered why we would be expected to rebuild a site(s) to install customizations. Particularly when you had many sites and when you might only have a few files to update. At the time, I wa

Being an Epicor Enterprise guy for over 12 years, I never got my hands on the manufacturing side of things.  I recently spent a few days reviewing and reading the ICE customization user guides.  These guides are some of the best …actually “the best”… Epicor has ever published!  They are a very good

At iAutomate we decided to use Development Seed’s Open Atrium solution as a base for our support web site. See our previous blog post for more information on Open Atrium. It is built on the Drupal platform and provide great flexibility to expand to our needs. While reviewing the Open Atrium issue tr

While working with an Epicor customer in installing a custom Cost Reporting solution developed by iAutomate using BackOffice, Explorer, SQL 2008, SQL Reporting Services (SSRS), and SQL Integration Service (SSIS), and SharePoint Server, and a custom C# application, we ran into an issue that cost us a

We had been looking for an Open Source solution to help us collaborate with our customers on the various projects we undertake. We knew that we could build something using Drupal or Joomla!, but it would have taken some time to either build custom modules and/or a mash up of many of the available mo

Caesars Palace Las Vegas here we come! I’m very excited about the opportunity to attend Perspectives 2009, Epicor’s Global User Conference, scheduled for November 8-10, 2009. There will be multiple days of hands-on education, networking with industry peers, and over 500 sessions to choose from. The