bridge application
Reaching the point of diminishing returns on a project
Over the past month, I have been working on a project to automate payroll entry for a client that has close to 300 employees and is growing. Naturally, it is the company’s best interest to get this payroll automated as much as possible.
To do this I’ve been developing an application to bridge the payroll [...]
Knowing where to fix a problem pays off in quick response
I was on the phone with a Payroll Specialist about 30 minutes ago. One of the company’s biggest clients is a trucking company. We set them up back in January with a bridge application to facilitate payroll entry. The client emails their payroll in a spreadsheet with a consistent layout that I [...]
Microsoft Great Plains - Integration Manager in action
The company uses a version of Microsoft Great Plains (GP) that’s been customized for the PEO industry. One piece of that is Integration Manager (IM). I’ve talked about the bridge application a number of times before. With an Excel file from a client and, with some sophisticated programming, we create a tab-delimited [...]
Migrating Existing Access Applications to Access 2007
This post is one of the more esoteric ones where I delve into the geeky details of some of my programming work. I know - it’s really sexy, isn’t it?
I have mentioned the bridge application I developed that helps make payrolls run faster, helping client employees get paid faster, and so forth, using Microsoft [...]
Handling errors in the payroll bridge application
Clients email the company their payroll files, and the columns on the payroll indicate Regular Hours, Overtime, Vacation, and so forth. To make the bridge application work, I and the other developer map the program that assigns payroll items based on this layout. It only works, however, when the layout is consistent. [...]
