Combine two companies?

[Strubbs]

We have GP 8.0 on SQL with two companies set up. We are being acquired by a larger company who wants us to combine the two companies into one under a new name. I don't need history older than 12 months for either company, but I need the employee history. Microsoft told us they don't support combining companies. Has anyone had success with this?

Thanks
Cory

 

[barbola]

We have amalgamated several companies but only transfer in the beginning balances, and leave the history in the old company.

As for the employee history, payroll is a separate module , so you can probably DTS all the payroll information/years you want into the new company as long as there isn't conflicting data. Can you try DTSing the tables to a dummy company and use the Append method?

Thanks!
Barb E.

 

[Strubbs]

I am working on setting up a test environment now. We will give that a try.

Thanks
Cory