http://www.lupinepartners.com/yardi-training - David Wolfe, President of Lupine Partners, explains the pros and cons of using your own data or a sample training database during Yardi Voyager software implementation training.
Ideally you should use your own, but practically speaking this is difficult to do and it’s usually not cost effective. The reason this is typically not cost effective is because your database must be set up to be meaningful in a training environment. The necessary setup would include being able to demonstrate various functionality in the software, and sample or training data has already been set up to accomplish this. ‘Your’ data is usually the remnants of the data conversion orchestration effort and probably has not been set up in a useful way. The question is this: What is the cost/benefit to setting up your database for training just so the users will recognize the properties, units, and tenants? Yes, they are more familiar with the data, but does it actually help them learn the software faster or better? My thought is no…. you can spend your finite time and resources in other areas on the implementation. Just use a training or sample database.
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