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Hello, I know this is a very broad question, but I am trying to get a very ball park figure in Partner days in how long a typical 2009 R2 to 2013 R2 upgrade for a 35 user system would take. I know there are many variables, bespoke code, reports etc but just trying to get a general idea, would it be 10 days, 15, 20 etc?
We have only been live for 18 months so our database is still quite small
Any ideas??
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Hi Ian,
I did the full upgrade from 2009 to 2015 version, as a developer it took 1 - 2 weeks (without reports and testing).
If you have too many existing or new reports customised, then probably you need to allow atleast 6 - 12 hours for each report.
Testing : It really depends on your decision, as a developer to do the basic testing to make sure nothing broken, you can allocate approximately 16 - 24 hours.
So atleast you were looking at anywhere 3 - 4 weeks payment for your external developer.
My assumption is purely based on minimal customisation.
If you want you can give me access to your database, then I can provide you the estimate hours easily (may take couple of hours to provide an estimate).
if interested, send me the details to shankar25_12_82@yahoo.com. I will reply back as our local AEST.
Thanks
Shankar
FYI, you cannot directly upgrade into 2013 R2 from 2009 R2,
You have to upgrade into 2013 and then upgrade into 2013 R2.
Based on my experience, definitely it will take minimum 40 to 50 days.
Btw converting data port into XML port shouldn’t be a big task. Because still we have CSV option in XML Port designer itself.
We have 10 Dataports, so not sure how that impacts the time?
As said it is not the internal testing that I was trying to calculate, but the number of paid consultant days that I could expect so I could put this in my budget for this year, I have gone for 25 days but will only really know when we take the project on,
Thanks
Please note that Dataports are also gone in NAV 2013,
so if you've got a lot of interfaces using Dataports to import/export data you will have to transform those as XMLPORTS too ...
Testing all your different flows from A to Z can be quite a time consuming task too.
We are using RTC, so can ignore Forms and then minimal training required. Aleksandar - I agree that the whole project may take 3-4 months or longer, but I would envisage that, that would be the overall project time to allow for testing etc, not the actual external consultants time, as otherwise we are looking at 60-80 days of paid for consultancy work which will be too much for a Small company, that is longer than the original implementation.
As Rashed said, you need some time for standard object upgrade. testing data and additional training. But the main time for this upgrade project depends of customization level. I made the same upgrade (almost without any customization) and small database for one week. But I have upgrade project with really many customizations (only classic used) in 3-4 months. Depends of number and complexity of customization. This is my experience.
Yes all objects. If you are using RTC in 2009 then forms can be ignored only pages. If you are using classic then only Forms will need to be migrated for pages. Yes there are time for PM but minimal and there is need to be testing for consultant or you can request to do all the testing. You will need time for training on new UI if you are moving from classic to RTC.
Ok, that's interesting, the database is below 4Gb & is the above just for a upgrade process - automated or is that time to allow a consultant to check each object? Also object does this mean any modified Table/Report/Page as well as codeunits or Forms?
There would also need to be some Project Management/consultancy time for this?
I'm not worried about the time for internal resources, it's more for external resources that we will have to pay for.
Thanks
It depends on how many objects modified, how many new objects. It's 15 min on average for non report objects and 4 to 8 hrs depending on complexity on reports. You can do the math yourself for total hours. Data upgrade depends on size of db. 1-10 gig is about 8 hours, but depends on what hardware you are running. You'll be doing the data upgrade twice. Once for testing and second on actual live environment. Testing requires a lot more time nothing bellow 2 weeks.
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