e-conomic Global TechTalk Blog

April uptime

Jens Sørensen — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:04:07 GMT

We’re ready with uptime stats for the e-conomic application in April. Once again, we surpassed our target of 99.9% uptime by reaching an average of 99.93% uptime during the month of April. Almost all slowdowns went unnoticed by our users, except on April 20 when some users experienced that the system was down for about [...]

April uptime is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Uptime in March

Jens Sørensen — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:54:27 GMT

For March, we again exceeded our target of 99.9% uptime, with the e-conomic application up and running for 99.92% of the time during the month. In the figure below, you can see our day-by-day uptime figures for the month of March: Uptime for the e-conomic application in January 2012 As the figure shows, we only [...]

Uptime in March is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Taking website speed optimization too far

Tue Skaarup — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 07:51:28 GMT

During the early hours of Sunday April 1, some website visitors reported mysterious events and strange sightings on our websites. Some were just confused, while others later reported their experience in words like “It’s full of stars!”. If you happened to experience this mishap, I would like to express my apologies. Root of the issue [...]

Taking website speed optimization too far is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Basic speed optimization – release the handbrake

Tue Skaarup — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:16:30 GMT

If after reading this post you feel a little embarrassed about your 2+ second page load times for your web pages – fine, you should! Seriously, there is no excuse for not doing a least the basic speed optimization. It is easy to do and the results are rewarding in terms of better user experience [...]

Basic speed optimization – release the handbrake is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

February uptime figures

Jens Sørensen — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:06:22 GMT

As part of our ongoing sharing of uptime figures for our application, we’re ready with uptime numbers for February. The graph below shows when the e-conomic application has been up and running, and when we’ve experienced short-lived uptime problems. For February, we reached an average uptime of 99.95%, above the corresponding figure for January and, [...]

February uptime figures is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

January uptime figures

Jens Sørensen — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:26:49 GMT

At e-conomic, we’re constantly working to make sure that our service is available to our customers. As part of this we measure uptime – the period of time when the e-conomic application is up and running. Below you’ll see our uptime for January. On average, we reached 99.927% uptime, above our target of 99.9%. Uptime [...]

January uptime figures is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Unscheduled website downtime 2011-12-20 – SOLVED

Tue Skaarup — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:30:04 GMT

Our Swedish, Norwegian and Finish websites was down this morning from 7.24 to 8.07. The error was located at our Swedish host, and we are still investigating the reason. All other websites and e-conomic application was not affected, but some of our Swedish, Norwegian and Finish customers would have experienced difficulties logging in to the e-conomic [...]

Unscheduled website downtime 2011-12-20 – SOLVED is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Solution to the trailing slash problem in Lotus Domino

Tue Skaarup — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:25:33 GMT

The Lotus Domino webserver does not care about the trailing slash (“/”) in URLs, leading to Duplicate Content problems which have a negative impact on SEO results. But now there is a safe, fast and elegant solution to this problem using DSAPI filters. The problem: Domino does not care about trailing slash (“/”) Working with [...]

Solution to the trailing slash problem in Lotus Domino is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

e-conomic is up and running again

Claes Meldal — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:01:31 GMT

e-conomic has completed a performance upgrade of its system on Sunday (August 21) from 00:01 to 06:00 CET. This upgrade required the system to be shut down in this period, which means that e-conomic was unavailable to all customers. Please note that if your integrations to e-conomic do not support post-synchronization of data, any data [...]

e-conomic is up and running again is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

e-conomic is upgrading its system

Claes Meldal — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:01:14 GMT

e-conomic is performing an upgrade of its system during a 6-hour time span on Sunday (August 21) from 00:01 to 06:00 CET. Therefore you cannot log on to e-conomic and use the system in this period. Please note that if your integrations to e-conomic do not support post-synchronization of data, any data exchanged with e-conomic [...]

e-conomic is upgrading its system is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Get ready for a night of downtime

Claes Meldal — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:13:01 GMT

e-conomic has scheduled a performance upgrade involving six hours of downtime this coming Sunday (August 21) from 00:01 to 06:00 CET. This upgrade will further enhance system failover options and minimize system downtime in the future. Please be aware of the following: - You will not be able to use e-conomic at all during this [...]

Get ready for a night of downtime is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Return to old certificate validation method

Michael Hammer — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:20:59 GMT

As detailed previously, we’ve had problems with the certificate load order. We have now re-established the original certificate load order, and all certificate issues should now be resolved. For those of you with an integration solution, this means that you need to switch back to your old certificate validation method to be sure to avoid [...]

Return to old certificate validation method is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Certificate issues for small number of integrations

Michael Hammer — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:45:15 GMT

UPDATE: The correct load order of the certificates will be re-established on Friday, 29 July at 10:30 PM CET. Please remember to change back to your old validation method at this point. ———————————————————————————————– Our new EV SSL certificate has caused problems recently for a small number of Java integrations (and possibly others as well). The [...]

Certificate issues for small number of integrations is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

e-conomic introduces newsletter for developers

Michael Hammer — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:39:25 GMT

We are happy to announce the launch of the e-conomic developer newsletter, designed to keep developers updated with the best from the e-conomic developer world! Featuring new functionality, tips & tricks, resources, case stories and more, the newsletter will hopefully increase interest and awareness of the possibilities we offer to developers for integrating e-conomic with [...]

e-conomic introduces newsletter for developers is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Friday Stats: 7.9 Million invoices will be booked in e-conomic this year

Jens Sørensen — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:49:23 GMT

We ran some stats for product planning purposes. We were looking at Invoicing and found that 5 million invoices were booked in the past year. This means that our customers will book roughly 7.9million invoices in e-conomic this year. A nice tangible way to see e-conomic bring value to our customers. Friday Stats: 7.9 Million [...]

Friday Stats: 7.9 Million invoices will be booked in e-conomic this year is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Increased Server Capacity

Jens Sørensen — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:01:33 GMT

Even though our uptime in January was really great (above 99.9%), some of you may have experienced, e-conomic have felt a little sluggish. This is mainly due to an exceptionally successful January, where a record number of new companies have started using e-conomic. As a result of that, we have been adding new servers to [...]

Increased Server Capacity is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Welcome to the jungle of shortcuts

Christian Münster — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:37:46 GMT

To the people that knows me well, this blog entry is just up my alley. I spent a lot of my time thinking about this and in fact one could argue too much. But hey, if you don’t have extreme field experts, to whom would you address a specific customer question from a Help-Desk? It’s [...]

Welcome to the jungle of shortcuts is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Unscheduled service disruption

Tue Skaarup — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 23:45:28 GMT

Since around 23:00 CET Sunday, e-conomic has not been available. We are working hard to solve the issue. Sorry for the trouble, more info to come. Update 00:50 CET Monday: Issue found, e-conomic is up and running again. Error was a due an overfilled transaction log and the notification system for this situation failed, unfortunatly. We are [...]

Unscheduled service disruption is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Maintenance: Business continuity test

Torben Schou — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:53:22 GMT

Sunday Dec 19, 2010 between 00:00 and 06:00 we will be conduction some business continuity test. Doing this period we will among others conduct a series of tests on the datacenters failover capability. This could result in some small period where the application appears to be slow or off line and you could have to [...]

Maintenance: Business continuity test is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Dual datacenter

Torben Schou — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:02:12 GMT

As you may already know we at e-conomic value our customers security and access to our systems very high. We strive to ensure that your data is protected and that you can get access to it 24/7. With regards to the latter we have recently successfully completed a transition, that ensure even higher availability and [...]

Dual datacenter is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Maintenance on e-conomic core servers (Update)

Torben Schou — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:52:03 GMT

17:05 – It is my privilege to announce that e-conomic is now online again! In the grand scheme of things, everything went really well – so we’re of course happy to be able to open up for business roughly 19 hours earlier than previously announced. 15:30 – We are now in the process of running [...]

Maintenance on e-conomic core servers (Update) is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Maintenance on e-conomic core servers

Torben Schou — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:24:40 GMT

As previously announced here on the TechTalk blog and communicated to all end-users, we are shutting down e-conomic’s core servers from Nov 26, 2010 at 22:00 CET until Nov 28, 2010 at 12:00 CET. Why do we need 38 hours of downtime? Because we are making a number of major changes to the core system [...]

Maintenance on e-conomic core servers is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

20 minutes downtime today

Torben Schou — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:37:19 GMT

Today nov. 1 2010 between the hours 10:46 – 11:06 the e-conomic application was unavailable for most of our customers. The root cause for this incident was that the core internet provider for our service became unstable and we had to switch to a backup provider. The switch unfortunately did require some manual work before [...]

20 minutes downtime today is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

What is e-conomic doing to create a stable and high performance application for our customers/users?

Torben Schou — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:18:44 GMT

We have been asked this question many times over the past 12 months – whenever we have experienced slowdowns with the application. The question has often been accompanied by the remark – why don’t you just get some bigger boxes (scale up)? Well, it would be great if the purchase of new and bigger hardware [...]

What is e-conomic doing to create a stable and high performance application for our customers/users? is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

API: Two new functions, two huge optimizations…

Christian Estrup — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:33:30 GMT

As part of our ongoing commitment to make the best possible ERP integration platform available, we’ve added two new often-requested functions to the API this week: OrderLine.GetAll() will allow you to retrieve all order lines across all orders. Debtor.FindByPartialName() enables wildcard searches for customers by name. Finally, bulk downloading of invoices and products have been [...]

API: Two new functions, two huge optimizations… is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Storage upgrade, phase 2 – complete

Christian Estrup — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:34:48 GMT

The second – and currently last – phase of our move to faster storage has now been successfully completed, and e-conomic is back online again. Preliminary benchmarks show quite some performance improvements – although we expect this to be most noticeable as ‘much smaller peaks at high load’. In addition to our storage upgrade, we’ve [...]

Storage upgrade, phase 2 – complete is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Move to faster storage – phase 1 complete

Christian Estrup — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:22:51 GMT

We’re happy to announce that phase 1 of our previously mentioned storage upgrade has now been completed – and rather successfully at that, with e-conomic being fully available more than 4 hours earlier than initially publicized. As such, the move itself actually reaped the first benefit of our faster storage Regardless, we once again regret [...]

Move to faster storage – phase 1 complete is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Planned maintenance

Christian Estrup — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:45:19 GMT

In order to support our continued growth, as well as improve performance, we’ll be moving to faster storage media during the next two weekends. Therefore, both the e-conomic application and API will be offline during the following two periods: Friday, July 23rd 10pm CET through Saturday, July 24th 6am CET Friday, July 30th 10pm CET [...]

Planned maintenance is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

Performance update

Torben Schou — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:03:11 GMT

Following up on our last performance update, we have made a number of changes to both our hardware and software setup – working on multiple levels, such as optimizing code, tweaking our network infrastructure, updating storage, etc.. Regarding code optimization, a number of tweaks have been made. This should be particularly obvious when bulk-synchronizing data [...]

Performance update is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com

API updates

Christian Estrup — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:04:35 GMT

Once again, a new feature, as well as some bug fixes, have found their way to the e-conomic API. In the new features department, cash book entries – as represented by the ICashBookEntry class – now have an Employee property. This effectively allows you to add per-employee costs to projects – just like you can [...]

API updates is a blog post from the e-conomic TechTalk blog, the technical voice of e-conomic.
Main website: www.e-conomic.com