Background and Credits

DataLoad V4 is developed, distributed and supported by Comstar Associates Ltd in the UK. Comstar specializes in all aspects of Oracle Applications consultancy and support, and work worldwide providing high quality solutions in partnership with their customers.

DataLoad has its origins in an Excel macro, see below,  which was redeveloped by Jonathan Stuart in August 1998 to work with the then new NCA Applications. This macro, version 3.0, addressed the new issues introduced by NCA as well as further NCA specific requirements. Further macros, version 3.X, were produced, adding new features and fixes. The software was re-implemented as a 32 bit Windows program for version 4.0. This delivered major benefits over the macro approach and the software's functionality was extended in this release. Current development is focused on V4.X which takes advantage of the improved performance and functionality available in a standalone Windows program.

Credit must go to the following people for their indispensable work:

Martin Birch: Author of the original Cut and Paste macro.
Luther Armstrong: Continued developed of Martin's macro and included it in his Data Load work, which includes a large number of pre-built data sheets to use with the macro.

Furthermore, the following have helped greatly with new ideas for DataLoad and testing new versions:

Hazel Seymour
Giselle Velez Moss
Luther Armstrong
David Bodnarchuk