What's everyone's thoughts on the John Deere Operations Center?

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Just curious if anyone is a fan or not of the Operations Center. It seems to be getting better and better.

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We don't use to the full extent that it can, but we do enjoy it on our farm. We run almost all Deere equipment so having everything viewable and uploadable through Operations Center is a great plus. Being able to see field data, tractor locations, maintenance schedules, and more is pretty helpful. Like I said, there is a lot more it can do, and one day we will get there, but it is a very appreciated tool!

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We have all JD monitors so it is nice to have a compatible software platform to unload data to without much hassle. We don't use everything on it as we don't have some of the upgrades on our equipment to do so. I like being able to scroll back through years to see what was done previously. I like that it will automatically add planting, harvest, application data to the correct field (if your fields are setup properly in Op Center) if an operator forgets to change fields on the monitor.

Some things that I don't like:
I wish that I could upload and download files on my Mac and not have to have a windows computer on hand to do that. 
I would like to see better reports created, like being able to select one landlord and have all the application/harvest/planting data populate in a report. 
Some of the symbols used are odd for me to remember what they do.

All that being said, it is better than when it first came out. However, I'd think a multi-billion dollar company could create a decent software platform without much trouble but seems to be a weakness with Mother Deere. We loved the reports that Apex could create but it took forever to upload or download anything in it. Tried updates and different computers and it was always the same sloooow process.

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What's everyone's thoughts on the John Deere Operations Center?

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