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Image conversion In Computers
by V.Anantha krishnan

JPEG, GIFF/JIFF, BMP, and TIFF are the most commonly used formats for storing still image files such as photographs, graphics, and drawings. JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group and is a standard for image compression. However, some amount of data/detail is lost in the process. JPEG therefore is characterized by a glossy compression technique for still color images, just as MPEG is used for compressing motion picture files. GIFF/JIFF stands for Graphics Interchange format, which ...

Overselling Web Hosting: What does it mean to you?
by Daniel Punch

Overselling is a big trend in the web-hosting world at the moment. It’s an easy way to get more out of your servers than normally is possible. The basic idea of overselling is that the majority of your clients are only going to use a fraction of the resources allocated to them so there’s going to be a lot of wasted bandwidth and space. Overselling involves taking a gamble and selling more than you can handle assuming that the unused resources will cover it. Let’s say for example that a ...

Maintain Your Computer – Keep Your Business Running
by Vickie J. Scanlon

Maintaining your computer is extremely important – especially if you are an Internet Marketer. As you know, without your computer, your business can come to a screeching halt. There are 4 important steps in which you can perform on a regular basis, to help protect your computer and your livelihood. First line of defense, invest in quality virus software. Be it Norton AntiVirus, McAfee Virus Software or another software program, protect yourself and your computer. I personally have ...

Microsoft Retail Management System (RMS) SQL customization – overview for programmer
by Andrew Karasev

Microsoft Retail Management System serves retail single store as well as retail chains clientele. The customization scenarios, described in this article deal with the chains, when Microsoft RMS has multiple stores databases and Headquarters. Microsoft RMS is SQL Server-based application, so we will consider SQL programming – SQL queries, views and stored procedures. Also Microsoft RMS could be integrated on the SQL level with other applications, such as Microsoft Great Plains, Microsoft CRM a ...

Microsoft Great Plains Implementation for Large Corporation – overview for VP IT
by Andrew Karasev

Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains was historically designed to serve mid-market first and then with addition and acquisition of new modules – Great Plains Dynamics architects planned to enter into corporate market. When Microsoft SQL Server took its place as relatively reliable and stable database platform, Great Plains gained scalability. Let’s consider the questions, you need to be placed and answered for your IT department in ERP selection, implementation, modification and customiza ...

Microsoft CRM Integration with Microsoft Retail Management System (RMS) – overview
by Andrew Karasev

Microsoft Client Relation Management system (Microsoft CRM) and Microsoft RMS are both Microsoft SQL Server based applications, however historically Microsoft was purchasing industry leading software applications, such as QuickSell which is now Microsoft RMS. So, RMS design fundamentals were minted a long time before Microsoft CRM. But, still integration between the two is straightforward and what you need is consultant, who is familiar with both systems structures and customization scenarios. ...

Microsoft Great Plains: data conversion & migration scenarios – overview for consultant
by Andrew Karasev

Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains serves multiple industries in the US, plus it has strong presence in Latin America, U.K., Australia, Canada, Middle East, South Africa. Great Plains is natural solution for growing company, when small business accounting application, such as QuickBooks, M.Y.O.B, Peachtree, Quicken or others should be replaced with ERP, better positioned to serve mid-size business. With the switch to Microsoft Great Plains you need to decide on data migration and conver ...

Microsoft Great Plains Implementation & Customization: computer parts retailer exampl
by Andrew Karasev

Microsoft Great Plains fits to majority of horizontals and retail business is good fit as well. We’ll consider the system, consisting from Microsoft Great Plains as Accounting, Inventory Pricing and Microsoft Retail Management System (RMS) Headquarters and Store Operations Manager. In this case you can base web commerce off Great Plains databases and POS automates walk-in retail store. Inventory count might be done from both sides: Great Plains or RMS, depending on the main line – if it is eC ...

Microsoft CRM and Great Plains implementation: freight forwarding business automation example
by Andrew Karasev

Microsoft Business Solutions offers several ERP applications: Great Plains, Navision, Solomon and its own CRM solution – Microsoft CRM. Targeting to automate all business operations, Microsoft CRM is now integrated with Microsoft Great Plains and in the close future it should have integration with Microsoft Navision. In this small article we’ll show you business automation example, where Microsoft CRM and Great Plains are integrated and customized to fit Freight Forwarding business processes. ...

Microsoft Great Plains implementation: restaurants supply chain management example
by Andrew Karasev

Microsoft Great Plains serves majority of US based horizontal and vertical markets. Being relatively flexible and customizable – it can fit your specific business requirements with light or deep customization. You can have portion of the system customization done by your in-house developers (such tools as Modifier with VBA, MS SQL Server stored procedures, Crystal Reports do not require unique expertise) and the most critical and difficult part could be subcontracted – especially Great Plains ...

Online Communities
by Ligia Santos

I’m a user on a forum for about 5 years now. Got out 2 times and got back since it’s a good place to share information - even if it is with just a few users it’s always rewarding to be able to help out someone, even not knowing who’s on the other side. And having people who are interested to know for example what a rss feed is, how it works, ho to set up a blog, how to recover autocad files, things like that. But one interesting thing is when the online communitie where it begins to be part of ...

Microsoft Great Plains Implementation: Pharmaceutical Corporation Specifics – overview for consultant
by Andrew Karasev

Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains serves mid-size and large clients in horizontal and vertical markets. Historically Great Plains Software was encouraging ISV partner to write third party modules and later on – Great Plains Software had a chance to select the product for incorporation into their core set of modules: Manufacturing, Project Accounting, Purchase Order Processing, Collection Management, etc. Today we’ll consider Microsoft Great Plains implementation specifics for large pha ...

Microsoft Great Plains in Advertising & Publishing – implementation highlights
by Andrew Karasev

Microsoft Great Plains, former Great Plains Dynamics is excellent fit for service oriented business and in this small article we’ll give you magazine publisher and advertiser implementation and reporting scenarios. The system we describe is not real, we are putting together industry specifics, based on our consulting practice. In the case if you do not see some unique features of your publishing business – this just means that publishing industry is diversified and say, regional newspaper publ ...

Microsoft Great Plains in Agriculture – implementation highlights
by Andrew Karasev

In this small article we’ll concentrate on farmers associations and non-profit state-sponsored organizations, dealing with subsidized state and federal programs distribution and management – loans to farmers and rural communities. As we realized this is relatively narrow market niche and it is almost ignored by software developers. In the typical case you should take generic ERP application, such as Microsoft Great Plains and integrate it with legacy systems or create custom piece in Great Pla ...

Microsoft Great Plains Implementation: Healthcare/Hospital example – overview for consultant
by Andrew Karasev

Microsoft Great Plains fits multiple services market niche and healthcare is not exemption. In the case of Healthcare/Hospital there is usually healthcare patient history tracking system in place and backoffice or accounting application should be integrated on the ongoing basis with the above mentioned system plus often Hospital or association is non-profit organization and non-for-profit accounting specifics should be taken into consideration. • Integration. Great Plains is MS SQL Server b ...

Microsoft Great Plains Implementation: Placement/Recruiting Agency example – overview for consultant
by Andrew Karasev

Microsoft Great Plains does wonderful ERP job for horizontal markets and clientele. However in our opinion placement software market is underserved and needs custom modules to be developed. In the case of Microsoft Great Plains we see numerous examples of in-house or outsourced customization done for Great Plains Dynamics/Microsoft Great Plains in order to automate placement agency workflow and processes. In our opinion Great Plains is good choice, considering the side of placement and recrui ...

Microsoft Great Plains in Aerospace & Defense industries – implementation & customization highlights
by Andrew Karasev

Microsoft Great Plains fits horizontal markets clientele and in case of Aerospace and Defense industry we’ll talk about contractors – parts and subsystems for government contracts. We do not necessarily talk about large corporation, however models described could be implemented for large publicly traded company. As a rule – market is represented by established companies with long history, including long history of its ERP and Computer Business System. It is difficult to stake on the computer ...

Does Google Hire
by Jim Edwards

Online search giant, Google, often tests the waters for new services by rolling out a Author's Biography: ...

User Friendliness: Do Computers Have to be Clinical and Boring?
by Daniel Punch

While sleeping through a lecture recently I roused for just long enough to catch the lecturer saying that Author's Biography: Daniel Punch M6.Net Web Helpers http://www.m6.net Daniel Punch is a writer working at M6.Net: 'The web-hosting company for humans.' M6.Net is working hard to help humanity experience the power and freedom to develop their own part of the Internet, to share their information and connect with anyone, anywhere, anytime. ...

Linux vs. Windows web Hosting, does it make a difference?
by Daniel Punch

One of the most confusing decisions someone new to web hosting will have to make is which platform their server should be on. There are a number of different choices out there but the main two are Linux and Windows web servers. There are also a lot of sources of information about hosting, but the majority of them are tainted by the author's biased personal opinion unfortunately confusing the issue. Having just put in some solid hours researching the topic I have come to the conclusion that in ge ...

The Ultimate Source of Knowledge at Your Fingertips
by Daniel Punch

When I was young, and that wasn't very long ago (I'm just about to reach my thirtieth birthday), information wasn't easy to get. When it came to education and research about specific issues and ideas one would usually go to the library or possibly to see a professional in the area of interest for a chat. If you go back further to tribal times, (still only a quick blink of the Universal Eye) one would go and see the wise elders whose knowledge was perceived as paramount. These missions or searche ...

All Hits Are Not Created Equal
by Jim Edwards

After all the debate over website design, shopping carts and credit card processors, every website owner eventually comes to the startling realization that they need one more thing to survive - website traffic! Without website traffic it's the same as building an expensive billboard and, instead of placing it alongside a busy highway, you hide it in your basement where nobody can see it. Upon realizing they need traffic, most website owners run out and start blowing chunks of money an ...

Microsoft Great Plains Food Processing – implementation & customization highlights
by Andrew Karasev

Microsoft Great Plains might be considered as ERP platform to build your own custom solution upon or as the assembly place for the existing modules. Microsoft Great Plains has Inventory Control (IV), Bill of Materials (BM), Manufacturing modules, coming from Microsoft Business Solutions directly, plus it has third party solutions, such as Horizon Light Manufacturing. In Food Processing industry, however the manufacturing itself is so-called process manufacturing, where with variable input you ...

Microsoft Great Plains Furniture & Fixtures – implementation & customization highlights
by Andrew Karasev

Microsoft Great Plains, former Great Plains Software Dynamics / eEnterprise was introduced in 1993 as first Microsoft Windows and Macintosh based graphical accounting/ERP application for Mid-Size businesses. Considering the history of furniture retailer and custom assembly lines – they showed up on the market about five decades ago and they have automated their business operations with Unix-based businesses in the late 1960th and earlier 1970th. You can find such furniture resale systems as St ...

Microsoft Great Plains Jewelry – implementation & customization overview
by Andrew Karasev

Each Industry and market niche has business specific and unique requirements to ERP/Accounting System. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is ERP platform, ready for third party modules additions and customizations, plus being SQL Server-based system it opens you wide spectrum of integration options and tools. In this small article we’ll give you Microsoft Great Plains implementation and setup highlights, typical for Jewelry retail network. • Fixed Assets. Jewelry retailer owns the n ...




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