Archive for November, 2008

by Andrew A Karasev
Microsoft Dynamics GP is flexible ERP application, which is ready for small or even serious modification, and if you are reading this publication, likely you are in the decision making on either programming your own Microsoft Dexterity add-on, or deploy existing SOP extension modules, available from Great Plains ISV partners. We would like to give you popular Sales Order Processing module programming and logic alteration scenarios

1. Ecommerce integration with either Sales Order or Invoice documents. This integrating routine should be programmed in eConnect SDK, where you can deploy Microsoft Visual Studio .Net C# or VB project. eConnect allows you to create or update GP customer, addresses, add invoice, add payment, assuming that customer paid by credit card for its shopping cart items. eConnect does the job if SOP entry screen itself doesn’t have add-ons, or Dexterity altered logic — if you have customized SOP screen, you should consider likely to extend eConnect with your own custom SQL stored procedures to populate custom tables

2. Alternative SOP Entry form. If you would like to place fields and change the form itself, you may consider two options: VBA with Modifier or Great Pains Dexterity development. Dexterity is probably longer to program and test, however it is more powerful, Modifier is fast, but the way to access DB would be old fashioned ADO. In addition, Modifier is outside of the realm of the Microsoft .Net initiative

3. Typical SOP customizations. Most typical modifications are Sales commission accrual and report, adding custom fields on SOP Order Entry line, overriding default pricing with complex price lists for individual customer, based on its historical purchase, adding extra decimals to price and costs, overriding default GL accounts distribution, especially Revenue account, automatic payment notification, when deposit is applied against Sales Order or Invoice, attributing Sales to specific project and its accounts set, placing Sales document into approval queue, automatically creating technician time log bill out in te form of non inventoried items, where technician name is Item Number

Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum LLC, help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, http://www.albaspectrum.com Serving GP community since 1994, local service in Chicago, Houston, San Diego, Atlanta. Information portal: http://www.pegasplanet.com We serve you USA and Canada nationwide from our Dynamics GP call center: California, Illinois, New York, Florida, Minnesota, New Jersey, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Ontario

Article Source: Great Plains Sales Order Processing Customization Scenarios

by Mahi Sony
The most important and consecutively fragile part of whole of the system is obviously the hard drive. In few of the cases, this can be the life-earned assets, when you have all the work e-mails, photos, taxing and account information, family and friends’ photographs, professional data and more on it. But what do you say about blow of data loss? Practically weird! The term data recovery sounds good to the ears in these cases, but this would be far better if you keep the hard drive alive and prevent data loss. Following steps would help you in the same:

Handle with care: The rugged appearance of the hard drive is completely contrary to its sensitive nature to the shocks and vibrations. This delicacy is more seen with the portables like laptops. A careless handling and at the next time, your hard drive may not be able to run. Hard drive reads and writes data in the form of magnetic

material alignment by the help of a dedicated head for each platter surface. The hard drive has many moving components, which may fail with carefree handling. So respect your data and handle with care.

Defrag Regularly: As the time passes with hard drive, the liner arrangement of data is no more seen. The hard drive starts scattering the pieces of data over the platter surfaces. The more saving, deleting and editing you do with the files, more fragmentation will be there. As a result, the actuator arm and head will have to work harder to collect the pieces of data and so the strain increases. Also, the stress on file system increases. Thus using the fragmented hard drive more, the head may crash or the file system may corrupt. You will find the inbuilt defragging tools with all of the operating systems like Windows.
Use UPS: The hard drives are very susceptible to electrical faults. A power brown-out, faulty electric supply, incorrect wiring, electrical fluctuations and other similar deadly things can make the hard drive bad by damaging the hard drive’s electronics or heads. So use highly rated UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply), at least to prevent data recovery need.

Monitor Hard Drive with SMART: The SMART (Self Monitoring Analysis & Reporting Technology) monitors your hard drive for temperature change and more.

This will let you to keep a check on the hard drive health and performance to solve out the potential problems, before data loss could happen.

As far as the hard drive components are safe and free from damage, data recovery software can help you to solve the data loss mystery. These will scan your hard drive for data recovery. Easily obtainable, perfect at user level for use, read-only nature and ability to cover even the file system corruption case, the data recovery software are the most ultimate advents.

For the other cases, when the creepy things have bothered the drive internals, data recovery services is the destination to visit. The data recovery technicians work out the best manual plan to offer data recovery.

Stellar Information Systems Limited comes as the solution for each data loss problem. When data becomes inaccessible because of logical problems, have data recovery software, tagged Stellar, and recover data in an easy and effective way. Whereas, for the physical cases, benefit yourself with Class 100 Clean Rooms and experts’ operated data recovery service.

Mahi Sony work as a freelancer and researcher of data recovery & partition recovery Software.

Article Source: Keep Your Hard Drive Living

by Roberto Sedycias
Notebooks have come a long way since their incarnations in the early eighties. Once considered as a status symbol, today they are a necessity, because of their easy portability and connectivity facility. With constant innovation in the notebook technology, modern notebooks have now a wide array of user-friendly features.

They are much lighter in weight, have more storage space and faster processing speed as compared to earlier notebooks. The prices of these modern notebooks also vary as per the rich convenient features. Notebooks manufacturers set the convenience features in notebooks according to consumers demand in market.

You are mistaken if you think these modern notebooks with its slim lighter weights are only available in higher price range. Depending upon its advanced features and storage capacity, there can be high-end expensive and the top budget notebooks. For budget conscious consumers, notebook manufacturers offer the top budget notebooks which are cheaper in price and lighter in performance.

While manufacturing the top budget notebooks, manufacturers trade off in hardware or software features to produce quality systems. Let`s face it; consumers who are in a shoe-string budget have to compromise either on price or on high-end performance.

But the top budget notebooks have all basic features and are capable of delivering full solutions for computer related tasks. With computing technology improving every year, today many varieties of the top budget notebooks are available with impressive set of core options in affordable price ranges.

It is wise to invest in the top budget notebooks. Of course the latest high-end ultra-slim notebooks offer much more as compared to these budget notebooks. But consider about the usability of so many high-end features. Not all of us need a high-speed notebook.

If you are into a dominating corporate world, constantly traveling and living life out of conference rooms and hotels, then a costly notebook justifies your requirement. But if emails and surfing the Internet are all you do, then having an expensive notebook is a waste of your money.

A basic top budget notebook is all you need in this scenario. Moreover, any unforeseen catastrophe such as stealing of your expensive notebook will put you in emotional shock which takes a long time to come out of. Even though you inevitably have to make a number of performance sacrifices, but the top budget notebooks will get your basic system related jobs done for a whole lot less.

Buying top budget notebooks can be a tricky task considering so many varieties and features available in market today. There are a few things which you must consider while looking for the top budget notebooks. First feature to watch out is the processor. It should definitely be dual core for dual core offers multi-tasking performance and has an extending battery life. It is good to opt for branded CPU manufacturers.

Another important feature is the RAM. It should be 1GB as minimum to be considered in the top budget notebooks. Large display screens and built-in wireless connectivity are other two basic features which you need to look into the top budget notebooks.

Some top budget notebooks also have standard DVD writer and Wi-Fi radio features. Unnecessary pre-loaded software actually slow down the top budget notebooks and hence should be avoided. Advance operating systems are always in sync with the top budget notebooks.

If you prefer, you can opt for downgrading to older platforms. The best thing is with an easy affordable price, these top budget notebooks have optional high-end available including HDMI inputs and touch-sensitive media control buttons. Although it costs a bit more, an extended warranty of 3years is better in the long run for the top budget notebooks.

You can have access to portuguese articles about notebooks from page www.polomercantil.com.br/notebook.phpRoberto Sedycias works as IT consultant for www.polomercantil.com.br

Article Source: The Next Generation Of Top Budget Notebooks

by Eugene Akinshin
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

If you read title of this article and didn’t exit the page, you probably know that implementation of various dashboards in business applications is rather new and popular trend. As all new tendencies that don’t have firm rules, executive dashboards raised a lot of discussions on practical usefulness of both complete concept and separate dashboard elements. One of the points at issue is the use of graphical elements imitating real analog devices to represent values. In this article I tried to state basic principles of using such elements.

In general, initial meaning of the Executive Dashboard term faintly relates to real dashboards and means special type of reports providing the most important business performance indices in real time. It is expected that Executive Dashboards as well as all other reports provide data in tabular form and more rarely as charts and diagrams. Though, powerful graphical tools that are used by developers and users of business systems boost literal interpretation of the Dashboard term.

As I am a power engineering specialist by training, I faced quite a lot of point indicators (gauges) in practice. And contrary to the widespread opinion that such devices are extremely convenient in most cases it is not true. Anyone who has ever worked with point and numeric multimeters can confirm that numeric meters are more convenient since you don’t need to wait till the pointer stops, strain your eyes to match pointer reflection on the mirror strip with the pointer itself and to count divisions on the scale. And, of course, to get accurate registration you need to keep the device right before your eyes (or eyes before the device). Vibration and poor light don’t contribute to getting accurate registration.
At first, the idea of using control panels (dashboards) in business applications seemed incredible to me. What? Back to lithic age? Do you really want to fill the whole screen with these archaistic point devices? Leave no pixels to display hundreds of indices that are even more important for business analysts then those in the screen?

CEO Executive dashboardThis impression was reinforced by Executive Dashboards I have already seen, as they were eye-catching and useless. Do you think that CEO report should look exactly like car dashboard? Of course, not. This is not prestigious; it should look like PLANE dashboard! So, most of such creative solutions impress at presentations, but they are completely useless in practice.

In spite of that, as a co-owner of the company that specializes in development of components designed to emulate real dashboards, I couldn’t but become interested in a new market for our products. More careful analysis discovered that along with the mentioned before “masterpiece” dashboards there is quite a good number of perfect samples of using gauges.

And although I still think that the use of gauges is reasonable only in some business applications, correct utilization of such components can dramatically improve application usability and even raise it to a new level.

Let’s sort out what ‘correct use’ means and what real advantages gauges provide.

1. GOOD METAPHOR

Almost all user interface development guides state the first main rule: “Choose good metaphor”. Sometimes metaphor comes from subject area. So, when you develop graphic editor it makes sense to use metaphor that includes paper, pen, rubber, i.e. the concepts the user faced with before in real life and has an idea of their behavior and functions. But very often subject area is more abstract and good metaphor is a real problem. Usability specialists state that right metaphor is a key factor that determines application success, as it can extremely reduce evaluation and training time.

What have gauges to do with it? Gauge is a natural metaphor for many things.

We use thermometer since childhood and get a clear idea that if stem of the thermometer is in the red zone, temperature is higher than it should be etc. Those who drive a car, every day watch registration of point devices.

I think these samples present a clear idea that visual elements should be designed in the way their appearance provides as much information on the type of displayed values as possible.

For example, displaying value on the point device means that all acceptable values are in the range determined on the scale. Slider gauges show that value can be changed by the user. Availability of scale segments helps define bounds of value ranges. Blinking elements warn against errors or going beyond acceptable values range.

Thus, novice user of the system will have no trouble to learn system interface. At the same time it would be better to provide more informative interface with less graphic to experienced users.

2. SPEED OF PERCEPTION

Speed of information perception is one of unquestionable merits of analog gauges. Reaction to pointer moving towards the red zone or blinking indicator can be much faster then reaction to changing numeric indicator.

That is why the supermodern fighters use out-of-date dashboards with a lot of pointers and indicators.

Stop! What have fighters to do with it? We talked about business, not about war. It is not matter of milliseconds; you can relax and have a cup of coffee before you make important decision, can’t you?

Well, let’s calculate.

Every manager regardless of his level regularly reviews the same reports in most cases daily and in most cases just to make sure everything is ok. As a rule it doesn’t take much time - only 10 minutes a day.

* 10 minutes a day is 10*5=50 minutes a week;
* is 10*5*4= 200 minutes a month;
* is 10*5*52=2600 minutes a year (ok, I know 4 week I a vacation, let it be 10*5*48=2400 minutes a year).

Suppose we will reduce time of reviewing reports to 1 minute due to higher speed of perception. In this way we will save 9*5*48=2160 minutes a year; this constitutes 4.5 working days. Multiple this figure by your hour wages (or hour wages of your employees) to evaluate economic effect.

And this is for people who spend only 10 minutes a day for reports. And what about analysts?

3. VISUALIZATION

Very often it is difficult to make right decision based on bare data. Human brain operates by visual images and not by mathematical abstractions. Properly designed gauge allows visual evaluation of the extent the displayed value differs from the planned one, and how close it is to the critical value, etc.

But you should remember that visual indicators don’t replace exact figures, but supplement them. That is why you should never forget to duplicate values as figures. You should always know exact value regardless of visual representation.

4. AESTHETICS

Attractive dashboard reports Applications should be attractive as well as any other things we use. As human beings we like using nice things no matter useful they are for business or not. Moreover, comfortable environment contributes to more efficient work of your personnel; people are less tired and stress-susceptible. You didn’t paint walls in your office with black color only because black paint is cheaper, did you? Then why should you strain your eyes observing neat rows of figures that merge into solid mass by the end of working day to find necessary data. Make application interface more attractive and many routine operations will become less tedious.

SUMMARY

Visualizations such as gauges can be a useful supplement to standard report representation. But to use gauges in applications efficiently, you need to accurately adjust visual elements to exact applications subject to used metaphor, visualization, speed of perception and design of the developed application.

If you decide that gauges are necessary in your reports, I am the very guy who will sell the best library to create such interfaces.

Eugene Akinshin is a Ph.D., Chief Technical Evangelist for Perpetuum Software LLC (http://www.perpetuumsoft.com). He has 6+ experience in .NET and passionate supporter of new promising technologies.

Article Source: Principles of using gauges in executive dashboards and business applications

by yangguang
Making money online is not easy as you expect. Many people suffer the Internet fail and some of them loss hundreds of dollars every day. Earning a living online is one of toughest work and not everyone can succeed with it.

Certainly, there are also many opportunities and legit ways to make money online. However, these require lots of determination, wisdom and luck. You must involve them and are willing to learn extensively. If you are unwilling to spend lots of money and time on the extensive learning, you can choose to take paid surveys which require no special skill, experience and knowledge and is a straight-forward way to make money online.

Most of you have heard of paid surveys. Some of you have even had a try. You may learn that there are many scams in this business. Then how much do you know about these paid survey scams?

There are some companies that promise you a good reward as long as you pay your registration fee. Some companies may take your money and disappear. In other cases, after you pay a fee to register, you will find it will take you much more time to make decent money from those sites.
If you are lucky to register with the legit paid survey sites, you will receive the real surveys that actually earn you real money. It is justified for some paid survey charge a minimal fee to all of its members as long as they will really give your rewards in return.

If you are looking for a simple, straight forward way to make some extra money online then you really should come to take the paid surveys.

Article Source: Making Money Online With Paid Surveys

by jimmy001
Many people have engaged in employment jobs doing online surveys and somehow they find it worthwhile since they got to declare that they have extra income and doing it very well. Do you want to be one of them and earn the decent money by taking paid surveys at your comfortable home?
There are lots of ways to make money on the internet, and paid surveys are only one way. However, like everything on the internet, you have to beware of scams.

One has to do a lot of research on these online paid survey jobs in order to be sharp in realizing that an ad posted somewhere in the internet is a scam. Sometimes, just the title alone and some snippets will already give you the warning that it is a scam.

After becoming an expert in knowing who are truly paying surveys and who are scammers, you can join many of them and upon signing up, the invitations via email started to pile up. You have the choice to choose which ones where you can earn more and ignoring those free games and survey sites that does not pay but offers sweepstakes.

Whether online paid survey sites real work is now a question that can be answered truly with a positive response just so a lot of those who were scammed can still believe that online jobs are still true, However, one has to be patient really in searching and heeding on the advices of the ones who know well about it.

Article Source: Online Paid Survey Sites - Do They Work

by David York
Paperless software actually refers to paperless content management, otherwise known as document imaging. The technology is especially useful for businesses with high volumes of incoming paper documents that need document management, such as a temporary help service receiving resumes via fax; or a mail-order catalog company receiving a large number of order forms; or a busy physician’s office that is awash in patient records.

Paperless content management is the electronic capture, organization, and storage of data and documentation including invoices, order forms, patient records, legal documents, and critical business documents in a myriad of forms. It often replaces the printed paper documentation that requires physical storage and security. This vital component of business technology can vary in functionality, complexity, and cost. Generally, documents are captured in electronic format if they are inbound via email, a web-form, or fax machine. Those documents that are received in paper format, such as through the postal mail (increasingly referred to as “snail mail”), will be electronically captured using a scanner. Once electronic, the documents are organized and securely stored on an Intranet, the Internet, or a shared server. Users who are granted access through a unique ID and password can then retrieve, review, and even update these documents from a computer.

A physician’s office can find the latter feature, controlled access, quite advantageous, especially in regard to patient privacy concerns since traffic to view a patient’s confidential records can be both restricted and tracked.

Offices with multiple locations or mobile employees benefit from document imaging because documents can be stored online rather than in a filing cabinet confined to a specific office.

Is paperless software or paperless content management right for your business? It depends. Principals should do the research and tally the costs. Businesses wary of expensive implementation costs or painful employee learning costs should attempt a smaller scale partial conversion prior to a complete paperless revolution.

David York is with Fox Meadows, a provider of electronic medical records software, EMR Software, and medical billing software. Learn more by visiting http://www.foxmeadows.com.

Article Source: Many Businesses Going Paperless

by Sohail
Nowadays; many devices support multiple package types. According to industry consensus most programmer manufacturers count different package types as one device. All the large manufacturers list devices with the supported package types and count total numbers as supported devices.

However, some programmer manufacturers have raised an issue about the device count. To better understanding with the issue; let’s assume, An IC device comes with DIP and BGA type packages. Programmer manufacturer A supports both package types and B supports only a DIP type. If a customer needs a support for BGA type they will have to go to company A and not company B. The company B lost a sale because they didn’t support the BGA type. So, is it important to put in engineering and manufacturing resources to develop and manufacture different package types? It definitely is. It often makes a difference between making a sale or not.

So, why some companies are complaining about high device count of other companies?
Because they don’t have enough financial and manpower resources to develop and manufacture many different adapters, but don’t want to admit it. Manufacturing and stocking many socket adapters cause significant strain on financial and engineering resources and only some larger programmer companies can undertake them.

So, is showing high device count a marketing ploy?
- No, it shows strength of the company.

Then, is it a sour grape by lesser companies who cannot undertake such a task?
- It sure is.

Xeltek is proud to be one of the best Programmer manufacturing company which have enough financial and manpower resources to develop and manufacture many different adapters, programmers and their devices supports. Visit http://www.xeltek.com to have a complete and better understanding that why we call our self one of the best programmer manufacturing company.

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Article Source: Multiple device count in Programmers

by Ali Gator
What is it

Regcure is one of the best-known commercial registry cleaners. Regcure scans your computer registry for duplicate, damaged and redundant entries, fix them and compresses the overall size of the registry.

Why we like it

Regcure is one of the complete registry package you will find in the market. Its features are quite impressive:

Registry backup before making any change, font file repair (for word processing applications), dll entries repair, registry error repair, routine registry maintenance etc.

These are only a few of its wide range of features. Regcure will be particularly useful to someone looking for a complete registry repair package.

Why there is better

A “Regcure sucks” Google search reveals quite an interesting history of customer frustration. It goes from “they took my money and wouldn’t let me download the utility” to “Regcure deleted even vital registry objects”. I

n all fairness however, complaints about a registry cleaner deleting important registry entries are common to most registry cleaners and can be put to the fact that they are all third-party applications: they tend to get confused and remove share registry entries.

Another common complaint about Regcure is the complete absence of live support. You can always send through a support email but at $30 a download, it’s fair to expect some form of live support from the developers.

Finally, let me add that Regcure is quite pricey, especially considering that there are a couple of excellent registry cleaners available for free download online.

Registry error and repair resources can be found at PC nirvana. While you are there, check out its new registry forum. Anyone can view and post entries!

Article Source: Registry Cleaners Review - Regcure

by Anirban Bhattacharya
The intense competition, critical global financial condition and the continuously changing demands of the customers have forced the entrepreneurs to go for the ways of cost reduction. Outsourcing the non-core and IT related work of a business, to a destination where it can be done at a cheaper cost, has proved highly effective in reducing cost of operation for businesses around the US, UK, Canada and several others parts of Europe.

Outsourcing helps a business in many ways. While the services of a software development company in countries like India helps in lowering the cost of development it also adds to the bottom line.

Software development outsourcing

Software development is an integrated and complicated process. Hence, cost reduction should not be the only need till you are not assured about the quality. The offshore software development specialist you are entrusting upon needs to have expertise in the particular development platform as well prior experience of work for the business medium.

India is a trusted destination for software development outsourcing. The popularity of Indian software development companies is the result of the high level of customer satisfaction that the solutions from Indian experts have able to result in to.

By availing a Software development services from India, following are the additional that a company can expect for.

1. Cost-effective solutions with no compromise on quality

2. Timely delivery of services ensured by a large availability of experienced talent pool

3. Flexible laws and effective business supports

There are scores of companies in India engaged in software development. You can have relevant information regarding them from an online research. Analyze and compare their core competencies and go for one which matches to the needs of your business and your budget.

Myself webmaster of the http://www.synapseindia.com/ , a software devlopment company offering offshore software development, flash programming, website development and other software development services.

Article Source: Low cost qualitative software development solutions - destination India