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Quickbooks EDI Integration with E-commence shopping Cart with QuickBooks , Where your online solution which may be Amazon, Ebay, your customized shopping cart with Quickbooks. EDI solution for QB, helps businesses automate their 832 Price/Sales Catalog Often used to transmit UPC’s to the retailer or 3rd party catalog, with description and sometimes MSRP. 846 Inventory Inquiry/Advice Used to notify a trading partner of on hand inventory. 850 Purchase Order 852 Product Activity Data Provides point of sale information. 855 Purchase Order Acknowledgment PO Acknowledgment or Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) Order. 856 Ship Notice/Manifest Notifies retailer of shipment and it’s contents. 860 Purchase Order Change Request 864 Text Message Sometimes used to transmit EDI errors, can be used for general information 867 Product Transfer and Resale Report 869 Order Status Inquiry 870 Order Status Report. Powerful software designed for QuickBooks with extensive inventory control, warehouse management, CRM, purchasing, eCommerce, sales order management, EDI, barcode, route sales, field service and more. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) solution. Channel Integration allows fast processing of large groups of EDI orders through QuickBooks. Our solution connects with retailers & transfers of EDI documents. Channel Integration’s Advance Shipping Notification (ASN) Wizard is a simple and customized solution for collecting additional data required for ASNs. Automatically generate invoices in the QuickBooks System when Electronic Invoices are created. If you’re one of the millions of small businesses using QuickBooks and running an online store, you’ve come to the right place. Automate your business processes with Channel Integration’s Quickbooks Integration solution for use with QuickBooks.

You can post orders into QuickBooks with a single mouse-click! Better yet, use Channel Integration to synchronize your online store inventory with QuickBooks. Channel Integration integrates with QuickBooks Merchant Service, Authorize.net and PayPal so you can process payments. Channel Integration also helps you generate shipping labels with USPS, UPS WorldShip, Endicia Dazzle or Stamps.com.

Channel Integration’s Quickbooks EDI Integration Solution is a state of the art hosted EDI solution

Source by Sarab Singh

What is AVI?

AVI is an abbreviation for Audio Video Interleave. AVI file is a container of audio and video data that allows synchronous audiovisual playback. It is the oldest video format. There are a lot of AVI codec is created by both vendors and individuals. So now there are hundreds of AVI files that look similar but are completely different inside.

What are AVI advantages?

1.      Excellent fidelity of the audio.

2.      High compatibility with VirtualDub and Windows Media Player.

3.      Advanced DV-AVI standard is compressed to conform with DV standard.

4.      Choice of codecs allows experience with different results.

5.      Plays in mainstream media players such as Windows Media Player.

6.      Can be used as a starting point to create playable DVDs.

7.      Does not require any special hardware or software.

8.      Widely used in business such as advertisement and promo videos.

AVI drawbacks

1.      The codec used to create your movie is required in order to view it.

2.      Often produces larger file sizes than other file formats.

3.      Some codecs take a long time to create your AVI movie.

4.      Some codecs produce reduced visual quality.

Where AVI can be applied?

AVI files is supported by different platforms: Windows (Windows Media Player, QuickTime Player, VLC Media Player, Winamp), Mac OS or Linux (VLC Media Player, Xine Multimedia Player).

Well, AVI has both advantages and disadvantages, choose it or not all depends on your purpose. And if you have videos in video formats other than AVI format and still want to convert them to AVI, then you need an AVI converter software to do the whole job for you. Here I recommend a qualified one for you: Leawo AVI Converter. It is a totally clean and handy AVI converter which can convert all the available videos to AVI with multiple practical features.

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Source by zengkerry

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DQ Global launch innovative platform for complete Data Management

Fareham, United Kingdom – December 1st 2008: DQ Global, the experts in data quality improvement, announced today the introduction of its highly anticipated DQ360; the new dynamic data management application framework for delivering data you can trust.

Launching globally in January 2009, the DQ 360, unlike present-day stand alone data quality tools, is centred around an easy to use and intuitive interface to which task related snap-in components are introduced. Each snap-in is capable of interoperating with the DQ360 framework and any other snap-ins, allowing users to have complete control of their data flows and tasks throughout all processes.

Developed in the latest Microsoft.NET, WPF and Silverlight technologies for performance, flexibility and future proofing; the DQ 360 provides an unrivalled platform for linking multiple disparate data sources to deliver Single Customer View (SCV) and Master Data Management (MDM) capabilities without having to port data to a single database or data warehouse.

“The DQ360 is an exciting addition to the data quality marketplace and I believe it’s a paradigm shift in the way our clients will all go about their Enterprise data management tasks,” said Martin Doyle, DQ Global CEO. “Furthermore, our 200+ active Match software customers will be upgraded for free to the new framework. This has been a long time coming but I can assure them it will be well worth the wait.”

The DQ360 infrastructure incorporates all the familiar data cleansing tasks: de-duplication, address correction and verification, formatting and standardisation, suppression and enhancement along with a host of advanced data management capabilities including: Data Profiling, 3rd Party data validation, active master data management, customer data integration, dynamic single customer view, data monitoring and KPI reporting.

DQ Global will be holding free web events to introduce DQ360 to customers and the data quality marketplace throughout January and February of 2009.

About DQ Global

With over 10 years’ experience in data quality improvement, DQ Global specialises in easy to use, database-independent, data cleansing software which saves money and provides a platform for better informed decisions. Solutions range from simple desktop, through larger departmental databases to complex enterprise-wide single customer view and master data management initiatives. Head Quartered in Fareham, Hampshire, UK; DQ Global also has regional offices in North America and South Africa serving over 500 clients worldwide, including: Toshiba, Harvey Nichols, Standard Charter Bank, Pfizer and Siemens. www.dqglobal.com

For more information about the launch of DQ360 and the upcoming free webinars, please contact Michelle Soper-Dyer

Tel: +44 (0)23 9298 8305

Email: michelle.soperdyer@dqglobal.com

Source by DQ Global

Microsoft Dynamics GP, or former name Great Plains Software Dynamics/eEnterprise is currently available on MS SQL Server platform only. In the past this ERP application was available on Pervasive SQL and Ctree, including version for Mac (server was typically hosted in Windows hardware with Ctree/Faircom database). If your GP was successfully implemented for your company, then from time to time you should expect help in data recovery and other scenarios. Let’s review the most typical cases:

1. Batch Recovery. When user posts batch in GP, she or he should be patient and do not interrupt the process, as posting has several phases and it travels from originating module all the way to and through General Ledger. If you are not deploying Posting Server, then posting process is controlled by GP user workstation with partial control transfer to SQL Server (however it typically gets control back as the work is finished in the current module). This probably explains why if your computer suddenly stalls due to internet surfing or other activity, and posting is not finished, then you will receive locked batch, which crashed in the middle of the way. GP interface has batch recovery mechanism, but as you could expect – not every batch can be recovered by it, especially if posting was completed in original module and then interrupted on the way to GL.

2. Batch table: SY00500. This table in company database if where you as SQL programmer begin the recovery process. The first step is to unlock the batch by changing to zero posting status. Then you are typically trying to repost this batch again and if you are lucky then this is the end of the story, however if batch fails again, the easiest way is to unlock it again and then delete. When you delete the batch you should reenter transactions and post new batch as you would normally do

3. Complicated posting interruption. If above recommendation doesn’t work, you should rescue to professional GP technical consultant help, or restore database from backup if business conditions permit

4. Security and modified reports. This is the second in row of popular tech support cases. Here is what is going on: GP Dexterity allows you to modify existing report, something like SOP blank invoice form, where you can add your company logo, change fields positions, etc. If you do it on one workstation without changing default REPORTS.DIC path in Dynamics.set file, then if you would try your user login on another GP workstation, your modified report will not be found, as at another workstation default path to the above dictionary will be considered as local. And now if you try to print invoice – you will get error message report not found

5. Pervasive SQL and Ctree data repair techniques. If you are on MS SQL, then you use query analyzer to fix your records. In the case of old DB platforms relatively simple way of doing data recovery is by deploying Microsoft Access and creating linked tables there.

Source by Andrew Karasev

Introduction

An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system covers the techniques and concepts employed for the integrated management of businesses as a whole from the viewpoint of effective use of management resources, to improve the efficiency of an enterprise. They have many advantages both direct and indirect. The direct advantages include improved efficiency, information integration for better decision making, faster response time to customer queries etc. The indirect benefits include better corporate image, improved customer goodwill, customer satisfaction, and so on.

Many organizations and businesses in the world today as part of their strategic development plan, advocate for ERP solutions which would help to re-engineer their business processes in order to accomplish their long-term goals.

The ERP market is very competitive and fast growing market, which is attributed to three primary factors:

a) ERP vendors are continuing to expand market presence by offering new applications such as supply chain management (SCM), sales force automation, customer relationship management (CRM) and human resource.

b) To sustain their rapid growth, ERP vendors sell more licenses into their installed base.

c) While ERP originated in the manufacturing market, ERP usage has spread to nearly every type of enterprise including retail, utilities, the public sector and healthcare organizations.

Among the industry players include SAP (Systeme Anwendungen Produkte), Oracle, QAD, SSA, Jenzabar, Datatel, Peoplesoft, Baan, JD Edwards, Scala, Navision, Sungard just to mention but a few. Even within themselves they categorise each other into High-end and low-end range. In Kenya a cross section of companies are indeed on the warpath of undertaking or planning to invest in an ERP business solution. The future will see fierce battle for market share resorting to mergers and acquisition for strategic and competitive advantage.

There is much hype when the vendors are out to move their products, and will always sell and tell you about their success stories and how you will leapfrog into your vision. They never tell you of any failures of such ERP projects, and there seems to be no attention paid to lessons learnt from the famous FoxMeyer Corporation scenario, which lead to its bankruptcy and the lengthy legal battles in the courtrooms with their consultants thereafter. “My basic principle is that you don’t make decisions because they are easy, you don’t make them because they are cheap, you don’t make them because they are popular but you make them because they are right”- Theordore Hesburgh.

If not properly planned for, the investment may drive you out of business. The epicenter for the problems that rock the corporate world as far as ERP or in general IT project failure is concerned has remained the same over the years.

The following examples are typical of the projects that failed from statistics available from The Standish group CHAOS database

· The Hershey foods ERP system implementation failure lead to massive distribution problems and loss of 27% market

· The FoxMeyer drug ERP system implementation failure lead to the collapse of the entire company

· The IRS project on taxpayer compliance took over a decade to complete and cost the country unanticipated $50 billion

· The Oregon Department of Motor Vehicle conversion to new software took eight years to complete and public outcry eventually killed the entire project

· State of Florida welfare system was plagued with numerous computational errors and $260 million in overpayments

· AMR Corp, Budget Rent A Car, Hiltons Corporation, Marriott ” confirm” project crumbled having spend over $125 million over four years

· Snap-On Inc project to convert to a new order-entry costed the tools company $50 million in lost sales for the first half of 1998

· Greyhound Lines Inc. “Trips” reservation and bus-dispatch system” failed having spent $6 million

· Norfolk Southern Corp. “Systems integration with merger target Consolidated Rail Corp”. failed having lost more than $113 million in business

· Oxford Health Plans Inc. “New billing and claims-processing system based on Unix International and Oracle Corp. databases” resulted in hordes of doctors and patients angry about payment delays and errors.

· Universal Oil Products Project ” Software for estimating project costs and figuring engineering specifications” resulted in unusable systems

IT projects regularly fall short – and quite few are abandoned entirely. Many IT failures have to do with perceptions and expectations rather than absolute bankruptcy of purpose. Most of the so called failures are better classified as “discouraging successes” events wherein the major purpose is accomplished, but not without a good deal of frustration and inefficiency – and a sour taste in the mouth of many users.

Project risks

The FoxMeyer Corporation Delta III project had the following project risks

i) Environmental- the management had little or no control. They depended 100% on consultants and vendors who obscured them from gaining control. The focus of the project dramatically changed prompting the projects costs to escalate

ii) Execution- the project lacked skilled and knowledgeable personnel. FoxMeyer did not have the necessary skills in-house and was relying on Andersen consulting to implement SAP R/3 and integrate it with an automated warehouse system from Pinnacle. Over 50 consultants were inexperienced and their turnover was high.

iii) Scope- FoxMeyer was an early adopter of SAP R/3. After the project began, FoxMeyer signed a large contract to supply university health system consortium (UHC). This event exacerbated the need for the unprecedented volume of transactions on their HP servers which they could not cope

iv) Customer mandate – the commitment from the top management and users. This was not the case for some of the senior management. There was a morale problem among some of its warehouse workers. The pinnacle warehouse automation integrated with SAP R/3 threatened their jobs. With the closing of the three warehouses, the transition to the first automated warehouse was a disaster. Disgruntled workers damaged inventory, and orders were not filled, and mistakes occurred as the new system struggled with volumes of transactions

Project Factors

Factors that attribute to escalation of costs include but not restricted to

a) Project factors- there was a perception that continued investment could produce a large payoff. FoxMeyer expected a saving of $40 million annually.

b) Psychological factors- the consultants had prior history of success that encouraged them to continue the project. “we delivered an effective system, just as we have for thousands of other clients” (Computergram international 1998). This created the impression that the project would radically improve the company’s critical operations. FoxMeyer bit more that what it could chew but embarking on a fast track project with unskilled staff.

c) Social factors- the consulting company did not externally justify the project. De-escalating the project through abandonment would have meant bad publicity

d) Organization factors-The advocates for the project later were forced to resign because of the delays in realizing the projected savings. A change in management was needed in order to control the increasing costs – which was too late.

Recipe for failure

· When the management is not controlling the scope of the project especially when you expect the consultant to provide a magic bullet, is a recipe for failure.

· Changing the sails in midstream, by certain deliverables expected within a third of the documented times and volumes is a recipe for failure.

· By engaging in other corporate projects competing for the meager finances midway, is a recipe for failure

· By not having proper change management policies and procedures, is a recipe for failure

· By going for consultants without prior experience or ERP solutions in which you are the only company within your industry, could be a recipe for failure

· If you do not have a knowledge transfer inscribed in the consulting contract, is a recipe for failure

· If the vendor does not understand your business, is a recipe for failure

· If the project has no clear phases, deliverables and quality control components, is a recipe for failure

· If you have not re-engineered your business processes to be compatible with the capabilities of the technology, is a recipe for failure

· Having multiple vendors within the one project, is a recipe for failure

· Not having an external project audit committee, is a recipe for failure

· Not having a clear end-user training program to transfer skills to employees, is a recipe for failure

· Having the project run as a “one-man show”, is a recipe for failure

· Having the management over- committed (excessively ambitious, prompting unrealistic deadlines), is recipe for failure

· Team member not being accountable for actions, is recipe for failure

· Low morale within team, is recipe for failure

· Unclear statement of requirement, is a recipe for failure

· In no standard implementation methodology use, is a recipe for failure

· Inadequate requirements definition (current processes are not adequately

addressed), is a recipe for failure

· Poor ERP package selection (the package does not address the basic

business functions of the client), is a recipe for failure

· Inadequate resources employed by the client, is a recipe for failure

· Internal resistance to changing the ‘old’ processes, is a recipe for failure

· A poor fit between the software and users procedures, is a recipe for failure

· A bottom up approach is employed (the process is not viewed as a top

management priority), is a recipe for failure

· The client does not properly address and plan for the expenses involved, is a recipe for failure

· If any functional gaps have not been identified (GAP analysis), is a recipe for failure

· If the implementation does not take into account future technological convergence, is a recipe for failure

Conclusion

The lessons learnt from the failed ERP projects should be a wake-up call for corporations currently in ERP projects or contemplating to go that way. The lessons learnt can as well, serve as a harbinger for failure or bankruptcy by serving as the jetty for launching the rocket to propel you out of the business orbit. The experiences highlighted provide a litmus test on how to avoid ERP failure. There is one final aspect to be considered in any degree of project failure. All success is rooted in either luck or failure. If you begin with luck, you learn nothing but arrogance. However, if you begin with failure and learn to evaluate it, you also learn to succeed. Failure begets knowledge. Out of knowledge you gain wisdom, and it is with wisdom that you can become truly successful.

References

Alexis Leon, “ERP Demystified”, 2000

Judy E Scott, “The FoxMeyer Drugs Bankruptcy”, 2004

Kim watch “Future Watch”, 2000

Lloyd Rain ” IT Project Failures”, 2005

Computerworld “Top 10 Corporate Information Technology Failures”, 2000

Source by ernest madara

Police force, doctors, and fire brigade men are most wanted during an emergency. A sergeant on duty would roll up his sleeves and be ready at all times in case a frantic call for help. To meet up this sudden demand, the surveillance department uses cell phones to track people who seek their help during emergencies. These special mobile phones are technologically powerful with a mobile phone tracking system to locate people quickly and accurately.

GPS Tracking Technology

The technology that is used in tracking people, automobiles, objects located anywhere on the earth is Global Positioning System (GPS). The know-how uses satellite signals to locate the distance between the object and the satellite and the time when the measurement was done.

Although invented for US Defense team, the concept has found immense use in the mobile phone tracking system. As the signal used in GPS methodology can go through tangible and opaque objects, it is simply effective way to locate cell phones that may be kept in a pocket, suitcase, or wrapped up in a cloth.

Different Tracking System

Different handsets are compatible with different mobile phone tracking system. For instance, there is network-based GSM Mobile Phone Tracking System that uses the network of the mobile service provider to locate phones. A handset-based GSM Mobile Phone Tracking System would use the handset’s identification, strength of its signals, and latitude-cum-longitude of the earth’s axis to locate objects. Hybrid GSM Mobile Phone Tracking System has the capacity of using both network and handset tracking system to track the mobile phone.

Uses of Mobile Phone Tracking Know-How

Locating a mobile phone is the most essential use of a mobile phone tracking system. One can find out the phone and consequently, its user through GPS technology. However, this is not the only utility of the tracking system. Other benefits include capturing of photos, videos of a memorable holiday trip.

In fact, many holiday enthusiasts use the mobile phone tracking system to find out locations of trips using Google Earth and 3D maps. You may also share data while you are traveling through GPS mobile phone tracking utility.

Today, mobile phone tracking system is used even in corporate sector where the management intends to know the exact location of a worker. It is quite effective, affordable, and efficiently manageable. When one needs to save time and reduce work pressure, mobile phone tracking tool is a wonderful means to make this effort a reality.

Future

GPS-enabled mobile phone tracking system has a bright future. It has already made its way into the tracking system for serious and recreation works. If the tool is picked up from an excellent firm, it can be unique in itself, reliable to the users, and effective in users’ requirements.

So, next time your child goes for an excursion or trekking trip to a remote area, don’t lose your sleep. Track your child with the mobile phone tracking system. Similarly, you can also find out what your sales guy is up to during an outdoor session.

Be sure to get all this and much more – through mobile phone tracking system.

Source by I Mobile Phone Tracking

A virus is a program that can “infect” other programs by modifying them. Modification includes a copy of the virus program, which may infect other programs. Computer virus has similarity with biological virus, a biological virus infects the machinery responsible for the living cell to work and a computer virus carries in its instructional code the recipe for making perfect copies of it.

The typical virus takes temporary control of the computer`s disk operating system. Then, whenever the infected computer comes into contact with an uninfected piece of software, a fresh copy of the virus passes into the new program. Thus, the infection can be spread from computer to computer by unsuspecting users who either swap disks or send programs to one another over a network. In a network environment the ability to access applications and system services on other computers provides a perfect way to replicate itself.

Network worm programs use network connections to spread from system to system. Once active within a system, a network worm can behave like a computer virus, bacterium, It can implant Trojan horse programs or perform any number of disruptive or destructive actions. To replicate itself, a network uses some sort of network vehicle. Some of its uses are Electronic mail facility, Remote execution capability, and remote login capability. A worm mails a copy of itself to other systems via electronic mail facility. A worm executes a copy of itself on to a remote system as a user and then uses commands to copy itself from one system to the other.

Then new copy of the program is then run on the remote system where, in addition to any functions that it performs at that system, it continues to spread in the same fashion. A network worm exhibits the same characteristics as a computer virus. A dormant phase, a propagation phase, a triggering phase, and an execution phase. The propagation phase generally performs the following functions, Searches for other systems to infect by examining host tables or similar repositories of remote system addresses. It establishes a connection with a remote system. Copies itself to the remote system and causes the copy to be run.

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The network worm may also attempt to determine whether a system has previously been infected before copying itself to the system. It may name itself as a system process or using some other name that may not be noticed by Adminsitrator.

Source by Jesse Miller

Installing a keylogger on a computer can give you a full picture of all of the activity that is happening on that computer at any time of the day or night. Knowing how to keylog a computer is not difficult with the right software.

You need to first determine what sort of things you will be looking for or keeping track of. Once you know what you want to find out, then you can look for an appropriate program.

Finding out how to keylog a computer is simple. Once you have found a program that suits your needs, you will simply download that program and install it on the computer. The next thing that you will do is password it so that only you can access it.

Once you have installed the program, you should be able to access the logs that the program records in hidden files on your computer. This can be done either remotely or from that same computer. This will give you a full picture of all internet activity and every keystroke that has been inputted into your computer.

After you have used your program a few times and reviewed the logs, you will know how to keylog a computer. The main thing to remember about a keylogging program is that it must be undetectable and invisible. It should operate in the background and not be visible to any user of the computer. Once you have passworded the program, only you will have access to the information that it provides.

Whether it is your spouse or your children, you will know everything that has been done on the computer whether or not you were there at the time. Forget someone minimizing the screen when you walk into the room. You simply pull up the logs and review them; all of the information is there in black and white.

Source by Lewis Waller