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If you are looking for changing your ERP from legacy or small business accounting to Microsoft Dynamics GP, then you should get info on Dynamics GP software and how it fits to your proposed business processes in accounting, operations, shipping and receiving, sales, warehouse management, purchasing.  Dynamics GP has wide selection of modules, supported directly by Microsoft Business Solutions as well as add-ons from Dynamics GP ISV Partners.  In the case of third party Dynamics GP modules – licensing should be reviewed by Dynamics GP technology partner or ISV.  In this small publication we would like to give you highlights on Microsoft Dynamics GP core licensing:

1.       Business Ready model.  For new Dynamics GP customer you can only purchase Business Ready, which is in essence set of modules.  There are two sets: Business Essential and Advanced Management.  The first one would probably better fit to smaller organization, or company which is not involved in complex business processes and has traditional for small and mid-size business processes: GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets.  The second one should fit the rest of the spectrum: manufacturing, Project Accounting, Collection Management, Customer Vendor Consolidation.  Plus, some modules are available on the “a la carte” model for purchase: Payroll, HR, Integration Manager (if you need it for ongoing integrations, when initial data conversion period expired), Field Service to give you the idea

2.       Existing Dynamics GP customers.  For those of you who already have Dynamics GP Great Plains implemented in the past, in order to get new modules or additional user licenses, your organization must be current in annual enhancement program – you can obtain the information through your Dynamics GP VAR of record or if you are not sure who it is, you can call Microsoft directly or our office.  Assuming that you are current in enhancement program, and you historically was on module-based licensing – you can stay with the same model and just add new modules and concurrent users when needed.  Also, you may decide to switch to one of the two Dynamics GP Business Ready licensing models, described above

3.       Dynamics GP VAR selection.  You should consider several factors: local vs. nationwide support, your industry expertise, technology expertise.  If your business is unique and you do not see local Dynamics GP reseller to help you with unique settings, possible customization and industry specific integration – feel free to look for regional or even nationwide Dynamics GP technology partner support.  Also, consider scenario, when your local Dynamics GP consultant supports your Great Plains implementation project and he or she seeks for industry specific vertical implementation on Dynamics GP nationwide support market

Source by Andrew Karasev

Windows 7 is a technological marvel; it is fast despite all the eye-candy, and contains many new features. However, it does have its share of problems. One of Windows 7’s problems is that of occasional freezes.

This can happen at any point in time. It can happen when you’re surfing the net, listening to music or when you’re doing some work. When you have unsaved work and Windows 7 freezes at that time, it results in a big waste of time as the work has to be done again after you restart the computer. Provided it doesn’t freeze again.

In some cases, this can be due to driver incompatibilities. By making sure that you have the latest version of drivers for your system, you can pretty much eliminate this possibility. If the freezes occur again, it is likely due to the next reason, which is the most common cause of problems in Windows.

Windows 7 makes heavy use of a system-wide information repository called the registry. In fact, many other programs, in addition to Windows itself, store settings and other information inside the registry. There is no check to ensure that the information stored within is valid and correct, and problems commonly happen because of errors in the registry. Because the registry is such an integral part of Windows, problems in it can cause error messages in Windows or cause the system to freeze.

The way to resolve it is to fix all the errors in the registry by using a registry cleaner software. A good registry cleaner will scan the entire registry for errors and fix them. After getting rid of the registry errors, computer freezes will be a thing of the past. In addition, Windows will feel faster than before.

Source by Jason Webber

FairUse4WM DRM stripper is a hacker utility that has the ability to crack and strip DRM (Digital Rights Management) copy protection from music and songs files offered by PlaysForSure-commpatible online music stores, music download sites, music subscription sites and record labels that are using Windows Media Player 10 and Windows Media Player 11 encoding protected by Windows Media DRM (WMDRM) version 10 and WMDRM 11. Current, online music stores that using PlaysForSure DRM license protection include NapsterToGo, MSNMusic, Amazon Unbox, Urge, Wal-Mart, Liquid Audio and AOLMusicNow.

When you download and play the Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media Video (WMV) protected with WMDRM, you’re told a license is required to play the selected content and Windows Media Player will launch WMP Digital Rights Management License Acquisition process to acquire valid license for the media from the DRM store servers. If no license can be found, you won’t be able to listen to the music song or the video.

FairUse4WM (Fair Use for Windows Media) uses a GUI version of drmdbg that supports individualization blackbox component (IBX) version .3930 and some WM11 versions and able to strips DRM headers from secure WMA files. FairUse4WM intends to enable fair-use rights to purchased media so that owners can freely copy to any devices or media. So import of KID/SID pairs is not allowed and, license expiration and rental detection is not supported. You won’t be able to unDRM any without them being licensed to you or without at least a file with active valid license.

FairUse4WM version 1.2 (new version that works around the new IBX version being pushed by Microsoft on new individualizationsfeatures) features DRMv1 support for files you ripped yourself with protection enabled, works with WM9 (individualized), includes a workaround for WM11 beta 2, subdirectory support by taking a directory as the command-line parameter, and WM10 and WM11 support.

To use FairUse4WM, download FairUse4WM. Just launch the FairUse4WM hack program to extract personally identifiable information (decryption keys) from the Media Player while playing the DRM protected media. Some WM installations have multiple ECC key-pairs where users need to do “Extract Keys” using multiple licensed files. Users may also need to individualize the system. With individualization the licenses information is stored in IndivBox.key. To individualize the system, download any demo drm video from ezdrm.com. Or go here to automatically individualization your system.

Update: FairUse4WM 1.3 Fix-2 with Mirakagi which supports Windows Media Player DRM up to version 11.0.6000.6324 in Windows XP and Vista has been released.

Source by dvdvideo

Strategic Workforce Planning is the process for ensuring that an organization has suitable access to talent to ensure future business success. The aim of this process is that a company should have enough human resource, with adequate skills and competencies, in the future to take care of its requirements.

Following are the five steps an organization should follow to implement an effective workforce planning program:

Step 1: Strategic Direction Setting

In this step, an organization should clearly define the reasons why it wants to undertake workforce planning. The skills and competencies of existing employees should be kept in mind as well as all the resources available to it and the course of action it will follow in the future. After considering all these factors a team of professionals should be set up which will assist in the workforce planning process.

Step 2: Calculate the difference between demand and supply

Workforce planners should gather relevant data and information about the future demand, for human resource, by the company and the projected supply at that time and task to be fulfilled by that workforce. This can be done by analyzing the planning documents of the organization, reviewing the financial budgeting accounts, and setting assumptions accordingly.

Step 3: Developing an action Plan

An action plan should be developed to fill the gaps identified in step 2. This plan could include identifying internal employees who could fill the gap, partnering with academic institutions for future recruitment, following an intern program to recruit, availing the services of external recruiting agencies, etc. Internal employees should be judged on their skills and competencies and the total number of annualized hours they have put in till date.

Step 4: Implementing the plan

Properly implementing the plan is as important a step as developing one. The top management plays a crucial role in this step. They must ensure that the plan is being implemented according to needs of the organization. They should ensure that all the future hiring and retention needs of an organization will be fulfilled with this plan.

Step 5: Evaluate and Revise the plan

The final step of this process involves evaluating the plan periodically to ensure that it is fulfilling all the requirements of the organization, and suggesting any change in the plan, if required. The plan should be compared with the benchmark laid down earlier, and if any discrepancies are found then necessary changes should be suggested. These changes should be communicated to all the persons who are in any way involved with the workforce planning process.

A properly planned, implemented and evaluated workforce planning process would go a long way in ensuring a stable and profitable future of an organization.

Source by Pooja Rai

Businesses that do not have their own server equipment and cannot afford to purchase them at the moment can still benefit from the use of servers. They can lease dedicated virtual servers from any colocation data center in South Florida, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach.

Colocation data centers are sometimes called simply “colo.” They are also alternatively called carrier hotels. This is because they rent out server, network and storage facilities, inclusive of interconnection with network service providers and telecommunications service providers. Usually included in their list of services, aside from dedicated virtual servers, are managed dedicated colocation hosting, private networks, broadband internet access, VoIP, internet network security, data storage and data backup plus many others. All these are offered in simplified packages at low cost. The system of storing software and data on remote virtual servers while providing various business applications to clients to be accessed by them online is referred to as cloud computing.

Colocation services are usually offered by network access point or NAP facilities. One popular example is NAP of the Americas.

Leasing dedicated virtual servers from any colocation data center in South Florida, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach means a smaller financial output from a company as compared to having to purchase an expensive server. It also means less risk. It allows the client to test its growth and to try out mirroring and load balancing which would be harder to do with in house servers.

Leasing dedicated virtual servers from any colocation data center in South Florida, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach is easy. Clients can choose to have a renewable yearly lease, or can choose to rent dedicated virtual servers by the month. Monthly rental provides more flexibility for the client, allowing for immediate upsizing or downsizing of server capacity depending on the business requirements.

The client can choose to lease either managed dedicated virtual servers or unmanaged dedicated virtual servers. Of course, the client will have to pay more for the convenience of getting professional technical support in server management. On the other hand, there are advantages to unmanaged dedicated virtual servers. In such cases, the client gets complete control of all server functions, including its operating system, its various applications and the entire web content.

Leased dedicated virtual servers are not shared by the client with any other company. The client can, therefore, opt to sell dedicated hosting or managed hosting services for multiple websites.

On the other hand, there is a different option for clients who already have their own server equipment and licensed software. In such cases, the client can house the servers in any colocation data center in South Florida, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach. The collocation data center will lease out the rack space instead, including power supply, internet access and other services such as firewall protection, tape rotation, and backup and storage.

Why should a client opt to do so? For one thing, the best collocation data centers offer a 99.9% server uptime guarantee which they base on a Tier 1 Internet support. They have a foolproof uninterrupted power supply and carrier class climate control. This is further backed up by twenty four hour security protection of the highest degree.

Within this option, the client can just send all its equipment to the collocation center for its professional technicians to install and maintain at a certain cost, or the client can decide to have its own staff install and maintain its servers in the collocation center.

If you need to lease dedicated virtual servers from any colocation data center in South Florida, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach, or even if you just need to lease rack space for your own existing servers, make sure you choose the best collocation data center with the highest uptime guarantee and best technical expertise.

Source by The Internet Adventure

TraceGains, Inc., the leader in affordable turnkey Produce Traceability Initiative compliance and traceability software solutions, is proud to announce that Barcode Graphics has joined its reseller and service provider partner program, to be able to implement and support PTI-compliant printing, labeling, and traceability solutions.

The Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) is an industry-wide effort chartered by the Produce Marketing Association, United Fresh Produce Association, and the Canadian Produce Marketing Association, and is aimed at creating a traceability process that will enable the quick and efficient electronic tracking and tracing of produce cases between supply chain members.

Says John Herzig, President of Barcode Graphics: “Barcode Graphics has many years of experience producing and testing barcode labels, as well as providing barcode label solutions. We are pleased to have found in TraceGains a partner with, not only a range of current PTI offerings, but also receptive to developing additional complementary track and trace services for us to be able to offer. We feel this experience will prove valuable when assisting growers to best utilize TraceGains’ PTI compliance software.”

TraceGains’ CaseTrace PTI software, now available across all of Canada from Barcode Graphics, installs on any PC and is a one-time investment to generate PTI-compliant GS1-128 style labels. The software also helps growers, packers, and shippers of fresh produce build and manage their GTIN catalogs, and to report their GTINs to their retail customers, as recently required by the seven-step Produce Traceability Initiative.

 “We are very pleased that Barcode Graphics has joined our partner program,” says Gary Nowacki, CEO of TraceGains, Inc. “BGI is in the unique position of being able to fulfill customers’ labeling, scanning, printing, and now produce traceability needs. BGI is true one-stop shop that can rapidly and effectively provide all necessary sales and technical support, which is a true benefit to customers.”

About TraceGains, Inc.

TraceGains offers affordable turnkey Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) compliance solutions for companies of all sizes. The company’s CaseTrace PTI, FieldPack PTI, LabelTrace, and GTIN Sync solution portfolio helps growers, packers, and shippers for fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables, easily meet PTI, Country of Origin Labeling, and retailer-specific labeling and traceability requirements. The company is headquartered in Longmont, CO, USA, with direct and partner offices throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. For more information please visit www.tracegainspti.com.

About Barcode Graphics Inc.

Barcode Graphics Inc (BGI) offers barcode and nutrition labeling solutions to all stages of the packaging supply chain; manufacturers, package designers, prepress, printers, distributors, and retailers.  In addition to producing all widely used barcode symbologies, and nutrition facts graphics, as both electronic files or stickers, BGI also provides barcode QA certification services/software, and a suite of consulting services related to Nutrition Facts labeling.  The company is located in Richmond Hill, ON, Canada and has been in operation for over 25 years.  For more information please visit www.BarcodeGraphics.com.

TraceGains Inc.

www.tracegains.com

Marc Simony, Director of Marketing

traceability@tracegains.com

(303)682-9898

Source by Thomas Cutler

Are you in a need to completely uninstall and remove Symantec Enterprise Vault but you really having no idea how to do it? If so, you are not alone.

Most of the time, when you try to uninstall and remove Symantec Enterprise Vault in the add/remove programs list entering from the Control Panel, you may not find it there. So it does not permit you to delete it. Even though you have uninstalled it, it still may start up automatically when you log on. Then you have to disable it from task manager each time you log on. Does it sound frustrating? This is because the registry entries and the Symantec Enterprise Vault related files respectively remain hidden in the nooks and corners of your registry and hard drives.

Then I’ve setup a step-by-step Symantec Enterprise Vault removal plan for you so you can conduct the removal as soon as possible.

However, whether you want to remove this program, note that this will result in no protection for your PC. Then be very carefully when browsing the internet.

Method 1 Uninstall and remove Symantec Enterprise Vault manually

1. Locate and remove Symantec Enterprise Vault by deleting the related files, a trained software professional would better do this job.

2. Eliminate the registry entries if you can.

3. Delete connected directions.

By doing a quick search via the Internet, you can find out what files and registry entries need to be deleted. But this removal is only recommended for computer experts, for deleting the wrong file or registry key may render Windows unbootable.

Method 2 Uninstall and remove Symantec Enterprise Vault automatically

There is a much simpler and safer way to conduct Symantec Enterprise Vault removal, and what you need is a security tool removal tool. This tool can uninstall the program firstly, and then it scans your registry and your hard drives to find and delete all the files that related to the program, easily and effectively.

There is actually a fantastic removal tool that can help you remove Symantec Enterprise Vault completely with great success and make sure all the now-defunct Registry entries and related files are eliminated automatically with a few clicks.

Source by ianchan1985

We recommend you to take a look in the lesson company on the month end receivable management checklist, where you should get the idea on the sequence.  Recommended steps are: Aging, Reconcile to GL, Assess Finance Charges, Print Statements, Transfer Sales Commissions, and Remove Paid Transactions.  Before you start Aging, we recommend you to print out Unapplied Documents report in RM, this is one of the options available for Sales Analysis report type.  When you have this report, check if some of the legitimate payments might be forgotten to be applied to customer outstanding Invoices, Service/Repair, Debit Memos, or Finance Charges.  When you are done with that, you should be ready for Aging.  Let’s review these steps in some details:

1. Aging – this procedure classifies customer documents as being specific number of days old (if by document date is selected in RM Setup Aging Periods are selected by Document Date) or past due (if setting in RM by Due Date respectively).  Aging is dedicated to customer statements, where you may decide to give your customers some time, before running aging – when you print historical aged trial balance report, it does aging automatically just for the purpose of the report, not affecting the Aging process described in this paragraph.  Let now move on the next step in the Reconcile to GL

2. Reconcile to GL.  This is very advanced tool, available in recent versions of GP: 2010, 10.0, 9.0 (we are not sure about version 8.0).  As this tool is available with the same for selecting either Receivables or Payables – it is located in Financial Routines section.  Please, include all the Account Receivable accounts on the right side (and if you are allowing term discounts, include those accounts as well)  When you click on process button, it will create Excel worksheet for you, where you should see matched transactions (posted GL entry via audit trail and other information is linked to the RM transaction), potentially matched (typically where audit trail is not correct, when you potentially post transaction originated directly in GL to catch up the distribution from RM invoice, etc.) and unmatched transactions (where guessing doesn’t allow GP to classify something as potentially matching).  You will see at the bottom beginning and ending balances in both modules: General Ledger and Receivable Management.  Please, note, that Reconcile to GL is just a report, it doesn’t do anything – it is up to you to decide on the corrections

3. Finance Charges.  If you sell on account to your customers, financial charges might be important mechanism to remind the customers about past due balance and the contract agreements.  Financial Charges seem to be absolutely necessary, when you are using Scheduled Payments in RM (leasing, consumer credit sales with payment schedules).  Grace period is often a good idea.  For example, you may asses finance charges on the balances in 30 days past due or older.  Well, now we are ready to print customer statements

4. Print Receivables Statements.  In some cases statement is considered as invoice, in other scenarios it might be just an information document.  You have several forms to select for the printable document: Long, Short, Side, User-definable, On Blank form, Short or Side Continuous, and two multicurrency forms.  From this window (Sales Routines Statements) you can also access Messages setup form, where you can define messages relevant to the specific statement lines: NSF, Finance Charges, over 90 days old, etc.  If you are on GP version 2010/11.0 – there is additional option for you to email statement automatically (there is MAPI email requirements at this time, March 2010).  There are numerous parameter on the Statement printing form, such as Print For, Select Dates, your company address ID to be printed on the Statement, etc.  You can reprint statements (when it was lost in mail or customer indicates, that they don’t have it – Reprint Statements checkbox should be marked in RM setup form)

5. How to modify Statement form?  This could be done in Report Writer, use the same technic, as modifying more traditionally customizable reports, such as SOP Blank Invoice Form.  You can place your company graphical logo on the statement, if required

6. Transfer Sales Commissions and other possible routines to consider at the end of the calendar month.  Transfer Sales Commissions marks the commissions as Paid (allowing you to do such changes as delete Sales Person).  Another possible routine is Write Off Documents, where you may decide to forgive your customers, who sent you check with few dollars short.  Plus, consider printing and archiving Period-End Reports: Sales Summary, Sales Analysis, Tax Period Report

7. Paid Transactions Removal, this routine moves paid (completely applied) sales document from open (RM2XXXXX) to historical (RM3XXXXX) tables.  Please, note that check clearing might take a week or more, it is impossible to apply NSF procedure to the payments, transferred to the history.  This is why on the Paid Transactions Removal form you have separate cutoff date for Checks.  Here, please be sure that you have track history check boxes marked, otherwise Paid Transaction Removal will simply delete documents

8. Close Fiscal Period for RM.  This is optional, but very good idea to disable posting accounts receivable and Sales Order Processing documents for the closed fiscal period

9. Customer Statements in older versions of Great Plains, eEnterprise, GP select on Pervasive SQL 2000, Ctree or Btrieve.  This publication still could be used as guidelines, however such new features as Reconcile to GL (with Excel report produced), Emailing the statements and some others might not be available for your version.  If you are using Great Plains Accounting for DOS, Windows and Mac (9.5, 9.2 and earlier) – customer statement preparation procedure is different there

Source by Andrew Karasev

Interactive Voice Response (IVR) has seen many advances in its technology since it first came onto the market and these days it is one of the most sophisticated and commonly used types of call centre software existing. Facilitated by all kinds of companies throughout the world, the main purpose of the system is to deal with the large numbers of calls that some organizations of a particular nature can experience and is humanly impossible to handle. A sophisticated IVR system will minimize a company’s costs and help it to make the customers experience pleasanter and the employees’ job easier and less stressful.

IVR systems are able to differentiate between commands, whether they are input via the dial pad or as a voice command. The system recognizes the input and working through a flow chart either proceeds by asking another question or redirects you to the correct department. IVR systems are most suitable for any task whereby the instruction can be separated and put into a simple menu option. In telecommunications they prove very capable and dependable in handling large numbers of phone calls.

Interactive Voice Response systems can save an organization a lot of valuable time and expense as well as staff resources.IVR appliances are generally used in telephone banking industries, for credit card transactions and televoting, a company that utilizes such a system can extend its business hours to round the clock if necessary. Organizations that are inclined to receive thousands of calls every day, such as call centres, need to have a way of dealing with all these calls so customers are not waiting for lengthy periods of time to talk to customer service. This will only make them frustrated and angry, something no company wants. This could be an embassy where the customer requires passport and visa information for a particular destination or a bank where the caller just needs to check their balance and have no particular need to talk to anyone, they just need the information. Automated systems can be enormously useful in dealing with these kinds of enquiries and save the organization and the customer a lot of time. Considering the choice between an employed staff to deal with the calls, or an automated system, the latter is more cost-effective.

IVR systems can vary greatly in the way they work and this depends mainly on the cost, the cheaper the system the more basic functions you can expect and vise versa. In a basic model expect simple commands such as to say the number of the option required or press 1 for….press 2 for….dial pad command. The more advanced systems ask for names, dates of birth and your address and recognize the answers, so speeding the whole process up greatly. These kinds of systems are appropriate for information only situations where the same information is needed over and over again and can provide it a lot faster than if the phones would be manually answered.

Call centres are the main users of IVR systems and use them to identify and redirect the user to the correct department where their enquiry can then be dealt with. The capacity to categorize their customers means that the organization can then change their services in order to suit clients’ needs and requirements.

IVR software can be used to handle the millions of people calling in to vote for TV game shows, the most popular being Pop Idol and Big Brother. IVRs are also useful for mobile users who are calling to register a new ringtone or logo for their phone, anyone calling to ask about the weather forecast for the following day or their stars for that week will come across an automated system.

IVR systems are installed in-house and taken care of by the IVR provider who incorporates the system through the client’s network.

Anyone looking for call centre software for their organization using voice recognition and any other advanced applications that use speech recognition and voice biometrics should research online for professional services.

Source by Michiel Van Kets

Software like Ivybot and technology have made significant strides over the years and is making it a whole lot easier for forex traders to play and analyze the market. Just the fact that people know there are things out there to help make it a lot easier for people to understand how to invest their money the right way. Over the years as I have been trading, I have found quite a few different strategies that can give you a decent ROI. However, just by following a few tips that I have learned from very successful forex traders I have been able to get a much larger ROI. Emotional trading is not a good way to trade. This is another thing that the Ivybot software has helped people do is to take the emotion out of their trades, so that there is not a biased opinion. This is a huge benefit for people who are new to the market and have problems controlling emotion trades. One of the best advantages to currency trading software like Ivybot is the incontrovertible fact that it takes emotional trading just about completely out of the picture. Currency trading is a massive market but a large amount of folks have lost giant quantities of money based entirely on the indisputable fact that they were making emotional trades. A great benefit to using automatic Foreign exchange software like Ivybot is the undeniable fact that it essentially can limit any losses that you will have. When you are trading by hand if you do not know what you are doing, all your funds may be lost from your account overnite. A pal of mine that sure is a Currency exchange trader claimed it better than I am able to say it. He announced that having the ability to use automated trading software like Ivybot let him to make moneymaking trades while not having to learn each single technical facet of currency trading.

Source by jamiehanson