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If you are implementing GP for large organization, FA module often requires such features as initial data conversion.  We figured out that sometimes it is easier to record macro, transfer it into Excel, split the Macro on several columns and then use Series to update the fields that have macro parameters.  Another method is Fixed Assets integration Tool.  Also, customers often require re-depreciate since the items original place in service dates and compare old FA reports with newly produced from Great Plains.  In other words, you should expect the project to take some time and budget.  Let’s take a look at the features and possible questions:

1. Unlimited number of Books, where only one is posting to General Ledger.  For various reasons you may have a book, that is for internal managerial reporting (as company performance for the managers is often not related to FA taxes, which are typically posted to GL for federal reporting).  Also, your state might have additional requirements, plus municipalities might have pretty strict local legislation, especially when you item is real estate object, such as office building, farm land or manufacturing facility

2. Book/Item Class or directly Book/Item master records.  Book Class is where you define the rules – Depreciation Method (Straight Line, Declining Balance), Averaging Convention, TEFRA options, Additional Allowances and Salvation percentages.  Each item requires the class to be specified, and when you open Asset Book form, the info is copied there from Book Class record, and you have the option to override parameters

3. Interface to General Ledger.  For some of the customers it might be something they do not require, for the rest of us only the Book, linked to GL is the book, specified as Corporate Book in FA Company Setup window.  Plus of course when you create or import assets from AP or POP Purchase Receipt, retire (or undo retire), transfer, reset the depreciation to date field, change book-asset depreciation rules – these are also subjects to be posted to GL.  Sometimes we hear questions on how to post FA batches: Tools -> Routines -> Fixed Assets -> GL Posting

4. Fixed Assets creation through AP Invoice.  You have to specify FA Trigger Account in the Purchasing Posting Account Setup form.  Then, if you post AP Invoice, please be sure that you have changed the account with PURCH posting type.  If you followed the procedure, you should be able to import Item with AP invoice description

5. POP FA Import.  It could be done either by triggering PURCH account, or even directly by marking POP Purchase Receipt line as Capital Item.  In both PM and POP modules there is the way to receive one Invoice as several Assets

6. ID and Suffix.  Here the natural advise to have them as Asset Label, which could be printed in Barcoding style for the following annual items count.  ID and suffix could initially be used to form the asset, which is in fact the assembly of several components, each with its own amortization or depreciation rules.  In the future, if you are reassembling such a kit, you cannot change ID and Suffix anymore, but use instead Master Asset ID – this field could be changed at will and it should allow you to combine newly formed set in reporting

7. Location.  This is designed to help you with Asset tax reporting, as here you are specifying the State and municipality

8. Physical Location might sound similar to the paragraph above, but this is used rather for your internal reporting about what you have on the balance in the specific office.  Another option available in the reporting is Structure (maybe specific manufacturing plant, or warehouse building)

9. Insurance, Lease Company.  These master records are for information only and could be used in reports

10. Custodian.  If you mark Validate Custodian in Company Setup, you may assign Custodian, who is set up as Employee in US Payroll master table

11. Serial and Manufacturing numbers.  In case when your Asset is under warranty contract, or your industry regulation require Serial Number tracking, you can enter required info in the Expand Manufacturing Name form

12. User Data.  You can enable up to fifteen user defined fields for each asset.  Each of these fields could be assigned the name, data entry format (text, date, number, telephone, etc.).  If needed, you can add valued values, to have them available via DDL for convenience

13. Asset Book ITC.  There is also some flexibility to support additional deductions from the depreciation base: Section 197, ITC Cost Reduction Amount

14. Some customization considerations.  We’ve implemented numerous and helped customers to recover failed implementations.  For large company it might be the requirement to look up from your GL transaction to your Asset ID.  This task and similar should be created as SQL Update statement based SQL Server Agent job to run every night

15. Reporting options.  There are reasonable set of predefined reports in ReportWriter  (you can always modify them if required).  We found also, that for large organization more user defined and even data drive reports are needed.  Here we recommend you to consider direct SQL Select statement, joining FA tables, Crystal Report, MS SQL Server Reporting Services.  Of course, you can use another ODBC compliant reporting tool, such as MS Access, Excel.  User friendly reporting could be produced in SmartList with export to Excel

16. Modification tools.  Here, as Fixed Assets in separate dictionary, not Dynamics.DIC, we recommend you to think first about Modifier with VBA, versus Dexterity.  You can also reach the majority of the objects in eConnect, but we think this would be too exotic for FA

17. Version consideration.  In our opinion the development for this module has reasonably small magnitude, and you are still on Great Plains 6.0, upgrading to the current version 2010/11.0 or 10.0 – you should still be able to recognize your daily routines in the new interface

18. Table Structure.  You can always analyze this information Tools -> Resource Description -> Tables, switch Product to Fixed Assets, and series to Financials.  For example, FA00100 is your Asset master file, if you found this one, the rest should not be a problem

Source by Andrew Karasev

Recent reports published by the Business Software Alliance, an organization that works to advance the goals of the software industry across the globe, indicate that despite stricter penalties for illegal content downloads in many countries, illegal software downloads are still on the rise. Not only does the BSA publish the numbers of illegal software downloads by country, but they also generate a number that indicates the probable financial loss suffered by the industry due to those illegal downloads. Most opponents of stricter piracy laws insist that those numbers are severely inflated and insist that the number of illegal downloads are not necessarily indicative of the number of consumers lost for the software companies.

Regardless of how inflated the numbers may be, software companies and the authorities alike have taken an interest in the matter and are beginning to crackdown on illegal downloads and software pirates. South Africa in particular was shown to have lost large amounts of profits due to software piracy and as such, the local police force has begun to crackdown on those accused or suspected of pirating software.

In a recent incident, the South African Police Services executed a raid on a computer business in Johannesburg that resulted in the arrest of two individuals who were suspected of distributing software illegally. Though the suspects in this particular instance admitted guilt in stealing and installing software on thousands of computers, not all of those accused of software piracy are quite as guilty as these individuals.

The BSA maintains that software piracy has serious consequences, not only for software companies and businesses but also for whole economies in various countries. Due to lost taxes, duties, and overall sales, both companies and governments are said to lose every time a piece of software is downloaded illegally. However, many argue that it is not as simple as a one-to-one loss – meaning that not every illegal download means a lost sale for the company. In extreme cases such as the one in South Africa the stealing is blatant and the company was very aware of their wrongdoing, but this case should be treated as the exception rather than the rule when it comes to software piracy.

Adobe is one of the major software manufacturers to get involved in the latest crackdown on software piracy. From the raid mentioned above, Adobe has confiscated extensive customer lists that have names of people who purchased illegal software and other business in South Africa that buy and redistributed stolen or pirated software.

Adobe is planning to uses these lists in order to bring the worst offenders to justice in hopes of regaining some of their lost profits. This type of intelligence can be dangerous for individuals and people should ensure that they are aware of where their software is coming from and if they download it to make sure it’s from a legitimate source. Until laws are put into place to protect individuals a bit more from digital piracy accusations, it’s important for customers to exercise due diligence and protect themselves from possible claims.

Source by Tim Roberts

If you are an employer, running a 10-15 employees company, you must have come across the problem of controlling labor costs. From production sector to service sector, even in semi-GOVT companies, managing employee attendance efficiently has always been an issue for the busy employers.

Controlling labor costs is no longer solely the domain of large corporations as the recent economic downturn has forced small businesses to reevaluate as aspects of their organizational infrastructure.

Long available for larger organizations and at high costs, employee attendance and time tracking software has not, until recently, successfully migrated to the small business marketplace.

A few years back, when lower cost RFID proximity card and biometric time clocks entered the marketplace, small companies found something affordable at a basic level of time tracking. This soon proved to be a half-solution.  These solutions were designed to force business owners to tether the time clocks to client based software installed on local computers. These solutions, which offer a fairly low cost of entry, soon end up costing the businesses much more with IT costs, support contracts, and extended warranties.

Small businesses today demand that their vendors offer technology that is affordable and that utilizes the best available technologies. With web-based cloud computing or software as a service (SaaS) offerings the norm for many services commonly used by small businesses (accounting, banking, hosting, etc), business owners are looking to companies that create technology based on how businesses operate as opposed to companies that modify enterprise class technology and try and make it work for small business.

Time and attendance applications for small business have in the past taken for granted the fact those most small businesses had diverse labor pools. The most common time and attendance solutions for small business are timeclock offerings. Timeclocks are great for workforces that do not have access to a computer or the Internet, yet not ideal for clerical workers. Companies with warehouse workers, clerical workers, and remote workers have been forced to buy timeclocks and client based PC software and attempt to (not inexpensively) aggregate the data on their servers.

An ideal solution for small business time and attendance would pair inexpensive and easy to use hardware with a web-hosted software application that allows business owners to access time and attendance data any time and anywhere.

Such a system would harness the power of cloud computing coupled with the convenience of plug and play time and attendance terminals, allowing employees to clock in or clock out from a device, a website, or a phone.

Software solutions provider companies have started building programs which comes equipped with the scalability and integration capabilities to use RFID, biometric devices and of course integration of any third party payroll system. If you are looking for a good time clock/attendance management system, you must see all such compatibilities. You may need to use these features in due course, as your company grows in time. Most of these software companies offer free demo, in CD or in the shape of online interactive demo. Better to use a 15-30 day trial version so you can get familiar and match with your own company needs. Remember that it does not cost much to use RFID, biometric devices or barcode scanners. In return, the benefit you get in terms of time and cost saving is huge.

Source by Tony Chopp

Flash websites generally aren’t known for their ease of use. Nearly every site has a non-standard user interface, which can mean trouble for your surfing guests as they spend precious time getting used to your user interface.

One interface that most people who’ve used a computer for more than 20 minutes can handle is the drop down menu. Quick and easy to make when you know what your doing, they’re great for sites and projects that are built with expansion in mind. Add another item, add another option in one of the menus.

This example is actually based on a drop down menu flash file that can be found at http://www.jake-man.co.uk/ , a personal site of mine I made about video games consoles. As I collected more consoles, I needed to be able to add them to specific genre, based on the consoles processor. The drop down menu proved a great way to handle this, as I could easily add more items in as and when needed.

The clever part of this drop down menu is the “invisible button”, one of every flash designers best weapons! No matter what project I’m working on, I end up using an invisible button somewhere.

Basically an invisible button is simply a flash button, with no content in the first 3 frames, just one object/shape in the hit area. You can expand on this to add sounds in the “over” stage, so as a user rolls over the invisible button, a sound plays. There is a lot you can use them for, so it’s good to start using them as soon as possible.

What do I need before I start?
You’ll need Macromedia Flash 5, which is on the cover CD

How hard is it?
Easy – a knowledge of buttons and frame labels and movie clips should be all you need.

How long will it take?
10-15 minutes

Walk through: A 14 stage walk through of the software with a grab for each
stage and 50-60 words.

Stage 1
First things first… decide the size of your movie, frame rate and background colour. You can change these later, but it may give you some headaches if you drastically change scene sizes.
I’ve chosen a black background, a frame rate of 21 fps and a size of 120 pixels wide by 400 pixels tall.

Stage 2
It’s time to add our main menu options. For my console-related site, I’ve grouped everything by processor. 8 Bit, 16 Bit and so on. Add each menu option as separate pieces of text, might as well choose the font and colour now.

Stage 3
Select the first menu option, and hit F8 (or select Insert>convert to symbol… ) and name the movieclip something useful. For the “8 Bit” piece of text, I’ll name the movieclip “text-8bit”. Do the same with all the other separate menu option text.

Stage 4
Now select the “8 Bit” movie clip, and make another movie clip by hitting F8 again. Name this one “menu-8bit”. Edit the freshly created “menu-8bit” by double clicking on it (confusing at first, I know!) in the library and set up the layers as shown in the picture.

Stage 5
We’re now ready to start working on how our menu will behave. We need one frame for an inactive menu state, and one frame for when the menu item is clicked on. Add keyframes on frame 5, and add a label named “closed” in frame 1, and a label named “open” in frame 10.

Stage 6
We need a little bit of actionscript on these 2 labelled frames, nothing major, just a stop command to keep the movie from rolling along on its own. Add the command to each frame as shown in the picture.

Stage 7
Time to make our invisible button. Create a rectangle in a blank layer underneath the “8 Bit” menu option. Select the rectangle and hit F8 again, give the button a name, I suggest “button-invisible menu”. Edit this button, by double clicking on its name in the library.

Stage 8
Here’s the clever part… simply grab the keyframe in the “up” state of the button and drag it over to the “hit” frame. This should result in a blank keyframe on the “up”, “over” and “down” states, but a rectangle in the hit area.
The button will give no visible feedback in this state, but will act as a hot spot. Great for adding buttons to Photos or artwork…

Stage 9
…but we want to make a menu. So we need to add something in the rollover frame of the invisible button, so copy the rectangle from the hit area and select Edit>Paste in Place to duplicate the menu. Now you can change the colour, the transparency, add a sound effect etc. Do the same in the “down” frame too…

Stage 10
So we have our menu option in the first frame, complete with a button that needs a script… so click on the button once, open the actionscript window, and double click on the Go To command in Basic Actions. Select ‘Type: Frame Label’ and enter ‘open’ in the box, and uncheck the “Go to And Play” box.

Stage 11
In the “open” frame of our menu, we need to add the list of options that will appear when our “8 Bit” menu is clicked on. I’ve added a few names of some consoles… try and keep the first list item just under where the “8 Bit” would appear. Create a new layer at the very bottom and add a background square, so your menu blocks the other options when clicked.

Stage 12
In the layer beneath the menu options in the “open” frame I’m going to drag the “button-invisible menu” out from the library, one for each menu option and resize them to fit. The script for each of these buttons determines where the user goes when they click… in this case, I’m simply going to load another web page in a frame, you can see the script in the picture.

Stage 13
Finally, when the user “rolls off” the menu, we want to return to the “closed” frame. The best way to make this happen is to have 3 or 4 huge invisible hit areas to catch the users mouse. Create another invisible button as in stage 8, only filling in the hit area, and add the script to the new button as in the picture, then duplicate twice.

Stage 14
Repeat this for each main menu option you need. I followed the whole process 4 times for my menu. Be sure to reuse the invisible buttons as often as possible, as this reduces the final file size of the movie. After all, a simple menu doesn’t have to be over 200k!

JP74 Ltd, Digital Agency

Source by Jake Smith

If you are implementing GP for large organization, FA module often requires such features as initial data conversion.  We figured out that sometimes it is easier to record macro, transfer it into Excel, split the Macro on several columns and then use Series to update the fields that have macro parameters.  Another method is Fixed Assets integration Tool.  Also, customers often require re-depreciate since the items original place in service dates and compare old FA reports with newly produced from Great Plains.  In other words, you should expect the project to take some time and budget.  Let’s take a look at the features and possible questions:

1. Unlimited number of Books, where only one is posting to General Ledger.  For various reasons you may have a book, that is for internal managerial reporting (as company performance for the managers is often not related to FA taxes, which are typically posted to GL for federal reporting).  Also, your state might have additional requirements, plus municipalities might have pretty strict local legislation, especially when you item is real estate object, such as office building, farm land or manufacturing facility

2. Book/Item Class or directly Book/Item master records.  Book Class is where you define the rules – Depreciation Method (Straight Line, Declining Balance), Averaging Convention, TEFRA options, Additional Allowances and Salvation percentages.  Each item requires the class to be specified, and when you open Asset Book form, the info is copied there from Book Class record, and you have the option to override parameters

3. Interface to General Ledger.  For some of the customers it might be something they do not require, for the rest of us only the Book, linked to GL is the book, specified as Corporate Book in FA Company Setup window.  Plus of course when you create or import assets from AP or POP Purchase Receipt, retire (or undo retire), transfer, reset the depreciation to date field, change book-asset depreciation rules – these are also subjects to be posted to GL.  Sometimes we hear questions on how to post FA batches: Tools -> Routines -> Fixed Assets -> GL Posting

4. Fixed Assets creation through AP Invoice.  You have to specify FA Trigger Account in the Purchasing Posting Account Setup form.  Then, if you post AP Invoice, please be sure that you have changed the account with PURCH posting type.  If you followed the procedure, you should be able to import Item with AP invoice description

5. POP FA Import.  It could be done either by triggering PURCH account, or even directly by marking POP Purchase Receipt line as Capital Item.  In both PM and POP modules there is the way to receive one Invoice as several Assets

6. ID and Suffix.  Here the natural advise to have them as Asset Label, which could be printed in Barcoding style for the following annual items count.  ID and suffix could initially be used to form the asset, which is in fact the assembly of several components, each with its own amortization or depreciation rules.  In the future, if you are reassembling such a kit, you cannot change ID and Suffix anymore, but use instead Master Asset ID – this field could be changed at will and it should allow you to combine newly formed set in reporting

7. Location.  This is designed to help you with Asset tax reporting, as here you are specifying the State and municipality

8. Physical Location might sound similar to the paragraph above, but this is used rather for your internal reporting about what you have on the balance in the specific office.  Another option available in the reporting is Structure (maybe specific manufacturing plant, or warehouse building)

9. Insurance, Lease Company.  These master records are for information only and could be used in reports

10. Custodian.  If you mark Validate Custodian in Company Setup, you may assign Custodian, who is set up as Employee in US Payroll master table

11. Serial and Manufacturing numbers.  In case when your Asset is under warranty contract, or your industry regulation require Serial Number tracking, you can enter required info in the Expand Manufacturing Name form

12. User Data.  You can enable up to fifteen user defined fields for each asset.  Each of these fields could be assigned the name, data entry format (text, date, number, telephone, etc.).  If needed, you can add valued values, to have them available via DDL for convenience

13. Asset Book ITC.  There is also some flexibility to support additional deductions from the depreciation base: Section 197, ITC Cost Reduction Amount

14. Some customization considerations.  We’ve implemented numerous and helped customers to recover failed implementations.  For large company it might be the requirement to look up from your GL transaction to your Asset ID.  This task and similar should be created as SQL Update statement based SQL Server Agent job to run every night

15. Reporting options.  There are reasonable set of predefined reports in ReportWriter  (you can always modify them if required).  We found also, that for large organization more user defined and even data drive reports are needed.  Here we recommend you to consider direct SQL Select statement, joining FA tables, Crystal Report, MS SQL Server Reporting Services.  Of course, you can use another ODBC compliant reporting tool, such as MS Access, Excel.  User friendly reporting could be produced in SmartList with export to Excel

16. Modification tools.  Here, as Fixed Assets in separate dictionary, not Dynamics.DIC, we recommend you to think first about Modifier with VBA, versus Dexterity.  You can also reach the majority of the objects in eConnect, but we think this would be too exotic for FA

17. Version consideration.  In our opinion the development for this module has reasonably small magnitude, and you are still on Great Plains 6.0, upgrading to the current version 2010/11.0 or 10.0 – you should still be able to recognize your daily routines in the new interface

18. Table Structure.  You can always analyze this information Tools -> Resource Description -> Tables, switch Product to Fixed Assets, and series to Financials.  For example, FA00100 is your Asset master file, if you found this one, the rest should not be a problem

Source by Andrew Karasev

When searching the Web for a program that’ll enable you to quickly save files as pdf in Vista always be cautious. Pdf is an extremely effective way to “print” documents into a unified standard format, for example, word processors files, graphic based files, and many other file types. You can start using this technology in just minutes from now – Read the following quick review and you’ll discover some very useful tips.

Basically, this popular portable document format technology processes any given files and converts them into a special cross-platform format, so no matter where you open these files (pc or mac) they would always look the same. Once you start using this solution you quickly realize how powerful it is, let’s assume for a minute that you’ve created a document by using the times new roman font type – it’ll include and display your original font(s), following that, any pc or mac user that opens any of your pdfs would be able to see the exact and original font(s), style(s), and colors.

Now that you’ve got the idea let’s locate the appropriate software that’ll enable you to save files as pdf in Vista at minimal cost and effort. When searching the web you’ll easily find a wide range of solutions, you can save a lot of precious time just by verifying that they provide you with several important features. Before you install anything on your computer verify the following: should be able to let you control the security settings of your PDFs (passwords, access permissions, encryption), and it must support the latest Acrobat Reader format.

When you find a software that you believe can help you to save files as pdf in Vista then make sure that it offers 100% free evaluation. When you visit the developer’s website, see if they have a “faq” section as it may answer many of your questions. One small recommendation, i recommend you to verify that the solution you choose offers constant security updates, otherwise your pdfs might not be compatible with possible future format changes.

Source by Tim Danenberg

Outlook and Its Storage Entity (PST): Microsoft Outlook is an extensively used email management program that has gained so much popularity and preference due to its easy usage that does not require any user to get special training to master it. Many individual users as well as professionals prefer Outlook over other difficult to use emailing applications. Outlook stores its mailbox information in the Personal Storage Table (PST) files, which is the major storage entity for this email application. Most of the mailbox items (like emails, contacts, tasks, journals, calendar, appointments, etc) are saved in these PST files only. Large Size of PST Files: If you have been using Outlook 2003 for a large span of time, then the size of your Outlook 2003 PST files must be increasing gradually with time. Large sized PST files in your Outlook 2003 email client create many problems and so it is very important for you to split PST files into smaller parts and create smaller sized PST files. Using a third-party split PST software tool to split PST file in Outlook 2003 is a safe and an apt way to go about it. What Problem is created by Large PST Files? If you have been using Outlook 2003 for a long time, then you must have large sized PST files that can lower the speed of your emailing platform greatly and creates an annoying and time-wasting work environment. Also, you cannot manage large sized files easily. This problem can be solved if you trim PST file in Outlook 2003 into several smaller PST files that are easier to handle and that don’t lower the speed of Outlook. Easy-to-use Third-Party Split PST Software: If you are facing such a problem of lower Outlook speed and difficult Outlook management due to the presence of large sized PST files in your Microsoft Outlook 2003 email client, then use SysTools Split PST software to split Microsoft Outlook files of large size into smaller PST files. This is an easy-to-use tool which is endowed with a user-friendly and clear-cut interface having self-narrative screen instructions to perform the PST splitting process. How to Split PST File in Outlook 2003? You just have to perform the following 4 easy steps to split PST files using SysTools Split PST software: 1. Check the Size of your Outlook 2003 PST File: Before you start the PST splitting process, check the size of your Outlook 2003 PST files. 2. Purchase SysTools Split PST software (If Needed): After checking the size of your Outlook 2003 PST files, then you can invest in a third-party tool if you find PST file size to be very large,. You can purchase SysTools Split PST software as it is a simple and intuitive solution to split Microsoft Outlook files. This software supports almost all Outlook versions (including Outlook 2003). 3. Run SysTools Split PST software on your System: After purchasing the Full Licensed Version of SysTools Split PST software, run it on your system to start the process to split PST file in Outlook 2003. 4. Split PST Files of Outlook 2003: Follow the screen instructions that come successively on the software interface. These instructions will be self-narrative and you will not find any difficulty in successfully completing the process to split Microsoft Outlook files.

Source by Pamela Broom

Any organization which offers services and products within life-science industries like medical industries, pharmaceutical and biotech certainly need to follow some industrial standards and regulations that have been established by authority agencies like ISO and FDA. These standards are regulations were set up to assure top quality for the manufactured products and goods. The quality management software was extremely invented for have full control on the manufactured products and its quality compliance. It is extremely hard to accomplish guaranteed quality without assistance of QMS software.

Importance Of Quality Management System:

QMS software is a wonderful means invented for the companies to easily attain the business goals by adhering to certain specifications so as to create more profit and earn customer satisfaction as well. In hard times, the quality management assists in speeding up the tasks related to productivity. Most of the industries does not want them business to get slow down for not following the regulatory practices. With the implementation of quality management system software, you can able to make your products to reach the marketplace and stay top among other competitors in terms of quality.Maintaining industry regulations seems to be time-consuming task as plenty of companies might easily decline for not maintaining standards in their manufactured goods.

Improve Quality And Productivity:

In general, if the organizations does not strictly follows its quality system then it seems to be impossible to enhance its productivity along with that hard to balance the correlate between productivity and quality. It is difficult for businesses to stay productive always thereby providing continuous quality in their manufactured products. But with the aid of quality management system software, you can find it easy to carry out work process related to quality management team. In reality, quality seems to be everyone’s difficult so effective system must be laid to monitor every worker and make them to concentrate on their end goal easily.QMS software incorporates many components needed for the company growth.

The quality management system software is a pretty tool available to monitor entire departments and makes the businesses to impeccably communicate and render their work efficiently. Creating a quality into service or product which is manufactured by a business turns to be a challenging task however you can simply push those hurdles by including QMS software. The QMS software assists the corporation to get continuous customer satisfaction via endless improvement.

Execution Of QMS Software:

By having Effective quality management system software, you can tremendously determine the needs and expectations of the customers in accurate way and consequently provide quality products to them. In order to implement the quality management system software successfully, you need to know the QMS software fully including its quality policy, measurable goals, leadership and support if offers to be the modern day businesses. This software aids in providing suitable training for the project management team which is engaged in quality system and hence to boost up their skills extensively. The ability, efficiency and usefulness of the QMS can be easily evaluated through this software implementation.

Source by Yogesh Giri

Designing of mobile web applications involves a lot of effort and creativity as mobile users look for sleeker experience as compared to that of desktop users. With the development of mobile applications evolving constantly and at a rapid pace, developers of mobile app are constantly in a process of learning and continuous brushing up of their skills. Release of smartphones with various new features have acted as a catalyst in coming up with a number of challenges for the progressive developer of mobile web applications.

Development of these apps involves a lot of software testing and other scrutiny processes to remove all errors and launch a smooth and well functioning app. Since issues related to the performance of the mobile application such as hanging, crashing, etc comprise approximately 15% to 30% of the user complaints, carrying out software testing is highly important.

However, there are certain mistakes committed while carrying out the software testing of a mobile app that impact performance as well as leads to negative user experience. This requires the developers to be aware of and alert about these common software testing mistakes to avoid them. Avoiding the mistakes by staying aware and alert also leads to the development of a quality and error free mobile app.

Being Your Own Beta Tester

Being the beta tester oneself, is not recommended in case of software testing of a mobile app. With someone else beta testing the mobile app of a particular company, there are certain benefits that are received as compared to the same being done by the developer himself/herself.

–          Beta Testers are important as they offer companies with important outside perspective which helps in catching issues within the app.

–          Moreover it is not just the bugs that matter but also certain other factors culminate in giving an edge to the developers.

–          Errors can also be the result of unclear communication of the in-app purchases or even inappropriate use of advertisements that lead to the entire experience feel a bit of jarring.

These flaws are serious considerations for the mobile apps that need to be identified for ensuring sound performance. It is hard for a developer to find flaws in his/her own creation. Therefore the role of a Beta Tester becomes essential to pin point the loopholes.

Beta testing is indeed a simple task which should indeed accompany each app development. Beta testing should be carried out in the first phase of the mobile app development process so that it is able to catch the problems in the UI before the developer gets totally involved in the design of the app.

App-analytics tools like Google’s Universal Analytics and Flurry can be used to have a closer look at how the testers are using the app. Larger the number of people beta testing the app, the more prepared will it be to venture out in the real world.

Testing the front end in isolation

 A very common mistake that most testers commit is testing the front-end but neglecting the experience of the end-user. The end-user experience is important as it is an amalgamation of the back-end and the front-end behavior along with the communication patterns that usually take place in between.

Intermittent or infrequent regression testing

It has often been noticed that testers during the development process, easily fall into the trap of paying a lot of focus on new tests or new code at the expense of regression testing. This provides an easy method for the problems to be crop up and also go unnoticed and especially so in case of problems that are basically related to the performance of the app. Regression tests are vital to pinpoint the blockages so as to uncover the bugs in the code.

Besides errors related to software testing, mistakes that have been committed by designers in the past also impact the quality as well as affect the popularity of the application. In today’s cut throat competition, a company cannot afford to commit these petty mistakes.

A company always expects a high Return on Investment on the huge investment it has made on the building of the app. With an app that is designed appropriately, there are fewer chances for this.

Source by Tom Wade

Do you love movies? Do you like movie stars? If you do, so do you want to get FREE photos of favorite movies and stars? but how can I get these photos for FREE? capture them from HD videos, yes, capture them! But how? That’s the point! My advice is using IM Video Image Capture to do that, it’s an easy-to-use video, dvd image capture software, it supports capturing still image from video, DVD, BD, FLV, MP4, MPG, AVI, WMV… whatever, you name it, even you can save these images captured from video as bmp. jpeg, png, gif and pdf! Or you can setup them as your desktop wallpaper. I want Angelina Jolie be on my desktop, ok, no problem, capture “her” from “WANTED” or “Mr And Mrs Smith”, that’s really cool! Okay, here is just SOME of the information about what can you do with IM Video Image Capture.

• Capture still image from video files and DVD in seconds.
• Play most known video formats like DVD, FLV, MP4, AVI, MPEG, WMV, OGG and more.
• Create and edit categories to better organize image frames captured from video.
• You can seek to the desired position by dragging the slider bar or simple pressing Step One Frame Forward button.
• You can browse image frames captured with built-in image explorer.
• You can crop and resize image frame stored in built-in image library.
• You can export image frames captured into folder or web album for online viewing.
• More…

So, let’s say that you have tons of DVD and video files, but why just play and watch them? Videos and DVDs are huge image collections! Why not capture image frames from them?

Source by Ken Thomas