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Enterprise Resource Planning software or ERP software is ideal system of software applications developed to meet the financial and operational needs of a medium and large size business. The most prominent feature of this software is that it integrates the needs of various business departments into a single computer system. Moreover this system amalgamates all data and procedures of any firm into a more effective and unified system.

It is interesting to note that the concept “ERP” was initially developed to sketch the use of enterprise-wide resources, and though the initial ERP originated in the manufacturing environment, but this ERP system has broadened its scope in global market. Basically it’s an attempt to cover all basic functions of an organization, regardless of the organization’s business or charter. In addition to this, ERP software also acts as main software system for all areas of an enterprise and has the ability to maximize efficiencies, and modernize the flow of information throughout an organization.

Mentioning about some of the major advantages of ERP software, it helps in breaking down the differences between different departments by making the best use of a single database for the storage of all corporate information. Further more it also empowers members of staff with the facility to quickly gather data from their own and other section so they work more efficiently. In fact, ERP facilitates:

• Deduction or exclusion of reliance on paper documents.

Removal of re-keying of data and integration of reports like financial and manufacturing reports can be viewed in conjunction.

Source by Antje Wilmer

Microsoft Dynamics SL or Solomon has a Voucher and Adjustment Entry in the Accounts Payable module that is very useful for businesses that purchase and sell products or items from the vendors and to the customers.  You can enter documents like vouchers, debit adjustments, and credit adjustments with the entry, and then release the documents for further processes like selection for payment and other tasks.

First, the Accounts Payable Setup needs to be filled in to define the way the documents are entered and flow.  Once that is done, you can select to automatically increment the document number for a document.  Also, you will select a vendor for the document, for example you can create a voucher for a vendor and then select it for payment.

There are dates for the document dates like voucher date, invoice date, discount date, due date, pay date, and other dates for you to keep record of the documents.  You can input transaction details section enter the line items from the voucher and assign them to the expense accounts and subaccounts.  This section also allows the users to view transaction details.  Many number of line items for a voucher can be entered, the amounts can then be distributed to many companies, projects, expense accounts and subaccounts.

There are batch section for you to keep record by grouping the vouchers and adjustments per batches, it make it easier to select the vouchers for payment and other processes.  You can enter a new batch or select an existing batch for entering new vouchers and adjustments.  All documents in the batch will be processed together, like posting or selection.  There are other sections for more detailed handlings of the documents for you, so it makes the Voucher and Adjustment entry screen very flexible and useful.

All Solomon or Dynamics SL screen windows and reports are ready to customize, you can use customizer to change the appearances or values.  If more advanced modification or customization is needed then VBA, Visual Basic Tools, Object Model Automation and other tools are there to help.   Solomon has been in the accounting software market for many years, and it was very prompt to convert to Windows environment from DOS.  In SL version 7, the whole accounting software is rewritten for .Net, so the software has always been trying to be on top of what are new with computers and operating systems.

Source by Tenny

Web  site and application code is becoming progressively more intricate. Dynamic Web sites and applications might contain defective code that leaks memory or causes errors such as access violations. Therefore, a Web server Application must be able to handle active manager of the application and able to handle runtime error and detect send response automatically to application server.

Microsoft includes unique capabilities for server administrators intended to appeal to Internet service providers (ISPs). It includes a single window (or “console”) from which all services and users can be administered. It’s intended to be simple to add components as snap-ins that you didn’t at first install. The administrative windows can be customized for access by individual custom

Use the following checklists given below to ensure that you have correctly implemented all security settings and actions given

Configuring Active Directory IIS Server OU Structure

• Create the IIS Servers OU.
• Create the Incremental IIS Server Policy
• Link the GPO to the IIS Servers OU
• Import the security template for the corresponding client environment into the newly created GPO.

IIS Server Hardening Steps:

Install and configure Windows Server 2003.

Install and configure IIS services:

• Install only necessary IIS components.
• Enable Only Essential Web Service Extensions.
• Place Content on a Dedicated Disk Volume.
• Configure NTFS permissions.
• Configure IIS Web Site permissions.
• Configure IIS logging.

Apply any required service packs and/or updates.

Install and configure a virus protection solution.

Install and configure MOM agents or similar monitoring solution as required.

Move appropriate server to the corresponding IIS Servers OU.

1. Secure well-known accounts           Rename the built-in Administrator account, assign a complex password. Ensure      Guest account is disabled. Change default account description.

Secure services accounts.

Consider implementing IPSec Filters.

Verify Incremental IIS Server Policy has replicated between domain controllers.

Run GPUPDATE.EXE /FORCE.

Restart the server.

Check the Event Logs for errors.

Source by Andrew Demmy

Windows 7 crashes are a major problem Microsoft users have been clamoring about lately. The system crashes randomly – right after login, in the middle of playing a game, while working on a file, and during web surfing, among others. Some users call this glitch the “black screen of death” where the screen of their computer will turn to black and eventually crash. The Windows 7 crash can be very frustrating, but there are ways to fix the problem.

1. Upgrade your memory or RAM. All software installed in your computer requires a certain amount of Random Access Memory (RAM) in order to run properly. Besides these applications, your operating system requires resources to run. To let these applications run smoothly without the crashing, free up some space or upgrade your memory.
2. Remove Spyware and Viruses. Make sure to always perform a scan to check for spyware and virus infections. There may be hidden and dormant malware in your computer. Delete these malicious files from your system. Always keep your computer updated with the latest virus definitions and security updates.
3. Fix Windows 7 Registry. The registry is a database which stores records of all your computer’s activities. It contains settings and options that Windows continually references during operation. Over time, more and more data are added into the registry making it congested with redundant entries. These entries are no longer valid thus causing crashes especially in newer operating systems like Windows 7.

A cleaned registry can help fix the crashing problems. This is, however, impossible to do manually because most people can’t pinpoint which registry entries are valid or not. You need to have a registry cleaner installed. This software will deep scan your registry and clean those obsolete and invalid entries. It will also create a backup before cleaning so you can always restore your registry to its original state if you need to.

By following the tips mentioned above especially the last one, you can improve your computer’s speed, optimize its performance, and completely eliminate Windows 7 crash.

Source by Jim Marshall

Advantages :Cheap Cost and Affordable Price:Available at Most Affordable Cost. Today thousands of Companies Offering at Very Cheap Prices.Most Common Option In the Industry. Its Market Share is Also High as Compared to Other Host Options.
No Maintenance Cost:It Comes with All Inclusive Price.You would like Not Bother About Server Maintenance and Setup
Fast Setup:In Case of Shared Host Your Site Could Be Live With in 24 Hours of Purchase.Unlike Dedicated Host it Could Setup Instantly.No need to be a Technically Sound Person.
Good For Small Sites and :It is the Best Option For Beginners and Small Websites.

Disadvantages :

Security issues:Security is one Of Main Disadvantage.
Backup Process is Very Hard Task As the thousands of Websites Hosted on Same Web Server.Security is one of chief disadvantage of Shared Hosting. Backup Process is exceptionally hard task as the thousands of Web sites Hosted on same Web Server.
Limited Resources:
Thousands Of Web Sites Using Same Resources.That’s Why If One User Site consumes More Resources of web Server Other Sites Might Slow Down.In Other Way One Problematic Website May Cause Crash of All Other Sites in the Same Server.
Dynamic IP:
Many Providers Does not Give Static ip For Shared Website Hosting. Dynamic ip is outstandingly risk when You Going for E-commerce Transactions On Your WebSite.This Disadvantage Could Overcome By Choosing Static iP.Some Companies Gives a Option to Choose Static or Dynamic IP. They Will Charge You Small Amount for Static IP.

Not good For Large Data Base E-Commerce Sites:
Large Websites Need Plenty of Server Resources.So They are not Suitable of it. Final Word: No Doubt It Has Major Share in Industry. But Before You Going to Buy a Shared host Plan, You Must Know Your Requirements.Then Proceed. Best of Luck.
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A Windows registry is an information tank that stores all information about operating system hardware and all other softwares residing in your PC. Working similar to heart in human body, it pumps out the information to be used as instructions while running any program. With passage of time, it gets cluttered and need a fix. Thanks to windows registry repair software that gets into action to avid the malfunctioning and crashes of PC.

This windows registry repair software scans the information and makes necessary changes analyzing, detailing and removing the useless information. Various functions that are carried to improve stability and performance of system are:

• Cleaning windows registry and fixing error (if any).
• Prevent crashes, reboots and lock-ups.
• Increase your computer stability and ability to perform

Well, a good news is that the windows registry repair software is available for absolute no cost, that is, it has now been the window registry repair freeware. Many websites and companies are providing windows registry repair free downloads. However, the registry repair software may be distinguished at each site.

Well, commonly recommended registry repair softwares may be lined up as:

• Tune-up Utility: it is considered to be the most complete software in the market with the benefits of defragging the registry.
• Registry Mechanic: a simple utility checker fixing most common of problems seeks to be more focused at its work.
• XP Repair Pro: it is advanced registry software that is quiet quick, smooth in its functioning and effective. Its benefit lies in its ability to provide great graphical user interface design.

However, a common benefit with all these software lies in the re-location of deleted information if the user feels uncomfortable. Hence, with this software user can enjoy the freedom to manage the data clutter free.

Source by Arvind

Cloud Computing is reported as set to revolutionise the business environment, particularly, the way we use information technology products and services.

Could it be the next stage in outsourcing, which certainly gripped the Information technology arena in the last ten years and saw companies essentially outsourcing all their software development/IT support requirements to off shore and even on shore companies to allegedly reduce cost.

Whether these companies derived the so called cost benefits and still maintained quality is highly debatable.

Along comes Cloud Computing which essentially postulates that you can pay for IT services as a utility, on a pay as you use basis hosted in a cloud. Essentially another form of outsourcing where this time you pay a provider to either use their software applications via the Internet (Google APPS is an example) and is known as Software as a service (SaaS). Or to use their Platform as a service (PasS) to build and host your web based application (Google Engine is an example). Or to use their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) which essentially allows you to pay a provider to host an image of your application negating the need for you to own your own servers, (Amazon EC2 is an example of this kind of service).

Before signing up to any of the services, it is important that a company clearly understand the costs benefits, identify and implement an entry and exit strategy or plan capturing how to move to another vendor if it becomes necessary or to bring back the service in house.

Hosting sensitive data off site must also need to be considered very carefully and the need to ensure that no regulatory requirements are breached or the customer data act is adhered to in any such implementation. Non mission critical systems are probably the best ones to consider first to be implemented in the cloud.

Test and Development Environments

Of particular interest must be the IaaS, because companies spend a significant part of their yearly IT budget (sometimes as much 30 to 40%) on purchasing new hardware to host new applications, in response to new business requirements.

The cost of maintaining such hardware can also be quite expensive from software licensing to support costs etc.

Test and Development environments which are not necessarily mission critical, (since they are not live environments), can certainly be procured on a pay as you use basis with little or minimal risk, which could significantly reduce IT spending by as much as half or a quarter.

As proven with virtualisation, building test and development environments becomes an easily repeatable process and likened to a factory floor where environments are rolled out on demand.

The same principle will apply to having your development and test environments in the Cloud using the IaaS module and the benefits are as follows;

• Test and development environments tend to be required for fixed periods of time through the lifecycle of a Project and are left idle at other times. You only pay to use these environments when you need to, which can significantly reduce IT spending.

• The effort and time required to set up test and development environments is significantly reduced, as you only need to access your server via the cloud and create your own environments. There is no need to wait for three weeks for the server to be delivered, another two weeks to be set up in the data centre etc.

• The cost of support, from setting up the server in the data centre, configuring it, installing the operating system, installing other security and monitoring software, setting it up on your LAN etc

• The effort required to decommission and re-use these test environments is also minimal.

• Since live data (de – sensitised data can be used on the other hand) is normally not used for testing or development there are no regulatory requirements to adhere to.

• Most IaaS cloud computing vendors offer 99/100% up time, back up facilities, monitoring etc which ensures that once your environments are created, you only need to focus on carrying out your development and testing.

• A company can embark on several IT Projects at any one time, because there is no longer the constraint of available hardware (or rather the need to provision more hardware) to host test and development environments.

Efficiently provisioning, building, managing and scheduling your test/development environments certainly contributes significantly to the success or failure of IT Software Projects.

Paying for your infrastructure as a service at least, eliminates the effort and cost of provisioning, installing and supporting the hardware to host your test and development environments.

Author: V.C.Waturuocha MSC – Freelance IT Environments/Infrastructure Project Manager.

Source by V.C.Waturuocha

Did you ever need to check a date before you typed and insert it into a ocument? Microsoft Word enables you to add a popup calendar in a document. Various types of calendar formats are available in Word. You can select the date and time format as per your requirement.

Let’s start with Word 2007 and 2010, to insert and configure Popup Calander in Microsoft Word without writing any code. This ActiveX control installed with all Microsoft Office versions.

The first thing to do is make sure you have the Developer tab displayed on the ribbon. You only have to do this once. If you don’t see it there, go to the Office Button in Word 2007 and click Word Options. Choose the Popular tab and select Show Developer Tab in the Ribbon.

In Word 2010, go to the File tab and click on Options. Go to the Customize Ribbon tab. In the Customize the Ribbon list under Main Tabs, select the Developer check box.

Once you have the Developer tab visible, the rest is easy. Whenever you need to insert a date and you need to look at a calendar, just place your cursor in the spot where you want it, go to the Developer tab and click theDate Picker Content Control button in the Controls group. It looks like a little blue and red calendar.

A control will appear on your document. Click the drop-down arrow on the end and a calendar will pop up. You can scroll backward and forward through the months and years, and then simply click on the date you want to enter.

In addition, if you want to change properties of the calendar or the way the date is displayed, simply click on the Date Picker Content Control button and then click on Properties to make all of your desired changes.

Click the ‘Properties‘ button in the Controls group to format the date field if you do not like the defaults. You can enter a different date format, give your field a title and a tag, and select whether you want to lock the control field, Locale to select your locale language and also Calender Type, etc.

Click ‘OK’ when you are satisfied with your choices.

Nice way to add Date and Time in your document.!!

Do not forget to comments for Popup Calander in Word and share it with coleagues help them to save time to insert interactive Date and Time.  

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Microsoft Dynamics GP is SQL Server based application, which opens its resources to SQL Server DBA. Plus you should be aware about Great Plains Dynamics initial architecture, which is Great Plains Dexterity, where first level of event viewing should occur, prior to diving to the SQL Server Performance tuning and events log depth.  In this small publication we would like to review Dexterity level of monitors:

1.       Dex.ini file.  If you got Great Plains upgrade issues, or consistent error messages coming from GP user, which do not allow you to continue normal operation, you should locate Dex.ini file in Dynamics GP (for version 10.0 in Data subfolder) and make the following changes

SQLLogSQLStmt=TRUE

SQLLogODBCMessages=TRUE

SQLLogAllODBCMessages=TRUE

If you make these changes to Dex.ini file, Great Plains User Workstation will create dexsql.log file in Dynamics GP folder.  You should come to the point of getting error message or stacking situation in GP and then just copy this file to cut the bottom of it, where it logs the problem description and in good like scenario the reasons

2.       SQL Server Book online.  Here you can find the description to SQL based error message

3.       GPS_SQL_ERROR_CODES table in Dynamics Database.  Here you can find Dynamics GP Great Plains related errors and their causes if documented in Descriptions

4.       Appealing to Microsoft Dynamics GP Technical support.  MBS tech support works by case schema, meaning that if you are current in GP annual enhancement program and you have Deluxe plus support with unlimited cases per year, you can enjoy free case-by-case support, please check your support level with your Great Plains VAR or Microsoft Business Solutions directly.  If you on budget annual enhancement program, you will have discounted price for each case and you should manage Microsoft technicians to close the case only when case is resolved to your satisfaction

5.       Getting Great Plains Technical support from your Great Plains Reseller.  Your Great Plains Partner is likely more familiar with your Great Plains implementation, customization, integration, custom reporting, data conversion and modified reports.  Opposite to Microsoft, where you pay by case, to your Great Plains consultants you typically pay by hours

Source by Andrew Karasev

SB1, which is unofficial abbreviation for SAP Business One small and mid-size business ERP from SAP is relatively new application and it was designed and programmed with the likely contemporary business models requirements. If you are planning to implement SAP B1 for ecommerce outlet, you should first work on the best scenario selection. Let us give you initial highlights, for further implementation design you should submit your specific case for analysis and recommendations:

1. eCommerce module. If you are launching everything from the ground or if you have really obsolete web site, then you may consider doing it on SB1 ecommerce platform. In this case you do not need to worry about standard ecommerce features, such as shopping cart, catalog, pricing (however if you practice advanced and seasonal price lists and promotions, some additional settings and possibly custom features might be recommended), as all these standard features will be available in integrated module

2. Established ecommerce site. In this scenario, more likely the idea of slashing existing site and redeploying everything on your new ERP platform has less feasibility. You, and your decision makers in IT will be more inclined to re-connect or remap your existing shopping cart and electronic order to your SB1 back end. In this case you will need SAP Business One SDK programming work, which is very common and you are not the first who needs it and many already took this route. Often we hear the question – doe connectors exist as of-the-shelf products? The answer is – yes and no, as the connection often involves programming touch at your e-commerce application, and so the value of the vanilla connector should be analyzed

3. Platform overview. If you are ecommerce developer, you should know that SB1 is available for Microsoft SQL Server and it opens you SQL for querying and various reporting, if you are not comfortable to invest into SDK training and learning curve. These querying techniques might be utilized for down the road integration support and advancements. For example, querying maybe feasible, if you are designing order status on-demand report for e-commerce customer self service

Source by Andrew Karasev