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With the introduction of eConnect, such tools as Dynamics GP Integration Manager, being moved to eConnect platform opened the door for you, Great Plains Programmer or Technical Consultant to really advanced, large and complicated data migrations and conversions.  The techniques, described in this article were actually available for old Integration Manager connectors, however they were not practical, until eConnect virtually resolved integration speed and performance.  With eConnect integrations you can move up to ten transactions per second, as eConnect is calling encrypted SQL Stored Procedures, comparing to validating GP logic in OLE driven Great Plains Dexterity forms in old versions of IM.  Let’s consider scenario, when you have to convert the whole year of GL records for large company with several thousand transactions per week.  Here is what you do:

1.       Export data in tab or comma delimited text format and import it into Microsoft SQL Server in the form of staging tables.  Then massage the data in the tables: remove quote marks, for example, where you have Debit and Credit fields.  Next step – consider creating SQL views, which will be the base for Advanced ODBC queries in the next paragraph

2.       Advanced ODBC queries, based on SQL ODBC driver.  You can use Dynamics GP DSN for elegancy.  If you already tried to group, aggregate data in ODBC queries, based on Text Driver, you probably had very disappointing experience.  You should be surprised – in the case of Dynamics GP DSN you do not see those annoying error messages, attributed to poor Text Driver

3.       GL Header Source.  Select transaction number only, plus alternatively use MAX construction to add Transaction date and group by transaction number

4.       GL Lines Source.  Simply use select star statement from your SQL view.  Then link two sources by transaction number field and potentially preview both sources to be sure you are on the right side of the road

5.       Save and Run Integration.  Please, note here, that eConnect integration connector doesn’t require you to close all GP windows (as you remember OLE connector required).  If you are moving huge volume of transactions, you can look at them showing up in GP while integration is in progress

6.       Now you should be at the point, where IM helps you do what you were doing in the past with low level insert scripts and obviously were fighting with data integrity.  As you know IM validates business logic and doesn’t let inconsistent records move in

Source by Andrew Karasev

Adding custom fonts to your website has for a time been very difficult. You get you site looking pretty and then upload it to the server and low and behold it looks great on your PC but looks absolutely terrible on everyone elses. The reason for this is that every one only has a few core fonts in common and if you add non-core fonts to your site those without them cant see them.

Now it has changed it’s much easier to add custom fonts to your webpages with cufon. Cufon is a javascript that replaces default fonts with the font stored in a javascript file and its included with the theme so everyone can see them.

The plugin for wordpress can be found in the wordpress.org/extend achieves called wp-cufon. Just upload the plugin to your plugins folder and create a fonts folder in the plugins folder  wp-content/plugins/fonts. The fonts folder is where you can upload your custom fonts to.

Your fonts will need to be changed into a format recognized by cufon to use. Thankfully there is an online utility that will do that for you. Cufon font utility. Currently only TrueType (TTF), OpenType (OTF), Printer Font Binary (PFB) and PostScript fonts are supported for conversion. Make sure that you use royalty free fonts or that you have the right to use it. The page for the conversion is very self explanatory.

I normally tick the following boxes.

Uppercase Lowercase Numerals Punctuation WordPress punctuation Basic Latin

and add my website address in the security area to limit where the fonts can be used and leave the rest as are and press the Lets do this button.

Save the file and upload it to the wp-content/plugins/fonts folder on your server. Open the plugin settings page on your wordpress installation http://YOURDOMAIN/wp-admin/themes.php?page=wp-cufon.php or go to plugins and in the plugin activation area there is a link beside the plugin to that page.

When using the wp-cufon plugin the font should be showing in the Your Fonts area of the settings page.The font name is usually the first word of the file name but if for some reason it doesn’t work when you implement the replacements below, you can check the name by opening the yourfont.js file that you uploaded to the wp-content/plugins/fonts folder. Just search for something like this near the top or on the first line

cufon.registerFont({“w”:205,”face”:{“font-family”:”Vegur Bold“, …

the bold part here is the font name.

To change the fonts all you need to do now it add code to the Please enter your source for the replacements: text box and save.

A quick cufon example image

In this example I have used the font called ADVENTURE to replace the logo text and all <h2> formatted text. The command

Cufon.replace(‘h2,#header #logo’, { fontFamily: ‘Adventure’ });

could also have been used to group the two pieces together. On the settings page are a number of examples of how to change part or all of your text to certain fonts. You can use firefox firebug plugin to find the id’s or classes of the .css elements to change or look in you themes style.css file.

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Three years ago there were few products on the market that could support remote access for 3D graphics and deliver 3D application remotely. The few that were on the market required at least 5Mbps and latencies below 75 milliseconds. We wanted to build a product that provided a usable experience with 2Mpbs of bandwidth and tolerate up to 150ms round trip latency. We wanted to create the best 3D virtualization platform. We feel that this product has now been created- XenDesktop 4- a breakthrough desktop virtualization platform for 3D graphics.

3D graphical applications like CATIA, Pro/ENGINEER, Autodesk, etc. are used daily by CAD/CAM designers in the manufacturing sector. Research scientists use 3D graphical application for oil exploration in oil and natural gas companies. These are computationally challenging applications that need high end GPUs (graphical processing units) manufactured by companies like nVIDI and AMD. These applications often require the most advanced workstations- fastest possible CPU and GPU and the largest amount of memory.

3D applications are difficult to virtualize because performance is key in these applications. The CPU-GPU interaction has been designed to optimally deliver the highest number of frames per second (fps). Any software that is inserted in the middle can reduce the fps delivered to the user and cause a poor user experience. For example, for some complex models with hundreds of thousands of rendering triangles the workstation may create 2-3 frames per second. If the virtualization platform reduces the display rate to 1-2 fps, the difference is perceptible, and the end user will not want to use the application.

In XenDesktop 4, the latency tolerance optimization has been extended that what is already presented in the HDX technology and has added a few new compression algorithms, including some that use the GPU itself to do compression. The result is a 3D virtualization platform that meets the market requirements and delivers the best possible user experience. On the LAN, our solution can perform even better than locally installed application, because server side GPUs can be more powerful than desktop GPUs. On the WAN there is no other solution that can deliver a usable experience at 2Mbps with 150 ms round trip latency.

You will see this technology platform bear fruit in other areas that affect larger number of users. The new Microsoft OS-Windows 7- leverages the GPS to deliver cool 3D graphical user interfaces. Our experience with high-end 3D graphics will help us effectively solve these problems for millions of users as they migrate to Windows 7. Stay tuned!

Source by Victor Thu

Microsoft Dynamics GP is open to customizations, modifications and reporting just via the fact that it is in essence Microsoft SQL Server database application.  Unlike others small business and mid-market ERP applications (SAP Business One, for example), GP allows you to update its tables fields via SQL update command.  However, before you ask your SQL DBA to stand out, create Update script and incorporate it as regular (overnight) SQL job, we would like you to think about MRP and ERP auditing implications.  If this data alteration is not a concern, then, let’s go to the details:

1.       SOP work and historical invoices.  Please review the following GP tables: SOP10100 – this is Sales Order Processing Work Document Header and SOP30200 – this is respectively historical one

2.       Statement To Address.  When you create SOP document: Invoice, Quotation or Sales Order, you copy customer address from Statement To Address ID directly to SOP header table

3.       What happens if your customer moves and changes contact person.  Imagine scenario, when you send out customer invoice, then in a month from that date you realized that customer office moved to new location and they let old contact person and now they hired new warehouse manager.  In this scenario, you most likely would like to create Crystal Reports or probably even giving it lower profile – Smart List report in GP to reflect new address and new purchasing manager.  In some cases you would like to reprint historical sales documents with new customer address and contact person info.  All these routines are doable and all we need is simple SQL update statement, however again we would like you to evaluate auditing implication

4.       If you are positive to go ahead.  Please, contact our office via email or directly by our 866 number below

Source by Andrew Karasev

HP has launched its new Pine Trail netbooks and named it HP Mini 210. HP is calling the Mini 210 their third-generation consumer netbooks. It comes with Windows XP home. The HP Mini 210 is the decendant of HP Mini 1000and Mini 110. But that doesn’t mean that it took all its design cues from those models. One of the first things that will impress you about HP Mini 210 is the fact that it has a keyboard that is virtually identical to the island-style keyboard of HP Mini 5101 or 5102.

You will also get a business-oriented version of this laptop which is called HP Mini 2102. That model has a different set of software, but generally it is the same machine. Your HP Mini 210 will come in two basic configurations. The low-end version comes with a starting price of $299 which has a slightly different keyboard, has a glossy lid and also a matte display with a bezel around the edge. It comes with Windows XP Home.

The higher end version starts at $329 has Windows 7 starter which has a matte lid, and a matte display covered with a piece of glass that will give you the illusion of an edge-to-edge display. This model will give you a chiclet-style keyboard. Both the models feature an Intel Atom N450 processor and a new touchpad design.

This new touchpad will also support multi-touch gestures such as pinching to zoom and also two-finger scrolling. It also comes with a palm rejection feature that can shut off the touchpad temporarily while you are typing. There is also a new design on the bottom of the laptops that is instead of the usual access panels held in by screws, there is a single sheet covering the bottom. In fact you can remove the entire base of the computer.

Its features are:

• CPU: 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 or 1.83GHz Intel Atom N470
• Chipset or Graphics: Mobile Intel NM10 chipset with integrated GMA 3150 graphics
• Its display is 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixels
• The Operating System that it uses are Windows XP Home, Windows 7 Starter, SUE Linux Enterprise 11 or FreeDOS
• It has a memory of 1GB or maximum 2GB
• It can store 160GB.
• Connectivity: 802.11b/g/n, Ethernet, optional Bluetooth, 3G
• I/O: 3 USB, VGA, 5-in-1 media card reader, combo mic/headphone jack
• It has 3 cell battery, 28Whr or 6 cell, 62Whr
• Its dimensions is 10.55? x 7? x 0.9?
• It weights around 2.69 pounds with 3 cell battery.

The Mini 2102 will be available with Windows XP or Windows 7 Starter Editions which depends on which model you are purchasing. You will also get an “instant-on” desktop environment if you feel like getting online and checking your email or surfing on Internet in 10 seconds instead of waiting 45 seconds for Windows to boot.

HP is bundling its Cloud Drive online storage or synchronization service with HP Mini 2102. You will get 1GB of free online storage on Internet for life. It will show up as a drive in your Windows XP Explorer thus making it easy to drag and drop files to the cloud to back them up or for accessing them on other computers. These netbooks are available in black, silver, blue, and red colors.

Source by Susan Brown

I see some people recommending Malwarebytes as an antivirus solution.  Malwarebytes is not meant to be your only antivirus program, in fact, malwarebytes is not considered an antivirus program at all.  This line is from an admin on the official Malwarebytes forums:

“The majority of the research that goes into MBAM (malwarebytes) is based on what the Antivirus vendors are failing on most frequently.  This allows us to keep a smaller database and prevents conflicts with antivirus software. The only thing MBAM does not do is to unpatch system files as this is the job of your dedicated antivirus software. MBAM is designed to work along side your existing antivirus software, not conflict or compete with it.”Malwarebytes is designed to work WITH your antivirus software to plug the holes it is missing.  If you think you have a virus, you should look to a good antivirus program like AVG, Avast or Avira.  All of these programs offer a free version to home users.  You can search for them on Google or go to the download page below.  Don’t get the wrong idea, I love Malwarebytes and think it is an awesome program.  My tech friends and I have been using Malwarebytes for a long time and it works great as long as you use it as it was intended. The next time you see someone asking about which antivirus program they should use and the first poster recommends they use only malwarebytes, make sure you post next and let them know the error of their ways.

If you have any virus questions, feel free to stop by my website and get a Free Virus Scan and Removal. My webpage has links to FREE antivirus programs, reviews of the antivirus programs available and lots of helpful information to help you get over any virus or malware issues.

Here is a link to the official malwarebytes forum where the quote was taken from.

Source by John McNamara

Business processes comprise of several accounting activities. They are transactions, related to amount payable and receivable, trial balance, pay roll, billing, general ledger, sales and purchase order, time sheet, debt collection etc. Accounting activities of a business venture can be divided under two heads. One is core accounting activities and the second is non core accounting activities. Amount payable and receivable, trial balance, billing and general ledger are the core accounting activities. Debt collection, payroll, sales and purchase order processing are non core accounting transactions. Accounting software packages offer distinct modules for each core and non-core accounting transaction.

The major benefit of accounting software packages is smarter, faster and error free accounting. Both free and paid accounting software packages are available in the market. For start-up business ventures and SMEs free packages help a lot. But, with increase in scale of operation, complexities of business processes increase. In such case free accounting software packages can not be that much helpful. You need to opt for paid versions.

There are two types of paid accounting software packages available in the market. One is off-the-shelf and other is custom accounting software. Off-the-shelf packages offer accounting solution that matches to the needs of a number of organizations. On the other hand, custom accounting software is designed keeping specific accounting requirements of a business venture in mind. It has higher customization capacity and compatibility to keep pace with the growth of your business. Compared to off-the-shelf packages, custom applications are costly. But they offer good value for money by offering exact and business specific accounting solutions.

Source by Paul

Microsoft Dynamics GP, formerly known as Great Plains Dynamics and eEnteprise is ERP and MRP application for mid-size and smaller businesses.  If you have this accounting package implemented in your organization, or planning to select appropriate Corporate ERP application, we would be happy to help you with current system support, customization, integration, EDI mapping, FRx, Crystal and custom reporting, eCommerce integration, as well as helping you to come through ERP selection sales cycle and final Dynamics GP license acquisition.  We understand the specifics of ERP implementation in Southern California and Chicagoland, plus Houston area where our offices are located.  If you are in USA countryside, we support you remotely via web sessions and phone conferences, it is feasible if you have GP system already implemented and need ongoing support.  Dynamics GP licensing and support highlights:

1. Business Ready licensing model.  Here you should decide either on Business Essential or Advanced licensing schema.  Advanced gives you access to more modules, included for each user and it probably fits to larger business.  Business Essential gives you less functionality and probably fits to smaller organization or to Great Plains Dynamics customers, who are using GP as basic accounting back office

2. Dynamics GP customizations and integrations.  You have good selection of Great Plains customization tools: Dynamics GP Dexterity, eConnect SDK, Modifier with VBA, Extender to name some popular ones.  To cover integration needs, please consider Great Plains Integration Manager module and also eConnect

3. Great Plains EDI.  We are confident in SQL Select statement, Integration Management or eConnect programming to create Electronic Document Interchange integration, which is in compliance with your EDI specifications

4. Dynamics GP Reporting.  Here you have selection of reports design tools: SSRS, FRx (financial reporting: Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Statement, Cash Flow, Consolidated Reporting), Crystal Reports, GP Report Writer.  In our opinion (besides FRx), good report should be based on sound SQL View or Stored Procedure

5. GP integration with Microsoft CRM.  Normally we do not advertise third party products, however in the case of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, you should review Scribe integration products.  Other options would be extracting CRM Quote or Order via MS CRM SDK, or SQL Select statement and then moving it to Dynamics GP via eConnect programming or scheduled Integration Manager integration

Source by Andrew Karasev

To define working procedure of web hosting company, you have to understand it is simply a service that provides a good web hosting solution to small, mid-sized, and large organizations who have the online business network. Web hosting solution is really good for them, because with the help of this anyone can manage their web applications and data more securely. So as simple we can say it can manage web hosting business requirements and can tackles even the most demanding needs.

Specially designed data center services for web hosting will be the best platform for business Website. These days, web hosting services are common thing, but many people still unaware. Actually there are lot of hosting plans available in different formats which are so popular so you can easily sort out one them as per your business requirements. It also offers data recovery, scalability, flexibility, and reliability, which is continuous and uninterrupted. But make sure, you always choose a service provider who can quickly respond to your queries and helps to managing your Website applications and solve your any kinds of technical problems.

Many web hosting service providers offer fully managed hosting platforms that are developed with the ongoing global network. If you have a good business hosting solution, you will not have to worry about network problems. With this service, you can do smooth online transaction and constant monitoring services give you the detail reports of server performance. Sometimes, when downtime occurs, the service is armed and ready to restore your business applications in no time. This could come in quite handy.

One aspect of this service is to obtain best data center infrastructure. Even many web hosting providers have their own data center premises. This is by far the most effective ways. So you can always be secure of quality security with the web host company. You will get the best combined facilities and services and direct access to customer support with reliable and qualified staff. Every user can really enjoy the features, benefits and smooth online transaction with web hosting service without any interruption.

With the services of experts like this, your application needs of business are easily managed, so you can more effectively targeted in the operation of your business, various resources and quality support is available to you. Whatever your concerns, you can easily access help. They offer cost effective solutions that your company can benefit directly from. You will have an everything you would expect from a supplier of good solutions. They keep the lines of communication so that client can express their concerns.

Usually, web hosting companies offers various services and products to ensure that their all customers get best services and get fully satisfied with their company.

Source by Neelesh C

As Software as a Service (SaaS) adoption has grown exponentially over the last few years, many customers using hosted applications have started asking the SaaS application vendors to provide data integration and connectivity capabilities. For various reasons, mainly driven by business needs, customers are looking to tightly integrate their data in the SaaS app with their on-premises back-end systems and databases.

In recent months companies have encountered an increasing demand from our customers for easy, fast and flexible SaaS integration solutions. Primarily these have centered around integration requirements from customers using Salesforce and NetSuite applications but now we see other SaaS apps as well as the whole market experiences growing adoption.

We have had numerous discussions with a number of SaaS vendors who are looking at how should they approach this whole issue of integration. It definitely seems to surprise the SaaS companies as they have mainly focused on creating the best, feature-rich application they could and have not given much thought to integrating the customer data with their internal systems.

Here are the key elements of advice we offer to these SaaS vendors:

• As with any other business issue, approach SaaS Integration as a STRATEGY and not a tactic.
• This means have an end goal in mind in terms of where you want to be with your integration capabilities and address the immediate customer need in a way (tactic) that puts you on path for that end goal.
• Address this need and grow your capabilities in an incremental but multi-phased approach.
• Bring in the experts since Integration is tough, difficult and complex.

In terms of options available to SaaS vendors are :

• Option A: SaaS vendor provides integration services
• Option B: SaaS vendor publishes XML/Web Services interface
• Option C: SaaS vendor refers customers to Certified Partners

Source by dinesh gupta