The Art of Short but sweet
It’s not often I get the chance to post on here, I do enjoy giving little snippets of my life away to help everyone see through my perspective shortly. Today I would like to discuss my latest theory on great content. I like it when people enjoy a site they find, generally people will discuss positive sites with other people therefore making a great number of them lead people to you. Hence you got to keep your content short and to the point - don’t dally in showing them your the best site out there for pitbiking or that you have the most knowledge out of anyone you know at fixing remote control cars. So in essence the idea is that you be honest, quick and you don’t beat around any bushes. Web users want to know your entertaining things and right away!
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Microsoft Dynamics GP Great Plains Outsourcing Notes
Microsoft Great Plains/Dynamics GP outsourcing options for mid-size and large companies.
Microsoft Business Solutions, for its Axapta – Dynamics AX product line, introduced version upgrade (including customization) option through 10 strategic partners, located offshore in India and China. At this point of time, Axapta is targeting larger clients in general, where GP with its broad legacy customer base in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Middle East, South Africa and Latin America is usually associated with mid-market or smaller corporate clients (however there are multiple cases where large accounts implemented GP successfully Worldwide, integrating it with local ERPs in the countries, where GP is not supported or not localized). Following globalization tendency, Microsoft Great Plains partners have to outsource their call centers to India, however Philippines is probably also very good option, considering the historical fact of MatchData Project accounting acquisition by Great Plains Software and turning it into its subdivision in late 1990th, prior to being in turn acquired by Microsoft. Let’s look at the options and challenges for you, potential customer and your MBS servicing partner
• Centralized Call Center. Yes, this is what is usually meant, when MBS partner has to switch away from group-of-consultants-cowboys type of model to CRM driven servicing organization. Imagine – you can call your MBS partner anytime, when you have an urgent or regular issue and always get somebody technically and functionally trained and experienced on the phone the same minute, who can pull your records and begin serve you right away. Such a call center might not always be economically feasible to be hosted in USA, but with the current technological advances in VOIP and IP telephony – incoming calls might be reasonably easily redirected to the offshore or nearshore location as needed.
• Remote Support Technologies. Remote teleconferencing is supplemented with Websessioning: gotomeeting.com, remote desktop connections, VPN technologies to name a few. You should also be ready to adopt such cost efficient worldwide calling solutions as skype to make your life as IT manager easier.
• Great Plains Technologies. Microsoft Dexterity or former name for the GP shell is Great Plains Dexterity – being architectured more then 10 years ago – still has very good options to be supported remotely: Dexterity chunks, DYNAMICS.DIC with customization code to enable customization upgrade, etc. Latest trend to enable MS Office and Sharepoint integration is also the opportunity to entrust your customization, integration and reporting needs to the partner, deploying offshore developers
• US Partner with Offshore development facility. This is in our opinion the optimal scenario, which gives your centralized call center benefits and secures local face-to-face high level functional consultants visits.
• Step-by-step. When we are talking about outsourcing switching and innovation – we should be reasonably conservative. Customers should not be shocked by sudden change – it should be step-by-step. Try to think about the fact that Microsoft itself is using outsourcing technology and kind of in the process of beginning to recommend it to its customers.
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Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer at Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http://www.albaspectrum.com |
Computer Training for Free!!!
We currently have over 500 of our own training videos that are easily accessible through our website. We are also adding a test at the end of each section so that the user can become certified at things like Microsoft Office, Windows XP and Vista, Photoshop, Quickbooks, etc.. We have also Integrated a nationwide computer IT staffing service. We have over 10,000 techs and service every zip code in the US. So a user will be able to come to our site and request a repair for their home or business and have a tech at their door within 24hrs.”This is currently Hidden but should be turned on and complete within the next month” We will also be packaging and selling our training lessons on CD’s for people with low speed internet connections that cannot use the streaming videos on our site.
Also and last we have created a way to answer user questions and provide incentives for people to answer them. The incentives we are hoping will keep the professional users on the site answering questions to provide the asker with a prompt answer. We have also set up RSS feeds so every time a question is asked on our site they will appear on your computer if you have subscribed to our feed.
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Free ASP and ASP.NET scripts
Using ASP and ASP.NET for your website is becoming increasingly popular. One of the hard thing about jumping into a new programming language or technology is however to make something useful out of it. I mean it’s so easy to whip out a simple Hello World application in almost any language, but putting it into a real world application is often a lot harder.
Here are some free asp scripts which you can look at to get a feeling for how to create your own asp scripts.
Likewise there are a couple of free ASP.NET scripts as well.
They sure serve as a good start to get your databasedriven website going.
Your Guideline to Academic Software
If you are a sort of graphics addicted person you will not take advantage of one or two programs and you would need an entire series of programs to satisfy your exigences.Yet, you should always be aware of their price as they can cost a lot. There are some measures by which you can save a great deal of your money.One way to satisfy your need for a highly performant program is to search for the academic software version.If you attend any education institution you do probably benefit from some academic software purchases which can save you a large sum of money. You should know that academically priced software is of a great quality and it is given to affordable prices if you are part of any educational institution. The disadvantage is that no manual is given along with the program but the amount of money you have saved should be more than enough for you to buy one.
If you do not want to purchase a manual for your program there are many free tutorials on the Internet where you can find the useful information to start working with your program.
This along with free instructions and pieces of advice should be enough for you to register a great success with your program.If you believe that the price of the software with academic discount is suitable for you, you may contact your institution’s library or any other source which deals with them in your school or faculty. You can also find them along with the discount on some Internet websites.
A frequently asked question is whether the academic software can be used in commercial purposes or not.Well, this is relative and totally dependent on what it is mentioned in the license Agreement for that particular program. Generally you are permitted to do so but some companies do not allow you to use the program in commercial purposes.
If you are a student, teacher or educational institution and you want to save a lot of money on software, just visit http://www.sprysoft.com for academic software and student software discounts.
