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Managed web hosting solutions provider ServInt is reportedly expanding its operations in a bid to reach out to more clientele by setting up its first data center in Los Angeles, California. The new data center will be named ServInt LA and will represent a significantly important addition to the company’s existing data centers located in Washington, DC. The existing data center is commonly known as ServInt DC.

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ERP Consulting industry is on the way to serve clients nationwide and even worldwide, when the client is multinational corporation. There are several reasons to specialize in remote support. In this small article we’ll give you these reasons and the advantages of remote installation, customization, integration, programming, reporting.

• Remote Support Technologies. These technologies are well known and we will just mention them: VPN, Citrix, Remote Desktop connection, Microsoft Terminal Services, Web Sessions, PCAnywhere (however the last one should be avoided if possible)

• MS SQL Server Platform. This means that in the case of data repair, upgrade, testing, – it is relatively easy to backup DYNAMICS and companies databases, install them on MBS partner server, do the job and then restore the results in the client’s production environment.

• Dexterity Customization Technology. Dexterity uses chunks to integrate customizations, you, as dexterity developer can test your customization in your test environment and then deliver and integrate final version of the chunk.

• Standard Reporting. Microsoft Business Solutions recommends Crystal Reports as reporting tool of choice.

However there are additional reasons to seek remote support in the case of large corporation of medium size business. Let’s look at them:

• Microsoft Business Solutions Partners specialization. Specialization allows Nationwide MBS customization & implementation partner serve specific industry: aerospace & defense, oil & gas, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, healthcare, apparels, wholesale & retail, beverages, distribution & logistics, freight forwarding & transportation, biotechnology, etc.

• Customization Partners. Each vertical market requires MBS partner to be experienced with business processes implementation via GP custom logic. Writing proper specification form the customization is probably 70% of the success.

• Cost Reduction. This is also important for both – client and GP partner. Usually remote support partner has US based lead developers and project manager and uses excellent programmer in such countries as Philippines and Brazil where developers have excellent Dexterity source code programming experience.

Happy implementing! You can always appeal to us to help you with your system. Give as a call 1-630-961-5918 or 1-866-528-0577, help@albaspectrum.com

Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http://www.albaspectrum.com ), Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains, Microsoft CRM, Axapta, Navision, Microsoft RMS, Microsoft Business Portal customization company, serving clients in Chicago, Boston, New York, Miami, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Toronto, Montreal, Brazil, Mexico, UK, Australia, Canada, UK, Europe, Russia an having small offices in multiple states and internationally.

This article is the fourth of a series of articles exploring specific aspects of groupware. The brief informational articles in this series discuss some of the technologies associated with groupware, as well as some of the characteristics of groupware. Some of these characteristics may go hand in hand with business collaborative needs. Other characteristics go beyond what some groupware providers have to offer. The purpose of these articles is to equip the groupware user or investigator with helpful knowledge about the product in order to enable more effective use or to lead the investigator to the groupware service he or she is looking for. This fourth article explores the ability of groupware to facilitate online collaboration.

Online Collaboration

Online collaboration consists of sending emails back and forth to edit and review attached documents, like market reports, budgets, contracts, and press releases. Most businesses go through this process very regularly with departments, clients, investors, and strategic partners.

In today’s fast-paced business world, businesses are constantly under deadlines, working tirelessly for their business and client needs. The challenge is in keeping up with all of the online collaboration going on. After all, online collaboration has become an ad hoc process, and document versions get saved in multiple email boxes and on multiple hard drives. When it comes time to merge document changes and create a final draft, many questions are left unanswered.

The market has recognized the need for groupware, or online collaboration software, to manage and track document changes. Using the right groupware will even enable businesses to manage ad hoc online collaboration, tracking all of the documents versions across multiple emails, hard drives, and servers. The who, what, when, where, and how are all answered, and businesses will have an organizational edge in the high-speed information age of business.

Online Collaboration Tools with Groupware

5,200,000 indexed pages are found under “groupware” in Google; 4,840,000 in Yahoo; and 955,263 in MSN Search. In order to find groupware for your business online collaboration needs, you need to be equipped with the knowledge of the tools your business needs in its groupware.

Digital Thread technology takes groupware to a whole new level and is the means of tracking document versions across emails, hard drives, and servers. Digital Thread literally threads the document versions together by tagging the metadata of an electronic document, so that no matter to whom it is sent or what changes are made, the data comes back to you. It creates digital signatures in your email, informing you whether you are opening the latest version of the document, and who saved it. As the process becomes more involved, and drafts have been sent back and forth between multiple reviewers multiple times, you’ll be able to access a version history. Version history is compiled by Digital Thread technology and provides a visual display of the genealogy of the document, from first draft to last. This also makes it possible to merge the changes as the final draft is compiled.

Groupware that can manage online collaboration and go beyond a simple electronic draft filing system to work the way 21st century businesses work.

Joe Miller is an online advertiser and author of informational articles on business software. More information on Groupware or Online Collaboration is available at NextPage.com.

Oracle E-Business Suite, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP mySAP or SAP B1 (Business One) – these ERPs are localized for Brazilian market from the standpoint of tax & legislation compliance as well as Portuguese interface and language support. Such features as multicurrency support are common for all leading ERP brands, however localization dilemma also includes such country specific modules as Payroll & HR, Manufacturing (especially reporting to inspection authorities), State & Municipal taxes

When multinational corporation launches its operations in Brazil or another country MRP selection dilemma is probably one of the first to address. The realities of international business should be considered from all possible sides and possible problematic points. Let us give you the questionnaire.

• Centralized Control. In your headquarters you would like to retain control over ERP data entry, reporting, management resources, etc. The meaning of control is typically broader, than it looks on the initial spot. Consider hypothetical situation when you need to make changes in your overseas finance department management team. To secure your flexibility in this scenario ERP system should be “understandable” (English language support) and its interface should be standard: Microsoft, SAP, Oracle or another recognizable worldwide brand – this will allow you to find qualified manager, who understands and shares your company ideology and is familiar with the MRP interface

• Government Audit. If you plan to deploy your headquarters ERP, which is not recognized worldwide, then you might expect that this system custom “localization” will not convince local audit authorities. In some cases you are still OK – if you don’t sell or provide services in Brazil, if you only export your production, for example

• Payroll & HR functionality. It is known problem of worldwide ERPs – they have to optimize their localization efforts for the specific country. Payroll legislation might be considered as the second echelon. In Brazil payroll is definitely better automated by local developed ERP, such as Microsiga. On the other hand, Payroll might be realized in local specialized payroll automation application and financial data could be relatively easy integrated with ERP

• Industry Verticals. Transportation industry: Bill of Lading, Monthly Agent Settlement report, Hazardous materials transportation documentation – these types of vertical and horizontal functionalities are good candidates for customization. We are giving you examples of the business logic, where you should be ready to deploy local customization experts

• Local versus Worldwide Brands. This question requires deep analysis. Worldwide brand enables you to retain worldwide control over your ERP, while local MRP enables you to comply to local legislation, including such “difficult” areas as payroll, human resources, local taxation, etc.

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What is installation in the language of technology? Installation has server and client sides.

• Server side – Installation creates security environment (logins) on MS SQL Server or MSDE, creates system database – DYNAMICS and then company databases. All these tasks are performed by Microsoft Great Plains Utilities


• Workstation side – workstation installation copies the client side application, installs current version of MDAC (we need SQL ODBC driver – please check documentation on ODBC DSN setup), registers the application. If you plan to run Great Plains Utilities from the workstation to create server side (see above) – you need to check Install Client and Server Components

What is following implementation? Implementation requires combination of technological and accounting skills

• System Setup – you should refer to GP documentation. In general setup consists of Company information, General GL/AR/AP/Payroll setup, User classes, Customer/Vendor/Employee classesto name a few


• Master Records – you should either use integration tools, such as Integration Manager, SQL queries or have users to type in all your GL Accounts, Customers, Vendors, Employees .


• Beginning Balances – this is recommended approach – you place aside the old accounting application for querying the historical data and enter beginning balances in Great Plains GL, AR, AP, SOP, POP, Payroll. When you have balances in the system you are ready to use it in production


• Historical Data conversion – this is optional, in order to do historical data conversion you need to know basic Great Plains tables structure (Setup->Tools->Resource Description->Tables Structure). This is similar to surgery – so you probably need outside consultant to help you. If the volume of historical data is small – you can deploy Great Plains Integration Manager and then post the records in the modules.


• User Training – we are just listing this item – it is up to you to decide on the way to train your users


• Using Two Systems in Parallel - this is recommended. You should print the reports from both systems during this test period and compare the results


• Customization – typical areas of customizations: Invoice form, Crystal Reports, pulling info from multiple databases, including Great Plains database, Great Plains forms modification with Modifier/VBA, Great Plains Dexterity forms and logic customization, integration with CRM, RMS and other business systems, web publishing from Great Plains tables, EDI with your suppliers, SQL Data Transformation packages

Do I need consultant? We strongly recommend you to use consultant in the following cases

• You have identified the need for Great Plains Dexterity customization


• You are doing migration from Pervasive/Ctree to Microsoft SQL Server/MSDE, especially when you have third-parties without migration tools


• You are doing migration from Great Plains Accounting to Microsoft Great Plains


• You have to create a lot or ReportWriter Modified Great Plains Reports


• You have old version of Great Plains: Dynamics or eEnterprise 6.0 or prior – in this case you can not appeal to Microsoft Technical Support – it is discontinued


• Your Great Plains has more than 20 users in this case the mistake may lead to serious business problems


• You don’t have support for your old Great Plains – then you have to select your Microsoft Business Solutions Partner and pay for the annual support/enhancement plan – you will get new registration key and will be ready for the upgrade

Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies – USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, based in Chicago, California, Texas, Florida, New York, Georgia, Washington, Minnesota, Colorado, Canada, UK, Australia and having locations in multiple states and internationally (www.albaspectrum.com), he is CMA, Great Plains Certified Master, Dexterity, SQL, C#.Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. You can contact Andrew: andrewk@albaspectrum.com

As Internet connections become more permanent with broadband access, software will be able to evolve into a more efficient and personalized medium. Currently, most software run from our hard drives and require installations that alter our system configurations, many times slowing down our computers. Because software occupies space and processing power, there is a limited amount of software that can run in our PCs. On the business side, current software systems require many companies to produce a system of distribution (Compac Discs), customer support, and is usually not compatible with all customers, thus limiting its customer base further.

A software evolution is ocurring and it is going to benefit both customers and businesses immensly. Software will no longer come as a packet that needs to be installed on a PC, but rather it will be completely Web based. Web based software will become the default way of reaching customers. Customers will have advantages such as, using unlimited amount of software, using applications regardless of where the person is or which computer he/she is using, software can be personalized and upgraded to meet specific needs to each individual. Businesses will be able to, reduce costs, reach a larger customer pool, taylor its software to diverse markets, repair bugs more rapidly and easily, understand its customer and the way they use their software, etc.

In order for this software revolution to occur in whole, there needs to be a central point. Like Miscrosoft’s DOS in the 80’s, which became the standard choice of operating system to centralize and organize our computer operations, there needs to be an online operating system. As of now, Microsoft has built an empire because of its vision and their dominance in the OS market. However, now there is a window of opportunity to take a large chunk of that empire and possibly eliminate Microsoft’s monopoly of the Operating System. While there are many companies and organizations (Apple, Linux, Lindows) out there trying to take a bite out of Microsoft by competing on the same turf, PC users are accostumed to Windows and will most likely not switch. The opportunity to eliminate this monopoly is to create an Online Operating System. PC users will inevitably move completely online.

An Online Operating System will be the central point of every user in the future. There are online companies who have an inside advantage to this, such as Yahoo!, Google, and AOL, but it can be anyone’s medal, even to a fairly unknown competitor, as was Microsoft when they introduced DOS to the world. In this new concept of Operating System, there can be a larger space of diversity and can be shared by more companies, unlike the current status.

Rafael Sosa has been in forefront of e-business development and digitizing of documents in Puerto Rico. For the past 5 years, he has worked extensively in the construction of websites and internet systems through the integration of an efficient international team. His articles can be found at www.WebArticles.com/

Many products today require some kind of integration with other products:

• Integration with corporate IT infrastructure.
• Integration with other applications.
• Integration with legacy hardware or software.
• Integration with new or up-and-coming hardware or software.

The ability of a software application to work cohesively with other applications or within different flavours of operating systems with very few integration issues is called application sociability.

When you build your application you need to consider whether integration with any of the above product types would add value to or reduce the complexity of your application. Annexing your application to a larger corporate application would add value to it. Using another application’s functionality provided via an interface can reduce the complexity of your application by making another application perform arduous tasks.

== Brand Application Considerations ==

Let us begin by considering the integration of your applications with each other. Imagine that you have two applications:

• A medical patient history application.
• An inventory application for goods.

Why not allow the two to communicate with each other via:

• A database sharing paradigm.
• COM setup
• TCP connection.
• Library/events interface for each application.

You could make the inter-communication of your software applications a saleable upgrade or addition. With your two applications listed above you could allow a doctor to prescribe a remedy through the “Medical Patient History” application that shows a list of remedies currently available requested from the “Inventory Application” held by an in-house chemist. An order can be sent directly to the chemist so that when the patient arrives their prescription it is ready to go.

Consider when building your application what sort of functionality could be useful to future applications you build.

• Does the application incorporate a major interfacing component to some other application or to a web service?
• Is there some kind of specialised functionality or calculation that could be leveraged by another application?
• What sort of integration would allow the user to create macros or scripts to automate your application?

== Latest Technology ==

Integration with the latest technology is a winning strategy for software sales. Consider how many applications were quickly available to interface with Apple’s iPod. Mobile phone technology is another example of successful application integration utilising the latest technology. Part of your integration strategy with new technology should be to choose a programming language that provides integration libraries fairly rapidly after or before a new technological release. Java is one such language with free compilers, libraries and free IDE’s available for download from Open Source archives. The Python language was incorporated into the Nokia 60’s series mobile phones allowing developers to write scripts to customise Nokia phones.

Many vendors of new technology provide free libraries and specifications to their systems to promote the creation of useful applications for their products thus increasing the their product market value.

== Corporate Systems ==

Corporate systems are usually behemoths comprised of off-the-shelf products customised to meet the company’s specific needs and smaller departmental applications built to meet each department’s individual needs.

Departmental applications usually require some kind of integration with their corporate databases. Corporate database connection is a simple integration and need not be considered here except to say you need to know the connection string or interfaces to company data repositories.

How do you integrate with corporate applications though? Applications such as Hummingbirds ‘DM5′ document management system and Telelogic’s ‘System Architect’ provide integration ability through COM objects and published object models. In fact both Hummingbird and Telelogic use Microsoft’s VB6 and VBA libraries to incorporate their own applications into the corporate environment. Applications built for the Apple Mac provide both Apple Events and the use of Python, Java and Cocoa to integrate with Apple applications and the Apple OS.

Integrative applications can:

• Increase the marketability of your applications.
• Make use of current company data.
• Reduce the complexity of your applications by leveraging from functionality provided by extant company applications or other applications you have built.
• Utilise the latest technology increasing the value of both the latest technology and the software you build.
• Provide an end-to-end solution option when your applications can integrate with each other.

Duane Hennessy Senior Software Engineer and Systems Architect Bandicoot Software Tropical Queensland, Australia (ABN: 33 682 969 957) Your own personal library of code snippets. http://www.bandicootsoftware.com.au Moderator of http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AccessDevelopers

Before Gertrude Ederle began her historic swim off of Cape Griz-Nez, France, she
underwent extensive training for endurance and techniqueeven though she was
already an accomplished record-breaking swimmer with Olympic medals to her
name. Outsourcing IT may not garner the same attention as being the first woman
to swim the English Channel, but it is no less important to gather as much
experience and knowledge as possible on a small scale before diving in for the big
swim.

The trend toward IT outsourcing is increasing dramatically. According to a report by
Foote Partners, as much as 45% of North American IT work will be outsourced by
2005. And there are good reasons behind this trend. Bruce Caldwell, principal
Gartner analyst believes companies can generate 20-30% savings through
outsourcing. This substantial savings potential isn’t easily overlooked, yet it isn’t the
number one reason companies are choosing to outsource right now. In a recent
survey by The Outsourcing Institute, the primary reason behind outsourcing is to
improve company focus. Other motives include freeing up internal resources,
accessing top-notch capabilities, and accelerating time to market. The survey also
indicated that 55% of firms who outsource do so within ITmore than any other
area.

As more companies begin outsourcing some or all of their IT function, it becomes
difficult to ignore the competitive pressure. With competitors achieving their IT
needs at 20-30% less cost, and getting ahead in the market because of increased
focus within the company, those who ignore the outsourcing trend could potentially
lose ground very quickly.

At the same time, outsourcing horror stories abound. According to Gartner research
firm, half of the current outsourcing projects will not meet the company’s
expectations and will be considered failures. While the vast majority of these failures
are only minor disappointments where the company decides to outsource to another
vendor, certainly a few are major catastrophes. An anonymous case study in IT
Metrics Strategies discusses a CIO who chose to outsource to beat competitors to
market. The outsourcer had promised to meet a deadline his staff had said was
impossible. When the outsourcer failed, the CIO couldn’t rebuild his team fast
enough to finish the job. In the end, the product never got to market at all.

So how do you secure all the benefits of this outsourcing wave without getting
dragged into the undertow? The key is strategic, selective outsourcing. According to
Corey Ferengul, VP of the IT research firm META Group, an increasing number of
companies are choosing to outsource non-core IT tasks. Common responsibilities
going to third-party providers include Web hosting, call centers, data storage, and
database administration.

“There’s a learning curve and a life cycle to outsourcing,” said Caldwell, “and it can
be expensive finding the right vendor, as well as going through the transitions of
taking your operations to that vendor.” Stable, yet customizable IT functions provide
an excellent training ground for outsourcing. Any function with known benchmarks
for performance and results, as well as available, reliable outsourcing partners is a
good place to start.

Ultimately you may want to outsource your entire IT department, but first you need
to get a handle on managing an outsourced process. Some companies may discover
they don’t need to incur the risks and organizational chaos of switching to total IT
outsourcing. By nimbly carving out and outsourcing small pieces of the IT function
that deliver the most cost and quality benefit, companies may find they are already
receiving maximum savings at minimal risk. However, they will have done some
carefully planned and executed experimentation before making that decision.

Gertrude Ederle once said of the sea “I never feel alone when I’m out there.” The
channel became her ally as she swam her way to England in record time. By starting
on a small, strategic scale, you’ll turn IT outsourcing into your ally rather than a
cold, tumultuous, foreboding sea.

Jenne Wason
Jenne works for The Pythian Group, a leading database management firm.