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Online Publication Software — the Secrets to Selecting the Best Vendor for Your Business June 28, 2010

Filed under: Nerd's Lair, Publishing Management @ 8:05 am

The wrong online brochure package will spoil any imaginative online publication. Actually, picking a software supplier is one of the most important decisions you’ll take when you make digital publication. They do a lot more than simply help you in formatting the content.

Out of the characteristics you should examine in some depth, simple usability is the main one. The software could be the most amazing you’ve seen – but without being able to use it, it’s worth nothing to you… Your electronic brochure should be important enough to you for you to test out several providers. In producing an online publication you also need to think about security. Is your creativity protected? Can the content be protected? Can people just copy-paste your content or has the digital publishing software vendor anything in place peventing such things? Is content secure from copy-pasting by readers? Has a business strategy been produced? Whatever your business plan may look like, you’ll should think about such matters, possibly not for each issue but instead for the company overall. How will the business use modern media? What thought has been given to dealing with adverts? Thinking about search engines will also be very important when considering marketing your electronic magazine. Will the content only be made accessible for free? You might think of offering a variety of subscriptions. Will your content be commercialized at all? How about using summaries and teasers to sell your online publication? What’s the accessibility of your brochure? Is it private: then you can look into many hosting possibilities or will it be public? In which case you will be best hosting directly with your vendor. What is your plan about back-issues? Tech-support is a big consideration in the selection of vendor. Are you able to call in or email anyone with problems? How long will tech-support response time be? Examine whatever FAQ sections are there. Don’t wait to check to check out the level of tech-support. This final decision in hosting service could ruin your zine. Google the term “Zmags” for more pointers.


The Five Important Functions of Stellent Web Site Content Management Systems March 30, 2010

Filed under: Nerd's Lair @ 9:52 am

Everybody knows that Stellent web content management systems (WCM) have greatly altered business practices regarding the Internet, online functions, and other relevant information. Existing WCM systems are compatible with most other types of software that you would normally have open. To get the most out of a WCM it, and you, must meet these important points. First off it is essential to realize that there is a distinct difference between our WCM software program and others currently available. The Stellent web content management system acquires and manages raw information in various forms. The next step is when the CMS takes the sorted content and moves it onto a server accessible by office personnel and individuals operating off-site but who have been granted access. The work flow of a WCM must be consistent and universal enough to work alongside the programs you operate from day to day. The ability to process updated data and later edit it is also beneficial. Imagine the process as being like the input section on a moderator’s blog page or even the comments area on the public side of a blog.

Should you find that info is unable to be shown, then the WCM is unsuitable. Be aware of proprietary software and software issues relating to special configurations (text and image files are likely offenders here) as you might run into problems. Nevertheless, having the hosted WCM merely serve up the data without regards to the overall objective simply isn’t sufficient.

Instead, the WCM should handle the raw data and transform it into a language that can be understood by Internet browsers. Such Internet browser codesets that will require reading include (but aren’t limited to) HTML, CSS, PHP et cetera.

It is an obvious point to make but try not to neglect security. It can include maintaining the security of the relevant data and making it available only to personnel as well as approved external viewers. The Stellent CMS website content management system is excellent in regards to how information is collected, prepared and managed to service the end package. So, if the aim is to increase the efficiency of how your corporation manages its time, we endorse the Stellent CMS- for protection, processing and error free dissemination. You could not do any better with one of these working for you.


Atlanta Home Inspections, Women’s Networking, Reverse Craigslist Software March 1, 2010

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Reverse Craigstlist software can provide incredible results for your business. It produces the ability to actually produce hundreds to thousands and thousands of leads in just minutes by mining data from ads on craigs list. This very simple to use reverse craigslist software can provide an opportunity to quite literally propel you company to the highest level. You can choose what industry you are aiming at and which specific geo areas, and then you literally push a button, wait, and watch the leads roll in. After this you then can send an e-mail to these leads or manage them, save, export, and more. There are different versions and brands of reverse craigs list software and data mining software nowadays.


Microsoft RMS – Great Plains Integration – Overview For IT Specialist January 18, 2010

Filed under: Nerd's Lair @ 3:18 am

Microsoft Great Plains and Microsoft Retail Management System (Microsoft RMS) are getting new market share due to the Microsoft strong marketing campaign. Both products: Microsoft Great Plains and Microsoft RMS are coming from the same Microsoft subdivision – Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS), however due to the fact that both products were bought by Microsoft from different vendors, the integration between the two is not an easy thing. At this time MBS has RMS integration on the General Ledger and Purchase Order level into Great Plains out of the box. This integration has some advancements in comparison to old product: QuickSell, but it is still GL and PO only. We do understand the need for midsize and large retail companies, structured as clubs and selling on account to their members to have more adequate integration when you can synchronize your Sales information and have robust Great Plains reporting.
There is the product on the market, which is integration on the Receivables Management level from RMS to Great Plains, written by Daniel Sionov and Andrew Karasev and maintained by the alliance between LightEdge Solutions (www.lightedge.com) and Alba Spectrum Technologies (www.albaspectrum.com). In Alba Spectrum Technologies we actually do coding and product tuning for specific client needs.

If you are developer you can end up with your own custom solution, we would like to give you directions.

1. Great Plains Integration Manager – if the sales volume is very low, say 100 transactions per day – then you can do data export from RMS and import it into Great Plains via Integration Manager. This is rather end-user tool – it is very intuitive, it validates 100% of business logic, brings in/updates master records (accounts, employees, customers, vendors. etc.) brings in transactions into work tables. The limitation of Integration Manager – it does use GP windows behind the scenes without showing them – so it is relatively slow – you can bring 100 records – but when you are talking about thousands – it is not a good option. By the way you can program Integration Manager with VBA.

2. eConnect – You can create VB.Net application which will be pulling info from RMS and then uses eConnect to move it to Great Plains. eConnect is kind of Software Development Kit with samples in VB.Net. Obviously the development environment should be Visual Studio.Net. eConnect will allow you to integrate master records – such as new customers, vendors, employees, etc., plus you can bring transactions into so called Great Plains work tables (eConnect doesn’t allow you to bring open or historical records – you need to post work records in Great Plains, the same limitation applies to Integration Manager above) eConnect is rather for ongoing integration. It was initially created for eCommerce application integration to Great Plains.

3. SQL Stored Procedures. The product we’ve mentioned above is collection of stored procs. Obviously you have unlimited control and possibilities with SQL queries. You need to know Retail Management System Headquarters and Great Plains tables structure and data flow. Launch Great Plains and go to Tools->Resource Description->Tables. Find the table in the proper series. If you are looking for the customers – it should be RM00101 – customer master file. If you need historical Sales Order Processing documents – they are in SOP30200 – Sales History Header file, etc. Do not change existing tables – do not create new fields, etc. Also you need to realize that each GP table has DEX_ROW_ID – identity column. Sometimes it is good idea to use inbound/outbound XML in the parameters – then you can deploy web service as a middle party between two systems. RMS tables structure is self explanatory.

4. Data Transformation Services (DTS) – Good tool for importing your third party data into staging tables in GP – then you can pull them in using either stored procs of Integration Manager. You can also deploy this tool for EDI export/import.

5. Great Plains Dexterity Custom Screens. You can create the window, which will have integration settings in it – RMS store ID matching GP Company database, etc. Sometimes users prefer to have seamlessly integrated into GP interface custom screens – for parameters settings and initiating integration. Dexterity is a good option, however remember – it is always better to create new custom screen versus customizing existing one – due to the future upgrade issues. Also – Dexterity is in phasing our by Microsoft Business Solutions.

6. Modifier/VBA custom buttons on the existing screens – alternative to Dexterity is you are comfortable with VBA and ADO.
Happy integrating! if you want us to do the job or use our product – give us a call 1-866-528-0577! help@albaspectrum.com

Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies – USA nationwide Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Great Plains customization company, based in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta, New York, and Miami and having locations in multiple states and internationally (www.albaspectrum.com), he is Dexterity, SQL, VB/C#.Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer.