Five Tips For A Great Software Demo by Luc Richard
Whether you need to close a sale, gather end-user feedback, show progress to your customer, or simply explain how your product works, sooner or later, you will need to demo your software product. Over the years, I've had the opportunity to perform hundreds of demos to audiences of various sizes. ... I didn't need 30 minutes to realize I didn't want to do business with him. ... Five tips for a great software demo. ... You software might be the solution to world-hunger but if a member of your audience notices a typo in your GUI, he/she will point it out!

Scalability Testing: 7 Steps Towards Success by Mark Trellis
Systems that work well during development, deployed on a small scale, can fail to meet performance goals when the deployment is scaled up to support real levels of use. An apposite example of this comes from a major blue chip company that recently outsourced the development of an innovative high... Better practice is to start the development of a large scale software system with its performance clearly in mind, particularly scalability testing, volume testing and load testing. ... Recognise that an intrinsic part of the development process is load testing at representative scale on each...

Scalability Testing - 7 Tips For Improvement by Mark Trellis
Systems that work well during development, deployed on a small scale, can fail to meet performance goals when the deployment is scaled up to support real levels of use. An apposite example of this comes from a major blue chip company that recently outsourced the development of an innovative high... Better practice is to start the development of a large scale software system with its performance clearly in mind, particularly scalability testing, volume testing and load testing. ... This is a fundamental stage of risk based testing, and applies equally to scalability testing or load testing...

How To Make Good Use of Spreadsheets by Abdallah Khamis Abdallah
Most computer users use spreadsheets software such as Microsoft Excel in their daily home and office. However very few are aware of the potential of spreadsheets in helping them in financial accounting and statistical analysis. There are many uses of spreadsheets beyond the simple arithmetical... Suffice it to say that spreadsheets software is some of the most important application software used at the office and home. ... While not completely unique to spreadsheets, this feature is particularly more visible and word processing software.

Few Steps To Prevent Data Loss And Preparing For Disaster by Ali Bokhari
Prevent Data loss and Preparing for Disaster You know that computer security is important to you and your business. But do you know exactly what you need to do today to protect your home/business computer? Sooner or later, disaster will strike. It does not have to be anything as dramatic as... Always use that operating system and software applications which is user friendly and easy to handle, because users are typically less technical. ... This includes the customer support numbers of hardware and software manufacturers, serial numbers, warranty documents and configuration information.

Offsite Backups by James Walsh
The moment it happens, the primary concern for the user is to get the data back so that the work continues uninterrupted. Sensing this need, a multi-million-dollar data-recovery industry has cropped up that specialises in recovering lost data from a damaged storage device. ... The integrity of the backup data is guaranteed, since the server double-checks the data sent by the client software. ... There is no unauthorized backing up of data, since every time you give a backup command, the software requests the authorisation code.

Managing Design Complexity by Tim Bryce
"100% of your design documentation is contained in the specifications of your information resources." - Bryce's Law There are many companies today, most overseas, still tackling major systems projects particularly in the areas of banking and manufacturing. ... Since a software design project is smaller and seemingly more palatable to implement than a total systems project, some companies will focus on software engineering tools and techniques, and abandon total systems engineering practices. ... From this perspective, the average system design project is nearly 25 times larger than the...

Have A Big Website - Worried About Server Load by Ted Peterson
Have we ever thought how big websites could be configured to handle massive amount of traffic? How thousands of businesses worldwide are facing challenges everyday to make sure there are no connection failures due to heavy load or congestion of traffic at the website. ... One such great software is the “Web Application Testing” or WAPT, which is a great utility for any website’s sustainability. ... This software is load, stress and performance testing tool for web sites and intranet applications with web interface.

Lean Principles in ERP Practice- Maximization of Manufacturing Efficiency by Dusty Alexander
In today’s manufacturing environment, enterprises must operate their businesses with an eye toward becoming evermore “lean and mean”, as well as taking full control of every aspect of the system. This means bringing greater efficiencies into their job shop or make-to-order manufacturing operation. ... In a properly designed and implemented ERP operation, using robust ERP software, indirect labor is reduced and direct labor time recovered instead for the benefit of maximized production. ... ERP no longer holds this position as a given.

How FOSS Might Benefit Your Small Business by Charles Trumpess
Starting a small business or working from home takes time and costs money. After you have done all the groundwork, such as a business plan, marketing strategy and finances, you will probably start thinking about the cost of PCs and software licenses. ... In an ideal world your software choices would be determined by your business needs rather than the depth of your pockets. ... The software dilemma Having wrestled your PC out of its cardboard and polystyrene cocoon, assembled it and switched it on, you now have to consider what software applications and utilities you might need.