Network Attached Storage – An Alternative To Tape Back-up by Mark Allen
Businesses have been using tape to back up their data since the early days of computing. Tape has its limitations, but it was much cheaper than the alternatives, so its use continued. Today, the situation is changing. The price of disk storage has come down dramatically and the performance,... • For smaller amounts of data, removable disk drives mounted in hot-swap enclosures can provide a competitive alternative for offsite data storage. ... • Locating a NAS system in another office and backing it up over the network provides a fast, automated remote backup.

Benefits of Implementing Workflow Automation Systems by Faheem Zafar
AUTOMATION, in any field, is an alluring proposition. The idea that we can take a manual process and apply technology to it in a way that reduces costs and increases speed, reliability and accuracy is irresistible. However, this temptation is a significant trap for organizations that intend to... In this case, an event initiates every task. ... The implementation of workflow automation software has the potential to break down functional and management barriers, but only if it is begun with the objective to first remove work that does not create value.

Eight Reasons to Increase Backup Spending When the Economy Slows by Bud Stoddard
Eight Reasons to Increase Backup Spending When the Economy Slows   by Bud Stoddard, President & CEO, AmeriVault Corp.   To say we have seen a significant downturn in the economy in the past twelve months would be hyperbole at its best.   As business and technology executives and...       You defer buying new tape drives and tapes and the equipment fails resulting in incomplete backups so that in the case of an outage or data loss, you have no backup to retrieve it from. ... §          What the heck is in that Oracle or SQL database that you spent gazillions for?

The System Development Life Cycle by Michael Hart
[1] Identification of problems: The proposal to develop a the new information system started with a formal request resulting from the identification of existing problems identified in the current systems used in the mail order and wholesales business operations. ... Many of these are legacy systems for management of stock, order, returns and account files for keeping track of individual customer accounts, returned goods, and payments; it also needs to have information on stock levels transferred to a single relational database system.

Considerations When Creating A Mobility Extension To The Corporate Network by Matt Vaughn
Mobile strategy This paper assumes your organisation has an established and accepted business case for mobility and you are now ready to proceed. When implementing a mobility solution the impacts are not just on the actual end-user but also the subtle and long-lasting effect to your I.T. ... management. ... For mobility, the answer is to select the appropriate device that fits the requirements of the end-users, and use a mobility device management platform that can run across all the devices in the fleet.

Microsoft CRM Customization – Programming Closed Email Activity by Boris Makushkin
Microsoft CRM is CRM answer from Microsoft and attempt to get market share from Siebel, Oracle and others traditional Client Relationship Management System vendors. Microsoft CRM uses all the spectrum of Microsoft recent technologies: .Net, MS Exchange, MS Outlook, MS SQL Server, Replication,... The interaction with Microsoft CRM uses two approached – using MS CRM SDK (handling inbound and outbound XML messages) and via direct access to MS CRM Database. ... The selection should use specific criteria – in our case this is email address: if ((crmAccount =...

Information in the Next Five Years by Ena Mwangama
Impact of Radio Frequency Identification Technology The Environment consist of the all elements that are outside the system under consideration, and which it must take as given .The environment also include all the external impositions and constraints other than those imposed by the ownership. ... There are three areas that will be needed to be addressed: data management, network and end-user device management, and a new category for many IT organizations, sensor management. ... Environment factors-such as changing legal, social and economic pressure Operational issues-in terms of...

Data Quality Best Practices for Salesforce.com by Chris Badger
Executive Summary An effective plan for entering, cleaning and updating the data for your salesforce.com (SFDC) system is critical for achieving success with SFDC. According to industry experts poor planning for managing the data entry/data quality issue has historically been one of the largest... Individual preferences can be identified by a user-defined profile…” There was a tendency for buyers of CRM solutions in the 1990s to focus on the functionality of a CRM application and not on the sources and updating of data that would enable the users and management to achieve their CRM...

Mystery of the Unknown! by Dina Safar
Your Work place is no longer available, disaster has struck, and time is money! How many times have you heard these statements? It is a nightmare for CIOs and IT directors to have to explain downtime to their CEO and CFO. For many CEOs and CFOs, what was important yesterday is no longer valid... This includes human error, equipment failure, database corruption, hacking and various other external disasters. ... Business continuity where we require an offsite backup (Disaster Recovery Site) to resume the same level of productivity in case of workplace disruption.

Collaborative Modelling Using Ontologies by Peter Hale
The main area of study for this research is the enabling of users such as engineers to model the problems they encounter in manufacturing and design. However the wider aim is to prototype research for enabling a much larger range of software users to model their problems. ... The system should consist of applications to be combined in order to represent a layered architecture of:- Database - ontology engine - ontology visualizer - calculation engine - inputs visualizer - results visualizer The aim is to ensure ease of development and use of the software system by using applications...