PC Hardware: How Ego Can Cost Your Clients by Joshua Feinberg
Your clients might be tempted to outfit their top managers and producers with the latest and greatest PC hardware. After all, a CFO or senior account manager has a tremendous amount riding on his or her daily performance and productivity. But they need to consider better ways to spend their money. ... If a client’s CFO spends most of a typical day crunching numbers in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and communicating via e-mail in Microsoft Outlook, he or she really has only very basic PC hardware requirements.

Why Stick With Email Clients Like Outlook? by Iulia Pascanu
Trying to figure out a stream in banning one email client or another is no easy job. As soon as somebody rises up saying Outlook is bad, somebody else comes saying it's good and the other one is bad. And the story goes on and on. On one hand, email clients like Outlook Express and (even more) MS... That means I would never question about Microsoft Outlook being or not a good email client if it comes together with my Office pack that comes together with Windows that comes together with my computer.

Small Business Networking: Suggesting Dedicated Servers to Clients by Joshua Feinberg
PC-based servers and LANs may be relatively mature technologies. However, small businesses need your firm’s expertise, more than ever. For these businesses, you'll need to select, configure, customize, secure and maintain the right small business networking tools for their unique needs. ... Is Microsoft Windows peer-to-peer networking any way to run a small business? ... Perhaps it is for a two-or-three-person company, but those really tiny offices generally aren’t your most profitable client opportunities.

IBM Lotus Domino or Microsoft Exchange? by Rafael Osipov
IBM Lotus Domino or Microsoft Exchange? The severe competition continues for many years between two main leaders in collaboration solutions - IBM and Microsoft. Whether the choice of a platform influences the ordinary user? The both of software giants put efforts to improve working conveniences... Free add-on for Outlook: Notes Connector Microsoft supports free add-on for Microsoft Outlook client, which allows connection to message/collaboration server Lotus Domino. ... Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook 6.5.1 The new IBM Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook 6.5.1 provides the...

Microsoft Dynamics GP Customization Tools Selection – Overview for Developer by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains was renamed into Microsoft Dynamics GP and became part of Microsoft Dynamics strategy in September 2005. Former name of the strategy was Microsoft Project Green, where the idea was to introduce so-called Microsoft Business Suites: Financials,... Thin client is Business Portal approach (we are not talking about Citrix way here, because in Citrix you usually open the same Fat Dexterity client) or web client. ... When Microsoft Dynamics GP will offload Fat Client logic to Business Portal, then you will be using more thin client or web development to...

Handheld Devices: Supporting Your Clients Needs by Joshua Feinberg
While it’s tough to make much of a profit margin on sales of desktop or notebook PCs, it’s next to impossible to profitably sell personal digital assistants (PDAs) to your small business clients. After all, these handheld devices are generally positioned more as consumer electronics devices than... Will Your Client Fund PDA Support? ... The Popularity of Handheld Devices or PDA’s Nevertheless, today’s PDAs, based on the Palm and Microsoft Windows CE OS’s are quite powerful. ... Just be sure to have a heart-to-heart with your main client contact person to decide what the "official party...

Microsoft Dynamics GP Chicago - Customization, Integration, Data Conversion Review by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Great Plains, or its new brand name within Microsoft Dynamics products family – Microsoft Dynamics GP is one of the leading ERP packages, where Microsoft Office/Outlook integration is very robust and advanced. Plus GP has huge client base in US, Canada, South and Central America. ... The advantage is obvious – you can access Business Portal from virtually any place in the World (where you can get internet connection, or even offline, if you can deploy replication technology, in MS CRM Outlook client, for instance)/ Being strategic trend – Microsoft Dynamics GP business logic is...

The Computer Consulting Business: Overcoming Client Cost Concerns by Joshua Feinberg
The key to overcoming client cost concerns is to focus on value and return on investment (ROI), rather than expenses. While every one of your computer consulting business prospects and clients will have a different way of defining "expensive" and "affordable", it’s crucial that you show how your... Learn from Example For example, a local insurance agency, with 11 employees and PCs, runs a combination of Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and Microsoft Windows XP Professional desktop and notebook PCs.

Microsoft Dynamics GP (Former Microsoft Great Plains) Support in Chicago Metro by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Great Plains was and is very popular mid-market ERP application, originally designed by Great Plains Software on GPS Dexterity platform, later on purchased by Microsoft and transformed into Microsoft Great Plains Business Solutions, later on (after Navision Software acquisition)... Currently Microsoft is advancing rapidly Microsoft Dynamics project, resulting in Microsoft Dynamics MRP family of products to be integrated with Microsoft Office, MS Sharepoint, Microsoft Business Portal (each Dynamics has its own blend of BP), plus each Dynamics product is targeted to be opened to...

Microsoft Dynamics GP – Remote Support by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Business Solutions Dynamics GP, NAV, AX, CRM, SL are new names for former Great Plains, Navision, Axapta, MS CRM, Solomon. In realization of “Project Green” Microsoft will be unifying customization tools and technologies (moving away from proprietary technologies to XML web services... In addition to eConnect Microsoft has door open for direct MS SQL Server scripts and stored procedures integration (except for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, where MS CRM SDK doesn’t support direct SQL access to MS Dynamics CRM databases).