Do you find working and managing various projects at the same time a challenge?

For many project teams, when they are in involved in a project, the first thing they would do would be to set up a file server and open it up for sharing purposes. Having a file sharing repository eases the need to share documents and important information throughout the entire project duration. Although convenient, it’s vital to note the following disadvantages of using a shared folder:

• It’s not secure as anyone who knows the IP address or machine name can access the shared folder
• Risk overwriting each other’s documents
• It’s only accessible when access to the shared machine is available. Accessing your files over the Internet is definitely impossible, unless a vpn tunnel is established.

Lately, there has been lots of requirements for office workers from various locations to be able to work and collaborate on projects. Take for example, a web application development project which consists of functional leads from US, web designers from Brazil and web developers from India. How can they all share the documents and information effectively? Although emailing each member whenever there is an update to a document is possible, it can be a waste of bandwith and time. With only a single document, emailing is still acceptable but if there are several requirement documents, technical documents as well as important resources, using email to send and distribute files can really be a hassle. Without a single repository in place, it can be challenging for project members to search, utilize, and share project documents effectively. Continue Reading »An upcoming SAAS web based project management tool

by Mike White

When choosing a data recovery company to recover your valuable data it is very important that you make the right choice. Making the wrong choice can be the difference between recovering useful data or potentially ending up with nothing.

You need to ensure that the specialist that is handling your data is well trained and conversant with the latest data recovery techniques as drives and techniques do change on a regular basis.

Data recovery being as important as it is should certainly not be something they do as a background activity, so don’t be afraid to ask some very pointed questions to make sure your getting the service you think you are an will most definately need.

If the company you choose do not focus on recovery full time then you may bump into capacity problems, so a good question to ask is how many dedicated staff do they have or even can they do server recovery if required. Continue Reading »How To Choose A Data Recovery Specialist That Won’t Let You Down

Are you about to release a web application to the public or  to an internal department?

The big question is, has your testing team completed a thorough test on the web application? There are many types of tests which should be conducted namely regression test, functional test, system test and other types of test.

Two of the most important tests which must be carried out is load and stress testing. Most performance issues will arise only when the server is stressed with high user load so the only way to overcome this would be to run the tests to find out how many concurrent visitors the web application can serve without any problems.

It’s not easy to conduct load and stress test because it’s really challenging to get a group of people to access the web application at the same time. To overcome this challenge, one can utilize advanced automatic load and stress testing tools. The following are 8 good web application load and stress test tools for your testers to try and evaluate. Continue Reading »List of top web application load and stress test tools

Your boss just told you to evaluate the possibilities of implement SAP solutions.

But do you know where and how to start?

When it comes to enterprise systems implementation, the few aspects that will be evaluated are cost, time to implement as well as resource availability. For most organizations, a budget would firstly be allocated.

Lets take a possible scenario where company Alpha decides to implement an ERP system to enhance and automate their current business processes. A budget of $100,000 USD is allocated. The first system that comes to your mind is SAP Business One which is popular and well known.

To find out if your system requirements can be fulfilled by SAP in terms of cost and features, one way would be to just contact SAP directly. But if you rather do some initial research from the web, SAP has a site which allows you to easily configure SAP Business One based on your organization’s business needs.

Introducing the Solution Configurator for SAP Business All-In-One

Via the solution configurator, all you need to specify is the industry you’re in, either Manufacturing, Service or Trade as well as the number of employees and users within your organization. Clicking on the OK button will reveal all related modules within your industry. For this particular example, I selected the Service Industry and the following modules were displayed: Continue Reading »How much does it cost to implement SAP Business One?