"What do you mean you need to push back the launch date?" Says the CEO. Says the CFO. Says the user community. CTOs, CIOs, and all officers who oversee major development projects have had to deliver the dreaded message. But a deadline for the sake of a deadline is a dangerous pitfall that can consume an entire project and stymie it to the point that it never launches. Over the years I've come up with six simple rules that help deadlines become more meaningful, while keeping the developers, the ...
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Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains serves mid-size and large clients in horizontal and vertical markets. Historically Great Plains Software was encouraging ISV partner to write third party modules and later on ' Great Plains Software had a chance to select the product for incorporation into their core set of modules: Manufacturing, Project Accounting, Purchase Order Processing, Collection Management, etc. Today we'll consider Microsoft Great Plains implementation specifics for ...
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Lowering The Risks In Developing "Do-It-Yourself" Software Projects by Phil McCutchen Marketing Manager, VCG, Inc. Mike Dunville* had a decision to make. As the new operations manager for Alpha Staffing, he wanted to make a difference at the dynamic staffing firm. The principals of the firm had charged him with making the day-to-day operations run smoothly and efficiently while they concentrated on growing the business. With his background in operations and finance, Mike had successfully ...
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Windows 2000 was awarded the Common Criteria Certificate. This is the first Microsoft Operating System to receive such a prestigious certification putting it on the same level as SecureOS Solaris Unix, both built on an operating system that has been around for over thirty years. This document will explain what the Common Criteria Certificate is, how a vendor achieves it and why a vendor would want it. Common Criteria is based on the idea of a sound way of evaluating the security of an ...
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My first experience with a spyware BHO based infection was several months ago. I had gone through all of the usual steps with the client's machine to clean it. Ad-Aware was run, Spybot: Search and Destroy was as well. Nothing looked suspicious in the system's startup. All appeared well, but it wasn't. After extensive testing and no further symptoms I returned the computer to my client's home. I hooked it back up, and dialed the internet. Everything so far was progressing smoothly. But, as SOON ...
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ON EACH OF HIS FREQUENT TRIPS TO INDIA, American entrepreneur Leon Steinberg sets aside time to have a pair of shoes made. He insists the workmanship can't be matched in the United States, nor can the price. "These are the most comfortable shoes I've ever worn," he said of a pair of leather loafers he had on recently. Steinberg, who was standing in his office in Noida, a high-tech suburb of New Delhi, is not in the shoe business. He believes he's found another product that can be made in ...
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Dicar Networks 97 East Brokaw Road Suite #230 San Jose, CA 95112 THE DYNAMIC PROCESS OF NETWORK SECURITY by Vlad Sharoiko Network security is a dynamic process because of the new threats and vulnerabilities that are uncovered every day. Your software may be secure today, but the intense pace of upgrades will continue to create the openings for new issues to arise. According to statistics released by the CERT Coordination Center, more than 300 vulnerabilities are reported every month. The ...
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Dicar Networks 97 East Brokaw Road Suite #230 San Jose, CA 95112 http://www.dicarnetworks.com/ THE DYNAMIC PROCESS OF NETWORK SECURITY by Vlad Sharoiko Network security is a dynamic process because of the new threats and vulnerabilities that are uncovered every day. Your software may be secure today, but the intense pace of upgrades will continue to create the openings for new issues to arise. According to statistics released by the CERT Coordination Center, more than 300 vulnerabilities are ...
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So, you have identified a need in your business for which you believe would be a great candidate for a software solution. Now the question is ' Do you 'run off' and engage (one or more) developers to build this software system(s) for you? And/or ' Do you 'run off' to the 'nearest' and/or your favorite on-/off-line software store and buy a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) package solution, and if so which one?, to meet these business needs? Which one of these alternatives is the most efficient ...
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As seeing large number of implementations ' in our case these are Microsoft Business Solutions Products: Great Plains, MS CRM, Navision ' we would like to give you our opinion on what should you consider to do to secure implementation success. These principles should work as for large corporation as well as for midsize and even small business. We will not be talking about old-wisdom, which you know from the college classes or business school about management and staff involvement into the ...
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