Want to Save Time and Money in Your Business? Email to Fax Software

Writen by Ian Henman

Need to handle important documents quickly? But you’re tired of having to walk all the way down the hall to the fax machine every time you need to send something? In this day and age there has to be a better way to send important documents back and fourth. Now there is, the newest email to fax software is your quick fax communication solution. Email to fax software is the solution provided to you at no additional cost when you subscribe to one of the many Internet Fax services available online.

What if you’re in a bind, you need a fax solution this very second. You don’t have time to wait for fax lines to be installed you need to send documents now. That’s the luxury of Email to Fax software, there’s no new equipment needed, the software is provided to you immediately and you can be setup and ready to go in a couple of minutes. You’ll be sending and receiving faxes via cyberspace with no paper needed.

The nature of Email to fax software is simplicity. It was designed to be user friendly and hassle-free. We all know that we don’t have time to waste during our day’s trouble shooting so we need solutions. Email to fax software is as easy as entering in the required information for our recipient and clicking send, as easy as a fax machine without the added cost, space, or time. What if you need to send several documents all at once? No trouble, just like an email you can attach multiple files to be sent to one or many recipients.

There is no longer a need to spend weeks, or even months searching for new communication solutions. There a several providers of these types of services you can find with your favorites search engine online. How ever keep this in mind, you should spend some time reviewing the features and making a comparison amongst each provider. Some features and costs will differ.

Internet Fax Company’s sole purpose is to provide you with a more cost and time efficient solution to document transmission. Of course email to fax software has many advantages: easy to use, low monthly cost are just a couple to take into consideration. The bigger concept is that you can save time and money in how your business communicates with others. Give email to fax software a try and see for your self the different it can have in your business, you won’t regret it.

Want to find out more about email to fax software and Internet fax service providers? Visit our website Internet Fax.

E-commerce Solutions for Businesses on a Budget

Writen by Jennifer OBrien

It’s Saturday, or after hours a buyer lands on your website and discovers the only way to order your product is by calling you the next business day. You lost a sale and the real problem is you may not even know it. Would you like to have a website and manage the content without a webmaster? How about a website that takes orders and passes all the information into your accounting system with the push of a button? Here is a list of the tools you would need to purchase, all for a total investment of around $1,600 and a few days of your time.

Domain name registration $25 Make sure the provider is reliable, easy to work with and has the ability to change and redirect your web domain if you need to. Additionally, make sure you have password protection, registrar locking ability and for advanced users you may want the ability to change DNS settings and have flexible configuration options without having to pay for these changes.

Peachtree Web Site Creator Pro Version 4.5 $197.88 for the annual subscription. Build a professional-quality web site for your business with customizable pages and an online catalog, including inventory items that you can upload from your Peachtree Premium software with graphical pictures. This product has an intuitive basic setup page that includes a step-by-step guide to help you get your website up and running. You may view a sample of this product @ http://www.bellwethergarden.com/ct_catalog.htm

Peachtree Web Site Trader Version 4.5 $197.88 for the annual subscription. Sell your products and services online and transfer web orders into your Peachtree Accounting software. This product has a secure interactive storefront and instantly adds new customer information to Peachtree from web orders. Additionally, the e-mail order confirmation for you and your customers is simple to modify. The price listed also includes annual web hosting. After you have your Peachtree Accounting software up and running you may purchase the web site subscription from www.peachtree.com.

Peachtree single user Premium Accounting Version 2006 retails for $499 – This product has additional features not found in some of the lesser priced versions of Peachtree. It is designed to help small businesses better manage their accounting, streamline their operations, and aid in their decision making. With training you can quickly learn, use and easily correct mistakes. This product helps businesses do more in less time. To get almost a 20% discount off the software, plus mail in rebate coupons, forms discount coupons and free tips and tricks newsletters shipped with your order go to www.bizsoftresource.com.

Training classes from certified training centers are generally around $350 per day, include a training manual and sometimes lunch. I would suggest a minimum of 2 days of training. A listing of the certified training classes be found @ www.peachtree.com/forms/html/premiertrainers.cfm

We have helped a few of our clients set up E-Commerce solutions using these tools and have set up a site of our own. Once we decided on the content it took us less than 8 hours to upload our inventory and configure the website. I give this product thumbs up! Look for information on Peachtree’s credit card and a payroll processing services which we will review in future articles.

Jennifer OBrien is the founder and president of JCS Computer Resource, Inc. and has served on the Steering Committee for Certified Consultants for Sage software 5 times over the past 15 years.
www.jcscomputer.com

Free P2P

Writen by Jennifer Bailey

Free ‘peer to peer’ (P2P) software programs allow users to swap music files, video files, and other material over the internet that are often protected under copyright rules and regulations. Some P2P software systems available on the Internet offer a large user base, thousands of downloadable files, and effective utilization of network resources.

Some of the popular free P2P software systems include ‘edonkey/overnet’ that supports a large base of users and files. The software is compatible with windows, Linux, and Macintosh computers and does not contain any ’spyware’ found in some free P2P software. Free P2P ‘Shareaza’ offers a powerful search engine capable of connecting to multiple P2P networks and includes intelligence for detecting fake and corrupted files.

‘WinMX’ P2P runs only on windows operating systems and has a reputation of being complex and difficult to use than other P2P systems. The software is popular as it offers a wide selection of mp3 files and helps users to manage file downloads. ‘BitTorrent’ is another free P2P that has attracted a loyal following of users interested in sharing movies and television programs. ‘Limewire’ free P2P is recognized for its clean user interface and is sometimes called the fastest file-sharing program.

‘Morpheus’ P2P offers both free and paid file downloads and is capable of removing bundled advertising that might be attached with downloadable files. ‘eMule’ P2P does not contain any advertising and its software base is maintained by an open source development team. The only drawback of this software is the slow speed at which files are downloaded using this software system.

Free P2P systems do offer easy accessibility to audio/video files but are one of the main sources of revenue losses of music and movie companies. The government is working to enact a law that will make free P2P fully legal by making it a paid service. This will reduce financial losses of companies and provide an affordable means of downloading audio/video files.

Make or Break Factors – When Considering Estimating Software

Writen by Danny Tangredi

Make-or-Break Factors in Success and Profitability

For quick printers, estimating can prove to be a major factor in the success or failure of their business.

When a customer requests a bid on a job, they need a fast turnaround, and the best price. For a printer, there are two important issues; first of course is the price and second the profit. If they price a job too high they might miss out on getting the job, and if they price it too low, this starts cutting into their potential profits.

Estimating software is a tool that helps eliminate this margin for error and make every printer’s job easier. This ease is why estimating software is becoming an integral part for many companies in the printing and graphics industry. But what type of estimating software should a printer look for? With so many different companies selling estimating software it can become difficult to find a solution that is the right one.

For this reason Cyrious Software has taken on the role of business software consultants rather then focusing strictly on selling. When looking for a business management and estimating solution, the ability of a company to consult and guide you to the correct solution, be it theirs or someone else’s, should be a major deciding factor. If a software company isn’t willing to work to find a solution that specifically fits their business, it might be wise to find a different company to do business with.

Estimating software can range from a simple estimating calculator package, to a complete powerful, integrated estimating, job tracking & business management system, like Cyrious Software. The difficulty is figuring out which system is right for your business.

How Much & For What

Companies should look at the money spent on estimating/business management software, as an investment and not an expense. Most complete software systems range from about $2,000 all the way up to $14,000 depending on the number of licenses, modules and different customizations. This somewhat large investment makes it vital for printers to find a system that they can not only use to increase profits and save time, but also one they have the ability to continue to grow with.

Many printers are looking for a system that not only has the ability to estimate, job track, and do invoicing but also has the ability to export to accounting packages, create reports, manage their customer base, and expand their business through target marketing. Because not all estimating software packages have this complete business management functionality, printers and similar businesses need to make sure the estimating software they choose has the functionality they need (i.e. Customer Management Tools, Marketing Tools, Shipping & Credit Card Integration) The last thing a company needs is to buy additional software after the initial investment.

Another aspect to consider when searching for a software package is the accuracy it provides. Accuracy is one of the most important features to look for in estimating software. The price of using inaccurate information can add up and become extremely detrimental to a business. Accuracy in estimating software depends on the ability to customize the software to fit the printers pricing. With Cyrious Software, your pricing & cost structure is customized and built into the software making it virtually impossible to have inaccurate estimates.

Integration Is Key

Another factor to consider is how easily estimating software will let one go from estimate, to order, to invoice, and beyond. Without estimating/business management software, printers spend a lot time re-entering/re-writing customer or product information. Even with estimating software if you don’t have the right system you could be left re-keying a lot of important information. This can be a major waste of time. That is why Cyrious Software has created their application to encompass this integration. This means the first time you enter company or order information you never have to enter it in again, unless of course you need to make an update or edit.

The “beyond” part is where Cyrious Software distinguishes itself from many of its competitors. Imagine having the power of an entire marketing research firm at your fingertips. Cyrious gives you that power. Once you have company information and order history in the Cyrious Software system, you can create queries that will allow you to separate customers into different segments, and provide you with an easy method to begin to target different markets. Once these segments are grouped, you can automatically e-mail, fax or print marketing materials to them. Whether it is a follow up letter, thank you note, or special offer, businesses can use the software to help strengthen relationships with current/new customers and/or develop a stronger marketing strategy.

About The Author

Danny Tangredi

For more information on Cyrious Software’s Estimating & Business Management Solutions go to www.cyrious.net or call 1-800-552-1418.

Corporate Accounting: Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 Future Horizons – Notes for Consultant

Writen by Andrew Karasev

As we are writing this article – a lot of new ERP related information about Microsoft Business Solutions products: Axapta (Microsoft Dynamics AX), Navision (Microsoft Dynamics NAV), Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Great Plains is published on the daily basis, especially with the advance of the so-called “Project Green”. We would like to be a bit pessimistic and toss in new ideas about future Microsoft MRP products development and marketing positioning as we see the development on European (including UK, East Europe: Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, plus Southern Europe: Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece), Latin American (including Brazil, where Microsoft is starting from scratch) and Asian ERP markets.

Microsoft Dynamics GP vs. Microsoft Dynamics AX. This is probably the question of future positioning of these two ERPs. Axapta has modern design (the end of 20th century), while Great Plains Software Dynamics was designed in the beginning of 1990th as Great Plains Dexterity application

Microsoft Dynamics GP USA MRP market. This seems to be the stronghold of Microsoft Great Plains. Microsoft Business Solutions makes its Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 the first wave of its Project Green with the switch from Microsoft Dexterity to .Net and Visual Studio development: C# and VB, plus the increased role of eConnect (initially introduced for eCommerce web XML developers, now the middle tier to resolve Great Plains Dexterity peculiarity with generic .Net development)

Microsoft Dynamics GP European ERP Market. In Europe Microsoft Great Plains is leaving its French, German, Spanish and Dutch positions (leaving current Microsoft Great Plains clients to switch to Navision or Axapta). Microsoft Dynamics GP will stay in UK, Australia, New Zealand, LATAM: Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Guatemala, Salvador, Panama, Caribbean

Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Microsoft CRM 3.0 will become the CRM frontend for all the Microsoft Dynamics ERPs, including Great Plains, Axapta, Navision, Solomon. The most interesting part is Microsoft CRM integration, when you can automatically move Customers, Quotes, Orders from Microsoft CRM to accounting back end – here you have two options: use Microsoft Great Plains CRM integration (based on BizTalk for CRM 1.2 or eConnect based integration for MS CRM 3.0 and GP 9.0)

Oracle/Java/EJB/J2EE. Here we have to appeal to our third party programming expertise and knowledge/experience with Oracle Financials/Oracle E-Business Suite/Oracle Applications development and Programming

SAP MRPs. SAP is another traditional MRP market leader. For years ago SAP purchased Israel made MRP software application, now known as SAP Business One. SAP Business One is seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Office (what is the next step from SAP R/3 mySAP project Mendocino with Microsoft for the next few years), plus SBO is integrated on the Sales and Purchasing transaction consolidation level wit mySAP/SAP/R3. In the case of SAP – you will need customization/integration partner to help you with the above consolidation

International aspects. Well – as you can conclude from this whitepaper and our past publications – Microsoft Great Plains / Dynamics GP is not supported for non English or Spanish speaking countries. In the case of Brazil/Sao Paulo/Rio de Janeiro/Salvador – population speaks in Brazilian Portuguese. SAP Business One could be a good spoke/hub ERP application to be consolidated to Microsoft Dynamics GP/NAV or AX in the USA/UK/France (including Canada/Montreal/Quebec)/Germany/Europe

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