Are you lost in the mess of documents that get passed around your company, never knowing what the latest version is and which one you should work on without worrying if someone else has already made the same editions that you are making? Perhaps you have heard of collaboration software solutions such as Documentum to help your company manage its documents that are passed around. Documentum is a very good solution to this problem but is it the only one? In this article you will be presented with some basic information about the differences in collaboration software from Documentum and NextPage.

What is collaboration software?

Collaboration software allows business professionals to work directly with other business professionals by allowing them to work together to create business documents, presentations, and budgets. Most collaboration software is centralized. This allows business professionals to work on the same documents at the same time from different locations. Some centralized collaboration software solutions include Groove Network, Microsoft SharePoint, Documentum, and Filenet.

Why use Documentum?

There are a few advantages to using centralized collaboration software such as Documentum. The main advantage being that they work very well for team collaboration. Documentum’s software keeps all files, projects, and data in one centralized location that everyone who is working on the project can access. This allows them to review and update the same document that everyone else has used, which essentially keeps everyone working on the same page.

Are there any drawbacks to Documentum?

While the collaboration software solution provided by Documentum is very useful and beneficial, there are a few drawbacks to using it. The main disadvantage being that Documentum’s software requires the use of an IT infrastructure. Another potential drawback is that it requires an extensive amount of installation time. This can be a major inconvenience to those business professionals who are always busy and on the go.

Other collaboration software options out there also require everyone you work with to have the same software in order to share information. All of these drawbacks to centralized collaboration software can be very expensive and inconvenient.

What else will work for my company?

NextPage provides an alternative solution to the centralized collaboration software. NextPage 1.5 Collaboration Software tracks documents with Digital Thread technology. Say, for instance, that you are working on your company’s budget. You want to make sure that your facts and figures are correct so you send your spreadsheet to several of your co-workers for review. They look over the spreadsheet and make the necessary changes. They then return their spreadsheet version to you, and with NextPage 1.5, you simply merge the document versions together into one. NextPage 1.5 lets you see all of this visually via a graphical version history. With the graphical version history, you would always know where the various versions of your spreadsheet are stored, what changes have been made, who has reviewed your spreadsheet, when the revisions were made, and how the revisions fit together. NextPage makes it easy to see where the document has been and what revisions have been made, eliminating the confusion of who did what and when it was done.

What advantages does NextPage have?

The major advantages to using NextPage’s collaboration software include

the following:

• Do NOT need a centralized server

• Do NOT need an IT infrastructure

• Installation can be done in a matter of minutes

• Will work with associates who are NOT NextPage subscribers

• Solves document management problems where they originate

If your company is getting lost in the mess of documents then you can benefit greatly by implementing a collaboration software solution. Solutions from Documentum or NextPage will enhance your overall organization and productivity. In this article I have got the ball rolling for you. All you need to do now is to see what solution will best fit your company. So get out there and get your company documents organized!

Mike Nielsen is a client account specialist with 10xmarketing - More Visitors. More Buyers. More Revenue. For more information about Documentum, visit NextPage.com

The internet is one of the best places to promote your business and gain more customers. However, many people think promoting your business online is an expensive and time consuming task. There are many methods that you can use to promote your business and one of the most effective methods is article marketing. Article marketing is process of writing articles on topics related to your business and submitting them to article directories to gain more exposure.

For example if you business sold acne products, you could write some acne articles which would lead people to your site where they could buy a solution to their problems. Along with gaining more customers directly, article marketing is also a good method to push your own website up in search engine rankings because the links from these sites are seen as valuable.

Another use of submitting to article directories to gain extra search engine positions in the top 10 for your keyword. For example if your site rank 1 for “acne home remedies”, you could write an article about acne home remedies and secure another spot in the top 10.

There are many places to submit your articles and some of the most popular include ezinearticles, articlealley and articlehq. Submitting a few articles to these sites will increase traffic to your website.

Microsoft Great Plains is main accounting / ERP application from Microsoft Business Solutions, targeted to the US market. It serves the whole of vertical and horizontal market: most of the industries and company sizes. Crystal Reports on the other hand is the leader in the reporting software industry and Microsoft is willing to use Crystal as main reporting tool for Great Plains, Solomon, Microsoft CRM, .Net platform, etc.

If you are developer who is asked: how do we extend Great Plains ReportWriter with somewhat more sophisticated - read this and you will have the clues on where to look further.

1. Great Plains Tables Structure - first of all you need to know the tables to link. Launch Great Plains and go to Tools->Resource Description->Tables. Find the table in the proper series. If you are looking for the customers - it should be RM00101 - customer master file. If you need historical Sales Order Processing documents - they are in SOP30200 - Sales History Header file, etc.
   
2. Create ODBC connection to GP Company database. Use the same technique as when you create standard ODBC connection for GP workstation - but change default database to targeted company database.
   
3. Consider SQL Views - if you don’t want complex links in Crystal Report itself or if you need unionization from several companies - SQL view is the answer.
   
4. Consider SQL Stored Procedures. Sometimes you can not pull the data in one view - you need temporary tables to be created and the final query should be based on these temp tables - this is when you need stored procedure.
   
5. Call Crystal Report from GP Screens via VBA/Modifier - if the user wants to call Crystal report for example - printing Invoices in GP and do it from SOP Entry window - you can use Modifier and VBA to call Crystal Reports engine.
   
6. Create SQL Query to probe the data - we always recommend tuning your query and see that you are getting adequate results - in any case - Crystal Report is just a nice tool to show the results of your query.

Happy customizing, querying and designing! if you want us to do the job - give us a call 1-866-528-0577! help@albaspectrum.com

Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, based in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Boston, New York, Houston, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Seattle and having locations in multiple states and internationally (www.albaspectrum.com), he is Dexterity, SQL, C#.Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer.

With a humid summer in the air Matches is the very best store to acquire those incredible a hot summer t-shirts. Of which there are more lovely clothing items this season as there are every other season. The greatest things about purchasing from this beautiful boutique store is that the store currently have the marvellous a humid summer sale on. 100s of reduced skirts that are just pleading you to wear as part of this summers sexiest items and might often give you the want to buy with Matches again. For this seasons Chloe Fashion check out the Matches Fashion website.

The fashion retailer is a small chain but this doesn’t mean anything. The shop have celebrated over 17 years of success and now has a number of numerous designer clothing retail shops which are located in popular areas such as Notting Hill. Along with this the designer organisation recently seen the launch of their trend setting site. Now you don’t even need to be located in busy London to try on the best skirts.

In fact it has been registered that since the launch of the designer corporation’s website the shop has let more and more trend setting clients to become aware of the designer corporation and the great shirts the designer company stock from brands such as Bottega Veneta and James Jeans along with a myriad of others.

The designer organisation philosophy has forever been to dress women and men in trends and stunning clothes that suit their own personality, to always give you the desire to wear something more trendy but allow you to wear the designer items, not for the designer items to wear you.

Each and every year the highly fashionable employees at Matches select what they believe are going to be around the key shorts of each season, this is a fashion talent that lots of clothing buyers lack but year after year the store keep coming up with best tops. Just like every other successful year, we know 2008/2009 Autumn at the fashion store is going to be something to look out for.

With Christmas nearly here there will be an enormous increase in martial toy sales. In this time the marital aid firms will be working on what toy promotions are running and what sexy toys might well be the best sellers.

Sex Bomb, the marvellous sexy toy e-tailer, is confident that vibrators will be the leading seller this Xmas. Vibrators have been such main sellers in the past as the awesome martial toy might be used by women and couples. The sex aids available this Xmas are of course getting greater with more technology. The latest martial toys are all singing all dancing and affordable making sexual toys more appealable to gents. males have always been sexy toy buyers and this Christmas will find them, on average, spending over two million pounds at Christmas.

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This year every one of us should be hinting to their friend to acquire them a sex toy or 6 The passion and spice you add to your sex life will probably really make you feel really happy. Sex toys are lovely.

There are many variants of Linux used in different computer systems today. Luckily, most Linux developers employ a common naming and utilization scheme that makes different variants of Linux easy to use and maintain. This article will discuss some important and common directories in many popular Linux distributions.

/home
Each user of a Linux system is assigned a special directory, called “home” direectory, that represents their private space on the system. For example, if a user of the system is called tom, the home directory of tom will be /home/tom. Tom has the right to create any files and directories under his home directory. This is also the default location when tom logs into the system.

/root
This is the home directory of the adminstrator or super user.

/tmp
In addition to personal hard disk space in the home directories, users are also given special access to shared temporary space in the /tmp directory. Linux systems often implement quotas on user accounts to prevent anyone from using too much disk space. The /tmp directory allows all users access to additional space to meet short term needs without charging the space against their quota. All files placed in this directory are deleted automatically after a few days.

/etc
This directory stores all the configuration files needed for the operating system. For example, startup configuration scripts are found in /etc/rc.d and network configuration scripts are found in /etc/sysconfig. Normal users cannot modify the files in /etc.

/bin and /usr/bin
Most system commands are stored as binary files only in machine readable format. Commands appropriate for use by ordinary users are either placed in the /bin or /usr/bin directory. Core commands like rm, mv, ls, cd go into /bin while supplementary utilities like compilers, firefox browser and openoffice go into /usr/bin.

/sbin and /usr/sbin
Like /bin and /usr/bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin store commands to be used only by the super user, ie root user. These include commands for attaching and removing hardware, starting and stopping the system…etc.

/var
This directory stores all the frequently changed files in the system. For example, incoming, outgoing mails, system logs, websites, ftp file archives…etc. very

Conlcusion
There are only a few directories to know to really start using Linux. If you understand what the main directories are, then exploring the sub-direectories becomes much easier. If you are lost while navigating the directories, always use “cd /” to return back the the root, “cd ..” to go up one level or use “pwd” to find out where you are. Another command “which xxx” tells you where certain commands are located.

Bernard Peh is a great passioner of web technologies and one of the co-founders of Sitecritic.net Site Reviews. He works with experienced web designers and developers for more than 5 years, developing and designing commercial and non-commercial websites. During his free time, he does website reviews, freelance SEO and PHP work.

Do you remember when gaming portables were a niche breed? Sure they were never manufactured in big volumes however resellers did gain a lot of revenue on them. The most sought after laptops were the ones that were too pricey to contemplate buying. They were pretty much desktop computer replacements and the most powerful, best laptop you could purchase. They probably weren’t great sellers though because I reckon the large number of us buy laptops that we can comfortably afford. Nowadays things are very contrasting with larger companies also making gaming portables.

They are aware there is cash to be earned here. They can control the market. With computers being classed like commodities this is a good profit channel for them. With their large marketing resources I’m confident they can convince people to buy laptops like these. For sure this would be the downfall of littler system builders? The top end technology will quickly make its way into the eyes of the average consumers. In addition the big brand name will give buyers increased confidence. Surprisingly, the portables they are producing are a few of the best laptops to date. This will give a bit of encouragement to the local retailers. Being able to get exactly what components they desire is a huge advantage for most people who are thinking of buying a gaming laptop. Buyers of this kind are typically highly knowledgeable concerning the technology involved, and hence can carry out like for like evaluations. For consumers of this type, the performance usually is of greater importance than how it looks.

This could be rather beneficial from the buyers view. One tactic that the littler retailers might utilise is to cut margins in to shift more units. I’m not actually sure any of that will occur though. Different laptop computers are continuously being launched and these new models typically start at premium prices. The larger companies have already launched their own gaming laptop line, so all we can do now is sit back and observe.

I reckon this company (http://www.rizeon.com) are rather inexpensive for the computers they are offering.

The following news story is a captivating summation of the rise of businessman Jeffrey J Steiner.

Jeffrey Steiner was a born Jewish Austrian who as a child fled his homeland during World War II to escape the Holocaust. As an adult, he speaks four languages and has residences in London, Paris, St. Tropez, Palm Beach, and New York. Jeffrey Steiner earned a degree in textile engineering from the Bradford Institute of Technology. He worked for Texas Instruments and advanced quickly through the ranks to earn a position on the management committee by age 25. He later obtained an executive position. Jeffrey Steiner worked for Texas Instruments for ten years before becoming interested in investment.

After leaving Texas Instruments, Jeffrey Steiner spent some time in Europe, where he dabbled in investment practices until deciding to return to the United States. Jeffrey J Steiner’s big break came when he bought enough shares of Banner Aerospace to become its Chairman. Rather than settling Banner’s debt, Jeffrey Steiner leveraged the company as a financial vehicle in other corporate buyouts. This eventually led to the purchase of Fairchild Industries, which Banner Aerospace rescued from the Carlyle Group and merged with its own business. Jeffrey Steiner is still Chairman of Fairchild Corporation.

GLOBE-TROTTING TAKEOVER ARTIST: Jeffrey J. Steiner; Transforming Nuts and Bolts Into Big-Time Deals

He grew up in Istanbul during World War II, after his family fled Hitler’s advance into Vienna. At one point, he was an executive at Texas Instruments Inc., at another, an owner of a Paris-based engineering firm doing business in the Middle East. He helped fund Carl Icahn’s first forays and is a buddy of the corporate raider Nelson Peltz.

Now Jeffrey J. Steiner, once one of the invisible hands in the takeover game, is stepping out on his own.

Mr. Steiner, whose investment vehicle is the Cleveland-based Banner Industries, is trying to buy Fairchild Industries, an aerospace company, in a deal valued at about $400 million. Fairchild would add to the 52-year-old takeover artist’s growing array of industrial companies that are, quite literally, nuts and bolts businesses - a collection, with annual revenues of about $1 billion, that has made Mr. Steiner a nine-digit millionaire.

”I’ve long had a goal of building a company in a specific core business and becoming No. 1 or No. 2 in that, and now I’m close to achieving it,” said Mr. Steiner, a dapper chain-smoker who dresses in the European tradition of sports jackets instead of suits and whose New York office is decorated with Andy Warhol portraits of some of his children.

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Read the full news article about GLOBE-TROTTING TAKEOVER ARTIST Jeffrey J. Steiner.

If you don’t have a list of your own then take advantage of
someone else’s to increase web site traffic!

What if I told you that there is a cost effective way to
increase web site traffic and get your ads in front of an
audience of 10,000, 15,000, 20,000, or even 50,000 targeted,
eager-to-buy, people…

Would you be interested?

I thought you would be…

The answer is not that hard; in fact it is pretty simple. It is
one of the most effective ways to advertise on the internet. The
little secret is utilizing ezines to promote your product,
service, or newsletter.

You see, there are thousands of ezines and newsletters on the
internet that will allow you to advertise in them. This is a
powerful tool that can increase web site traffic and get your
ads in front of thousands of people. Best of all these are
people that have an interest in your niche! Because they have
willingly signed up to receive the ezine that you are going to
place an ad in.

If you sell widgets then you need to find ezines that talk about
the widget industry. The beautiful thing about placing a
sponsor/solo ad in an ezine is that you are, in essence,
performing a joint venture. In some ways it is better than a
joint venture because you do not have to share the revenue with
someone. You simply pay to run the ad and then wait to get the
results.

In order to effectively utilize ezine ads to increase web site
traffic, you need to focus on 2 things.

FIND EZINES THAT ARE RIGHT FOR YOUR PRODUCT OR SERVICE

The first key to effective ezine advertising is to locate ezines
that are in the same industry as your product or service. You
certainly do not want to place an ad about fishing equipment in
an ezine about online marketing!

In my opinion, the best place to search for ezines is the
Directory of Ezines. It is the largest and oldest directory on
the web.

You can find it at http://www.directoryofezines.com

In the DOE (Directory of Ezines) you will find thousands of
ezines. I am sure that you will be able to find some in your
niche market. If not, and yours is an in demand market, then
there is an opportunity to start your own ezine! We will save
that for another article…

Do some research and find out how large their mailing list is,
how often they send out their publication, and how much the
advertising cost.

Do not focus on how large the list is for each ezine. Some
ezines with smaller, more targeted lists can be some of your
most profitable. I recommend visiting the site of the ezine and
subscribing to it so you can get a look for yourself. Please do
not pay for an ad to an ezine without reading the publication
yourself to see if it is a high quality publication.

I would suggest buying ads in as many as you can afford and
tracking the results to see how effective each has been. When
you find one that converts well then you know you will be able
to go back to that one over and over again!

Now that we have located the ezines that we want to advertise
in, it is time to take a look at the second factor for
successful ezine promotion.

WRITE AN EFFECTIVE AD THAT WILL GET THE CLICKS!

In order for ezine advertising to effectively increase web site
traffic you must have a terrific ad that pulls people in and
makes them click. If you are advertising in a targeted ezine
for your market, you already have a laser targeted audience. The
trick is to get them interested enough in your ad to force them
to click through to your site.

Mainly, there are two types of ads in an ezine:

1. Solo Ad
2. Sponsor Ad

First, let’s discuss the solo ad. This is usually the most
expensive ad to run in an ezine. The reason for this is because
it is the only ad on that page. These are also the most
effective ads to use in ezine advertising. Focus Now…These ads
are going to every subscriber for that ezine as a solo email! It
is almost as if the person that publishes the ezine is promoting
the product for you.

There are 3 ways to lay this ad out that work really well.

1. Compile the email like a mini-sales letter. Make sure that
you use direct response tactics that will get the clicks.

2. Put the ad in the form of a brochure that provides the potential
customer with valuable information about the product or service.
Try to make them think that this is a product they can’t live
without.

3. This is my favorite! Write the ad in the form of an
article that endorses the product or service. Give examples of
how you have used the product or service successfully in your
business. Make the article an Advertorial…These work really
well. Most people like good information, so supply them with
some.

The second form of ezine ads is the sponsor ad. Usually, there
are three sponsor ads in an ezine, the top sponsor ad, the
middle sponsor ad, and the bottom sponsor ad. The top ad is
usually the most expensive but you get the best conversion!

The middle sponsor ad would be the next in line in cost and
conversion with the bottom ad being the cheapest and least
converting ad. You need to do whatever your budget will allow,
but I would strongly suggest a top sponsor ad if you are going
to use sponsor ads.

Sponsor ads need to be written much like a classified ad. Make
sure that it applies solid direct response principles, because
the goal is to get the click!

Many ezines also have free classifieds that you can put your ads
in. I would encourage you to utilize these as well. The more
you get your name in front of people the more and more hits you
will begin to see on your site.

One last thing! Make sure that you track all of the ads you
run. When you find an ad that generates a great conversion then
expand your marketing methods using that same ad. You will also
find that some of these ezines perform better than others when
it comes to conversion, so track it!

Ezine advertising will increase web site traffic! It has been a
proven marketing method for me and I am sure that it can be for
you as well. If you will take these tips and use them as a
guide then your sales will explode. Remember, not all ezines are
created equal, so keep looking until you find the ones that get
you the clicks you’re looking for.

Mark Williams can show you how to start and grow your own internet home based business with proven techniques to increase web site traffic. For more tips visit his site:
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Purpose of this article is to introduce hidden treasures and places in Rome unknown to the mass but enchanting for their beauty and historical value; advises and reviews on Hotels in Rome.

Planning an Itinerary to Rome can be difficult if you are unsure of what to visit: sometimes it’s better to take a Rome Tour. This article gives some insight to some must places of the Eternal City.
Must see places in Rome:

Piazza della Repubblica
The exedra of the great Imperial baths is the perspective backdrop to the 19th century and modern Rome

Santa Maria in Aracoeli
Traditional gathering place for Romans on the night of 24th Decemberfor the Santa Messa of Christmas. The story of a Pagan Templewhich was then transformed into a meeting place for the Christian Cult: its trasures and its painting masterpieces are conserved inside it.

Foro Romano
The ancient Forum of the citi boasts a multi century history and conserves the signs of a progressive sedimentation of ages and cultures. Its principal monuments are described in the plan.

Vatican Museums
The most important artistic collection in the city, rich with masterpieces, and of surprising architectural beauty. At the end of the museum tour there’s the Sistine Chapel, the traditional place of the Papal election, the palatine chapel, and the theater of the Vatican palaces. The masterpiece of Michelangelo as painter.