• Comprehensive UML analysis and design tool.
• Rich modeling for business, software and systems.
• Full traceability from requirements to deployment.
• Code engineering in over 10 languages.
• Scalable, team-based repository.
• Enterprise frameworks, mind maps, BPMN, more...

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High Value, End-To-End Modeling

Enterprise Architect provides full life cycle modeling for:

• Business and IT systems
• Software and Systems Engineering
• Real-time and embedded development

With built-in requirements management capabilities, Enterprise Architect helps you trace high-level specifications to analysis, design, implementation, test and maintenance models using UML, SysML, BPMN and other open standards.

Enterprise Architect is a multi-user, graphical tool designed to help your teams build robust and maintainable systems.

And using high quality, built-in reporting and documentation, you can deliver a truly shared vision easily and accurately!

Speed, Stability and Performance

Fast! Enterprise Architect users agree - Enterprise Architect is a spectacularly fast performer, loading extremely large models in seconds.

Featuring a high-performance model repository, Enterprise Architect easily accommodates large teams sharing the same view of the enterprise.

With tightly integrated version control capabilities, Enterprise Architect also allows globally distributed teams to collaborate effectively on shared projects.

End-to-End Traceability

Enterprise Architect provides complete traceability from requirements, analysis and design models, through to implementation and deployment.

Effective verification, validation and immediate impact analysis are possible across the entire life cycle, using such capabilities as Enterprise Architect's Relationship Matrix and Hierarchy View.

Combined with built-in task and resource allocation, Project managers and QA teams are equipped with the right information to help deliver projects successfully.

Model, Manage and Trace Requirements

Capture and trace formal requirements to design, build, deployment and beyond.

Use impact analysis to trace proposed changes to original requirements. Build the right system.

Enterprise Architect’s built-in requirements management features can be used to:

• Define an organized, hierarchical requirements model
• Trace the implementation of system requirements to model elements
• Search and report on requirements
• Perform impact analysis of proposed changes to requirements

Manage Complexity

Enterprise Architect helps individuals, groups and large organizations model and manage complex information.

By integrating and connecting a wide range of structural and behavioral information in visual form, you can build a coherent, verifiable model of what-is or what-will-be.

Tools built into Enterprise Architect that help you manage complexity include:

• Diagrams for modeling strategic and business level concepts
• Domain-specific profiles and reusable model patterns
• Baseline and version management for tracking and integrating changes
• Role-based security to help the right people contribute in the right way

Powerful Document Generation

Enterprise Architect provides powerful document generation and reporting tools with a full WYSIWYG template editor.

Generate detailed reports with the information you need in the format your company or client demands!

At the click of a button automatically produce HTML versions of your model for easy distribution over the Internet or your organization's intranet.

Generation and Reverse Engineering of Source Code

Enterprise Architect supports generation and reverse engineering of source code for many popular languages, including:

• ActionScript
• Ada
• C and C++
• C#
• Java
• Delphi
• Verilog
• PHP
• VHDL
• Python
• System C
• VB.Net
• Visual Basic
• and more...

The built-in source code editor lets you quickly navigate from model directly to source code in the same environment.

Tight integrations for Eclipse and Visual Studio .NET, provide developers with direct access to blueprints and modeling capabilities right inside the IDE.

Code generation templates let you customize generated source code according to your company specifications.

Visualize your Applications

Enterprise Architect helps you visualize your applications by supporting reverse engineering of a wide range of software development languages and database repository schema.

Bring in complete frameworks and legacy systems from source code, jar files or even .Net binary assemblies!

By importing frameworks and library code, you can maximize re-use and understanding of your existing investment.

Advanced Model Driven Architecture

Enterprise Architect supports advanced Model Driven Architecture (MDA) transformations using easy to edit transform templates.

With built-in transformations for:

• C#
• DDL
• EJB
• Java
• JUnit
• NUnit
• WSDL
• XSD

You can quickly develop detailed solutions from abstract models.

A single platform independent model (PIM) can drive generation of multiple platform-specific target solutions - providing a significant productivity boost!

Debugging, Compiling and Visualizing Executing Code

Enterprise Architect enables you to build, test, debug, run and execute deployment scripts, all from within the Enterprise Architect development environment.

With the ability to generate NUnit and JUnit test classes from source classes using MDA Transformations and integrate the test process directly into the Enterprise Architect IDE, you can now integrate UML and modeling into the build/test/execute/deploy process.

In addition to build/test and execute functionality, Enterprise Architect includes debugging capabilities for Java, .NET and Microsoft Native (C++, C and VB).

The debuggers built into Enterprise Architect are specifically designed to enable a developer or tester to capture stack trace information as they ‘walk through’ the executing code, performing runtime inspection of suspended threads.

They can then use the final stack trace history to generate Sequence diagrams within Enterprise Architect, converting the actual code execution and calls into visual diagrams.

Automation - Harness the Power

The Automation Interface lets you access the internals of Enterprise Architect models.

Some examples of tasks you could perform via the Automation Interface:

• Automatically generate and publish a daily HTML report to your local intranet
• Script repetitive tasks, such as property update common to all model elements
• Generate code from a state machine or diagram
• Produce custom reports
• Execute ad hoc queries against the model

Any development environment capable of generating ActiveX Com clients can be used to connect to Enterprise Architect's Automation Interface.

Powerful Database Modeling

Enterprise Architect’s built-in Data Modeling profile extends UML to provide an intuitive mapping from the database concepts of tables and relationships onto the UML concepts of classes and associations.

These extensions also enable you to model database keys, triggers, constraints, RI and other relational database features.

Enterprise Architect supports modeling of database schema and automatic generation of DDL scripts for eleven DBMS targets out-of-the-box:

• DB2
• InterBase
• Informix
• Ingres
• MS Access
• MySQL
• MS SQL Server
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• Sybase ASE, ASA
• Firebird

Systems Engineering and Simulation

Integrating many high-end features for Systems Engineers, the Ultimate and Systems Engineering editions of Enterprise Architect provide built-in support for:

• SysML 1.1
• Parametric model simulation
• Executable code generation
• Model to code transformations for Hardware Description Languages and ADA 2005

Business Process Modeling

There are many approaches to Business Process Modeling (BPM) using UML as the base modeling language.

In particular, Activity diagrams, Object Diagrams and custom Profiles provide powerful modeling approaches for Business Analysts.

Enterprise Architect complements UML 2.1 with BPMN support and extension elements for analysis, requirements management and process management (such as change, feature and issue elements).

Enterprise Architect's Business Process Modeling capabilities let you:

• Visualize business process with a UML profile for BPMN
• Generate executable BPEL scripts from BPMN models
• Validate the correctness of BPMN models

Build upon UML 2.1

Enterprise Architect’s foundations are built upon the UML 2 specification - but it doesn’t stop there!

Use UML Profiles to extend the modeling domain, while Model Validation ensures integrity.

Combine Business Processes, Information and Work Flows in the one model using our free extensions for BPMN and the Eriksson-Penker profile.

Effective Project Management

Project managers can use Enterprise Architect to:

• Assign resources to elements
• Measure risk and effort
• Estimate project size and complexity
• Implement change control and maintenance procedures

Enterprise Architect's Use Case Metrics capability makes it easy to assess relative project complexity, based on the number and type of use cases within the model, the type of project and capabilities of the development environment.

With experience, use case metrics provide a great way to quickly assess the scope of a project.

Note: Available Enterprise Architect features vary according to the edition purchased.

Enterprise Architect 8 is a high performance modeling, visualization and design platform based on the UML 2.1 standard.

With complete traceability from mind mapping, through requirements to business and software design and deployment , Enterprise Architect 8 provides the kind of robust and efficient visualization and collaboration required in today's large and demanding modeling environments.

A truly agile modeling solution, Enterprise Architect 8 provides a low installation overhead, sparkling performance and an intuitive interface.

Keep your entire team on the same page with Enterprise Architect 8, a tool priced for team deployment and designed for real-world situations.

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Corporate Edition

The Corporate Edition of Enterprise Architect is a comprehensive modeling solution targeted at larger development teams.

Supporting a rich feature-set including model auditing, version control, role based security, mind mapping, the option for a DBMS repository, MDG Technology creation and utilization, shared models, debug and visualization for running applications, and more.

Automation interface access gives other applications the ability to create, access and modify Enterprise Architect UML elements.

The ability to import and export XMI compliant models allows for data distribution and model comparison to established baselines.

Rapid report generation in HTML and Rich Text Format, producing professional quality reports in seconds.

Corporate Edition also supports user security, replication and user level locking of elements and diagrams.

This comprehensive array of features makes it perfect for any large development team.

• Single License US $335
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Professional Edition

The Professional Edition is a powerful modeling and visualization tool aimed at work groups, analysts and developers.

It supports shared projects through replication, shared network files and version control integration.

Edition features include code and database engineering, MDG technologies, mind mapping, a project discussion forum and RTF report customization.

Access to the Automation interface gives other applications the ability to create, access and modify Enterprise Architect UML elements.

The Professional Edition allows teams to debug and visualize running applications, manage and trace requirements and build complex systems.

• Single License US $199
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Desktop Edition

The Desktop Edition of Enterprise Architect is a cost effective solution for UML and business process modeling, visualization and test management.

It is targeted at the individual analyst or developer that requires a flexible modeling environment with support for end to end traceability from mind mapping through to requirements and deployment.

The Desktop Edition supports version control integration and profile/meta-model extensibility coupled with HTML and rich text report generation.

Access to the Automation interface gives other applications the ability to create, access and modify Enterprise Architect UML elements.

Use mind maps to represent ideas, tasks and key concepts organized around a central theme as an aid to problem solving and structured decision making.

EAP project files are used to store and capture UML 2.1 models that can be used to visualize, inspect and understand complex software.

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What is Linux?

Linux is an operating system, like Microsoft Windows, MacOS, or Unix. It was created as a hobby by Linus Torvalds, a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland. What most people don’t know about Linux is that its source code is available to anyone. The Linux source code is called the kernel and it is the base of the Linux operating system. Because the source code or kernel is free, it has enabled hundreds of companies and individuals to release their own operating systems based on the Linux system. These operating systems or formats are often referred to as Linux distributions.

Each distribution has its own set of features and functionality that makes it unique. While Linux is generally considered free-ware and people associate that with no cost, that is not always the case. Some distributions are available for download for free and others are available on CD or floppy disk and have a small charge associated with them. You can find a list of distributions at http://www.linux.org/ and a list of applications at http://www.Linux.org/apps/

Because if the adaptability of Linux it has been embraced and supported by a number of operating systems and software programs. For example, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and other giants of the computing world have embraced Linux and support its ongoing development and openoffice.org and Mozilla run on Linux. US retailing giant Wal-Mart began selling Linux systems back in 2002 – if Wal-Mart isn’t mainstream, nothing is.

What are the benefits of Linux?

Many people fear that Linux is going to be difficult to work with or that it will be difficult to find software that will run on Linux however Linux is a very standard operating system, compatible with just about any software you need.

Beyond being a standard operating system, Linux supports open source software which makes it a very economical operating system, especially if you program your own software. It offers many free or low cost applications which include, basic desktop applications like web browsers, email programs, word processing programs, spreadsheets, graphics programs, and file managers.

Linux can easily operate as a central server for your business. With Linux, you can serve your own web pages up for public consumption and handle your own email.

Linux doesn’t require top of the line hardware though many recommend you have at least 256 MB of RAM and at least 4 GB of space in your hard drive.

Linux is considered to be extremely stable and doesn’t need to be rebooted periodically to maintain performance levels. Think about the last time you sat at your computer and it froze. Not fun, right? That doesn’t happen with Linux if it is configured correctly.

Linux isn’t going to be replaced anytime soon and when bugs are found in the system, a developer are quickly on the job and often times a solution is offered within a matter of hours, not months or years like many other operating systems.

Linux is also fast and can handle a number of tasks at the same time.

Linux also claims to be one of the most secure operating systems isn’t plagued with the viruses that other operating systems generally deal with.

Linux is free from having to upgrade it or deal with proprietary file formats and licensing fees. You don’t have to register it due to its open source format.

You can have both Linux and windows on your computer. (You’ll have to partition them on your hard drive and you can only boot them one at a time.)

Drawbacks of Linux

There is no 1800 customer service number to call. However, most distributions offer a support number or email to call if you find a bug. They also generally come with installation instructions.

You cannot run applications for MS windows on Linux. However, there are Linux emulators or applications that enable you to run some windows applications on your Linux system. They operate like a translator. Some of these ‘translation or emulator’ products are free and others are available for a price.

Linux is not able to run some advanced financial applications or reproduce some proprietary multimedia formats.

Tips and Advice:

Choose a popular distribution has a large developer community. A large developer community means that you’ll find the programs that you need easily and you will be able to install them with the same ease. The more well-known distributions have prepared programs in ‘packages’ that are easy to install. On top of this, there are tools designed especially for a particular distribution to manage these packages to make sure that programs run correctly right away. The website Distrowatch.com maintains a comprehensive list of the most popular distributions.

Get the latest version of your chosen distribution. The newer the Linux distribution version, the better the hardware support. The number of glitches you’ll get in the installation process decreases with the newness of the version of Linux you choose.

Consider paying for your Linux distribution. It is true that you can get a full-featured Linux operating system free of charge by downloading it from any number of sources. This is an excellent alternative to an operating system like Windows, which either comes pre-loaded with a newly purchased computer (which gets figured into the cost), is bought separately or copied ‘illegally’. In most people’s experience, the popular Linux distributions are easy to install. However, if you do run into some glitch (normally hardware related), you may have a frustrating experience. Although there are a number of excellent Linux support forums out there, personalized advice on your particular problem may be hard to find.

Use an appropriate computer. if you want to use Linux to do the same things that you would with Windows XP or Mac OS X, then you’ll need the newest computer you can get your hands on. Avoiding ‘elite’ video cards and new, exotic hardware will also work in your favor because you won’t have to deal with hardware support which may be inferior to hardware support from other operating systems.

Bottom Line:

Linux is a fantastic and powerful operating system that can handle most or all of your operating needs. It is secure, fast, reliable, and generally extremely cost effective. When purchased or obtained through a reliable distributor and installed and configured correctly there are virtually no drawbacks to running Linux. Additionally, you don’t have to give up your windows if you don’t want to.

MemberSpeed Content Management software can run on any Linux Any Linux based Hosting Platform (Preferably RHEL 3 or above).

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First of all we have to introduce in world wide hosting services provider – Hosting24hour.com is a leading web hosting services provider in the world. We offer all kinds of affordable quality Linux hosting services in our network to grow your business and web site hosting solutions. Before choosing reliable web hosting solutions for your company web site, you have taken a look at some points and not to confuse you about hosting services.

The web pages are designed with various software platforms. This can be done using the Windows or Linux platforms, too. How can a web page, developed with the UNIX or Linux operating system platforms as UNIX / Linux based hosting. There is no great difference between these two, and we can say that Linux web hosting is an updated version of the Linux / UNIX systems.

Choosing a web hosting solutions, there is an important decision. So important that it is quite surprising, this is often overlooked or disregarded. There are two main operating systems are Linux and Windows. Now we will discuss about advantages and disadvantages of both operating systems.

Which is better Windows or Linux Web Hosting?

On the Internet there is an enormous amount of argument over which operating system is best for web hosting solutions. The web hosting servers run the web site and the server software all run on a computer program known as the operating system. If you use a personal computer chances are that you are using Windows ME, XP, NT or some other similar computer program. This is your computer’s operating system. With web hosting servers they also need an operating system, and there are essentially two different competing versions. If you want more about these hosting system and better information about web hosting solutions visit at Hosting24hour.com

Windows Hosting:

All of the first Windows; Microsoft makes an operating system mainly for servers. This operating system allows for a true integration with Microsoft products and also allows web sites to Active Server Pages. Microsoft server also allows integration with its SQL database, which is a powerful database. The downside of Microsoft’s server software is that it costs several thousand dollars for each server. Possible options include Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server and Server 2003. Additional software will be extra costs such as: firewall, remote admin programs, ASP Encrypt, ASP Mail, and many other applications needed to make your server ready for production.

Windows hosting should be used if your site is using Microsoft features. If you plan to have a website that uses databases, you will also want to use Microsoft hosting. Web sites where you can interact with your visitors or customers used Windows hosting. Visitors can easily access database and implement online chat services and so many other interactive features.

With Windows hosting, web sites can use e-commerce functions. If someone has little or no experience webmaster, they should consider Windows hosting. Linux hosting services can be a little harder to manage for someone who does not have much experience but good one in web hosting solutions. Sites that are created on the Windows servers can be difficult to convert, so that they can easily be used on a Linux server. This may be something that you want, when planning your web site or the choice between Windows and Linux hosting.

Linux hosting:

The next version of web hosting solutions is the Linux hosting services is actually a common name with quality website hosting services for a variety of operating systems. Linux was developed by a community of people who come together to jointly write, for the most part of Linux. After this largely developed and refined, other parts are in the program in order to end what the end consumer wants.

Although the Windows hosting platforms are generally reliable, but Linux hosting services have a good reputation in particular for the provision of both stable and reliable web hosting solutions. Customers with sites on a Linux hosting server can be sure that their sites are safe. Linux hosting solutions are usually also very efficient and reliable. However, Linux web hosting becomes a top reputation for able, stable, secure and reliable hosting services. If your site is like a brochure, which is online, you may want to use Linux website hosting services for your company web site. The stability of Linux comes with quality website hosting such a website is very good. Linux hosting is also compatible with e-commerce functions for small business web hosting. Select a best affordable Linux hosting solution for your business at: Hosting24hour.com.

A large number of web hosting companies market Linux hosting solutions and you might have heard of a few: Red Hat, Debian, Slack ware, etc. Linux web hosting is good that it is compatible with the popular web programming language PHP. It is also favored by some best web hosting providers in that it generally has a good safety record and is usually on average to a stable operating system.

Linux software is usually free or inexpensive; APF firewall, Apache, Send mail, BIND and much more. We recommend that you use a virus scanner such as Clam-or F-Prot and Mail Scanner. Linux servers are difficult to manage, in comparison to Windows but provide quality website hosting for your business needs. Everything is done by remote shell access (such as Dos, remember Dos!). There is no right interfaces or buttons to click on – just a huge amount of commands. Although all this console power, you have much more control over your actual server compared to Windows.

Linux Hosting Services Features:

- PHP and MySQL support

- Apache Web Server

- Mod Rewrite Support

- Chmod file permissions

Yes, what is the best? Now it depends on your business or website need. If you want the tightest security you can then Linux hosting solutions are probably for you. But it is very technical to install, and you are not many extras. What about compatibility with PHP? You can see it is much effective as your operating system is the best, but which operating system is best for what I do.

Allows easy if you need to develop your site in ASP then you can use any one web hosting company. If you develop in PHP then definitely go with best Linux hosting Provider Company like Hosting24hour. They provide cheap Linux hosting, domain hosting services, powerful reseller web hosting plans and several shared web hosting packages.

Shared Hosting:

Shared hosting, web or shared hosting as is known, in some cases, than the most basic form of web hosting, as the most common Linux web hosting plans come with very basic resources and the server itself, they are among many different shared hosting accounts. Our shared web hosting solutions allows you to easily start in the Linux web hosting world, since most shared web hosting packages with some affordable web hosting services and the most common web hosting accounts are the cheapest form of web hosting to at the present time.

Shared hosting can be used for the hosting of websites basic research, not much traffic, as you will notice that you do not have much space or bandwidth, the basic common web hosting plans, shared web hosting packages can also as a development environment where you can test all the new sites or applications that you have before them in the use of a live and active web hosting environment.

Shared web hosting accounts are hosted in the normally high specification servers because of the nature of the common web hosting, the server hosting shared web hosting account easy targets for hackers and other malicious attackers. Although common web hosting servers are now safer than they are used, it is not a hacker much trouble to a shared hosting server that has weak security measures in place. However, the performance of a server during a malicious attack also depends on the server load at the time, which means that if one server was to attack if they have a high burden, it would still likely crash.

Web hosting:

Web hosting account also use other services in most cases so that you the complete web hosting experience, for example, you can access your shared web hosting account with a control panel or via FTP protocol.

Web hosting account in the form of backup web hosting hosted usually in highly reliable web hosting server with several disks in RAID configuration to ensure that no data is lost when one of the server’s hard disk fails or Encounters an error. Web hosting space accounts in the form of hosting hosted in the normally high specification servers, though the software may be used, because different web hosting needs to be as easy to manage for both the web hosting provider and web hosting services, as well as for those customers who rent a web hosting provider of web space. A high specification for use with web hosting space can also ensure that customers with a respectable amount of uptime.

Virtual hosting:

Virtual hosting is usually in the form of Virtual Private Hosting Server, which is widely regarded as fill for the large price gap between web hosting reseller for those who need to host several websites and dedicated hosting server. Although, as shared and Linux reseller hosting accounts you have the physical web hosting node with other VPS hosting servers, you have access to your own dedicated reseller hosting environment with your own resources guarantees which means that you are usually allowed to install any program you want on a VPS hosting servers. Virtual Private web hosting servers are the best web hosting solution for you if you want to start your own web hosting company, or seek to host the websites you for your web design clients, this is because If you want to install your own server-side components, or if you want to install your own software, then this can easily do without impact on other web users.

For standard virtual Linux website hosting account, you will notice that your web hosting provider gave you access to the control panel for Linux virtual hosting services. The control panel with affordable web hosting services to be taken into account, because they allow web hosting providers company to manage their Linux web hosting services with ease, and even the web hosting customers to manage their cheapest web hosting plan with ease.

As a business consultant, web designer and photographer my technical know-how around doing system administration on my Microsoft desktop is limited and sometimes I do require the assistant of my computer engineering son to get it right. In a Microsoft Environment, keeping updated with respect to potential security breaches and patches is a constant vigil. The rigor of keeping current with OS updates, Norton updates and Spyware updates is time consuming. Valuable business hours each week are spend and lost on this task of self-administration dictated by the Microsoft Operating Environment.

So with the purchase of an IBM T40 (a tough notebook), increasing system administration time was not an option. This alone forced an serious consideration of Linux as an alternative operating environment. That was five years ago. Now an established Linux user, I can clearly profess the capabilities and benefits of Linux for small and large businesses, especially, when it comes to notebook deployment.

What Linux variant is best for small business and notebook deployment in your company?

As a small and medium business development manager with Sun Microsystems, exposure to Linux and the debate around its viability was a daily event. Questioning and challenging the virtues of Open Source (FREE) Linux versus Licensed Linux versions like Red Hat and Novell SuSE continues to this day . After years of personal use of Open Source (Free) Linux, I can never go back to running the Microsoft Operating Environment on my notebook. And once you can get Linux versions of Quick books, Quick Tax and Picasa (now available on Linux), there is no reason to stay in that perpetual administrative nightmare world of Microsoft.

Having successfully deployed two Open Source Linux variants on my IBM T40 notebook over the last 5 years, a compelling comparison can be made between Fedora and Ubuntu. Fedora, the Open Source version of Red Hat, required the installation expertise of some Linux gurus from Belleville Ontario. It worked fine, but required some Linux ninja system administration every 6-9 months. Administration items applied during these visits included upgrades to Open Office (the open source version of Star Office), Linux OS fixes and new peripheral drivers. This, again, turned out to be a drain on my scarce time for doing real business.

Now the Linux called Ubuntu is installed on my notebook. Ubuntu by Canonical is a full Open Source Linux based on Debian Linux. Ubuntu is now available on Dell systems and Federal Governments are adding this Linux operating environment to their list of standard available OS’s for all desktop and notebook computers.

Right out of the gate, Ubuntu was simple to install. You could even bring down a trial copy to experience exactly how it would behave on your notebook before downloading and committing the Ubuntu OS environment to your machine. But the best part is that Ubuntu continuously keeps on top of OS and all related application software updates. Ubuntu has an Update Manager that magically appears in desktop tool bar. And with a simple click (and password) you are kept current on the latest versions of Ubuntu patches, any Linux application software you have installed from Canonical and Open Office upgrades.

With Linux rebooting your machine after an update is nearly non-existent.

Oh, as an added treat with Ubuntu, Ubuntu boots up on your machine in less than a minute. I still go get a coffee when my Microsoft desktop is booting up. An additional benefit of Ubuntu: there is no requirement for installing ant-virus and anti-spyware software. Ubuntu inherently repels these vial scourges of the internet.

With Ubuntu your system administration life will become simple and painless. You can spend more quality business hours selling and marketing.

Want to cut hidden costs in your organization that manifest themselves as Microsoft self-administration by your end users?

Ubuntu is a must for you or your IT folks to consider. Seriously consider, test and deploy.

In this day’s websites normally requires simple web hosting plans for smooth performance of the website and email transfer that is essential. There are two modes of hosting planes are generally available, first is Linux hosting and second one is Windows hosting. Both have several advantages and disadvantages respectively but Depending upon small business owner’s requirements suitable managed hosting plan can be selected for a specific website.

Well in most of the normal situations, the general preference of small business owners for choosing web hosting plan moves towards the Linux server hosting plans rather than window server hosting, because there are numerous optimistic factor that influence people to choose it.

Expenditure Factor

The truth is that Linux hosting plans are much economical than Windows servers plans. For all small business people the web hosting price matters vastly. They wish to receive many options or you can say facilities at a tiny expenditure. Most of them not required supreme type of security and they also do not bother whether it is MS-SQL database server or some thing else to develop their database. Thus Linux server is the best option for them at really least cost with several kinds of features.

Open Source Factor

Linux is an Open Source code and enables people from all around the world to promote their own knowledge for its development. This is one of the main reasons where Linux servers have the power to eject Windows servers far away form competitive hosting industry. Now a day’s, due to its farthest adaptability Linux becomes a unique platform for lots of fresh technologies that are mostly used in competitive hosting industry. This means that a Linux server gives you numerous features than Windows servers can does.

Scripting Language Factor

There are many scripting language available on the Internet like Perl, Python, Java, and PHP to build your site. All these scripting languages and have been developed on Linux / UNIX web servers and they do not required Microsoft support to run them. But when you use those scripting languages which can be run on windows servers like ASP.Net then you require MS-SQL to develop the database and other supports of Microsoft. Now it is easily understandable that for small business owners Linux hosting is best to host their website into the internet.

Dependability Factor

Now a day’s Linux is vastly known as really steady and dependable. This means that Linux servers are little faster, easy to use and reputed as non crushable than a Windows server. Thus, Linux servers will provide more upgraded facilities for your website at a minimum outlay.

Familiarity and Executing Speed Factor

Linux servers have years of experience for providing services than Windows servers in hosting industry. There is no such recommendable difference in executing speed between Linux servers and Windows servers, but it is viewed that Linux servers are slightly quicker in processing normal website pages.

Efficiency Factor

Windows support ASP which is a programming language supported by Microsoft, which allows people to fabricate dynamic database motivated website pages by connecting with a MS-SQL server or Access server. It increase the production cost as well. Linux neither requires ASP language nor MS-SQL databases to build dynamic database driven website pages, because it simply uses MySQL database which is freely available.

A solid knowledge of your customers is vital to succeed in today’s modern information driven business world. Small businesses are widely considered to provide a better customer service because the decision makers are closer to their clients than in much larger companies. Managing customer relations has grown increasingly complicated as market forces and trends change at a much faster rate than in the past, and with the internet revolution, that is set to continue and accelerate.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Small Business Edition is designed to work with other Microsoft applications such as Microsoft Small Business Server 2003, Outlook, Word, Excel and Publisher. Working together, the Microsoft Dynamics Suite greatly helps your staff to build closer customer relationships and achieve new levels of productivity and profitability.

Here are 5 ways Microsoft Dynamics Suite can help your small business save time and money:

1. Centralize all your customer information

Microsoft Dynamics Suite captures all customer contact information from your sales, marketing and support sections of your business and houses the information in a central repository. Microsoft Dynamics CRM v3.0 provides instant access to whoever needs the information, wherever they are and when they need it. This reduces costs by minimizing non-productive time wasted, increases profitability by maximizing cross-selling opportunities and enhances customer relations with a more personalized approach from all staff in contact with customers.

2. Protect your customer information

Microsoft Dynamics CRM v3.0 has built-in security features to ensure your customer information is protected and kept confidential. Employees are only given access to that information on a customer that is required for the role they need to perform. By combining Microsoft Dynamics CRM v3.0 with Small Business Server, a powerful firewall is provided that allows mobile employees and remote locations to have secure and enhanced access to customer information while out of the office. The ability for mobile and remote workers to access customer information out of the office allows them to continue to be supported and productive as well as spend more time where they need to be – with customers and prospects.

3. Integrate with Microsoft Office Outlook

Microsoft Dynamics CRM v3.0 has been designed with Outlook in mind, and can be enabled to let your employees work directly from their Outlook email client. This close integration with Outlook and other Microsoft applications such as Word and Excel means that all staff with client contact can look up customer information, manage email communications, arrange appointments, record customer and prospect contacts from within Outlook and share this across the business with the Microsoft Dynamics Suite. This makes staff more productive, generating greater revenues and reducing time wastage dealing with administrative customer affairs.

4. Tailor Microsoft Dynamics Suite to your small business

The Microsoft Dynamics Suite contains a configuration wizard so you can tailor the customer relationship software solution to meet the particular needs of your business. You can customize and modify forms, construct your own data entry fields and arrange how information is to be presented while an intuitive engine allows for automation of repetitive tasks. An alert system raises flags when you need to perform a task so nothing need ever fall down between the cracks.

Microsoft Dynamics Suite is an out-of-the-box solution that is quickly and cheaply implemented while maintenance costs are also minimal. The Microsoft Dynamics Suite is also scaleable to meet the future demands of your business with additional features that can be added as and when the need arises.

5. Fast and simple implementation gets you up and running quickly

Microsoft Dynamics CRM v3.0 has a very fast and simple set-up to speed up productivity and profitability, this minimizes business disruption. For existing users of Microsoft Office applications, the customer relationship software solution is readily adopted by your staff as it has been designed to look and feel like all other Office applications so use is intuitive.
This minimizes the costs of implementation and user adoption while at the same time increases productivity with minimal business disruption and faster adoption by employees.

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Centralize and manage your customer, contact, sales, and project information within the familiar look and feel of Office Outlook. Manage your time and information, connect across boundaries, and protect your information with Outlook 2007. Office Outlook 2007 helps users better manage their time and information, connect across boundaries, and help remain safe and in control. Here are the top 10 ways that Office Outlook 2007 helps users increase productivity and improve collaboration. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a customer relationship management (CRM) solution that provides the tools and capabilities needed to create and easily maintain a clear picture of customers, from first contact through to purchase and post-sales. Empower every employee to boost sales, satisfaction, and service with automated CRM that’s easy to use, customize, and maintain. Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions are typically implemented for you by a Microsoft partner with the right industry and technical expertise. Implementations are painless and fast, enabling your business to continue without interruption. Your in-house technologists or Microsoft partner can customize the solutions and help to ensure they suit your requirements. Because the solutions require little continuous maintenance and have a low-adoption threshold with users, you can enable your IT staff to focus more on business-critical issues rather than on running technology.

Microsoft Supply Chain Management Software

Microsoft Dynamics solutions provide you with a multitude of ways to plan, coordinate, and execute delivery of goods and services with increased productivity and gain a strong return on investment as a result of better individual and team productivity, streamlined operations, and more effective collaboration. Build productive vendor relationships Microsoft Dynamics solutions can help your people work with business partners and suppliers in such a way that everybody’s business model can advance and key business relationships deliver high value. As you empower your team to work productively with other companies in your supply chain, you also support those vendors and suppliers in attaining their own business goals Microsoft Dynamics supply-chain management solutions Each of the following solutions come under the Microsoft Dynamics family of products providing functionality to automate and help you improve supply-chain management processes.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0

Microsoft Dynamics software solutions for financial management give your people a way to raise the visibility of financial metrics and the effectiveness of financial management throughout your organization-all using familiar tools and existing skills.

Microsoft Dynamics solutions for financial management can provide tools and insight to help your team make more informed decisions. These tools and insights can help your company set a competitive direction for your business. With Financial Management tools from Microsoft Dynamics, you can transform financial and executive management of your company into a dependable, efficient process.

Microsoft Dynamics AX provides you and your people with fast, reliable, and comprehensive accounting, financial reporting, and analysis capabilities. It offers a straightforward way for business managers and others to create, view, and understand multidimensional reports and manage fixed assets efficiently. They can also add new functionality quickly and with limited coding. What’s more, Microsoft Dynamics AX helps you manage a broad range of other business areas, so you minimize the need for multiple systems.

As Microsoft Dynamics Technology partner, we would like to revisit popular Microsoft Dynamics CRM integration scenarios and technologies. This publication is intended to IT professionals and Microsoft Dynamics technical support people. Upfront we have to admit, that we are not reviewing any third party tools and Microsoft CRM Add-ons, we are considering integration tools, available out of the box for Microsoft CRM customer. Microsoft CRM versions: current 4.0, also historical 3.0, 1.2, 1.1

1. Microsoft CRM SDK. If you are Microsoft Visual Studio .Net C#, VB or SQL programmer and developer, you may decide to dedicate some of your software development training time to familiarize yourself with SDK objects and methods: Lead, Account, Address, Contact, Quote, Order, Contract, Case, Task, etc. Microsoft CRM is pretty complex in its technology layers, and it is not recommended to populate MS CRM tables directly via SQL scripting – recommended way is to abstract your programming through MS CRM SDK layer

2. Dynamics GP Great Plains integration programming. Here you have to consider Dynamics GP eConnect, this Software Development Kit opens Microsoft Dynamics GP objects, such as customer, vendor, GL account, employee, Sales Invoice, Purchase Order, etc. eConnect is also MS Visual Studio programmer friendly, so you could enjoy eConnect self discovery. We recommend you to consider web integration project, where you combine Microsoft CRM SDK and Great Plains eConnect libraries

3. SAP Business One integration coding. In SB1 you should think about combining SAP Business One SDK libraries with Microsoft CRM SDK modules. SAP B1 and GP are both ERP and MRP applications and Microsoft CRM integration methodic is similar on technology layer

4. Lotus Notes Domino integration. Here you have various layers. Try to review ODBC integration if you are doing discovery. ODBC expects you to have repetitive structures in Lotus Notes, which is pretty common if you are dealing with custom Lotus Notes database

5. Microsoft CRM EDI programming. Electronic Document Interchange is typically associated with Vendor purchasing and order placement channel. If you have merchandise ordering logic from your Microsoft CRM Sales Orders, then consider formatted SQL Select statement from CRM tables

Customer relationship manager (CRM) is the ideal tool for you business, it helps us help you have the best business operations possible, get knowledge about your customers and adapt your business better.

A CRM solution should integrate technology to learn better about the customer and helping him help us to have a greater understanding of his business.

CRM software pays attention to the technology, the leadership, and the business process and management change.

Now there are different ways to implement a CRM solution, different choices, and different solutions. CRM software used to be a complex software and difficult to learn; but now Microsoft CRM has the answers to our problems. There are millions of reasons why Microsoft CRM is the best for our companies, but only 1 stands out.

Microsoft Dynamics Compatibility with Microsoft Office programs

Microsoft office is the tool most used by 90% of the business worldwide. And now you can combine CRM with your office tools, the ones you use every day.

Microsoft Outlook – Microsoft outlook provides communication with clients and between businesses. Now you can have a CRM Solution in outlook, the tool most business use every day you can manage your customer information, sales information, lead information, marketing information, all that you need to keep that connection with customers. Microsoft Word and Publisher - It helps you improve your customer communication by customization. Use the information Microsoft CRM provides to write letters, to take initiative. This is a tool you use every day, and you’ll keep using, and now with CRM integration you can take lead and improve your communications, and work campaigns. Microsoft Excel – besides using Microsoft Office Excel to analyze your critical company data, now Excel works with Microsoft CRM to give you a new way to understand changes in your company, now it’s easy to run reports, graphs, and tables to understand all aspects of a business. You can update your Microsoft CRM data with Excel, making it easier and it will have the same feel as any other excel document; you don’t have to learn anything new.

With all these tools at your disposition you can now implement a CRM solution and still keep using the same tools you always used. You don’t have to learn how to use a new tool, you’ll just need to learn how to customize it better, so it can help you improve your business, whether a small business or a big business, do you need a better reason?

I’m Zoe Soto; I work for Streamline Solutions, a company that provides you a solution for your CRM needs. You can visit us at Microsoft CRM and CRM Software

There is no denying that currently, Microsoft Corporation is the world’s biggest and most popular developer, designer, and maker of the most reliable computer programs and applications. Since its launch and the initial introduction of its first software, the company has never left the focus and minds of computer owners. Thus, Microsoft business software programs are considered, the most useful and reliable computer programs fitted and specifically created for certain types and functions of businesses.

Whatever your needs and requirements, name it and for sure there is an appropriate Microsoft business software program for you. The software maker has made sure its portfolio and line up of Microsoft business software would be comprehensible and effective enough to cater to different types of consumers and computer users. The company’s Business Division is constantly coming up with different computer programs to suit users’ needs. What’s more, every Microsoft business software program has been made to be user friendly and easier to access and navigate.

To be able to demonstrate the usefulness and reliability of Microsoft business software, it would help if you would have a refresher of the most popular of such computer programs. Looking at the lineup of popular Microsoft business software, you would surely realize that they are indeed the most useful software programs available in the market.

The Microsoft Office

This Microsoft business software program is actually a package containing interrelated and equally useful desktop applications. The computer program is often referred to as the office suite, because everything you may need and use in your office setting can be found in the program.

The Microsoft Office is undoubtedly the banner and flagship of all Microsoft business software programs. Among the specific and sought-after applications included in this Microsoft business software package are the MS Word (the most popular word processing application in the globe), Outlook (also referred as a groupware), Publisher (an effective and easy-to-use desktop publishing application and PowerPoint (made for business presentations). Not mentioned is Excel, which can be considered the best tool for simple accounting in the office environment today.

The Microsoft Groove

Because office settings are now made geographically distant from each other, there is a need for a computer program to link users no mater where they are. The Microsoft Groove is an effective Microsoft business software program that facilitates the working together of people and employees in a single network connection. Microsoft Groove is a Microsoft business software program made to bond the team regardless of time zones and geographic indifferences.

A unit of this Microsoft business software program comes with a complete package of Office Ultimate. The software is also fairly priced in most markets.

The Microsoft Accounting

Obviously, this Microsoft business software is designed to help assume the actual roles of accountants. Now, you and your business would not have to hire and pay for salaries of certified public accountants. By investing in the Microsoft Accounting, you would be able to save on costs for finance management and other business functions.

This Microsoft business software comes in small business accounting versions for home-based and minor operations. If you are enterprising enough to startup your own small business, it would not hurt to invest in the Microsoft Accounting.

The Microsoft Data Analyzer

If financial analysis is a cause of stress for you, perhaps, you need to buy the Microsoft Data Analyzer. This Microsoft business software program is designed and developed to help you identify trends, possible issues, and opportunities. Take note that such areas of concerns are very much significant and pertinent to cause any impact on your business.