Showing posts with label SME. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SME. Show all posts

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Ideal ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning System

An ERP system would qualify as the best model for enterprise wide solution architecture, if it chains all the below organizational processes together with a central database repository and a fused computing platform.

  • Manufacturing: - Engineering, resource & capacity planning, material planning, workflow management, shop floor management, quality control, bills of material, manufacturing process, etc.
  • Financials: - Accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, general ledger, cash management, and billing (contract/service)
  • Human Resources: - Recruitment, benefits, compensations, training, payroll, time and attendance, labour rules, people management
  • Supply Chain Management: - Inventory management, supply chain planning, supplier scheduling, claim processing, sales order administration, procurement planning, transportation and distribution
  • Projects: -Costing, billing, activity management, time and expense
  • Customer Relationship Management: - Sales and marketing, service, commissions, customer contact and after sales support
  • Data Warehouse: - Generally, this is an information storehouse that can be accessed by organizations, customers, suppliers and employees for their learning and orientation

Simple Facts: -

Hyderabad, India area is 217 Sq Km

Friday, January 15, 2010

Integration is Key to ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning System

Integration is an exceptionally significant ingredient to ERP systems. The integration between business processes helps develop communication and information distribution, leading to remarkable increase in productivity, speed and performance.
The key objective of an ERP system is to integrate information and processes from all functional divisions of an organization and merge it for effortless access and structured workflow. The integration is typically accomplished by constructing a single database repository that communicates with multiple software applications providing different divisions of an organization with various business statistics and information.
Although the perfect configuration would be a single ERP system for an entire organization, but many organizations usually deploy a single functional system and slowly interface it with other functional divisions.

Simple Fact: -

Hyderabad, India is also known as "City of Pearls"

Thursday, October 22, 2009

How to Make Your Small Business Look Big

Free web-based email makes you think of dead-giveaway addresses like ninja-girl9378@hotmail.com, which are unsuitable for putting on a business card or resume. But setting up your own email server or paying a hosting provider to do it for your small organization can be costly or time-consuming. The good news is you can get all the benefits of the leading web-based email service out there -- Google's Gmail -- with a yourname@yourdomain.com address for free.
With a Google Apps account, you can look like you've got a full IT team behind your small organization but get the simple setup and access that web-based applications offer. Google Apps (formerly named "Google Apps for Your Domain") includes Gmail, calendar and document sharing, simple web site hosting, and instant messaging to all the people involved at your dot-com for free.
Here's how it works. Say you own a web site domain name like thejonesfamily.com. (That you've got to pay for; prices range from $10 to $60 a year.) You can create accounts like jill@thejonesfamily.com, jack@thejonesfamily.com, and sarah@thejonesfamily.com. Each person gets his or her own email account, calendar (for sharing amongst the group), instant messenger account on Google Talk, and Google Docs account for sharing and collaborating on office documents like spreadsheets, Word documents, and slide shows.
The most obvious advantages to using Google Apps is the low cost, zero maintenance, and data storage "in the cloud," which means your email, documents, and events are always available anywhere you can get online with a web browser. You don't need an IT system administrator to create accounts and give users access to services; you can do that all yourself using Google Apps' dashboard. You don't have to worry about data backup (it's all stored on Google's servers), hitting email account storage limits (Gmail's up to 7GB of storage per user now), or futzing with VPNs, firewalls, or specific software. At any time you can choose to switch to another provider and take your domain name with you, which means you don't have to change your email address if you decide Google Apps isn't working for you.
The main disadvantage to using Google Apps' free plan over paying a hosting provider is that if the server goes down or you have problems with your account, you don't have a direct line to tech support. (A $50/year Google Apps account does include phone support for "critical issues." I don't have experience with this, but in general Google is notoriously bad at offering tech support on an individual basis. When you have troubles, you've got to scour mailing lists and blogs to find out what the story is.) Also, some organizations might not feel comfortable storing private information or documents on Google's servers.
But for a family, softball team, side business, small business, or individual who just wants professional-looking email addresses and an easy way to share documents and calendars, Google Apps is a great solution. While I do back up my email to my computer from my Google Apps account periodically just in case the day comes when Gmail's down and no one's home, that day has not come yet.

Some useful Links for Google Apps
Authorized Google Apps Reseller