How can you evaluate the ease of use for a new ERP system?
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basically take two groups of people - one group who has used another erp system and another that has never used an automated erp system and ask them to rate the system on how easy it is for them to use. whichever system BOTH groups find it easiest to use should rank the highest since each group has their own inherent view of how it should work and you are likely to have to satisfy both constituencies.
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If you use SAPNetweaver and SAP's JAVA development workbench, you should be able to fairly easily.
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You need to find a person who knows both systems very well. \n\nUnfortunately, such a person probably doesn't exist.  Most people specialize in one or the other, and most M$ geeks only know M$ (sorry, but that's the truth).\n\nWorse yet, what is "better" overall might not work for your company.  For instance, I upgraded a client from an old version of Peachtree to a new one (better!) but we had to cancel that when we found out that the newer Peachtree had a limitation that we couldn't work around (worse!).\n\nEither system will probably work.  I don't like the fact that any M$ financial software locks me into M$ products, usually their latest-greatest only (so you have to upgrade Office, Exchange, etc when you upgrade the accounting software).  Oracle will probably run on servers of various platforms, which might be nice.  \n\nYour success will depend greatly on the people who do your install and configuration and migration and training.  Choose VERY carefully -- they will be de facto a part of your staff for years.\n\nAny accounting software change is hell... tell you accounting people that it will be at least a year of hell, during which time they'll develop drug and alcohol habits.  That way, when they only complain for 6 months you can tell them that you're ahead of schedule and the project is exceeding expectations.  I'm serious about this -- otherwise, people (like the computer guy) will get fired at the 3-4 month mark!!!!
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For a large company, the needs of computation and data management and handelling is huge. For this, the best way to go about is professional consultancy. You can also use products made by Oracle, their TPS ( transaction per second rate) is very high
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Performance and availability issues, as they relate to scalability. \n\nWhat are you Requirements are they relate to  \n\nResponse time\nThroughput\nData availability / Operating schedule \nCapacity\n\nConcurrency
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just try to make me understand what kind of performance measurement tool u required and for what pupose.
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The attributes of a good development process include:  frequent feedback from customers, pervasive testing, frequent releases (to encourage customer feedback!) systematic refactoring, and quick response to changes in the code (Continuous integration and testing, ideally).  Scrum and XP both provide these.  A really large project or one with heavy regulatory scrutiny may require additional reviews, evaluations, and other paperwork, but it is unclear (to me at least!) whether or not they provide any additional value.
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there is a demo version here: http://www.test4free.com/assess.asp
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cheap, software already built, user support, compatability with existing software
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Visit http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/evaluation/compare.mspx\nand you will get your answer.
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This is a bit difficult question cause it takes lots of factors like how many resources you have (or going to allocate for the project). Do you have a clearly defined scope of work?? System Design??? if you have answers for these then lets break to project in to phases like  feasibility study, requirement gathering, analysis, design, coding and implementation. Each phase break it in to smaller tasks like getting approvals, visiting different locations etc. \n\nNow estimate number of days your resources going to spend on each task depending on the level of experiance the resources have. Here you need consider their previous experience and keep gaps for paper work and other manual processors.\n\nOnce you arrive on total number of days, then it is easy, you calculate what is your man day cost and add your profit margin. Then multiple Man Days * charge per day, that is the price estimation and number of days is the time estimation. Make sure you have buffers in case of something goes wrong in a phase. Size of the buffer needs to justify and realistic.
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Not sure if you have evaluated this Open source CRM + ERP tool. It's called Compiere. Their site is http://www.compiere.com/\n\nCompiere is the #1 open source ERP software application with fully integrated CRM software solutions. It may just suite some of your business needs. However, some customization may be required. To find a solution out of the box which suites our business requirements is usually tough. But we can try to get as close as possible and built additional functions or modules from there on. A good core basic solution which fits at least 60% would be the best.\n\nFor more information on CRM solutions, do check out this site at http://www.wareprise.com/articles/how-to-implement-a-CRM-system.php
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Quality of software depends on testing. Also you have to make sure that requirment of softaware is fullfilled. Actually when you develop s/w you have requiremen specs, you have to match with final product to determine quality of software.\nThank you,\nMiral Patel
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The computer makers get paid to put software on the new systems, you would think they would at least throw in a quick start guide.\n\nThe best way, is to Google the questioned software, get to their homepage an go from there. With any luck, there will be a PDF file you can store on your system for future use.
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What superiors really care about is how much it will cost and or will it save the company time/money.  You need to create a formal presentation, Powerpoint will work.  Present all the issues, and the potential issues if software is not kept current.  Also outline the resources that are neccessary to maintain this kind of network and how it would be improved if all software was current.  Lastly, you need to show them a cost justification for the software.  Show them how much time and money it would cost them to have someone physically update all that software and compare it against the price of this software package.
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First get the business logic in hands or the documentation if you have, because you might need to redesign it again.\nBut if you do want to keep the client/server by it self and you know how the system works, then you can create a web services touching some of the important business logic.
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use emule\nits a peer to peer software\ngo to google.com\ntype emule and download the software and install it restu will come to know its user friendly\ndirect link\nemuleproject.net