KSFHFH Organization » Software Portal http://www.ksfhfh.org Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:38:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Performance Appraisals – a down to Earth Analysis http://www.ksfhfh.org/archives/2010/07/14/performance-appraisals-a-down-to-earth-analysis/ http://www.ksfhfh.org/archives/2010/07/14/performance-appraisals-a-down-to-earth-analysis/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:38:45 +0000 admin http://www.ksfhfh.org/archives/2010/07/14/performance-appraisals-a-down-to-earth-analysis/ Let’s not forget that in addition to increased income, profits can be improved by minimizing expenditure and more productive use of time. This brings us on to the benefits of that best-kept secret of efficient businesses, employee performance appraisal software. Business optimization calls for comprehension of the abilities and weaknesses of its employees: in what areas do they do their best work? How can your system adjust to emphasize their strengths and cover their weaknesses? This is the burning question. Learning about and making this information ready to use can be where things become challenging, however. Just tracking staff performance and determining development in that performance rapidly becomes a significant hassle. First, you use employee performance management techniques to assess and keep track of work carried out by each employee. And if you’re using conventional approaches, you now have to analyze all of that data manually just to set objectives, goals, and track further progress. With performance appraisal software, you just look at the different analyses to pinpoint the ideal objectives and then follow the member of staff’s progress. This takes away the need to spend time on analysis and may even be far more precise. There’s the possibility to also look at the raw data yourself and use the process just to organize and record everything. Needless to say, it isn’t just the performance of employees that can be improved by advice from performance management software. It can also be worth studying clients and suppliers to be better able to reduce costs by precision buying. You can find out who provides higher quality products, at the lowest prices and also highlight those with bad damage records or poor delivery times.

When it comes to your retailers performance management software can help there, too, showing you exactly who sells the most of your products, their loss percentage and similar negatives, and providing a reminder of outstanding payments. With this information at your fingertips you are able to customize your system of orders and supplies to increase income and minimize expenses. Who couldn’t benefit from that? In addition to this, it’ll be easier to plan marketing campaigns due to your deeper insight into your market and the location of your biggest audience.

Watching both suppliers and market is simple with performance management software. In addition it smoothes out the employee evaluation and helps set definitive goals for your staff greatly. All in all, what can be achieved with this software is astounding!

]]> http://www.ksfhfh.org/archives/2010/07/14/performance-appraisals-a-down-to-earth-analysis/feed/ 0 Microsoft Dynamics CRM Customization or Third Party Product – overview for Consultant http://www.ksfhfh.org/archives/2008/06/26/microsoft-dynamics-crm-customization-or-third-party-product-overview-for-consultant/ http://www.ksfhfh.org/archives/2008/06/26/microsoft-dynamics-crm-customization-or-third-party-product-overview-for-consultant/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:00:42 +0000 admin http://www.ksfhfh.org/archives/2008/06/26/microsoft-dynamics-crm-customization-or-third-party-product-overview-for-consultant/ With version 3.0 MS CRM will be more exposed to end-user tuning, software development, customizations. Microsoft CRM SDK is becoming more sophisticated with post-call-out technology reconsidering, deprecating a lot of 1.2 CRM SDK methods, replacing Crystal Reports Enterprise with MS SQL Server Reporting Services, changing MS CRM Exchange Connector functionality, etc. Microsoft itself has to be very flexible and freed up to change/adjust development standards if required. In such situation end customer should be very knowledgeable and savvy to predict the future, when he needs to deploy custom solutions/modules. In this small article we will consider pros and contras of deploying third parties or just go ahead with customer specific unique customization.

Third Party Product.

• Pros: The cost is normally controllable, because product is already developed and ready to be implemented. Plus it is possible to get references on the reliability of the product from all the kinds of user groups, product reviews, etc. Also – sometimes it is referred as weakness but it might be considered as the plus – if product is developed and supported by the known vendor – you should believe that it will be upgraded and available for future MS CRM releases.

• Contras. The first minus we would like to mention is usually not described in the textbooks – this is the problem when, say product A is purchased by Microsoft itself and inaugurated as from now on ‘official’ solutions, and if you historically selected product B – coming from the competitor – you are in a problem – you will see you software vendor to be weakened and slowly phasing out alternative product B
Unique Customization.

• Pros. You will have so-called source code, if you negotiate it right with the custom developer or custom development company – then you can transfer version upgrade or product modification to the market leader (who will be giving you better price and quality assurance in the future). Other pluses might be cost saving, due to the fact that you are paying for required functionality only, not for something you will never use.

• Contras. Cost might be crossing the budgeted line, because you might not be able to select reliable software developer (all of them might be in the learning curve, because MS CRM is relatively young product) – this is very strong argument, when you have just purchased the CRM and yet not know the players on the customization market.
Production Environment Challenges. When you are already in production – be sure that MS CRM needs testing, if you introduce custom logic. You should try to isolate custom logic, and test it in the isolated space – again MS CRM doesn’t have parallel test company environment – opposite to what you have in ERP system, such as Great Plains/Dynamics GP.

Please do not hesitate to call or email us: USA 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918 help@albaspectrum.com

Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer at Alba Spectrum Technologies ( www.albaspectrum.com www.greatplains.com.mx ) – Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains, Navision, Axapta, MS CRM, Oracle Financials and IBM Lotus Domino Partner, serving corporate customers in the following industries: Aerospace & Defense, Medical & Healthcare, Distribution & Logistics, Hospitality, Banking & Finance, Wholesale & Retail, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Placement & Recruiting, Advertising & Publishing, Textile, Pharmaceutical, Non-Profit, Beverages, Conglomerates, Apparels, Durables, Manufacturing and having locations in multiple states and internationally.

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