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Learn About Microsoft Dynamics AX

freetraffic — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:32:45 +0000

As a business owner or high level administrator you know the importance of planning and good decision making. Microsoft Dynamics AX is a system that has been put to use by thousands of businesses all over the globe. With this system any business could use the real-time information provided by Dynamics AX to help with their decision making and improve company efficiency. In this article we will be talking about some of the ways this program can benefit you and your business.

- Forecasting is an important aspect to business. With this program you can follow the buying trends of your customers so you can adjust your inventory levels to fit their needs. It also contains an unlimited number of forecast models for you to predict scenarios in the industry. Another great benefit is that you can take those forecasts and plug them into the general ledger forecast for a quick look at potential cash flow.

- Microsoft Dynamics AX can also easily help you to automate your shipping and receiving and streamline your supply chain with back-order shipments and cross-docking. This amazing program is capable of handling massive transactions at one time and can completely eliminate manual systems in order to increase efficiency and give your productivity a kick-start.

- With Microsoft Dynamics AX fully integrated into your system you will be able to keep track of stock levels in real time, and so will your customers. Customers will be able to see the amounts of stock you have available for any items and where they can be located, allowing the customer and your employees to have accurate expected delivery times, with Microsoft Dynamics AX integrated with your warehouses you will never be left unsure about the location and quantities of your stock.

- Microsoft Dynamics AX has the ability to categorize items by type, weight, size, color – whatever your classification need. This can help you improve the overall efficiency in your warehouse with their stocking strategies and also help maintain their inventory and other resources. This enhanced control over the inventory gives you the ability to better track sales, receipts, returns, and the value of the inventory in your warehouse. This continuous inventory control method helps you manage your warehouse with ease.

- Microsoft Dynamics AX features Microsoft SQL Server Reporting functionality, this aids in the flow of real-time business information. With this feature you will be able to perform analysis based on your margin or revenue, as well as track activity within the business. Dynamics AX is a wonderful program that allows real-time reports on any number of things at any stage of your business, and with a familiar Microsoft interface it is simple to integrate and fully utilize in your business.

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Get An Edge In Your Presentations With Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Training Classes

freetraffic — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:01:06 +0000

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 is the only presentation software most people have ever heard of. Being armed with Microsoft PowerPoint training is one big help when it comes to creating powerful presentations. If you are one who is new to versions, or one who is new to using PowerPoint altogether, here are a few helpful tips.

Microsoft PowerPoint users will notice the quick access toolbar has the easiest functions of any program. You have the ability to customize and will not have to click menus and sub menus using the shortcuts. Your choice of functions are from creating reviews, animations, text, video, audio, and tutorials. All this is made easy with the actions found under the toolbar tabs.

Students and teachers use the program for quizzes, tutorials, and to create videos. Many companies providing slide shows and run them automatically while people mingle. The shortcuts using the CTRL or Control button in older versions still intact. If you do not know much about them yet, Keyboard shortcuts are also part of the Microsoft PowerPoint training found on line.

You have choices of designs, layouts, and the presentation type. Creating charts and graphs are simplified. You can add graphic and links to your slides. Use your original art by scanning in or use the choices of web art. Available to you.

You can use images or web art but no matter what you use there should be a message in them. Your design focus must be on the message to succeed with a positive presentation

The wonder of technology let us who are not able to draw our art create professional designs. We can create art with the methods already established for success. Positive messages and simple designs are the key to creating the perfect presentation. You have everything you need to use Microsoft PowerPoint and tips for success and hints to get you around any difficulties are all on line twenty four seven

Do you need to learn PowerPoint? We offer Microsoft PowerPoint courses in London and all over the UK.

Newest : Windows 7 Performance Guide

Akbar — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:47:46 +0000

After nearly a year-long build-up, Microsoft’s ongoing pre-launch campaign to woo computer users has come to a close, with the public launch of Microsoft’s latest and greatest desktop OS, Windows 7.

Windows 7 is being born in to a world of uncertainty, one Microsoft has never faced before to such a degree. Apple’s (and Mac OS X) market share is the highest it’s been in over a decade. Linux has finally gained however small a foothold in home computers through netbooks. And what was Microsoft’s next-gen operating system, Windows Vista, has taken enough backlash that it’s going to be in therapy for the rest of its life.

By no means are these troubled times for Microsoft, but never has victory been less assured.

Unfortunately, Windows Vista started life as a technical misfit, something even we didn’t fully comprehend until later. It ate too much virtual address space, it copied files slowly, and it ran poorly on the lowest of the low-end computers of the time. Microsoft fixed many of these problems by the time SP1 hit, but by then it was too late. Vista went from a technical misfit to a social misfit, with no hope of immediate redemption.

So Windows 7 is being launched with some gargantuan tasks on its shoulders, few of them technical. First and foremost, it needs to reverse Vista’s (and by extension, Microsoft’s) bad image among existing Windows users, in order to get them off of the old and insecure Windows XP. Then it needs to help stem the continuing flow of Windows users to Mac OS X, which has continued to grow over the years. And finally, it still needs to innovate enough so that Windows doesn’t end up stagnant, and ideally sell a few copies to Vista users while it’s at it.

It’s a large order, one that as we’ll see Microsoft won’t completely deliver on, but they’re going to get fairly close to.

In the meantime, we’re left a launch that has been a very long time coming. Between the public beta, the public RC, and Win7 having been finalized 3 months ago, virtually anyone that wanted Win7 has had the opportunity to try it. Anyone could get the release version by the middle of August through TechNet, MSDN, Action Pack, or any other of a number of sources that Microsoft released Win7 to well ahead of the public launch. The real launch was 3 months ago, so the public launch is almost a technicality.

And with that said, let’s get started with our final look at Windows 7.

New Windows 7 Review

Akbar — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:33:57 +0000

What if a new version of Windows didn’t try to dazzle you? What if, instead, it tried to disappear except when you needed it? Such an operating system would dispense with glitzy effects in favor of low-key, useful new features. Rather than pelting you with alerts, warnings, and requests, it would try to stay out of your face. And if any bundled applications weren’t essential, it would dump ‘em.

It’s not a what-if scenario. Windows 7, set to arrive on new PCs and as a shrinkwrapped upgrade on October 22, has a minimalist feel and attempts to fix annoyances old and new. In contrast, Windows Vista offered a flashy new interface, but its poor performance, compatibility gotchas, and lack of compelling features made some folks regret upgrading and others refuse to leave Windows XP.

Windows 7 is hardly flawless. Some features feel unfinished; others won’t realize their potential without heavy lifting by third parties. And some long-standing annoyances remain intact. But overall, the final shipping version I test-drove appears to be the worthy successor to Windows XP that Vista never was.

Microsoft’s release of Windows 7 also roughly coincides with Apple’s release of its new Snow Leopard; for a visual comparison of the two operating systems, see our slideshow “Snow Leopard Versus Windows 7.” Of course, an OS can’t be a winner if it turns a zippy PC into a slowpoke or causes installation nightmares. Consult “Windows 7 Performance Tests” for Windows 7 performance test results, and “How to Upgrade to Windows 7″ for hands-on advice on the best way to install it. Read on here for an in-depth look at how Microsoft has changed its OS–mostly for the better–in Windows 7.

Interface: The New Taskmaster

The Windows experience occurs mainly in its Taskbar–especially in the Start menu and System Tray. Vista gave the Start menu a welcome redesign; in Windows 7, the Taskbar and the System Tray get a thorough makeover.

The new Taskbar replaces the old small icons and text labels for running apps with larger, unlabeled icons. If you can keep the icons straight, the new design painlessly reduces Taskbar clutter. If you don’t like it, you can shrink the icons and/or bring the labels back.

In the past, you could get one-click access to programs by dragging their icons to the Quick Launch toolbar. Windows 7 eliminates Quick Launch and folds its capabilities into the Taskbar. Drag an app’s icon from the Start menu or desktop to the Taskbar, and Windows will pin it there, so you can launch the program without rummaging around in the Start menu. You can also organize icons in the Taskbar by moving them to new positions.

To indicate that a particular application on the Taskbar is running, Windows draws a subtle box around its icon–so subtle, in fact, that figuring out whether the app is running can take a moment, especially if its icon sits between two icons for running apps.

In Windows Vista, hovering the mouse pointer over an application’s Taskbar icon produces a thumbnail window view known as a Live Preview. But when you have multiple windows open, you see only one preview at a time. Windows 7′s version of this feature is slicker and more efficient: Hover the pointer on an icon, and thumbnails of the app’s windows glide into position above the Taskbar, so you can quickly find the one you’re looking for. (The process would be even simpler if the thumbnails were larger and easier to decipher.)

Also new in Windows 7′s Taskbar is a feature called Jump Lists. These menus resemble the context-sensitive ones you get when you right-click within various Windows applications, except that you don’t have to be inside an app to use them. Internet Explorer 8′s Jump List, for example, lets you open the browser and load a fresh tab, initiate an InPrivate stealth browsing session, or go directly to any of eight frequently visited Web pages. Non-Microsoft apps can offer Jump Lists, too, if their developers follow the guidelines for creating them.

Other Windows 7 interface adjustments are minor, yet so sensible that you may wonder why Windows didn’t include them all along. Shove a window into the left or right edge of the screen and it’ll expand to fill half of your desktop. Nudge another into the opposite edge of the screen, and it’ll expand to occupy the other half. That makes comparing two windows’ contents easy. If you nudge a window into the top of the screen, it will maximize to occupy all of the display’s real estate.

The extreme right edge of the Taskbar now sports a sort of nub; hover over it, and open windows become transparent, revealing the desktop below. (Microsoft calls this feature Aero Peek.) Click the nub, and the windows scoot out of the way, giving you access to documents or apps that reside on the desktop and duplicating the Show Desktop feature that Quick Launch used to offer.

Getting at your desktop may soon become even more important than it was in the past. That’s because Windows 7 does away with the Sidebar, the portion of screen space that Windows Vista reserved for Gadgets such as a photo viewer and a weather applet. Instead of occupying the Sidebar, Gadgets now sit directly on the desktop, where they don’t compete with other apps for precious screen real estate.

Old Tray, New Tricks: Windows 7′s Taskbar and window management tweaks are nice. But its changes to the System Tray–aka the Notification Area–have a huge positive effect.

In the past, no feature of Windows packed more frustration per square inch than the System Tray. It quickly grew dense with applets that users did not want in the first place, and many of the uninvited guests employed word balloons and other intrusive methods to alert users to uninteresting facts at inopportune moments. At their worst, System Tray applets behaved like belligerent squatters, and Windows did little to put users back in charge.

In Windows 7, applets can’t pester you unbidden because software installers can’t dump them into the System Tray. Instead, applets land in a holding pen that appears only when you click it, a much-improved version of the overflow area used in previous incarnations of the Tray. Applets in the pen can’t float word balloons at you unless you permit them to do so. It’s a cinch to drag them into the System Tray or out of it again, so you enjoy complete control over which applets reside there.

More good news: Windows 7 largely dispenses with the onslaught of word-balloon warnings from the OS about troubleshooting issues, potential security problems, and the like. A new area called Action Center–a revamped version of Vista’s Security Center–queues up such alerts so you can deal with them at your convenience. Action Center does issue notifications of its own from the System Tray, but you can shut these off if you don’t want them pestering you.

All of this helps make Windows 7 the least distracting, least intrusive Microsoft OS in a very long time. It’s a giant step forward from the days when Windows thought nothing of interrupting your work to inform you that it had detected unused icons on your desktop.