No business owner enjoys the thought of relocating their operation to a new building, no matter if it is large or small. Relocating a business comes with its fair share of challenges, physically and financially. It costs money to move inventory. It costs money to refurbish the new building. It costs money to be closed for a period of time. Can you afford to spend all of that money?

Businesses need to move for a number of reasons. You’re business may be responding to a natural need for better and bigger facilities or it is forced to relocate for other reasons such as a lousy landlord. One thing remains constant. It isn’t easy to do nor is it cheap. Here are a few steps to help you find the funds necessary to make the move easier and cheaper: continue reading »

The power of art to inspire, comfort, and motivate is widely recognized. The more mysterious powers of art reveal that there may be more to art than meets the eye. The ancient Greeks believed that color and music possessed inherent powers to influence their viewers. Modern research may be starting to prove them right.

Some of the mysterious power of art involves the science of geometric figures. For example, some writers have gathered evidence suggesting that placing items in pyramids can have almost supernatural results. Food can be preserved without refrigeration and dull knives can miraculously become sharp.

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Guide to pregnancy is one of the most sought after things among pregnant women. Pregnancy is a coveted and cherished phenomenon in society, traditional and otherwise. Though pregnancy is not unique to human beings, this article exclusively talks about pregnancy in human beings. Pregnancy eventually alters not only the biological and physiological status of women but also their social and family status.

Pregnancy is a clear indication of the fertility of woman and her ability to actively contribute to the process of continuation of family lineage. Pregnancy literally means carrying of a fetus or an embryo by women. Guide to pregnancy helps women understand and cope with changes right from conception to childbirth.

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While Oprah and Eckhart Tolle reviewed chapter 5 of the book A New Earth, the two discussed “the pain body” as Eckhart calls it.

Tolle: “But don’t underestimate the pain-body’s ability to draw out some, to make you unconscious again, to push some kind of button, and you will find yourself reacting again. Because pain-bodies are very cunning, very clever. And they know exactly what will make you unconscious and what will make you react.”

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In this small article we will only concentrate on Microsoft Dynamics Axapta (and will not consider Microsoft Dynamics GP and NAV) in comparison to Oracle Financials/E-Business Suite/Applications and the localization and implementation in Latin America and Brazil.

• Architecture & Lifecycle. In our opinion each ERP/MRP package should be first considered from its architectural fundamentals and the step in its lifecycle. Oracle E-Business Suite should be considered as very matured product and it has traditionally strong positions among corporate clientele. Oracle Applications design is in transition to Oracle Fusion project, however you should probably consider it as rather traditional. Microsoft Axapta/Microsoft Dynamics AX has modern design (very end of XXth century and very beginning of XXI). Axapta is targeted to upper mid-market and it also serves as high-end ERP for large corporations. Having modern design – Axapta has potential to be sold and increase its market share just based on the fact of modern architecture.

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While working on a client site recently with a brand new Dell Poweredge 2950 Server with Windows Server 2003 R2 pre-installed by Dell we came had a problem with one of the settings that comes with the pre-installation and interferes with the ease of connecting via RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol).

This setting causes the a picture of the Dell server to be displayed prior to the login prompt; the problem is that the file size is almost 2Mb and very graphic intensive, so it slows down the speed that the log in prompt loads, following the steps below will help remove this setting.

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We all want to sizzle with the opposite sex. How do we do it? Men and Women are always searching for effective ways to attract the opposite sex. What do I say? What do I do? How do I act? What shall I wear? These are just a few of the many questions asked. Previously we discussed ways to attract the opposite sex. Here, we will focus more on the to wear questions. Here are 5 more tips that are bound to help you achieve your goal and increase your ability to attract the opposite sex!

Tip 1: Get out there and meet people. This is a review tip but is needs to be repeated. You will never meet your soul mate at home watching the football game, CSI Miami, 24, The Closer or the latest in reality TV! While these are great shows, they will not get you meeting people. Turn off the TV, shut down the video games and go mingle. Try visiting a place you don’t often frequent. Go for a walk. Read a book at the library ( I once met a really great guy right at the library! ) The point is, get out of the house and meet and greet.

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The customization of Oracle Applications can be done using tolls like Oracle Forms (user interface) and Oracle Reports. Customizing reports are very common because normally they don’t change anything in applications structure, on the other hand, developing customizations that changes Oracle e-Business suite functionalities or database objects is not recommended.
In another article, I wrote about the value of process development adoption when developing these customizations (have a look at this link). One key factor to obtain effectiveness is the application of a standard metric during planning phase and followed by the entire project life cycle.

When developing a customization, the schedule is negotiated depending on functionalities sizes and human resources productivity rates. These productivity rates are related with team experience and tools used in the project. A customization measure may be done using estimation metrics like FPA (Function Point Analysis), which is maintained by IFPUG (International Function Point Users Group). Another way of estimating strategy is proposed by Oracle at the AIM Advantage product (have a look at http://www.oracle.com/consulting/collateral/AIMadvantage.pdf). AIM Advantage is a proven, comprehensive method and toolkit to successfully guide implementation of an Oracle Applications solution, used by Oracle consultants, partners and customers.

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