We are in the process of scoping out an upgrade project and would like to consider the pros and cons of using a 3rd party source for payroll versus integrating SAP payroll. Also would like to know pros and cons of Payroll being on same instance versus separate instance as HR. Thanks, LaDon
I have a small co. with a point to point wireless grid. I handle off site monitoring of gas nad oil flow. I have been overlaping my grid with new locations, and more to come. So I have been looking into new wireless Sys. I have made the choice to use All-In-One?360 Multi-Band/Multi-Mode Antenna WiMAX [...]
A retail company is planning to implement IBM Rational Unified Process for its business which runs on i-Series. Please let me know how well RUP can be implemented here. How well RUP works for i-Series software development? What are the tailoring to be done to this process for i-Series? Also, please comment on the RUP [...]
Hi, For a basic business plan I need links to the top top solutions in the VoIP field including market share and costs. Thanks, Nahum Nir
This is the real commercial problem face by my company. Well, the reason I ask this problem is I salute and respect all of you as I believe all of you are as good as network solution company out there, or even better!! Lets me rephrase the entire problem again. Company expand so fast that [...]
i have a sbs 2003 on my network and i configure him to get all the fax of my company, the only problem is that when i configure him to route all the incoming fax to some mail it does not seem to work, i check the event log and i get error 32083 and [...]
Hi all I have a three servers with windows 2000 (service pack4 ) and its running active directory and DNS also. My global catalog server (PDC) am calling as server ?A? , others are server ?B? and server ?C?. These are two servers are acting as BDCs. One of the BDC?s Hard disk was crashed [...]
I currently have two offices that will become one big office. There will be at most 150 users. Each office currently has a T1 and we do not really have any problems since we also use a Packeteer Packetshaper. If someone wanted to increase the pipe, would they go from a T1 to a T3 [...]
I’m a CIO for a company with 150 employees, and I’m considering outsourcing a good portion of our IT support and maintenance to a third party to cut our expenses. I met with a sales rep from Hydra Network last week after they had done a SAN implementation for us through another partner, and am [...]
Hi, I’m looking for a supplier of methodology and/or tools to allow an IT organizatio to be a bit more “scientific” about estimating capacity requirements and provisioning infrastructure for new applications. Ie we need help with the process to arrive at answers to questions such as: What infrastructure elements do I need to design and [...]
Over the last two years I have conducted research into the use of Autonomy IDOL’s and DRE’s along with Softsound’s technology to allow voice control of services including automatic transcription (Although I have started fancying Nuance as a better contender for the voice to text side of this ‘kit’) which then leads to a raft [...]
My company is looking to purchase a new router, we are looking at expanding our cable tv division down the road with video/ video on demand and need to upgrade our current router due to bandwidth constraints, my question is does anyone have a different router good or bad. All answers are welcome and encouraged. [...]
Hello. I am the director of the tech encyclopedia WhatIs.com and am looking for some real life stories (and personal opinions) about the value of vendor-created content. The information you share will be used in a WhatIs.com newsletter. I’m especially interested in learning how useful vendor content is in the research phase of your quest [...]
Hello. Our company have a plan to move datacenter in a month and my boss ordered me to make out the plan for it. But I don’t know how to do it, especially I have no idea about what I should check for moving datacenter. Help me! How can I get the process, checklist…. for [...]
The article below caught my attention. It says that 217 million dollars a year is wasted just in the UK alone by employees leaving computers on overnight. I never shut mine down…my old mentor thought it was actually harmful. Needless to say, we don’t have a policy about shutting down computers here at the end [...]
Am researching the potential value proposition of deploying blade server technology in a mid-sized manufacturing company. Goal is consolidation. Am interested in finding out what you think the advantages will be and what hidden costs I should watch out for.
Our current approach relies on data from over 20 different business usnits round the world, which operate on different GL platforms. Our core business is car leasing to major corporate clients where some costs and results are estimated till the car is sold after, say, 3 years. I am wondering whether instead of an Activity [...]
I am working on project of starting a city based Portal. and was looking for ideas, which can make it success. the city is an industrial hub of Punjab (a state in india) Please suggest the contents.
Our consortium is thinking about changing vendors for desktop management. We?re being pitched by more about ten vendors who all say they can give us the best price. All of them have different approaches to pricing and we?re having a hard time figuring out how to compare apples to apples. What?s the best way to [...]
I?m not sure if these numbers are still available. But, I?m looking for the ROI from IT (i.e. benefits from automation). I could use indirect benefits and cost reduction numbers and/or the direct benefits and cost reduction numbers. The numbers or averages, if possible need to reflect IT overall and not specific to any tool, [...]





