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Pros and Cons for integrated SAP Payroll vs. 3rd party

LaDonW — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:06:36 +0000

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

802.11 vs 802.16

Cablegeeks — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:30:08 +0000

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 Ready. It will take a few to replace my hole grid. Now with my new antennas in place I have full cover of about 30 miles. Trying to stay with new techknowledge I will be useing 802.11 or 801.16. This will all so give me a chance to start up a WISP. So my question is…What do I need to start up? and what tpye should I use? If any could help me with this first step it would help me get started Faster.
Thank You,
Brent

Implementing RUP in Retail business which runs on i-Series

KiduHarish — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:21:37 +0000

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 tools that can be implemented here.

Thanks in advance…

VoIP solutions’ costs

Nahumnir — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:11:53 +0000

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

Network Resource Allocation cum Planning cum Technical Problem

Hunkgym — Mon, 15 May 2006 10:17:05 +0000

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 the IT infrastructure is not fast enough to cater high volume of traffic; the initial design is not scalable. The number of new branch offices setup caused the company pay a high price in the leased line communication.
Salesman and management staffs dial into company networks via 56K modem to access the database server and update the sale order. All the branch offices access the internet via HQ and download email via the external POP3 email server.
Plan to revamp their IT infrastructure and reduce the leased line access cost. Here are some of the feedbacks consolidated from the various country managers and local salesman.
1) The email downloading and sending is very slow. They receive a lot of spam email this caused their individual mailbox quota use up very fast.
2) The sales and marketing departments need to access the internet to search for latest news and market trends. But the internet speed is very slow. These people are irritated by spywares and popup often.
3) The File transfer and Database access is very slow even in the local area networks.

I decided to put the real network cum equipment diagram of my current company as I believe this will at least give INSIGHT in solving the problem.

Please visit the website http://www.hgym.photosite.com
for the diagrams which are network diagram and equipment diagram.

Now I plan to improve the IT infrastructure to cater for future expansion up to 10 countries. SAP will be implement to automate the overall company operation. Also expect 3rd party to access their server to submit and view sale order.

I also plan to redesign the network so that it is high available, scalable and secure.

Any suggestion and opinion? What is your comment after looking at my network and its insfrastructure (from the diagrams on http://www.hgym.photosite.com )
Any improving needed?

My email is hunkgym@yahoo.com Of course you can reply here, preferable :>

Thanks again for your opinion!! Thank You!!

route mail with fax service in sbs 2003

Drorbenyosef — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:30:17 +0000

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 with this massage: Unable to route fax C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataMicrosoftWindows NTMSFaxQueue1C66946CB9EB1.tif to the requested e-mail address. The following error occurred: 0×80040213
since the problem appear i try to install all service packs for exchange and for the server (sp2 exchange and sp1 for server) but its not work
is anybody know what to do about this? thanks

Event ID 13508 in microsoft windwos 2000 server

Management — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:44:55 +0000

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 last week and I removed this computer from my network physically also. I have no problems in my network its working fine. Nowadays am getting an error message in event viewer ID#13508 (source is NTFRS). Now I want to tell u that I want to remove my server name which is crashed server ?C? from the Active directory sites and services menu ? sites? servers.
Following are the event desctiption which I got in the event viewer

The file replication service having trouble enabling replocation from server C to server A fro c:winntsysvol domain using the DNS name C..local FRS will keep retrying. Following are some reasons you would see this warring.

Now please help how remove this crashed server entries from my Acitve directory and DNS database.

Highly appreciate your kind help on this regards,
Thanking you in advance.
Bye from Niyas.
Niyas@gsh-sa.com

T1 vs T3 vs 2 T1′s

Kevins74 — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:09:23 +0000

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 or is that over kill? If I did 2 T1′s, how does that work with the current configuration with one T1 and one router that it connects to?

Thanks,

KevinS

Outsourcing solutions–Hydra Network

Jaypeters — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:00:33 +0000

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 really suspicious about their ability to offer the SLA they claim to be able to offer, at the rates they are charging (they are 20-50% lower than any other national provider solutions we’ve investigated. I found one cheaper local offer, but we need a provider who can handle our branch offices in 3 states). They seemed to do a great job with the SAN work, but now we are looking for them to handle our general IT help desk and provide remote support to our end users, as well as supplement our onsite staff as needed. We might also turn over the management of 2 or 3 servers. What i want to know is, has anyone or is anyone using any of their services and can tell me if they are as good as they sound? Also, they say they can save us huge money on our tech purchases (they are a Dell Reseller), but they don’t have an online store. Does anyone understand how that works? Any feedback is much appreciated (before i go and layoff 3 support techs and sign a year contract)!

Thanks, Jay

Provisioning Methodology & Tools

Hojans — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 13:22:20 +0000

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 provision so that application X has a guaranteed uptime of 99.999%, a subsecond transaction time with 10.000 simultaneous users, in a three tier architecture based on oracle, weblogic and apache, with f5 loadbalancing and checkpoint firewalls?