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Invoices and Sales Receipts are not quite the same thing in QuickBooks. Although they both record sales information, that is where their similarity ends. Here is a breakdown of what each does.

Invoices

With Invoices you have more flexibility than with Sales Receipts:

• Estimates or Sales Orders are easily converted to Invoices with a click of the mouse

• With Invoices, all customer sales information is recorded in the Customer:Job list
• Customers may owe the business money when Invoices are used
• Customer payment information is entered as a separate step on a separate screen

Sales Receipts

Sales Receipts are a little more rigid, but are certainly appropriate in many circumstances:

• Although you may use Estimates and Sales Orders, they cannot be electronically converted to Sales Receipts

• With Sales Receipts, customers may not owe the business any money
• Sales information is not tracked in the Customer:Job list when Sales Receipts are used
• Customers’ payment information is entered into the Sales Receipt screen, at the time the sale is recorded

Which to Use

Use Invoices if you need to use Estimates or Sales Orders, or you want to allow your customers to pay at a later date than the date of the sale.

Use Sales Receipts if you don’t need to track customer sales information, and if you always receive the customer’s payment at the time of the sale.

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School Administration in case of a residential school is like running a small city. Unlike the day schools where it is more of less about academic automation, fees and library the administration of a residential school requires a lot of other issues to be taken care. Like

1. Hostel Management System
2. Point of Sale / Student Store Management System
3. Mess Management system
4. Gate Security System
5. Laundry Management System
6. Imprest account / pocket money management system
7. Offline intranet based mail system
8. Interconnection of school system with web site on batch processing basis.

and similar other changes..

We have done a extensive study and implementation with one the leading Residential Schools for Girls (VDJS) and Another Leading Boys’ residential school (Welham Boys School) have come up with a unique and practical approach for residential school management software.

Some of the important tasks being handled there in the schools are

1. Connecting the far away parents with the school using a campus connected and updated interactive web site of the schools.

2. Interconnecting the departments with proper information exchange without repeated work and ease.

3. Simple to implement and adopt solution with less hassles of implementation and maintenance.

4. Elimination the dependency on 24hrs dedicated internet connection by providing useful tools like INTRANET VIRTUAL MAIL SERVER.

We are glad to receive cooperation and guidelines from

Vidya Devi Jindal School : CBSE based Girls’ Residential School
Student Strength : Around 1500
Location : Hissar, Haryana (India)

Welham Boys’ School : ICSE based Boys’ Residential School
Student Strength : Around 850
Location : Dehradun, Uttaranchal (India)

Birla Vidya Mandir : CBSE based Boys Residential School
Student Strength : Around 800
Location : Nainital, Uttaranchal (India)

RIMC : Rashtriya Indian Military College
Student Strength : 250
Location : Dehradun, Uttaranchal (India)

LKSEC : CBSE based Coeducation Residential School
Student Strength : Around 1500
Location : Gotan, Rajasthan (India)

I work for Dreamteam Network Solutions (P) Ltd., and I am in charge of promotions. Our company develops softwares for schools, colleges and universities. For a complete and detailed description of our Company please visit http://www.dreamteam.co.in and http://www.literom.net

Excel is a spreadsheet program. It’s in fact the application of choice for the majority of business globally. Excel has therefore been primarily used for developing departmental budgets, expense reports and a host of other accounting or financial deliverables. What many long-time users of Excel do not know is that the software possesses excellent database tools built right into it. This article will reveal the database side of Microsoft Excel.

In order to take full advantage of Excel’s database features it is important to structure you data properly. In the example below you will see that the column labels are on the top row with the data directly beneath it in the following rows. For professional looking databases / spreadsheets always use consistent formatting, e.g., using the same formats for the column labels (in this instance the text is bold, Times New Roman and underlined while the numbers below them are right aligned and normal).

Student# Last Name First Name Total Points
2123 Arellano Maria 170

2679 Black Michael 292

2680 Chase Tonia 280

1455 Davila Camilla 259

2681 Gabriel Maria 147

1270 Gonzales Juan 285

3245 Lopez Maria 252

1243 Miller Hailey 132

1454 Monaco Nicole 177

1878 Montoya Peter 150

When working with large spreadsheets with many rows of data, it can be helpful to sort and filter the information to find what you are looking for. To sort and filter effectively, follow these rules when designing your lists:

• Column labels must be in first row or be beneath at least one blank row

• Data must be entered in contiguous rows and columns

• List data must be separated from other entries by at least one blank row or one blank column.

• Do not use duplicate field names

• Define your records as a list: Select all existing records and field names, click Data on the Menu bar, point to List, click Create List, make sure My list has headers is checked, and then click OK.

There are several ways to organize records for quick evaluation, using the Standard toolbar, the List toolbar, or the Data menu:

Simple Sort: Organize all records in a list based on one field. With the active cell anywhere in the sort field column, buttons on the Standard toolbar can be clicked to arrange records in Ascending or Descending order.

Custom Sort: Organize all records in a list based on up to three fields. With the active cell anywhere in the list, click the List button on the List toolbar and then choose Sort…, or, click the Data menu on the Menu bar and then click Sort… . Make your choices in the dialog box, and then click OK to perform the sort.

AutoFilter: When a range has been defined as a List, arrows automatically appear at the right of each field name. To temporarily filter out all records which do not meet one specific criterion in one field (i.e. Level=Beginning 3), click the AutoFilter arrow for the field on which you wish to base your criterion, and then click on the data you are seeking. Records where your criterion does not appear in the specified field will be hidden until you click the AutoFilter arrow again and select Show All

Custom AutoFilter: If you wish to base your filter on two criteria (i.e. Level=Beginning 2 OR Level=Beginning 3), click (Custom…) in the AutoFilter menu to set And/Or criteria. AND criteria can be used to set a range for record selection (i.e. Total Score is more than 50 AND Total Score is equal to or less than 150.)

Advanced Filter: If you wish to base your filter on more than one or two criteria in more than one field, and/or you wish to copy the filtered records to another location in the workbook, use an advanced filter. An advanced filter needs these steps: 1) Create a criteria range with the field name(s) involved and enter the appropriate criteria under the appropriate field name; 2) Decide in which cells the results should be placed (keep in mind that any data directly below these destination cells may be erased); 3) Position the active cell anywhere in the data list; 4) Click the Data menu, point to Filter, and then click Advanced filter; 5) In the dialog box, specify the list range, criteria range, and copy to range (be sure the Copy to another location option button is activated) and then click OK.

One of the fastest ways to organize your data is to click once on a cell containing data, i.e., any cell below the column labels and clicking on the “Sort Ascending” or “Sort Descending” button on the Standard Toolbar. This will effectively alphabetize your records from A to Z or Z to A with a simple click of a button. Look closely at the data once you sorted it. The records will maintain their integrity, e.g., if you sort in descending order, Peter Montoya in our example above will move to the top of the list along with his personal information, i.e., student number and total points.

Anthony M. Magno, president of MMC, Inc., has 10+ years experience developing and implementing successful corporate learning, leadership and development programs. Learn about getting a Free Needs Analysis at: http://www.MagnoConsulting.com Anthony can be reached at 949.350.2872 (e-mail: amm@magnoconsulting.com)

Background:
For many organizations like ours, the interim target of achieving ISO 9001 or CMM levels is a daunting task. Discipline is no fun Organizations readily acknowledge that striving to address projects according to ISO 9001 or CMM guidelines requires the creation of new procedures. It is vital to the success of improvement efforts to realize that process change entails cultural change and its human nature to resist change. Numerous social and technical barriers must be overcome to effect lasting improvement.

My organization aimed for ISO 9001 certification and then CMM level 2 and Level 3 assessment approximately one and half year back and knew that it would be grilled thoroughly by the ISO auditors and CMM assessors. For Software Process Improvement first we need to know your strengths and weaknesses so that the management can scope the improvement effort. Only with this knowledge can we customize an infrastructure for process improvement. We have had success with plans tailored according to the Software Engineering Institute’s CMM model. This includes formation of Software Process Engineering Group, who know their roles, responsibilities, charters, and action plans, which helps you develop a charter and vision and to establish a clear match to organizational goals and objectives. They will be much more effective if they receive the right formal and informal training. One pivotal decision was “not to reinvent the wheel”, but seriously consider Industry Best Practices.

Later we saw that, Process improvement always pays dividends for those with the discipline to do it right.

Process Improvement Project

The Strategic Plan

A clear vision is essential to the success of process improvement project. Senior management in our case had the vision that Process is Product and was committed to sponsor and support improvement efforts. We were responsible for mobilizing people and resources to try and make it happen, but process improvement was a new endeavor for my group and everyone was unsure how to get started and get organized My organization went for strategic planning using Total Quality Management’s Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle.

We developed a vision to use the best practices of software development teams and the eleven best practices were identified:

* Develop iteratively (incremental development life cycle)
* Use component-based architecture
* Visually model the product using the Unified Modeling Language (UML)
* Formal Risk Management
* Agreement on Interfaces
* Formal Inspections
* Metric-based Scheduling and Management
* Program-wide Visibility of Progress Vs Plan
* Defect Tracking Against Quality Targets
* Configuration Management
* People-aware Management Accountability

In the planning model we tried to analyze the current projects keeping the insight of ISO/CMM through rigorous reviews. Next, we conducted organizational Gap Analysis between its current state and the vision we were seeking. The ISO 9001 status feedback itself became the catalyst for develop tactical plans by providing the team leaders with the required control mechanism for project tracking and oversight.

Our organization tried to Treat Software Process Improvement also like a development project! Senior management sponsored to recruit a corresponding project team (Software Quality Assurance team or the Software Process Engineering Group), selected a project leader, and established a repository to store process documentation and other process artifacts. We followed the plan as: Start by discovering and understanding current practice throughout the group. Find existing process documentation and talk to practitioners to understand how tasks are performed. Reconcile any differences between actual and espoused processes. Document and review the newly characterized process. Then iteratively and incrementally improve the process and ensure that the documentation is updated appropriately. Project Planning, Software Configuration Management, and Software Quality Assurance, project tracking, Software Tools usage were the key areas where our organization concentrated more for process improvement. We tried to customize Rational Unified Process for our working environment and automated tools in process was also taken up.

We also ensured that the visibility of the project to upper management and the rest of the organization were comparable to that of other important projects.

Culture and Resistance

Process improvement affects more than just the processes used by practitioners to perform their work. Process change means culture change, replete with all the difficulties inherent in changing the perceptions, values, and normative behaviors of a community. Some of the forces that make such improvement efforts difficult are:

• Resistance to change (often due to a perceived threat of losing power, control, familiarity, or social status)

• The existing tolerance and readiness for change present within the current organizational climate

• Process change imposes a learning curve, which typically makes things appear to get worse before they get better.

• Improvement efforts consume time and resources, which many would prefer to spend on their particular development projects.

In my organization we tried to solve the above problem by bringing our improvements from the Local Heroes itself (Involve Everyone!!). These people should be “all-stars in the family”: respected members of the organization with proven track records as developers or managers. Emphasize the importance of having the “local hero” be part of the Software Process Engineering Group and try to hold out for the “real thing” if you can manage it (this is another one of those times when senior and middle management support may be needed). We documented our local technical procedures by choosing the se champions/local heroes to write that procedure by using SEI-CMM key practices. Software Quality Assurance team was the center of guidance and support for all the process improvement activities. The SQA was the primary authoritative body for conducting and organizing improvement efforts in the organization. The entire practitioner community was regularly informed of the status of improvement efforts. It is also desirable to solicit input and feedback on process improvement issues from the practitioner community. We chose one pilot project so that we could discuss and test how software process improvement really helps in current scenario.

Benefits of Process Improvement

The clearest textbook definitions of Return on Investment (ROI) is, as described by Lawrence Putnam “Investing to improve [productivity] involves foregoing the use of those funds for other purposes. In time the payback from the future stream of gains from operations returns the capital invested.” The ROI may not always be in dollars, Quality and schedule issues as a return are nearly as important to the participants as are the cost issues. Our measurement set spanned the following eight categories of metrics: effort, process, productivity, progress, quality, schedule, stability, and staffing. We asked our research participants to indicate which metrics from our set they maintained and add to our list any additional metrics they used. We also solicited the starting and ending phase of the software lifecycle over which each metric was maintained. When we analyzed the participants’ measurement data across maturity levels against the eight metric categories, each maturity level showed, on average, a consistent growth pattern. We also tried to relate any immeasurable benefits we experienced from their process improvement program. The benefit most frequently noted by the research participants concerned attitudinal changes. The morale and confidence of the developers improved significantly, and software development experienced increased attention and respect from organizations external to the software organization. Participants also attributed less overtime, less employee turnover, improved competitive advantage, and increased cooperation between functional groups as benefits that resulted from process improvement initiatives.

Conclusion

Software Process Improvement is crucial as any organization attempts to take on and deliver larger projects. The lack of well-defined software processes can be very costly. Support from all staff, especially top management, is a prerequisite for any serious SPI initiative. As a great philosopher once said, “It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen”.
Many improvement efforts fail or falter during the initial phases of process improvement. My organization was successful at rapidly reaching ISO 9001/CMM because it made a point of applying lessons learned by others. But this cannot be the end for process improvement in any organization, our journey towards process improvement will always continue.

References

1. Carnegie Mellon University/Software Engineering Institute, The Capability Maturity Model: Guidelines for Improving the Software Process, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1995.

2. Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, 1996

3. Watts Humphrey, Managing the Software Process, Addison-Wesley, 1989

Name: Deepty B. Chauhan

Qualifications: Bachelor’s in Electronics Engineering, Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management. Total experience of Nine years in area of software quality and testing.

Corporate responsibilities: Given the responsibility to lead a group in Software Quality Assurance and Software Verification and Validation. This includes software process improvement through implementing ISO 9001/CMM in organization, customizing Rational Unified Process to cater the needs of my organization, bringing quality in the product through software testing, automating software quality assurance activities.

Email address: deeptychauhan@gmail.com

Finally, you have some time to personalize your desktop with an interesting screensaver. But wait… What’s that? Why in the world the system prevents you from doing that? The screensaver controls are grayed out or, even worse, the whole Screensaver tab is missing from Display Properties. Don’t panic! This article will help you change things for the better.

I’ve found that people who use Windows 2000/XP often can’t enjoy screensavers because their system is configured in a way that prevents them from doing that.

Unless you are very experienced in administrating Windows, you may stuck with the problem. If you ever found yourself or your friend in a situation like this, add this article to your arsenal of screensaver tips.

Most of the time people encounter the problem with office computers. I should warn you, though, that some companies have a strict screensaver policy. Usually they allow only certain or no screensavers at all to be used on office computers.

If you are not sure how your company treats screensavers, I recommend you to consult your system administrator before applying any of the changes described below to your system.

So why can screensavers be inaccessible on your system?

As you know, Windows 2000 and Windows XP had many improvements over Windows 95/98 and Windows Me that made lives of many users easier and more comfortable.

But that’s not all that made these operating systems so popular. Their developers also haven’t forgotten about people who are responsible for administrative tasks when it comes to computers shared by different users and large computer networks.

Windows 2000 and Windows XP introduced a lot of new features needed specifically for their administration. Controlling/disabling screensavers was among them.

No matter whether it was their intention or an accident, your system administrator or the person who configured your PC could use this feature to your disadvantage. Now you’ll have to use it once again and regain control over screensavers.

Here’s what you should do:

1. Click Start and then click Run…

2. Type “gpedit.msc” and press Enter.

3. A window will open with a tree on its left. Expand the User Configuration node, then expand Control Panel and click Display.

4. Now look at the policies in the list to the right. Make sure that the policies starting from Hide Screen Saver Tab and ending with Screen Saver Timeout all have their state set to Not Configured.

5. If any of them has a different state, double click the line with the policy, select Not Configured and click OK.

6. Now close the Group Policy window.

Now you can open Display Properties and see whether screensavers are back. If they aren’t, step back and check if you carefully followed all the steps described above.

Note that you can see a window saying you don’t have permission to access Group Policy window when doing the step 2. That will happen if you are working under a restricted user account. You will have to log under an account with Administrator’s rights or contact your system administrator.

With a little creativity, you can use the information in this article to prevent your kids and other unauthorized users from messing with your screensavers. The procedure is basically the same. The only difference is that you should specify meaningful values for screensaver related items instead of Not Configured.

About The Author

Roman Kramar is a software developer who enjoys writing screensavers as his time permits. Visit his site at http://www.elasticsystems.com/ to find out more about screensavers and his work. webmaster@elasticsystems.com

Building professional looking websites can definitely be challenging.

While anyone in the world can learn the basics of html and get an operational site up and running on the internet, making a site that looks attractive can be another story altogether!

The internet abounds with cheap-looking mom and pop sites that look like they were designed by a first year html student.

Do you want your web sites to look like that?

I hope not. Especially when it is so gosh-darn easy to make your sites look more professional using Microsoft FrontPage.

Here are 5 ways FrontPage can instantly make your websites look more professional.

1. High Quality Photos And Clipart Collection - Few people actually know how great the Microsoft Clipart collection is. This collection of images is created and maintained by one of the richest corporations in the world. It absolutely crushes any other collection I’ve seen on the internet in terms of quantity and quality of available pictures.

Best part…It’s free for FrontPage owners!

There are over a million clipart pictures and photos, all searchable by keyword.

And if you have an active internet connection, you can search this online gallery from within FrontPage while you work.

Adding some original looking, nice photographs to each page of your site can instantly take up space, add a professional look. This is better than simply having the affiliate link.

2. The Interactive Button Features - In Microsoft FrontPage 2003, there is a new feature called ‘Interactive Buttons’.

Basically, you can choose from over 200 different types of ready-made buttons to use on your website. These buttons look fantastic and can be created and edited with 1 click.

Before you would have to pay a graphic designer or spend hours creating these types of rollover buttons yourself, but FrontPage 2003 does it all for you.

Using these buttons can add a big dose of professional looks to your site in a matter of seconds.

3. Using HTML Tables - It goes without saying that the content of your webpages should usually be placed in some sort of html table. FrontPage makes it easy to create tables and add content, simply by using a button on the toolbar.
You can use this to center the content on your page and create neat looking tables once you get the hang of it (it is easy). This way, your content isn’t scattered all around the page.

4. Included Content - This feature of FrontPage allows you to make changes to hundreds of webpages, simply by changing the content of one html page. For example, I mentioned above that you should use the interactive buttons feature to create a navigation system. You can also ‘include’ this navigation system on all of your webpages with a special feature in FrontPage.

This way, if you want to add another category or link to all of the pages on your site, you simply need to open up one webpage, the ‘navigation.htm’ page, and change the contents of that page.

The changes will immediately be reflected on hundreds of pages on your website.

You can see this is 10,000x more easy than going through and manually editing the links bar on each page!

5. Web Forms - Using the web forms feature of FrontPage, you can create a feedback form for your website. Not only do these forms look nice, but they also can help you to alleviate your spam problems.

Many a webmaster has paid extravagant fees to other companies for form processing, when it has been available to FrontPage users free and easy for years.

You can create any kind of feedback form in a matter of minutes, and have the results of the form submission sent to any email address that you choose.

To conclude:

I have just given you 5 very valuable tools for creating professional looking websites fast.

While it may not sound like much, consider this:

Let’s say you spend $50 and get a nice looking banner graphic for your new affiliate website.

Then you create a neat html table, past in the banner, and use the interactive buttons feature of FrontPage 2003 to create a navigation system.

You can use the same general template for each new page you create (for articles, and other information about the product you are promoting).

After that, you top each page off with a nice looking photo or two from the Microsoft Clipart collection.

Using these basic techniques, in only an hour or 2 you can easily put together a professional looking website site.

You can get more Microsoft FrontPage website building tips via the tips newsletter at http://www.fphowto.com

Jay Gilbert publishes ‘How To’ tutorials and articles online which simplify software so that regular people –and not only techies, can utilize advanced website building techniques.

There are many software programs available designed to remove Viruses, Spyware, Adware and other nasties from your computer. Uneducated users simply run these programs in the mistaken belief that once they do, all is well.

For the best results, and to optimise computer performance and efficiency, it’s best to eliminate the many temporary files and temporary Internet files that build up on one’s hard disk over time.

Temporary Internet Files result simply from visiting web sites. Each web page usually consists of a number of individual elements, including one or more images. A typical business page is made from a large number of individual images, even if only a single image is visible when the page is fully loaded. Each of these images is stored on your hard disk in the Temporary Internet Files folder, also known as the Internet Cache”. Other elements such as cookies and multimedia files are also stored here. Particularly useful in the early days of the Internet when only dial-up accounts were available, the use of this cache idea helped speed up access to web pages on the second and subsequent visit. Because images and multimedia objects take a lot longer to download than text, once they were stored in a local cache, they would be displayed directly from the hard disk, and didn’t need to be downloaded again. Web access was therefore a lot faster. There appears no way of automatically deleting these files, and so the number increases constantly.

Temporary Files appear for other reasons. In the course of normal operation by some programs, they require “working space” and will create one or more temporary files. When programs are installed, particularly from zipped or compressed files, they usually need a temporary storage area in which to store files during the installation process. It would make sense in both these cases, for the programs to delete the temporary files when finished. However, it seems that in a lot of cases, the obvious doesn’t happen.

Why should we care that we have all these unwanted files on our hard disks?

Firstly, they do take up disk space unnecessarily, and secondly they reduce the performance of our computers. But in the context of viruses, spyware, adware, malware and other nasties, there are two reasons why all these temporary files are unwanted.

Most of the “nasties” mentioned above, apart from viruses, infiltrate our computers whilst visiting websites. Objects downloaded from web sites sit on our hard disk in the Temporary Internet Files folder. Deleting these files, therefore, is the first step to eliminating nasties. Some viruses and nasties will install themselves, or a copy of themselves in the Temporary folder where no-one can find them. Have you ever run a virus or spyware scan only to find that the culprit comes right back afterwards? The other reason to delete these files … and there could be a great many of them over time … is to minimise the time the scanning software has to run by reducing the number of files it has to scan.

Fortunately, Windows gives us a simple method to delete these files.

Click on “Start” and “My Computer”. With the right mouse button, click on your primary hard disk, usually the C: drive, known in Windows XP as Local Disk (C:). In the menu that opens, click on the “Properties” selection at the bottom. The window that opens will display a graphically representation of your hard disk showing the total space, and the amount used and free. On the left is a button called “Disk Cleanup”. Press that button.

Windows will now check your hard disk and open another window showing how many temporary and temporary Internet files there are. If you click on “ok”, Windows will proceed to delete those files. It’s safe to do so. The recycle bin is also listed, and if you haven’t emptied it for a while, now is a good time to do so. Leave the other options unchecked.

Your virus scanning software and “anti-nasties” programs will now run more quickly, and in fact, you might find your whole computer seems faster and more responsive.

There is one limitation of the Windows built-in file cleaner though: it often doesn’t delete all files, and the only way of doing it is to manually delete them. That’ll be covered in a future article.

Frank Wrobel is a computer consultant with many years experience in supporting everything from home computers to corporate networks. He has written a book explaining how to find and eradicate viruses, spyware, malware and other nasties: http://www.fixcomputernasties.com/

Frank Wrobel is a computer consultant with many years experience in supporting everything from home computers to corporate networks.
www.fixcomputernasties.com/

The future of your medical practice could greatly depend on how well you comply with HIPAA. As there are complex procedures and you have to keep record of various steps apart from ensuring the security of the information you have access to, most the employers and medical professionals prefer to use HIPAA software.

The software is available online as well as offline, which helps the people concerned with implementing this law. In fact, this software can make the difference between success and failure, for a large number of medical professionals. The HIPAA software helps in removing inefficiency, which causes trouble for many health service providers.

If you plan to run a medical office without sapping too much of your time in dealing with administrative and data management problems, then HIPAA software can be of great help. It provides help in managing almost every aspect of a medical office, such as billing, scheduling, processing of claims, auditing, recording and reserving medical information. It reduces costs as well as the margin of error in managing health care services, and helps in improving the overall productivity of the staff.

Good HIPAA software should ensure that you are complying with all the HIPAA rules and regulations. You must not forget to get your software updated as new rules and regulations are incorporated. A list of such software programs is available on several websites. You can purchase them online. A number of software companies sell HIPAA software.

Do check the performance on trial basis before you pay the full price, as not all software would fulfill your requirement. The choice of software also depends on the type and size of your organization, as well as volume of data that has to be loaded and processed by this software.

HIPAA provides detailed information on HIPAA, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Laws, HIPAA Software and more. HIPAA is affiliated with Electronic Medical Record Systems.

In today’s day and age companies can ill afford to take on full time equivalent employees to manage functions which can be easily outsourced. In fact most businesses today, particularly in marketing, can not afford to keep a large marketing staff, but they still need to complete those vital marketing functions. Companies are going to a much more of a virtualized model and the fundamental relationship between employees and employer has changed. Companies are often using a make or buy criteria to decide what they outsource to other companies, and what are core competencies that they need to retain inside their own walls with their own employees.

The trend is towards strong rethinking of maintaining a large headcount in the face of stiffer competition, tightened margins and higher specialization of particular skills that are required in order to be effective in the sales and marketing mix. This is where a relationship with an outsourcing company becomes valuable. Today most companies can’t afford to keep positions like product marketing manager or product manager full time or they can’t afford to have a full time person doing search engine optimization on their staff, but they still need access to those functions. Outsourcing those functions to an outsourcing or inter-management company like ours is a perfect solution.

Many companies now look for employing sales or marketing specialists on a fractional basis. And so the term “fractional management” is now becoming more common as part of the lexicon of companies as they think about how to make sure that they’ve got the right skill mix in their company without necessarily having to employ those resources full time. Another perfect example of outsourcing is when companies need to do a product launch, or they need to do product management duties but they can’t afford to have a full time product manager that would cost seventy or eighty thousand dollars a year. A great solution to that problem is employing a fractional product manager for perhaps one quarter or one fifth of that cost and still making sure that vital product management duties are getting done inside your company.

These are just some of the examples of how companies can use fractional sales and marketing management and specialty skills to make sure that they have a complete capability inside their company without spending on individual full time equivalents or FTE’s in order to have those capabilities in their company. As virtualization of companies continue we see that this trend is going to continue to accelerate and Cube Management is optimally positioned to provide those fractional sales and marketing management services to companies that need to outsource.

About Cube Management
Cube Management provides sales acceleration services to emerging growth and mid-market companies in the technology, manufacturing, healthcare and business service sectors. The experts at Cube Management work across the entire spectrum of marketing, sales and business development to provide customized solutions that drive revenue and profit growth. Cube Management combines Strategy, Process & People to produce winning results.

To a layman, outsourcing would seem like a waste of time and money, as well as an unneeded complication. After all, why send business abroad when the work can probably be done better right at home? To a politician, the issue of outsourcing serves as a fortified objection to taking jobs away from ‘our own countrymen’. Sympathy towards this issue may elicit a few votes, but nothing more.

But to a businessman, outsourcing is a modern day boon. Outsourcing grants businesses the freedom to dump non – core, yet important sectors of its administration on companies specializing in those very individual aspects. Thus, leaving the businessman free to wholly concentrate on those areas of the company that bring in the real moolah.

The most enticing advantage of outsourcing is the cost effective factor. Human resource and IT services in the United States or Europe are not exactly inexpensive. Let’s avoid complicated business jargon and say that outsourcing is basically an option that offers these services at a much, much lower rate i.e., a cheap but highly productive mass work force. Let us take India as an exemplary illustration.

Thousands of highly intelligent people graduate in a variety of fields each year. Almost all of them speak English better than the English, and have dreams of making big money in a short period of time. The boom of BPO’s in the last 10 years has given them a chance to realize those dreams. It provides them with the opportunity to stay close to home and earn almost as much as they would if they took up a job abroad. On an average, an individual would earn $ 300 to $ 500 per month. A small sum to an American, but an Indian would be quite happy with that salary considering the conversion rate. It’s a win – win situation for your business as well as the company you’re outsourcing to.

There is no dearth of candidates willing to suffer incessant night shifts. Due to a constant effort of having to prove themselves, you can be assured of enhanced quality and productivity at all times. The company you outsource to will always be sure to reach your targets, deliver on time, ensure stringent security and maintain a level of productivity which won’t tempt you into taking your business elsewhere. Employees are regularly evaluated and terminated if found wanting in any aspect. The entire process of recruitment and the hassles involved with finding (and sustaining) the right person for the job is taken off your shoulders.

By 2006, in addition to human resources and IT services, companies that take on offshore contracts will also offer tax preparation and back office services. Hundreds of commerce students graduate in India each year and go on to become chartered accountants in a country where there is no dearth of them. Offering these services to countries abroad would be lucrative for both parties. The most advanced security procedures will be employed in this regard.

It all comes down to the money. Let’s face it; we live in a material world. And the technical term for material is moolah. So until the day the cons of outsourcing outweigh the monetary factors (read pros), outsourcing; as a legitimate and lucrative way to do business, is here to stay.

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