Microsoft Great Plains: Offshore Customization & Development – overview for consultantWritten by Andrew Karasev
Continued from page 1 •Customization Upgrade Experience. Great Plains Dexterity allows you to create either custom forms or place modifications to existing forms (SOP Entry, for example). Placing code to existing forms requires customization upgrade experience – these forms should be re-customized when you do upgrade to newer GP version – currently version 8.0 •Project Management. Considering fact that majority of Great Plains users have rather accounting background – to spec out customization or integration – project manager should have combination of functional/application and technical consulting experience. This means that project manager should be US-based consultant. In case when you plan to have project managers offshore – they should be in close time zone (Sao Paulo, Brazil – is good candidate for place, considering large pool of educated programmers on market) Good luck with implementation, customization and integration and if you have issues or concerns – we are here to help! If you want us to do job - give us a call 866-528-0577 or 630-961-5918! help@albaspectrum.com
Andrew is Great Plains specialist in Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http://www.albaspectrum.com ) – Microsoft Great Plains, Navision, Microsoft CRM Partner, serving clients in California, Minnesota, Illinois, Washington, Florida, Arizona, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Canada, UK, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Russia
| | Tips for starting a hosting companyWritten by Ron Swerdfiger
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4. Find your niche. The hosting business as a whole is a huge industry which is very competitive. Your best chance at success is to simply find a market and develop your business to cater to that specific niche. An excellent example of this is http://elite-hosts.org/ who offer hosting and development to those who operate online forums. Maybe in early 90’s idea of “if you build it they will come” might have been true. But in year 2005 internet is a far more competitive and complex. place To be successful today, you have to develop a business plan which works from all angels. If you can develop a hosting company which has a professional design, some extra content, search engine friendly and which targets a specific niche, you will have a far greater chance at success Of course there are many other factors to consider as well, but if you can master these four, everything else should fall into place
Ron is the CTO for Dice Ventures Inc an internet holdings and development company. Some current projects include a hosting forum and a Linux forum
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