Enterprise Resource Planning software is one of the important applications widely used in offices. Oracle E-Business Suite (Oracle ERP) is also among the popular ERP applications together with SAP. Recently though I’ve encountered a new ERP application from Infor. The Chief Executive Officer of Infor is Oracle’s Charles Phillips who was the former President of [...]

Oracle ERP are some of the most important applications we have at work. Mostly Oracle E-Business Suite financial modules are being used. We’ve been running Oracle 5.7.11 applications, but would like to use newer operating systems from Microsoft. The offices are using Windows operating system with corporate license which makes it easy for IT support [...]

Cranking sound from laptop during startup is a sign of an impending disaster. Well it’s true, if the sound comes from the hard disk. I bought an Aspire S3 laptop computer as it’s handy for travel. Very sleek design and light. Everyday, I have it with me going to office and back home. I just [...]

Strange things do happen every now and then on my laptop. I have done some upgrades on security patches and software and noticed that the Synaptics touchpad does not work properly. Usually, a tap on the touchpad is equivalent to a left click on the mouse and a double tap would be equivalent to a [...]

ERP software is a comprehensive suite of integrated application that helps organizations or businesses in making better decision, increase efficiency and reduce cost. The financial management module of ERP offers solution that enables complete financial control and reporting processess. Three main benefits of ERP financial management software: Efficiency Control Visibility & Performance I have observed that [...]

Making some backup is a must for any organization or business. Mail data accumulated over time could be very massive. I’ve run into such occasion where email data of more than 2TB needs to be back up. The easier choice is to do the data backup on an external hard drive. Backup media really depends [...]

I should say that virtualization is at the heart of every modern data center. It is considered of importance which made it included in design of computer servers. Computer construction from the chip level is created with virtualization technology integrated. The improvement in hardware prevents reduction of performance penalties due to virtualization. Thus, it’s really [...]

Reducing the time required to run full backups is a challenge to Linux administrators. There are commercial backup software, which does full backup and incremental backup. A faster data backup solution at a fraction of time needed compared to traditional full backup method is much desirable. Both commercial backup software and open source backup software [...]

Securely discard data from old computer hard disk is an important task. A thorough check needs to be done of the presence of sensitive information. Important data leaks should be avoided by properly discarding data. A Pentium 4 2.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM memory computer was readied for decommissioning from the office. The computer runs [...]

Microsoft Windows operating system opens a computer security risk built-in with the OS starting with Windows Vista due to the flashy little mini-application called Gadgets or Sidebars. Other software developer company like Apple or Yahoo has similar desktop application and it’s called Widgets. It looks like a larger version of animated icon which floats around [...]