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There has been a lot of buzz about new enterprise cloud software and how they greatly improve the productivity of any enterprise; NetSuite ERP is one of them. So, what is cloud ERP? Cloud ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is a Software as a Service (SaaS) system that is created to put together processes and their data sources into one unified system. In layman terms, a cloud ERP is an online subscription-based ERP solution for enterprises. The ERP system puts together external and internal information across the whole enterprise, manufacturing processes, customer management, assimilating accounting, and sales.

Many people always ask the question, “What is cloud ERP Solution’s main function?” The main function of a cloud ERP system is to ensure smooth collaboration of information between an enterprise’s internal and external business functions. Any cloud ERP system has two main components; a unified database and software with a modular design. A unified database ensures that the ERP system can access all the information required to make the whole enterprise run effectively. The database also allows the information to be easily accessed and shared by various units in the enterprise. The modular software design ensures that other software programs can be added or removed from the ERP platform in order to increase efficiency.

Benefits of Cloud ERP over On-site ERP

Whether an enterprise uses an on-site ERP or a cloud ERP, there are a lot of benefits it will get. However, using a cloud ERP has far more benefits as compare to using an on-site ERP. Some of these benefits are:

Minimized initial investment

An onsite ERP solution requires enormous initial capital investment to buy servers, house the servers in a secure environment, deploy, configure and maintain them. Apart from the initial capital outlay, onsite ERP solutions also need the effort, time and costs associated with hiring and keeping a well skilled and experienced IT staff. In comparison, with a cloud based ERP solution the cost of setting up, maintenance and updating the ERP system is shifted to the ERP provider. Due to this, the customer does not have to be concerned about the cost, human resource and time to implement, maintain and run the ERP system. It is due to this that even small enterprises are now embracing NetSuite ERP systems.

Quick Return on Investment

Cloud based ERP solutions use the SaaS application business model. Due to this, their implementation and integration is easy and faster compared to onsite solutions. It takes only a few weeks for most cloud ERP solutions to be fully implement and running as compared to onsite solutions which take months to a year to be fully operational. It is because of the fast implementation of cloud ERP that enterprises start enjoying the benefits earlier which leads to a quick payback. The end result is the reduction of TCO (total cost of ownership) and quick return on investment during the investment’s course.

Seamless and Quick Updates

Enterprises that use onsite ERP solutions usually have to wait for quite a while before they can buy and enjoy the benefits of new upgrades, features and security patches. Upgrading onsite ERP systems also comes with some problems; these are potential disruption to enterprise activities, the cost and complexities involved. It is because of this that some enterprises will choose to shift to the new ERP release rather than upgrade the current one. These problems are eliminated when dealing with a Cloud ERP solution. This is mainly because the cloud ERP provider always performs upgrades in an unobtrusive and continuous way. This way, the enterprises will always be enjoying the latest tools and applications as opposed to waiting for a new release of the ERP system as is the case when using an onsite ERP system.

Scalability and Changes

Cloud based ERP systems can easily be scaled to meet the new business demands of any enterprise. Removing or adding software and users can be done whenever there is demand for it. The only thing that will change regarding the ERP solution will be the subscription fee. The flexibility that is depicted by NetSuite ERP is what makes it beneficial especially for cyclical, seasonal or growing businesses.

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Is your business growing faster than your IT infrastructure can handle it? Are you constantly upgrading your servers, switches, backup solutions and fighting hard to keep with technology? Are you constantly paranoid your data might be compromised by unscrupulous hackers?  Would you rather be managing your clients, people and money – hallmark a good executive? Then you are ready to step in cloud ERP.

You ask what is cloud ERP? Businesses are moving their systems from on-premise in-house server boxes, into the cloud infrastructure.  One simply needs a computer – a laptop, a tablet, or even a desktop, and connection to the internet to play with the system in the cloud.  Play it is, because you can be on the beach with family or climbing a mountain and still stay in touch with your business activities and numbers.  Life has never been so good!

If you are not into cloud computing yet for your business to operate its back-office, I would encourage you to make the move now – sooner the better.  The reason being you will reap the benefit of very low capital investment as well as low Total Cost to Ownership.  Since Netsuite EPR is based in the cloud environment, your IT infrastructure cost for servers, backup system and security can dwindle down drastically.  The solution comes with features that large corporations spend millions of dollars to adapt.

This will facilitate an easier wider reach for you from anywhere in the world.  You need not worry about data security and overall access security since the environment is very secure with redundancy and backup provided, which also takes away your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery headache from the backend systems perspective.

Here are some salient features of NetSuite Cloud ERP supported by ERPtribe:

• One complete system including full-featured accounting, CRM, inventory, and ecommerce •Scalable cloud platform for faster growth, streamlined operations and greater productivity Real-time visibility and anywhere, anytime access to critical business information •Dramatically reduced IT cost, complexity, and maintenance •Industry solutions for software, wholesale distribution, manufacturing, ecommerce and professional services

• Manufacturing & Supply Chain Management – Increase efficiency and reduce costs with Work-in-Process (WIP) tracking, BOM Effectively Dating, Cycle Counting, and Enhanced Demand Planning.

• OneWorld & Global Business – Manage complex, global businesses more easily than ever with Fiscal Year per Sub, Intercompany Inventory Transactions, Multi-Currency Vendors, and Withholding Tax.

• Improved Dashboard Charting – Get better insight into your business with all-new Dashboard Charting, including more chart types, interactive analysis, expanded configurability, and a fresh new look.

• Increased Productivity – Save time with Improved Outlook Integration, Bulk Field Updates, Scheduled Times for Reports/Searches, and various performance improvements.

Start anywhere.

With NetSuite Cloud ERP supported by ERPtribe, you can implement the complete business software suite to run your entire business better or begin with one module and add functionality as you need it.

Where would you like to start?

• Powerful web-based accounting software
• Real-time inventory management
• Complete customer relationship management (CRM) •Advanced ecommerce with built-in order management •Web-based professional services automation (PSA) •Real-time financial consolidation and global  business management

Our solutions are elegant and intuitive with a focus on simplicity.  Experience indicates this result in solutions those are easier to use with predictable behavior and flexible design.

ERPtribe is dedicated to understanding your business ecosystem and align your information system requirements by leveraging suitable technology.  This ensures cloud ERP applications will be implemented according to the needs of your organization per the industry best practices.

Let ERPtribe make your life better, even if you are already in the cloud.  With cutting edge Cloud ERP systems that float so your business can fly.

“Successful businesses may soon have no chief executive, no headquarters and no IT infrastructure”, says Nick Martindale

Thinking of different ways on how to target traffic is a must for every online business. Studies have shown that people will more likely click on the top 5 search results given to them by search engines on a particular keyword. That is why every business owner should make it their top priority to be on top of the list of search engine results so that they will become more visible to their target customers. However, achieving this goal can be a bit complicated. Rankings usually change during the course of the day and the amount of traffic your site gets is part of the basis of these rankings.

If you are set on achieving this goal, you need to find out strategies that could help you attract users to go to your site. Getting feedback from them gives you greater chances of attracting more visitors. This will bring in more traffic which is always good for every business.

There are many tips to get more traffic into your site. Some of them are the following: article marketing, properly setting up HTML tags on the pages of your website, and leaving comments on other people’s blogs. Read further to expound on these particular strategies.

1. Article Marketing

This is a very effective way to target visitors and drive traffic to your website. People have different concerns and they know that the internet is there to help them. By providing users with valuable and relevant information to their needs, you can ensure that more viewers will visit your site.

There are two things that you should remember when writing articles that is relevant to your business. The first is that your articles should be informative. This means that you need to provide useful tips, and helpful advice or ideas that your viewers can benefit from. The second thing you have to remember is using the right keywords. Keywords help search engine bots to search for you and put you on top of their results list.

In some cases, business owners don’t have the time to write the articles themselves. And since article writing is as important as any other marketing strategies you need to do, you can outsource the writing of these articles to independent or freelance writers.

1. HTML Tags

HTML may sound a bit technical for you, but the truth is that it is not that complicated to use. It simply means hyper text markup language and what it does is help you become more accessible for search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing or MSN to find you. It is very important to input the right title tags to make it easier for search engines to index your site in case users type in keywords that are related to your topics. The meta tags and description should also incorporate the right keywords to make sure that you make your site more searchable by these search engines.

1. Blog Comments

This is another effective technique to hook more viewers and visitors into your business’ website. Many people fail to realize the value of leaving comments on other people’s blogs. But when you come to think of it, it is actually some sort of free exposure and marketing as well as a part of the networking procedure. You can check out blogs that are related to your topics, interests and products, and leave intelligent comments that will surely pique the interest of the people reading it. When you do this, chances are, viewers of this site will likely want to follow your link and get the chance to know more about you.

As you can see, targeting and driving traffic into your website is not as complicated as you initially thought. Take advantage of these tips and get the top page ranking today.

Everyone wants to enhance traffic to their website. It is a bit of a challenge to get more people to visit your website. However, there are strategies to have more people visiting your site. There are a number of creative and unique ideas that are highly effective.

1. Flickr. This social photo sharing drives people to your website. Always add smart tags to the photos (use Fotobounce ). Once photos are tagged, they draw the members on the site. When you write a post to your blog, add in link to the Flickr site. You will have two sites that work in unison to draw traffic to your site.

2. Search and join social bookmarking sites and share your personal favorite sites with other people with similar interests. Post your website there. They are more or less search engines for specific purposes used by many people. When you add the bookmarks to your site, it drives more traffic to our website. Add hyperlinks to information and products that your subscriber is searching for. Your following will keep on escalating as your increase linking engaging articles.

3. Make blogging a pattern. Seek out for sites of attraction to you and make sure to leave your comments relevant to the topic. Always include your URL to the postings. You are commenting on your posts, so stay focused on the topic being discussed. You do not want our posting to be trashed as spam. Write as a well-informed and an imposing person.

4. Another way to promote your site is to use forum signature with a live link. Write topics with suitable and useful information and link them back to your sites. You should make readers go back to your sites and blogs repeatedly, to get information that is useful and of use to them.

5. Always insert themes, widgets and extension to your site. There are several free additions to make your site hugely appealing. Readers like captivating sites, not typical, dull ones they come across every day. You site should be exciting, user friendly and intuitive. They want to experience and discover new things, so give it to them on your site.

6. Leverage network of your friends to spread the word about your websites and blogs. They can use their personal websites, contacts and blogs to escalate your website traffic.

7. Network with and contact industry specific sites and ask for links to your website. Many such sites are willing to cooperate with you to promote specific industries or causes.

8. Add interesting and intriguing audio, video and photos to broaden your exposure. Adding podcasts to your site is an excellent idea.

9. Always submit your feeds to related directories. This will drive traffic to your site from other sites.

Last but not the least:

10. Always suggest your articles to article directories. Use the resource box to drive traffic to your blogs and site and establish strong backlinks for search engines to rank your sites higher.

Keep in mind when you embark upon traffic building, it is all about offering what readers want, not quite about traffic building. You serve a valuable purpose to your audience when you reach out to them with useful and exciting information.

Think about it. We spend more time organizing our closets, kitchens and garages than we do in organizing our precious photo memories. Why is this? It’s not hard to imagine how devastating it would be to lose precious photos. Once lost, they can never be reclaimed or reproduced. Perhaps your husband accidentally tosses out those boxes of vintage family photos that are “just gathering dust in the attic” or your wedding photos are damaged beyond repair when a pipe bursts in the basement. You get the picture (so to speak).

I’m not just talking about preserving and accessing hard copy photos either. I’m also referring to the hundreds, if not thousands, of digital photos sitting on your camera’s SD card or somewhere on your computer’s hard drive. Where they can be found on your computer is anybody’s guess.

As precious as our photo memories are to us, we continue to procrastinate. If you are like me, you can always come up with excuses, which usually revolve around a lack of time, energy and interest to name a few.

It is high time we elevate this rather mundane, yet important organizational task to its proper position of high priority on the “to do” list and get that photographic diary in order. This would include scanning and organizing those photos from the shoebox in the closet, as well as capturing those photos from old albums that mom and dad used to meticulously manage the family’s valued photographic memories. In today’s age of computers, there are software assistants to help with this task. I would like to suggest a fairly new photo organization application that elegantly brings order to your photo disarray.

Fotobounce is a free software application that you download from the Internet. Within a short time, you will find it to be as indispensable to your photo organization as your shoe organizer is to your Malono Blahniks. This photo assistant offers features to help make photo organizing and sharing simple. While easy-to-use, make no mistake – as an organizational tool, it is a powerful ally. Once installed, the software will search for and organize photos based on people it finds in those photos. This is by design, since most photos revolve around people.

People in the photos are found by using advanced face detection and recognition technology. Once a face is detected, you have the ability to identify and tag those people. This is accomplished by “training” the software to recognize a face by initially “putting a name to a face,” and then letting the application continue finding other faces that look similar. These similar faces are displayed as suggestions. As you confirm or reject its suggestions, it further refines its ability to identify a particular person.

The reason I find organizing by people so important is that I always seem to be searching for photos of a specific person, couple, or a group of people. I have thousands of photos on my computer and I keep adding about a thousand to the collection every year. Inevitably, I find myself spending valuable hours searching through photos to find a handful of specific ones, whether they are photos of a friend for a birthday slide show, or perhaps I’m having a couple over for dinner this weekend and I want to show photos of our last trip to New York City on my digital photo frame. With my photos now tagged using Fotobounce, I can quickly find the photos I’m looking for, which makes it easier for me to share and enjoy my photos with friends and family.

There are many other ways that Fotobounce helps put you in control of your photo collection, allowing you to further organize your “photo closet;” however, I’ll leave those for another article.

Holiday Lights: Time To Step Into The Cold

An excellent time and opportunity to take pictures of your family, friends and neighborhoods, are these holiday seasons! Do not be discouraged by cold weather and short daylight hours. Modern digital cameras, even some of the cheapest ones, can handle the low lights extremely well. So it is time to step out into the cold and record the moods, the gaiety, the candles and the decorative lights strung up by malls, streets, cities and so many others.

The first rule to take any pictures with lights facing the lens is to turn off the camera flash. A flash robs the scene of its natural colors. When taking pictures of holiday decorations of colorful store displays or a well decorated neighbors’ house, you should select a slow shutter speed. It is preferable to use a tripod or solid, stable base for your camera when using slow shutter speed; otherwise, you will get a blur with even the steadiest of hands. Use ISO400 or 800. Do not use automatic white balance, as that can drain color from the scene. Follow and experiment with color balance presets recommended in your camera’s instruction manual. Check your LCD panel, make adjustments and shoot.

Now suppose you want to capture bright lights and a friend in the foreground. Flash will capture your friend, but will minimize the bright lights behind. If you don’t use the flash, you will get very good details of the holiday lights, but your friend will be just a silhouette. To overcome this, many of the modern point-and-shoot cameras have a setting with a funny looking icon which is sort of hieroglyph indicating night picture with a person in front of lights. This setting allows the camera flash to fire first, thus capturing your friend, and the lens stays long enough to capture the light in the background. Make sure your camera is mounted or placed steadily; otherwise the long exposure will ruin the picture.

Twilight is one of the best times to shoot outdoors for some spectacular scenes. Some colors in the sky in the background bring so much appeal when compared to a pitch-black tone of late nights of winter.

One of the most common mistakes, when shooting portraits, people, holiday decoration and lights, is to shoot from a distance. If you zoom in to the subject, it affects shutter speed. Just move closer instead.

Want to shoot holiday lights inside? Turn on just enough lights in the room and the next room to increase the ambient light, instead of turning on the flash which can produce a harsh and high-contrast effect that obliterates the brilliance of light. To raise the ambient light without overpowering the holiday lights, carefully position some incandescent lights.

And by the way, if you need to organize your photos using face recognition technology or share photos on private network, check out Fotobounce.

When out in the cold, taking pictures keep your camera in the pocket or bag until ready to shoot. A few flakes of gentle snow are not going to adversely affect the camera. Framed pictures make a delightful holiday gifts, and there is someone in your list, a small kid maybe, who would is wishing to receive a camera as a present. Some of them are so inexpensive…what a value for a lifetime of memories!