Archive for September, 2007

by David Tang
In a study that compares new IT equipment to refurbished IT equipment, there are a number of assumptions that need to be made so that the study can be useful. First, we will be assuming that you have purchased refurbished IT equipment that actually works (or at least if you decide to purchase refurbished IT equipment you will make sure that you find stuff that works before making the purchase). The main drawback of refurbished IT equipment is that not all of it is reliable and while different articles will deal with how to make sure the equipment is reliable, this article deals specifically with a comparison between good refurbished IT equipment and new IT equipment.

The first category that needs to be evaluated is the newness of the technology. In the technology world, a lot of importance is placed on the newness factor and in many ways if you aren’t able to keep up with the technology then you are not going to be tops in the industry. So, when you look at it from the newness factor what you find is that quite naturally new IT equipment has refurbished IT equipment beat. Therefore, at the end of one category being evaluated, new IT equipment is leading 1-0 in categories.

The second category is cost. Obviously cost is a very big part of operating a business and one of the main reasons that people keep IT staff on the actual payroll is so that they can use them as consultants and as maintenance workers in order to cut costs. IT equipment is very expensive, but depreciates quickly. This means that if you are able to find refurbished IT equipment, it is almost always going to be less costly than the new equipment. Therefore, at the end of the evaluation of two categories, it is a 1-1 tie.

The third category is cost efficiency. This is different from cost. Cost refers to the absolute value of the actual product that you are purchasing whereas cost efficiency takes a look at not only how much money the product costs, but how much money you are likely to bring in as a result of the cost. Therefore, a product that costs $1 million and generates $1.1 million is more cost efficient than a product that costs $1 and generates nothing. Refurbished IT equipment can do anything that new IT equipment can do in the every day running of a business; something that makes it more cost efficient. Therefore, at the end of three categories, the score is now 2-1 in the favor of refurbished IT equipment.

The final category to be evaluated is durability. Now, here you would think that new equipment would win hands down, but refurbished equipment frequently undergoes more quality testing than new equipment to make it sellable and therefore it is not a given that new is automatically longer lasting than refurbished. We can call this category a tie and make the final score 2.5 to 1.5 in favor of refurbished IT equipment. Therefore, it is definitely more worth it to invest in refurbished IT equipment.

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by Dustin Baker
High sales volumes lead to high profitability. Gross margins on many units sold will firstly recover your fixed establishment expenses like office rent and depreciation, and then generate surplus profits.

And good document management software can help you achieve higher sales volumes. We look at some specifics of how this becomes possible.

Significance of Document Management to Business Operations

In a business of more than a few employees, numerous documents (of varied kinds) are likely to be generated in the course of business operations. Unless these are organized and stored efficiently, subsequent retrieval becomes a highly time-wasting exercise (if not an impossible one).

And time is very valuable in business. You have to go after sales, economic sources of supplies, shipping arrangements, cash collections and so on. A small business is more than likely to be pressed hard for time. If that precious time is wasted in searching for unorganized documents, you will indeed be harming your business.

Good document management software allows you to capture all documents efficiently, store them in a central computer and make them retrievable in seconds from workstation computers. You will then be able to locate any document whenever it is needed.

Searching and retrieval are reported to be the most-frequently carried out document management operation. This is not surprising because it’s information that is the key input needed for making business decisions and taking business actions. And search and retrieval provides just that; it provides relevant information.

Therein lies the significance of document management software for successful business operations.

How DMS Helps Sales Volumes

Sales volumes are achieved through organizing an effective marketing setup, timely deliveries, prompt attention to customer care requests and constant monitoring to identify fast and slow moving merchandise.

All these tasks are document-intensive. Correspondence and contracts are essential components that go into organizing a good marketing setup.

Correspondence, e-mails, invoices and shipping documents are integral to the day-to-day marketing operations. You must be able to retrieve any document immediately to ensure that good customer relations are maintained.

For example, a major distributor might call you and complain about the non-receipt of a shipment he had requested more than a month ago. If you can’t immediately retrieve the details of the relevant shipment, you will fumble in attending to the complaint. And that could mean losing a highly effective distributor to a competitor.

A good document management system will capture all the relevant details, invoices, shipment documents (even images of paper documents) and store them under the distributor’s name or ID. You can retrieve full details in a minute or so, and respond to the complaint with full information.

A DMS will also enable you to get in touch with the relevant carrier and find out what happened to the shipment. A DMS might even provide the tracking number so that you can find the status of the shipment yourself.

It’s actions like these, and not accounting reports, that maintain good customer relations and contribute to higher sales volumes. Your document management software helps you take informed actions, as clearly illustrated above.

A regular stream of such informed actions can help achieve much higher volumes of sales than would be the case otherwise.

Conclusion

Good document management systems are essential for effective marketing operations. You should be able to retrieve relevant documents in a minute or less, on a consistent basis, to satisfy today’s customers. This is what good document management software helps achieve. It captures all the documents, both paper and electronic, and makes them retrievable in seconds.

The result would be a great improvement in customer relations, and create much higher sales volumes.

About Author:
Ademero, Inc. develops enterpise content management and document management software. Visit their web site devoted to document management and enterpise content management. Browse the resources section which includes the largest collection of posts from real users reviewing all of the most popular document management systems available.

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by Dustin Baker
Can document management software help control costs? Before we answer that question, let us try to get an insight into the real significance of cost control.

After sales volumes, costs are significant in generating profits. In a competitive market selling prices tend to be inflexible; you have to sell at the market prices.

That means you have to control costs to achieve profitability. By controlling direct costs of sales you increase the margins on each unit sold. By controlling fixed establishment costs, you make it possible to recover these with the margins on a lower volume of sales.

Now let us see whether document management software can help control these costs.

Ready Access to Information Helps Cost Control

Good document management software contains components to capture all kinds of documents and retrieve these in little time. You would thus be able to store, say, spreadsheets for different cost categories and examine the details.

You can review cost trends: compare them with relevant volumes and against budget estimates. Such reviews would focus your attention on problem areas like a sharp increase in costs per unit produced or per time period.

Investigating further, you can identify the factors that contribute to the deviations from standard. In most cases, you can also take remedial action that would bring costs back to desired, or at least more-acceptable levels.

It’s systematic use of information like the above that helps achieve control over costs (and other business result areas).

Let us now take a broad look at some major categories of costs and the factors that influence their levels.

Material Cost Is Likely to be the Major Constituent of Merchandise Costs

If you’re a retailer, the costs you incur for buying merchandise and getting it to display racks is your major direct cost. If you are a manufacturer making some product, the costs of materials that go into the product are likely to be the major element of the production cost.

Even a small percentage reduction in these costs is likely to have a significant impact on your profitability. A good document management system helps you retrieve and review the performance of different suppliers.

Some suppliers have consistently-supplied goods of dependable quality while others might be responsible for frequent rejections on quality grounds leading to cost increases.

You will also find that certain suppliers are able to supply reliable quality materials at lower costs. By cultivating your relationship with these suppliers, you can procure all or most of your supplies from these suppliers, leading to a reduction in costs.

Without document management software that lets you select what you want when you want, you have to depend on scheduled reports that pile up on your table (and probably remain ignored).

Fixed Establishment Costs Might Not Be All That’s Fixed

We tend to view establishment costs like rent, depreciation, etc. as permanently fixed. However, a close review might reveal possibilities for reducing these costs to some extent.

There might be idle facilities like plants for which no profitable use is foreseen. By disposing of these, depreciation costs can be reduced. Other idle facilities like floor space can be rented out or utilized for some profitable activities.

A close review, facilitated by good document management software, can reveal such possibilities to management.

By reducing fixed costs in this manner, it becomes possible to lower the “breakeven point” - the point at which fixed costs are fully recovered through gross margins.

Other Cost Categories Can Also Benefit From Serious Reviews

Marketing costs, payroll costs, costs of power & fuel, etc. might also prove capable of reduction. While scheduled management reports give an overview of trends and deviations, it’s the details available on the documents that provide specific guidance for actions.

And it’s the document management software that really makes reviews of document details a practicable proposition. If you have to visit filing cabinets and search through folders every time, this kind of review is quite likely to be neglected.

Conclusion

Good document management software makes it practical to go into details when management reports reveal adverse trends and deviations. If you use the components provided by the software to focus on major cost elements like materials and marketing costs, it’s quite likely that you’ll find possibilities to reduce costs and improve sales margins to a significant extent.

Any improvement in sales margins leads to earlier and greater profitability.

About Author:
Ademero, Inc. develops enterpise content management and document management software. Visit their web site devoted to document management and enterpise content management. Browse the resources section which includes the largest collection of posts from real users reviewing all of the most popular document management systems available.

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by Dustin Baker
One key area where document management software can help a small business significantly is in complying with different laws. Laws typically impose many documentation requirements, prescribing the kinds and formats of documents and the periods for which they should be maintained.

On a separate front, confidentiality laws stipulate that strict confidentiality should be maintained for certain kinds of data that come into the possession of a business.

It’s easier to comply with these legal requirements with good document management software.

Awareness of Legal Requirements

The different laws and regulations can be kept updated in the document storage area and referred to quickly whenever necessary. This makes compliance with the laws much easier. Document management software makes it easy to capture these documents and retrieve the needed document in minutes, if not seconds.

What Are Confidentiality Requirements?

Document management software by itself won’t protect confidential information. You have to take specific action in the form of developing policies and implementing them, using the software features where available.

To aid this, we take a brief look at typical confidentiality requirements.

The basic premise is that every individual has the right to privacy. Personally-identifiable information that comes into the possession of a business should be kept under tight security and used only for the purposes for which it was collected.

Medical conditions, educational levels, personal beliefs, financial position and sexual orientation are examples of personal information that an individual would not like to be freely distributed. Even other kinds of information should not be disclosed to third parties.

Other Kinds of Confidential Information

There are business secrets, such as product designs, marketing strategies and software codes that the business would want to keep confidential.

However, much of this confidential information needs to be disclosed to others in the course of business. The usual protection in such cases is to impose confidentiality obligations on the recipients. For example, employment contracts would invariably contain an obligation not to divulge business information to unauthorized persons.

Policies such as keeping the information secure and using only a secure means to transmit it applies to these kinds of information also.

How Do You Maintain Confidentiality?

First of all, identify which information is confidential and mark it as such. Develop and implement policies like those listed below:

• Collect only the minimum amount of information
• Collect certain kinds of information only with the free consent of the individual
• Keep it under tight security with restricted access and secure transmission
• Use the information strictly for the purposes for which it was collected (as clearly indicated to the individual when it was collected)
• Keep it only as long as it is needed, and then destroy it
• Impose confidentiality obligations on any recipients to whom it has to be disclosed
• Train staff to handle information confidentially

How Document Management Software Helps

Good document management software contains components to restrict access to information stored in the central computers. Different levels of permissions for access, modification and deletion are granted to authorized persons. Use of passwords and audit trails not only restrict access, but also keep track of who accessed the information.

Destruction of information after the required period of storage is also easier with a document management system. Documents can be flagged with expiration dates and periodical reviews of expired documents can be reviewed and removed systematically.

Speaking of document-retention periods, laws also impose obligations to keep certain records for specified periods. For example, business accounts, employee records, health and safety records, etc. need to be maintained for a specified numbers of years. Here again, a document management software can help you keep track.

Keeping documents beyond the periods they’re needed is a waste of resources. In the case of confidential information, it might also be against the law.

Conclusion

There are two main kinds of confidential information. One consists of business secrets that you don’t want to get into the hands of competitors. The other is personal information you collect, or that comes into your possession, in the course of business. The law imposes confidentiality obligations regarding the second kind of information.

Good document management software helps you protect your business interests or comply with the law by restricting access to confidential information.

About Author:
Ademero, Inc. develops enterpise content management and document management software. Visit their web site devoted to document management and enterpise content management. Browse the resources section which includes the largest collection of posts from real users reviewing all of the most popular document management systems available.

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by Dustin Baker
Does document management software generate any business benefits? If they do, what are these benefits?

We look at this issue in the following sections, starting first with a look at exactly what document management software does.

What Does Document Management Software Do?

A good document management system captures all kinds of documents with little difficulty. Thus paper documents can be scanned and OCRed and electronic documents can be captured by browsing to its location on the local computer. The documents captured are stored in a central computer so that all the workstation computers connected to it can access them.

The documents can be indexed by different criteria such as document name or date of creation and they can also be indexed by their contents. It’s then possible to retrieve documents by specifying the document name, date, words included in the content, etc. The retrieval takes no more than a few seconds at most.

Security is maintained by restricting document access. Granting different kinds of permissions to authorized persons restricts access. Some might have the ‘read’ permission; others might also have the ‘write’ permission.

After retrieval, documents can be modified, appended with new pages, replaced, or even deleted, provided necessary permissions are granted.

What Business Benefits Can Be Expected?

The ease of access to relevant documents makes it more likely that decision makers would indeed access them and make informed decisions.

For example, before passing a supplier invoice, concerned persons will retrieve the relevant order and verify the price, delivery date and other terms with little delay. In a non-computer system, this involves locating the order stored in an inconveniently-located filing cabinet. It might even happen that a copy of the order has not yet been received by the invoice-passing department. The verification could get unduly delayed (leading to supplier displeasure) or even omitted (probably leading to excess payment) in such cases.

Another immediate benefit is the speed of actions. When needed information can be obtained in minutes, actions also tend to be quicker. Instead of verifying 20 or so invoices a day, it might be possible to verify 200 or more invoices a day.

Better business results follow when quick and correct decisions are taken on a regular basis. In the above case, a supplier who is accustomed to prompt and correct payments from your company is quite likely to oblige you with increased and higher-quality service if necessary.

The above illustration of invoice passing is only a simple example. All key business-result areas can benefit from speedy and convenient access to reliable information. Good document management software makes it easy to capture, review and edit documents, leading to more reliable documentation.

Document Management Software Leads to Better Document Security

It is easy to implement a system of read/write permissions and password-protected access in a computerized document management environment. By making printing possible only on a closely-monitored network printer, even printouts (that can be removed) can be checked.

Paper documents can be stored in more inaccessible places, with greater security. Because copies are available in the computer, these would not be needed as frequently.

Considering that business secrets constitute a competitive advantage, the above kind of increased security could also lead to better business results.

Conclusion

With good document management software, you can make information easily accessible to all persons who need that information for their work. Easy access means that the information will be used to make business decisions. Informed business decisions, when they accumulate, lead to significantly improved business results.

Document security is also easier to implement with good document management software. It’s then possible to minimize the harmful damage from unauthorized access to business secrets and competitive advantage.

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Ademero, Inc. develops enterpise content management and document management software. Visit their web site devoted to document management and enterpise content management. Browse the resources section which includes the largest collection of posts from real users reviewing all of the most popular document management systems available.

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by Mally
There are no moving parts in a flash memory unit. This gives additional protection against impact damage. This is higher stability than that of a hard drive that has moving parts.

In the early days, the whole data had to be erased from an external flash memory. Today, the technology is advanced and back and forth exchange has become easier and handy.

Flash memory also doesn’t require power to maintain the information in it. It also comes with fast read access times. These versatile properties of flash memory make it a choice for all types of memory requirements. Under operational conditions, flash drives require only low power.

The capacity of flash memory is also increasing on a daily basis. The high-density storage offered by flash memory gives options to store large amounts of data while utilizing only very limited space. You can carry 100 plus gigabyte of data comfortably in your pocket, stored in a flash memory. The relative lightweight and high capacities make flash memory the choice of external memory for computers. Sooner or later, flash memory can also become the choice of internal memory for desktop computers. Laptop computers (Samsung Q1 and Q30) already use them, instead of a hard drive.

Flash memory now comes with speeds exceeding 10 mbps. Standard external memory has speeds exceeding 2mbps.

Thus flash memory has gained the reputation as a versatile storage disc for variety of applications, ranging from small scale external memory for computers to main memory of game consoles. There are different configurations for flash memory, which is of importance to technical persons only. Since flash memory has already broke into the world of computing, completely replacing a traditional hard drive as memory, more can be expected.

Going with the history of flash memory, you can expect the prices of flash memory laptops will come down quickly. Samsung and Intel lead the research of replacing hard drive with a flash drive. The prices of thumb drive (USB drive) were prohibitively high when it was making its way to mainstream computing. Now you can get a 2 GB USB drive for under £ 10 and a 4 GB one for just below £ 20. The prices are also falling fast. The flash memory for laptop alone costs almost £ 450 now. An optimistic look into the condition predicts a solid-state laptop will be available for less than £ 500 in two to three years.

Going with flash memory, chances are higher you use them in your mobile phone, digital camera, mp3 player and as an external storage device. Flash memory is easy to find and the price fits to your pocket.

Check out our Flash Memory website at http://www.flashmemory.org.uk

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by Dustin Baker
Small businesses face numerous pressures. The few employees of the business are responsible for trying to get orders, organizing deliveries, billing for the deliveries, paying bills and manage the incidentals involved in these key activities.

Good document management software can take over much of the work and free the small businessperson to focus on the business. We look at this issue in more detail below.

Managing Documents is Something the Businessperson Cannot Escape

Managing documents can be a major task for any business that’s not a tiny operation. The process begins even before you start the business.

Project reports need to be prepared to evaluate the business proposal as well as to show to various agencies. Applications for business licenses have to be completed and submitted. Bank loans need to be applied for, along with a lot of supporting documents.

Once the business starts, document management becomes a critical issue. Unless properly managed, total chaos can result. You might not be able to bill for the deliveries you have made, or get paid for the bills you managed to get out. Suppliers might start pressuring you for payment just when your cash has run out. Tax inspectors might be breathing down your neck for details of your business transactions.

The resulting problems can invariably affect your business. You’ll be fighting fires on various fronts instead of going after sales, locating low-cost sources to arrange deliveries, and doing all the other really important things.

Invest in Good Document Management Software

Trying to manage documents by hand is not only obsolete, but also affects your competitiveness. With any volume of documents to handle, manual document management takes an unduly long proportion of your time even if you have a good document management system in place.

Those competitors who have installed a computer and document management software have a great advantage over you. The software makes all the document management tasks fantastically easy and the competitor has far more time for key business activities.

Just What is Document Management?

Documents have to be created, retrieved when needed, and stored safely from loss and unauthorized eyes.

Elaborating a little, good document management involves the following key tasks:

• Capturing the details at the most convenient points for creating the document
• Organizing the documents in a manner that facilitates their retrieval whenever needed and convenient storage
• Arranging for proper security against such dangers as loss, theft, and leakage of sensitive business data

Done manually, these are all time (and space) consuming tasks. Done electronically using a computer, all of these tasks become amazingly efficient and speedier.

For example, many business transactions involve accessing the same document by different departments and persons. In a manual system, this would mean passing the document from person to person or making expensive copies of the original. In a computerized system, the document is captured in a central computer and concerned persons can access it from their workstation computers.

For security, the original paper documents (if any) can be stored safely away and access to the electronic equivalent in the computer can be restricted to authorized persons by the use of such devices as permissions and passwords.

Retrieval of the documents also becomes recognizably faster because the document management software can retrieve any document in seconds, using search facilities or meta information. Compare this with going to a filing cabinet, locating the particular folder, finding the needed document in the folder, and bringing it to the workstation.

Conclusion

Document management is an “unavoidable evil” in any business that is more than tiny in size. Done properly, it can achieve better business results. Neglected, it could lead to chaos and endless troubles.

Good document management software attends to this function effectively and saves you an amazing amount of time and cost.

About Author:
Ademero, Inc. develops enterpise content management and document management software. Visit their web site devoted to document management and enterpise content management. Browse the resources section which includes the largest collection of posts from real users reviewing all of the most popular document management systems available.

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This is an additional method that should be used in conjunction with an anti-spyware product.

How can this method prevent spyware from “calling home” with your personal information? It works by letting Windows filter the IP addresses that you place in the hosts file.

What is the host file and how does it work?

The host file resides in the Windows folder on your hard drive and it loads into system memory each time the computer is turned on. For each IP address that is placed in the hosts file, it is cross-referenced with a saved domain name.

Siince the Internet only understands numeric IP addesses, this cross-referencing with domain names is required. These translations between IP addresses and domain names reside on various Domain Name Servers (DNS) that are distributed around the Internet.

IP addresses are in the form of a block of numbers arranged in quartets as in the following example: 125.0.48.220.

They way it works is, as you enter a domain name (URL) in your browser, the first thing that happens is that your computer will check for any IP addresses that are in your hosts file. If it finds the relevant domain name, it will not bother searching the external DNS servers on the Internet.

Before there was the current high-speed connections that we use everyday to connect to the Internet with, it was quicker to find an IP address that was stored on the local computer.

Once you activate a link that is associated with Spyware, by clicking on it, or sometimes just moving the mouse over it, the Spyware in most cases attempts to “call home” back to its server somewhere on the Internet. It can then create an ad server, scrape your personal data and send it back to its server.

Since we now have faster Internet connections, the need for hosts files have just about been eliminated.

Whenever you run into a malicious domain, just add it to your hosts file, and instead of cross-referencing it to a valid IP address, translate it to a fake IP address that connects to a void inside your computer. Then the Spyware thinks it is calling home to its servers, however the call goes nowhere.

The hosts file has entries in it with the following format:

#hosts file from windows directory
127.0.0.1 localhost
123.45.67.89 testsite1.com
51.126.0.189 testsite2.com

The # sign indicates comment lines that the computer will ignore.

In using the hosts file as a Spyware or adware blocker, you will always see the localhost setting in the first line of the file.

Notice that these IP addresses are all the same: 127.0.0.1 -this points only to your own local computer.

You will also see the all of the other IP entries will have the same address as the localhost, as in the following example:

# host file from windows directory

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 testsite1.com
127.0.0.1 testsite2.com

When an infected webpage tries to connect your computer to testsite1.com, the browser looks up the IP address for testsite1.com, and in this situation will find it in the hosts file. Since the IP address translates to 127.0.0.1, the call cannot go out back to its server out on the Internet.

This works simply because the domain is stored on the local computer in the hosts file and Windows will not try to resolve it on the external DNS servers.

Using this methodology will also reduce the time is takes to access normal web pages since it does not have to wait for all of the ads and images to download.

This should not be used as the only solution for Spyware. It should only be used with another proven Spyware product.

The steps with this procedure are not straight-forward as one might think. You have to:

a) detect each bit of Spyware
b) look up the domain name
c) modify the hosts file for each event

It is a constant struggle because not only are companies who produce Spyware and spam are always adding new domain names.

You should not be discouraged however, since you can download very detailed hosts files from the Internet that do not have any costs associated with them. You can visit specific sites that offer this service and download their files. Just remember to constantly check and download the latest updates to these files.

You can also let an anti-spyware program do it for you, such as SpyBot. It will automatically include these problem sites in your hosts file.

For more information on hosts files, simply search on the term in Google

David DiGennaro has been involved in the computer industry for over 35 years. The past 15 years has been spent in the “protection business” within Information Security. For addtional information on protecting your online business as well as your family visit http://www.dmdagency.com/security.

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by Ricy Chacko
Being a property manager requires a lot of time and hassle making sure tenants are up to date with their rent, addressing maintenance issues, advertising vacancies for landlords, doing credit and background checks on tenants, organizing inspections schedules, chasing up repair contractors, doing the paper work etc. In addition to managing income and expense related activity, property managers may also manage construction, development, repair and maintenance on a property.

Property management software enables property managers to communicate more efficiently with suppliers, tenants and other stakeholders, and it has powerful online document management capabilities. Almost all property management softwares works for apartment complexes, commercial properties, home associations, condo associations, storage units, mobile home parks, and other rentals. Property Management Software makes it easy for you to quickly enter rents and post expenses.

Key benefits of property management software are you can keep track of rent arrears, record all your property transactions so you know exactly where the money is coming from and going to, send mail merge letters to tenants and property owners, landlords, tenants and property managers can access their own data online, landlords can track their depreciation expenses every year, and also for future years. All property management softwares are multi-user enabled to allow multiple networked computers to use the software all at the same time.

Key-data systems offers software solutions in the design and development of property management. Their main products are ‘Key-Data Gold’ for lettings management and ‘Key-Data Pathways’ for property sales have become an indispensable office tool for clients to manage their property with greater ease.

Kye-data system is a British software development company specialising in the design and development of property management software and property sales software applications. Their main products for lettings management and property sales have become an indispensable office tool for clients to manage their property with greater ease.

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by Apostol Lucian
Nvidia will launch a brand new generation of chipsets to increase performance for the new Intel and AMD processors. The new chipsets will be released in November.

For AMD platforms Nvidia prepares the C72 chipset, while the C73 chipset is reserved for Intel. The difference between the two chipsets is the higher frontside bus support and the memory type used. The C73 will use 1600Mhz frontside bus and DDR3 memory running at 1600MHz, while the C72 will use slower 1333MHz frontside bus and DDR2 memory at 800MHz and 1066MHz.

There are 2 variants to each series of SLI chipset; XE and P where XE supports 3 x16 SLI priced at US$150+ and P supports 2 x8 SLI priced at US$100-120. Only MCP72 series can support Hybrid SLI. C72 early samples will be available to customers by end of July where mass production slated for October. MCP72 early samples will be available by August with MP targeted for November. C73 will arrive later where early samples targeted for November and mass production in December. So we can expect MCP72 and C72 to be on target for launch together with G92 in November.

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