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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was drafted to save and create jobs immediately. It sounds like a quick fix but it is also supposed to lay the groundwork for long-term economic growth. Where is the money going? $288 billion is allocated to Tax Relief. Another $144B goes to State and Local Fiscal Relief. $111B is for Infrastructure and Science, and $81B to go to Protecting the Vulnerable. The last $59B, $53B, $43B, and $8B are allocated to Health Care, Education and Training, Energy, and Other, respectively. With this kind of money there should be enough funding to get us out of this crisis and back to the powerful country we used to be. This is the hope, and with a fair chunk of the package dedicated to technology we certainly are paving the way for the long-term.

If you have ever thought about getting IT training now is the time. $30 billion is currently invested in technology upgrades, with more than $100B in tech projects spending estimated in the next five years. The big dogs expected to gain the most from the stimulus are IBM, GE, and Cisco. IBM has already developed a smart grid in Washington State to manage energy consumption that could apply on a larger scale to the entire country. GE is working on an energy-management system that uses wind power. Look into the School of Technology at Westwood College for the chance to help Cisco push for the contract to spend the $7.2B allotted for broadband deployment. Get educated and Cisco certified, and you will be in a good position to take advantage of the IT revolution. Another big industry looking to upgrade their technology is health care.

With 7.5% of the stimulus package dedicated to health care you might think it is not getting its fair share. That percentage equates to $59 billion, though. The headline-maker has been the $19.5B devoted to digitizing medical records and who has been appointed to oversee the project. Harvard Medical School Professor Dr. David Blumenthal was named the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. As Director of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System in Boston, he is a longtime advocate for making medical records electronic. Several professionals in the industry applaud the appointment with praise of his qualifications. With a good team around him we should feel confident he has the answers to make a strong impact on our countryâ??s medical technology in the future.

There is much to look forward to in the coming years. The Obama Administration is investing heavily into rebuilding the weak and upgrading the old. Millions of jobs hope to be available in IT, Construction Management, Education, Health Care, and anything else â??The American Dreamâ? offers itself to. While this stimulus sounds like a cure-all fix, Americans must know it will still take time and a lot of hard work to get back to the level we desire. Technology will play a vital role in our advancement as a nation, hopefully setting an example for other countries as well. For those that are IT experts, this is your chance to change the world.

Subcontracting and partnering can be an excellent way to grow business and improve your relationships with clients.  But many professionals in the technology business do not quite understand the difference between the two concepts or how to work them into their plans for working with small businesses.

The truth is, subcontracting and partnering can improve your ability to work with clients and help you efficiently run your business .  It also frees you up for your most important business-growth activities so you have enough time to focus on important administrative, sales and marketing activities that will keep your sales funnel full of viable prospects, customers and clients.

The following 3 tips can help you better understand how to use subcontracting and partnering as you build your Information Technology service business.

Understand the Difference between Subcontracting and Partnering. There are several key ways that subcontracting differs from partnering.  With subcontracting, your client has a single point of contact with your firm.  The subcontractor primarily communicates with your firm, with only minimal direct communication with your client.  Basically, the subcontractor functions as an extension of your firm, and the client does not necessarily even have to know that some of the larger project is being farmed out.  With a subcontractor, the client gets one proposal, one contract and one invoice from your firm.  Subcontractors also get paid by your firm, not the client.  If your Information Technology service company is talking about partnering, you are working with another non-competing technology provider that is retaining its own corporate identity and presenting its own credentials to a mutual client.  The client is aware there are two or more distinct technology providers involved in the project, and your partners communicate directly with the mutual client.  The client communicates with the main contact person at all partnering computer consulting firms and gets proposals, contracts and invoices from all of them. Clarify which Party Handles which Details. With partnering and subcontracting, you need to clarify which party is handling which details of each project.  In a master contractor/subcontractor relationship, the master contractor (your Information Technology service firm) will handle most, if not all administrative and management tasks.  Unlike a partnering arrangement, you won’t need to spend a lot of time with your subcontractors reaching a common ground on whose billing and administrative procedures you will adopt.  When you are a master contractor, you call the shots.  However, whether you are working with subcontractors or partners on a project, you will still want to create a planning document that helps you define the rules of engagement and spells out individual responsibilities so everyone is always on the same page. Take Stock of the Skills You Are Retaining. Most of the time when you seek out a potential partner or subcontractor, you’re looking specifically for a certain skill set.  After all, you’re trying to enhance your own offering so you can best serve your clients’ needs.  For example, if client of yours needs a relational database designed to track wedding bookings for their catering business and this is not a skill you have in house, you will probably be looking for a subcontractor with expertise in the appropriate database platform and front-end design.  Make sure as you engage with a new subcontractor or partner that you get an idea of his/her baseline level of knowledge on a variety of products and platforms beyond his/her specialty.  You can create a skills inventory worksheet that you use with all your subcontractors and partners to collect information efficiently and consistently.

In this article, we talked about some of the most important differences between subcontracting and partnering, and how you can use subcontracting and partnering to grow your Information Technology service business.  Learn more about how you can attract great, steady, high-paying clients to your Information Technology service firm now at http://www.InformationTechnologyServiceHQ.com

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SUMMARY

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library is a set of concepts and policies for managing information technology (IT) infrastructure, development and operations. ITIL is the most widely accepted approach to IT Service Management in the world. It promotes a quality approach to achieving business effectiveness, economy and efficiency in the use of information systems. The ethos behind the development of ITIL is the recognition that organizations are becoming increasingly dependent on IT in order to satisfy their corporate aims and meet their business needs. ITIL is a cohesive best practice framework, drawn from the public and private sectors internationally. It describes the organisation of IT resources to deliver business value, and documents processes, functions and roles in ITSM. ITIL is to be adopted and built upon by an organisation as per its purposes and needs. ITIL is supported by a comprehensive qualifications scheme, accredited training organisations, and implementation and assessment tools. In today’s competitive market, being ITIL complaint is a definitive edge over the competitors.

The latest generation of the ITIL is titled “ITIL v3“. This version represents an important evolutionary step in ITIL’s life. ITIL has transformed the guidance from providing a great service to being the most innovative and best in class. In general, ITIL v3 makes the link between ITIL’s best practice and business benefits both clearer and stronger. The main development is that ITIL v3 guidance takes a lifecycle approach, as opposed to organising according to IT delivery sectors.

This article focuses on giving readers a brief understanding of the ITIL.

INTRODUCTION

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a series of books that are used to aid the implementation of a framework for IT Service Management (ITSM). Being a framework, it is completely customisable for application within any type of business or organisation that has a reliance on IT infrastructure. The ITIL originated as a collection of books each covering a specific practice within ITSM. ITIL books are developed by Office of Government Commerce, U.K. (OGC). It is the world’s de-facto standard best practice framework for ITSM. OGC also has qualification certification program for ITIL followers.

ITIL is cornerstone of good quality ITSM and a necessity for quality assurance. It provides a systematic, process-based approach, supported by procedures for key IT service management processes. ITIL is Technology independent. ITIL gives a detailed description of a number of important IT practices with comprehensive checklists, tasks and procedures that can be tailored to any IT organization.

The ITIL series consists of several books providing guidance on the planning, delivery and management of quality IT services to support business needs comprising issues pertaining to Service Support, Service Delivery, IT Infrastructure Management, Application Management, Business Perspective, Security Management. ITIL has clear definition of various terms used in ITSM in a concise yet comprehensive manner.

UTIILTY OF ITIL

ITIL provides a comprehensive set of guidance to link the technical implementation, operations guidelines and requirements with the strategic management, operations management and financial management of a modern business. Among the benefits associated with adopting the ITIL which have been identified by the users are improved customer satisfaction with IT services, better communications and information flows between IT staff and customers, better management control over ITSM and reduced costs in developing and implementing procedures and practices within an enterprise. ITIL improves the performance of processes which are being followed in an organization leading to high quality output.

It goes into great detail regarding the process, implementation and the content of the key deliverable of the Service Level Agreement (SLA) and Service Level Requirements (SLRs).

ITIL contains tried and tested processes. It has a quick-start approach to help in making the best use of time and resources available and see quick results. It led to improved productivity of the organisation itself and also of delivery of third party services through the specification of ITIL. The well defined ITIL processes also minimizes duplication of efforts, dropped hand-offs and unapproved work. Additionally, individuals gain a better understanding of roles and responsibilities and how they each contribute to the success of IT and the business. It separates administrative tasks and technical tasks to help in assigning the most appropriate resources.

In short, ITIL improves efficiency, effectiveness and economy of the ITSM.

ITIL – ITSM

ITIL describes the management of IT Services in the context of the lifecycle of those services. The focus of ITIL today is integration of IT into the business, assuring the delivery of business value and the treatment of services as business assets. ITIL describes the life of a service from conception to retirement, within a Service Portfolio detailing aspects of planning and development as well as objects, specification, description and requirements of the services in use or being offered for use through means of the processes. Each process has a home in the lifecycle stage book where it is most active. The lifecycle approach gives an improved, holistic structure within which to describe all the functions, processes, roles and responsibilities that constitute ITSM Best Practice.

ITIL Reference Model

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The two basic requirements of ITSM are:

(a)               Service Delivery: ITIL’s Service Delivery component includes tactical processes necessary for planning and delivering quality IT services, which is defined in SLA. Service Delivery best practices address Availability Management, Capacity Management, Service Level Management, Service Continuity Management (contingency planning) and Financial Management for IT Services.

(b)               Service Support: ITIL’s Service Support component focuses on the operational processes that enable companies to provide IT Support and maintenance activities on a day-to-day, around-the-clock basis. Service Support disciplines include Change Management, Configuration Management, Problem Management, Incident Management and Release Management (including software and hardware control and distribution). This includes service desk facility as single point of contact and disaster recovery mechanism. The objective is to minimize disruption to the business by proactive identification and analysis of the cause of service incidents and by managing problems to closure.

ITIL Structure

IT SERVICE
CONTINUITY
MANAGEMENT

AVALABILITY

MANAGEMENT

CAPACITY
MANAGEMENT

INCIDENT

MANAGEMENT

PROBLEM   

MANAGEMENT     

CHANGE                     

MANAGEMENT             

RELEASE

MANAGEMENT

FINANCIAL
MANAGEMENT

SERVICE LEVEL         MANAGEMENT

CMDB

One of the primary elements of ITIL is Configuration Management Database (CMDB). CMDB is a database, which contains all relevant details of each Configuration Item (CI) and details of the important relationships between CI’s. CI is a part of an IT infrastructure or an item associated therewith which is under control of configuration management for ITIL implementation.

The ITIL goal of Configuration Management is to keep records of all IT data, IT processes and IT policies and to provide information to the other processes. Critical steps are the population of the CMDB and building the relationships between all the populated elements. The captured data can be used for decision support, for change impact analysis, release management verification identifying rogue changes and any number of other information processing and analysis purposes. CMDB helps in keeping track of all ITIL processes.

Deming Circle

For quality improvement W. Edwards Deming proposed the Deming Cycle (or Circle). The four key stages are Plan, Do, Check and Act after which a phase of consolidation prevents the ‘Circle’ from ‘rolling downs the hill’ as illustrated:-

ITIL is built around a process-model based view of controlling and managing operations often credited to Mr. Deming. ITIL helps in achieving the Deming Circle. ITIL is a process led approach. Quality management for IT Services is a systematic way of ensuring that all the activities necessary to design, develop and implement IT services which satisfy the requirements of the organization and of Users take place as planned.

Implementing the change

Besides having human resource having knowledge and experience of ITIL, business needs a Change Advisory Board (CAB) so that ITIL is implemented with commitment and efficiency. CAB approves and controls the required changes within the acceptable level of risk.

Change Manager

(Chair)

Finance

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Software Control

& Distribution Manager

Problem Manager

Senior Business

Representation

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Application

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Service level

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SLA

One of the important components of service delivery is the service level agreement. A SLA is fundamental to service provision, from the perspective of both the supplier and the recipient. It documents and defines the parameters of the relationship itself.  The quality of the SLA is therefore a critical matter.

SLA is a legal document which ensures that the proper elements, understanding, commitments and deliverables are in place to provide consistent service support and delivery as per SLR. SLR indicates the expected customer specifications, requirements and characteristics of the service delivery. The intent of SLA is to specify the detailed levels of services to avoid future differences on deliverables. Typical SLA sections include: Introduction, Scope of Work, Performance, Tracking and Reporting, Problem Management, Compensation, Customer Duties and Responsibilities, Warranties and Remedies, Security, Intellectual Property Rights and Confidential Information, Legal Compliance and Resolution of Disputes, Termination and Signatures.

ITSM warrants that SLAs are drafted, negotiated and contracted as per the underpinning contracts and management’s expectation of available IT resources and mapping resources to customer services. SLM ensures that management can deliver the required level of service before any agreement is signed. This is done in discussion with the internal IT departments and the external IT suppliers.

The primary task of SLM is to ensure continuous identification, monitoring and reviewing of the optimally agreed levels of IT service as required by the business, in close co-operation between IT services providers and customers. The goal of SLM is to maintain and improve IT Service quality, through a constant cycle of agreeing, monitoring and reporting upon IT Service achievements and instigation of actions to eradicate poor service in line with business or cost justification. During the course of business, SLM ensures building adequate capacity for meeting SLRs.

ITIL v3

Recently, OGC has introduced new version of ITIL called as ITIL v3. ITIL v3 is a part of a process to enhance and improve the ITIL best practices. This is the essence of “Current best practice” – defining the frontiers and industry practices, which continuously shift as organisations compete to meet the evolving demands of customers. ITIL v3 is written with a broader context and scope of thinking for best practices. The input for the books, reviews and changes comes from a collective global community of IT Service Management professionals and stakeholders during a three-year period. The new approach is termed the ‘lifecycle’ approach, much the same as an IT service in reality.

Significant portion of ITIL v2 (earlier version of ITIL) content has been refined and included in ITIL v3. Besides the overall new architecture of ITIL ITSM Practices, there are new topics covered in ITIL v3, that haven’t been a part of ITIL in past like strategic aspects, service design aspects, supplier management, outsourcing, service knowledge management system, application design and management, technology architecture design and management, service measurement, event management, request fulfilment, access management.

ITIL Books

ITIL v3 comprises five distinct volumes: ITIL Service Strategy; ITIL Service Design; ITIL Service Transition; ITIL Service Operation; and ITIL Continual Service Improvement. The contents of two most commonly used sets within the previous release, Service Delivery and Service Support, are broadly still present. These were as follows: Incident Management; Problem Management; Configuration Management; Change Management; Release Management; Service Desk; Service Level Management; IT Financial Management; Capacity Management; Availability Management; IT Service Continuity Management; IT Security Management.

A sound service strategy is essential in the creation of high quality IT services. It provides a base upon which to build a successful service management function and ensures that best value is delivered to business customers. Service Strategy is a major strength of the new ITIL library. It introduces the service lifecycle and encourages the development of a business perspective. Whether you are a service provider or a business customer, this book guides you through the choices that you need to make to achieve service excellence. It helps focus upon understanding, and upon translating business strategy into IT strategy, as well as selection of the best practices for the particular industry in question. It encompasses a framework to build best practice in developing a long term service strategy. It covers many topics including: general strategy, competition and market space, service provider types, service management as a strategic asset, organization design and development, key process activities, financial management, service portfolio management, demand management, and key roles and responsibilities of staff engaging in service strategy.

Well-designed services play a vital role in realizing a sound service strategy. Effective design contributes towards the delivery of quality services that meet or exceed customer expectations. Service Design shows how to create valuable IT service assets for your organisation, but within business constraints, such as time and money. It provides a framework for service design that considers customer requirements, both now and in the future, while keeping the business view firmly in sight. Service Design provides guidance on the creation and maintenance of IT policies and architectures for the design of IT service solutions. The design of IT services conforming to best practice, and including design of architecture, processes, policies, documentation, and allowing for future business requirements. This also encompasses topics such as Service Design Package, service service level management, designing for capacity management, IT service continuity, Information Security, supplier management, and key roles and responsibilities for staff engaging in service design. This also embraces outsourcing, insourcing and co-sourcing.

Successfully bringing a well-designed service into the live environment takes efficient planning. It is necessary to deliver new or changed services with the appropriate balance of speed, cost and safety while ensuring minimum disruption to operations. Service Transition provides and supports the ‘business as usual’ delivery of the organisation’s requirements from IT. Service Transition provides guidance on managing the many aspects of service changes, preventing undesired consequences while allowing for innovation. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to deliver IT change with the best possible benefit to the business. Service Transition volume covers the longer term change management and release practices. It provides guidance for the transition of IT services into the business environment. Fundamentally, it covers how to create a transition strategy from service design and transfer it to the production (business) environment.

Once services have been successfully delivered into the live environment they need to be managed effectively on a day-to-day basis. It is here, at the customer interface, that perceptions about your performance as a service provider are created, and your success will be judged. Service Operation introduces and explains delivery and control activities that support high quality service operation. Use of the guidance will help to ensure a balanced and flexible approach, setting you firmly on the road to achieving excellence as a service provider. Service Operation covers delivery and control processes with a view to ensuring service stability. Also the monitoring of problems and balance between service reliability and cost etc are considered. It embraces the familiar basics of how to manage services in the production environment, including day to day issues and fire fighting. Best practice for achieving the delivery of agreed levels of services both to end-users and the customers are provided herein. This book guides through balancing conflicting goals (e.g. reliability v. cost), event management, incident management, problem management, request fulfilment, asset management, service desk, technical and application management, as well as key roles and responsibilities for staff engaging in Service Operation.

Even with a successful service operation in place, there is still a need to consider improvements at every opportunity. This will help protect against losing your competitive edge and will ensure that the best possible outcomes are being achieved. Continual Service Improvement focuses on the process elements involved in identifying and introducing a cycle of service management improvements. It provides structure for your approach to assessing and measuring services and helps you to avoid short-terms fixes in favour of a continual improvement in quality that truly benefits your business customers. Continual Service Improvement covers the processes involved in improving service management within the business, in addition to the issues related to service closure or retirement. It basically describes how to improve a service after it is deployed. The goal of Continual Service Improvement is to align and realign IT Services to changing business needs by identifying and implementing improvements to the IT services that support the business processes.

Topics included in each book:

ITIL v3

The latest IT success formula!!!

Service Strategy

—    Strategy and value planning

—    Roles / responsibilities Planning and implementing service strategies

—    Business planning and IT strategy linkage

—    Challenges, risks and critical success factors

Service Design

—    The service lifecycle

—    Roles and responsibilities

—    Service design objectives and elements

—    Selecting the appropriate model

—    Cost model

—    Benefit and risk analysis

—    Implementation

—    Measurement / control

—    Critical Success Factors & risks

Service Transition

—    Managing change (organizational and cultural)

—    Knowledge management

—    Risk analysis

—    The principles of service transition

—    Lifecycle stages

—    Methods, practices and tools

—    Measurement and control

—    Other best practices

Service Operation

—    Principles and lifecycle stages

—    Process fundamentals

—    Application management

—    Infrastructure management

—    Operations management

—    Critical Success Factors and risks

—    Control processes and functions

Continual Service Improvement

—    The drivers for improvement

—    The principles of CSI

—    Roles and responsibilities

—    The benefits

—    Implementation

—    Methods, practices and tools

—    Other best practices

CONCLUSION

ITIL defines the organisational structure and skill requirements of an information technology organisation and a set of standard operational management procedures and practices to allow the organisation to manage an IT operation and associated infrastructure. The operational procedures and practices are supplier independent and apply to all aspects within the IT Infrastructure.

ITIL is ultimately concerned with aligning IT with the business through the whole planning to support lifecycle – that means that the business is ultimately the driver, not IT. ITIL is a quality process that is based on continual improvement based on Business needs.

Implementing ITIL is not a quick fix nor will it be easy to implement. It takes a lot of thought, commitment and hard work to successfully change the way the IT organization does business. There needs to be upfront planning, training and awareness, ongoing scheduling, roles created, ownership assigned, and activities identified in order to be successful. Implementation and credentialing the ITIL in ITSM requires knowledge and training. ITIL is intended to be non-prescriptive, expecting that organizations will have to engage ITIL processes with their existing overall process model.

There are in fact three class categories of range – Class 1, Class 2 and Class 3, which the operation of the device depends on. The highest range of operation falls under Class 1 Radios, which is of 100 meters or 300 meters range. This category is specifically used in case of the industries and generally not for domestic purpose. The second highest range of operation falls under Class 2 Radios, with an operation range of 10 meters or 30 meters. This category has found its scope in case of the mobile devices. Lastly, the Class 3 Radios is used to operate the devices within a very short range of 1meter or 3 feet.

The most lucrative and interesting fact about this technology is that, it transmits not only the data but is equally efficient in managing the voice transmissions as well. By this one can really enjoy a sequence of remarkable facilities of hands-free systems for almost all the electronic devices – starting from a mere mobile phone to the hi-tech Personal Digital Assistants with an exceptionally low power consumption property. This wireless communication technology enables a wide range of electronic devices, like a digital camera, a PDA, a mobile phone and a laptop, to get wirelessly interconnected and coordinated to perform a wide varieties of tasks simultaneously with astonishingly high degree efficiency. The Bluetooth technology has cast a serious favorable impact on the modern industrial, medical, and other scientific aspects – accelerating the scientific advancement to a far higher pace.

Bluetooth connects a device to the other through the latest network system – commonly called “Piconets”. This technology smartly operates at 2.40 GHz to 2.485 GHz ISM band, while only the former (i.e. 2.40 GHz) is unlicensed and easily available in most parts of the world. ISM, here, refers to Industrial, Scientific and Medical band. While operating, Bluetooth technology uses spread spectrum, frequency hopping and full-duplex signal at a rate — as lower as – 1600 hops per second. AFH — Adaptive Frequency Hopping is another supportive technology, which makes the Bluetooth interference tolerant. This enables Bluetooth to send and receive an interference free transmission. The latest version of Bluetooth technology is 2.0+ Enhanced Data Rate, which supports a data rate of 3 Mbps. This version was adopted in the year 2004, November. Prior to this, 1.2 version was adopted in 2003, November, which supports at most 1 Mbps data rate.

The world is on move with Bluetooth and this technology has earned the worldwide acceptance for it high degree of reliability and efficiency. Science is taking a new turn and is going to get a new shape. Bluetooth will likely become a household name to everyone in the world as well.

The Internet is also a big part of the revolution. In fact, many would say it’s a revolution in itself. Access to Internet technology has enhanced our lives in many ways – things that would take ages before are done with the click of a button. The Internet has enabled many small businesses to start up and compete in a global market place, something that was inconceivable earlier. Many of these businesses, particularly online ones, look to the Internet to provide them with the ability to engage in wholesale trading. The trend of drop shipping, especially via eBay, has created a niche for small traders to operate and make profits.

What the Internet technology has done is create a point of contact for the buyer and the seller – the online business and its customer, allowing the business to start up and operate without high costs. This has resulted in a number of entrepreneurs looking around them for products to sell that can be cheaply procured, sold at a higher price and shipped directly from the wholesale trader to the buyer. This has in turn increased the market size for the wholesaler, as well. Further, orders can be tracked and information exchanged through Internet or VoIP, so that it does not even matter where the seller, buyer or wholesaler is located in many cases. Communication is instant, easy and not bound by time difference.

Before the advent of Internet technology, most of these entrepreneurs could not have dreamed of starting up with the huge cost of carrying inventory. Even if these online business owners had the storage space, they may not have retail space and advertising dollars. Today, an online business can choose to warehouse products in the garage or basement, post images or audio and video clips of the merchandise in stock on their website and market it cheaply.

Additionally, technology in other forms has transformed the wholesale trading landscape. The ability to track merchandise that is en route or even to use VoIP technology to save operating costs has been a much talked-about development in the field of wholesale trading. As a wholesale trader, you can offer that all-important essential – great customer service via the Internet. Email and VoIP technology enables the small business owner to keep in touch with past, present and potential customers. Online marketing tools for your wholesale trading business are cheaper and more effective than traditional means. So even in the marketing arena, it’s technology to the rescue. This allows for greater marketing reach, customer acquisition, conversion and retention for a small business.

Finally, technology plays a vital role in attracting customers from all over the world to your wholesale trading business. If your product has a wide appeal, it will get access to a larger market online.

Used in almost all automated library systems, client/server technology is the computer architecture. Client/Server technology is computer architecture for separating the application’s functions into two or more distinct parts. Client/Server technology divides functions into client (requestor) and server (provider) subsystems, with standard communication methods (such as TCP/IP and z39.50). To facilitate the sharing of information between them, it divides the functions. On the desktop computer the client presents and manipulates data. To store and retrieve protected data the server acts like a mainframe. The machines can perform their duties to their best.

Characteristics

The main characteristics of Client Server Technology is as under-

• By the differences in their performing tasks the client and server can be differentiated from one another.

• The client and server generally function on different computer platforms.

• One or more servers may be connected by the clients.

• Multiple clients may be connected by the servers at the same time.

• Without affecting each other the client or server may be upgraded.

• By requesting a service the clients always initiate the dialogue.

In a client/server environment a client PC almost does the following:

• screen handling

• menu or command interpretation

• data entry

• help processing

• error recovery

A server can be anywhere along the dividing line and with a broad range between the clients. Only the user interface has been moved onto the client at one end; at the other end the database may be distributed.

Along the range there are at least five points:

1.Distributed presentation: The server and the client partly handle the presentation

2. Remote presentation: The client handles or controls the entire presentation

3. Distributed logic: The server and the client partly handle the application logic

4. Remote data management: The server handles or controls the entire Database management

5. Distributed database: The server and the client partly handle the Database management

In a library environment there are two major applications for client/server:

1) For an automated library system as the architecture- To facilitate use of this system a vendor designs a system using client/server technology to access multiple servers to improve productivity and to bring together multiple product lines.

2) To linking heterogeneous systems as an approach- To facilitate transparent access a vendor designs a client to systems of other vendors and from others a server to facilitate transparent access to its system.

Benefits

The benefits of client/server computing are as under

1) In spite of changing the legacy application it is much easier to implement client/server

2) Move to rapid application development and new technology like object oriented technology

3) For development and support it is a long term cost benefits

4) To support new systems it is easy to add new hardware like document imaging and video teleconferencing

5) For each application it can implement multiple vendor software tools

Client/Server technology is proved much cost efficient and feasible in a mainframe environment.

Concerns

The companies implement client/server technology on the following concerns-

• Between the client and server where there are many levels of complexity and compatibility issues

• Since you will need to maintain the old system (mainframe) and the new client server architecture development cost will rise in the short term

• There are many layers of complexity and compatibility issues between the client and server.

• Cost will rise in the short term since you will need to maintain the old system (mainframe) and the new client server architecture development.

• Software’s competency such as tools of security and management are not as mature as mainframe counterparts.

• With these tools takes time to become proficient.

• At giving up control of a centralized computing environment Information System departments may draw back.

VOIP allows you to make your entire local, long distance and international telephone calls over your high-speed internet connection. All of this for just one low price that can be rolled up into your monthly internet cable invoice. The technology is changing rapidly and there are a lot of new features available to people savvy enough to get in on the ground floor for this new technology.

So, what should you do? How different will your VOIP technology be over your regular telephone company? If you listen to the advertisements, you will realize that they are a lot alike, but there are also some benefits that VOIP technology now offers.

For your VOIP telephone phone, you can have voice mail, 3-way calling, speed dialing, call forwarding, simultaneous ring, call waiting, caller ID, call return, caller ID block, anonymous call rejection, do not disturb feature, and last number redial. If changing to the VOIP system you can take your existing telephone number, get great international rates, make it possible for people overseas to call you with it being a local call for them (gone are the long distance rates), you get free in-calling network and can manage your account online.

Well, this sounds a lot like the other phone companies, so what really makes the VOIP technology better? It is debatable as to whether or not this is better. It is definitely different, however; recently, there was a press release on http://News.com that “A technical review conducted by the British government has found several security flaws in products that use VOIP and text messaging, including those from Microsoft and Cisco Systems.” So, there can be a problem with the VOIP technology.

There is also concern that the VOIP does not full support their own encryptions yet. This means that it is easy to eavesdrop on VOIP telephones and to even change what is being said. Experts are working on security options, but have not yet found one that is completely reliable to take care of this problem.

If you look at it only one way, you would say, this is a major problem and I can not deal with that. However, consider the cyper terrorists. They can and will disrupt any communications system-all it takes is the time and patience to find a single flaw and everything can come crashing down.

The choice is yours to decided whether or not the VOIP technology is advanced enough for you to use this as your primary means of communicating on the telephone. Take your time and really think about whether or not this new VOIP technology will do everything you need it to do. If not, you might want to wait a few years until the technology has advanced more before changing over to the new VOIP technology. You know that technology will only change and be improved for the better.

The first step for home-schooling parents to incorporate appropriate technology into their lesson plans is to buy a computer and read the instructions carefully. You may even consider signing up for a class or seminar at you local university or community college. It is important to get the basics down if you don’t already know them before introducing the technology to your children. Although you may need to learn the basics from someone else, you and your home-schooled children can do a lot of exploring and learning together. Recent research shows that 97% of teachers learned something new about technology and computers while they were teaching their own students how to use them. You too can use the teaching experience to learn something about technology yourself.

Another great benefit of appropriate technology to home-school and home-schooling families is the time management benefits. It is faster to research topics utilizing internet libraries and databases than it is to drive to the library for research projects and papers. Word processing on a computer is also faster and neater than on a typewriter. This can be utilized by your children and by yourself as you keep records of your home-school activities and home-schooling lesson plans. Indeed, over 75% of traditional classroom teachers reported that technology helped them improve classroom management and nearly 90% said that technology helped them improve lesson planning and instruction. Home-schooling parents and home-schooled children can both benefit from this increase in productivity. You can focus more time and attention on learning the content and doing hands on activities and spend less time on paper work. Furthermore, learning to use technology will help your home-schooled children keep up with and surpass their peers in traditional schools.

Why Praying Is Hard For Some People

Prayer means making yourself totally vulnerable in order to submit yourself to God. Most people like to feel in control of their situations, and it is human nature to want to feel a sense of empowerment through our own actions. Prayer takes away that barrier.

Prayer is bringing everything before a divine God that is in control of everything. However, once you experience the power of prayer, you realize how good it feels and you come to know that prayer makes a huge difference in the lives of many people.

Technology Teaches Us to Pray

Many people, especially new Christians, feel uncomfortable about praying. It is hard to pray when you cannot see God and talk to Him face-to-face, in the flesh. Most Christians understand the concept of faith and believing in what you cannot see, but to begin talking to the air seems unnatural.

It is hit or miss whether a church takes on the assignment of teaching people to pray effectively, and that is where technology plays an important role. Various technologies teach people exactly how to pray, based on the Lord’s Prayer and others. Technology makes it easier for people to research and get answers to their questions about prayer, and encourages us to pray on a regular, daily basis.

Using Technology to Pray for Others

The neat thing about the prayer/technology force is that Jesus tells us in the Bible that if two or more are gathered in His name, he is among us and intercedes on our behalf with God. Technology has made a wonderful way for people to know the needs and requests of others around the world.

The Internet and various software programs based upon prayer have made it possible for Christians to meet together from all over the world and pray for each other on a much grander scale than ever before possible. We can know the needs of our brothers and sisters where we could not possibly know before.

Technology Can Help Veteran Christians

If you are a veteran Christian, then you should know that there is always room for improvement in your prayer life. Are you praying daily, or even multiple times a day? Are you feeling God’s movement in your life and in the lives of your loved ones? If not, then you have a powerful prayer tool in technology.

There are programs that can teach you where your prayer life is falling short, if you feel unfilled. You can gain information on how to pump up your prayer volume, make your prayers more meaningful, and especially learn how to make sure that your prayers line up with the blessings that God wants to give you. Take advantage of the Internet and software programs that teach specifically about prayer. Make a difference today!