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Digital Arrrow Newsletter - September 2006
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In this issue

Editorial
A Case for Employee Monitoring

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According to a recent Gallup poll, a company that employs 500 people on an average could lose about $3.25 million per annum only on Internet usage. Seventy-five minutes of company time & infrastructure are misused in non-business related activities, which approximates to a loss of $6250 per year, per employee at the employer's expense.

How do you handle misuse? Can you monitor the internet usage? What about privacy, security, or threat, and what about the cost involved?

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VoIP: Fad or Friend?

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With the emergence of commercial grade, open source VoIP, business telephony is moving to an entirely new level. Telephony is no longer just about making telephone calls its now one of the most powerful systems in your business...

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At the watercooler

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Overheard the conversation between two software developers:
"...did you back up your data before you started the migration process?"
"Back up? That's for the faint-hearted"

Can Small Or Medium Sized Businesses Afford ERP?

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The idea behind enterprise resource planning is to integrate as all of the computing needs of the company into a single system that can provide all of the necessary functionality needed. That is a tall order.

Traditionally, each department had its own specialized system to do its job. Usually that means its own separate database as well. The secret to combining all of these programs is to make it possible for all departments to share the same centralised database.

A true Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system will employ different modules for each department with all of the software using a single centralized database.

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