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Fwd: HOW TO PASSWORD PROTECT A JBOSS URL OR DIRECTORY

2008-08-20T04:50:00.001-07:00

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From: ERIC TENG <ericteng177@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:40 PM
Subject: HOW TO PASSWORD PROTECT A JBOSS URL OR DIRECTORY
To: "KEVIN FRANCIS @ WAVELET Francis" <kevinfrancis@wavelet.biz>
Cc: "Vincent Lee @ Wavelet Lee" <vincent@wavelet.biz>, "Janet Tan @ Wavelet Janet" <janet@wavelet.biz>

Francis,

Found the solution of "HOW TO PASSWORD PROTECT A JBOSS URL" (url can but Jboss App or a simple directory under the jboss deployment root dir).

Following is the instruction, Just add the following to "/usr/java/jboss/server/default/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat50.sar/conf/web.xml" file:

===============START OF TEXT ================

<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>All resources</web-resource-name>
<description>Protects all resources</description>
<url-pattern>/backup</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>WebAppUser</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>

<security-role>
<role-name>WebAppUser</role-name>
</security-role>

<login-config>
<auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
<realm-name>Test Realm</realm-name>
</login-config>

===============END OF TEXT ================

"url-pattern" tag is the key here, regular expression is accepted. I also suspected that the role-name is security-role can be OMITTED, but didn't try that. Also, the research is not quite done, you may need to study the format of "login-config.xml" file to include username and password, or I suspect that by change the option on "login-config" tag, you can instruct JBOSS to refer the user login info using Linux OS's.

Try with following on your browser:

1. http://localhost:8080/emp
2. http://localhost:8080/wavelet-supplier
3. http://localhost:8080/backup

Found above on http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/SecureAWebApplicationInJBoss

Regards,
Eric Teng

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Accounting Software

2008-07-02T20:12:00.001-07:00

You would probably know by now, with reference to what you are having, that an accounting software records & processes accounting transactions within functional modules such as:

A/R & A/P
General Ledger
Billing
Stock/Inventory
Purchase Order
Sales Order

Agree?

But, your growth plans and complexity in business processes somehow demands more than the above mentioned functionalities.

Well... as a matter of fact, with your expanding manpower, number of outlets & offices and the skyrocketed amount of volume in inventory & sales, additional features & functions under core modules are actually not really too much to ask for...

Believe it or not! There are actually business owners out there with a very conservative thinking that naturally sets investment in an appropriate solution for their own company as one of the lowest priorities when it comes to business expansion.

I personally do not support this practice.

Why? Well, some "traditional" entrepreneurs that I have met are quite often comfortable with their current software.

But, are they really comfortable? Or are they comfortable with the fact that their employees, those actually USING the software are comfortable?

Perhaps so.

But, how often do you have a majority of your accountants, warehouse managers or even cashiers to be aligned with the CEO's vision and plans? If you do, you have my heartiest congratulations and take it from me, don't fire them!

It is quite needless to say that you operates in a competitive industry. I mean... who doesn't?

Competitive advantage may require creative strategies. And to deploy creative marketing tactics, you will need tools. For example, can your current software bloom your business by allowing customers to buy online via E-Commerce? No? Can your current software retains and grow your customers rather than buying from your competitors by automating a customer loyalty programme?

If you are still scrolling down & reading this line, I guess it is fair to assume that I've somehow described the limitations of your current software, and has proven itself to be one of your current challenges for business growth at the rate you have envisioned.

If that is really the case, its high time to seat back behind the yellow light and give your company's current accounting software some thoughts and consider an ERP instead.

www.wavelet.biz

Blog

2008-07-01T21:25:00.001-07:00

Perhaps, your aim to open up more branches may be influenced by your ambition to convey confidence and stability to your customers, leverage on the economy of scale and etc...

One particularly compelling reason for branching out and increase your network might be your desire to fill a need in the marketplace and gradually enjoy the increase piece in the pie.

However, managing multiple stores requires a different system. In today's K-economy, knowledge is power and the need to obtaining business critical information as you want it, is inevitable.

In multi branches management, there are vital functions such as from inventory, trading & finance perspective that needs to be well centralized, perhaps in the main office (headquarters) itself.

A real solution for multi branches management allows easy access for you to convey critical data from each branches on a real time basis, allowing all locations to operate in a standardized manner and be updated to stay on the same page. From management perspective, it is equally crucial to be able to obtain vital business intelligences gathered from all locations in a single reporting tool.

To many people's disappointment, common softwares that you can find off the shelf do not really allows you maximize the fullest potential and the power of network.

www.wavelet.biz

Gartner Highlights Key Predictions for IT Organisations and Users in 2008 and Beyond

2008-02-02T20:08:00.001-08:00

Source: http://gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=593207

Gartner Highlights Key Predictions for IT Organisations and Users in 2008 and Beyond

Egham, UK, January 31, 2008 — Gartner, Inc. has highlighted 10 key predictions of events and developments that will affect IT and business in 2008 and beyond.

The predictions highlight areas where executives and IT professionals need to take action in 2008. The full impact of these trends may not appear this year, but executives need to act now so that they can exploit the trends for their competitive advantage.

"Selected from across our research areas as the most compelling and critical predictions, the trends and topics they address this year indicate a strong focus on individuals, the environment, and alternative ways of buying and selling IT services and technologies," said Daryl Plummer, managing vice president and Gartner Fellow. "These areas of focus imply a significant groundswell of change that may in turn change the entire industry."

These predictions are selected from more than 100 predictions that Gartner presents and reviews every year. These predictions focus on general technology areas rather than on specific industries or roles. This year's predictions include:

By 2011, Apple will double its U.S. and Western Europe unit market share in Computers. Apple's gains in computer market share reflect as much on the failures of the rest of the industry as on Apple's success. Apple is challenging its competitors with software integration that provides ease of use and flexibility; continuous and more frequent innovation in hardware and software; and an ecosystem that focuses on interoperability across multiple devices (such as iPod and iMac cross-selling).

By 2012, 50 per cent of traveling workers will leave their notebooks at home in favour of other devices. Even though notebooks continue to shrink in size and weight, traveling workers lament the weight and inconvenience of carrying them on their trips. Vendors are developing solutions to address these concerns: new classes of Internet-centric pocketable devices at the sub-$400 level; and server and Web-based applications that can be accessed from anywhere. There is also a new class of applications: portable personality that encapsulates a user's preferred work environment, enabling the user to recreate that environment across multiple locations or systems.

By 2012, 80 per cent of all commercial software will include elements of open-source technology. Many open-source technologies are mature, stable and well supported. They provide significant opportunities for vendors and users to lower their total cost of ownership and increase returns on investment. Ignoring this will put companies at a serious competitive disadvantage. Embedded open source strategies will become the minimal level of investment that most large software vendors will find necessary to maintain competitive advantages during the next five years.

By 2012, at least one-third of business application software spending will be as service subscription instead of as product license. With software as service (SaaS), the user organisation pays for software services in proportion to use. This is fundamentally different from the fixed-price perpetual license of the traditional on-premises technology. Endorsed and promoted by all leading business applications vendors (Oracle, SAP, Microsoft) and many Web technology leaders (Google, Amazon), the SaaS model of deployment and distribution of software services will enjoy steady growth in mainstream use during the next five years.

By 2011, early technology adopters will forgo capital expenditures and instead purchase 40 per cent of their IT infrastructure as a service. Increased high-speed bandwidth makes it practical to locate infrastructure at other sites and still receive the same response times. Enterprises believe that as service oriented architecture (SOA) becomes common "cloud computing" will take off, thus untying applications from specific infrastructure. This trend to accepting commodity infrastructure could end the traditional "lock-in" with a single supplier and lower the costs of switching suppliers. It means that IT buyers should strengthen their purchasing and sourcing departments to evaluate offerings. They will have to develop and use new criteria for evaluation and selection and phase out traditional criteria.

By 2009, more than one third of IT organizations will have one or more environmental criteria in their top six buying criteria for IT-related goods. Initially, the motivation will come from the wish to contain costs. Enterprise data centres are struggling to keep pace with the increasing power requirements of their infrastructures. And there is substantial potential to improve the environmental footprint, throughout the life cycle, of all IT products and services without any significant trade-offs in price or performance. In future, IT organisations will shift their focus from the power efficiency of products to asking service providers about their measures to improve energy efficiency.

By 2010, 75 per cent of organisations will use full life cycle energy and CO2 footprint as mandatory PC hardware buying criteria. Most technology providers have little or no knowledge of the full life cycle energy and CO2 footprint of their products. Some technology providers have started the process of life cycle assessments, or at least were asking key suppliers about carbon and energy use in 2007 and will continue in 2008. Most others using such information to differentiate their products will start in 2009 and by 2010 enterprises will be able to start using the information as a basis for purchasing decisions. Most others will stat some level of more detailed life cycle assessment in 2008.

By 2011, suppliers to large global enterprises will need to prove their green credentials via an audited process to retain preferred supplier status. Those organizations with strong brands are helping to forge the first wave of green sourcing policies and initiatives. These policies go well beyond minimizing direct carbon emissions or requiring suppliers to comply with local environmental regulations. For example, Timberland has launched a "Green Index" environmental rating for its shoes and boots. Home Depot is working on evaluation and audit criteria for assessing supplier submissions for its new EcoOptions product line.

By 2010, end-user preferences will decide as much as half of all software, hardware and services acquisitions made by IT. The rise of the Internet and the ubiquity of the browser interface have made computing approachable and individuals are now making decisions about technology for personal and business use. Because of this, IT organizations are addressing user concerns through planning for a global class of computing that incorporates user decisions in risk analysis and innovation of business strategy.

Through 2011, the number of 3-D printers in homes and businesses will grow 100-fold over 2006 levels. The technology lets users send a file of a 3-D design to a printer-like device that will carve the design out of a block of resin. A manufacturer can make scale models of new product designs without the expense of model makers. Or consumers can have models of the avatars they use online. Ultimately, manufacturers can consider making some components on demand without having an inventory of replacement parts. Printers priced less than $10,000 have been announced for 2008, opening up the personal and hobbyist markets.

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More Macs, More Mobile, More Open Source, Gartner Predicts

2008-02-02T19:58:00.001-08:00

Gartner is predicting the trend, and they are quite accurate most of the time:

Source:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206101436

More Macs, More Mobile, More Open Source, Gartner Predicts

By 2012, Gartner foresees mobile workers abandoning notebooks, despite their slowly diminishing size, for smaller, more portable mobile devices.

By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
February 1, 2008 06:00 AM

In the future there will be more Macs, more mobile devices, and more open source software.

At least that's how analysts with Gartner see it. The IT consulting and research firm on Thursday published 10 predictions for events and developments that will affect IT and businesses in the years ahead.

Gartner predicts that by 2011, Apple will have doubled its computer market share in the United States and Western Europe. It attributes Apple's rise both to the company's success and the failures of its rivals.

"Apple is challenging its competitors with software integration that provides ease of use and flexibility; continuous and more frequent innovation in hardware and software; and an ecosystem that focuses on interoperability across multiple devices (such as iPod and iMac cross-selling)," according to Gartner.

By 2012, Gartner foresees mobile workers abandoning notebooks, despite their slowly diminishing size, for smaller, more portable mobile devices. It describes these devices as "new classes of Internet-centric pocketable devices at the sub-$400 level." (Another word for this might be "iPhone.")

The year 2012 will also mark a time when 80% of all commercial software will include open source elements. Companies that fail to embrace open source software will be at a significant cost disadvantage, Gartner predicts.

Simultaneously, a third of business software spending will have moved from buying product licenses to service subscriptions. "The SaaS model of deployment and distribution of software services will enjoy steady growth in mainstream use during the next five years," according to Gartner.

By 2011, Gartner expects early technology adopters to buy at least 40% of their IT infrastructure as a service rather than as a capital expenditure. As if to confirm this trend, Amazon.com recently reported that the bandwidth utilized by Amazon Web Services, the company's pay-by-the-drink IT infrastructure, exceeded the bandwidth utilized by all of Amazon's global Web sites combined.

Only a year from now, Gartner believes that environmental criteria will be among the top six requirements for IT-related goods. And by 2010, the firm expects that three-quarters of organizations will consider full life-cycle energy and carbon dioxide footprint in making PC buying decisions. By 2011, it anticipates that companies will have to demonstrate their environmental credentials to maintain preferred supplier status.

IT groups will become more user-driven, Gartner projects, with more than half of all IT buying decisions being made at the behest of end users by 2010. "The rise of the Internet and the ubiquity of the browser interface have made computing approachable and individuals are now making decisions about technology for personal and business use," according to Gartner.

Finally, by 2011, Gartner expects the number of 3-D printers to increase 100-fold from their 2006 levels. With 3-D printers falling below $10,000, the firm expects consumers and business to warm to the idea of "printing" 3-D models.

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The beauty of Math

2008-01-16T23:40:00.001-08:00

Beauty of Math!

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111

12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

Brilliant, isn't it?

And look at this symmetry:

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111=12345678987654321

Now, take a look at this...

101%

From a strictly mathematical viewpoint:

What Equals 100%?

What does it mean to give MORE than 100%?

Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%?

We have all been in situations where someone wants you to

GIVE OVER 100%.

How about ACHIEVING 101%?

What equals 100% in life?

Here's a little mathematical formula that might help answer these questions:

If:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Is represented as:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

If:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R- K

8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

And:

K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E

11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But:

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E

1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

THEN, look how far the love of God will take you:

L-O-V-E-O-F-G-O-D

12+15+22+5+15+6+7+15+4 = 101%

Therefore, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that:

While Hard Work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will
get you there, It's the Love of God that will put you over the top!

It's up to you if you share this with your friends & loved ones just the way I did.

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Wavelet Map

2008-01-15T03:32:00.001-08:00

Hyper link

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=&daddr=3.10526,101.591751&mra=mi&mrsp=0&sz=18&sll=3.105249,101.591746&sspn=0.003991,0.005064&ie=UTF8&ll=3.105249,101.591746&spn=0.031925,0.040512&z=15&om=1

Embedded IFrame

<iframe width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src=" http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=&daddr=3.10526,101.591751&mra=mi&mrsp=0&sz=18&sll=3.105249,101.591746&sspn=0.003991,0.005064&ie=UTF8&om=1&s=AARTsJrc5ZPut7qW4lH12pDY8T_u-h0FFA&ll=3.105249,101.591756&spn=0.010285,0.013733&z=16&output=embed "></iframe><br /><small><a href=" http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=&daddr=3.10526,101.591751&mra=mi&mrsp=0&sz=18&sll=3.105249,101.591746&sspn=0.003991,0.005064&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=3.105249,101.591756&spn=0.010285,0.013733&z=16&source=embed " style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small>

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The fastest E-Commerce Website in Malaysia

2008-01-14T17:04:00.001-08:00

Dear Everyone,

The fastest e-commerce website in Malaysia, and recognized for processing high volume of transactions within short time with the logistics system integrated with e-commerce, for the top e-commerce website in Malaysia -> blooming florist.
We are proud to say that, Wavelet is the software developer behind the scene.

Please see the comments in red below.

Best regards,
Vincent
ps. Wavelet logo is at the bottom left hand corner of the page ;-)

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Source: http://www.star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2007/9/20/itfeature/18922150&sec=itfeature

Please see the ones highlighted in red below:

Challenges and hurdles

By CHRISTY LEE S.W.

Thursday September 20, 2007

THOUGH e-commerce has been around in Malaysia since the mid-nineties, it is still in its infancy stages even today, said Martin Cheah, Blooming.com.my's managing director.

"Compared to countries like Hong Kong and Europe, we have a lot of catching up to do," he said.

The Malaysian broadband infrastructure also leaves much to be desired.

"Broadband access is critical for the growth of e-commerce here. If you set up an online retail store, you'll want to put many pictures of your product for your customers to see," said Richard Tan, managing director of Interbase Resources Sdn Bhd, the company that runs local online auctioneer Lelong.com.my.

"If you're using dial-up, these pictures will take too long to load, and that would make it less convenient to shop online," he said.

Referring to Alexa.com, Rodney Koh, creative director of XL-Shop Dot Com Sdn Bhd, said that Malaysian websites hosted locally are at least 70% slower than other websites around the world.

"It'll be hard for us to compete with other e-commerce sites on a global level if our pages take too long too load," he said.

At press time, the fastest site of the bunch is Blooming.com.my – it takes an average of 1.7 seconds to load, and is faster than 63% of the websites around the world.

Credit card woes
Another big issue is the lack of an easily accessible online payment system.

"It is very difficult for an e-commerce merchant to apply for a credit card transaction service to include in their website," said Tan.

He said financial institutions only approve certain sites that are established, which is a serious stumbling block for upstarts.

Koh agreed that the credit card facility in Malaysia is still immature.

"We had to resort to using services from an overseas credit card company, and this forces us to charge in US dollars," he said.

He said his company would occasionally come across a credit card fraud case.

"But the percentage is still small enough that the business is still worth doing," he said.

Koh said he also maintains a PayPal account, but any money that goes into it has to be spent online because it does not allow withdrawal in Malaysia.

Tan believes that financial institutions should look at what other overseas companies do mitigate the problem.

He said e-commerce merchants should also be careful when dealing with suspicious orders.

"The Government also has a role to play in this. It has the authority to pass laws and legislations – so that criminals involved in fraud are punished – it serves as a deterrent to the rest," said Cheah.

Comfort zone
These factors have been blamed for the majority of Malaysians still uncomfortable about shopping online.

According to MPH's Kee, Malaysians generally shy away from buying products online because they think it isn't safe.

"Also, you can't really see or hold the product in your hand, and the payment process is usually complicated," he said.

The challenge, said Tan, is in getting the public to get past their fears of fraud and to trust online transactions.

"We have yet to build a culture where people are comfortable and confident in buying and selling products online," he said.

He said credit card fraud should not be used as a reason to shy away from the service.

"If you buy something online and you do not receive your order, you can always call your bank to cancel the transaction," he said.

"In fact, it is even easier for credit card fraud to occur offline," he added.

Tan believes that Malaysia is still far behind in online retail.

"Three percent of the total retail sales in the United States comes from e-commerce.

"If e-commerce (excluding online ticketing sales) was 3% of the retail sales in Malaysia, which amounted to RM59.5bil last year, it would be more than RM1bil – and we're definitely behind that," he said.

He said Malaysia needs more players to create a larger community of buyers and sellers.

"The more companies there are involved in e-commerce, the more comfortable the public will be when it comes to shopping online," said Tan.

Unique problems
In addition to these common issues, each company also faces problems that are unique to their own businesses.

For example, Blooming.com.my probably faces the biggest challenge compared to the rest when it comes to packaging and transporting its products.

Its main product, flowers, need to be kept refrigerated to maintain freshness.

"Unlike products like books, flowers do not take a certain shape which you can box up and deliver just like that," said Cheah.

Kee said MPH Online faces a challenge in getting Malaysians excited enough about buying books.

"The book industry here grows quite slowly, due to the lack of a strong reading culture in Malaysia," he said.

For XL-Shop.com, taxation is an issue.

"Unlike Hong Kong and Singapore, our imports are taxed, so this puts us at a disadvantage where pricing is concerned," said Koh.

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EU Opens New Probes of Microsoft

2008-01-14T10:26:00.001-08:00

Source: Wall Street Journal.

EU Opens New Probes of Microsoft
Regulators to Focus on Office Software, Web Browsers
By CHARLES FORELLE
January 14, 2008 11:48 a.m.

BRUSSELS—The European Union, fresh from victory in a landmark
antitrust case against Microsoft Corp., has opened a second and
potentially more costly complaint.

European Commission regulators Monday announced they have launched two
new formal investigations into the software giant's business
practices, setting the stage for a renewed clash between the American
tech mainstay and the EU's increasingly powerful antitrust cops.
[More on the case] MORE ON THE CASE

• Microsoft Again Faces EU Heat
12/14/07
• Microsoft Yields in EU Antitrust Battle
10/23/07
• EU Court Rejects Microsoft's Appeal
9/18/07

This time, the commission is focusing on two core areas of Microsoft's
business: its Web browser, Internet Explorer; and Office, its
massively profitable software suite. The EU is examining whether
Microsoft harms alternative browser vendors by including Internet
Explorer with its ubiquitous Windows operating system, and whether it
harms alternative office-suite vendors by controlling the file format
used to store office documents.

The cases stem from two complaints, one from Norwegian browser-vendor
Opera Software ASA filed last month, the other a 2006 charge from the
European Committee for Interoperable Systems, a group led by
International Business Machines Corp. and other Microsoft rivals that
has been a driving force in Europe's antitrust pursuit of the company.

In addition to touching on Office, the IBM-led group's complaint
addresses Microsoft's refusal "to disclose interoperability
information across a broad range of products," according to the EU,
indicating that the regulators could make an even broader case.

In a statement, Microsoft said it would cooperate with the probes and
was "committed to ensuring" that the company is "in full compliance
with European law."

In 2004, after a contentious six-year probe, the EU charged Microsoft
with illegally shutting out rival Sun Microsystems Inc. by withholding
computer code needed to make Sun's computers work with Windows-based
machines, and with abusing its Windows monopoly by bundling
media-player software with the operating system. It assessed a record
€497 million ($612 million) fine.

That case ended in dramatic fashion last September, when an EU court
vindicated the EU's position in stark terms, leaving Microsoft with
little to do but capitulate. A month later, the company said it
wouldn't pursue further appeals, ending the case.

Besides the fines -- which could total billions of euros -- the
practical effect was fairly small. Standalone media players had
declined in importance as Web-based video ascended, and the types of
machines Sun wanted access to represent a small plume of a
many-feathered market.

But EU regulators had won a critical precedent: The judges on the
Court of First Instance confirmed the illegality of a monopolist's
bundling products, and confirmed the EU's power to compel a dominant
company to share so-called interoperability information.

Write to Charles Forelle at charles.forelle@wsj.com

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Fwd: Security Enhanced Linux for FTP

2008-01-11T13:01:00.001-08:00

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From: Vincent Lee <leehongfay@yahoo.com>
Date: Nov 20, 2006 10:40 AM
Subject: Security Enhanced Linux for FTP
To: Wavelet Google <wavelet@googlegroups.com>

Guys,
when you are using fedora 5, or latest versions of linux, you may encounter
some difficulty using the server for FTP, read the manual below, that will save
you tonnes of time.
Cheers
Vincent

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/ftpd_selinux.8.html

ftpd_selinux(8) - Linux man page
NAME
ftpd_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the ftp daemon
DESCRIPTION

Security-Enhanced Linux secures the ftpd server via flexible mandatory access
control.
FILE_CONTEXTS
SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type.
Policy governs the access daemons have to these files. If you want to share
files anonymously, you must label the files and directories public_content_t.
So if you created a special directory /var/ftp, you would need to label the
directory with the chcon tool.

chcon -R -t public_content_t /var/ftp
If you want to setup a directory where you can upload files to you must label
the files and directories ftpd_anon_rw_t. So if you created a special directory
/var/ftp/incoming, you would need to label the directory with the chcon tool.
chcon -t public_content_rw_t /var/ftp/incoming
You must also turn on the boolean allow_ftpd_anon_write.
setsebool -P allow_ftpd_anon_write=1
If you want to make this permanant, i.e. survive a relabel, you must add an
entry to the file_contexts.local file.
/etc/selinux/POLICYTYPE/contexts/files/file_contexts.local
/var/ftp(/.*)? system_u:object_r:public_content_t /var/ftp/incoming(/.*)?
system_u:object_r:public_content_rw_t

BOOLEANS
SELinux ftp daemon policy is customizable based on least access required. So by
default SElinux does not allow users to login and read their home directories.
If you are setting up this machine as a ftpd server and wish to allow users to
access their home directorories, you need to set the ftp_home_dir boolean.

setsebool -P ftp_home_dir 1
ftpd can run either as a standalone daemon or as part of the xinetd domain. If
you want to run ftpd as a daemon you must set the ftpd_is_daemon boolean.
setsebool -P ftpd_is_daemon 1
You can disable SELinux protection for the ftpd daemon by executing:
setsebool -P ftpd_disable_trans 1
service vsftpd restart
system-config-securitylevel is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux policy
settings.

AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>.

Fwd: Installation Errors (FC8)

2007-12-18T00:38:00.001-08:00

When installing Fedora 8, the JAVA seems to run into some problems with some library files. Solutions to solve the problems as indicated below by Sim Hooi Lan..

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sim <sim@wavelet.biz>
Date: Dec 17, 2007 11:43 AM
Subject: Installation Errors (FC8)
To: Vincent Lee < vincent@wavelet.biz>

Hi Vincent,

Exception java. lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /tmp/OraInstall2005-07-07_09-40-45AM/jre/1.4.2/lib/i386/libawt .so: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory occurred.. java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError : /tmp/OraInstall2005-07-07_09-40-45AM/jre/1.4.2/lib/i386/libawt.so: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Solution: Install the xorg-x11-deprecated-libs RPM package (<=FC4) or libXp package (FC5 and later).

Type this command (root):-

yum install libXp compat-libstdc++-33



-sim-

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Singapore Airlines puts a Linux PC in every seat

2007-08-26T08:27:00.001-07:00

MAS & AirAsia should follow their counterpart, shouldn't they?

Singapore Airlines puts a Linux PC in every seat
http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/082207-worldbeat-singapore-airlines-puts-a.html

"To make flying more enjoyable for its passengers, Singapore Airlines
Ltd. is adding bigger screens, more in-flight movies and a PC, running
Red Hat Inc.'s distribution of the Linux operating system, in every
seat on its newest planes."
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Fwd: [Slugnet] [OT] StarOffice, Linux fly high on Singapore Airlines

2007-05-31T10:32:00.000-07:00

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From: John Thng <johnthng83@gmail.com>
Date: May 31, 2007 1:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Slugnet] [OT] StarOffice, Linux fly high on Singapore Airlines
To: Soh Kam Yung <sohkamyung@gmail.com>
Cc: slugnet@lugs.org.sg

This is great. At least people will knew that there's still software outside Microsoft products especially to Singaporeans.

On 5/30/07, Soh Kam Yung <sohkamyung@gmail.com> wrote:

( http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2964256534.html)

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StarOffice, Linux fly high on Singapore Airlines
May 29, 2007

Singapore Airlines is offering access to Sun's StarOffice 8 office
productivity suite free of charge to passengers on its new Boeing
777-300ER aircraft. StarOffice, Sun's proprietary version of
OpenOffice.org, runs on the aircraft's Linux server and is accessed
via a seat-back terminal at each passenger's seat, according to Sun.

Thanks to new USB ports embedded in the armrest of each chair (near
the headphone jack), passengers now can use a USB key (aka thumb
drive) -- or other portable drive -- to access their documents,
spreadsheets, and presentation files from software running on the
plane's Linux server.

[...]

"With heightened security, access to laptops during flights can
sometimes be restricted," said Wong Heng Chew, managing director at
Sun's Singapore division. "The availability of StarOffice ... offers
Singapore Airlines' customers the opportunity to work on and access
their information in an open, secure and freely available fashion
independent of any vendor or file formats during their flights."

[...]
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PostgreSQL Load Balancing and Clustering

2007-05-29T04:27:00.001-07:00

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sam Weintraub <sam.weintraub@kolumbus.fi>
Date: May 24, 2007 9:18 PM
Subject: Request for a call ...
To: vincent@wavelet.biz

Dear Vincent,

Continuent www.continuent.com is looking for a partnering opportunity with
your company. Continuent's uni/cluster software solution offers you a new
revenue opportunity and a way to differentiate from your competitors. And to
get the business up, we'll support your sales and marketing activities to
really win total new business for you. I have discussed with some of your
'colleaques' in Europe and they have confirmed that open source databases
are 'coming' and thus tools we are providing for mission critical
applications are getting more and more important/needed in your businesses.

Continuent has an established leadership position in the Database and
Application Availability marketplace. We have more than 200 satisfied
customers using our clustering solution - all over the world. Typically
their systems are built on top of MySQL, PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB
databases. Most of the customers are Telecom, Financial, Retail
(e-commerce), Entertainment and Web 2.0 companies.

Looking from product point of view, Continuent's uni/cluster for MySQL,
PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB offers:

· High Availability for continual operations and to meet SLAs (service level
agreement)
· Scalability for increasing workloads
· Load Balancing to ensure optimal performance
· Automatic Failover for disaster avoidance
· Data integrity through synchronized data
· Online maintenance and adding new servers on fly
· Cost Effectiveness

I will be calling you in early next week. Looking forward to discuss with
you.

Sam Weintraub
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Re: USEFUL FAQ

2007-05-22T16:29:00.001-07:00

Dear Eric,

Before you continue the below.........
Not sure if you have noticed our strategy of implementation where CASH BILL = INVOICE + RECEIPT
and since money related stuff and thrown into RECEIPT, hence policy on finance charges, payment mode etc are on RECEIPT... nothing to do with INVOICE..
A receipt can be created when you receive money, in other words want to
1) Create a deposit from customer
2) Settle Documents(Customer invoices / credit memos)
3) Create cashsales

Thanks
Vincent

On 5/23/07, ERIC TENG <ericteng177@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Vincent,

Just wanted to have it in black & white on some issues so that we can track them as FAQ:

1. Accounting -> Card Payment Configuration, on the "Policy on Finance Charges", you have 2 options, namely , "Company Absorb Finance Charges" and "Add Surcharge to Customer", what is the effect of these settings have against Cash Bill, Invoice and Accounting treatment?

Policy on Finance Charges

Cash Bill

Invoice

Accounting Treatment

Remarks

Company Absorb Finance Charges

Finance charges are tracked in a specified Cashbook (thus in GL Code associated with Cashbook)

Finance charges are tracked in a specified Cashbook (thus in GL Code associated with Cashbook)

PLS HELP

Add Surcharge to Customer

Finance charges will appear on Cash Bill

Finance charges will appear on Cash Bill

PLS HELP

Could you please verify that above info is correct? Please also help me on the Accounting Treatment portion for both settings, thanks in advance?

Regards,

Eric Teng

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Web-Based Software Services Take Hold

2007-05-15T16:11:00.001-07:00

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117918081180502446.html?mod=djemTECH

Web-Based Software Services Take Hold

Accounting Quirk, Fewer Hassles,
Lower Costs Lure Businesses to Sector

By VAUHINI VARA
May 15, 2007; Page B3

A year ago, Mark Rose, general manager of procurement at Chevron Corp., used the oil company's own software and paid outsourcer Electronic Data Systems Corp. millions of dollars a year to manage its catalogs of products and services from suppliers.

But when that system became too costly and ineffective, Mr. Rose turned to new software that he hadn't considered much before: a Web-based service.

To negotiate prices with suppliers, Chevron, San Ramon, Calif., used to have a complex process that involved sending emails back and forth with attached spreadsheets. At the time, Mr. Rose says, he didn't consider Web-based services because he worried that sending information over the Web could open the oil giant up to security troubles.

But then he found a new service from Ketera Technologies Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., one of many Web-software start-ups that have attracted attention over the past 12 months. Using Ketera's software, Chevron's suppliers could input and make changes to pricing through the Ketera Web site, and Mr. Rose's staff could approve them and make tweaks on the Web site.

"We're an energy company, not a software company," says Mr. Rose. "If we can free ourselves up to dabble less in software and more in oil we'll be in good shape." He adds he's now spending about a third of what he previously spent, but declined to give exact figures.

Like Chevron, businesses are turning to companies like Ketera that provide what is known as "software as a service." The sector sprouted up eight years ago, when former Oracle Corp. executive Marc Benioff launched Salesforce.com Inc., a start-up that let companies manage sales leads through a Web site. While companies typically had organized their relationships with customers using customized software installed on computers, Mr. Benioff's idea was to offer a no-frills online service that let companies make only minor tweaks. Such Web-based software required less investment in on-premise software and hardware, got up and running more quickly, and was easier to use.

Early on, that attracted mostly small businesses that weren't previously using any software at all and could easily justify trying this new approach. But larger companies stayed away, having invested in the late 1990s in traditional software from the likes of Oracle and SAP AG.

Now that's changing, partly because of an accounting quirk. Companies are starting to get rid of their old software at a time when capital-expenditure budgets are tight. Traditional software and the hardware to run it are considered a capital expenditure. But Web-based services are typically sold as a subscription, which means corporate buyers can account for them as a maintenance expense, which falls into a different bucket.

As a result, companies are turning to start-ups such as Ketera, LucidEra Inc. and Workday Inc. that are offering Web-based services for tasks like controlling spending and managing employees. Meanwhile, a handful of older software-as-a-service companies such as Taleo Corp. and RightNow Technologies Inc. have gone public; another, NetSuite Inc., is widely expected to try to do so.

Big software makers like SAP and Oracle are themselves ramping up efforts in the area. Google Inc. is even getting involved, with Web-based word-processing and spreadsheet services for businesses. Research firm Gartner Inc. calculates the world-wide market for software as a service will grow to $19.3 billion by 2011 from $6.3 billion last year.

"We're seeing the slow, steady evolution of the technology," says Mr. Benioff of Salesforce.com, noting that Web-based services have gone beyond the sales and marketing services that Salesforce.com pioneered.

Some larger, risk-averse companies -- though still nervous about Web-based services -- are now trying them. That was the experience of Rhonda Stickley, director of recruiting and staffing at timber giant Weyerhaeuser Co., who began using a Web-based service for tracking hiring from Taleo two years ago. At the time, Weyerhaeuser, Federal Way, Wash., was about to embark on a hiring spree as many of its employees neared retirement. But its technology for tracking hires was outdated and clumsy, involving contractors to scan paper applications into a program from a big software company.

Even so, when Ms. Stickley discovered Taleo's service, she wondered whether applicants' private information would be secure and if Taleo would be able to handle the surge of Weyerhaeuser applicants. She visited the Dublin, Calif., software company in 2005, toured its research-and-development center, and grilled its chief executive about everything from the company's emergency plans to its long-term strategy.

Ms. Stickley was satisfied when she heard Taleo was planning to add more Web-based human-resources services that she could later add and had security guarantees that more than satisfied the company's requirements. Now, she uses Taleo's service to solicit applications through the Web, which enter her system directly without any scanning required.

Ms. Stickley stopped paying the eight human scanners she used to have and now doesn't have to worry about maintaining hardware or on-premise software. She says she's saving 10% to 12% by using the service, mostly from efficiency gains because the service is less of a hassle to manage and easier for job applicants to use than the software she had previously used.

One challenge that remains for users of Web-based services is that companies can't customize these services the way they could with traditional software. Mr. Rose of Chevron has had to tweak the way his company communicates with suppliers about prices to fit with how the Ketera service works.

Write to Vauhini Vara at vauhini.vara@wsj.com

Re: E-Life: Customer also Supplier

2007-05-13T21:53:00.001-07:00

Hi all,

Please refer to the following link, thanks.
http://help.wavelet.biz/index.htm#customer_is_also_supplier.htm

Vincent

On 5/14/07, Camelina Chan <camelina@wavelet.biz> wrote:

Hi Vincent,

<e-life>bhtan says: actually my case is as below:
1 . this customer is my supplier also ....
2. they buy some stocks from me .... and we use contra method to deduct the payment we pay them

How to generate c/n for account need to contra ?
Customer Module --> Credit Memo Listing --> Select the date --> Action 'contra'

How are the steps?

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Even Microsoft Is Selling Linux

2007-05-13T21:22:00.001-07:00

source : ZDNET

Dell has become the first PC maker to put its support behind Microsoft and Novell's effort to bridge the gap between Windows and Linux server computing.

The systems builder will buy certificates for Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system from Microsoft--certificates Microsoft had previously purchased from Novell under a pact signed in November 2006.

Dell will also launch a new marketing program to convince corporate Linux users who do not already use Dell's existing Linux (Red Hat) solutions to use Novell's operating system.

"Dell is the first major systems provider to align with Microsoft and Novell in this collaboration, and we intend to lead in this space," said Rick Becker, vice president of solutions at Dell Product Group, in a statement.

"This move is a huge success for the industry and, more specifically, for customers who haven't purchased Linux through Dell and who want to migrate to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for the IP assurance and interoperability benefits."

Last week, Dell was applauded by the open source community after announcing that it would begin selling personal computers with the Ubuntu Linux operating system pre-installed. This week's deal, however, is not likely to prove as popular.

Microsoft and Novell's pact, signed late last year, has seen the two companies collaborate on making Microsoft's proprietary software and Novell's open source-based software work together.

Microsoft now recommends Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Operating System for customers that want to run a mix of Windows and Linux. Both vendors are working on virtualization technology to enable their operating systems to run in tandem as virtual machines on the same computer.

The two companies also guaranteed that they would not pursue each other over intellectual property disputes.

The Linux community has protested that the deal is Microsoft's way of asserting that the Linux operating system infringes on its intellectual property in some way.

Microsoft says it has sold over 40,000 new certificates for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server support in the first five months of the pact. Customers include AIG Technologies, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, HSBC and Wal-Mart Stores.

Re: Few issues from E-life Tech...

2007-05-04T09:25:00.001-07:00

Dear Steve,

Thanks for your email, I am sending this to blog because there's no sensitive data, and the questions you asked are very good questions. please see my response below:

On 5/4/07, Siew Steve <wpsiew@e-life.com.my> wrote:

Hi Wavelet,

1. Intranet - i cant upload image or media file into the article...

This article thing is a new function. Our engineer, joseph@wavelet.biz is currently working on this module/function. If you need it fast, you can call Joseph every other day, then the attachments thing will be up real soon ;-)... his number is +60129860875....

2. can we have our email login box on wavelet page ?

It depends, what emails are you using? Squirrel Mail? Or GMail? or Microsoft Outlook? Where is it hosted?

3. RMA - RMA branch, y cant we hav more than 1 item for a single service note

We cannot add more than 1 item in each service note because they may have different problems, and one may be sent back to the suppliers, and the other one may not be sent back to the suppliers, if they are in the same service note, how can we set the status?

4. can we have a report like just listing all outlet's total sales n the total GP for each of the outlet, instead of the current Stock Sales report,coz it takes so long to generate.

There are several other sales report that you may be interested, please take a look here... you may just find one that is suitable for you...
http://wavelet-technology.blogspot.com/2007/05/re-illustrations-of-sales-reports.html

5. Daily Receipt Summary for a full month is different with the total of stock sales report, why ?

Daily Receipt Summary will not be the same as stock sales report for the following reasons:
1) Stock sales report include all sales of stock (whether it is cashsale or credit sales with terms)
Daily Receipt Summary include all COLLECTIONS.
Since the meaning of collections are different from the meaning of sales, so naturally, there's no reason for sales=collection in real business, unless all (100%) of your sales are cashsales.
2) Even if all your sales are cashsales, but when there's a sales return, the stock sales report will be reduced, but the daily receipt summary is not reduced. Because the Credit Memo from sales return may remain open credit, or customer may have requested for "refund". This "refund" is not captured inside the Daily Receipt Summary because when we pay money back to the customers, we issue payment vouchers. The original receipt is not cancelled because customer may have paid using credit card, which the money really went into the bank account, and when you refund back to the customers, you may be issuing cheque. In order to ensure the bank reconciliations and other places are properly reflecting the real transactions, those software that allow users to simply cancel a transaction will cause many other areas to be completely inaccurate...
3) Many other reasons... too long to explain everything ;-)...

Have a nice day ;-)

Vincent

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Re: An illustrations of the sales reports

2007-05-01T17:55:00.001-07:00

thanks bro

On 30/04/07, Vincent Lee <vincent@wavelet.biz> wrote:

Dear Eric and Mei Mei,

I just wrote the following specially for the 2 of you.
You can use the following for:
1) training the new customers
2) has more things to say when doing Wavelet Demo (so you may need to memorize some bullet points inside).
all these reports are available under MANAGER -> SALES RELATED REPORT.
Thank you very much

Best regards,
Vincent
ps. I have also included the following in the manual... will be made available at http://help.wavelet.biz when i next publish it online.

Sales Reports

There are many reports in the Manager module, all reports here are specially design to help senior management of a company make informed decisions as well as serving as a dash board to have a high level overview of the performance of the business.

1. Daily Sales Report With Cash Flow Analysis

This report shows all sales transactions being done, and the collection associated with the sales (both credit sales and cashsales). Other collections like deposits and collection for previous sales are also included in this report. Users will find this report extremely informative to capture the entire performance of the business for a period of time. With detailed payment modes summarized in different columns, one will be able to know exactly the cash flow in relation to sales.

2. Gross Profit By Invoice Report

Sometimes, certain stocks within an invoice are sold below costs, but overall invoice is profitable. When managers look at the Stock Sales Report, which shows the profitability of each item being sold, it may results in too many false alarm. The Gross Profit by Invoice report solves this problem because it summarize the overall gross profit generated from each invoice, as well as sales return. It also show the sales return beside the invoice this particular invoice was subsequently reversed.

3. Stock Sales Report

Stock Sales Report provides senior management a very detailed transaction listing on all products sold and returned. The exact absolute gross profit and gross profit in percentage are generated for each of the invoice and sales return details.

4. Sales Item, CRV, Finance Charges Report

The cost of sales for each invoice item is not limited to the inventory cost (cost of goods sold). There are several other costs incurred, for example, if Cash Rebate Vouchers were given to customers based on each item, or if the customers pay using Easy Payment Scheme (IPP) where finance charges could be amounting to between 5% to 9%, which is pretty significant. While giving out sales commissions to the salesman, sometimes it makes sense to deduct these direct charges, and only pay out commissions based on gross profit calculated after deducting these finance charges etc.

5. Daily Invoice Summary

This report gives a very high level overview of all the invoices issued, summarized day by day, and also showing if any of these invoices are still outstanding. Management could use this report as a rough gauge of the business trend over a period of time (weeks or even months). A better report that includes Sales Report, and also provide a high level overview would be the Daily Sales Report with Inventory Category Grouping.

6. Official Receipt Listing

Sometimes, management would like to take a view at the details of the collections, all collections, from cashsales to deposit and payment for credit sales are listed here. With separate columns on cash, cheques, post dated cheques, credit cards etc, managers will be able to get a firm grasp of the cash flow for the company. User will be able to drill down to individual Official Receipt, and trace the invoices accordingly through the user friendly interface.

7. Daily Receipt Summary

This report is a condense version of Official Receipt Listing, providing a high level overview of all cash flowing into the company within a range of dates.

8. Periodic Stock Balance and Movement Summary / Periodic Stock Balance and Movement By Category

This computationally intensive report shows the details movement of the stocks, from purchases to purchase return, sales to sales return, trade-in, stock transfer etc. The gross profit and cost of goods sold are also displayed here. It is an excellent report for store managers to have a very complete view of the entire flow of inventory items in the company, profitability of stocks, and giving out stock replenishment instructions optimally.

9. Monitor Outstanding Invoice

Monitoring customer credit is extremely important. This report consolidates outstanding invoices grouped by customer from various branches on a real time basis. All customer accounts that have exceeded credit limits or credit terms will be highlighted. Managers could suspend or black list these accounts to prevent further credit sales to these accounts to better control the credit risk.

10. Detailed Sales Record by Customer

This report allow users to generate the detailed transactions (Sales and Sales Return) for a specific customer. With this report, users will be able to see exactly how much gross profit has been generated from each customer from the transaction history. Useful for Customer Relationship Management.

11. Gross Profit By Salesman By Invoice

This report is useful for salesman commission calculations, as well as performance ranking and appraisal for salesmen within a company.

12. Stock Sales Report By Item Code

This report display the sales, gross profit and also balance quantity for each of the item code. User could also group the reports based on different category levels. Some users find it extremely useful to analyze this report while doing stock replenishment. Sometimes, best selling stock may be low margin stock, and high margin stock may be moving slowly. So, with all these information consolidated in a single report, decision makers will be able to decide what are the stocks to be replenished, what brands are best sellers, what type of products bring in most profit and so on.

13. Transaction Ageing Analysis

This report is similar to Monitor Outstanding Invoice Report, where all outstanding documents are displayed. Instead of showing the exact number of days where a document is outstanding, this report display them into various columns, based on the configurations in the accounting module for various ageing periods.

14. Transaction Ageing Summary By Customer

This report is similar to Monitor Outstanding Invoice Report, but the details of each documents are omitted. Only a list of customers, with their respective ageing summary displayed in different columns according to the accounting module ageing periods configurations. This is an excellent report for credit control.

15. Transaction Ageing Summary By Branch

To effectively manage a chain store, certain customers may buy from multiple branches hence performance of the branch managers in chasing for collections should be monitored accordingly. This report helps senior management to control the people who control the credit risk of the company.

16. Collection With Invoice Ageing Report

Certain companies reward their salesmen according to how fast they manage to collect from their customers. For the same amount of sales, if the salesman collect faster, they get rewarded faster. This report shows all the collections within a period of time, and analyze each of the collection, to compute the corresponding age of the collection based on the invoice dates. As one receipt (settlement) could be done for multiple invoices, and there could also be partial settlements for certain invoices, the report is smart enough to compute the exact ageing amount based on some complex formulas. This report is extremely useful to reward and performance appraisal of the salesman.

17. Sales Report By Invoice With Inventory Category Grouping

This report is extremely useful to get a quick feel of the sales amount, and its breakdown according to various category levels.

18. Daily Sales Report With Inventory Category Grouping

This report is similar to Daily Invoice Summary, or better. Not only it consolidates the sales and sales return, users will also be able to see the summary of net sales for each category level on a daily basis. If one of the categories are used to define departments, this report could essentially transform into a department performance report.

19. Purchase Report By GRN with Inventory Category Grouping

With this report, procurement managers will be able to see the type of products being replenished within the company, at a high level overview.

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An illustrations of the sales reports

2007-04-30T04:06:00.001-07:00

Dear Eric and Mei Mei,

I just wrote the following specially for the 2 of you.
You can use the following for:
1) training the new customers
2) has more things to say when doing Wavelet Demo (so you may need to memorize some bullet points inside).
all these reports are available under MANAGER -> SALES RELATED REPORT.
Thank you very much

Best regards,
Vincent
ps. I have also included the following in the manual... will be made available at http://help.wavelet.biz when i next publish it online.

Sales Reports

There are many reports in the Manager module, all reports here are specially design to help senior management of a company make informed decisions as well as serving as a dash board to have a high level overview of the performance of the business.

1. Daily Sales Report With Cash Flow Analysis

This report shows all sales transactions being done, and the collection associated with the sales (both credit sales and cashsales). Other collections like deposits and collection for previous sales are also included in this report. Users will find this report extremely informative to capture the entire performance of the business for a period of time. With detailed payment modes summarized in different columns, one will be able to know exactly the cash flow in relation to sales.

2. Gross Profit By Invoice Report

Sometimes, certain stocks within an invoice are sold below costs, but overall invoice is profitable. When managers look at the Stock Sales Report, which shows the profitability of each item being sold, it may results in too many false alarm. The Gross Profit by Invoice report solves this problem because it summarize the overall gross profit generated from each invoice, as well as sales return. It also show the sales return beside the invoice this particular invoice was subsequently reversed.

3. Stock Sales Report

Stock Sales Report provides senior management a very detailed transaction listing on all products sold and returned. The exact absolute gross profit and gross profit in percentage are generated for each of the invoice and sales return details.

4. Sales Item, CRV, Finance Charges Report

The cost of sales for each invoice item is not limited to the inventory cost (cost of goods sold). There are several other costs incurred, for example, if Cash Rebate Vouchers were given to customers based on each item, or if the customers pay using Easy Payment Scheme (IPP) where finance charges could be amounting to between 5% to 9%, which is pretty significant. While giving out sales commissions to the salesman, sometimes it makes sense to deduct these direct charges, and only pay out commissions based on gross profit calculated after deducting these finance charges etc.

5. Daily Invoice Summary

This report gives a very high level overview of all the invoices issued, summarized day by day, and also showing if any of these invoices are still outstanding. Management could use this report as a rough gauge of the business trend over a period of time (weeks or even months). A better report that includes Sales Report, and also provide a high level overview would be the Daily Sales Report with Inventory Category Grouping.

6. Official Receipt Listing

Sometimes, management would like to take a view at the details of the collections, all collections, from cashsales to deposit and payment for credit sales are listed here. With separate columns on cash, cheques, post dated cheques, credit cards etc, managers will be able to get a firm grasp of the cash flow for the company. User will be able to drill down to individual Official Receipt, and trace the invoices accordingly through the user friendly interface.

7. Daily Receipt Summary

This report is a condense version of Official Receipt Listing, providing a high level overview of all cash flowing into the company within a range of dates.

8. Periodic Stock Balance and Movement Summary / Periodic Stock Balance and Movement By Category

This computationally intensive report shows the details movement of the stocks, from purchases to purchase return, sales to sales return, trade-in, stock transfer etc. The gross profit and cost of goods sold are also displayed here. It is an excellent report for store managers to have a very complete view of the entire flow of inventory items in the company, profitability of stocks, and giving out stock replenishment instructions optimally.

9. Monitor Outstanding Invoice

Monitoring customer credit is extremely important. This report consolidates outstanding invoices grouped by customer from various branches on a real time basis. All customer accounts that have exceeded credit limits or credit terms will be highlighted. Managers could suspend or black list these accounts to prevent further credit sales to these accounts to better control the credit risk.

10. Detailed Sales Record by Customer

This report allow users to generate the detailed transactions (Sales and Sales Return) for a specific customer. With this report, users will be able to see exactly how much gross profit has been generated from each customer from the transaction history. Useful for Customer Relationship Management.

11. Gross Profit By Salesman By Invoice

This report is useful for salesman commission calculations, as well as performance ranking and appraisal for salesmen within a company.

12. Stock Sales Report By Item Code

This report display the sales, gross profit and also balance quantity for each of the item code. User could also group the reports based on different category levels. Some users find it extremely useful to analyze this report while doing stock replenishment. Sometimes, best selling stock may be low margin stock, and high margin stock may be moving slowly. So, with all these information consolidated in a single report, decision makers will be able to decide what are the stocks to be replenished, what brands are best sellers, what type of products bring in most profit and so on.

13. Transaction Ageing Analysis

This report is similar to Monitor Outstanding Invoice Report, where all outstanding documents are displayed. Instead of showing the exact number of days where a document is outstanding, this report display them into various columns, based on the configurations in the accounting module for various ageing periods.

14. Transaction Ageing Summary By Customer

This report is similar to Monitor Outstanding Invoice Report, but the details of each documents are omitted. Only a list of customers, with their respective ageing summary displayed in different columns according to the accounting module ageing periods configurations. This is an excellent report for credit control.

15. Transaction Ageing Summary By Branch

To effectively manage a chain store, certain customers may buy from multiple branches hence performance of the branch managers in chasing for collections should be monitored accordingly. This report helps senior management to control the people who control the credit risk of the company.

16. Collection With Invoice Ageing Report

Certain companies reward their salesmen according to how fast they manage to collect from their customers. For the same amount of sales, if the salesman collect faster, they get rewarded faster. This report shows all the collections within a period of time, and analyze each of the collection, to compute the corresponding age of the collection based on the invoice dates. As one receipt (settlement) could be done for multiple invoices, and there could also be partial settlements for certain invoices, the report is smart enough to compute the exact ageing amount based on some complex formulas. This report is extremely useful to reward and performance appraisal of the salesman.

17. Sales Report By Invoice With Inventory Category Grouping

This report is extremely useful to get a quick feel of the sales amount, and its breakdown according to various category levels.

18. Daily Sales Report With Inventory Category Grouping

This report is similar to Daily Invoice Summary, or better. Not only it consolidates the sales and sales return, users will also be able to see the summary of net sales for each category level on a daily basis. If one of the categories are used to define departments, this report could essentially transform into a department performance report.

19. Purchase Report By GRN with Inventory Category Grouping

With this report, procurement managers will be able to see the type of products being replenished within the company, at a high level overview.

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Testing Wavelet.biz Email Blog Publishing

2007-04-28T13:50:00.001-07:00

This is a test, please ignore this blog.

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Wavelet Technology Blog

2007-04-28T13:30:00.000-07:00

This is a new blog that will be used to publish Wavelet.biz EMP related thoughts and discussions. You are welcome to give comments and feedback.