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Bangalore, April 5, 2010: Microsoft has announced a slew of new and exciting releases that will help you take your code to the next level in 2010. As one of the longest running independent developer conferences in India, GIDS.NET at the Great Indian Developer Summit 2010 is uniquely positioned to provide a blend of practical, pragmatic and immediately applicable knowledge and a glimpse of the future of technology. At GIDS.NET, 0n 20 April 2010 in Bangalore, expert speakers will address a wide range of topics, including .NET 4.0, Silverlight 3, WCF 4, Visual Studio 2010, REST, Windows Workflow 4, Thread Synchronization, ASP.NET 4.0, SQL Server 2008 R2, LINQ, Unit Testing, CLR & C# 4.0, .NET Patterns, WPF 4, F#, Windows Azure, ADO.NET, Entity Framework, Debugging, T-SQL Tips & Tricks, and more. At GIDS.Web, on 21 April 2010, several more interesting topics such as Silverlight, SL RIA Web services, Microsoft AJAX, ASP.NET Ajax, tips and tricks for building Front-ends for ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC, and so on. At GIDS.Workshops, on 23 April 2010, expert trainers hold intensive and interactive tutorials of 3 hour duration each on Silverlight, Ajax, JSON, Agile development and more. Read on for details on the Microsoft computing technologies addressed at GIDS.

On 20 April, Manuvir Das, who took Windows Azure from its first days as project Red Dog to its commercial launch and now heads MS’ Remote Desktop Virtualization team, will conduct a keynote on cloud computing paradigm and what it means for developers. In the second keynote of the day, Amazon Web Services’ Simone Brunozzi holds forth on the fundamental principles of Cloud Computing, and how they apply to work and business.

Stephen Forte, the Chief Strategy Officer of Telerik, will begin the day explaining how to build data driven, n-tier Rich Internet Applications (RIA) with Silverlight 4.0. In his second talk, he demonstrates how to properly architect and deploy a BI application using a mix of some exciting new tools and some old familiar ones — OLTP, OLAP, ETL, Microsoft Excel’s PowerPivot 2010, data analysis application and data visualization tools are all covered. Stephen’s third talk at GIDS 2010 delves into the various techniques of sharing code between the Silverlight client and its ASP.NET Web server and their pros and cons. Some techniques work better in C#, others in VB while others are simpler with a little extra tooling or code-generation.

In the workshop on 23 April, Stephen, who is also a certified Scrum master, gives attendees a jump start for taking a certified scrum master exam, introducing Scrum, stepping through real world applications of the Scrum methodology, negotiating with the business, estimation and team dynamics, how to use Scrum in small and large organisations and consulting environments, using Scrum with virtual teams and in off-shoring, and the tools we will use for Agile development, including planning poker, unit testing, and much more.

Venkat Subramaniam delves into what the functional style of programming offers and how it can be utilised using the F# language on the .NET CLR.  Mehfuz Hossain build a VS 2010 addin from ground up using the .Net 4.0 Features, Microsoft Extensibility Framework (MEF) and the Visual Studio 2010 Managed Addin Framework (MAF). In his second talk, Mehfuz shows how to access features like taskbar integration, jumplists, libraries, sensor platform to build a Windows 7 application.

Vinod Malhotra explains how Visual Studio 2010 helps testers quickly create complex multi-machine test environments, file rich actionable bugs faster and leverage test impact information to focus on right set of tests, developers replay the code execution to quickly reproduce a bug and find the root cause, and create automated functional tests and automate build-deploy-test automation to catch regressions. Sachin Vinod Rathi explain how VS 2010′s out of the box support for SharePoint templates makes it easy to design, develop and deploy SharePoint Applications, Web Parts from within Visual Studio.

In his session at GIDS.NET Bijoy Singhal shows how to create a service based application in VS 2010 using .NET 4.0 – specifically the advancements in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflows Foundation (WF) targeted at the AppFabric, and covers how to package, deploy and manage the application in IIS/WAS using the new capabilities. Bijoys’s second talk is an in-depther on Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) and how it can be leveraged to quickly build a system based on Workflows to handle the various business rules and processes.

Vinod Jagannathan explains the who, why how and what of SQL Azure and conducts live demo of applications running on the cloud and best practices while Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu explians further about Windows Azure AppFabric.

Vineet Bhatia’s focused session covers what is new in WCF 4.0 and how to configure communications across different protocols and platforms through the use of WCF. Vinod Kumar teaches writing and tuning queries and programming with T-SQL in SQL Server 2005 and 2008. Chaitra Nagaraj explains how to leverage the ASP.NET AJAX Library Beta, jQuery and AJAX Control Toolkit in ASP.NET applications.

Harish Ranganathan demonstrates how to take an existing ASP.NET Application that uses a SQL Server backend and migrate the application to Windows Azure. His second session, on 20 April, focuses on creating a 3 tier application with Data Access Layer using ADO.NET Entity Framework, Middle tier using WCF RIA Services and UI layer using ASP.NET Webforms.

Alok Jain presents an overview of the Windows Phone 7 application platform, developer tools, application frameworks, toolsets to rapidly build impactful applications for Windows Phone 7 series, and support for Silverlight and XNA. Reddy Duggempudi delves deeper explaining the functionality for Silverlight applications that is unique to the Windows Phone application platform, what it takes to build phone apps using Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Expression Blend, and the new input paradigms including multi-touch, software keyboard, accelerometer and microphone.

Janakiram MSV explains how a Java developer can leverage the Windows Azure Hosted Services and Storage Services for deploying and running applications on the cloud platform and utilising the storage using Windows Azure storage SDK. Praveen Srivatsa focuses on architecting and designing Java applications to leverage the cloud metaphor and the benefits of cloud hosted services and, perhaps more importantly, where it does not benefit.

Pandurang Nayak shows how to use Silverlight Web Services to build rich Internet apps. He conducts another session on using jQuery and Microsoft AJAX to build rich user experience for ASP.NET Webforms and ASP.NET MVC based web applications. Nahas Mohammed holds a demo-intensive session on how to consolidate hosting infrastructure by providing a single environment to host ASP.Net and PHP applications side-by-side in IIS.

If you are a developer, programmer, software engineer and/or architect who creates applications, write code, or develops websites leveraging the Microsoft .NET Framework, Visual Studio, SQL Server, jQuery, Visual Studio Team System, ADO.NET, Silverlight, WCF, WPF, RESTful Services, and more, Great Indian Developer Summit is one event you don’t want to miss. Attend Great Indian Developer Summit to gain the information, education and solutions you seek. From post-conference workshops, breakout sessions by expert instructors, keynotes by industry heavyweights, enhanced networking opportunities, and more. for more information, visit: http://www.developersummit.com.

About Great Indian Developer Summit

Great Indian Developer Summit is the gold standard for India’s software developer ecosystem for gaining exposure to and evaluating new projects, tools, services, platforms, languages, software and standards. Packed with premium knowledge, action plans and advise from been-there-done-it veterans, creators, and visionaries, the 2010 edition of Great Indian Developer Summit features focused sessions, case studies, workshops and power panels that will transform you into a force to reckon with. Featuring 3 co-located conferences: GIDS.NET, GIDS.Web, GIDS.Java and an exclusive day of in-depth tutorials – GIDS.Workshops, from 20 April to 24 April at the IISc campus in Bangalore.

At GIDS you’ll participate in hundreds of sessions encompassing the full range of Microsoft computing, Java, Agile, RIA, Rich Web, open source/standards, languages, frameworks and platforms, practical tutorials that deep dive into technical skill and best practices, inspirational keynote presentations, an Expo Hall featuring dozens of the latest projects and products activities, engaging networking events, and the interact with the best and brightest of speakers from around the world.

For further information on GIDS 2010, please visit the summit on the web http://www.developersummit.com/

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In the world of wonderful business growth, Indian business channels are facing so many problems. A business house can face problems

regarding manufacturing, supply, finance, customer relationship, human resources or decision-making. On the other hand, these

companies are formulating new solutions to various business problems. ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is a key to many business

problems.

Two noteworthy elements of ERP system are

·    Common database and

·    Modular software design

The implementation of ERP can change the way the business is viewed. An efficient ERP platform would enable anyone to get overall

picture of business by just clicking one button without having to go through complex exercise of collecting and analyzing data from various

sub systems and then making it compatible for study.

Sometimes going for a new ERP can be a wise decision as a new ERP can boost up scale of business growth by reducing costs in effective

way. You have so many ERP software options in the market, one have to be very choosy regarding the acceptable ERP. A business house

should make a proper strategy before going for any appropriate ERP. A business house must be able to pin point problem generating

modules as well as strength points.

The second step after analyzing weak points and strength point is evaluation of the technically best-fit ERP. This can be done with the help of

the market review. The evaluation study includes cost and risks study analysis. Correct cost estimation embraces implementation charges,

hardware up gradation, and maintenance. After the cost estimation, develop a realistic and the best-suited CRM is implemented.

Implementation can be done partially or it can be a total transform of the old system to the new CRM.

A university in the Southwestern U.S. is one of best learning institutions that have taken advantage of ERP offerings from IBM by putting ERP

in practice.

The university wanted to replace their old administrative operations system, and add a Web-based interface. Their new ERP system would

have to have the capacity to handle student administration, expansion, funding and payroll, all as quickly and efficiently as possible and they

selected PeopleSoft for Higher Education software to run on IBM servers, IBM Global Services was brought in to implement software

modules and incorporate them with their existing software. As a result, the new system removes the difficulties of the older system and

increase efficiency and performance.

There is one more example of such implementation is Icreon, an Offshore Outsourcing Software Development Company in India offers two

ERP solutions to organizations across domains: Microsoft Dynamics NAV – a business management solution that integrates all facets of a

business – Planning, Finance, Materials, Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing, Human Resources etc. and SAP Business One Solutions – an

integrated and affordable business management solution that is specifically designed for small and midsize businesses.

In the crux, I can sum up my article by giving these following tips that should be taken care, while choosing a suitable ERP solution for your

organization: 

1.    First , know what you really need in ERP software.

2.    Choose the most qualified ERP software vendor.

3.    Recognize the uniqueness of your business.

4.    Give attention to ERP software implementation.

5.    Invest in ERP software for the long-term

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Every beginner who is quite new to internet and who starts surfing the internet for him/her its very confusing to select the right web host provider for his/her host. Due to inexperience most of the beginners selects free web hosting or cheap web hosting which makes them realize their mistake afterwards .All the efforts of these beginners gets useless due to their small mistake of selection and this mistake makes them feel so demotivated that they even don’t think of starting again. It is nothing new that everyone wants to get anything for free but here in this case “cheap” becomes “more expensive”.

The following are the reasons which make the above statement true:

1.The biggest drawback with fee web hosting is that they never offer any sort of guarantee and so there are chances that it can be removed the very next day or in near future. Not only has that it also led to permanently removal of one’s site from the search engines. In this new era of I.T there are billions of sites coming up every day and their popularity lies in the fact that how old is their existence and what is their place in the search engines. Now in case one deletes his/her site from the server its very hard to get it back as that space is immediately procured by any one else.

2. Another drawback is free web hosting or free sites are usually supported by advertisements and other stuffs. In case one has created a free site in sub domain and also finds good free hosting. In order to boost business one also have perform some offline and online promotions to one’s customer’s friends and other people who are known to him/her. Now here one is getting in trap of hosts by promoting his/her ads and other stuffs… Not only that the persons who might have book marked one’s site will not find it again once it is removed by the host. Thus overall loss will be of the user.

3. There is a big difference between a top level domain and a free sub domain. Domains are quite different and represent one’s status .In that case no other competitor can steal one’s name and clients can easily memories the name as well. However in case of free domain, any one can have any amount of free sub-domains, in that case the fate of the user will be worst if his/her competitor has started using the same name.

4. In case a very good client finds the user on the web and is very interested in his/her products and services. Now before hiring one’s services he would definitely like to know more about the user or rather he will perform research as he should contact the user or not first. If the user is having a free hosting site the first impression that will imprint on the mind of the client is that the user is not at all a serious fellow and would rather ran away. Thus it’s better to have personalized top level domain and consistent hosting services.

5. In case user finds a cheap web hosting company, he/she should think twice before finalizing the deal. If the company is offering cheap service, one should look at all the possible reasons, why it is so cheap. In most of the cases the outcome of research would be poor support or service or let say no support at all .As support or services both involves some cost which the providers save by not employing any support personnel. Thus one should act very wisely while taking the decision.

6. Another mistake which usually the new comers do is that they don’t keep any backups of their work rather they rely on hosting providers for this. Now in that case worst can happen if the host’s server went down or due to any reason free host might have removed the site, now the user is only left with an option to just start from the beginning which is really very painful.

7. With beginners another problem is they are not sure for their requirement. It’s understandable that no one can predict his/her exact requirement for future but if one’s requirements are clear, it’s quite easy for one to choose the host as per requirement. One should always consider if there is any possibility of shifting from static site to a dynamic one or he/she may require using certain scripts. Thus if needs are properly ascertained at present they will help a lot in future.

Against all the above disadvantages there are some advantages as well which are as below-:

1. Its not necessary that all free hosts are bad or decisive, there are some who may be an excellent host which is up-coming and can provide wonderful services as well. There are some providers who are offering free hosting just to promote their services and to add more customers in their list.

2. In some cases even cheap and affordable web hosting may turn fruitful, if one has taken all precautions in advance while select the host. Thus even proper homework can turn a free or cheap host into a best host. One should always select the host having better server, updated software’s and who offers quality support in reality.

3. Also it is not all sure guaranteed that all the free websites are going to be removed without notice or which are going to bring a bad fame for one’s company . There are several good and reputable companies like Google’s Blogger or Yahoo’s Geocities which helps one to increase his/her link popularity if used in a proper way.

Thus the above were some of the points in favor of the cheap web hosting .At the end we can say that while choosing a host one should keep in mind that the host is the one who is going to protect or harm one’s site and so he/she should take utmost care while selecting the right one .A good web host is like an honest employees who works dedicatedly for 24 hours a day and 365 days a year for keeping one’s business running successfully all time.

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PCI audit has affected millions of businesses around the world. E-commerce is gaining popularity and the use of Credit/Debit cards is increasing because of the conveniences they offer to the buyers and sellers. Payment Card Industry (PCI) is a worldwide information security standard established by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC). The standard comprises of 12 guidelines that are created to help organizations prevent credit card fraud through strict controls on data and its exposure. It is important to adhere to these standards and network security provider should help you maintain it.

Your network security provider should be able to address at least 5 of the critical PCI compliance requirements. They should also support periodic PCI audit and PCI scans by generating reports and information to validate compliance to corporate policies and identify noncompliance issues prior to an audit.

According to the PCI SSC regulations, it is important to protect cardholders’ data. You should Build and Maintain a Secure Network. For this you need to install and maintain a firewall that ensures the safety of cardholder’s data. Avoid using third party de-faults for system passwords and security parameters.

Maintain an effective Vulnerability Management Program and regularly update antivirus software regularly. Develop and maintain secure systems and applications and implement strong access control measures. Assign unique id to each person who access the system. There should be no means to physical access of data.

Regularly monitoring and testing of networks is also important. Track and monitor all access to network resources and cardholder data and regularly test security systems and processes.

You need an expert’s help in complying with these requirements to keep your database and the functional system secured. Iviz Security, a premium IT solutions provider, can help you comply with the PCI audit and PCI scan requirements while providing quality network security services.

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