SAAS And Hosting

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This blog covers the essentials of SAAS and it’s need for hosting. Software as a service covers a vast span of software management. SAAS gives you a platform that turns great concepts into software as a service. SAAS hosting delivers the infrastructure and piece of mind that your applications and customers deserve. When it comes to software as a service websites and applications the main keys are the hosting architecture and the support behind it. They play an important role in how your applications perform online. Performance alone can differentiate your app from the existing apps , because your customer online experience determine greatly your product’s success. Whether you are a seasoned SAAS provider or an independent software vendor (ISV) making an important move towards the internet distribution model, down time, latency and non responsive technical support are non- negotiable. They are SAAS killers.

Because some of our largest customers started as small SAAS ventures, we have focused on understanding the architecture and support needs of the industry we work for. Focusing on finding smarter, more reliable and faster method for delivering apps.

But when talking about SAAS hosting by PSGINC, we provide, supply and setup the hardware. You load and configure your speciality, your application. A typical hosted SAAS solution consists of dedicated or virtual servers running your custom application which users access via the web.

Some SAAS solutions are websites and some of them are desktop applications. 240

The features and benefits include:

Our fast fibre network: our fully owned 6 data centres, which are fully equipped and 19 points of presence are connected by our 10 gbps network which is monitored relentlessly by experts in out network operations centre. It’s not only smart but it’s fast as well. The most important thing it do is proactively re routing traffic to avoid the latencies, slow loading of pages required and most importantly down time that will eventually plague your competitors application.

Smooth performance scaling: the most important factors are the ability to scale a SAAS environment, which is a key requirement for any SAAS provider. And therefore affecting it’s hosting partner. Our hosting offers a full suite of performance services to make scaling easy and as painless plus unobtrusive as possible form any CAST DNS to global load balancing.

Flexible storage options: with the success of SAAS comes growth, which calls for more complex storage strategies and solutions. We offer various on site, off site and even mixed options. So that you just have to determine your recovery point, recovery time and criticality of your existing data storage and strategy solutions.

Data centre SAAS hosting benefits:

The benefits of hosting SAAS at your data centres has been discussed in this blog, now we will gave a quick review on them.

1. Low start-up costs since we provide the hardware

2. 100 % uptime for Internet connectivity via multiple blended Internet providers

3. Expandable bandwidth, which can be increased as needed.

4. Backup UPS clusters with backup generators for 100 % power guarantee

5. Root access via RDP for windows along with KVM over IP for dedicated environments.

6. On site staff which is available 24-7 , unlike most offices . Someone is always available to touch the server.

NEW FEATURES IN PRIMAVERA P6 PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT VERSION 15.1

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Primavera p6 has always promised its customers to deliver the best. Solutions that is tangible to the problem as well delivering the value to your business. Primavera P6 has introduced latest features for its customers. The version is 15.1. This version enhances the skills to bring out the best from your project.

The important features in the content are:

  1. Usability
  2. Import and export  baselines of projects  in XML format
  3. Enterprise features when connected to an EPPM database
  4. Separate module excess for P6 professional and visualizer
  5. UN/ CEFACT improvements
  6. Unifier integration
  7. Visualizer
  8. Import and export visualizer layouts

New usability feature include:

1.              Import and export baselines of projects in XML format

2.              Enterprise features when connected to an EPPM database

3.              Separate module excess for P6 professional and visualizer

Import and export baseline of project in XML format:

The ability to include baselines when importing or exporting a project in primavera XML format has been added to the new version 1.1. Previously you needed to restore a baseline to a project in order to import or export it. In P6 professional 15.1 baseline information is included in the XML file.

A new field, exists, is included in the baselines to import dialogue box. The purpose is to notify you if an imported baseline already exists in the project being updated.

To access this feature:

On the file menu, click import or export.

Enterprise features when connected to an EPPM database:

Several features have been re enabled in P6 professional version 15.1 when connected to an EPPM database. In previous versions, these features were disabled with the expectation that they would be administered in the p6 application.

The following features have been re enabled in P6 professional when connected to an EPPM database

  • EPS
  • OBS
  • PROJECT CODES
  • ACTIVITY STEP TEMPLATES
  • COST ACCOUNTS
  • FUNDING RESOURCES

These features continue to be available for P6 professional instances that are connected to professional databases or installed in standalone mode.

Separate module access for P6 professional and visualizer:

A new module, visualizer, has been added to the module access section of the user access page in this new version 15.1. The difference is that in previous versions, access to visualizer was included with the P6 professional module access. This new features enables project managers to allow separate access to both the applications. This is useful if for example , a user tasked with creating Gantt chart or time scaled logic diagram reports in visualizer might not require        access to P6 professional. Conversely some users may be given p6 professional access but not the privilege to work in visualizer.

To access this feature:

Open p6 professional or visualizer. Access will vary depending upon the module privileges granted in p6 web.

UN/CEFACT IMPROVEMENTS:

This new version of p6 provides additional support for UN/CEFACT XML format 6, which defines and contains integrated master schedule (IMS) data. The existing UN/CEFACT XML support has been enhanced to support all the fields in the D09b version of the XML schema.

MOBILE APPLICATIONS BY PSGINC

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Organizations worldwide always want to reach their customers and employs on time. It is the need of the hour that the stakeholders and the people working on the project should be in contact if they want to get the best of the results. Smart phones help organizations help interact with the customers instantly. which not only help build an friendly environment  but give the ease of interaction between the two parties . Custom mobile applications boost the functions and performances of the smart phones. In today’s era of rapidly changing technological needs one must opt the technology best for its business success. Prescient solutions group inc provide customer centric mobile applications that are developed under the expertise of the employees at PSGCINC.

The mobile applications are for all or various platforms. our applications are widely used in GPS , social networking , group sites , aggregator , mapping , gaming applications , payment gateway and project collaboration, etc.

PSGINC team has sound experience and expertise in developing highly interactive mobile applications. These interactive applications are developed by skilled developers using the latest operation systems which are highly user friendly.

The other important factor of these operating systems is that they are functional. that means their functionality allow the developer to build the best application required . We create value added mobile applications as per the need of the time and the customer .

Providing mobile application softwares for the following platforms :

  1. iphone/ipad
  2. android
  3. windows
  4. blackberry
  5. cross platforms.

We also give services for developing applications like business applications for asset tracking, air ticket booking , GPRS road map, vendor applications, 3D game applications , social applications etc. our experienced and dedicated team will surely meet your needs with fast turn around time in a cost effective manner. psginc mobile application developers are well versed in all kinds of technologies , latest and ever changing, they know how to deal with the constantly changing needs of the technology market.

By making your web applications accessible on different leading platforms, you can attract and retain more customers thus increasing and maximizing your profit. we are field expert in developing the cross platform mobile applications that will suit to different platforms . usage of cross platforms reduces the technical barriers with less time to develop the application.

We provide application development across all the industry verticals . we take extreme care to design the applications with best user interface that allows the user to access the content intuitively . you will find our application development highly inventive and creative with best logics and design.

Our games can make you addictive whether they are 3D or not. You would love it whether you are a game freak or not. and people would surely title you with ” nigga be a game freak”. Our mobile application development will be worth while for your investment providing the maximum ROI. Maximum profit can be gained.

There is no limit in the range or variety of applications that we can provide. Our developers will employee unique features and capabilities . You will find prescient solutions group experienced team employs organized processes as well as proven methodologies .

Have Problem Listing Open End Activities In Primavera P6

If you want to list up open-end activities in Primavera P6 and you can’t find any option in p6. A simple way is exporting activity relation detail to excel and separate predecessor with only SS successor. But that is a too lengthy process because at times you don’t know what formulas to apply in excel for fast working.  In excel one predecessor can have more than one successor. So you have to select predecessors with fully SS relation successors only.  Download are free to use schedule viewer from www.xerviewer.co.uk . We have a project health check section which provides various checks including ‘ACTIVITIES WITHOUT SUCCESSORS’

There is a checkbox under this section where you can include or exclude activities with SS successors only. You can then export the activities to excel.  Hope this would be of great help for you on your project. You can still contact our experts if you face any ambiguity on provided email addresses globally or contact to the vendor who provided you with the software.

Here are some problems that you might face and we are giving solution to it in advance so that our blogs could be of great help for you. If you use the above mentioned schedule viewer which is, www.xerviewer.co.uk and if it proves to be good there might a problem arise that it shows activities without predecessors or successors. It might not show open end activities. Only showing milestone activities with no successors and predecessors, this might create a lot of confusion or ambiguity. The problem can be, your, not tagging the checkbox. Consider, start to logic as missing.

Done. The other problem can be how to export that list to excel. When you try to export the whole project is exporting. Well that is a big issue but you need not to worry. When all the project activities are exporting including those without successors but you just want to export the list, not the Gantt then what you need to do is after clicking export and the options box comes up, you ought to select ‘expand to level 1’ and deselect the ‘ draw Gantt option’.

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Another problem that can rise is, what can be the formula or any other method for extracting SS relation activities in excel. The solution is using the formula count if (). You could sum up the total number of successors for each activity ID and the subtract the number of SS successors.

Another problem can be with the registration code being invalid there can be multiple reasons of it but one that have been commonly witnessed is moving or copying the existing file if you have copied or moved the file, the new file would need it’s own registration key. For the key that has been generated to you, you must use it for the existing file and not for any have new, moved or copied file.

Tips and Tricks to Accurate Project Estimation

If you’ve been a project manager for a considerable amount of time, you understand of which project estimating could be a stool blast. The longer term is usually murky in fact it is up to us to attempt to predict that. Quite often, project administrators/managers end up remote using their rates as a result of volume of variables, most of that happen to be completely unforeseen along with appear in the center of the project. Various other situations, estimations are away from due to the untouched subjectivity of the undertaking administrator. Let’s have a look at several ways to strengthen our own project estimating.

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Tips & Tricks:

  • Many times, project supervisors/managers feel pressured to generate their forecasts go with the constraints on the project’s budget. When a project manager are able to keep his quotes/estimates low, it appears to be good in order to fellow mangers as well as executives from the organization. Yet such a estimate just serves a motive while it truly is on report. It doesn’t even have a real life application. As soon as an overage arises, the load is within the project manager to explain why these kinds of low figures were projected. Project managers have to be willing to change the range if the idea conflicts with the entire budget. It is up to them in order to request in which their team work from the budget’s demands to finish the same job.
  • In case your team is not acutely conscious of common risks, it will likely be difficult for you to accurately estimate the price and time period of some sort of project. In the typical venture estimating time period, a staff will zoom with the assessment, arrived at the consensus that the project is usually risky and automatically put extra hours towards forecast. This isn’t the proper way to estimate. After you plan, you must apply the particular mitigation plans plus the registered possibility while with the time that it will take to do them. By way of example, if you believe that you could save time later on in life with some sort of technological solution which will save hundred hours, be sure to account for the 30 or so hours that it will take to develop and implement the perfect solution to begin with.
  • When you’re forecasting the project, you should include the contingency. This is something that is included at the outset of the project while using the expectation that it will be spent. So tend not to exclude it simply to make that appear that this project will not be costly. Besides the monetary concurrent, you should likewise include estimations for your resources and also the hours that it should take to complete each of the work that this contingency provides. Remember, if you do not need the particular contingency, the project are going to be done before expected plus your business will still hold the funds for upcoming use.
  • This often helps you to hire exterior professionals to deliver critical advice about certain facets of the task. Sometimes you only don’t possess the personnel in-house which is necessary to shoulder force in a timely manner. Certain kinds of work demand highly particular skill units and understanding bases so please outsource the job to people who can practice it quickly and in a comprehensive fashion, like the experts at IMS.
  • Be sure you double check for ancillary activities which are often forgotten. Things including client comments, fixing bugs and meetings tend to be missed when project mangers make an effort to consider the many tasks, extent and deliverable. Actually, ancillary activities like those already stated occur quite frequently throughout some sort of project and they can produce an extremely negative influence on your appraisal efforts. While clear estimates will likely result in higher prices, you’ll save yourself plenty associated with drama, effort and time down the trail by determined for reliability. This approach, you’ll have the capacity to alter the actual scope or perhaps expectations first of the actual project as opposed to dealing with them smack dab down the middle of a challenge.

Important Takeaways:-

  • Estimating isn’t exciting work nevertheless it must be exercised and it’s necessary to get as accurate as you can.
  • Accurate estimating is vital to the two project’s success plus your organization’s achievement so will not manipulate numbers so that they can generate minimal anticipated costs.
  • A number of different factors need to be considered while estimating. Don’t ignore certain factors simply to present any low-cost project to your peers.

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