This paper is designed to give human resource professionals a blueprint to follow for any type of human resource software selection, from stand alone applicant tracking systems to fully integrated HRIS and Payroll solutions. Software selection is invariably a more complex process than we originally estimate and one with long term consequences for an organization. It requires a careful and thoughtful approach to fully address the issues and impacts related to your decisions. Some steps may be combined or performed concurrently, but the authors strongly believe that human resource professionals will optimize their selections by following the process as presented Step 1: Teamwork Step 2: Goals Step 3: Big Picture Step 4: Future Needs Step 5: Technical Environment Step 6: Budget Step 7: Specs Step 8: Build vs. Buy Step 9: Research Step 10: Literature Step 11: RFP Step 12: Evaluate Step 13: Demos Step 14: Evaluate Again Step 15: Decision Points Step 16: Check References Step 17: Demo Again Step 18: Evaluate Again and Select.

The topic of the article is the top five technology trend in event measurement. First, it is easier to go green. According to the article, the using of smart phones and web-enable devices benefit the events planning a lot. You're "going green" by minimizing paper, you eliminate hours of manual tasks (distributing and collecting surveys, manually tabulating results) and associated labor costs, and you can view results in minutes rather than weeks. The article also used a example of Game Crazy to explain it. The Game Crazy used electronic surveys to find out if their sales associates were being motivated and acquiring new learning during their annual sales meeting. The second trend is social media. Social media for events, when applied strategically, deliver great value. For instance, the Facebook, Twitter, other platforms can help you start and maintain a pre-event conversation with potential attendees to determine what topics will be of greatest interest and relevance. There are as many creative, successful uses of social media in the event industry as there are pointless and unproductive ones. Then, the trend is a single consistent lead management solution. It means that to drive ROI, exhibitors need a complete lead management solution that includes lead qualification and prioritization to determine which leads have a higher probability of converting to sales. By extending the lead management solution across all events, the event manager can identify trends; provide benchmarking stats and help exhibitors establish objectives prior to the event. In addition, the event to event metrics became another trend. The trend is used by combining data generated by all these solutions into an executive dashboard that clearly demonstrates results versus established objectives and compares results from one event to another, you are able to monitor your team's performance and make necessary changes to improve overall event results. In order to explain this trend bett

This article mainly talked about the e-marketing system called exa's e-marketing system. First of all, the article explained what the e-marketing is. It said the E-Marketing can provide businesses and advertisers with an easily customized, efficient form of marketing to complement existing advertising strategies and close in on the elusive and profitable interactive market. Then, it use the email as a example. Email campaigns supply proven, measurable results and can take your current marketing campaign to the next level. After the basic understanding of the e-marketing, the article tries to tell you why we should use the e-marketing system. According to the research, Email has been actively integrated into the daily lives of the everyday consumer. Approximately 1.4 billion email accounts were active as of 2009 with that number predicted to rise to 1.9 billion by 2013. In addition, the article tells some benefits of the e-marketing. First, Speed: messages are delivered straight to the recipients' inboxes, instantly. Then, Reach and Penetration: overcomes geographical parameters that exist with other communication methods third, Ease and Efficiency: messages can be distributed to multiple recipients at the click of the mouse. Fourthly, Low Cost: requires minimal investment to set up an appropriate technical system. At last, Targeted: allows you to target specific recipient groups and reach a defined, engaged audience.

The article mainly talks about how to use your credit card safely when you do shopping or other consumption. At first, only tell it to those who really need to know and don't say it or lay it where others can find it out. Before entering your credit card number into any website or giving it to anyone over the phone, make sure you know exactly who you're dealing with and that their reasons for needing your credit card number are legitimate. Then, lock it up. Only carry the credit cards that you absolutely need and keep your other credit cards locked up in a personal safe. Three, each month when your credit card statement comes in, don't automatically assume everything on it is accurate. Read every line item on your credit card statement and make sure each and every charge is legitimate. Fourth, be careful with your email. It means that If you have a street-side mailbox, don't leave your credit card payments in there for the postal carrier to pick up and make sure you pick up your mail each and every day. At last, gets credit card monitoring service. If you can follow the tips above, you will use your card safely.

This article wants to show how to develop the technology investment strategy. At first, you should look at your business strategy over the next two to three years and determine in which areas you plan to grow, change, or improve. Then, after settling down your strategy, you should appoint a member of your organization to track IT trends and advancements in the marketplace. Thirdly, Sit down with this person and list the key technology areas they should be monitoring based on your business needs. This list of technologies and opportunities is a way for you to narrow down your technology requirements and come up with a well-thought-out investment plan. Besides, talk to a trusted IT advisor and run a cost/benefit analysis after you have some technology projects in your mind. What's more create a short list of IT investments that you can not only afford, but will also help you achieve your stated business goals. The project that offers the greatest benefit may also be the one that requires the most time, money, and staff. Investing in one large project may mean you don't have the resources to invest in others, so you will want to do a risk analysis of any significant project you consider undertaking. Finally, continue to update your IT investment plan and monitor new technology developments.

The article mainly talks about the impacts of information technology on the accounting part. It said Not only has IT shortened the lead time required to present financial information, but it also has improved the overall efficiency and accuracy of the information. The article emphasize the most important part is computerized accounting system. The biggest impact IT has made on accounting is the ability of companies to develop and use computerized systems to track and record financial transactions. Paper ledgers, manual spreadsheets and hand-written financial statements have all been translated into computer systems that can quickly present individual transactions into financial reports.Most of the popular accounting systems can also be tailored to specific industries or companies. This allows companies to create individual reports quickly and easily for management decision making. Additionally, changes can be made relatively easy to reflect any economic changes in business operations. First, computerized accounting systems have also improved the functionality of accounting departments by increasing the timeliness of accounting information. Then, it can improve accuracy by limiting the number of accountants that have access to financial information. Besides, computerized accounting systems allow accountants to process large amounts of financial information and process it quickly through the accounting system. At last, Reports issued to outside investors and stakeholders have been improved by computerized accounting systems.

This article tries to introduce the point of sale system. It recommends that it's time that your business did away with its cash registers and stepped up to a point-of-sale (POS) system. And the author lists seven reasons to convert businessman set up this system. First of all, your "sudden shrink" no longer goes undetected. It means that the system which has a receiving and inventory module that, when used properly, it can help you to pinpoint the cause of the shrink. Second, Markdown management is much easier. Compare with wrestling cash-register receipts at day's end, a POS automates the process of introducing markdowns and, in turn, tracking them accurately. Thirdly, Promotions can be tracked more successfully. Promotion is necessary for a business. However, the problem is recording shorter specials. Here, the POS system can help you. Then, you can maintain control in absentia. . Many operations suffer in employee efficiency and customer service when the boss is away. Automating a host of functions via a POS can help boost those areas, no matter where the head honcho happens to be. Besides, Your prices are consistent from one location to the next. If your business operates at more than one location, a point-of-sale system ensures pricing consistency. What's more, a POS system can help to keep stocks in proper balance depending on demand and other factors, which can vary from one location to the next. Sixes, you get many tools in a single package. At last, you can make better use of your personnel. The author thinks the greatest advantage to a comprehensive point-of-sale network is that it can afford your personnel to devote their energy to customers. In a word, the author gives us seven advantages of POS and recommends strongly applying it on business.

The article mainly introduced software called Propertyware. Propertyware is an on-demand software solution that serves the tracking and management needs of residential property managers with between 20 and 5,000 units. The key funcation of this software is to help the owners to do some accounting, screening. Additional helpful tools in the system include visual data-driven dashboards, summaries of portfolios and lease statuses, management summaries, and electronic owner statements. This kind of software can be applied in residential properties, condos, homeowners associations (HOAs), and multi-family units. Propertyware is based in San Francisco, California, and has served over 2,000 different businesses and organizations in 7 countries. This kind of software can be developed and implanted quickly with little money.

The article mainly talked about that the Intel, HP created a energy-efficient supercomputer by using Xeon phi chip. This supercomputer would be announced in September and used by the department of energy's national renewable energy laboratory. They would do research on it for solving energy-related issues. The installation would start in November. According to researcher, the heart of NREL is based on a powerful combination of the Intel Xeon processor E5 product family, which leads the data center industry in performance per watt, and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors which are setting new records for energy efficiency. Then, the article pointed that the key part of Intel's high performance computing effects are Xeon Phi chips. Xeon Phi is the brand that Intel has wrapped around its Many Integrated Core (MIC) technology, which has been in development for more than two years. Now, they are very popular in such areas as in HPC. This new system will allow NREL to increase our computational capabilities while being mindful of energy and water used. At last, the article also showed another new technology-cooling. System vendors have been using water and other coolants for several years to help remove heat from data center facilities. Water cooling tends to be more efficient than air.

This article talked about the GDS and ADS. It said there are four major GDS channels: Sabre, Amadeus, Worldspan, Galileo. Besides, there are also small channels like Abacus and Patheo. Then, the article introduced that Included with GDS connectivity are hundreds of Alternative Distribution System channels that are effectively "hybrid distribution" mechanisms in that they provide web-based visibility to 3rd party merchants while "pulling inventory" from the GDS. Then, according to the article, the GDS is vital to the success of any hotel and resort given that 17-21% of worldwide bookings are made by travel agents through this channel. It said that about 80,000 travel agents globally use the GDS So we can say the GDS's is very useful for travel agency business. It has very long history since Hotel and resort "book-ability" has been an element of the GDS since the 80's (see the HPG history timeline) and given the vast selection provided to agents. In the end, the article promoted a new system called HPG.

This article introduces the telecommunication equipments. There are many types of telecommunication equipments, such as the telephones, computers and radios. All of these equipments transmit the signals by internet. Then, the article mainly talks about the switches and routers. They help to transmit process, amplify, and direct packets of information to their destinations. This type of equipment has a greater capacity and clearer signals. Newer packet switching telecommunications equipment technology has also increased the transmission capacity of each line. Another one is cable television industry. Cable technology is rapidly becoming more like telecommunications networks. Cable television is becoming an interactive medium, allowing customers to request information and receive real-time responses, much like the Internet or automated telephone systems. Private branch exchange (PBX) switchboards are a type of telecommunications equipment used by businesses to relay incoming, outgoing, and interoffice telephone calls at one location or organization. In the end, the article point that the advances in telecommunications technology means it may be difficult to find a telecommunications job for those providing operator services. In the future, the telecommunications equipment installers and repairers will be in greater demand.

Recently, hoteliers all around the region will rely on Agilysys software systems to ensure smooth delivery of services. These agilysys solutions will increase the satisfaction of guests from all around the world to check in and check out more efficiently and decrease the working time. Plus, the service providers are very proud of this way to helo venues there deliver superior service. And this system really do help managers for both high demand and peak demand and meet the high satisfaction standards for customers all around the world.

Recently, hoteliers all around the region will rely on Agilysys software systems to ensure smooth delivery of services. These agilysys solutions will increase the satisfaction of guests from all around the world to check in and check out more efficiently and decrease the working time. Plus, the service providers are very proud of this way to helo venues there deliver superior service. And this system really do help managers for both high demand and peak demand and meet the high satisfaction standards for customers all around the world.