December 29, 2015 / como / 0 Comments
Are you a business owner using Magento e-commerce storefront for your online business and SAP Business One as your back office business solution or are you using SAP Business One to streamline your business process and planning to implement an integrated e-commerce storefront?
Do you ever deals with tons of web transactional data that are difficult to track by your back office staffs?
As a key decision maker of your small or midsize business, you always concentrate on growth. But rather you will find yourself dealing with silos of information, flood of customer, order, item, and inventory details that you have to manage. Manage your online business with your back office is the biggest hurdle which is tough and time consuming.
Well, the hurdle is over.
With the advent of SBOeConnect 2.0 all existing integration obstacles are over. With SBOeConnect 2.0 you can effortlessly connect your Magento e-commerce storefront with SAP Business One ERP Business Solution.
The real time integration process, SOA architecture and SOAP Data Exchange Format allows your back office employees a quick access to data, alerts and reports and e-commerce customers to get the most up-to-date information in the web. New adoption of SOA architecture and SOAP Data Exchange format will prevent all kind of data loss issues.
On the other hand using Magento web services API for data transfer will provide real time and smoother data integration between these two platforms.
Whats new in SBOeConnect 2.0?
1.Functional Enhancement which includes support for multiple websites and web stores from within SAP Business One. Simple, configurable, bundled and grouped products can be downloaded from Magento to SAP Business One. Also SAP Business One items can be promoted to Magento for online shopping.
2. Performance Enhancement which includes introduction of Magento web services API for integration in real time. Also many of the previous incomplete functionalities have been resolved like
Automatic creation of a new state if state is not defined in SAP Business One.
Any updates of product information in Magento will automatically reflect in SAP B1.
Download products from Magento to SAP Business One.
3.Adopting Service Oriented Architecture and using SOAP as data exchange format provides a smooth and safe data synchronization and eliminates the chance of any data loss.
4.The entire look & feel of the product has been revamped. This new look will provide the maximum usability to its users and provides an intuitive user experience.
Lets have a look at the main integration points:
1. Customer: – Web customer registration information, billing & shipping addresses will be entered into SAP Business One Business Partner Master Data. Any web updates will be instantly reflected in to SAP Business One.
Similarly new and existing business partners of SAP Business One can selectively be uploaded to the Magento web store and treated like a normal e-commerce customer.
2. Order: – Web orders placed by registered or guest customer will be transformed into SAP Business One Sales Orders. Payment Information, tax code and amount, shipping method and charges, billing & shipping addresses selected or entered in Magento web store, all are available in the newly created SAP Business One Sales Order.
New and existing Open Sales Orders in SAP Business One can be uploaded to Magento web store. When customers log in to their account in the store front, they can view and track the orders.
Complete the sales cycle by generating delivery and A/R Invoice in SAP Business One which will update Magento web order status.
Customer can track the shipment through the tracking id in Store front which is entered by the back office staff
3. Item & Inventory: – Upload SAP Business One items as simple, configurable, bundled and grouped products to multiple web stores and web sites of Magento selectively as per your choice. Attach multiple images, set the display category, set attributes against an item from within SAP Business One. Any update in Item details will be instantly reflected in e-commerce portal, so web customer always gets most updated product information.
On the other hand existing Simple, Configurable, Bundled and Grouped Products of Magento can be downloaded to SAP Business One with associated quantities all at once in a single click.
SBOeConnect provides you a better integration of stock quantity. Stock Quantity updates through web orders in Magento Commerce reflected instantly in SAP Business One. On the other hand any stock updates in SAP Business One will update the available quantity in Magento. So through this integration you can better plan your purchase cycle.
4. Payment and Shipping: – Online Payment in the web will generate Incoming Payment document in SAP Business One through which you have the proper picture of the payment.
Shipping Method selected by the web customer and the shipping charges are synchronized from Magento web store to SAP Business One.
December 18, 2015 / como / 0 Comments
How many times have you heard someone talk about successful business strategies or ‘taking a strategic approach’? What do you think they actually mean by the use of the word strategy? Most often the people using it are trying to convey the fact that they have given the subject a bit more thought than usual, that they have looked a little further ahead than normal. If a consultant uses it be very wary. Strategy costs more than mere ideas or tactics. How much would you pay for consultants who have’ kicked around a few ideas’ or ‘come up with some tactics they think might work’. Depends how good they are. But if they come back with ‘strategic business advice’ you expect it to be very good and of course very expensive.
Why expensive? Because you would hope that a consultant or colleague would have used some kind of intellectually robust framework, that they would have tested their assumptions and developed more than one solution which they evaluate rigorously before making their strategic recommendation. This takes time and expertise and both are expensive. Let’s assume they have done all of this – does that make it strategic business advice rather than tactical advice?
Not according the dictionary. The dictionary definition of strategy is very clear and military. It defines strategy as “the art of war – disposing troops etc in such a way as to impose upon the enemy the conditions for fighting (time and place) preferred by oneself”. If we accept business is in effect a war – you develop successful business strategies because you define success as beating the competition – there is no reason why this definition of the overused word, strategy, is not appropriate for business strategy. It requires all that planning and testing of assumptions discussed already. Some kind of robust intellectual and very honest framework will certainly help to develop and evaluate options. Even the lazy use of the word strategy – giving it a bit more thought and thinking ahead – would be implied by the military, dictionary definition. But there is an extra dimension to real strategy. It requires you to do all this and come up with something that changes the rules in your favour – in other words it requires creativity.
And there is one other aspect to this more demanding kind of strategic thinking. It is about people and their behaviour. In order to ‘deploy the troops’ and change the rules you have to understand how people tick. If being creative involves changing behaviours then you have understand how those behaviours were formed in the first place and how they might be changed if you want a successful business strategy.
Before putting the dictionary away (the definition of strategy above was taken from the Oxford English Dictionary) just go forward to tactics. You will discover that the definition is exactly the same as for strategy with one addition. Tactics involves the all-important stage of implementation, putting the strategy into practice. So it turns out that far from tactics being less weighty and valuable than strategy they are actually the most valuable thing of all. A sound strategic plan that is successfully implemented includes, indeed demands, tactics.
The use, and overuse, of strategy in business is more often than not pretentious over-claim by people who do not really understand what they are talking about. It certainly does not mean giving something a bit more thought or thinking a bit more long term. It absolutely demands a thorough and honest assessment of your assumptions and your options. At the risk of being melodramatic, sloppy thinking in military strategy costs people their lives. In business it just wastes time and money. Strategic thinkers will of course use frameworks based on their experience. They will break a problem down so they can think about each component of it but they will look to change the rules not just apply them. And the true strategist understands that strategies are aimed at people and changing their behaviour. Their strategic business advice will be based on an understanding of human behaviour. Just as in war, a strategy does not just get the job done, it enables you to beat the competition, to deliver higher returns than ever before, to win and win big for the least expenditure of resources.
So whether you are undertaking a brand planning strategy, a new business launch strategy or any other kind of strategy remember what this really means and remember to include the tactics which are just if not more important. Then you can charge accordingly.
December 17, 2015 / como / 0 Comments
It is known to all that no businesses these days can do without promotional gifts. Whatever be the size of the organisation, promotional gifts is a must that needs to be employed. In this age of cut throat competition and rat race, if you want to stay and survive in the corporate scenario and aim at achieving your business aspirations, make use of promotional gifts. Use of promotional gifts has several business objectives.
Promotional gifts are distributed to clients and customers at any occasions or events or at store visits. The recipients of the gifts are very happy getting promotional gifts free without any obligation attached to it. However, the gifting gesture on the part of the companies has some objectives in mind which are popularly known as business strategies and objectives. Promotional gifts carry the business logo, company or brand name embellished on the products. As the promotional gifts are handed over to the customers and prospective clients, the brand message gets disseminated. Promotional gifts are gifted with the aim of building brand awareness, increasing brand popularity and sales. In todays age, branding is one of the key aspects of business growth. People these days are more inclined towards branded goods and services. Once your brand name and fame gets established in the corporate scenario, there is no looking back. This brand publicity is best done by promotional gifts.
Compared to the conventional modes of advertising like television or media ads and direct mail, promotional gifts have a much deeper and larger impact on customers and potential clients. Promotional gifts act as direct company representatives and the prospects also easily get convinced by the promotional gifts. Useful and practical promotional gifts are great advertising agents and with regular usage the brand name and the logo is noticed and remembered on a regular basis. The goals behind using promotional gifts are to offer a greater exposure and visibility to the brand. Only brand popularity and creating awareness cannot take a business to achieve its mission. Customer and client loyalty and establishing a strong customer-vendor relationship is a precondition to climb higher ladder of success in business. Promotional gifts are proficient in pleasing customers and motivating clients towards the brand.
No business can prosper and succeed without an army of dedicated and skilled workers. Monthly salaries and regular payments are not always sufficient to keep the employees dedicated and tied to the organisation. Promotional gifts with the brand logo and message work miraculously in keeping the company staff loyal to the company. The warm and heartfelt message on the promotional gifts makes them feel a part of the organisation and they get motivated to work better and harder. Promotional gifts are the most economical means by which businesses can satisfy their business objectives and achieve their aspirations.
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December 17, 2015 / como / 0 Comments
When going for an interview after applying for a business analyst job you will be required to answer a couple of common business analyst interview questions. One of those business analyst interview questions might be to explain what is meant by logical data model. Your should answer shortly and quickly by explaining that a data motel is capable of telling and showing details about specific data that is physically stored in a database. Another interview question might have you explaining what a high level or low level use case diagram is. A high level use case diagram is a broad view of any business process. By dividing a high level use case into several sub use cases then we get what is referred to as a low level use care.
Another common business analyst interview question is what you know about SDD. This question should be answered very simply by saying that SDD stands for system design document and it is just a middle step dividing business users and developers. It allows developers to understand the business requirements. You may be asked how you make use case diagrams. You should reply by saying that you make use case diagrams by using MS Visio and Rational Rose.
One of your business analyst interview questions may ask you to define the different types of diagrams that are used by business analysts. There are a number of diagrams used by business analysts including entity relationship diagram, data flow diagram, class diagram, activity diagram, state chart diagram, collaboration diagram, component diagrams, use case diagram, and deployment diagrams. Another business analyst interview question may ask you to define the three different types of diagrams used most often by all business analysts. The three are use case, activity, and sequence diagrams.
What is a sequence diagram? A sequence diagram is used to tell an objects interactions with one another being arranged in a timed sequence. A sequence diagram is often used by developers and tests as it allows them to understand the system better.
What is an activity diagram? Most of the time, activity diagrams are normally only used in the early stage of analysis and designing level. An activity diagram is often used to provide the details about each individual component.
What is a use case diagram? A use case diagram is a diagram which is used to explain and entire business environment. The use case diagram shows a number of relations events or actions that are perform by a single actor.
You may be asked a number of other business analyst interview questions as well such as what is a winrunner used for. A winrunner is used for regression testing. What is a load runner used for? A load runner is used for testing the performance of your business. One of your business analyst interview questions might require you to explain the different between BRD and FRD. In this situation, you should say that a BRD described what is needed for the product and the FRD described the BRD in full details.
December 15, 2015 / como / 0 Comments
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