eNews LusoSis Customers #01-2002

 

 

Dear Client,

 

 

1) Weak economy in the coming years 

It is LusoSis belief that in the next years, probably 2, global economy will be weakened by all the events that we have been (and still are) witnessing around the globe. This lack of confidence in the market will even bring some companies down. More information at:

http://www.janelanaweb.com/crise/fim_boom.html (in portuguese)

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_47/b3758618.htm

 

So in order to reinforce our customers trust in our Company, and to help them break through this difficult times LusoSis is commited to help enforce strategic decisions in terms of Information Technologies, in order to help take the most out of the investment made. This is done at affordable prices and with top IT engineers, able to help the customers not only in the techcnical matters, but also in the reengineering of processes to improve performance and reduce costs, hence improving competitiveness.

 

To LusoSis better help its Costumers, we have now available the following services and solutions (ordered by area), together with our Partners (additional information in manufacturers links, or specific subjects:

 

Personal Area

. Recruiting

. Career Management

. Functional and Technological Training Areas

 

Processing Area

. CRM/ERP

http://www.intentia.com/w2000.nsf/(files)/MovexNextGen.pdf/$FILE/MovexNextGen.pdf

http://www.greatplains.com/news/document.asp?Link=newsitems/industry_leadership.htm http://www.frontrange.com/solutions/salesmarketing_default.asp http://www.datafirst.fr/en/solutions_points_de_vente_auto/solutions_points_de_vente_auto.htm

. Quality Consulting (TQM/BPR)

http://www.qualitydigest.com

. Projects management

http://www.microsoft.com/office/project/default.asp

. Remote support and Helpdesk

http://www.frontrange.com/solutions/servicesupport_default.asp

 

Technologies Area

. Informatics Consulting

. Software Development .NET/C#

http://www.microsoft.com/net/default.asp

. Telecommunications and Network

. CTI and PBX Software

http://www.artisoft.com/freeoffer.html

. Servers  (Clusters and Fault-Tolerant)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/clustering/default.asp

http://www.unisys.com/hw/servers/es7000

http://www.microsoft.com/Windows.NetServer

. Biometrics Technologies

. Network and informatics safety

http://www.checkpoint.com/products/security/firewall-1.html

 

 

2) Partners and Events

 

a) Movex – Intentia will organize, on March 21, its Intentia Forum II, at the Convento do Beato – Lisbon, from 9H20 to 17H. Besides the Movex ERP presentation will also be presented several thematic workshops, since Implex Implementation Methodology to several hardware platforms where Movex may run.

 

Registration at: info@lusosis.pt

 

b) Visual Studio .NET – Microsoft will present its new software development platform at the Centro de Congressos de Lisboa (old FIL), from 9H30M to 18H. More informations and inscriptions at:

http://www.microsoft.com/portugal/eventos/vstudionet

 

 

3) Recent Projects

 

a) Dentofarma – WAN reconfiguration due to company head office move, without losing Coimbra and Oporto access to AS/400 and HP SBS 4.5 servers (NT in Lisbon, and permanent internet link. http://www.dentofarma.pt

 

b) Carnova – WAN reconfiguration and change to frame-relay technology of 3 company building interconnection, including head office plus internet permanent link. LANs TCP/IP reconfiguration, and safety politics creation on Windows 2000 server. This sub-project was part of an eCars bigger project instalation. This was the first instalation in Portugal of this Datafirst vertical ERP for automotive sector, with Primavera Software accounting integration. http://www.carnova.pt  

http://www.datafirst.fr/en/solutions_points_de_vente_auto/dealer_management_system.htm

 

c) Lusopiyus – Fujitsu double processor migration, from SBS 4.5 (NT 4) to SBS 2000 (Windows 2000), including the following servers, Exchange (e-mail), ISA (firewall), SQL and Fax server, and Internet Cisco router reconfiguration.

http://www.lusopiyus.pt

http://www.microsoft.com/sbserver/default.asp

 

d) Other Projects

i) ESG – LAN instalation (3com), Compaq PCs, IBM Portables, HP Printers including Color Lasers and SBS 4.5 Compaq servers, with RAID 5. Proxy 2.0 configuration for dial-up Internet conection. http://www.esre.com

ii) Guedes & Borrego – SBS 2000 server instalation and management aplications costum developed for Client requierements.

 

 

4) PMEs Solutions

 

a) LusoSis implements specifics PMEs solutions, look for examples and details at: http://www.microsoft.com/business/small

 

b) For Business Plans examples and reference, beside of contacting LusoSis, here is some help::

http://www.entrepreneurmag.com/Your_Business/YB_SegArticle/0,4621,287323,00.html

 

 

5) Actualization

 

a) Stay updated about business and technologies evolutions at:

http://www.unisys.com/execmag/index-ie.htm

 

b) Microsoft is preparing its new SQL server version, now at 64 bits, if you are interested in participating on the beta testing programs, go to:  http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/betanominations.asp

 

 

6) Security

 

For Clients using Windows XP Professional, we recommend the following security patch download:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=36262&area=search&ordinal=5

 

 

7) Contacts

 

Our web site (at the moment under construction), in the next few weeks will show better and with more detail the solutions designed for our Clients. Make a regular visit at: http://www.lusosis.pt/index.uk.htm

Best wishes for Your business!

 

 

Kind regards,

 

LusoSis management team. (@2002-03-15)

 

 

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