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  • SaberLogic to Develop City of Wadsworth Economic Development Website
    SaberLogic has begun development work on a new website for the city of Wads ...
    August 30, 2010 by Eli Remington
  • SaberLogic Becomes a Reseller of Mozy’s Remote Backup Solution
    SaberLogic is pleased to announce that we have established a reseller relat ...
    February 23, 2010 by Eli Remington
  • The Last Gasps for Internet Explorer 6
    One of the biggest struggles that website development companies have is man ...
    February 1, 2010 by Eli Remington
  • The Weekend Post: Announcing the new Apple iPad Tablet
    As a provider of services for Apple products, SaberLogic has an obvious int ...
    January 30, 2010 by Eli Remington
  • A Graphical History of Manufacturing and ERP Software
    Have you ever wondered when material requirements planning functionality wa ...
    January 29, 2010 by Eli Remington

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Eli Remington

SaberLogic Becomes a Reseller of Mozy’s Remote Backup Solution

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 by Eli Remington

SaberLogic is pleased to announce that we have established a reseller relationship with Mozy to provide corporate customers with secure, remote, automated online backup services.

Corporate backups are one of the IT administrative areas that we really find to be difficult to manage. The backup management software is often “buggy,” especially with different hardware and operating system configurations.  Most basic tape backup systems required that someone at each customer location physically switch tapes daily and carry the backup tapes off-site each night.  The often gets forgotten about and overlooked, especially with employee turnover.  We also found that users were failing to copy critical data to corporate servers.  We consistently found CFOs with critical data stored on their PC desktop and nowhere else.  So, after some thorough research and testing, we selected Mozy as a simple solution to allow you to easily perform backups without having to remember to do anything.

So…how does it work?  Mozy’s backup solution provides automated remote backup services right over the Internet.  The Mozy software client is loaded onto each system you want data backed up and then the software is configured to back up certain file types and directories.  The backups can be set up to run automatically when the system is not in use or can set to run on a defined schedule.   You can also set the client to back-up certain file types, no matter what directory they are in.

Another great feature is the speed at which the backup transfer will occur.  It can be set to be throttled up or down to reduce the performance impact on your system and the overall network.  Alerts are sent to us whenever backups fail or when size quotas are reached.  Mozy uses strict security policies, 448-bit Blowfish encryption, and world-class SAS70 certified data centers to protect corporate data.

The software can be set-up to run on any Windows or Mac operating system.

Click here for more information on our new remote back-up services, or please contact us!  Don’t let another day go by without back-ups of your data!

Tags: Apple Mac support, IT Services, remote backup
Posted in Apple & Mac, General Topics, IT Administration | No Comments »

Eli Remington

The Last Gasps for Internet Explorer 6

Monday, February 1st, 2010 by Eli Remington

One of the biggest struggles that website development companies have is managing the plethora of browsers that are being used today.  Three versions if Internet Explorer (6, 7 & 8), various versions of Firefox, Safari and Chrome add to the complexity of every website development project.  Fortunately many large web websites are finally ending support for one the most difficult browsers to develop for, Internet Explorer 6.  On January 29th, 2010 Google announced that they will soon end support for Internet Explorer 6 on their Google Docs and Google Sites.  Their reasoning is very sound.  According to a post on the Google Enterprise Blog by Rajen Sheth:

“The web has evolved in the last ten years, from simple text pages to rich, interactive applications including video and voice. Unfortunately, very old browsers cannot run many of these new features effectively. So to help ensure your business can use the latest, most advanced web apps, we encourage you to update your browsers as soon as possible.”  SOURCE

They also argue that they will phase out supporting browsers that are not even being supported anymore by their own manufacturers.  Overall this type of stance is good news for our website clients.  It adds considerable time and cost to the development of a website to get new website technology to run, look and work well on very outdated browsers…especially those that were never designed to run these types of websites.
What are IE6 users encouraged to do?   The following are some modern browsers that SaberLogic recommends upgrading to:

  • Internet Explorer 8
  • Firefox 3.5
  • Chrome 4.0
  • Safari 3.0

If you would like more information on SaberLogic’s website development services, please visit our website or contact us at sales@saberlogic.com or at (330) 335-6442.

Tags: custom programming, e-commerce, Joomla, Website Design
Posted in General Topics, Joomla, Magento, PHP, Programming, Website Design | No Comments »

Eli Remington

The Weekend Post: Announcing the new Apple iPad Tablet

Saturday, January 30th, 2010 by Eli Remington

As a provider of services for Apple products, SaberLogic has an obvious interest in Apple’s announcement on January 27th, 2010 of the new iPad.  The iPad is basically a larger version of the iTouch…a tablet computer that provides capabilities for web browsing, managing email, photos, music, movies, television, games, and books.  We have already had some spirited discussions here at SaberLogic on the iPad.  Emotions have ranged from “dumbest thing ever” to “I’m buying one, on day one”.

Those against it have included the argument that it offers very little more in capabilities over the current iTouch or iPhone.  Other than the new iBooks service, I would have to agree.  However, I think that we need to look several years out to begin to see the logic behind Apple’s newest product offering.

I believe we need to look at the direction of what I will call “casual” computing.  For most people this involves writing and checking e-mail, spending time on their choice of social media sites, watching videos, playing music and browsing the internet.  There are a large number of people for whom these daily tasks encompass the vast majority of their computing needs.  It is these people that Apple is targeting. These are all areas that play directly into the strength of the iPad.  The interface is simple and elegant.  The operating system is stable and goes almost unnoticed.  The iTunes and App Store make it easy to buy music, movies or install over 140,000 different applications with the touch of a button.

Netbooks today still run using a typical Windows or Linux operating system.  This means that the same issues that you encounter on your typical full desktop or laptop system are going to plague these netbooks too.  An iPad will be a simple, no-fuss way to perform 95% of the day-to-day things that a casual computing user would need.

Obviously there will be specific needs that the iPad will not address.  Most Mac users will still require the processing power and applications they require to do high end work.  Most business users will still require full systems to run specialty applications.  (Although, I believe that an interesting market will open up for very specific iPad business applications that can take advantage of the iPad’s mobility and touch screen.)  But for people that want a system for fundamental computing, the iPad offers a compelling alternative to a typical laptop or netbook.

A summary of some interesting articles this week regarding the iPad:

  • The Apple Blog:  iPad Buying Guide
  • TUAW – What’s missing from the iPad
  • TUAW – iPad vs. Kindle:  Which way to go?
  • Apple Insider – A closer look at Apple’s iPad bundled applications
  • Macworld – Apple details first iPad accessories

[EDIT 2010.02.01]

A great summary of all of the new iPad features on the iPhone Blog.   Apple iPad and iPhone 3.2 Preview

Tags: Apple Mac repair, Apple Mac support, IT Services
Posted in Apple & Mac, General Topics | No Comments »

Eli Remington

A Graphical History of Manufacturing and ERP Software

Friday, January 29th, 2010 by Eli Remington

Have you ever wondered when material requirements planning functionality was added to ERP systems?  How about MRP?  Or even when the year 2000 was first perceived to be potential problem for ERP systems. Software Advice recently created a timeline covering the history of manufacturing and ERP software. It includes 17 key events that have shaped the ERP software industry over the last 50 years. It’s a quick way to understand the context of current enterprise software events.

To complete the timeline, they are asking industry experts to share their ideas. They’d like to fill in the gaps and add another 15+ dates/events to the timeline. If you have any ideas or suggestions, email Houston Neal (houston@softwareadvice.com).

Tags: ERP Consulting
Posted in Epicor Vantage, General Topics, Visual Enterprise | No Comments »

Turbo Charge Your PC with This Inexpensive All-in-one Utility

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 by Adam Ellis

Being a developer takes a serious toll on your computer. On top of all of the tools I need to have installed in order to perform my job (MS Office, SQL Server, Visual Studio, Crystal Reports, etc), I am constantly installing and removing programs for testing, loading and unloading giant customer databases, and generally abusing the operating system. The result is a computer that grows painfully slow after a few months of usage. Traditionally I resolve this by reformatting once a year which ends up killing at least a day of my time to get everything back in place as I need it. However, this year I decided to go a different route and use one of those system optimization utilities. I’ve always been very skeptical of these utilities for some reason, mainly because I’d only use the free versions and they never seemed to help all that much. This time I decided to dish out some money for a promising all-in-one utility by Auslogics called BoostSpeed 4 and I have been very impressed. For $30, this utility gives you an amazing collection of tools to get the most out of your PC – here are a few of the highlights:

  • A disk defragmenter that runs circles around the one built into Windows. Not only is it faster, but it also is smart enough to move your data to the start of your hard disk for faster access and it defragments the MFT.
  • A registry cleaner to fix registry errors.
  • A registry defrag utility.
  • An Internet Optimizer that collects information about your network connection and makes changes to not only your TCP/IP settings, but also settings for Internet Explorer and Firefox.
  • A RAM defragmenter that can be run easily from the system tray.
  • A disk cleanup utility that runs much faster than the one built into Windows.
  • A duplicate file finder.
  • Various utilities to remove Internet history and shred files beyond recovery.
  • A “Tweak Manager” that guides you through optimizing not only Windows settings (many of which are undocumented and only accessible via the registry) but also settings for MS Office, Acrobat, etc.

All of my results with this utility are purely subjective as I didn’t take any measurements before I ran this, but I can tell you this made a night and day difference on my system. For $30 it is well worth the investment, anybody who has a Windows PC should really check this out.

Here is a link where you can download a 14-day trial of the program with all features enabled.

Should you choose to purchase the software, here is a link for where to purchase it from.

Note: all of these links are redirects so that we get a referral credit with Auslogics. Their actual website is auslogics.com, but if you found my review helpful please use our links.

Tags: custom programming, IT Services
Posted in General Topics, Programming | No Comments »

Eli Remington

Weekend Post: A Glimpse Inside Our New Office

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 by Eli Remington

As you may know, in June 2009 we moved into a new office located in downtown Wadsworth, Ohio.  We had been located on Weber Drive, near the Wadsworth Airport since our “birth” in 2002.  That location was a great home for us.  However we decided that we needed a more open office format to help everyone work together and collaborate on projects.  We also wanted to provide a trendy work environment and quick access to everything here in the downtown area.

So…after 2 months we are pleased to say that we are extremely happy with the results.  The downtown location has provided us with infinitely better visibility.  We have had a lot of people walk in to learn about us and what we do.  There are a lot of great downtown dining choices too that we’ve all enjoyed being within walking distance of.  The retail location has also opened new “doors” for us.  We are looking to become an Apple Repair Depot here in the near future.  Hopefully we’ll be posting more on that subject in the next few weeks!

We welcome anyone to stop by and visit us.  For our friends that are a bit too far away to pop-in on us, we want to share a few pictures with you.  Enjoy!

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Brian Ellis

What is Business Activity Monitoring?

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 by Brian Ellis

As technology becomes more and more critical to business success the need for more timely data continues to increase. Once it was okay to get analysis for decisions from yesterday’s data but now it is becoming critical to have access to on-demand data to further decrease the delay between the data and the decision.

The problem with the model of even on-demand data from reports or static dashboards is that they are still user initiated. This means that issues or key pieces of information can be missed until the user decides to call the report to perform the analysis. That is why the field of Business Activity Monitoring is growing.

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) refers to a system which provides both easy real time access to data through key performance indicators (KPI) via dashboards in addition to monitors which watch for certain business conditions and inform users when those conditions are met. This means that instead of the information gathering being user initiated the system can inform the user that there is information there that needs to be analyzed.

In this way, the concepts of BAM fit into an overall Business Intelligence (BI) strategy as BAM is more used to monitor for the events and then traditional BI tools can be used to perform the in-depth analysis.

To learn more about business activity monitoring, and our other business intelligence services, please contact SaberLogic today!

Tags: Business Activity Monitoring, Business Intelligence
Posted in Crystal Reports, General Topics, Programming | No Comments »

Eli Remington

SaberLogic Now a Member of the Greater Akron Chamber of Commerce

Sunday, August 16th, 2009 by Eli Remington

SaberLogic is proud to be a new member of the Greater Akron Chamber of Commerce, an economic development organization serving the counties of Medina, Portage and Summit in Northeast Ohio.  We are looking forward to building business relationships with our follow members.

If you are currently a member of the Greater Akron Chamber, you may take advantage of our member-to-member discounts, which include:

  • $99 banner ad design
  • free banner ad design with any website development project over $750
  • 15% off all standard consulting and development rates

Our list of professional services includes:

  • Crystal Reports development
  • IT services and network support
  • Apple and Mac support
  • .NET programming
  • Website design and development / e-commerce / SEO
  • Epicor Vantage services and support
  • Infor ERP VISUAL / Visual Enterprise services and support
  • Linux support

If there are any of our services that you would like more information on, please contact us today!

Tags: Apple Mac repair, Crystal Reports, custom programming, Epicor Vantage, Visual Enterprise, Website Design
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Eli Remington

SaberLogic Welcomes New IT Consultant, Jason Schmock

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 by Eli Remington

SaberLogic is pleased to welcome a new consultant to the IT services team, Jason Schmock.  Jason has spent the last 5 years doing consulting as a systems support specialist and systems engineer.  He has primarily worked with SMB clients as an IT consultant, responsible for the IT infrastructure including desktops, servers, routers, switches, e-mail servers, websites, and mobile devices/connectivity.  Jason holds MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional), MCSA (Microsoft Certified Systems Administration) and MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) certifications.

For a complete list of SaberLogic’s IT services, please visit our website!

Tags: IT Services
Posted in General Topics | No Comments »

Brian Ellis

Welcome everybody to the SaberLogic blog!

Thursday, July 30th, 2009 by Brian Ellis

For those of you that don’t already know, SaberLogic is an IT consulting company located in Northeast Ohio. At SaberLogic we have a diverse skill set covering areas like Visual Manufacturing/Enterprise, business intelligence and Crystal Reports, website design and programming, custom programming, Apple support, and Linux consulting.

With such a wide array of support options we are going to begin updating this blog with new and exciting features in each of those areas written by the consultants here at SaberLogic. We hope that this will be a useful addition for our customers and the larger user community abroad.

Please keep checking back and let us know what you think!

Thanks!
SaberLogic

Tags: Apple Mac support, Crystal Reports, custom programming, Linux consulting, Visual Enterprise, Website Design
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