Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Timberline: From An Accountant's Point Of View

In order to exist as well as sustain its existence, any company would need to have an accounting section that would handle the comings and goings of each cent - any company, including those involved in larger specialty and service contracting as well as residential and commercial builders. This is the primary reason why Sage Timberline Office came into being.

Since it belongs to Sage's suite of solutions, Timberline's primary salient point is the ease by which one can get accustomed to using it. It has a set-up wizard that could assist first-time users in creating and customizing the general ledger, cash management, accounts receivables and payables, billing, and job costing.

With its modified home page, the Timberline Office allows the user to organize commonly used functions. Users can also set-up and activate various third-party applications as well as place links to important web sites. With its 250 user-defined fields, Timberline Office enables the user to create field names that they are most familiar with and relate it to functions that they regularly use.

The Sage Timberline software comes with more than 50 modules all aimed a providing support for large-scale contractors. Even report generation can be breeze since it allows seamless importing and exporting of data stored in Word, Excel and Access format. What's more, the Timberline software is also scalable, a feature that has long been associated with all Sage suite of applications.

Timberline also features various Timberline estimating modules such as the Model Estimating and the ePlan takeoff. It also makes use of a number of estimating databases. Aside from this, Timberline also features a number of productivity tools such as the Information Assistant which provides authorized users access to financial and management reports, the Document Management which enables companies to do paperless transactions, and My Assistant, a feature that can help organize tasks.

Training and technical support is also not a problem with the Sage Timberline Software as each new purchase allows for a 60-day unlimited support courtesy of SmartStart. After 60 days, clients can choose from BasicCare, EssentialCare and PremierCare. The difference in the three lies in the method by which support is delivered (Knowledgebase, phone, email and fax) with PremierCare offering a more personalized help from a dedicated account manager.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Recover Passwords with Office Password Recovery Software

Are you a user of Microsoft Office? Have you ever forgotten a password protecting tomorrow's presentation? You might be in trouble, as Microsoft does not provide an official way to recover data protected with a password that has been lost or forgotten. But don't worry: chances are high that Office Password Recovery by Intelore.com will help you recover that password in an instant!

Office Password Recovery can recover many types of passwords in the blink of an eye. Microsoft Access passwords to open and user-level workgroup passwords, Excel workbook and spreadsheet protection, Outlook e-mail accounts, and shared protection passwords are always recovered in an instant regardless of their length and complexity. In addition, Office Password Recovery instantly removes formatting and editing restrictions, locked cell protection and permissions.

Office Password Recovery supports documents created by all products and all versions of the Microsoft Office family.

Security is a very important issue in modern organizations. They hire professional system administrators who in turn release policies on how long and complex employee's passwords must be, and set requirements on regularly changing those long and complex passwords. This almost inevitably leads to the yellow stickers on the employee's desks, with all the long and 'secure' passwords written down.

But what if that yellow sticker is lost?

With strong encryption and long and complex passwords, it can be virtually impossible to recover important data without special tools aimed at recovering passwords from the Microsoft Office documents. Microsoft officially denies providing the means even for system administrators to recover the documents that are rendered useless with the loss of a password.

Office Password Recovery will help recover these documents, even if strong encryption and long passwords were used.

And, what if you need that document right away, or at least as soon as possible? You might have tried another tool that offers to recover your Office passwords by enumerating all possible combinations of letters and numbers. This kind of password recovery is known as brute force. As you'll quickly see, it will not provide a result if a password longer than a few characters was used.

Office Password Recovery offers smarter ways to recover passwords than just brute force, allowing you to easily create just about any kind of attack. It will try different combinations of dictionary words, including misspellings and phonetic errors, depending on your language and keyboard layout. It will analyze frequency characteristics of the text and adjust its efforts to minimize the number of possible password combinations and reduce the time required to find the right password.

Office Password Recovery gives you complete control over how and what password combinations are tried. If you even remotely remember at least part of the password, maybe even the fact that it had a number at the end, or that it was a specific length, or that it had a capital in the beginning, Office Password recovery will make use of that information and will find your password much faster than it would otherwise.