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SHOULD I ... SHOULD'NT???
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White Frangipani : Beautiful Flower

Starting up a new Organization/Business:

1) Basic Challenges to come up:

Coming up with a simplest idea of initiating even a tiniest thing is infact an arduous challenge to cope up with!

It’s a major hurdle to let your mind speak up and then to let your heart listen to it accordingly. The creation of a tug of war situation between your heart and mind is really difficult to tackle. But coming out unanimously with a synchronized decision is the ultimate paving step of your Aim. There’s a lot of issues to be thought of, and it badly increases if someone is unaware of the following facts:
1) What he is capable of?
2) What he is up to.
3) His Ambition and target.
4) His Current and future Prospects.
4) His length of optimization.


At least he should know, what will give him maximum satisfaction. His current profile or the one which he is choosing to opt for!
At this instance a person may step back with many excuses:
1) Lack of Time.
2) Responsibilities and Dependencies on him.
3) Lack of support.
4) I will think later!!!

Do you think with such a mentality anyone can precede further?? You have the answer. Right!!!

One thing we should always keep in mind, that everything you want can't come together. Sometimes one or the other, you have to either ignore or leave behind at least for the time being. May be with a hope that after you realize your dreams, you can revert back to catch up with those. But obviously it's too bookish to think like that. Time & tide never waits for anyone. That's also true. Hence, ultimately it's all up to you to decide - which one to choose and which stands top in your priority list.



2) Fear of loosing:

Making up your mind for starting up a new venture is never easy, if you are not from a class where business is in blood. You can't just choose blindly like a cookie with the sake of a trial. Its your dream, your passion. You need to invest a lot of money and time on to it. More importantly some of your relationships are also on stake. You have to become a machine.

There's no second chance - either loose or win. Win everything or Loose everything.

But does it give enough reason to pull your leg back? Don't you have confidence in you and all those who love and care about you. Would you spare there blessings and wishes just like that? If the answer is yes, then you are cheating them as well as yourself. The next time you say, "Everything is going to be fine", you will be cheating them, because they dream for your success, achievement, satisfaction and happiness, and if you are not happy, even they can't be.



3) Coming up with the idea:

The next step is to come with the type of business you want to chase :

There can be two broad classifications:
1) Profitable organizations
2) Non profitable organizations

1) Profitable organizations:
These are solely for the purpose of making legal profits viz. starting up a new factory, shop, dealership, educational institutions etc.

Most of these are at high risk. Either this end or that end. It can bring you treasures and at the same time can pull you down to Nil.

2) Non profitable organizations:
These organizations are basically charitable organizations with a sole aim of providing help for the poor and the needy people viz. charitable educational institutions, orphanages, old-age homes etc.

These have a lesser extent of risk. Profit making is never their goal. there main aim is to increase the number of members and money inflow to stand strong and to reach more needy people.



4) Planning your strategies and demands:

Every organization needs proper planning from the grass root level. Its definitely includes all possible pro's and con's (problems & consequences).

The best way is to listen to others. Try one to one communication, internet, books and all sort of like minded ways. This will let you see a better prospect and provide you an ease with planning. The ultimate decision will always be yours. So make sure you analyze everything you listen, and then only you come up with your own.

You can always take others help too to get newer and better ideas, but here also first analyze, think about the pro's and con's and then decide you will implement it or not. Further implement it now or afterwards.

Your initial Planning should at least include the following:
1) Capital - investment
2) Monitory inflow - income
3) Monitory outflow - expenditure
4) Miscellaneous - initial size of the organization and its regulation
5) Profits & loss - Dealing with the profits and Recovery of loss
6) Growth - Ways and prospects

Your further Planning should at least include the following:
1) Expansion - man power, offices, top level executives.
2) Increasing of profits.
3) Marketing.
4) Opening newer scopes.
5) Scope for creative ideas.
6) Catching up the nerve of the market.
7) Aiming for the top.

While planning you always need to be clear and straight forward. Remember vague ideas can hamper your growth.



5) Marketing:

Never ignore marketing. It's must and it should always be proper. Whether yours is a profitable or non profitable organization, it has to get ample of marketing exposure.

Better marketing ensures better monitory inflow and exposure of the company/organization, its achievements and products. It’s very important that people should know about your organization, as it will boost up its reputation further.

There are definitely several other factors and points to be considered, but these are only the basic ones. Obviously it never ends here. It’s only the beginning of a far more extensive world.

If I have forgotten to mention any basic point, which you find equally important or much more important, then I regret. I would definitely look forward for such better ideas, constructive comments and active participation.

Thanks for bearing me :)

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Life a Redemption !

Drowning with everyday's ease
Flying with every flay.
Persuasion may not be defined in the dictionary
Carrying the coffin of life
Ascertaining surroundings in ecstasy.
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One of my Dev Project : C and VB : A brief

This documentation was created 5 years back ..... :) contents and contacts may not be relevant now ;)

SECURE STORE

 

Brief Introduction:

 

This application helps in the storage of files in a secure way by providing encryption at different levels which is very difficult to break. It also provides authentication to user with different privileges which helps in dividing the functionalities provided to the user.

 

Main functionalities

• Storage of files.
• Different ways to store the files depending on the convenience of the user.
• Downloading them to the local system
• Previewing the files using different views (e.g. tree view…)
• Storing different information like Bank passwords, e-mail passwords etc.
• A very user friendly tool to backup and restore the database and also to maintain the versions.
• A utility for merging two database of the same type.
• A user friendly interface for administrating the users on the system.
• Excellent Application Usage logging.
• Previewing a file without creating any temp file.
• Merge Different database and importing documents of different users.
• Application is highly secured from unauthorized installation and usage.
• Storing files/documents with different folder structure.
• Excellent search functionality.
• User can use short text to identify or search a file (short text is not the file name).
• Well documented help.
• Empowered with its own document viewer to ensure more security.

 

Portability

• A user may need to move the data he has stored in one system to another system. This can be done in a very simple way by just copying the database from one system to another manually.

 

 

How Security is ensured????

 

• The file content is encrypted using a robust encryption algorithm before storing and is decrypted on fly when displaying.
• Different algorithms are used for storing different kind of files.
• There are different privileges given to the user like Super User, administrator and normal user.
• The files are stored depending on the user and hence except for the super user, no other user can view the files stored by a different user
• The application will automatically prompt the user for changing the password after 1 month. Everyday it notifies the user of how old the password is.

 

Installation and Availability:

 

If you want to use the product please send a mail to secure_store@yahoo.co.in . You would receive the installation package along with the product key. Please note that the key is valid only for a year and you would need to request for a new key after that. The key provides a way to prevent users from distributing the pirated copies of the software.

 

SOME SNAPSHOTS:)

CO2 DRAGSTER :

We all love to race and imagine driving a car faster than any one can. I don’t know how many of us can do it right now but of course we can make our little dragster race like crazy :)






DRAGSTER: -
CO2 Dragsters are miniature cars used for racing and powered by carbon dioxide cartridge. They are used by students to analyze various mechanical and aerodynamics design and effect on moving body. In schools students are often seen competing with one another and improving their car designs.






Things to be considered while designing:-
1. Painting your car will reduce aerodynamic friction.
2. Lubrication of the axels can reduce friction. Use light but effective lubricants. Heavy and greasy lubes may not be a good stuff for lighter moving bodies.
3. The wheel plays a key role here so care must be taken to design the wheel with less ground contact.
4. Avoid unnecessary extensions and ornaments that add weight to your car.
5. The lighter you design your car, the more power will be used out of your CO2 cartridge.
6. Make sure that your drill holes are straight and accurate to reduce extra forces acting on your car.
7. Avoid flat upright surfaces in the front of your car to reduce turbulence.
8. Avoid flat upright surfaces in the back of your car to reduce rear suction.
9. Shield as much air at the bottom of your car to maintain traction.
10. Keep the surface area exposed to oncoming air to a minimum.
11. Place the cartridge parallel to the ground.
12. Axel design is important to reducing friction.

COMPLETELY OUTSOURCED !!!

Let's talk about why America is so-far so successful and well admired nation. Undoubtedly it has taught us how the open economy is, what is outsourcing and how to book profit with virtually no hard cash in your hand. This is a critic of the policies recently administered by the country who have outsourced almost everything proudly.

During cold war we have seen sharp discrimination between the policies of two arch rivals USSR and USA. America with moderately open policies and Russia with a close and so called self sufficient market. The rest is history. The aftermath was a sharp inclination of the US farms towards outsourcing jobs and work to achieve better maturity.

Why I have termed this "MATURITY"?

Big giants like HP and IBM scrapped many of their lovely products and started using more competitive products from their competitors and gradually they started calling them partners. This helped them creating an excellent synergy between the organizations minimizing the risk of competition and saving huge cost without compromising the quality. Even several automobile and manufacturing industries started to follow the same trend. They started to assemble rather than invent from the scratch. They have also found out a new way of improving product by simply re engineering or shuffling. An era of out sourcing started.

Last two decade was a maturity period for Banking, Financial systems and IT because we started to believe that the organizations have achieved a certain maturity worth following and they have optimized their operations.

So if we go back another thirty years we could see it started from a closed market and gradually it started showing more openness.

Recently Obama has coined many solutions which have raised the eye brows of many analysts.

One of them is the Tax reforms. The tax reforms (announced Tuesday) have only been proposed and there will be an extended debate on these before they can be implemented, as they require existing laws to be changed, according to software body Nasscom.

This would definitely help US to gain more cash is Govt .fund. The current law in the US states that 'any income that is earned outside the US is not taxed until such time it is brought back into the US.

But for the time being the companies and countries completely dependent on the outsourced work may have some kind of impact. Although there are different views as well.. 'The current proposal, as we understand, is to close corporate tax loopholes for US multinational corporations. We do not believe it has anything to do with IT outsourcing done by US corporations,' India's second-largest IT services provider, Infosys Technologies, said in a statement.

Whatever may be the case, behemoths like HP, Microsoft, Oracle, GM would be majorly impacted. Now we are talking about only American firms!

The answer is simple, they should ask those firms why have you outsourced 80-90 % of your work outside? It may sound great to create a closed supply chain in a country. You tend to keep everything within them. But the supply chain is not complete without the buyer and no doubt US goods have a huge market outside their country. The conservativeness may provoke the buyer countries to take hostile steps also.
Moreover we are talking about a model which we have scrapped 30-40 years back and now we are trying to place it back ???

Those policies may help US to revive their economy in the short term, but special care needs to be administered to see that those do not do any harm in the long run.

TOday's Words

Deluge --> Heavy downpour or flood.
Heuristic --> Of or constituting an educational method in which learning takes place through discoveries that result from investigations made by the student.
Gubernatorial --> Relating to a Govornor.
Proclivity --> natural tendency or inclination.
Unruly --> turbulent, ungovernable.

The Global Recession Shaping The Organization’s Thirst (AN OBSERVATION)

This was a disaster when the hurricane hit the economic shores of almost all the countries. It has been a great plunge of depression and downturn everywhere. Many of us started comparing the eventful disaster with 2001-2002 crisis and later realized that this time it is not only IT but also finance and manufacturing industries those are majorly hit.

It is obvious, like any other sphere of life the economy also rests on a spinning wheel hence you see both ups and downs. Now the question is all about how much predictable the falls and ups are? Some says the probability of the down fall is although not precisely quantified but every 4-6 years you may see some huge turbulence.

Although there are n numbers of classical approach you could refer and try to identify at least the starting point of this spree and identify the end of it but the fact is that those classical approaches are mere theories.

When we dig too much into a theory created by us or someone we admire we start to believe in it and try to predict and analyze behaviors by using it. If we see any occurrence or instance of any behavior we basically observe some of the outcome or characteristics of the same. Those are mere dots and we connect them. As per our tenacity we try to accumulate as many dots as possible. Then we join them and think that we have found the solution. This re-engineering gives birth to lots of theories which are mere observations. As Steve jobs said the dots could only be joined in past not in the future.

But observations may help us identify the trends. Drowning Lehman Bros and Citi showed that the moment of panic has finally arrived which was a correct projection.

The million dollar question now in our plate is how we know whether the recession is over. More precisely what could be the signs (dots) by which we can see some lights in the horizon.

In the current circumstances companies have taken some major steps for their survival. From lay man's point of view we would see the changes most relevant to us. Like layoffs, salary cuts and lot of perks and facilities vanishing for most of us in our work place showed us where we are heading towards and the reverse of this may show us the other side of economic revival.

I personally feel that this may not be a pure indicator as the cost savings will help companies standardize their business. So now this global turmoil has also showed the companies some ways to streamline their operation and increase their productivity. Earlier productivity could mean a huge bonus for the management and employees now this would surely mean a huge income for the board members. Many of the CEOs and top executives are happy to show the dark side of the economy, they are pretty open to talk about salary cuts and cost savings.

But at last I am sure there would be a hope; things would change for most of the employed class. We should remember that boom of salary and jobs were driven by the huge need of quality talent. I am sure the same talent would drive the things high irrespective of whether the employee is rewarded enough in his organization. Options are always open for them. SO the biggest challenge a company may face in the near future is to maintain enough critical resources and hiring extra-ordinary employees.

But when there is hue that we have overcome the recession, you should know that the news is at least 6 months old :)

Strategies : A probable path for SAP's niche

This post is in succession with my previous post : $7.4 billion deal.

This space is completely dedicated to SAP where I am going to discuss few strategies SAP may take to nullify the hostile environmental affect.

Although the SAP Netweaver stack consists of ABAP and JAVA but the comparative success of Java in SAP space may be commendable but mostly insignificant. This definitely comes as a consolation for most of the think tanks as the migration from Java or reduction of Java in further initiatives would not take huge effort or money.

Now we are talking about SUN Solaris, an age tested probably the fastest OS in server space and no doubt it is still lucrative for SAP to use Solaris platform for their massive ERP instances. Let’s look for some close alternatives to substitute the Solaris effect with equally comparable and stable OS, NO we are not talking about Windows 2003. Any Linux or Unix flavor would give an ultimate real-time performance with comparable runtime statistics, provided it is a server version. Sun Microsystem and HP were SAP's one of the biggest strategic partner with their huge commitments for Open source contribution till date and of course this also motivated SAP to make their DB floating in open space. This makes HP a potential blade server and OS vendor for SAP. With a stable and agile system probably they could unleash new potential for SAP ERP by tweaking their systems for better performance.

Do they have to live without a strong programming language like Java? When it comes to Java, the answer could be YES. Microsoft technology may not be as flexible and widely acceptable as Java but the Windows Company is evolving fast in this space. SAP has already partnership with Microsoft in various development and integration project, like DUET. The ambitious "People Ready" business is nowhere close to SAP and to get a share in ERP market Microsoft has been quite aggressive in this space. There were also speculations that Microsoft may buy out some of the bigger ERP vendor in market and this makes Microsoft a friend of SAP with converging goals.

I am not denying another chance of Merger or Acquisition here ;)

NOTE: This note is merely an opinion not a deliberate behest and not intended to be biased towards any party.

SUN buy out : Obvious but Fitful !

With the recent news of Oracle buying SUN has definitely propelled lot of thought process among concerned community.

As Larry has pointed out that they are trying to provide an end-to-end offering rather than stand alone solutions for their customer, we can also see some obvious advantage Oracle sweeping over IBM and SAP.

Until recently Oracle was mainly concerned about their Database rather than any business application and after its well known venture into ERP and CRM space they started using Java extensively which made them to buy SUN to retain the full control on their product life cycle. The open source Java and its mode of licensing in the future may remain a matter of contention and speculation but definitely this move brings the competitive edge of Solaris and Sun servers to Oracle's pocket. Historically Sun Server and Solaris OS are admired for its performance and dependability.

What I could see is the SAP getting impacted more due to this movement which could also be a deciding or may be a considerable factor behind this buyout where SUN server, Solaris and Java can make any ERP offering more lucrative than its peers. Till date SAP has a huge domination in ERP and CRM area and IBM Microsoft and Oracle are in their process to capture the high end space.

SAP had a paradigm shift a decade ago when they thought of migrating to an integrated platform and promoted Java in their Netweaver engine. ABAP stacks were replaced or moved to maintenance phase in many areas of SAP space. They have also changed their stand towards the use of Oracle Database as the back-end of their R/3 stack. But this acquisition keeps us guessing how they future of Java would be and how this is going to impact the web services and SOWA space or SAP.

No doubt this is a smart move from Oracle investing in a excellent technological firm in right time, the buying price is phenomenally low and all the odds seems to be in Oracle’s favor. But the main point is integration! As the offerings of SUN are totally diverse but still remain in different space from Oracle’s offerings. The integration and success is always a QUESTION MARK for any company. Let the TIME tell its story.

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A strong wind!

A wind, a strong wind may perish me .... but I have a equally good change to get lifted higher and higher in the air.

Today's Words.

Garble: to distort the meaning of something.
Preternatural: Outside the nature. (may be used to define calibre of very high standard)
Victual: food etc commodities
Cryptic: ..