Argus Qatar - Software and Web Solutions

Share Point Vs DMS

2012-01-24T07:20:00.000-08:00

SharePoint is a Portal solution which will provide a unified view to a customer. It will need OmniScan to scan the documents in batches as per the requirement of the customer and will put them in a desired table format from where the documents can be picked by SharePoint. At the same time SharePoint can store and retrieve the documents in a Document Management system like OmniDocs.

Apart from having a DMS in the backend one can have many other applications also running in the backend to provide necessary information to the visitor at SharePoint Portal. A Portal and a Document Management system are two different solutions having different functionalities, even though it might seems to be overlapping in some of the cases. One can even have a ERP solution running in the backend from where the Portal can fetch the information and provide to the user of Portal. This does not mean that one can replace a ERP solution by buying a Portal solution like SharePoint, even though some of the functionalities can be common here.

To help you understand more on this let me explain the concept of Portal and Document Management system separately. Kindly note all the features mentioned in a Portal solution or in a DMS solution as mentioned in this document may not be always available through one software product, for eg. For emails Microsoft uses a different software product and does not provide it under SharePoint.

What is a Portal Solution ?

A web portal or links page is a web site that functions as a point of access to information in the World Wide Web. A portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way. Apart from the standard search engine feature, web portals offer other services such as e-mail, news, stock prices, information, databases and entertainment. Portals provide a way for enterprises to provide a consistent look and feel with access control and procedures for multiple applications and databases, which otherwise would have been different entities altogether. A Portal typically provides personalized capabilities to its visitors, providing a pathway to other content. It is designed to use distributed applications, different numbers and types of middleware and hardware to provide services from a number of different sources. In addition, business portals are designed for sharing and collaboration in workplaces. A further business-driven requirement of portals is that the content be able to work on multiple platforms such as personal computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and cell phones/mobile phones.

SharePoint is a portal solution which can have a Document Management System in the backend. A user can use the SharePoint user interface to access these documents instead of using the OmniDocs user interface if they wish.

What is a Document Management System ?

A document management system (DMS) is a computer program used to track and store electronic documents and/or images of paper documents. It is usually also capable of keeping track of the different versions created by different users (history tracking). The term has some overlap with the concepts of content management systems. It is often viewed as a component of enterprise content management (ECM) systems and related to digital asset management, document imaging, workflow systems and records management systems. Document management systems commonly provide storage, versioning, metadata, security, as well as indexing and retrieval capabilities.

Refer the below link for more details about DMS http://www.newgensoft.com/products/document_management_omnidocs

Argus provides the Document Management Solution in Qatar market, tie-up with Newgen Software Technologies

Happy New Year 2012 from Argus Team

2011-12-31T08:49:00.000-08:00

Critical Success Factors in ERP

2011-12-28T23:45:00.000-08:00

Here in this blog, I wish to discuss more about common pains in ERP Software Implementation. ERP software integrates and automates all facets of business operations. This includes all modules required to an organization such as Inventory Control, Procurement, Sales, Finance and Human Resources. We can define it as a company-wide computer software system used to manage and coordinate all the resources, information, and functions of a business from shared data stored. ERP is very useful as it saves lots of time of every individual within the enterprise.

However, the implementation of ERP is a complex exercise, and many adopters have encountered problems in different phases. Once you decide to buy ERP software what are the steps you have to carry out? Hope most of you already aware that the difficulty in ERP implementation. The high failure rate in the implementation of ERP calls for a better understanding of the process. In order to reduce the failure rate of ERP implementation, a number of studies have attempted to identify the critical success factors in the implementation of ERP.

What is CSF? CSF means critical success factors here describes about success factors in the implementation of ERP. CSFs are the few key areas where ‘‘things must go right’’ for the business to ﬂourish and for the manager’s goals to be attained’. CSFs for ERP implementation bring a concept that helps an organization identify the critical issues that affect the process of implementation. Though a better understanding of the CSFs for the implementation of ERP, an organization can determine the corresponding solution to eliminate or avoid the most common causes of failure in implementation.

You can have an in-depth overview about CSF in the article ‘Examining the critical successfactors in the adoption of enterprise resource planning’. In the article, through a review of the literature across 10 different countries/regions, 18 CSFs were identiﬁed with more than 80 sub-factors, for the successful implementation of ERP. The 18 CSFs are as follows:

1. Appropriate business and IT legacy systems

2. Business plan/vision/goals/justiﬁcation

3. Business process reengineering

4. Change management culture and programme

5. Communication

6. Data management

7. ERP strategy and implementation methodology

8. ERP teamwork and composition

9. ERP vendor

10. Monitoring and evaluation of performance

11. Organizational characteristics

12. Project champion

13. Project management

14. Software development, testing, and troubleshooting

15. Top management support

16. Fit between ERP and business/process

17. National culture

18. Country-related functional requirements

Rely on Argus HRMS Software in Qatar

2011-11-09T02:11:00.000-08:00

If you are looking for HR Software, please have a look at the Argus HRMS (you can invite us for a demo), and we assure you that you can find the solution what you are facing in your organization.

The system is very user-friendly, versatile, flexible, and affordable to any range of SME companies. Also software is developed by the industry experts and it is achieved through lot of requirements from various customers.

The system includes all major features, that an HCM (Human Capital Management) requires, and can easily customizable to any extend that an enterprise wishes to do.

The system generates system alerts for various HR activities:

· Employee Cards – Visa, RP, Health, Insurance, Passport, Driving, etc

· Vehicle Cards – Road Permit, Insurance, Gate Pass, etc

· Company Cards – CR, Chamber, Computer Card, etc

· HR Preliminary Status – On Medical Booking, On Medical Check, On Fingerprint, etc.

· Vacation Status – Expected employee rejoins, Over stayed employees, Vacation employees on exceed limit (6 months), etc

· System can support more reminders based on a customer specific condition/ requirements

Other major features include:

· Passport place management – Historical record of passport place whether it is in Office/ with PRO/ Employee/ CID etc.

· Employee Status – Up to date employee status info like Present/ On Vacation/ Cancelled etc. Option to keep status for employees on – other sponsorship/ permitted outside for work/ abandoned / any

· Option to change employee status with remarks

· Employee internal transfers – Company/ location of work (keeping history)

· Leave application work flow

· Employee Benefits – Historical data of various allowances with revision date, if any

· Employee Advances, Deductions & Loans – Monthly recurring deductions, easy option to stop in a particular month and more options to manage various deductions

· Attendance – Daily/ Monthly with overtime

· Leave History & easy settlement processing

· Easy payroll processing & option to verify before processing it

· Various pay slip format for print

· Salary transfers with a transfer memo print to submit in the bank

· Project wise salary distribution

Also easy integration to accounts module - General Ledger Posting through approval

Eid Mubarak from Argus Qatar

2011-11-07T22:43:00.000-08:00

Share your files quickly around the world

2011-07-10T09:31:00.000-07:00

There are often situations when you want to share files on your PC with friends, family or colleagues. You may know the traditional ways of attaching them to emails, or uploading them to a file sharing website. Here below explaining 2 easy ways you can share files.

Dushare (www.dushare.com)
Dushare is different from browser-based files sharing sites like Yousendit and Hotshare because it doesn't involve uploading of files. Therefore, there is no waiting involved; it allows direct, encrypted P2P sharing. Once you select the file to share, it gives you a URL to share with the other person to initiate the direct transfer from your PC to theirs. While the file transfers, you can also chat with the person you're sharing the file with, right in the Dushare window. No sign-in is required.

Dropbox (www.dropbox.com)
A little more complicated than the others, but Dropbox also offers a lot of features. Rather than just share, you can sync complete folders with multiple users by downloading the Dropbox application on your Windows, Linux or Mac machine. Any changes, additions you make in the Dropbox folder on your PC will instantly be reflected in the folders of others, as long as they are connected to the Internet. A big advantage of Dropbox is that you can also use it to share files from your mobile phone (apps available for iPhone/iPod Touch, Android & Blackberry) or iPad.

Argus ERP - Inventory Valuation Methods

2011-03-09T00:13:00.000-08:00

Inventory valuation is very important for companies, as it is a major portion of assets and part of the balance sheet. So the company should valuate the inventory with most care and aware of the the valuation methods that suitable to their business environment.

When an inventory item is sold, the inventory account should be reduced (credited) and cost of goods sold should be increased (debited) for the amount paid for each inventory item. This works if a company is operating under the Specific Identification Method. That is, a company knows the cost of every individual item that is sold.

The inventory valuation method gives 2 important values 1) Cost of Good Sold (COGS) and 2) Ending Inventory. COGS shows on the Income Statement, while Ending Inventory shows on the Balance Sheet. Company inventory value can be determined as

Ending Inventory = Beginning Inventory + Purchases – COGS

There are three inventory-costing methods that are widely used by both public and private companies (Argus Inventory Software supports):

1. First-In, First-Out (FIFO) - This method assumes that the units sold are oldest units on hand.

2. Last-In, First-Out (LIFO) - This method assumes that the units sold are newest units on hand.

3. Average Cost - This method assumes that the weighted average of all units available for sale

Importance of Inventory Valuation

When dealing with inventory items, we know the market shows different trends in trading of various products. The prices tend to increase or decrease, which means the choice of valuation method can dramatically affect ending inventory.

If prices are increasing, each of the valuations methods produces the following results:

FIFO gives us a better indication of the value of ending inventory (on the balance sheet). It also increases net income because less cost old inventory is used to value the cost of goods sold. But should note that increase the amount of taxes that a company must pay.
LIFO is not a good indicator of ending inventory value because the left over inventory might be extremely old and, perhaps, obsolete. This results in a valuation that is much lower than today's prices. LIFO results in lower net income because cost of goods sold is higher.
Average cost produces results that fall somewhere between FIFO and LIFO.

If prices are decreasing then the complete opposite of the above is true.

For your company, you can review these valuation methods and decide one of them suitable to you. The chosen method must be applied consistently from year to year.

Argus Web Development Process Cycle

2011-02-20T22:27:00.000-08:00

The internet is becoming part of everybody's life in Qatar, from schoolchildren through to senior executives. Increasing internet access in homes, schools and businesses is a key part of Qatar's economic development strategy, building the foundations for the advancement of its knowledge economy.

I feel the Qatar market is becoming more competitive day by day and most business organizations started to think of taking maximum advantage of suitable latest technologies. Argus is researching the market to know the latest trends and serving our valued customers with most care for the last 3 years. For a business, as you aware, first important thing you need a website. Before developing a website, we know that you set your main objective as - a visitor of your web should get utmost impression or feeling than the one who visit your office/ organization. At Argus, we develop your websites with most care and through well defined life cycle steps.

Like any software, website development also requires standard methodologies and procedures. We would like to engage in a web project after a detailed preliminary study only. Before undertaking any project, there is an introduction and consultation phase, in which we gathered important information about the client’s business and their audience. So that we can set the goals – how can the site best serve the needs of the client and the users?

It is important for you to know and convey the purpose of your website, the intended audience of your website, and the message you want to communicate via your website. These will vary depending upon your line of business and whether you are a commercial business, or are a non-profit or political organization.

We will do a detailed study about client’s needs and how we can create a site that will effectively communicate with the audiences they would like to reach. We will draft a sitemap and discuss with them again with more options and recommendations. We can explain the strategy that we applied in organizing the site and listen carefully your feedbacks for changes and modifications.

Argus website development process can be divided in to different life cycle steps as follows:
1. Requirement Analysis
2. Planning
3. Development Proposal
4. Acceptance & Contract
5. Content Collection
6. Content Writing – optional
7. Concept Design and Approval
8. Development
9. Evaluation and Assessment
10. Final updates and project launch
11. Promotion
12. Maintenance

POS solutions and Accounting Software in Qatar

2011-02-06T00:29:00.000-08:00

Are you looking POS (Point of Sales) with strong inventory and financial accounting modules in Qatar? I will try to give you some guide lines to select a good one for your business success in future.

Finding a POS for you is not simple, you can find several ready available POS software, but you are not sure whether which one is good one for you and whether can incorporate your own specified requirements. So how can you choose the best one? It should be based on lot factors, try to find the important questions you should ask your self to find the answers. In every POS you may be find lot of features, some of that one you required, some not required, and some you need to customise as per your requirements.

Why I am suggesting you to think well before selecting a POS, from our earlier experience with customers, most of them not happy with ready available POS, as they can’t customise as per change to the business requirements. It is possible to find a good one as per your requirements which is less expensive as well as increase the profits of your business. Become the leader in your business by choosing perfect software for your point of sales with inventory management and financial accounting integration.

Major 3 objectives of POS solutions are

1) Save time

2) Provide improved control over sales

3) Provide improved service to customers

However most of these solutions available in market, may involve high cost of ownership, complex setup, and rigorous training requirements. So you have to make sure whether your selection removes these barriers with an easy to use, customisable and affordable solution.

Selecting Accounting Software for your business in Qatar

2011-01-24T22:42:00.000-08:00

Present business age, nobody can think of doing business with out using computers. Not only computers, you should have a proper business accounting software to manage your business efficiently. Especially Qatar market is growing rapidly and people looking latest technologies to compete others by improving the business performance in all areas. One of the main concern is to automate your business transactions, say, using a good accounting software. You can see lot of offering from various companies with different look and feel.

Accounting software can not only help you reduce human errors in your calculations, but it can help you gain insights into your business that you couldn't see in paper form such as generating sales forecasts for the next quarter, determining which items are overstocked, and pinpointing your least profitable service.

Finding the best accounting software program for your business can be a challenge, with an explosion of shrink-wrapped software products and online application offerings. In order to choose a business accounting software program, you need to understand some business accounting basics, take a good look at your business and its accounting needs, and assess the products available today. Finding a good one is not easy task, you have to check some factors relate to it and take a decision. Understand your business needs and choose a business accounting software that best suits your business.

You have to study your primary requirements first. What modules and features you need in the system. Decide first whether basic needs enough or you require in detailed. The major another thing, you should have budget. Budget should balance with your requirement as you can’t expect a full feature one with very less budget.

Before selecting a vendor for your software product, you should consider the following matters to have a right decision based on that:

1. The size of your business

2. Modules and features that you required

3. Financial resources like budget for software & hardware

4. Company environment and staffs to adapt the changes with software

5. Ease of use

6. Vendor availability and reputation

7. Post implementation support

All above factors are equal important, other wise, the software may not 100% success in any enterprise. So study first to select a right vendor for a right implementation plan and get continuous guidance whenever required.

Strategic technologies for 2011

2011-01-08T23:08:00.000-08:00

If you are interested in technology, I am sure you heard about ‘Gartner’, the world’s leading IT research and Advisory Company, delivers the technology related insight necessary for corporations, government agencies, to business leaders and professional firms.

On end of last year, Gartner published the report, that top 10 technologies and trends for most organizations in 2011. David Cearley, vice president at Gartner said: companies should factor these top 10 technologies in their strategic planning process by asking key questions and making deliberate decisions about them during the next 2 years.

The top 10 strategic technologies for 2011 include:

1. Cloud Computing. Cloud computing services exist along a spectrum from open public to closed private. Vendors will offer packaged private cloud implementations that deliver the vendor's public cloud service technologies and methodologies in a form that can be implemented inside the consumer's enterprise.

2. Mobile Applications and Media Tablets. Mobile devices are becoming computers in their own right, with an astounding amount of processing ability and bandwidth.

3. Social Communications and Collaboration. Social media can be divided into: (1) Social networking —MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and Friendster (2) Social collaboration —wikis, blogs, instant messaging, collaborative office, and crowd sourcing (3)Social publishing —YouTube and flickr (4) Social feedback -YouTube, flickr, Digg, Del.icio.us, and Amazon.

4. Video. Technology trends in digital photography, consumer electronics, the web, social software, unified communications, digital and Internet-based television and mobile computing are all reaching critical tipping points that bring video into the mainstream.

5. Next Generation Analytics. Increasing compute capabilities of computers including mobile devices along with improving connectivity are enabling a shift in how businesses support operational decisions. It is becoming possible to run simulations or models to predict the future outcome, rather than to simply provide backward looking data about past interactions, and to do these predictions in real-time to support each individual business action.

6. Social Analytics. Social analytics describes the process of measuring, analyzing and interpreting the results of interactions and associations among people, topics and ideas.

7. Context-Aware Computing. Context-aware computing centers on the concept of using information about an end user or object’s environment, activities connections and preferences to improve the quality of interaction with that end user. The end user may be a customer, business partner or employee.

8. Storage Class Memory. Gartner sees huge use of flash memory in consumer devices, entertainment equipment and other embedded IT systems. It also offers a new layer of the storage hierarchy in servers and client computers that has key advantages — space, heat, performance and ruggedness among them.

9. Ubiquitous Computing. The work of Mark Weiser and other researchers at Xerox's PARC paints a picture of the coming third wave of computing where computers are invisibly embedded into the world. As computers proliferate and as everyday objects are given the ability to communicate with RFID tags and their successors, networks will approach and surpass the scale that can be managed in traditional centralized ways.

10. Fabric-Based Infrastructure and Computers. A fabric-based computer is a modular form of computing where a system can be aggregated from separate building-block modules connected over a fabric or switched backplane.

Happy New Year from Argus Technologies Qatar

2010-12-30T20:59:00.000-08:00

How to Promote or Improve your business using IT Soutions

2010-12-28T07:06:00.000-08:00

When Qatar won the World cup 2022, every business owners may delighted with high confidence. Qatar promised to spend $50 billion on infrastructure upgrades and $4 billion to build nine stadiums and renovate three others. So construction activity in Qatar is expected to witness a significant surge. This will catalyse a lot of a lot of infrastructure projects and hope for business owners to do further investments.

So what you think in relate with technology, no doubt, that is must for any business. Surely, business owners might be looking competitive advantage over others. My suggestion is to ask the following questions to self and find answers. How can you catch this opportunity to grow your business? How can you improve your business? How can you promote your business? Want a surefire way to increase your business this year? You should think of technologies that can help you to do business right way by competing others/ improving your performance.

Website

Your business simply has to have a website. These days, that's not a very expensive endeavor. A Web site has become nearly as essential as a telephone or fax machine or printed brochure. Increasingly, people search the Web rather than the Yellow Pages when looking for a service or product. Providing information to your customers takes time, whether it’s on the phone, face-to-face, in a brochure, or in emails. With an online catalogue you can provide lots of information about your products and services. Once your website is up and running, it is available to your customers indefinitely, saving you time.

Make use of email & online marketing

Email is one of the best methods of online marketing and it doesn't cost you much to use it. Marketing having to do with email includes:

· Make use of the automatic signature. It should include your name, contact information and website. You can also highlight promotions that you're running or specific services in your signature.

· Contact lists. Email is a terrific way of staying in touch with clients and potential clients. Make sure to include all new contacts in your email address book.

· E-newsletters. You can create a brief newsletter which you email to everyone in your address book. This keeps your name on people's minds and gives them a reason to learn about what you're doing

Luckily, the Internet offers numerous methods of online marketing (SEO and SEM) that don't cost a lot of money. You can find the methods helpful for gaining website traffic and increasing customer flow to the business.

Automation of business (ERP Software)

The business solution helps you to run your business smoothly and to promote growth in business. Look for software that can integrate all the key business operations, synchronizing all those, gives new planning and optimizing the resources available for the business. The automation of your business help significantly improve your business metrics by process optimization, better inventory control, better reporting to take decisions, integration across functionality and increasing transparency across the company. Purchase department can see the sales department data, Sales department can see inventory data, and top management can see any data on a click of single button.

How ERP system benefits your business ?

2010-12-27T07:27:00.000-08:00

Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP in short, is the business solution, which helps an organization to run its business smoothly and to promote growth in business. ERP has been designed and developed in such a way that it can integrate all the key business operations, synchronizing all those, gives new planning and optimizing the resources available for the business.

ERP is not just software it is a combination of software, processes and procedures used to reduce redundancy, create efficiency and provide a platform for growth. So the solution can be accomplished through 3 major areas:

1. Software

2. Implementation/training/ process

3. Guidance

The software provides that foundation, it is basically the tool to process the information. The best software system is the one that does what your organization needs it to do. Keep in mind that even the best system doesn't work if you don’t set it up and use it properly. Don’t get me wrong the software is important but not everything.

The main difficulties that an organization feels in order to run a business are the need of quick information. For making any crucial decision for running business one has to have all information with them and also the information which they require at any point of time should reach to them immediately. ERP improves coordination between all operations; it can simultaneously streamline the workflows and processes them according to the priority level, and hence giving benefits to the user. After installation of a proper ERP system the organization becomes more active in terms of time management. Another vital importance of ERP is of better marketing opportunities. ERP investigate every segment properly and thus gives solution to many debacles existing in an enterprise.

The implementation of ERP system has helped small and mid sized companies, significantly improve their business metrics by process optimization, improving the entire business process, better inventory control, better reporting to take decisions, integration across functionality and increasing transparency across the company. Purchase department can see the sales department data, Sales department can see inventory data, and top management can see any data on a click of single button.

The introduction of ERP in any company has also helped it move up the value chain in term of market credibility and building the confidence of its customer, stakeholders and vendors. Most of the small and mid sized companies were living with in-house developed applications which are non-integrated and on disparate technology architectures. This has resulted in running with redundant technology, loss of support, non availability or less availability of critical information at the right time resulting in overall business loss.

Choosing the right Inventory Management Software

2010-12-26T23:19:00.000-08:00

Why to have Inventory control software for you business?

Inventory control software systems have become inevitable in almost all of the business today. Inventory control software is a constitutional part of keeping the business moving fluently, whether it is an intense production unit or some service-oriented industry. The usage of software tools specifically designed for inventory control and management run deep into a company’s long way in keeping a company’s wheels running smoothly.

Inventory control software helps in inventory tracking and controlling the levels of stock, both real-time as well as batch stocks. The software usually has interfaces that can determine when stock needs to be reordered or needs to be scaled down because of less demand, which gives user the complete control over the inventory life cycle. This helps to keep the inventory always stocked up so that the user would never ever lose an order because of insufficient stock. The software can also spot potentially unwanted and old dying stock. It can track sales by drawing out intelligent trends and fact sheets over a period of time and report on orders that are expected to follow.

Argus Inventory Management solution in Qatar offers the most of the features, which is affordable to any small to medium business organizations.

Choosing Accounting Software for your business

2010-12-26T23:02:00.000-08:00

The accounting software systems provide major advantages such as speed and accuracy of operation, and, perhaps most importantly, the ability to see the real-time state of the company’s financial position. When using a computerized accounting system the on computer, input screens have been designed for ease of use. The computerized ledger system is fully integrated. This means that when a business transaction input on the computer, it is recorded in a number of different accounting records at the same time.

If you are just getting started in a business and want to make keeping the accounts yourself a bit easier, you can do this with accounting software. There are all sorts of different types of software you can get for accounting purposes, so it can be difficult to decide just which software is right for you. You will need to think carefully about your accounting needs to make it easier to narrow down the options that are available.

First of all, you want to figure out what features you need from your accounting software, since this will determine whether you will be able to start with a basic program or whether you will need something that is a bit more advanced. Especially if you don't have any employees and are just getting started you will probably be able to manage with a basic software package.

When you are choosing your software program you will want to look into the reviews for the various programs in order to learn more about the pros and cons of each type of software so you can make a more informed decision on which one to use for your business.

Of course if your financial transactions are complicated and you have a lot of them, you might want to get an accounting program that can be customized to suit your needs. These types of programs are likely to be more expensive, but they will make things easier for you overall so the added expense is probably worth it.

You will probably want to choose a program that is relatively easy to learn and to use in order to set up your accounts, so you won't have to spend a lot of time doing this. Once you get set up a program like this should save you time.

Property Management Software in Qatar

2010-12-25T07:15:00.000-08:00

Some years back, when we planned to develop ERP applications for various industries, we noticed the booming Rea estate industry in Qatar and lack of good real estate applications to meet customer demands. So we decided to take this challenge and started to research on this domain. We met several property managers and financial experts to have a good exposure, to know what are the major concern/ issues in this industry. We did a detailed study and could develop a very user-friendly Real estate management software fully integrated with financial accounts. We still continuing our research and development, and listening carefully to our customers to make this solution a perfect one with maximum features.

What you expect from real estate software? Simply the software helps the property owners or the property managers on their certain jobs like keeping tenancy contracts, tracking of the rental properties/ rental units, tracking of payments from tenants, post dated cheque management, auto/manual monthly rental posting, prepaid rent, monthly rental status, computation of income and expenses, maintaining properties, distribution of admin expenses among properties to find the property wise profit, calculation of rental shares for investors, property & unit ledgers and much more. People with multiple rental properties or company having several properties would have a lot of advantage in real estate software because it makes the tracking of payments easier. The system includes various modules like Real estate, Financial Accounts, HR and Payroll, Projects and Fixed Assets.

The primary purpose of automating your real estate activities, in any industry, is to facilitate the normal flow of business. Software should drive you to work easier without compromising the specific tasks required. Essentially, a useful package will address every aspect of the workflow with minimal workaround and reduce the need for manual intervention. Effective software should not dictate operations; it should enhance how a company conducts business. We provide clear workflows, addressing the major issues that property management firms face, though very user-friendly screens and easy steps.

How the system benefits you to achieve your objectives? If you are part of a property management company, I am sure the system helps to increase your satisfaction by meeting all of your requesting problems or can customize the application based on your requirements. During development time, we go through several reputed international software that help us to present major features in our software, in a simple way.

Internet marketing solutions in Qatar

2010-12-23T00:03:00.000-08:00

Just for a while, I am thinking about the world some years back without internet, how the people communicated and shared the things each other. And now, where we reached, in the world of internet and with lot of latest technologies to get connected very faster, beyond what we can imagine.

In business, before Internet age, business owners were usually limited to a local market -resorting to expensive advertising and brochures, direct mail, cold-calling, networking at the local Chamber of Commerce or Rotary. You hoped customers found you through word- of- mouth or a Yellow Pages ad.

The Internet has increased the expectation among consumers that businesses will have a credible online presence. Many of us now form "first impressions" of people and companies via our Internet browsers. From the moment your name and business appear in a Web browser to the moment your Web site loads, your first impression often means the difference between a shot at your prospect's business, or being shut out.

So, you can’t think of doing any business without internet technology and now the market is very competitive, every business owners seeking all possible advanced technologies to compete with others. If you're not taking maximum advantage of internet or web technology to market your products and services, you are behind the times, and missing out on huge opportunities. At least that's what most marketing experts would have you believe. Explore strategies and techniques that you can use on the Internet that will enhance and support your business's overall marketing objectives. Learn how to conduct banner promotions, generate targeted online traffic, positioning your content, and over all brand awareness.

You may be hearing the term internet marketing always, Internet marketing refers to the strategies that are used to market a product or service online, marketing strategies that include search engine optimization and search engine submission, copywriting that encourages site visitors to take action, web site design strategies, online promotions, reciprocal linking, and email marketing – and that’s just hitting the highlights. If you’re new to Internet marketing, I recommend focusing on web design and search engine optimization as a starting point; for most sites, the most traffic still comes from search engines and directories.

Email marketing lists are also a great way to stay in touch with your customers and their effective use can provide a valuable marketing and information channel. The benefits are two fold with the ability for marketers to use them to heighten brand awareness whilst strengthening customer relationships. Newsletters and other marketing can be used to let customers know about new products or services as well as provide segment relevant information to them designed to offer value and a “good read”.

Internet marketing can attract more people to your website, increase customers for your business, and enhance branding of your company and products. If you are just beginning your online marketing strategy the top list below will get you started on a plan that has worked for many.

1. Start with a web promotion plan and an effective web design and development strategy.

2. Get ranked at the top in major search engines, and practice good Search Optimization Techniques.

3. Search engine marketing (SEM) & Sponsored link

4. Learn to use Email Marketing Effectively.

5. Presence on Social medias like facebook and twitter

6. Blog and interact with your visitors.

What matters most in Search Engine?

1. Which websites link to you

2. Number of websites linking to you

3. Google Page Rank (PR) of the website linking to you

4. Anchor text used in the link linking to you

5. Number & type of links linking to the website links to you

6. Whether or not the websites linking to you are deemed by Google as authority website

Why Argus technologies?

Because of the extensive research, development and execution experience by creating search engine friendly website and content management systems, backed by an excellent off shore research team capable of analyzing global internet ideas & trends.

ERP Software in Qatar

2010-12-11T07:09:00.000-08:00

Are you looking for an ERP Software? I think the first factor you may be keep in mind to find a cheap one. A cheap software system doesn’t mean it’s the best solution to your needs, that may be, if you have very minimum requirements . Do a minimum study about the system before selecting a cheap solution. Many factors come into play when purchasing an expensive or cheap ERP Software. This decision will determine how successful you company will be now and in the future. Operating your company efficiently and productively should be of most importance and far greater than saving a few thousand riyals.

What you have to remember is your company will be using this software daily and calling in for support. Will your company receive adequate and proper training? If you have communication barriers not allowing your employees to get the proper support and or training your company as a whole will suffer.

What should you look for in an ERP Vendor?

Consider the following factors

1.    Ensure the company is in your country and speaks your language.
2.    Ask detailed questions about customization and modifications.
3.    Determine if the support and training will ensure success within your company.
4.    Look at their current client list and see if you fit in this industry.
5.    Ensure you’re allowed modifying the software internally within the company.
6.    Ensure you have the ability to still receive the greatest and latest upgrades from the company.
7.    Hourly rate of the programmers when support or training is acceptable.
8.    Vendor employees giving you more attention to your queries or how they are available to serve you.
9.    Determine the skill level of the ERP Vendors programmers. Ask advanced questions and see how long it takes to get an answer back.

10. Do your research. Talk to other company’s that use their software and see if they’re happy with their service.

HR and Payroll Software in Qatar

2010-12-10T23:59:00.000-08:00

Regardless, whether your business has smaller or bigger number of employees, you should need HR and Payroll software. When we suggesting HR software, we know that too many business owners continue to drag their feet about the subject. On one hand they have been told plenty of times that it is a very important element of a successful business. On the other hand, they don’t want to implement something new for their business.

Employee dissatisfaction and turnover are costly to companies and can reduce the competitive edge in this challenging market. HR is faced with the daunting task of keeping costs under control, keeping employees motivated and productive. What you need to realize though is that it really only takes a short span of time to implement a great HR software system. Knowing how it is going to perform is the secret to such success.

Argus HR and Payroll Management Solution bring greater organization and effectiveness to the full range of Human Resources functions and responsibilities. It provides for easy, accurate and timely retrieval of Employee and activity-oriented information through menu driven, user-friendly operations. It makes payroll processing a simple job that any company can accomplish in-house. More over, the software gives you all the information and options you need to process your own payroll in house and save money.

The system shows an auto reminder report on regular period of intervals for various document’s expiry dates. If Documents are not renewed on time, the system has the facility to show reminder report to the concerned manager’s based on the reminder settings. The manager can view the reason / review remarks written by the corresponding staff. You just imagine the return on investment (ROI), if you could save minimum 3 penalties in a month. You major ROI is that, you could operate your business with minimum HR staff for any number of work forces very effectively. The various Document expiries include the following:

v Employee Documents – Visa, RP, Health Card, Insurance Card, Driving License, Passport, etc

v Vehicle Documents – Road Permit, Insurance, Service Date, etc

v Company Documents – Computer Card, Trade License, Chamber of Commerce Certificate, Tenancy Contract, etc.

v PRO Documents – Labour Computer Card, Immigration Card, e-Card, etc

v Office Equipment Documents – Warranty expiry, AMC expiry, etc

The solution streamlines leave administration and provide flexibility in the handling of multiple leave types and definitions. Track any or all attendance categories; annual/vacation, sick, without pay, emergency, or retire. Employees can directly enter leave requests, which are then routed through the Workflow module to obtain the appropriate approvals.

Do you often need to offer information for business meetings? Why spend your time collecting the data and then compiling it. When you have an effective HR software in place you will be able to generate such reports easily.

When you are ready to get such a program, not only from us, from variable sources, you want to make sure it can offer every thing that you need for your business. That way you will give your employees what they need to accurate complete their work. They can usually do it in less time too with HR software to assist them. Imagine how much more relaxed the work environment will be. You can also be certain those employees will have time to help you with different tasks for your business as they crop up instead of being too overwhelmed with their current work load.

For more details http://www.argusqatar.com/products.html#hr

Flash based web sites in Qatar

2010-12-08T21:54:00.000-08:00

Everybody knows about Flash, see lot of good looking flash intros and full flash web sites. Even though full flash sites require more download time initially, it will be good looking and people like to see.

Flash is a very popular website design in the world due to its ability to create high quality and light weight animations, images and website layouts. One of the primary reasons of using Flash to design websites is its ability to increase the visibility of the websites manifold, by making them stand out, as compared to other design technologies.

However, from search engine optimization (SEO) point of view, it’s not a good idea to design your website completely in Flash. Ideally, your website should have a blend of Flash animations for visual effects and HTML for SEO purposes.

Flash has unlimited potential to produce great looking website designs. Having Flash banners and Flash intro at your website is almost vital in today's competitive Internet environment.

Recently, Argus developed a full flash website for B5Design

Have a look in Argus Web Showcase http://www.argusqatar.com/newPortfolio.html

Web design and development in Qatar

2010-12-06T00:14:00.000-08:00

For any business, the 3 basic things most startups need to survive today are: Skilled entrepreneurs, funds and believe it or not, a website!

Your business should have a presence on the web so that your customers, partners and employees can find your relevant information on the internet. Nowadays, most of us would sooner turn to the web to find what we need than look elsewhere. Search engines are much more quick and easy than reaching for the phonebook, newspaper, catalog, or to find what we're looking for.

As your business grows you should update your website with as much customer facing information as possible, means you should prefer to develop a dynamic site or CMS sites. There are several CMS software using for web development and some of them are Drupal, Joomla, Word press, etc. The customization is possible and we can help you to decide which better suits your needs.

The features of an ideal CMS are:

1. Tools that help users update and modify website content easily and with minimum technical effort,

2. They should have intuitive navigation and can set up functional site structure,

3. Appealing design,

4. Must support a fully configurable graphic design, and

5. Should promote good website practices.

Argus Technology is the one stop solution provider for best quality bilingual (English, Arabic) static, dynamic, full flash, ecommerce and CMS website in Qatar.

CONGRATS QATAR FOR THE GREAT ACHIEVEMENT...

2010-12-03T06:03:00.000-08:00

MABROOK QATAR...MABROOK EVERYONE...

Argus Qatar Congratulates to Qatar for the great achievement.

We deserve it and aware of Qatar is a nation ready to utilize and develop the newest technologies for the benefit of the world of sport.

E-commerce / Shopping Cart web applications in Qatar

2010-12-01T10:22:00.000-08:00

E-commerce websites enables great innovation for business owners to start and operate profitable businesses. With an e-commerce web, you’re able to reach your customers easily with targeted marketing. Shopping cart is software used in e-commerce to selling online or looking to streamline your online sales and marketing, your business depends on the right tools to effectively engage prospects and customers.

osCmax is a powerful e-commerce/shopping cart web application. There are many advantages to using osCmax as your e-commerce/shopping cart for your web site. It has all the features needed to run a successful internet store and can be customized to whatever configuration you need.

osCmax is a clean open source commerce program that is loaded with the most popular add-on contributions. It is a good choice for someone who wants more than a basic store, but also wants to be able to customize their store with special add-ons.

osCMax is a powerful and flexible e-commerce shopping cart and inventory tracking system. osCMax is 100% customizable, and supports all the major payment gateways. Tens of thousands of web sites run osCMax already, from small startup sites, to extremely high volume established companies.

Argus developed lot of websites using osCMax and having good expertise on it. See some of our websites shown below:

And much more...

Argus offers web development using various open source software: Drupal, Joomla, osCMax, Wordpress, Zen Cart, and Magento.

Web development in Qatar using Drupal and Joomla

2010-11-29T01:09:00.000-08:00

A CMS (content management system) is a software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, etc. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Without a good CMS, most web site owners would not be capable of setting up their site and maintaining it on a daily basis, as that would require a great deal of technical knowledge and persistence.

There are lot of open source CMS available. We can use any of this software to enhance web site management capabilities, and even build new CMS around the core system. If you would like to take advantage of such software, then go through the following top two open source CMS that Argus having good expertise:

Drupal

Drupal is one of the best open source CMS available, primarily because of its incredible capability to replicate the functionality of all other CMS, within a slightly more complex interface of course.

Joomla

Joomla enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available.

Argus developed several web sites using the open source CMS

Drupal

Joomla

Argus Qatar is the one stop solution provider for best quality bilingual (English, Arabic) static, dynamic, full flash, e-commerce and CMS websites in Qatar.

See Argus Web showcase http://www.argusqatar.com/newPortfolio.html

Websites, SEO and SEM in Qatar - Argus Profile

2010-11-22T21:58:00.000-08:00

"A penny saved is a penny earned"

Whatever may be your business interest, it needs genius marketing strategies to make it successful. The online business too needs the same strategy with much more concentration as internet is the catching up in Qatar. Your company needs to adopt compelling online marketing strategies to promote your business online and to attract more eyeballs.

Argus Offering?

Argus can boast of this venture as pioneer company to provide Websites, SEO, and SEM solution in Qatar with highly talented technical team who enables and monitors website activities at all time. Argus enables its client’s idea to put into practice with professional impressions across all online media.

What is Search Engine Optimization [SEO]?

SEO helps visitors find their website using the targeted keywords and phrases that best describe your business products and services

Search Engine Marketing & Sponsored link [SEM]

Common terms

Pay Per Click (PPC)

Advertising campaign is designed to help you to achieve your search engine marketing (SEM) objectives. It’s a prepaid service where Paid Amount get deducted when click occurs on link.

Link Popularity

Link popularity increases the popularity of the website, search engine consider link popularity for website ranking. It’s based on the Public Relation *PR+ activities happens on World Wide Web.

Social Media Marketing

Social Media Marketing plays an active role by distribution of your content and message related to your business through the social web and some form of viral marketing.

Viral Marketing

Viral marketing (word-of-mouth marketing) is a really cool thing. Just think about it... instead of spending an insane amount of money on newspapers ads, TV commercials or banner ads, you spent nothing - and let your fans do all the work for you.

Impressions

Number of time each page load to give you a view of that page.

An advertisement's appearance on an accessed Web page. For example, if the page you're on shows three ads, that's three impressions. Advertisers use impressions to measure the number of views their ads receive, and publishers often sell ad space according to impressions. (It can be tough to know, though, whether an impression really means a visitor saw the ad, since they could be browsing without graphics or might not have scrolled down far enough.) Impressions are tracked in a log maintained by a site server and are often sold on a cost per hundred basis

Landing pages: Instead taking a visitor from the search result link to your website, searcher will directly land in a page of relevance what he is looking for.

What matters most in Search Engine?

1. Which websites link to you
2. Number of websites linking to you
3. Google Page Rank (PR) of the website linking to you
4. Anchor text used in the link linking to you
5. Number & type of links linking to the website links to you
6. Whether or not the websites linking to you are deemed by Google as authority website

Why Argus technologies?

Because of the extensive research, development and execution experience by creating search engine friendly website and content management systems, backed by an excellent off shore research team capable of analyzing global internet ideas & trends.

Eid Mubarak from Argus Technologies WLL...

2010-11-12T22:26:00.000-08:00

Argus ERP Software for SME in Qatar

2010-11-09T22:46:00.000-08:00

Argus ERP software is developed purely in Qatar through several years of research and development. We have a thorough understanding of requirements that Qatar businesses come up with and therefore, have designed and developed the product in accordance. Our number of satisfied customers during the last 2 years indicates that Argus ERP is certainly the leader in SME market. Our focus is on SMEs because they present the largest potential.

IT is always very difficult to convince people about the benefit of a new system. This is not due to any short comings in the system, but the people who are used to work on an earlier system for years will not accept the changes that easily. We are trying to educate the Qatar market, that will help the users understand the benefit of it. It can bring a lot of benefit to the users as well as the organization. Working methods will become much easier for the users. This will make the users getting more time to concentrate on their job instead of breaking their heads to carry out their usual work.

Argus ERP for SME is designed to provide the small and medium enterprises to implement a suitable resource planning which will guarantee a return on investment, thus making it to grow their business beyond their expectations and margins.

The key operational factors for SME is to increase operation efficiency, boosts productivity, and deliver product to customer. The major obstacle for the SMEs is the cost element associated with ERP implementation, which are usually very expensive. Argus ERP is priced at various levels and be afforded by even very small industrial units.

Business applications and Web solutions

2010-11-08T12:04:00.000-08:00

Web Design Qatar

2010-11-08T11:51:00.000-08:00

Website design and development
CMS Sites - Joomla & Drupal
Full flash websites
Presentation CDs
E news letter management
Mass mail blasting
Search Engine Optimization
Content Writing
Online PR services to answer your web queries

What's MEA enterprises looking for innovation, BPM or ERP or Both?

2010-10-20T23:03:00.000-07:00

I have gone through lot of articles and blogs and do some study what would be the Middle East market looking. What I discovered is that the MEA Region is about 3 years behind the global market in its access to and evaluation of BPM and ERP solutions.

And many people have asked me about the differences between ERP and BPM.
Questions include:

How does BPM compare with ERP?
Does BPM compete with ERP, does it replace ERP, or can it co-exist with ERP?
What is the value of BPM to me?
Which should I do first?

I would like input on this matter. But I submit the following:

ERP: In simplified terms, I see ERP as a way to integrate the data layer of different processes (e.g. AP/AR, Payroll, Order Entry) within larger processes (e.g., Financials, HR, SCM). Although workflow is an embedded part of any ERP system, it is not intended to support enterprise processes. The workflow itself is functionally-driven (e.g., materials management) vs process-driven, where the process can potentially span many different functions (e.g., requisitioning, recruiting). The value ERP provides is an integrated system and single view into customer data. The data is updated on demand. Customers expect ERP to support their processes, but often they have to change their process to match ERP best practices. As a result, ERP software and implementation costs are significant.

BPM : In contrast, BPM enables users to create business applications incorporating different people, data and documents, which in turn span multiple divisions, systems and/or data sources. Process function is almost irrelevant. In a structured BPM scenario, workflow activities derive from specific rules (i.e., roles, responsibilities, policies, procedures, deadlines, escalations). In a dynamic BPM scenario, users completely control routing in run-time. The value BPM provides is a platform to create multiple applications that improve productivity (effectiveness, efficiency), greater business agility (traceability, innovation, optimization), and ensured compliance (auditability). Furthermore, process definition components are reusable and changeable.

BPM might compete with and/or replace ERP on smaller scale projects. BPM absolutely compliments ERP by creating a "single view" into processes spanning multiple groups/systems (e.g., customer on-boarding, purchase requests). BPM also covers processes that fall completely outside of ERP systems such as Correspondence Management, Project Management, and Action Tracking.

In summary:

ERP provides very good embedded workflow, but poor enterprise workflow. BPM supports both functional and enterprise workflow scenarios.
BPM is far more agile than ERP systems, where BPM requires on average 3 months to implement versus 20 months for ERP. Change management is also faster with BPM.
ERP often needs BPM to help realize its full value.
If BPM isn't for use with ERP, why do so many vendors provide adapters?

So again you think, BPM or ERP or both? I will come to you with more details…

Argus Contact Management Software

2010-10-10T02:19:00.000-07:00

Argus web based contact software, manages all your business contacts in a user-friendly, web-based environment available 24/7/365 to your organisation. In addition to the standard Contact information fields, Argus can customize the data fields as per your requirements. That way, you are in control over what information you want to save about your Contacts.

Argus Contact Management Software Features:

Best for your employee, customer or supplier contact details
Web based software to manage the database online
Easy search facility for contacts
Email facilities – email uploads and sending
SMS facilities – to send SMS messages to available contacts
Admin User to manage the data
News section allows you to update the latest events/ things to all contacts
Link to the company web site

An Essential Web Marketing Tool to boost your clientele

2010-09-21T23:41:00.000-07:00

Email Marketing is the latest form of direct marketing conducted through electronic mails. With a motive to convince new customers about products or services, emails are forwarded to millions of people around the globe. The email is also sent with purpose to establish good-will with old customers and inform potential customers about new product or services.

This mode of marketing is widely used by millions of businessman as it is inexpensive, helps you reach customer outside few diameters and easily reaches just within few seconds. It also helps in overall brand recalling and positioning.

From promotional emails to newsletters, email marketing activity will produce strong results for you as long as you say the right thing, in the right way, at the right time, to the right person.

Email Marketing – the benefits

Quicker and cheaper than direct communication.
Speed of response.
Targeting according to user preferences.
Personalization.
Immediately trackable and measurable.
Drive more qualified traffic.
Increase leads and sales.
Maximize brand visibility.
Give your site a competitive advantage.
Become a cost effective addition to your online marketing mix.

Use E-mail Marketing to acquire New Customers

Sending direct promotional emails to try and acquire new customers or persuade existing customers to buy again
Sending emails designed to encourage customer loyalty and enhance the customer relationship
Placing your marketing messages or advertisements in emails sent by other people

The reason for email marketing popularity

Email marketing is so popular because:

Sending email is much cheaper than most other forms of communication
Email lets you deliver your message to the people
Email marketing has proven very successful for those who do it by right way.

Email marketing is one of the most powerful marketing tools available to businesses of all types and sizes. No matter how define success, One can achieve outstanding results with email marketing while investing only a small amount of time and an even smaller amount of money. 54% of small businesses surveyed rated e-mail as the top online promotion to drive site visitors and customers to their web sites. It has the inherent advantages of being 'faster, cheaper and easier' to execute. Coupled with the potential to target more precisely than today's solo or shared mailers, there's a real win for the small business owner.

Email Marketing is not Expensive

Email marketing is an affordable way to stretch a tight marketing budget. Unlike direct mail, there is virtually no production, materials or postage expense. Email marketing is 20 times more cost effective than direct mail, and can cost as little as fractions of a penny per email.

Email Marketing is very Effective

Email marketing enables you to proactively communicate with your existing customers and prospects instead of passively waiting for them to return to your Web site. It is a highly effective way to increase sales, drive site or store traffic and develop loyalty.

Email Marketing Generate Immediate Response

Email marketing generates an immediate response. The call to action is clear: "Click here to take advantage of this offer", or "to learn more about this service". Initial campaign response generally occurs within 48 hours of the time the email campaign is sent.

Email Marketing to Targeted Segment

You can easily segment your lists using a variety of criteria or interest groups so that your promotions go to the individuals most likely to respond to your offer.

Email Marketing is Easy

There are Web based email marketing products for small and medium businesses. Most include professional HTML templates, list segmentation and targeting capabilities, as well as, automatic tracking and reporting. Email marketing gives your brand an edge in a tough market. Daily, weekly, or even monthly emails will keep your brand in your target consumer’s mind. As more and more of the population begin to use email, internet email marketing will become a standard in the marketing industry.

For further details and information contact us!!

Have you heard about Argus Qatar

2010-09-20T22:25:00.000-07:00

CMS Websites verses Static websites

2010-06-08T07:39:00.000-07:00

Websites are an important part of your business. They operate as a virtual shop front, a cyber window, into your business world. A static web site does not allow any content modifications by the user. But, Content Management Systems, CMS, are software systems that allow users / groups of users to update the content on a web site.

For ore details, see the following questions -

Do you want to update your site regularly with new articles and information?
Will your site be updated by several users and be able to keep track of changes?
Do you want to have online product catalogues or shopping carts?
Do you want to use your site to keep a group or community of users informed?

If you answered yes to any of those questions then chances are you will need a CMS.

The popular CMS we used are JOOMLA and DRUPAL. They are open source packages that will run on any Linux based web server and it uses PHP & MySQL. The customization is possible of either Joomla or Drupal based sites. We can help you to decide which better suits your needs.

Argus Qatar is the one stop solution provider for best quality bilingual (English, Arabic) static, dynamic, e-commerce and CMS website in Qatar.

Argus Qatar Software Solutions for your business -100% customizable

2010-05-22T08:07:00.000-07:00

Argus Reminder

Alert Management System for various document expiries with Reminder reviews

The major features include the following:

v Employee Documents – Medical, Finger Print, Visa, RP, Health Card, Insurance Card, Driving License, Passport, etc

v Vehicle Documents – Road Permit, Insurance, Service Date, etc

v Company Documents – Computer Card, Trade License, Chamber of Commerce Certificate, Tenancy Contract, etc.

v PRO Documents – Labour Computer Card, Immigration Card, e-Card, etc

v Office Equipment Documents – Warranty expiry, AMC expiry, etc

Argus Accounting (Simple)

Financial Accounting System for small companies

Single Company and Single User

The major features include the following:

v Financial Accounting module – Multi-categorised Chart of Account, Bank, Customers, Suppliers, Journal Voucher, Customer Invoices, Supplier Invoices, Receipt Voucher, Payment Voucher, Petty Cash Voucher, Cheque Handling, Day Book, Cash Book, Bank Book, Cheque List, General Ledger, Sub Ledger, Statement of A/C, Account Receivables, Account Payables, Trial Balance, Income Statement & Balance Sheet.

Argus Accounting (Easy)

Integrated Financial Accounting System for small to medium companies with Purchase, Sales, Inventory and Payroll

Multi Company, Multi Sites and Multi User

The major features include the following:

v Financial Accounting, Inventory, and Payroll modules – Multi-categorised Chart of Account, Multi-categorised Stock Items, Allowances, Bank, Customers, Suppliers, Employees, Vehicles, Goods Receive Note, Purchase Invoice, Purchase Returns, Quotation, Price List, Delivery Note, Sales Invoice, Sales Returns, Stock Adjustment, Stock Transfers, Physical Stock Counting, Receipt Voucher, Payment Voucher, Petty Cash Voucher, Cheque Handling, Journal Voucher, Debit Note, Credit Note, Bank Reconciliation, Employee Allowances/ Deductions, Attendance, Monthly Salary, Leave Settlement, Item List, Item Stock, Purchase & Sales Analysis reports, Item Stock Movements, Excess Stock, Under Stock, Fast Moving / Slow Moving Items, Account Receivables & account Payables, Day Book, Cash Book, Bank Book, General Ledger, Subsidiary Summary, Sub ledger, Statement of A/C, Trial Balance, Income Statement & Balance Sheet, Various Reports.

Argus HR

HR and Payroll Management System for small to medium companies

The major features include the following:

v HR and Payroll modules - Companies, Divisions, Departments, Designations, Employees, Vehicles, Employee Photo/ Document Attachments, Allowances, Deductions, Employee Dependents, Employee Assets, Employee Accommodations, Employee Internal Transfers, Employee Status Change, Allowance Revisions, Attendance, Leave Plan, Leave Assign, Salary Advances, Employee Deductions, Overtime Entry, Monthly Salary, Payslip, Salary Bank Transfers, Leave Applications/ Approvals, Leave Settlement, Employee Easy Search Engine, Employee various Details Reports, Salary Reports, Workmen Compensation, Reminder Management, Document User Privileges, Employee reports with photos, Drill down reports, Leave History, Allowance History etc.

Argus Job Costing

Project/ Job Costing System for small to medium companies

The major features include the following:

Job Costing Module – Job Levels, Job Cost Codes, Jobs, Job Checklist, Contractors & Suppliers, Material Stock Categories / Inventory Items, Job Budgeting, Budget Revisions, Material Request, Material Receipt, Material Consumables, Job Expense Document, Job Status, Job Sub Contracts, Sub Contract Status, Job Transaction Report, Inventory Stock, Job Variance Report/ Budget Variance, Job Ledger, Job Analysis, Job Budget List, Material Movements, and Various Reports.

Job Costing Integrated with Accounts Package

Argus Realty

Real Estate Management System for small to medium companies

Multi Company and Multi User

The major features include the following:

v Real Estate modules - Companies, Bank, Properties, Rental Units, Tenants, Agents, Customers, Suppliers, Investors, Property Expense Master, Agent Commission Setup, Tenancy Contract (New/ Renew/ Vacate), Tenant Invoices, Monthly Rent Posting, Property Expenses, Penalty Posting, Breaking Of Contracts, Property/ Unit Picture, Furniture Details, Property Purchase, Property Sale, Post Dated Cheque Management, Receipts (Rent/ Security Deposits/ Maintenance Charges/ Penalty/ Others), Reminders (Tenancy Contract/ Delayed Rent/ Vacant Units/ PDC, etc.), Rent Center, Security Center, Contract Listing, Cheque List, Easy Search Engines, Collection Reports, Agent Payables, Tenant Receivables, Security Payables, Property Income Statement, Property/ Unit Ledgers, Tenant/ Agent/ Customer/ Supplier Statements, Blocking of Tenants, Blocking of Cheques etc.

Real Estate Integrated with Accounts Package

Argus Shares

Share/ Equity Management System for small to medium companies

Multi Company and Multi User

The major features include the following:

v Equity Management/ Share module – Share Groups (Long term, Short term, and Current), Sectors (Bank, Insurances, Industries, Services), Shares, Market Rate, Share Average Cost, Share Opening, Share Purchase, Share Sale, Share Right Issues, Share Dividends, Bonus of Shares, Merging of Shares, Share Transfers, Share Fall in Value Change, Share Fair Value Change, Share Adjustments, Share Stock Transactions, Share Daily Trade Report, Share Value / Share Profit Analysis, Share Graphs, Share Summary, Share Security Market Receivables/ Payables, Broker’s Statements,

Shares Integrated with Accounts Package

Argus ERP for Contracting Companies

2010-02-20T23:23:00.000-08:00

Argus ERP for Contracting is an integrated Business Operation Solution that brings effectiveness on operations and people with high competitive edge in the industry. It provides easy, accurate and timely retrieval of files and activity-oriented information through menu driven, user-friendly functions

v Project Levels and Cost Codes - Unlimited level of project structure / categorized project levels, unlimited number of cost codes
v Project Budgets, defining project cost estimates and budgets by cost codes or project levels. . In so doing, the management will have an overview of the cost allocation and decide what action to take if a particular cost element exceeds the budgeted cost.
v Budget Revisions allows budget variations and budget transfers. Track project budget Variations from the submission stage till approval for any addition or omission to the initial contract specifications. A history of contract revision is kept for comparison purposes
v Project Contract, project file information such as client profile, start & completion date, original project sum, project quantities, retention rates, terms and conditions, and other important project information
v Retention amounts are automatically computed based on contract specification and kept in a Balance Sheet account. It allows for full or partial retention release. Once approved for release it will then be reflected in Accounts Payable module for payment.
v Sales Invoices, revenue recognition through manual invoices or recurring invoices based on the project contract terms. Revenue is captured via Sales invoicing. The system allows the specification of the retention amount and the corresponding GL Account code during invoicing. This saves time and reduces the mistakes that can be made with the re-keying in of information.
v Project in Progress, the expense claims booking against projects. It tracks all project revenue and cost in detail, including committed cost on a cumulative real-time basis as well as the financial progress of each project over the life of the project and segmented into its respective reporting periods.
v Project Costing, the system allows preparing the project cost based on the project completion %, through easy steps. So that the Project in Progress value will be moved to expense account for the selected project.
v Overhead Cost/ Administration Cost distributions, the system can distribute the common over head cost or administrative expenses through automatic process among the running projects or jobs. The distribution can be based on the value or activity percentage.
v Project Level Ledger, the system keeps the entire transaction on project levels and cost codes, so that project level ledger brings you the entire picture of the project
v Project Ledger, the project ledger gives you the full analysis of the project with expenses and revenues incurred for the project
v Project Variance List, the system generate a project variance list to compare the actual verses budget
v Project Profit Analysis, the project profit analysis shows the project revenues, actual expenses and the profit and can drill down to the detailed reports
v General Ledger - The chart of accounts with general and sub account types. The sub account type includes job and cost codes for entries to job cost control accounts
v Payroll - Powerful easy method of controlling the most complicated payroll process and Allows daily labor costing to job cost. The system allows for an employee's time to be posted to Jobs with multiple workers’ Compensation codes based on the employee's specific task of the day or Labor Classification. Payroll module lets you to choose pay methods, set user-defined deductions and automatically calculate employer burdens. Prevailing wage reporting for state and federal projects can be based on job site location.
v Accounts Payable - System control over disbursements, cash requirement projections, immediate review of each vendor's payable and paid items, distribution of charges and discounts to the general and job ledgers, and prevention of costly errors such as duplicate invoices, P.O., or subcontract overruns, accidental charges to closed jobs, etc.
v Accounts Receivable - Sales gives you the information you need to manage the most important aspect of your business - your cash flow. Manual invoices can be distributed to any number of jobs and revenue codes or to general ledger accounts. Invoice detail is retained for as long as you need it.
v Subcontract Management - The system gives you the complete control over your subcontracts. Each contract retains its original contract amount and the contractor details.
v Purchase Order Management - Purchase Orders allow you to hold your vendors to the agreed upon pricing conditions. A purchase order can be coded to an inventory item, job and cost code, or straight to a general ledger account.
v Inventory Control - Inventory system gives you the complete control over your inventory. The system allows receipt of inventory through the purchase order system and issue materials to multiple jobs and cost codes or return excess materials from jobs back into inventory.
v Fixed Assets – the system keeps the information for Vehicles, buildings, tools and equipments. The depreciation can be calculated monthly or yearly through easy process.

Argus Web Portfolios

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Argus, a leading software and web solution provider in Qatar

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Argus RIMS - Real Estate Management Software from Argus Qatar

2010-02-10T22:44:00.000-08:00

The Property Information Management Software [RIMS] provides a new and innovative way to perform property management tasks more efficiently. The RIMS is a Residential and Commercial Property Management Software solution designed specifically to help today's Real Estate professionals work more easily and effectively. The RIMS includes a H.R and Payroll Management System facilitates extensive employee information at your fingertips.

The payroll Management section reduces payroll processing costs, ensures accuracy and increases efficiency
The RIMS includes a completely integrated Financial Accounting system that offers a General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Drill-Down Financial Reports that integrate seamlessly with a powerful property management system. With extensive Security Controls you can limit your users to the specific Files, Documents, and Features that you want them to not only use, but see. The System Log tracks each user and their actions within the program keeping your data and money safe.

eRecruit - Online Recruitment Solution from Argus Qatar

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Argus HRMS – HR & Payroll Management System from Argus Qatar

2010-02-08T21:07:00.000-08:00

The H.R Management System facilitates extensive employee information at your fingertips. The payroll Management section reduces payroll processing costs, ensures accuracy and increases efficiency.

Argus HRMS is a comprehensive HR and Payroll Management Solution that brings greater organization and effectiveness to the full range of Human Resources functions and responsibilities. It provides for easy, accurate and timely retrieval of Employee and activity-oriented information through menu driven, user-friendly operations.

Argus HRMS makes payroll processing a simple job that any company can accomplish in-house. Our payroll management software gives you all the information and options you need to process your own payroll in house and save money.

The benefits of Argus HRMS software is its ease-of-use and ease of implementation. Our users tell us that they have been able to implement our system in a fraction of the time and cost of previous payroll products they have used or evaluated. Ease of implementation is due to the extensive features and reports, as well as having our team of HR and Payroll software experts there to train, implement, data migration, and post-implementation support

Employee dissatisfaction and turnover are costly to companies and can reduce the competitive edge in this challenging market. HR is faced with the daunting task of keeping costs under control, keeping employees motivated and productive. This is a delicate balancing act that requires; planning, precise execution and sophisticated tools to manage the process. With ‘Argus HRMS’, you would have employees that stay longer and perform better making your company more competitive.

ARGUS HRMS FEATURES

 Workforce management

 Workflow management

 Reminder systems

 Integrated HR functions

 Employee history

 Over time management

 ID Card expiry alert

 Payroll

 Salary distributions

I N F O R M A T

ARGUS HRMS BENEFITSI O N T E N O L O G Y

 Increased savings

 Efficiency in processes

 Faster ROI

 Control on workforce

 Employee productivity

 Document control

 Easy Job handover

 Decision maker

 Clarity in HR functions

Argus Qatar Internet Marketing Solutions

2010-02-08T06:13:00.000-08:00

Argus Qatar can boast of this venture as a pioneer step in providing Websites, SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and SEM (Search Engine Marketing) solutions in Qatar with highly talented technical team who enables and monitors website activities at all time.

What are Online Advertisement Campaign Goals?

• Increased Visibility -Number of people who see advertisements.

• Increased Response- Number of people who go to the website.

• Increased Inquiries - Number of people posting an inquiry on website

How Argus does it?

In 3 steps

1. Target audience segmentation, media planning, and execution.

2. User experience design.

3. Analytics consulting.

What matters most in Search Engine?

1. Which websites link to you

2. Number of websites linking to you

3. Google Page Rank (PR) of the website linking to you

4. Anchor text used in the link linking to you

5. Number & type of links linking to the website links to you

6. Whether or not the websites linking to you are deemed by Google as authority website

Why Argus technologies?

Qatar’s IT sector set to grow: BMI report

2010-02-08T05:27:00.000-08:00

Qatar’s IT sector may be worth in excess of $400mn this year and about $600mn by 2014 given the country’s prospects in energy, banking and telecom sectors, researcher Business Monitor (BMI) said in its latest report.

Qatar may not have the largest IT market in the Gulf, but in 2010 it appears ‘better positioned’ than some other markets in the region to benefit from economic recovery, it said.

“Despite a deceleration in many market segments last year, 2010-2014 IT spending compounded annual growth forecast (CAGR) for Qatar is forecast at 10%, with opportunities in sectors such as hydrocarbon, banking and telecoms,” Business Monitor said.

In 2010, IT managers will probably remain ‘cautious’, after some projects were scaled back last year. However, there could be a boost, particularly in the second half of the year, from computer hardware tenders delayed from 2009. The Qatari IT market has a number of ‘positive factors’ that should help it going forward, Business Monitor said. The government ‘remains keen’ to promote economic diversification and aside from oil and gas, banking is likely to be the one of the more important sectors in terms of IT investments.

Qatar’s IT sector received a boost last year when Qtel announced that broadband Internet speeds had been doubled to 1Mbps from 512Kbps. Research released by Qatar’s Supreme Council for Information and Communication Technology in Qatar (ictQATAR) showed mobile penetration exceeding 120%. The Qatari ICT authority has a number of priority policy areas, including telecoms liberalisation, online government, e-learning, e-health and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A government target is to increase utilisation of ICT by SMEs. The government is also implementing a major IT initiative in the healthcare area, namely the development of an integrated national health information platform.

BMI forecasts a software market value of $77mn in 2010, up from $69mn in 2009. With the evolution of the Qatari IT market, a stronger strategic focus on software spending is being seen, with procurement decisions often taken at a higher executive level. Software spending is expected to grow to at a CAGR of 10% during BMI’s five-year forecast period.

Growth areas include business intelligence and other information management applications, as Qatari companies seek more efficiency in both internal collaboration and relationships with international customers and partners.

Top 10 strategic technologies for 2010

2009-11-06T23:13:00.000-08:00

Ever wondered which would be the strategic technologies that have the potential to significantly impact an organisation's growth in the next three years? The technologies that would be at the forefront of an organisation's long-term plans, programmes and initiatives. Research firm Gartner has listed top 10 strategic technologies that will help organisations transform and grow.

1. Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a style of computing that characterizes a model in which providers deliver a variety of IT-enabled capabilities to consumers. Cloud-based services can be exploited in a variety of ways to develop an application or a solution. Using cloud resources does not eliminate the costs of IT solutions, but does re-arrange some and reduce others. In addition, consuming cloud services enterprises will increasingly act as cloud providers and deliver application, information or business process services to customers and business partners.

2. Advanced Analytics

Optimization and simulation is using analytical tools and models to maximize business process and decision effectiveness by examining alternative outcomes and scenarios, before, during and after process implementation and execution. This can be viewed as a third step in supporting operational business decisions. Fixed rules and prepared policies gave way to more informed decisions powered by the right information delivered at the right time, whether through customer relationship management (CRM) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) or other applications.

The new step is to provide simulation, prediction, optimization and other analytics, not simply information, to empower even more decision flexibility at the time and place of every business process action. The new step looks into the future, predicting what can or will happen.

3. Client Computing

Virtualization is bringing new ways of packaging client computing applications and capabilities. As a result, the choice of a particular PC hardware platform, and eventually the OS platform, becomes less critical. Enterprises should proactively build a five to eight year strategic client computing roadmap outlining an approach to device standards, ownership and support; operating system and application selection, deployment and update; and management and security plans to manage diversity.

4. IT for Green

IT can enable many green initiatives. The use of IT, particularly among the white collar staff, can greatly enhance an enterprise’s green credentials.

Common green initiatives include the use of e-documents, reducing travel and teleworking. IT can also provide the analytic tools that others in the enterprise may use to reduce energy consumption in the transportation of goods or other carbon management activities.

5. Reshaping the data center

In the past, design principles for data centers were simple: Figure out what you have, estimate growth for 15 to 20 years, then build to suit. Newly-built data centers often opened with huge areas of white floor space, fully powered and backed by a uninterruptible power supply (UPS), water-and air-cooled and mostly empty.

However, costs are actually lower if enterprises adopt a pod-based approach to data center construction and expansion. If 9,000 square feet is expected to be needed during the life of a data center, then design the site to support it, but only build what’s needed for five to seven years. Cutting operating expenses, which are a nontrivial part of the overall IT spend for most clients, frees up money to apply to other projects or investments either in IT or in the business itself.

6. Social Computing

Workers do not want two distinct environments to support their work – one for their own work products (whether personal or group) and another for accessing "external" information.

Enterprises must focus both on use of social software and social media in the enterprise and participation and integration with externally facing enterprise-sponsored and public communities. Do not ignore the role of the social profile to bring communities together.

7. Security - Activity Monitoring

Traditionally, security has focused on putting up a perimeter fence to keep others out, but it has evolved to monitoring activities and identifying patterns that would have been missed before. Information security professionals face the challenge of detecting malicious activity in a constant stream of discrete events that are usually associated with an authorized user and are generated from multiple network, system and application sources. At the same time, security departments are facing increasing demands for ever-greater log analysis and reporting to support audit requirements.

A variety of complimentary (and sometimes overlapping) monitoring and analysis tools help enterprises better detect and investigate suspicious activity – often with real-time alerting or transaction intervention. By understanding the strengths and weaknesses of these tools, enterprises can better understand how to use them to defend the enterprise and meet audit requirements.

8. Flash Memory

Flash memory is not new, but it is moving up to a new tier in the storage echelon. Flash memory is a semiconductor memory device, familiar from its use in USB memory sticks and digital camera cards. It is much faster than rotating disk, but considerably more expensive, however this differential is shrinking. At the rate of price declines, the technology will enjoy more than a 100 percent compound annual growth rate during the new few years and become strategic in many IT areas including consumer devices, entertainment equipment and other embedded IT systems.

In addition, it offers a new layer of the storage hierarchy in servers and client computers that has key advantages including space, heat, performance and ruggedness.

9. Virtualization for Availability

Virtualization has been on the list of top strategic technologies in previous years. It is on the list this year because Gartner emphases new elements such as live migration for availability that have longer term implications. Live migration is the movement of a running virtual machine (VM), while its operating system and other software continue to execute as if they remained on the original physical server. This takes place by replicating the state of physical memory between the source and destination VMs, then, at some instant in time, one instruction finishes execution on the source machine and the next instruction begins on the destination machine.

However, if replication of memory continues indefinitely, but execution of instructions remains on the source VM, and then the source VM fails the next instruction would now place on the destination machine. If the destination VM were to fail, just pick a new destination to start the indefinite migration, thus making very high availability possible.

The key value proposition is to displace a variety of separate mechanisms with a single “dial” that can be set to any level of availability from baseline to fault tolerance, all using a common mechanism and permitting the settings to be changed rapidly as needed. Expensive high-reliability hardware, with fail-over cluster software and perhaps even fault-tolerant hardware could be dispensed with, but still meet availability needs. This is key to cutting costs, lowering complexity, as well as increasing agility as needs shift.

10. Mobile Applications

By year-end 2010, 1.2 billion people will carry handsets capable of rich, mobile commerce providing a rich environment for the convergence of mobility and the Web. There are already many thousands of applications for platforms such as the Apple iPhone, in spite of the limited market and need for unique coding. It may take a newer version that is designed to flexibly operate on both full PC and miniature systems, but if the operating system interface and processor architecture were identical, that enabling factor would create a huge turn upwards in mobile application availability.

Software and Web Services from Argus Qatar

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Argus delivers end-to-end solutions with Software and Web Technologies and ITES (IT enabled Services) in various industry sectors like Trading, Service, Productions, Real Estate & Hospitality with domain expertise of Accounts, Inventory, Human Resources, Payroll, Procurement, CRM ( Customer Relationship Management ) BPM (Business Process Management) BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) and web technologies.

Products

· Argus Business Suits - Accounts, Inventory, HR & Payroll , Job Costing, Procurement, Shares, Fixed Assets

· Dynamic and Static Websites

· Argus Real Estate ( Accounts with Property Management )

Global Open Source Partners

Intalio BPM (Business Process Management)

SugarCRM (Sales, Marketing and Customer Relationship Management)

Alfresco (Document & Content Management System)

Joomla & Drupal (Web content and portal Management System)

Argus be one of the leading software companies in Qatar

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Argus is a leading IT consulting and solution provider based in Qatar with offices located in Qatar and India. We provide end to end I.T services especially software technologies to serve the people looking to their interest and demand. We spread our wings in the business of Application Development, Web Designing , Web Applications, Graphics & Multimedia, Custom Software Development & Support, Document Archival Solutions, Hardware and Networking, and I.T. Consulting. We specialize in developing successful innovative business applications and creating competitive advantages for our clients.

We implement powerful software solutions that cover your entire business lines. We are constantly in the process of updating our software skills and adopting new technologies that can perform better functions. We believe in integrating our skills with our clients' inputs to achieve desirable results. We have developed our own performance measurement systems that virtually support our clients into the routine of software developing and over- viewing the performance of our skilled manpower.

Argus can boast major success stories in implementing software applications like HR and Payroll, Argus Accounting, web solutions and management for various scale companies covering different industries in the region. We have a relentless focus on delivering business value, building long term relationships, and using existing partnerships and alliances to deliver solutions at speed for our clients and achieving their business objectives and ROI.

Argus is leading by a team of professionals having previous work experience in multinational companies with the collective project experience that is more than 50 man years. Having several years of HRIS experience and innovation, we created a suite of powerful easy-to-use applications that put the human back in Human Resources. Our Product design has always been driven by customer involvement. Our hallmark is listening carefully to our customers and delivering an easy to understand solution to their needs.

If you need a solution, come to us. We deliver any application that is desktop or web based and further our solutions are designed to adapt your business rather than your business adapting the software. Our solutions are 100% fruitful and empower you to take control of your business online and in real time!