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eBusiness Help for South London Businesses!

Posted by accoresolutions on June 25, 2008

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If you are a small business in South London looking for high quality advice on how to make the internet really work for you – talk with us now!

We are now offering advice sessions to small businesses throughout South London.

In these sessions we can discuss your business goals and how intelligent use of the Internet can help you achieve them.

To see how we can help you contact us now!

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New Courses from Vision2Learn!

Posted by accoresolutions on January 6, 2008

Five new courses have recently been launched by online training provider Vision2Learn.

These courses, which are free to qualifying participants in the UK are:

CLAIT Plus using Microsoft Office 2003
iMedia Level 2
Retail Skills at Work (NVQ)
Mastering Business and Administration (NVQ)
Customer Service Skills at Work (NVQ)

Further details available from Vision2Learn.

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Web 2.0

Posted by accoresolutions on July 5, 2007

Another sign of the march of Web 2.0 is that one of our favourite download sites – Tucows – has recently launched a new Web 2.0 section announcing, reviewing and showcasing some exciting new applications.

Further information is available from Tucows.

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Tumblr

Posted by accoresolutions on May 28, 2007

We like blogs – and blogging applications!

From Blogger / Blogspot to WordPress (the basis of this site) to Movable Type and TypePad, we’ve used these and several other blogging applications for various projects we have been involved in – and also just for fun!

An exciting new alternative to the above solutions, which is very easy to use and with an interesting set of features – which continue to grow – is Tumblr.com.

We have been testing Tumblr and are now seeing more and more interesting blogs based on this new free platform.

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Accore Online Store Launches!

Posted by accoresolutions on May 12, 2007

We have now launched the Accore Store.

This brings our clients and website visitors:

books
gadgets
music
DVDs
software
and more!

To review and buy any of the above – visit the new Accore Store!

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DabbleDB – a new online database!

Posted by accoresolutions on April 29, 2007

Here at Accore we have been testing a new online database platform for project management and secure collaboration.

It’s not that often we get really excited about a new (or new to us) application, but we have been very impressed by the interestingly named Dabble.

Although we remain long term fans of Intuit’s Quickbase – we have often lamented that there does not appear to be any real competition. Quickbase also has really moved out of the smaller SME marketplace to concentrate on the corporate workgroup market – which it does very well!

Enter Dabble – which we have been testing – and which we are now starting to use on a couple of projects.

We have been very impressed at how easy to use and powerful this online database is and how responsive the support team is to users questions.

Also, the licensing costs appear to be very reasonable and the functionality very exciting – a true Web 2.0 product!

For more information and to test this application, visit dabbledb.com.

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Web 2.0 wave taking hold!

Posted by accoresolutions on April 21, 2007

Interesting article from the BBC recently outlining the dramatic growth in Web 2.0 applications and the impact that this is having and will have on businesses, individuals and software companies.

There are now some fantastic web applications out there, including the free Google Mail and Google Apps and powerful database applications such as Quickbase for corporate workgroups and the new and exciting DabbleDB.

Exciting times!

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Dirty Data Costs!

Posted by accoresolutions on March 4, 2007

A recent article on Silicon.com highlights the costs to businesses and organisations of having inaccurate and incomplete data to work with.

This is something we have been highlighting with our clients for some time. Paradoxically, in our experience it is larger organisations (and, dare we say, often public sector …) who appear to have most difficulty in this area.

Hopefully this will mean continued demand for the data cleaning and database / CRM development services that we can deliver

Further information is available from the Silicon.com article.

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More Useful Resources

Posted by accoresolutions on February 25, 2007

We have had a frantic last few months working hard behind the scenes for a variety of clients – large and small.

In that time several interesting tools and resources have come to our notice, but we have not added them to our blog (naughty!) so it is about time we did!

So here goes … :

Net Lawman – an excellent online resource for those of us who need to draft contracts for on and offline projects and business relationships.
vTiger – a very capable open source CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solution which is fairly straightforward to implement.
Zoho – a very promising collection of online tools for communication, collaboration and sharing information with teams – we are testing at the moment.
Linux – well proven very stable and capable operating system which is the basis for many ‘distros’ (distributions of Linux with additional software suites). More and more organisations, businesses and individuals are starting to use it instead of or in addition to Windows. Distros well worth checking out include: Ubuntu; OpenSUSE (now owned by Novell); Fedora (from Red Hat); also at the other end of the spectrum tiny but capable distros such as Puppy Linux (ah! ) and Damn Small Linux make for interesting perusal. And for those who want to run Windows applications on Linux – check out Wine! We are now starting to use Linux more and more.