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Quotes

  • "It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because... All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are." - Mark Cuban
  • "Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results." - Scott Adams
  • "The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows." - Aristotle Onassis
  • "The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax." - Albert Einstein

Personal Finance and Accounting Software

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software

Point of Sale

Data Mining

Workflow and Business Processes

Definitions

  • "Accountancy or accounting is the system of recording, verifying, and reporting of the value of assets, liabilities, income, and expenses in the books of account (ledger) to which debit and credit entries (recognizing transactions) are chronologically posted to record changes in value (see bookkeeping). Such financial information is primarily used by lenders, managers, investors, tax authorities, and other decision makers to make resource allocation decisions between and within companies, organizations, and public agencies."
    - Wikipedia Accountancy 30 April 2009
  • "Customer relationship management (CRM) consists of the processes a company uses to track and organize its contacts with its current and prospective customers. CRM software is used to support these processes; information about customers and customer interactions can be entered, stored and accessed by employees in different company departments. Typical CRM goals are to improve services provided to customers, and to use customer contact information for targeted marketing."
    - Wikipedia Customer relationship management 30 April 2009
  • "Data mining is the process of extracting hidden patterns from data. As more data is gathered, with the amount of data doubling every three years, data mining is becoming an increasingly important tool to transform this data into information. It is commonly used in a wide range of profiling practices, such as marketing, surveillance, fraud detection and scientific discovery."
    - Wikipedia Data mining 30 April 2009
  • "Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a company-wide computer software system used to manage and coordinate all the resources, information, and functions of a business from shared data stores."
    - Wikipedia Enterprise resource planning 30 April 2009
  • "A workflow is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, work of a simple or complex mechanism, work of a group of persons, work of an organization of staff, or machines. Workflow may be seen as any abstraction of real work, segregated in workshare, work split or whatever types of ordering."
    - Wikipedia Workflow 30 April 2009

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