Almost 70 years ago, the first patent was issued for a bar code type product (US Patent # 2,612,994) to a pair of inventors named Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver. Sadly, the last surviving member of this team, Mr. Woodland, passed away on Sunday December 9, 2012 but their legacy lives on. Together the two [...]
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What is Your Software Vendor’s Core Competency?
How many of you have purchased software to help manage CPE or other assets from a vendor whose expertise was not software? Although the price may seem right at first, chances are it will cost you far more in the long run simply because writing and maintaining software is not their core competency. Knowing what [...]
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EIS Expiring User Accounts
Security Enhancement for Inactive Users The last update to EIS brought many security enhancements to the system, including the ability to set a preset number of days a user has been inactive. Once this number of days of inactivity has been reached, the user account id will be marked as “Inactive” and will be unable [...]
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Relevant EAM CMMS, Cable, and Lodging News for 2-24-2012
Each week Mintek will bring you selected links to stories about EAM & CMMS systems, as well as news for our two largest industries Cable and Lodging. EAM CMMS News In this section we will include articles from around the web (including ours) that will focus on asset, document and maintenance management, as well as, [...]
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SETS Auto Populate Place Field
SETS with Amdocs Auto Populate A recent SETS update allows users the ability to specify an Amdocs place field. If you are not familiar with a place field it is used in Amdocs billing system to determaine where equipment is. However, this is only accurate if every warehouse associate’s each piece of serialized equipment in [...]