.NET Framework Advantages

The functionality that the .NET Class Library provides is available to all .NET languages resulting in a consistent object model regardless of the programming language the developer uses.

•Direct Support for Security

Developing an application that resides on a local machine and uses local resources is easy. In this scenario, security isn't an issue as all the resources are available and accessed locally. Consider an application that accesses data on a remote machine or has to perform a privileged task on behalf of a nonprivileged user. In this scenario security is much more important as the application is accessing data from a remote machine. 

With .NET, the Framework enables the developer and the system administrator to specify method level security. It uses industry-standard protocols such as TCP/IP, XML, SOAP and HTTP to facilitate distributed application communications. This makes distributed computing more secure because .NET developers cooperate with network security devices instead of working around their security limitations.

•Simplified Development Efforts

Let's take a look at this with Web applications. With classic ASP, when a developer needs to present data from a database in a Web page, he is required to write the application logic (code) and presentation logic (design) in the same file. He was required to mix the ASP code with the HTML code to get the desired result. 

ASP.NET and the .NET Framework simplify development by separating the application logic and presentation logic making it easier to maintain the code. You write the design code (presentation logic) and the actual code (application logic) separately eliminating the need to mix HTML code with ASP code. ASP.NET can also handle the details of maintaining the state of the controls, such as contents in a textbox, between calls to the same ASP.NET page. 

Another advantage of creating applications is debugging. Visual Studio .NET and other third party providers provide several debugging tools that simplify application development. The .NET Framework simplifies debugging with support for Runtime diagnostics. Runtime diagnostics helps you to track down bugs and also helps you to determine how well an application performs. The .NET Framework provides three types of Runtime diagnostics: Event Logging, Performance Counters and Tracing. 

•Easy Application Deployment and Maintenance

The .NET Framework makes it easy to deploy applications. In the most common form, to install an application, all you need to do is copy the application along with the components it requires into a directory on the target computer. The .NET Framework handles the details of locating and loading the components an application needs, even if several versions of the same application exist on the target computer. The .NET Framework ensures that all the components the application depends on are available on the computer before the application begins to execute.

FAQs about IMSLogic Software

What is IMSLogic?

IMSLogic  is a web based ERP(Enterprise resource planning) for School, institute or training institute. This School ERP is an information system designed to coordinate all the resources, information, and activities needed to manage school/ institute processes. IMSLogic covers following modules to accomplish   Student Information Management, Admission ,  Fee management,  Examination , Result, Employee management , Payroll ,  Payslip , Accounts ,  ,complete inventory management  and various other modules.

What are the benefits of using IMSLogic?

There are many benefits of using IMSLogic. Some of them are:
• Increase integration/communication between department ,student & employees .
• Increase profitability while maintaining your school or college educational quality.
• Increase value-added relationships.
• Increase relation with parent.
• Decrease total costs: order processing, material handling, distribution, direct labor, overhead, etc.

What are the salient features of IMSLogic?

It is highly customizable, user friendly and scalable  ERP that provides your institution with all the ways to automate entire operations and enable the smooth flow of information. It is very scalable and it can be customized to specific requirements of an Institution. It enables streamline flow of information and thus makes decision making easy.

How easy is it to install IMSLogic?

IMSLogic is an ERP web based product, so installation time is nearly zero. All u need is a relevant url, username and password.

How can I contact you?

Please provide your details on the http://www.imslogic.com/contact.html

Can you customize various modules according to our requirement?

IMSLogic   being on an open architecture, its highly customizable with self customization options and any customizations in the structure can be done at an extremely low turn around time, to meet your different requirements.

How does IMSLogic  beat down its competitors?

IMSLogic is very cost effective and eases the functioning of the Institute as an organization. It is built on to run at web  in all  plateform . Technologically we are ahead of our competitors and we are providing greater flexibility in terms of modules selection and usage. Being highly scalable, we can create new modules or customize and with any existing legacy systems in the institution.

What if I face any difficulty in using IMSLogic after installation?

We have a 24X7 Support Centre available on Email, Phone or Chat can assist you using our Remote Support System, where our Support Executive will be able to access your server or your desktop remotely or through team viewer and offer your real-time support. Post-implementation, you will also be provided with a detailed user-guide.

Why do I need to automate my school/college/institution when it is running perfectly without any software?

It depends upon your perception that you consider your campus to be perfect without any enterprise systems. Institute in itself is no less than an Organization that yields profits through its various resources like teachers, Students, Parent and other staffs. To integrate all the operations so that the manual tedious work is replaced by the fast technology work is the aim of this School Management software.

There is any possibility to communicate via SMS or email?

There is an SMS and email Notification , whereby the parents, students and employees and  can be notified about the fees, leaves, and important notices. This module is totally on demand & need to purchase a SMS gateway by your organization.

I have various campus of institute. What should I do ? Will it install the ERP in all my campuses?

IMSLogic is a web based application so once it is installed in the server of an institute all other colleges linked to it can also use that ERP. Thus our ERP helps in integrating different branches of an institute. Our Enterprise Solution for is allow you to manage more than one school or institution  with  a single IMSLogic  installation.

What is difference between Licensed Software Vs Software As A Service?

Licensed Software	‘SaaS’( Software as a Service)
Upfront Capital Expense	Pay as you go - Operational expense
High Upfront cost and annual maintenance costs.	Lower upfront subscription costs depending on number of users per month
Cost for applications, maintenance, infrastructure and IT application resources.	Cost for annual subscription and minimal IT/application resources.
Longer time required to install and configure applications.	Faster implementation time and increased productivity.
Not much control over vendor after purchase.	More control over relationship with vendor.
Greater risks for users.	Better risk sharing with vendor.

What are the benefits of choosing IMSLogic on the SaaS model?

§  SaaS creates advantages for the solution provider who develops, distributes and maintains the software solution. These advantages create very real benefits for companies who use SaaS as well.

§   SaaS make you hassle free about managing server or data backup etc.

§  The high cost of initial startup is greatly reduced with SaaS. The subscription model for licensing provides predictable costs, budgeting and planning is easier and more reliability. In addition with modular product availability companies do not pay for functionalities they do not need or want to use.

§  Customer gets the benefit of painless upgrades, rather than planned downtime wrestling with new software editions.

§  Companies expand and decrease in size over time. Both contraction and expansion is easily handled in SaaS model. Applications are immediately available to new users when they are required, giving organizations the flexibility to expand operations without waiting for their IT infrastructure to catch up.

§  SaaS model allows one to move at the speed of business, unencumbered by the hardware, software, network and staffing constraints. As a result, organizations can focus on the competitiveness of their operations, rather than IT.

What is the technology used in your IMSLogic?

The technology that we use is as follows:
Development: C# and ASP.net,windows servcie
Design: HTML, AJAX, JavaScript , CSS
Database: Microsoft SQL Server (2008,2012)

Which solution of IMSLogic I should buy?

We suggest to you to go with professional version of IMSLogic. It covers all the modules required to manage your school/college/institutes. If your have any small training organization, than you can start with Lite version of IMSLogic. If you have multiple school or institutes having more than one location anywhere, you should use our Standard  Solution of IMSLogic.

5 Reasons to use Bootstrap Technology

Are you a web designer or developer who’s new to Bootstrap and front-end frameworks? Are you wondering what all the hype is about? Allow us to shed some light.

Over the last few years, Bootstrap has become an increasingly popular front-end development framework. More and more developers and designers continue to get on board. Evidently, there’s a reason for that.

The Bootstrap framework is feature rich and offers several benefits to those using it. We go over these benefits in the top 5 reasons to use Bootstrap.

1. Speed of Development

Undoubtedly one of the biggest advantages of using Bootstrap is the speed of development. If you’re looking to push out a new website or application quickly, you should definitely consider using Bootstrap.

Rather than coding from scratch, Bootstrap enables you to utilize ready made blocks of code to help you get started. Combine that with cross-browser compatibility and CSS-Less functionality, many hours of coding can be saved. To achieve the fastest route possible, you can also purchase ready-made Bootstrap themes and modify them to suit your needs.

2. Responsiveness

Mobile devices continue to grow in popularity year after year. Cisco predicts that global mobile data traffic will increase nearly 11-fold between 2013 and 2018. The need to have a responsive website is becoming increasingly important.

Creating mobile ready websites is a breeze with Bootstrap thanks to the fluid grid layout that dynamically adjusts to the proper screen resolution. There is virtually no work that needs to be done to achieve proper responsiveness.

Using Bootstrap’s ready made classes, you can specify how many spots in the grid system you want each column to occupy. Then, you can specify at which point you want your columns to stack horizontally rather than vertically to display properly on mobile devices.

3. Consistency

Bootstrap was actually founded on this principle. It was originally developed by a few Twitter employees as a framework to encourage consistency across internal tools. Co-Founder Mark Otto later realized it had potential beyond just an internal toolkit and released the first open-source version in August 2011.

Mark also describes how Bootstrap was built using one core concept: pairing designers with developers. Doing so is what made Bootstrap successful at Twitter, and why it continues to be successful on the web.

Put simply, Bootstrap ensures consistency regardless of who’s working on the project. In addition, results are uniform across platforms so output remains the same whether you’re using Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer.

4. Customizable

Bootstrap can be tailor made according to the specifications of your project. Developers have the ability to pick and choose the features that are needed and the rest can be tossed. This is easily accomplished using the Bootstrap customize page. Simply tick off all the features you don’t need and your custom version of Bootstrap will be ready for download. 

5. Support

Bootstrap has a huge support community behind it so you can usually get help when you run into issues. Furthermore, Bootstrap itself is being continuously updated and the creators have been really good about putting out timely updates. It’s currently being hosted, developed and maintained on GitHub with over 9,000 commits and over 500 contributors.

What is the Purpose of Software Testing ?

To answer the above question, let us look at the nature of software testing. The software testing group is a service provider. Software testers provide valuable information and insights into the state of the system. This information contributes towards reducing the ambiguity about the system. For example, when deciding whether to release a product, the decision makers would need to know the state of the product including aspects such as the conformance of the product to requirements, the usability of the product, any known risks, the product’s compliance to any applicable regulations, etc. Software testing enables making objective assessments regarding the degree of conformance of the system to stated requirements and specifications.

Testing verifies that the system meets the different requirements including, functional, performance, reliability, security, usability and so on. This verification is done to ensure that we are building the system right. In addition, testing validates that the system being developed is what the user needs. In essence, validation is performed to ensure that we are building the right system. Apart from helping make decisions, the information from software testing helps with risk management.

Software testing contributes to improving the quality of the product. You would notice that we have not mentioned anything about defects/bugs up until now. While finding defects / bugs is one of the purposes of software testing, it is not the sole purpose. It is important for software testing to verify and validate that the product meets the stated requirements / specifications. Quality improvements help the organization to reduce post release costs of support and service, while generating customer good will that could translate into greater revenue opportunities. Also, in situations where products need to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, software testing can safeguard the organization from legal liabilities by verifying compliance.

Expected Features of a Institute Management Software

There are so many Institute Management Software available in current market place , a Institute Management Software should possess certain features to make it user friendly. Some of the IMSLogic features are

1)      IMSLogic is a web based Institute Management Software. It enables you to access your School, College or institute over internet or intranet.

2)      Our Institute Management Software provides you facility to access any information about any department anytime.

3)      Super Admin user having complete features enables for this user.

4)      Complete control over Software features, You can easily change college name, Address, contact details, etc . This will reflect at all the reports.

5)      Assign rights to various employees, allow you to control over all the employee & their role in this Institute Management Software.

6)      IMSLogic   provides you the facility to access any department's records with a click.

7)      View reports of any Department / Branch , individually or cumulatively.

8)      Send message and emails to Employee of  any department or any student at anytime.

9)      Complete Fees Management in Institute.

10)  Ability to manage Fee Structure for any student in the Institute.

11)  Fee Collection (Regular Fees, Late Fee & Tax Fee) & other miscellaneous charges (e.g. Picnic Charges etc.) can be taken via instant fee modules in our Institute Management Software .

12)  IMSLogic  support discount in fee , which allow you to flexibility in collecting fees.

13)  Our software allows fees collection in  installment wise with due date sms remainder.

14)  Complete payroll management for employees.

15)  Effective accounts module.

16)  Send message and mails to Guardians / Teachers / Students / Employees.

17)  Teacher Time Table is also in our Institute Management Software.

18)  Employee attendance Register.

19)  Attendance Day Wise and Complete Employee Profile.

20)  Employee Login provided in IMSLogic.

21)  Daily Class Attendance to all students.

22)  Time table management for emoplyee.

23)  Complete Salary Management for employees.

24)  Asking for approval from authorized authority for leave to head of the department.

25)  Can view New Admissions, new enquiry, batch & Section wise Strength.

26)  Fee Summary of any student.

27)  Invitation to any function through announcement.

28)   Employee Portal (Keeping Employees Records), Allowance Allocation (Define Allowance type, basic & Amount of Allowances).

29)  Deduction Allocation (Define deduction Type, Basic & amount of deduction)

30)  Teacher's Attendance monthly & yearly.

31)  Employee Leaves(you can define your own leave type).

32)  Monthly Salary processing, View Pay slip, bonus approval.

33)  Total inventory management define inventory, Items, units order with complete report.

34)  A Separate Report module is available in IMSLogic which allow you view any reports with all possible filters. These reports can be exported in PDF ,Excel or direct print. 

3 Ways to Transform Your Blog Into a SEO Machine

What are the most effective ways to get blog posts read?

• Sharing on social media

• Using an email list to distribute new posts

• Purchasing Google or Facebook advertising to drive awareness

• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Using ALL of these options is ideal, but if you can only chose one, then SEO gets my vote every time.If you have a few hours to invest, here are 3 ways to transform your Word Press blog (or website) into a search-friendly traffic generator.  All of them are free, other than the time you’ll invest.

1. Install a good SEO plug-in.

My favorite free SEO solution is Word Press SEO by Yoast, which makes it easy as red light, yellow light, green light. Pretty easy, right? Make sure to keep in mind that simply installing this plugin isn’t helpful in and of itself – but many bloggers stop at this first step. Its real power lies in understanding how to use it correctly and choosing the right keywords.

2. Do keyword research.

Head over to the Google Keyword Popularity Tool and invest some time in keyword research to better understand which keywords drive the most traffic. The trick with keywords is to never assume you know which ones are best; ALWAYS does research to ensure you are using popular keywords that best suit your product, service and/or blog topic.

If you use localized keywords for your SEO efforts – such as “az life coach” or “life coach in phoenix” instead of just “life coach,” you are much more likely to rank well – with the added benefit of landing more targeted readers. This is especially important if you are a local business.

I recommend creating a free account on Ad Words (or log-in to your account, if you already have one), then search for the keywords you think are most likely to be searched. Adding your city and state will give you local search results to review, plus some great ideas for blog posts that fit what people are looking for. Using the keywords you entered, Google will bring up a list of other relevant keywords that were actually searched for in the previous month. I prefer to export them to Excel, get rid of unnecessary columns, rank them from most to least popular, then save the document for easy reference later.

3. Choose one keyword, then include it in your post permalink, title, and first sentence.

Make sure you have Word Press set to name the page URL as your post name (which can be changed in settings> permalinks> post name), this will automatically put the keyword in your post URL – also called the permalink. This is an essential component for SEO success.

Then, simply use the default text for the “SEO title” field at the bottom of the page (which is your title plus the name of your blog), and copy the first sentence of the post into the “Meta Description” field. If good writing dictates NOT using the keyword in the first sentence (which happens often but is not optimal), then paste in the first blog sentence that DOES have the keyword in it, or write one that uses the keyword and describes the post in a way that people will want to read it. Put the keyword in the “Meta Keywords” field, then you are all done.

SEO magic happens when you identify one keyword to focus on, then put it in the trifecta of permalink, page title, and page description.

Make sure that keyword is included in the body of post a few times, is relevant and appropriate, and then hit publish. While there are other steps and tactics that help boost SEO, that’s fodder for another article!

One last note – be sure and offer multiple ways for readers to subscribe. If you can’t convert them to subscribers via email or RSS and/or they aren’t seeing your new posts show up on social media, odds are good that they won’t think to return to your site. Your SEO may bring them to your blog the first time, but it may not bring them back. Keep this in mind as you consider and implement these strategies.

What Is SEO

Whenever you enter a query in a search engine and hit 'enter' you get a list of web results that contain that query term. Users normally tend to visit websites that are at the top of this list as they perceive those to be more relevant to the query. If you have ever wondered why some of these websites rank better than the others then you must know that it is because of a powerful web marketing technique called Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

SEO is a technique which helps search engines find and rank your site higher than the millions of other sites in response to a search query. SEO thus helps you get traffic from search engines.

This SEO tutorial covers all the necessary information you need to know about Search Engine Optimization - what is it, how does it work and differences in the ranking criteria of major search engines.

How Search Engines Work

The first basic truth you need to know to learn SEO is that search engines are not humans. While this might be obvious for everybody, the differences between how humans and search engines view web pages aren't. Unlike humans, search engines are text-driven. Although technology advances rapidly, search engines are far from intelligent creatures that can feel the beauty of a cool design or enjoy the sounds and movement in movies. Instead, search engines crawl the Web, looking at particular site items (mainly text) to get an idea what a site is about. This brief explanation is not the most precise because as we will see next, search engines perform several activities in order to deliver search results – crawling, indexing, processing, calculating relevancy, and retrieving.

First, search engines crawl the Web to see what is there. This task is performed by a piece of software, called a crawler or a spider (or Googlebot, as is the case with Google). Spiders follow links from one page to another and index everything they find on their way. Having in mind the number of pages on the Web (over 20 billion), it is impossible for a spider to visit a site daily just to see if a new page has appeared or if an existing page has been modified, sometimes crawlers may not end up visiting your site for a month or two.

When a search request comes, the search engine processes it – i.e. it compares the search string in the search request with the indexed pages in the database. Since it is likely that more than one page (practically it is millions of pages) contains the search string, the search engine starts calculating the relevancy of each of the pages in its index with the search string.

There are various algorithms to calculate relevancy. Each of these algorithms has different relative weights for common factors like keyword density, links, or meta tags. That is why different search engines give different search results pages for the same search string. What is more, it is a known fact that all major search engines, like Yahoo!, Google, Bing, etc. periodically change their algorithms and if you want to keep at the top, you also need to adapt your pages to the latest changes. This is one reason (the other is your competitors) to devote permanent efforts to SEO, if you'd like to be at the top.

The last step in search engines' activity is retrieving the results. Basically, it is nothing more than simply displaying them in the browser – i.e. the endless pages of search results that are sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant sites.

Differences Between the Major Search Engines

Although the basic principle of operation of all search engines is the same, the minor differences between them lead to major changes in results relevancy. For different search engines different factors are important. There were times, when SEO experts joked that the algorithms of Bing are intentionally made just the opposite of those of Google. While this might have a grain of truth, it is a matter a fact that the major search engines like different stuff and if you plan to conquer more than one of them, you need to optimize carefully.

There are many examples of the differences between search engines. For instance, for Yahoo! and Bing, on-page keyword factors are of primary importance, while for Google links are very, very important. Also, for Google sites are like wine – the older, the better, while Yahoo! generally has no expressed preference towards sites and domains with tradition (i.e. older ones). Thus you might need more time till your site gets mature to be admitted to the top in Google, than in Yahoo!.