• Are you making the best of your staff? 
• Do your staff have all the knowledge they need?
• What training are you putting forth to help you move forward?

With a little training, you can both inspire and keep your staff - resulting in better productivity, a more adept workforce and less errors. With more training, who knows where your business could grow? 

Groupsupport offer authorised training courses on a wide variety of subjects, software packages and methodologies.

• Alchemex reporting products (including Sybiz BIC)
• Baseplan Enterprise and Enterprise Lite rental software
• Buildsoft Estimating, Take Off and Quantity Surveying software
• MarineSales sales, estimating and quoting packages
• Sybiz Vision Accounting, Stock Control, Job Costing and Visipay Payroll packages

Groupsupport also work closely with other suppliers and qualified training centres for training on:

• Baseplan hire, lease and asset management software (link)
• Microsoft operating systems and office applications
• Hardware and networking products

Click on the links or contact our office to get dates, costs and options available.

Welcome to the new decade, with all the blackness of the GFC fading fast .. with any luck, and some hard work, business should be back on its feet this quarter.

Some useful links for you..

Public Holidays - School term dates - 

Links we use

ABN search - whois internet domain search - Linked-in networking tool - News.com.au -

Watch here for more links / news items.

!NEW!

Groupsupport are currently beta testing the latest iteration of the world famous Buildsoft estimating and take-off program: ESW2010.

The new product comes with a new feature set, an improved set of support and maintenance agreements and more dynamic uses than ever before!  Even existing clients will be impressed with the improvements - to say nothing of New clients.

See here for more details - or contact us on 08 9277 1768 for a demonstration.

Replacing Server RAM regularly.

Have you ever thought about the electronic "wear and tear" on RAM? We know that the thousands of transactions a second passing through these memory modules (being written and read) causes heat. What many people didn't realise until recently was the electronic damage done over time.

A copy of the full article (and all the techo speak) is here. To summarise, the 50nm DRAM chips were monitored in massive Google server farms (thousands of servers providing internet search facilities).  Scientists found that error rates steadily grew on the DIMM chips, eventually bringing the server down with critical errors.  Some preventative measures (like Error Correction Control) are being put in place, but even these may not be sufficient.

The final outcome seems to be that servers need to have RAM replaced after periods of time, some suggest every 2 years depending upon the critical nature of the machine (and the services it provides).

Worthy of note, and a point to make when planning hardware maintenance.

Groupsupport offer hardware maintenance plans to assist you in your operations - call or email us (contact page).