The Economics of Software as a Service (SaaS)

December 5, 2008

Pragmatic Marketing has released an excellent article comparing the costs of Software as a Service versus Software as a Product.

Check out the article here.

ToolHound Online is our Software as a Service offering where the software licensing, support and hosting are provided for an annual fee. ToolHound Onsite is offered as a product license in the traditional sense.


Having problems with the date on your batch scanner?

July 15, 2008
Is the date on your batch scanner resetting to January 1, 2003 or 2005 when you do a cold boot? There are a couple of solutions to this. The obvious one is avoid doing a cold boot on your Dolphin. The better solution is to put your Dolphin in the cradle after the cold boot and sync it. However, do not sync it as a guest, use the Synchronization Setup Wizard.
Click Next to Continue

Click Next to Continue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uncheck all rows before clicking Next 

Uncheck all rows before clicking Next

Click Finish to exit wizard

Click Finish to exit wizard

Now, whenever you put the scanner in the cradle the date will be automatically updated to your computer’s date.

P.S. This is not an issue with wireless scanners in ToolHound Onsite or ToolHound Desktop as the date is automatically updated.