Software And Application

Square announced a new shift scheduling feature for its Team Management service as part of the company's continued focus on acquiring larger sellers.  Square said its shift scheduling tool is a first-party scheduling feature for Team Management that allows employers to create and publish shifts right within Square, while also enabling employees to signal their availability, and request and swap shifts.  With the addition of shift scheduling, Square said it now offers a complete suite of labor management tools for businesses via the existing features in Team Management and its deep integration with Square Payroll, giving sellers the ability to schedule, manage, and pay their staff all within Square. Also:  Best POS systems in 2020: Get the right one for your business  |  Best NFC and contactless payment apps in 2020: Venmo, Square Cash, and more The company posits that the consolidation of tools and data will make it easier for employers to gain important visibility into...

What Is Social Media Management Software? Social media management software is crucial for businesses that want an effective social media marketing strategy. After all, social media is now used by more businesses than ever as a way to curate and engage with clients while spreading messaging about their products and services. However, social media management programs also help businesses save time and money. Where you would otherwise have to manage each social media platform separately, social media management platforms let you create and schedule posts across multiple platforms in one place.  You can also access valuable engagement tools like idea generation, analytics, and integration with other software you use. Social media management software can even help you manage and reply to comments, gather user information for sales funnels, and target specific audiences with online ads to boost sales. What Is the Most Effective Social Media Platform? Different types of businesses...

Local health officials announced a new initiative to help with management of the COVID-19 vaccines. VAMS, or the Vaccine Administration Management System, is an online scheduling tool created by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ensure proper vaccine administration. Using a valid email address, enrollees in the system will be required to provide their name, date of birth, address and other personal information. This includes information such as race or ethnicity, gender, known allergies and any current health conditions. Once registered and the vaccines become more widely avail- able, those enrolled will be able to access a map of vaccine providers and schedule appointments for the first and second doses. Vaccine providers also will be able to use VAMS to track which brand of vaccine a person has received so that he or she receives the same brand during the second dose. Both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines require two doses 21 days apart. Accord...

Every week, we bring you a curated list of must-read articles geared towards helping you grow your investment advisory practice. Industry veteran Kristan Wojnar uses her vast experience to handpick these articles after conducting thorough research. If you are looking for the right guidance to grow your practice, follow our Practice Management Channel. We are tackling the topics of prospecting, podcasting and using an online appointment scheduler this week. Our first piece looks at prospecting in difficult times. Our next piece dives into how to attract ideal clients with a podcast. And our final piece for this week covers how to set up an online scheduling tool to save time and maximize your business. Many advisors are struggling with prospecting right now. This is a great piece that encourages advisors to lose the guilt and make prospecting calls with confidence. Looking to attract and retain new ideal clients? Listen to this podcast to learn how to retainl clients by starting y...

It's available with a potent Intel Xeon or Core i9 processor, but otherwise the Dell Precision 3551 (starts at $939; $2,692 as tested) doesn't let you forget it's the company's entry-level mobile workstation. Its screen options top out at full HD resolution. While it has Nvidia Quadro professional graphics, its 4GB Quadro P620 ranks eighth of Nvidia's nine laptop workstation GPUs. If you want a 4K display or faster graphics, you'll have to step up to the Precision 5000 or 7000 series. The Precision 3551 is a capable platform for 2D computer-aided design (CAD), if not 3D rendering or virtual reality, but it's overshadowed by its stablemates.  A Relatively Portable Package  With its Intel UHD 630 integrated graphics, the $939 base model of the Precision 3551 doesn't really qualify as a workstation. Actually, with its pitiful 4GB of RAM and 1,366-by-768-pixel display, it barely qualifies as a low-end Chromebook. My $2,692 test unit is much less limp, wi...

There is a revolution happening in the SOLIDWORKS code. As regular users, we expect enhancements with every new release of SOLIDWORKS, and the software never disappoints. Each new release comes with a 200-to 250-page What's New manual, containing over 200 new enhancements. You may be thinking, " This is nothing out of the ordinary" or "This is just an evolution, not a revolution." After all, the software must evolve, right? Well…yes. The problem is that this evolution is based on new code written on top of old code to the point where SOLIDWORKS now has millions of lines of code. The foundation of the software's code was written in 1995-1997. As you can imagine, there are all kinds of difficulties with maintaining this code and continually improving the user experience. I am not a programmer, but I imagine avoiding regressions needs a lot of attention during the development process. SOLIDWORKS recognized this problem and started an ambitious progra...

The $10,000 Mobile Workstation: Asus ProArt StudioBook One Review Michael Alba posted on December 10, 2020 | Is the first laptop with an NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 worth the massive price tag? The Asus ProArt StudioBook One. (Image courtesy of NVIDIA.) What can you buy for ten thousand and one dollars? Four quarters and an Asus ProArt StudioBook One. The ProArt StudioBook One is a unique mobile workstation, and not just because of its astronomical price tag. It's also the first laptop with an NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 GPU, the best mobile Quadro currently available. NVIDIA themselves call the ProArt the "world's fastest mobile workstation." Naturally, we wanted to test that claim. So we got a hold of a ProArt to see what $10k can do for engineers. Table of Contents 1.       Video Overview 2.       Specs 3.       Design 4.       Performance                   i.        SPECviewperf 13                  ii.        SPECworkstation 3                 iii.        Pas...