Friday, January 11, 2008

Personal Assistant

Agency Management System consist of workflow management. we are talking here different component of workflow managemet like office automation, task management, Time Management, Scheduling etc.

Today we are going to talk Personal Assistant as part of workflow management.

A personal assistant, or personal aide, is someone who assists in daily personal tasks for a busy or successful person. For example, a businessman or businesswoman may have a personal assistant to help with his correspondence and run errands. The role of a personal assistant has expanded as the business environment has required more responsibilities. Today, a Personal Assistant may be responsible for screening incoming calls, checking emails, reviewing documentation, sending mail, doing research, scheduling reservations, booking meetings, etc.

We continue talk on Personal Assistan in our post.

ref: Agency Management Software, wikipedia



Monday, December 31, 2007

Workflow Management - I/O scheduling

Workflow Management we are talking here. As part of our talk on Workflow Management, we talked Time Management, Task Management and Office Automation. we talked in our previous post about Scheduling and scheduling with different reference. Today we are going to talk I/O Scheduling.


I/O Scheduling is the term used to describe the method computer operating systems decide the order that block I/O operations will be submitted to the disk subsystem. I/O Scheduling is sometimes called 'disk scheduling'.

Purpose
I/O schedulers can have many purposes depending on the goal of the I/O scheduler, some common goals are:

  • To minimize time wasted by hard disk seeks.
  • To prioritize a certain processes' I/O requests.
  • To give a share of the disk bandwidth to each running process.
  • To guarantee that certain requests will be issued before a particular deadline.

ref: Insurance workflow management software, wikipedia

Monday, December 24, 2007

Scheduling - Scheduling Management Software

We are talking here Workflow Management. As part of our talk on Workflow Management, we talked and.Time Management, Task Management and Office Automation we talk in our previous post. We are talking here Workflow Management.

Today we are going to talk about Schedule Management or Scheduling.


As a general definition : Scheduling is committing resources to the realization of an event at a defined time. Scheduling is committing resources to a plan. Time can be specified (Scheduling a flight to leave at 8:00) or floating as part of a sequence of events (today's production schedule: orders 122, 123, 124)

Scheduling may refer to:

  • I/O scheduling, the order in which I/O requests are submitted to a block device in Computer Operating Systems
  • Scheduling (broadcasting), the minute planning of the content of a radio or television broadcast channel
  • Scheduling (computing), the way various processes are assigned in multitasking and multiprocessing operating system design
  • Scheduling (production processes), the planning of the production or the operation
    Schedule (workplace), ensuring that an organization has sufficient staffing levels at all times

ref: Schedulling Management Software, wikipedia