Tools
Tools for The Lean Machine
Archive Tool (Lean & Mean Business Systems, Inc. – free for current users of The Lean Machine)
This tool provides a means to pull out and archive historical documents. For larger and older systems this helps to conserve hard drive space. Install the Archive Tool on a computer with the hard drive space to store historical documents that also has The Lean Machine installed.
Microsoft has recently updated the database engine The Lean Machine uses. This service pack is already included in the installation files for any new installations.
Replication Manager - This utility program from Microsoft can be used to automatically synchronize the hub database with user databases.
Support Files for The Lean Machine – Existing customers can download this installation package that will install all of the support files needed to set up a new computer.
QODBC Driver – This driver allows The Lean Machine to integrate with your QuickBooks Premier or Enterprise accounting software. (Requires additional licensing from LMBS)
TLM Toolbar for your Browser Installs a tool bar with a radio player, search, weather, and a link to TLM Support Chat
Other Tools on the Web
Virtual Business Continuity - business continuity Software-as-a-Service to the small and medium business. The same solutions enterprise companies run, a fully functional secondary environment running in real-time parallel to your primary environment so when the primary goes down the secondary is ready to be used – not in hours, or days, but the moment your company needs it. And while your IT staff is in the background diligently deciding how to get your primary network back up and running your employees continue working as if nothing has ever happened.
GoToMyPC.com This desktop sharing software allows technical support or training to come to your desktop.
Constantly introducing new books, bringing you cutting-edge thinking from today’s top improvement authorities. And they continue to offer respected lean classics, so you have access to works that are both timely and timeless.
http://www.iso-9000-resources.com
Resource site for everything to do with ISO 9000. Full of newsletters, articles, links and other resources – ALL FREE – in one easy to navigate site to save time and money.
Author your own professional looking newsletter. The Lean Machine even has built in tools to simplifies importing your contacts from The Lean Machine to the Constant Contact web.
This flow-charting tool is ideally suited for quickly creating flowcharts that can be imported into a Word document. Teamflow is fast, and easy to learn.
Speedswitch- SpeedswitchXP is a small applet that sits in the system tray and allows dynamic switching of the frequencies of mobile Intel and mobile AMD CPUs under Windows XP, so that you can be sure you are getting max CPU performance when you need it.
Snag it – Screen capture software recommended by one of our customers as a low cost option for capturing an image on your computer screen.
FREE ANTISPYWARE SOFTWARE! - We were amazed to discover how big of a problem this is becoming. It turns out you should be running 2-3 different antispyware programs to give yourself a fair chance at catching most of them. Here are a few free ones that seem to work very well, as we were already running McAfee’s antispyware and each of these programs found new programs to deal with.
