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NewWayService
$227 - OroLogic Inc.

NewWayService is the Help Desk software solution designed to maximise your service centre or call centre department. Whatever your industry, NewWayService allows you to easily track and manage calls, issues, jobs, requests or work orders.

With its very user-friendly environment, no intense training is needed to learn to use it. Flexible, NewWayService adapts itself to your needs, whether you are a major corporation or a self-employed worker.

NewWayService base modules are: work orders, actions and worked/ billed hours, customers and contacts, hour banks, technicians, products and serial numbers, spare parts, appointments and scheduling, work schedules and knowledge base.

NewWayService also includes unique features to simplify your work:
- A web interface
- A Windows service to automate some tasks
- Sending work orders by e-mail
- Calendar of appointments
- Managing technician specialities
- Inserting documents option
- Generating recursive work orders
- History
- Knowledge base
- Data import/export utility
- All reports, forms and e-mail formats completely customisable according to your needs
- Complete security by user
- A relational database
- A lot more...

NewWayService is, without a doubt, the top solution for all organisations which care about the quality of their service.

This is only a brief outline of the many functionalities of NewWayService. Thus, we invite you to download this software and try it free for 45 days, so you can discover for yourself, how NewWayService can benefit your company.

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Run Service ActiveX
$179.95 - Eltima Soft GmbH

Run Sevice ActiveX control is a powerful tool that allows software developers to add and use advantages of Windows services in their applications. Among Run Sevice ActiveX component's usage benefits is ability to utilize automatic start at boot-time to ensure maximum uptime of the system-critical applications, run programs at background without user interventions, implement remote administration, automatic restart and more! Just register the ActiveX Control in your system and place it on the form. Now you may use all the benefits of Windows Services. Using this Run Sevice ActiveX control's methods, events and properties you will be able to take full control over the service status (start/stop/pause your service), launch application in the new thread, define service group which your application belongs to, modify service group order dependencies etc. Run Service ActiveX can be easily used with almost every modern Integrated Development Environment.

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ServiceShell
$34 - UInterface

ServiceShell is a user-defined Windows service manager. With ServiceShell, you can register your normal application program as a service and manage it easily.

Once your application program changed to the service by ServiceShell, it will be started at boot time (before log-in) and stay running even if the Windows session being ended.

ServiceShell controls each registered services systematically, prepared for system errors, shut down problems of user-defined services.

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ServiceMill
$79 - Active+ Software

1.Applications:
Run a program that is not available as a native system service (No user session needed).
Write your own batch or script and run it securely as a system service.
Run an application as a service in order to be able to start/stop it remotely.
Run a UI application under an administrative security context (the user will not have access to the password).

2.Benefits:
Run your application securely without the need of a user session.
No modifications are required for your existing programs to work.
Integrates with Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
Optional administration through Service+.
Remote & Local administration supported.
Specify window position at startup.
Run programs which requires both interactive mode and network access at the same time.
Create Service+ views which only show ServiceMill services.
Import or export your ServiceMill services settings as an XML file.

3.Features:
Runs most executable: 16 bit (Dos, Windows, OS/2), 32 bit, batch files, scripts (VBScript, JScript) as a service.
Runs custom applications developed using: Visual Basic, Java, PowerBuilder, Delphi, etc. as a service.
Start applications at predefined interval.
Restarts applications that terminate when a user logs off.
Lets you specify the application priority (High, Normal, Idle).
Supports multiple processors (Specify processors on which the application will run).
Reports private errors to the event log.
Lets you set process-specific environment variables.
Allows to run multiple processes within the same service without ending up with orphan processes when the service is stopped.
Restore user mapped network drives when the process starts.
Specify standard input/output file redirection.
Schedule the running state of the launched application: restart the application, stop the application during backups or week-ends, etc.
Allows to raise events that let you execute custom programs at different points during the application life cycle.

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ServiceKeeper
$199 - Active+ Software

Benefits:
Keeps your mission critical server applications running at all times·
Prevents server crashes, avoiding expensive server downtime·
Server failures are detected, recovered and notified quickly ensuring application availability without human intervention
Integrates with Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
Deploy or backup easily your monitored resources or services by exporting or importing their settings as an XML configuration file.

1.ServiceKeeper controls the status of your network's devices, services and resources:
Windows Services Status (running, pending, etc.), TCP/IP Services (HTTP, SMTP, FTP, TELNET, PING, etc - It allows you to check regularly the availability of your network ports and to monitor Internet Services and multiple web sites from one server), File system (file sizes, file count, free disk space), Event Log filtering (Watches for specific events in the event log), Process memory and CPU usage, Windows system Counters, Custom scripts (Write your custom VBScript, includes access to ServiceKeeper internal variables)
2.Recovers failing critical applications using a variety of methods:
Restart Services, Kill Service processes (No need to reboot), Start service on a different server (redundancy), Reboot servern Run custom programs/scripts or batch files, Clean up files (move, delete, copy etc.)
3.Notifies downtime via:
Email (SMTP), pager, SMS, Windows messaging (Net Send), Phone call notification using computer-generated speech, HTML and Event Log
Users have the possibility to notify all group members and combine multiple notification tools.
4.Statistic Reports on overall availability, downtime detection and recoveries.
5. Services scheduling:
Stops services at night during backups, Restricts server access at specific times, Restarts services every night to clean up resources (memory, handles etc.)

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Application As Service
$79.95 - ELTIMA Software GmbH

Application as Service is an advanced system utility which lets you run any application as Windows 2000/XP/2003 Service. You can easily configure Application as Service using its intuitive GUI interface or command line configurator directly from your software. Application as Service features very low CPU usage, custom environment variables, monitoring and detailed logging as well as many other features. You can use Application as Service software to: Launch any application as Windows 2000/XP/2003 service at system boot, before user logon; Automatically start applications before and after service; Run your application without the need of a user session; Run executable: 16 bit (Dos, Windows, OS/2), 32 bit, batch files, scripts (VBScript, JScript) as a service; Achieve higher fault tolerance with your software reporting private errors to the event log and automatically restarting on errors; Auto restart application after application termination; Redirect STDIN and STDOUT to file for console application; Specify application priority; Allow multiple processes to run within the same service; Standard input/output automatic redirection to files.

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