Christmas Celebration Week at Cygnet

While the Santa Claus was about to arrive with Jingle Bells and lots of surprise gifts, we at Cygnet thought to pep up everyone in the Christmas mood. To instil the excitement and festive feel among employees, we announced a Christmas Week at Cygnet with fun-filled activities and of course lot of surprises.

The celebrations started on 25^th December that is exactly on Christmas Eve. We decorated all the offices with illuminating Christmas trees, lights, balloons, and much more. All the offices were blooming in Red color as the employees too followed the Red & White dress-code for the day. 

The evening saw a huge excitement when the Santa visited every office to give gifts and chocolates to every employee. The whole atmosphere was dipped into Christmas mood and the employees enjoyed gorging on cakes and clicking photos with Santa.

Here’s a quick look at the funniest moments of the Christmas day at Cygnet.

Day 2 was declared as a Green day when all the employees came in green dress-code. The day was going like another working day until a Sudoku Competition was announced. The competition saw a huge participation from all the employees.

Here are the glimpses of Green Day and Sudoku Competition

On the 3rd day we celebrated Blue day with Pizza party while on the 4th day, we organized a Quiz competition when all the Cygnetians teamed up in Yellow color.

On the 5th day of celebration i.e. on 31st December, we bid goodbye to 2013 wearing black color. We all enjoyed making the most of the last day of 2013 by playing games and doing fun activities. One the whole, we celebrated a great year-end at Cygnet.

The celebration continued till 1st Jan, 2014, when we welcomed the new year wearing multi-colored clothes so that the year brings colorful and challenging projects and opens up more avenues to achieve success and great heights. 

We all greeted and wished a great new year to each other as well as clients and ended the celebration with a resolution to achieve more client satisfaction, expand the capabilities and create footprints in more countries and industries.

Check out the chilling moments below

Cygnet Infotech is now a Samsung Partner

Cygnet Infotech on 2^nd September, 2013 acquired partnership with Samsung under Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program (SEAP).

SEAP is an affiliate program that provides technical, marketing and sales support to companies in developing enterprise mobile solutions. The program aims to improve the potentials of mobile business by extending support and expertise to partners for solution development as well as marketing and distribution activities.

Cygnet Infotech became Silver Partner of Samsung under the ISV (Independent Software Vendor) Program. With this, we now belong to the network that has access to the extended library of the Samsung Enterprise SDK for developing more secure and powerful solutions for Samsung mobiles. This partnership also enables our programmers and developers to utilize more than 300 functions of Samsung’s Android devices for developing high-end mobile solutions. Besides these, being a Silver Partner of Samsung, Cygnet gets following benefits:

• Access to UX Guide for mobile application development and design
• Access to Technical Support Site for troubleshooting solutions development
• Access to Samsung’s network that includes channel partners, customers and carriers for marketing and promoting solutions
• Chance to participate in showcases and conferences hosted by Samsung

With these benefits, Samsung partnership positions us to cater to the demands of today's mobile market and optimize solutions for Samsung devices by integrating security, application, and hardware management thereby enhancing our overall IT enterprise solutions competence.

Microsoft to Buy Nokia’s Mobile Unit: Emergence of a Third Player in the Mobile Market?

While the Windows Phone is at the number two position (behind Android) in some markets that Apple has not cared to target aggressively, Microsoft has not tasted big success in the mobile market. Tech pundits have given good reviews about Microsoft’s latest mobile operating system, but it has always seemed that Bill Gates came to the smart mobile party a little too late. As Apple and Android dominate the global mobile market with over 90% of market share, the chances of a third player entering the field and competing with these two mobile giants have gotten slimmer and slimmer.

A Quick Glance at Nokia & Microsoft’s Relationship

When Nokia threw its lot with Microsoft and started manufacturing smartphones that run the Windows 7 and 8, many felt that it was a suicidal move. Samsung, one of Nokia’s biggest competitors in the mobile manufacturing, choose Android OS to run its best mobiles and emerged as one of the biggest forces in the mobile market. Nokia was unable to accomplish similar goals using Windows operating system: it dumped Symbian and used Windows 7 operating system for all its top-tier handsets, but was unable to compete with the iPhone or Android devices.

Just a few years back Nokia was respected as the most powerful mobile manufacturer; today, it is not even one of the top three mobile manufactures. Microsoft too suffered from the fact that none of the mobile manufacturers using its operating system could come up with a series of successful handsets. Technology experts and bloggers have expressed one idea since a long time: Microsoft and Nokia are a good fit and by closely partnering with each other, they can emerge as a force to reckon with. By preparing to buy Nokia’s mobile unit, Microsoft has done what many hoped that it would.

Has Microsoft found the Missing Piece of the Mobile Puzzle?

In a purchase that is set to complete by 2014, Microsoft has agreed to buy Nokia’s mobile unit, and it will also buy Nokia’s patents and mapping services in a non-exclusive agreement. The company will pay $ 7.2 billion in cash. The deal is a lifesaver for Nokia, a company that is steadily falling behind its competitors Samsung and Apple. It can also help rejuvenate Microsoft’s mobile image and help the company manufacture flagship mobile handsets that are specifically created for Windows 8.

While Apple has the iPhone and Android has Samsung’s popular devices that can showcase the best features of the mobile operating system and attract customers, Microsoft doesn’t yet have such a hit device for Windows 7 or 8. While people have not dumped PCs or Windows, Microsoft needs to find its way in a world where people are spending less time on PCs and more time on tablets and smartphones. With this deal, Microsoft doesn’t just get the capability to manufacture mobile, but also gets the skills and patents to create a slew of innovative devices that can help its mobile operating system find its feet in a competitive market.

Through the deal with Nokia, Microsoft has all the ingredients that go on into the making of a powerful and effective smartphone ecosystem: a well-conceptualized mobile operating system, devices that are specifically made for the operating system and an app store. Only time will tell if Microsoft has found the missing piece of the puzzle, but if you are a mobile app owner or a developer, the possibility of a third player giving competition to the existing market leaders is exciting.

Impact on Mobile App Development

Microsoft is the only company that has the wherewithal and background to compete with Apple and Android. Nokia still has a huge fan-following in emerging smartphone markets like India, and this will empower Windows 7 and 8 phones to conquer huge chunks of such markets. Just as Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility patents enabled the search giant to manufacture its own devices and safeguarded the future of its operating system, Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s mobile unit will help the company compete more aggressively in the mobile market.

It is notoriously difficult to foretell future in the dynamic mobile market, but the news indicate that Microsoft is going to do all it can to thrive in the world of smart mobiles. We can expect to see a surge in the number of developers building mobile apps for Windows. Also, if the Windows Phone OS gets a bigger market share over the next two years (and it is likely that we will see at least some rise), developers who build apps only for Apple and Android will start building apps for Microsoft as well.

Ready for a Resurgent Windows Phone Operating System?

In the current scenario, most businesses and developers are either building only Apple apps, or they build app for Android and Apple. If Microsoft succeeds in becoming the third player in the mobile market, apps that are already popular on its app store will be the biggest winners. By creating an innovative application Windows Phone OS now, or by creating a Windows Phone version of your existing app, you can profit from a world that has three major mobile operating systems.

Would you like to explore this idea further? Get in touch with us and tell us about your mobile app idea. We would love to discuss it with you! 

Mobile Device Management (MDM) – An Essential Ingredient of Enterprise Mobile Security

With mobile device replacing enterprise IT assets (desktops and laptops) due to trends like BYOD, wireless workforce, tablet adoption, etc. IT security professionals face severe challenges to ensure security of corporate data and information being accessed by these devices. Organizations completely rely on security managers to confirm that the company data used by the mobile workforce is secure.

Mobile Device Management (MDM) is slowly becoming the need of an hour in enterprise mobile security concerns. MDM is a policy of deploying, securing, monitoring, integrating and managing mobile devices in the workplace. The intent of MDM is to optimize the functionality of mobile devices within the enterprise and protecting the corporate network. According to The Nemertes Research Group Inc, 46% of companies have implemented MDM and 84% are expected to embrace the MDM practice by the end of 2014.

With this the demand of software for managing the mobile devices is growing rapidly. Mobile Device Management Software allows securing and managing all the mobile device deployments remotely. It gives Security Managers, way to troubleshoot the mobile device management by allowing them to distribute configurations and data settings and resolving patches in the devices and applications. Software for MDM generally supports file synchronization and sharing, data security and corporate content security. Besides most software of mobile device management include following features:

• Mobile Application Management (MAM) or Enterprise Application Management
• Workspace Security for documents, information and applications
• Secure Document Sharing (SDS) with platforms like Dropbox, SharePoint, etc.
• WLAN Integration for network security
• Certificate Authority Integration

Of all these MDM functionalities, mobile application management feature is used by 29% of enterprises. Companies in mobile application development also consider MAM for managing, distributing, licensing mobile applications developed by them. On the other hand, document sharing from mobile devices requires more control unlike desktops and laptops. Thus SDS feature of MDM provides necessary APIs to control and secure the document sharing practice from mobile devices.

Looking at the features of MDM, especially MAM and SDS, it should be considered as a primary tool to ensure security of mobile devices within the enterprise and apps and functionalities running on them.

Looking to develop a software for managing mobile devices and applications at your place? Contact us at info@cygnet-infotech.com or visit http://www.cygnet-infotech.com/enterprise-mobility/byod-management

Business Intelligence Best Practices

Enterprise business intelligence is an important concept for modern businesses, encompassing the most effective strategies, tools, technologies, theories and practices for managing data. In most cases, business intelligence refers to digital data, as most information is stored electronically in this day and age. An effective business intelligence solution can help a company manage its supply chain and meet its own goals, such as customer satisfaction, productivity, cost efficiency and more, with a range of innovative technologies and tools. Effective technology solutions are especially important for global business intelligence, where the supply chain may span countries and continents, making it particularly difficult to handle all the data. That being said, not all business intelligence solutions are effective. In order to make the most of a company’s big data, there are certain best practices that must be followed. 

Rely on Business Intelligence Experts

Some businesses make the mistake of relying on IT professionals to develop their business intelligence plan because they assume the technology experts will be best equipped to manage the digital data they have at their fingertips. The problem is that effectively managing and analyzing data requires business tools, not just technology tools, and the solutions should be developed by professionals who understand the most efficient and effective enterprise solutions. The best bet is to work with qualified business intelligence consultants who also have programming capabilities in order to achieve a strategic solution that addresses both technological and business-oriented needs.

Make Sure Your Solutions Are Easy to Use

An effective business intelligence solution is one that is easy to use, plain and simple. If it isn’t easy to use, there is a high likelihood of frequent human error that will prevent your organization from making the most of your data. The tools and technologies you develop to manage your digital information should be automated as much as possible, and require a minimal number of mouse clicks otherwise. All tools should be developed with cost/benefit analysis in mind and tested to ensure ease of use with end users. 

Build a Central Database and Keep it Clean

In order to manage your data effectively, you must also build a centralized database where it is all contained, but only after being screened for errors and low-quality data that should be eliminated. This may include all data from in-house sources as well as business partners and other outside sources. The architecture of this database should be carefully structured to support the needs of the organization as it continues to grow and evolve, and to accommodate for new technology tools in the future.

There are many advantages to enjoy once you have a successful enterprise business intelligence system in place. With the right tools, technologies, methods and processes, your organization can manage all levels of your supply chain more effectively and efficiently, even in a global business environment. This will reduce the amount of work it takes to analyze your data and increase the level of accurate, useful, strategic information you have available. With fewer resources devoted to business intelligence, you can focus more on improving your products and services, driving productivity, keeping clients happy and attracting new generations of clients in the future. If you have effective technology tools that are properly implemented, your organization will also have a fuller picture of the data, and not just a micro view of data subsets separate from one another. In the end, this saves time, money and resources while adding substantial value to your business plan. It’s worth the effort and investment to contact the most qualified business intelligence consultants to help put these best practices to use today.

Erik Johnson is the Digital Marketing Analyst for Paragon Solutions, an advisory consulting and systems integration firm that specializes in delivering enterprise business intelligence services for organizations in various industries.

Cygnet Infotech becomes a Borland Partner

Cygnet Infotech became Borland Partner on 22nd May, 2013. 

Borland is a Microfocus company that delivers Application Lifecycle Management tools to help people improve their requirements management, change and configuration management, test management and software quality.

Partnership with Borland will help us provide testing services centered around Borland's Silk Test Suite, accelerate product development and optimize resources used in test lifecycle. Besides, this partnership enables us to provide skilled test resources to clients to help them in their applications testing process and offer better quality applications overcoming the challenge faced in application testing environment.

To learn more about Application Testing Services delivered using Borland tools by Cygnet Infotech and to get free evaluation on Silk Test, Silk Mobile and Silk Performer contact info@cygnet-infotech.com.

Basics of Security Testing

When applications are exposed on the internet, it invites the risks such as unauthorized access, tampering with the application and hacking which reduces its quality and performance. This certainly calls the need to implement tight security into the applications before making them available on the web to keep its functionality and load performance intact.

Security Testing Fundamentals 

Security Testing is all about protecting and maintaining the functionality of the applications by encoding security codes into it. The primary job of Security Testing is to find loopholes and vulnerabilities from the system and improve its performance so that the system can work for longer time. Companies usually to avoid delays in the release of a software system, prefer to start Security Testing of the web applications from the very early stage of the SDLC. 

Companies generally perform different types of Security Testings of applications in different stages of the software development lifecycle which helps in conforming following aspects in the application:

• Authentication: This ensures whether the digital identity of the user is validated or verified
• Authorization: It helps confirm the rights to access the system or application and make changes in it.
• Availability: Availability is about reducing the errors in the application to make it available as and when required
• Confidentiality: It deals with making information and services available only to the authorized users of the application to maintain its  confidentiality.
• Integrity: This makes sure that the information provided to the user is correct and that it is not outdated or irrelevant
• Non- Repudiation: This checks whether the sender and receiver of the message is genuine

In Security Testing, it is quite necessary to segregate roles and understand the negative impacts of the risk-prone applications before taking up the security testing task. This will help in resolving bugs quite early and delivering better applications.

For Application Security Testing and Security Consulting Services, contact info@cygnet-infotech.com or visit www.cygnet-infotech.com.

Cygnet Infotech Enters into Partnership with Neotys

Cygnet Infotech enters into Partnership with Neotys as a Service Partner on 25th April, 2013. Neotys has been helping companies to enhance the reliability, performance and quality of their web and mobile applications with its best-in-class load testing tool called Neoload. 

Neoload is a flexible and easy to use software testing tool to measure performance and robustness of applications. Neoload unlike other web testing tool require no scripting and is user-friendly thanks to its intuitive GUI. It supports all Web 2.0 technologies including J2EE, .NET, PHP, AJAX, SOAP, FLASH, FLEX, GWT and Oracle Forms with unlimited scalability from the cloud.

Partnership with Neotys will allow us to use the capabilities of Neoload Testing Tool for meeting client requirements with top quality services  such as designing load testing requirements, developing load testing plans, implementing load testing on Neoload and optimizing performance on load testing results, while ensuring optimized testing costs.

With Neotys partnership, we aim to enhance the performance of the applications by pre-assessing their scalability before production and deployment which will render considerable cost advantage.

TestingWhiz Version 3.0 Released

We are delighted to announce the release of TestingWhiz Version 3.0 available from 29th April, 2013. TestingWhiz is a codeless test automation tool developed by our test automation division. The new version of TestingWhiz reflects enhancements and improvements in the existing features and functions signifying a major step forward in making TestingWhiz a more powerful, scalable and reliable test automation tool for web and cloud app automation.

TestingWhiz Version 3.0 is available in PRO and Enterprise edition. The PRO edition is for single users and is available at $99 per year. 

 

Features of TestingWhiz PRO

• FAST® Automation Engine that helps automate test cases with 5 recording techniques across multiple browsers
• Object Recorder to record and store web-objects along with an ability to use 90+ readily available test commands
• Integration with Excel and leading bug tracking tools like Mantis and Fogbugz
• Inbuilt Scheduler to schedule tests at pre-defined intervals
• Multiple languages support to help customize the UI, scripts and reports in the language of tester’s choice
• Visual Logs for capturing screenshots while executing test cases

The Enterprise edition will be available at $899 per year which is best suited for large and distributed teams. It contains all the features of PRO edition over and above the below features

Features of TestingWhiz Enterprise

• Integration with HP Quality Center to help manage test cases, results and existing QC process for any tests in a single suite
• Database Testing with connectors like Oracle, MSSQL, My SQL, etc. along with a facility to fetch database to placeholder and export the same to Excel or CSV
• WhizGrid to facilitate executing test cases on a multiple nodes from a single centralized server
• Visual Presentation for presenting test cases as flowcharts
• Integration with Atlassian JIRA allows accessing test cases and reporting directly in JIRA interface

Besides the above features, Version 3 features a better UI and an improved test editor with drag and drop facility.

We will be presenting the demo of the new version at StarEast 2013. Catch us at Booth #28 at Rosen Shingle Creek, Orlando, Florida, USA on 1 & 2 May, 2013

Get a free trial

To learn more about TestingWhiz 3.0, visit http://www.testing-whiz.com/

Joomla 3.1 is Out Now

Joomla - one of the popular content management systems for website and blog released Joomla 3.1 on April 24, 2013.

Joomla 3.1

The notable feature of Joomla 3.1 is Tags – an inbuilt system to allow tagging content types. Tags are a kind of metadata that allows adding keywords to content. For e.g. you can tag a person in Contact library as Marketing Manager and apply the same rule for tagging other areas of the Joomla core such as documents, feeds, etc. By Tagging, users can organize the blogs, articles, lists with similar content types without the need to navigate to Tag Component.

According to Paul Orwig - president of Open Source Matters (a non-profit organization providing legal and financial support for the Joomla projects) - "Tags have previously been available through third party extensions, but for 3.1 we are adding them to the core. This will make it easier for third party extensions to integrate with them. Another underlying benefit is that the way the code has been written to support tags will lay the foundation for future enhancements for how Joomla content can be displayed with much more flexibility."

Besides Tags, Joomla 3.1 features an added note form field, a Media wiki package, an Open Street Map package and more. Joomla 3.1 is the next minor release after the release of Joomla 3 in September 2012. The major features of Joomla 3x series now cover

Mobility Compatibility – Joomla 3 series comes with better mobile compatibility with a responsive UI that displays websites more accurately on different mobile platforms. With mobile extension, the websites built on Joomla can be made available to a wider audience.

User-friendly Interface – Joomla 3x version is more simple and easy to use since it doesn’t require much technical knowledge to develop and maintain websites. The instructions are simple and easily understandable and has improved navigation and interface.

Incredible Development Tools – Joomla 3x series comes with incredible development tools like Bootstrap, LESS CSS, Icomon that help developers work with ease since it enables using lesser codes and provides optimized development icons.

Other facilities and features one can enjoy in Joomla 3 series are - 30 seconds quick install, one click upgrade with backward compatibility, multilingual support and Joomla User Interface (JUI) library for standardized backend & front-end interface.

With these features, Joomla stands as a refined CMS that can change the course of website management altogether. It is a robust CMS with plenty of ready-made templates for developing websites and web applications.

We deliver customized solutions on Joomla CMS. Find out more about our Joomla capabilities.

Mobile & Web Applications Will Now Get a Blend of Facebook

We all know that Facebook has changed the way people interact and share personal and professional information with each other. It has also revolutionized the way for marketer to reach customers. And now with its increasing usage and influence, it is all set to make a wave in application development due to the Facebook Technology Partners Program. The Facebook Technology Partners Program is all about making applications and website more social by integrating it with different technologies, languages and platforms. 

Facebook has joined a partnership with leading development platforms and frameworks like PhoneGap, Sencha, Corona, Stack Mob, Trigger io, Outcurve and many more.  This is a significant move on the part of Facebook because a number of devices are now equipped with HTML5 and statistics show the devices used by people having HTML5 would cross over 1 million by the end of 2013. HTML 5 is said to ease users reach across different devices and give an improved user experience and render better sharing on Facebook via apps running on HTML5.

Besides, integrating Facebook with applications will help users see what their friends are doing along with just sharing and viewing comments. For e.g. An airline application would help user not only get details about the timing of his flight but will also help him share or get information about local restaurants in the destination city. Moreover, apps with Facebook login can directly help users publish stories from the app instead of signing into Facebook separately. Through Facebook integrated apps, one can also gauge better insights about consumers.

Looking at this, Facebook can certainly take the social sharing to greater heights without losing the important processes and operations running on your device be it laptop, mobile or tablet.

Cygnet Woos Entrepreneurs and Industrialists at Vibrant Gujarat 2013

Cygnet recently participated at Vibrant Gujarat 2013 which was held between 8th Jan to 13th Jan, 2013 at the capital city of Gujarat i.e. Gandhinagar. Cygnet was present at D-18 Hall 9C GESIA Pavilion from where it exhibited its service offerings such as software engineering, software testing, dynamics crm capabilities, mobile application development, SAP ERP implementation services along with products like TestingWhiz and M1.

Cygnet's colorful booth displaying all the service offerings wooed hundreds of visitors which included businesses, entrepreneurs, industrialists as well as students. Shri D C Anjaria, the man behind Gujarat International Finance Tec-city and Minister for Revenue, Gujarat, Smt. Anandiben Patel also visited Cygnet at the event. 

Within the 6 days show, Cygnet booked more than 110 inquiries for its various services. On the whole, Vibrant Gujarat turned out to be a successful event and contributed in increasing Cygnet's exposure among different industries to a great extent.

Find out the pictures of the event : http://on.fb.me/Un3uL3

A Canadian Client Delighted by Cygnet’s Internet Marketing Services: SEO-First

It was 3 years back when a Canada based Ice Sculpture and Chocolate Fountain Company hired Cygnet’s internet marketing services called SEO-First. During  that period, the client’s website had meager traffic and lacked appropriate exposure on the web which made him engage with SEO-First  to enhance its position on the web and increase the traffic.

Since the start of the project, the SEO-First team employed various plans and optimization techniques to improve the client’s business listing.

Year 1 – During the 1^st year, the client was suggested to take up the Basic SEO plan which saw some increase in his website traffic.

Year 2 – In the 2^nd year, the internet marketing team focused on enriching client’s website traffic on a regional basis through Regional Plan which included submissions in regional directories, forums, blogs, theme based listing, etc. This helped in increasing traffic from targeted region and added more revenue to his business.

Year 3 – The 3^rd year contributed immensely in increasing client’s website traffic. In the 3^rd year, the team designed 3 sub-domain websites of client’s business targeting 3 cities and promoted the main as well as the sub-domain websites with local listing and submission. The team also did competitor analysis, video marketing and classified listing which increased the overall traffic towards the client website.

Over the 3 years, the  internet marketing and SEO strategy of SEO-First led to 30-50% growth in client’s revenue on Year-On-Year basis. Seeing such positive results for his business website, the client was highly delighted and appreciated the efforts of the whole team. As a part of the appreciation, he sponsored a dinner party for all the team members included in the project. 

View More Pictures of the Party

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SEO-First is an division of Cygnet-Infotech providing complete internet marketing solutions for enhancing your online business. To know more about SEO-First visit: www.seo-first-page.com

Cygnet to Assist Navjivan Trust in Publication and Portal Designing Work

Navajivan Trust, an Ahmedabad based publishing house founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1929, has selected Cygnet Infotech to provide modern technology solutions for their publishing activities.

As a part of the project, Cygnet will play an important role in improving current publishing operations of the Navjivan Trust by providing the following services:

 

• Redesigning existing publications
• Developing soft copies by scanning old printouts and hard copies
• Publishing soft copy content and creating e-books for easy and quick sharing
• Reprinting previously published books
• Embedding new soft indices in books to redesign books without size constraints
• Formatting older books layout and standards using Akruti software and Adobe InDesign Format
• Archiving CDs, Positives, PDFs and Databases into the system
• Designing an online portal i.e. ebook store for online selling and maintenance of books
• Setting up solid hardware, network and security for better management of publication work

With the above services, Cygnet looks forward to contributing in the big picture of uplifting the complete operations and publishing work of the Navjivan Trust and help them spread their message.

Cygnet Returns from StarWest 2012

The premier Software Testing and Review Conference - StarWest2012 was held in Anaheim between September 30 and October 5, 2012. Cygnet Infotech exhibited at the event and demonstrated its QA and Software Testing services along with its Testing Tools and Solutions to the industry experts and peers in the test and QA community. The 6 day long event provided a good platform for Cygnet to meet and explore solutions for the attendees.

(Expo Setup on Oct-3, 2012)

Cygnet showcased its prime software testing abilities driven by its Test Center of Excellence offering Managed Testing, Performance Test Labs, Test Automation Consulting , Microsoft Solutions Testing. Cygnet also unveiled its a Codeless Test Automation Tool TestingWhiz^TM at the expo. 

(Nirav our Product Lead giving Quick Demo of TestingWhiz to Visitors)

The launching saw great interest from Automation experts as well as Tester trying their hands on automation for the first time using TestingWhiz™.The hands-on demo at the booth allowed many visitors to use the tool and try out its technology.

On the whole,  StarWest2012 gave Cygnet, a huge opportunity to expand the horizon of its software testing capabilities and network with hundreds of  peers to solve problems, collaborate, and share fresh ideas.

Cygnet is now excitedly looking forward to presenting again at StarEast 2013 at Rosen Shingle Creek, Orlando-FL, from April 28 - May 3, 2013

Take a look at all the pictures of the event.

Cygnet's GITEX 2012 Coverage

GITEX, one of the largest trade events opened its doors on 14th Oct, 2012 at Dubai Exhibition and Convention Center under a theme 'Where Technology Meets Business'.

The opening ceremony was commenced with a Royal arrival of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, crown prince of Dubai and His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum who walked through various countries Pavilions and Stands. India’s Minister of Human Resource Development and Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Mr. Kapil Sibal also paid a visit to the Indian Pavilion.

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Cygnet Infotech exhibited at the week long event under the India Pavilion at Stand # S1-A5 from where it showcased its significant range of services and applications for various businesses.

• Document Constructor on Microsoft SharePoint - a smart and intuitive tool to construct documents on demand from pre-defined templates
• Inquiry Management Application developed on Dynamics CRM tailored for B2B companies
• Enterprise Project Management Toolkit (EPM) built on Microsoft Project Server
• Predefined Services for Microsoft SharePoint Implementation, Integration and Migration
• Predefined Services for Dynamics CRM Implementation, Integration and Migration

View the GITEX2012 Picture Gallery.

Cygnet becomes Intel Premier Elite Partner

Cygnet Infotech, on 18^th September, 2012 has upgraded to the Premier Elite Partnership of The Intel® Software Partner Program which provides ISVs and software companies with support and resources to help them develop, optimize and market applications running on Intel platform. It has three membership levels – Registered Partner, Premier Partner, and Premier Elite Partner. Among these, the Premier Elite Partnership is the highest partnership level which requires companies to earn 100 qualifying Points and complete at least one assessment process. Cygnet worked hard to achieve the requirements and successfully attained the highest partnership level.

By achieving this highest partnership level of The Intel® Software Partner Program, Cygnet has un-locked access to Intel’s enhanced resources and benefits which are listed below

• Enhanced placement in Intel’s Partner Network listing
• Intel Partner Badge and Account Coverage to get more visibility and value from relationship with Intel
• Access to resources such as How-to-guides, Business Planning Resources, Product launch kit, analyst reports, print media distribution to assist in marketing and business development activities
• Participation in Online Training and Webinars to get acquainted with new technology insights
• Collaboration with ISN Technical Communities to share knowledge and discuss common issues

Being awarded with Premier Elite Partnership, Cygnet looks forward to demonstrate a role of dedicated software and application provider on Intel technologies and bring value to its customers.

Find out our Intel Premier Elite Partnership profile here

Cygnet Develops an Enterprise Project Management Toolkit

To overcome challenges of prioritizing projects and managing resources, Cygnet Infotech has developed an Enterprise Project Management Toolkit on Microsoft Project Server 2010 with implementation and customization facilities.

Cygnet’s EPM Toolkit is focused to help project intensive businesses manage their project Lifecycle. It helps them in making better project management decisions by providing real-time visibility of all the relevant information. The solution helps determine the resources and skills required to accomplish a project which eventually helps in directing resources according to project complexity and importance.  In short, it helps project managers oversee, monitor and control various aspects of project to ensure better utilization of resources and funds.

Cygnet’s EPM Toolkit comprises Demand Management and Portfolio Management functions. Demand Management function lets project managers assess project requirements, availability of resources and funds which help standardize ways to manage supply of these requirements using best practices. On the other hand, Portfolio management functions help in meeting ROI goals along with tracking project progress.

Besides the above offerings, Cygnet’s Enterprise Project Management solution comes with Prebuilt Dashboards, Workflows and BI Reports which boost Enterprise project management activities by providing benefits which help project managers to

• Identify redundant work/projects and remove them
• Recognize and resolve issues and risks at the earliest stage
• Communicate project performance
• Measure performance using earned value
• Analyze, evaluate and compare alternative approaches
• Prioritize and select the portfolio with maximum return on investment
• Ensure projects and resources are aligned with corporate strategy
• Coordinate all resources and requirements of the projects
• Model alternatives and their consequences
• Centralize knowledge base sharing with real time data

By providing all the above benefits, Cygnet’s Enterprise Project Management Solution built on Microsoft Project Server and SharePoint gives business the right edge and control capabilities they need to successfully deliver projects on time, with intended quality, budget and design.

Organizations looking for a solution to manage their projects and gain the competitive can employ Cygnet’s EPM Toolkit.

Cygnet is exhibiting its EPM Toolkit in the coming GITEX2012 Exhibition. To view its demo at the event, email us at gitex@cygnet-infotech.com or register here.