A Sneak-Peek of SharePoint 15

Microsoft SharePoint is one of the most widely used platform for collaboration and document management. The current version of SharePoint i.e. SharePoint 2010 which was released 2 years back is now being used by 65 million users across the globe. From this, it is implied how SharePoint is popular with organizations when it comes to collaboration, managing communications, documents, and content.

SharePoint 2010 is an improved version of SharePoint 2007 which lacked many functionalities and features. There features are now added in SharePoint 2010 to provide better experience to users. However, the 2010 version also has started showing its age and clouds of shortcomings and critics have also started surfacing over the time. Among the shortcomings, experts say that SharePoint 2010 has only simple social-networking features, weak support for smartphones and tablets, and requires considerable expansion for customized apps. Moreover, despite having significant advances in business intelligence (BI), SharePoint 2010 still lacks improved integration with back-end systems. To address these issues, Microsoft is planning to release a better version of SharePoint namely SharePoint 15 by the end of this year or first quarter of 2013.

The new SharePoint is expected to have improved functionalities in terms of development and integration. Besides this, SharePoint 15 is going to include many more intelligent features which will evolve collaboration and document management function.

Here’s a sneak-peek of SharePoint15 which is still in the pipeline.

The new SharePoint will include:

• Client Object Model (COM), to help UI designers and front-end developers in developing compelling visual interfaces
• App store or App Marketplace which will support multi-tenant installation to make applications available to several customers
• SharePoint Education module for educating users
• Workflow looping in SharePoint Designer to eliminate the need for Visual Studio development environment
• OAuth 2.0 to provide cross-platform authentication
• Minimal Download Strategy to help websites consume less bandwidth than sites with traditional technologies
• SharePoint Online with functions like Apple IPad support, Metro Style Interface, Rights Management Services, Web apps

These are all the features which will grace SharePoint15. Along with the above features, one will also see better social networking interface, improved mobile support and integration facilities.

Get ready to experience the all new SharePoint15.

Cygnet Organizes Health Check-Up Camp for its Employees

With an intention to promote staff health and encourage fitness among them, Cygnet Infotech organized Health & Wellness Check-up Camp on 13^th July, 2012 at both its Corporate as well as Regional Office. The camp was organized in association with ICICI Lombard which assisted in conducting various medical tests for Cygnetians. The health & wellness camp organized by Cygnet included tests for

• BMI
• BP Measurement
• Diabetes
• Spinal Cord Check-up
• Dental Check-up
• Eye Check-up

The camp was started parallel at both the offices at 11am. All the employees at Cygnet were quite enthusiastic to find out how healthy they were. The management recorded an overwhelming response from employees with 82% registration. Cygnetians completed all the tests and the camp ended successfully at 4pm.

All the employees feel proud and encouraged since Cygnet with this event, showcased how important its employees are and how it cares for their health and wellness.

Cygnet wishes to provide continuous wellness and quality of work life to its employees and foster healthy workplace for employees with many more such events in future. 

Cygnet Completes a 3 Days Challenge in 2 Days

Cygnet Infotech has customized and developed various solutions for one of its most valued client based in USA who deals in providing online faxing solutions. Cygnet has been working with this client since 2009. The client has outsourced many projects till now in multiple technologies which Cygnet has fulfilled with complete zeal and dedication. The advance level of trust in Cygnet’s capability by the client has nurtured a strong outsourcing relationship which is why Cygnet is always on its toes to fulfill his demand. With the same level of confidence in Cygnet’s expertise, the client had recently given a project with a stringent deadline of 3 days.

This time, the client wanted to integrate an application in the Electronic Payment System for filling customer’s credit card information. The requirement of the client was quite urgent since his list crossed thousand and he required to feed their credit card information in the system. Therefore, he required to expand User Roles of the system so that more sales and admin staff could access the system and complete the task quickly.

Cygnet’s Java team, with powerful grip on Groovy & Grails technology developed the solution to expand User Roles in the system. The best part is, with very abstract information available, Cygnet managed to complete the project just within 2 days.

To develop the solution, Cygnet introduced more functionality by enhancing the application. This led to the creation of new roles in the system which helped client in allowing more sales and admin persons to fill customer’s credit card information into the system. Moreover, the integrated application also included functions of Refund and Charges which helped in processing customer’s credit card transaction from the system more accurately.

Overall, Cygnet successfully helped the client in meeting his requirement of feeding customer’s credit card information into the system within strict deadline which made him very happy. He appraised Cygnet’s efforts by saying

“This is great.  I’m going to pass this to QA. Thanks for working very hard on this”

“Thanks for the quick turnaround”

Cygnet’s is overwhelmed with such an appreciation and wishes to continue same efforts for all its future projects.

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Student of Cygnet Training Center Gets Nominated for IT Awards

Cygnet Training Center, a division of Cygnet Infotech is proud to proclaim the nomination of its student Himanshu Shah, in one of the most renowned IT Awards - Devang Mehta IT Awards which is conducted by NASSCOM's Regional Council along with Gujarat Government, Gujarat Technological University, Dewang Mehta Foundation on 6th August, 2012. The award will be given for the best technicality and presentation skills in the project.

Himanshu Shah has been nominated among top 3 students from his college, Charotar Institute of Technology situated in Changa near Ahmedabad. Cygnet Training Center has helped him in developing the project on Batch Scheduler, a system to help organization in managing candidates, projects and resources. The project mentor Mr. Ashish Pal Singh (Java and Android Trainer at Cygnet Training Center) has provided complete training on Java technology to help him develop the project from scratch. Through this project, he helped Himanshu in showcasing how Batch Scheduler helps in bridging gaps between a candidate and a trainer and enable trainer to get correct status of each candidate under him. The project is said to have been meeting all the criteria of technicality, presentation, innovation, social impact, implementability, originality and scalability.

After getting nominated for the project developed at Cygnet, Himanshu is very thankful and has expressed deep gratitude towards the whole team Cygnet Training Center by saying

“I am privileged to have undergone training here at CTC. The quality training was imparted professionally and in a friendly atmosphere, which in my view was most important. The effort from the trainers to make us gain every bit of curriculum was pushing us to give 100% from our side. Every possible support to the student is extended here. This has immensely helped us to understand the subject and enriching our overall knowledge.”

Cygnet is looking forward to help many such more students in their IT skills and projects and get appreciated and renowned for its first-rate training in computer technologies and language.

Cygnet Training Center is based in Ahmedabad which provides training on .Net, Java, PHP, Silverlight, SharePoint and Mobile technologies like Android, Iphone and Windows to IT students and professionals.

Cygnet Develops a Solution on Dynamics CRM for NGO Team Members

At the demand of a US based NGO, Cygnet developed a solution for its team members which comprise schools and learning institutions. The basic requirement of these NGO team members was to develop test models to help their administrators and policy makers identify learning disabilities among students and improve their reading skills. They wanted these test models to test the academic outcomes of first and second grade students so that they could quickly intervene after identifying disabilities and devise appropriate instructions to overcome these disabilities. Cygnet comprehended the requirements and stepped in the direction to fulfill the demanded solution.

To develop the test models solution, Cygnet utilized its proficiency on MS Dynamics CRM. The CRM team at Cygnet, worked incessantly for 8 months in line with the work-flows of the institutions to develop the test models and implemented them On-Cloud which produced outstanding results for assessing student’s potentials as well as disabilities in reading. The test models developed, helped the NGO team members in mapping and evaluating test results with related database of students maintained in the CRM system. Moreover, these test models also helped in comparing results of each student based on reading achievement, grade promotion, eligibility for special education services, etc.

The test models developed on Dynamics CRM matched the exact needs of NGO team members to recognize reading disabilities in students and work out appropriate training to beat these disabilities at the earliest. Cygnet bagged many appreciations from the NGO and its team members for developing the solution after which it received many more projects on Dynamics CRM from the same client.

Cygnet has served many clients for their varied requirements with its Dynamics CRM services, the list of which is still expanding.

Have a project on mind? Let our CRM team assist you with its significant knowledge and experience in Dynamics CRM customizations and implementations. 

Cygnet Develops a Portal on SharePoint to Manage Jobs and Workflows for a US Based Client's Business

With profound experience on SharePoint, Cygnet yet again fulfills its client’s demand. This time, Cygnet has come out with a solution for a US based company to manage and organize jobs, workflows and related documents for smooth HR functioning.

Since the client company has many departments and layers and consists of huge workforce, there required a system to organize and manage complete workflows and jobs of each unit and department and thereby ease the HR related task. Moreover, the client also required the system to be centralized to allow employees to access the system independently and process workflow documents, HR schedules and check project status and resources status as per the privileges.

Cygnet took up the task and developed the system combining technologies like SharePoint Server 2007(MOSS), SharePoint 2010, Source Safe, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008 R2, Visual Studio 2008/2010, SharePoint Designer 2007/2010. Cygnet developed a Super Administrator Portal and designed independent Portals under the Admin Portal which all works as per the rights assigned to individual employee. The portal developed works as a central unit to process every change in job, manage unlimited job related documents and HR files which all help in easier management and quick decision making. Besides, this SharePoint Portal helps client in many ways by performing following functions:

• Stores, organizes and locates documents easily. Moreover, the portal manages metadata of documents to track the required documents quickly
• Set-ups permission and access rights of the portal as per individual role and position
• Helps IT staff to update time-sheet, calendar, vacation/absent schedule, etc
• Also updates work status and stores reports of equipments, breakdown time, etc which help in quick processing and decision making
• Maintains all versions of documents and reports in a central repository
• Protects documents and information from unauthorized access using exhaustive privilege based access
• Alerts department approver and company approver for every new job or changes in existing job
• Accommodates any number of employee data for easy and better management of job profiles and work-flows

Along with the above functions, the portal bestows client with better data search, improved user interface and better performance with SharePoint 2010 Designer Workflows.

With the system exactly fulfilling the demand for better management of workflows, jobs and employees related task, the client has appreciated the work of Cygnet’s SharePoint development team by saying:

“This is exactly what we needed! Thanks so much for coming through for us on such short notice!”

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Cygnet with its exceptional SharePoint expertise has been delivering varied solutions to clients spread round the globe. 

Contact us to outsource your SharePoint Development at inquiry@cygnet-infotech.com

Cygnet Completes 12 Glorious Years of Success

Today - June 6, 2012, Cygnet has very successfully and gloriously completed 12 years of its services in IT industry. In these 12 years, Cygnet has worked hard to serve clients across 5 continents and emerged as a successful software solutions provider.

12 years ago it started with a small team which has now grown to 300+ employees. It has achieved huge expertise in various technologies like .Net, Java, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, PHP, Mobile Applications, etc and has developed various customized solutions for clients in various industries.

Since its founding on June 6, 2000, Cygnet has continuously worked to develop itself as one of the leading IT solutions provider. It has achieved various accreditations and certifications for providing quality solutions to clients and maintaining industry standards. In the span of 12 years, it has won various clients’ appreciation and satisfaction with its innovative work methodology and solutions.

On this day, the Managing Director of Cygnet expressed joy by saying:

“On completing 12 years of Cygnet is a moment of pride and satisfaction for me.   It is a result of team work, care and understanding which has ensured our ongoing success. I would contribute this success to all CYGNETIANS as well all our clients whose ongoing faith in us has ensured SUCESSFUL journey over last 12 years.”

He also gave a commitment to continue deliver such quality solutions to client’s in the coming years.

The whole team of Cygnet is very happy on Cygnet's 12 Anniversary. All Cygnetians looks forward to see themselves celebrating more such successful years of providing quality and innovative IT solutions to people round the globe.