Posted by romasha 6 weeks 5 days ago

Technology is changing the way we do business. From punch cards to IDEs, drafting tables to CAD, new technologies have simplified the process models of businesses worldwide.

As technologies change, however, the foundation they are building upon and the knowledge of senior, experienced engineers does not. As businesses move forward, many are now scrambling to capture and record the old expert knowledge that helped pave the way to current business success. Retirements are one of the biggest reasons for loss of important business knowledge. Inflexible ERP business processes don't mesh with the realities of detail manufacturing operations. Manufacturing companies need to find effective ways to prevent devastating knowledge loss by retaining intellectual capital and dynamically building a content bank.

Collaboration software for manufacturing allows the storage of core practices, principles, methodologies and knowledge so that this information can be both available and usable for current and future generations. Smart businesses use the information to grow by leaps and bounds by bringing new talents up to speed quickly on the core principles that lay the foundation for current systems.

Cyn.in, collaboration software for manufacturing, enables companies to store, search, and retrieve relevant (and often times unmanaged) data through a single system in minimal time. Whether it be proposals, manuals, requirements documents, or notes jotted down on a napkin, Cyn.in connects the people with the knowledge they need to move ahead. The end result is a 40% reduction in time spent searching for documents, awaiting email responses, and unnecessary trial and error hardships.

Cyn.in's collaboration software for manufacturing is currently used in a variety of ways across a wide variety of manufacturing industries. Whether you're an information worker or on the plant floor, Cyn.in can help you access information, make better decisions and get work done more effectively. Cyn.in lets companies collaborate across design, manufacturing, and supply chain functions, internally and across corporate boundaries with suppliers, customers, design partners and contract manufacturers. A few departments that use Cyn.in to push their business forward include:

Manufacturing and Engineering
  • collaboration around product specifications, performance ranges and standard operating procedures
  • fine tune changes in the engineering and manufacturing processes
  • competitive intelligence building
Quality Assurance
  • conversation tracking to reduce repetition across departments
  • internal and external document sharing and tracking
  • shared test reports
Product Development & Planning
  • collaborative document creation and editing
  • milestone tracking
  • knowledge sharing, storage, and retrieval
  • requirements gathering

Cyn.in provides a set of valuable collaborative tools that leading manufacturers are using to make an impact today. Manufacturing companies are using Cyn.in for everything from internal projects and knowledge sharing to customer-facing communities.

Cyn.in has been filling in the blanks (and removing that blank look from faces) by providing businesses with comprehensive data that keeps everyone in every department (including clients) on the same page. We invite you to give it a try as well.

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Posted by romasha 9 weeks 1 day ago

Enterprise Collaboration software in education

Enterprise Collaboration Software is making its way to the forefront as an essential tool of doing business. From document creation to team scheduling and management, enterprise collaboration software helps teams worldwide get their jobs done.

The advantages that the users of Cyn.in have noted repeatedly are simple and have been proven to cross a very diverse set of industries. From increased productivity and enhanced organizational performance to simply having the ability to communicate in ways only dreamed of during business expansion, we know that our clients are getting more done everyday by using the Cyn.in enterprise collaboration software.

A few clients recently have voiced how Cyn.in is being used in education to allow for expanded communication of students, faculty, and administration. Some customers are using Cyn.in to merge disconnected education systems into a single global distributed learning platform called Education 3.0. From the elementary school level to higher learning, several users have reported how enterprise collaboration software in education:

  • allows classes to interact with each other,
  • lets homework assignments to be easily created, discussed and completed
  • enables teachers to make documents, course and reference materials available to students at all times,
  • increases interactive learning with on-the-fly ad-hoc discussions
  • sends out notifications about school events to key stakeholders like parents

With the growing popularity of social media websites like Facebook and MySpace, schools are using tools like Cyn.in to easily transition their students in fun and educating ways.

Smart schools are getting smarter as technology engages students and invites them to help each other in productive ways. Teachers are also having fun learning new ways to communicate with this technology-driven generation. The overall effect is a communication medium that is accessible to both groups and that works using tools that both are already familiar with.

Imagine what happens when students think teachers are cool? Well, teachers aren't sitting at the cool table yet, and students are still banned from the teacher's lounge, but enterprise collaboration software in education is definitely a step in the right direction.

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Posted by romasha 14 weeks 6 days ago

Businesses of all sizes are adopting Cyn.in to enhance organizational performance and drive success in an intensely competitive, connected economy. While technology is only one part of the what makes Enterprise 2.0 useful and relevant, designing strategic practices for deploying it in the enterprises, providing guidance and training, ensuring widespread adoption and driving positive business results truly propels these technologies to success.

 

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We have renewed the Cynapse Partner Program to help customers gain value from their investment in Cyn.in and are inviting partners to join in. The Cynapse Partners will work with customers to get them up and running on Cyn.in and assist with accelerating performance, provide guidance, training and support and cater to customer's requirements.

Adding Cyn.in to their portfolio, will help resellers and system integrators drive the benefit of SaaS and open source to their customers. ISVs and Solution providers can custom build addons to extend Cyn.in or integrate it with their applications and solutions to build a substantive offering for customers. While OEMs and product companies can combine Cynapse products as an offering with their software / hardware product to add additional value. Based on our trends for every $1 spent on software, there is a potential services revenue of $4.

For further information visit: http://www.cynapse.com/partners

If you are looking for a Cynapse Partner near you, let us know of your requirements and we'll connect you to the most suitable partners.

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Posted by dhiraj 17 weeks 5 days ago

I'm happy to announce that Cyn.in 3.0.5 is now available for download and installation. We've fixed over 40 stories in this update, and this includes some cool new features and some UI improvements as well. :)

Release Highlights

We've been listening to our customers, partners and the Cynapse community and one of the key points we've noted is that even though Cyn.in is conceptually designed to fit completely behind a logged-in scenario, a lot of people have mentioned that it would be nice if they could publish out content to anonymous users, anyway. If you have an open-ended community with Cyn.in for your organization, then this feature could be advantageous in increasing participation and overall awareness about your objectives.

Anonymous Publishing in cyn.in with v3.0.5

So keeping the design principles of Cyn.in within mind, we have worked on making this possible in the default workflows that ship with Cyn.in. You'll now be able to set up your Cyn.in site such that you can selectively publish content to be visible to anonymous visitors (and search engine crawlers). Do note that we've kept the anonymous publishing flows a bit conservative, with the intent of having secure default settings. No content will automatically become published to anonymous, instead it must be initiated by user action. This action is intentionally restricted to the Site owner and Space editor roles.

New Features

  • Cyn.in 3.0.5 for the first time has out-of-box support for Publishing content to anonymous users. This is part of a redesigned workflow that provides Cyn.in site owners and Space Editors the option to publish interesting content for direct consumption by anonymous visitor. More details on how to set this up are available on the (now anonymously accessible) Cynapse community site at: http://www.cynapse.com/community/home/cyn.in-users/setup-cyn-in-for-anonymous-access
  • UI Changes: A new User menu is integrated into the top Adder bar. The toolbar now has all the key actions that you as a user of the system need to have. When being accessed anonymously, the entire top bar transforms to a single line message to login or register. The site logo now moved to the side bar, gets more prominence while users can focus on the top toolbar.
  • Google Chrome Frame support: For those users who'd prefer to use Google Chrome within their Internet Explorer, they now can. This is another attempt to fight the horrors created by Internet Explorer 6! For die hard IE fans, who face speed issues with Cyn.in, this should help.
  • Based on latest Plone: Cyn.in 3.0.5 is based on the latest stable release of Plone, 3.3.1 so all fixes of Plone are included.

Key Fixes

  • Due to a low-level problem between specifically the Webkit engine (that's Google Chrome, Safari, iPhone, Android and so on) and JQuery UI the browser was not rendering Cyn.in properly. Fixed.
  • The handling of #permalinks like the ones that show up in the Comments portlet was breaking Javascript on these URLs. Fixed.

The full list of fixed issues for 3.x series of Cyn.in can always be seen grouped by version, here .

You can download the new community appliance from here: http://www.cynapse.com/downloads/cynin-community-edition

To upgrade your Cyn.in installation to the latest version while retaining your current data, follow the instructions at Upgrade Cyn.in 3.x Community Appliance

Look forward to hearing your feedback!

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Posted by apurva 19 weeks 6 days ago

The new Cyn.in version 3 is finally here and I am excited to announce its public availability. Cyn.in v3 brings with it great new features, tons of fixes and performance improvements and an all new user interface.

It has been an exciting year for us since the last major release of Cyn.in. I have been overjoyed with the response and adoption of Cyn.in within organizations spanning across nearly every major vertical and every continent across the world. From successfully enabling a company wide collaboration platform for businesses with over 50,000 employees to connecting together a 4 person strong startup, we have applied Cyn.in to a broad spectrum of requirements and learnt a great deal in the process.

Cyn.in v3 Main Home Screen

Our key motivation while designing Cyn.in v3 came in from the needs of our customers and the community. Demanding market situations have caused businesses to push collaboration tools harder towards increasing efficiency and productivity while reducing costs. Cyn.in v3 was designed with a focus to speeden communication and facilitate rapid and seamless knowledge sharing.

A great new user experience:

Cyn.in evolves and changes the way knowledge workers communicate with each other, and in some cases, especially in very large organizations, this change could curb widespread adoption. The all new user experience has been redesigned from ground up to eliminate the learning curve and accelerate value discovery.

DiscussionsDiscussion boards:

One of the most asked for features has been discussions independent of the contextual discussions as comments. The new discussions application in Cyn.in is the perfect tool to initiate conversations and fluid knowledge exchange.

Video / Audio streaming:

You can now share video and audio content with your team using Cyn.in. Its like having a secure internal Youtube for your organization. Uploaded media can be further embedded into other Cyn.in applications like wikis and blogs.

Quick AdderThe Quick Adder bar:

The "Add New" interface in v2.1was simple but wasn't ALWAYS available. With v3, you can add spaces or content from anywhere, with a click. The Quick Adder bar is always available at the top of every Cyn.in screen enabling you to create new content in a space of your choice. If you are looking at starting a conversation or just asking a question, use the discussion text box to post it without navigating away from the page.

Faceted Search and FilteringFaceted search and filtering:

Knowledge workers spend the likes of one day per week searching for people or information - connecting to people through people while looking for answers. V3 introduces faceted search and navigation to speed up information retrieval and allow users to filter down quickly to the answers they need. Faceted filtering allows you to multi-dimensionally slice-n-dice information in a manner that best accommodates your specific needs.

Customizable applications in a  space:

Customers told us they wanted more flexibility in the Spaces - freedom to select application types in a space. Now you can turn on/off any application in a Space and even define the default view of the Space. That means in a Space you can enable discussions and files or disable wikis. Or, you can turn off the dashboard and choose any application to be the default view of that Space.

Crowd Rating and VotingCrowd rating / voting:

Encourage conversations and capture innovative ideas by getting peers to rate / vote for content in the site. Top rated items bubble up to the top and by applying the "wisdom of crowds" concept, top rated items can complement decision-making processes resulting in better decisions.

Cyn.in - On Demand now exclusively hosted on Amazon EC2

Amazon Web Services LogoGet your own dedicated virtual servers in the cloud hosted exclusively with Amazon Web Services. We will not be offering shared instances of Cyn.in from this release. Each Cyn.in On Demand package with now provide a dedicated server instance in the cloud. This makes Cyn.in On Demand a true 'Appliance in the Cloud' offering and provides much stronger control and security to our customers. We will continue to provide the shared instance offering to our existing customers for the next one year.

Lots more - These are just some of the interesting features introduced in Cyn.in v3. Check out the list of Cyn.in v3 features here. Along with new features, we have worked hard towards improving speed and stability of Cyn.in and squashed hundreds of bugs in the process

A select set of customers have been using v3 actively in the production environment for a while now, and their response has been encouraging to say the least. We look forward to hearing your feedback.

Presenting the brand new Cynapse.com and the Cynapse Community!

Customer feedback and the open source community are the top innovation drivers at Cynapse and have been instrumental in the success of Cyn.in. We intend to take this interaction to a whole new level with the brand new Cynapse.com with a unified community built using Cyn.in integrated with the versatile Drupal CMS.

In the true spirit of open source, we invite Cyn.in users, enthusiasts and developers from across the world to come and share your ideas, provide feedback about Cyn.in, discuss and ask questions in our Cyn.in powered Community.

Check out the latest Cyn.in v3 features   |  Download Cyn.in v3  |  Join the Community

 

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