cyn.in community User Guide published

Posted by romasha 4 years 7 weeks ago
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A comprehensive user guide has been published in the cyn.in community wiki for users to get started with using the collaboration software.

The User Guide sections include:

  1. Getting Started
  2. Anatomy of a cyn.in site
  3. Application views in cyn.in
  4. Adding / Editing applications in cyn.in

The user guide can be accessed here: http://cynin.wiki.sourceforge.net/cyn.in+User+Manual

Apart from the user guide, the community installation video tutorial is also added to the community wiki. Contributions to the cyn.in community documentation for the user and administration guides are welcome.

Tags:Collaboration, community contributions, cyn.in, cyn.in documentation, cyn.in help, cyn.in how to, cyn.in tutorial, cyn.in user guide, cyn.in user manual, Cyn.in v2, Enterprise 2.0

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cyn.in in the Spotlight

Posted by romasha 4 years 11 weeks ago

Express Computer Magazine, India's Only leading IT Business Weekly, featured cyn.in in their Spotlight Section in February. Renuka Vembu, has in a succinct manner summarized Cynapse's history and philosophy of developing products. It can easily be summed up in a very famous quote by Charles Darwin:

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to Change"

A really nice article about Cynapse's founder Apurva Roy Choudhury. Do read the full article here: http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20090223/management04.shtml

This interview was done in December. cyn.in now has over 20K installations of the open source community edition across the world.

Tags:Apurva Roy Choudhury, Collaboration, cyn.in, cyn.in reviews, Cyn.in v2, cynapse, Express Computer Online, IT Business Weekly, open source

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cyn.in low cost alternative to Sharepoint

Posted by romasha 4 years 13 weeks ago

Aside from the complex deployment, challenging back up-restore and an unusable interface for end users, Sharepoint is EXPENSIVE! A recently released market study conducted by Information Architected found that half of the organizations using Sharepoint experienced more effort and budget than expected.

While some of you might argue that you already own Sharepoint licenses, it actually requires an army of MOSS components to run along with it for a successful implementation. These components include (but are not limited to) Windows licenses, SQL Server licenses, base and enterprise CALs, Search servers and the list goes on. Add to this support, upgrade and integration costs, the total cost of ownership (TCO), overtime, simply goes through the roof.

One customer who has now successfully implemented cyn.in, was initially deciding between Sharepoint or cyn.in to be used as their collaboration platform. Listing out feature differences wouldn't work as Sharepoint has it all. The unmeasurable stuff - like Sharepoint's complex user interface that an average non-technical employee would find difficult to use, was not something he was willing to buy in. I used a Sharepoint Price Calculator tool developed by the folks at Bamboo Nation that gives a good ballpark estimate of total licensing expenditures. To my surprise (and the customer's too), Sharepoint pricing turned out to be astoundingly high for a 500 user company!

Here's a snapshot of the Sharepoint pricing:

sharepoint price calculator

The one time cost is approximately 91 times that of cyn.in!

If you are looking out for a collaboration platform and are comparing Sharepoint with other products, go ahead and get a ballpark estimation of the implementation cost here: http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/sharepoint-price-calculator/default.aspx

Tags:CIO, Collaboration, cyn.in, Sharepoint alternative, Sharepoint price calculator, Sharepoint pricing, Sharepoint TCO, TCO, why cyn.in

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App+frica loves cyn.in - is the top scorer in their review of 15 Project Management Intranet applications

Posted by romasha 4 years 16 weeks ago

Jonathan Gosier of Appfrica.net, in his search for a simple, customizable self-hosted Project Management Intranet for his company, configured 15 popular applications and found cyn.in to be an invincible winner!

His requirement was pretty straight forward, an open-source self-hosted system that allows for internal messaging, group knowledge sharing, task assignment and works in countries where 'always connected' to the internet is still a luxury. In his quest, he first researched the possible options, shortlisted to the 15 and then went ahead and installed/signed-up/demo-ed/tested all the applications meticulously to see how they stand up to their claims.

Here's what he says about cyn.in:

Cynapse is an interesting initiative. They offer a free self-hosted open-source edition, a hosted SaaS (software as a service) version at $99 and a self-hosted enterprise edition that offers unlimited users and the option for doing things like running it behind company firewalls or cloud storage systems like EC2. The functionality goes a step beyond all the other products on this list by offering things like mind-mapping, instant messaging, and blogs. Beyond, that it’s hands down the best looking of the whole lot...

The applications compared are rated based on functionality, pricing, usability, design, ease of installation and delivery models. Below is the consolidated scoreboard for all applications compared by Appfrica - 1 is the lowest score and 5 is the highest.

Application
 Design Usability Ease of Installation
 Self-hosted/Server/Offline Edition
 Multi-tiered Pricing
 Functionality Open source Overall Score
Basecamp 5
5
5 1 5 4 1 3.7
Zoho 5 5 5 2 5 5 1
4
Google Apps
 5 5 5 1 5 5 1
3.9
Zimbra
 5 5
5 5 5 5 5 5
ActiveCollab
 5
5
5
5 5 5
1
 4.4
ProjectPier and Open Goo
 5 3 5 5 5 1 5
3.7
Dot Project
 1 5 5 5 5 3 5 4.1
cyn.in 5 5 5
5 5 5 5 5
Confluence 3 4 4 4 2 3 1 3
Rockclimbr 5 5 5
5 5 4 5
4.9
Yammer / Noodle / Present.ly 4 5 4 1 4 4 1 3.3
Collabtive 2 5 5 5 5 4 5
4.4
Trellis Desk
 4 5 5 5 5 4 5 4.7
Achievo 0 0 0 5 5 1 5 2.3
Product Planner
 5 5 2 1 5
4
1
3.3

What makes cyn.in the winner according to him:

Zimbra, Cyn.in and ActiveCollab are definitely the top scorers and the two best self-hosted project management systems I could find. They all look good and have the features I need. What really sets the latter two apart is pricing, ActiveCollab is $99 per year while Cynapse asks $0.00 for their open source version which isn’t quite as easy to install. But if it saves me $100, I have no problem with that. So the winner, in my book, is Cyn.in (Cynapse)!

Do check out the extensive comparison here: http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/1519

Thanks Jonathan, for the detailed comparison. I am sure this will be useful to a lot of people looking for self-hosted project management / intranet applications.

Tags:ActiveCollab, basecamp, Collaboration, confluence, cyn.in, cyn.in reviews, google apps, intranet, open source, project management, SaaS, Zimbra, zoho

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Intel-backed SuiteTwo (SpikeSource) shuts down, cyn.in offers discount and migration

Posted by romasha 4 years 21 weeks ago

Its sad to see Intel backed SuiteTwo (SpikeSource) discontinue services due to shortcomings in implementations of social software for businesses. We at Cynapse want to help SuiteTwo customers find a comprehensive solution in cyn.in.

For SuiteTwo customers who wish to switch to another behind-the-firewal or SaaS Enterprise collaboration suite, cyn.in will help in data migration and offer a 25% discount on any of the cyn.in Editions. Just drop us a mail at sales at cynapse dot com before end of March 2009 and we'd be glad to help.

cyn.in is the only provider of an Appliance and a SaaS model for collaboration within the enterprise. While SuiteTwo offered a loose integration between the three applications bundled, cyn.in provides out-of-the-box collaboration with wikis, blogs, file repositories, Twitter-like-status messages, instant discussions, shared calendars and more. Some of the advantages of cyn.in compared to SuiteTwo are:

  1. Seamlessly integrated applications under a secure single platform
  2. Notifications across the system to a desktop client or via email
  3. No user based pricing with complete professional support

For businesses who wish to use the open source edition can download and setup the community edition for free.

To sign-up for the 25% discount and migration to cyn.in, mail us at sales at cynapse dot com

Tags:Collaboration, cyn.in, cynapse, Enterprise 2.0, Intel, SaaS, Spike Source, Suite Two

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