Posted by romasha 4 years 21 weeks ago

With the economic downturn, businesses are reviewing their ambitious and expensive software implementation plans and spends in a new light. CIO's of leading enterprises are looking at Open source and SaaS technologies as an option to combat the slowdown.

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PCQuest - India's leading technology magazine, is advising CIOs to adopt open source technologies to avoid large upfront investments and beat the recession, in the January 2009 edition. We were thrilled to see that PCQuest is recommending cyn.in to be used for collaboration in enterprises.

Cyn.in can be used for collaboration, managing your electronic documents, images, and maintain proper work flow. This software offers a number of collaboration tools such as blogs, micro blog, discussion, wiki, etc. A desktop client is also available for Windows, Linux and Mac, which gets installed on the system and does not require you to visit web pages regularly to keep yourself updated. For example, whenever someone uploads a file or puts a comments, the user will just receive a pop up, and then he can visit the site.

cyn.in has all the features suited for Enterprise collaboration. Its easy to install and setup, at the same time, the simple user interface makes it easy for adoption- the most critical factor for software success in organizations. The price is reasonable and companies can go with the SaaS edition or the Enterprise Edition with complete support.

Rakesh Sharma at PCQuest has done an impressive quick start guide for installing and starting off with cyn.in. The following points are outlined in the installation guide:

  1. cyn.in Installation (An installation video is also available here: http://blog.cynapse.com/how-to-setup-cynin-vmware-appliance-community-edition)
  2. cyn.in Configuration - Setting up the VMware appliance
  3. User managment in cyn.in - adding/deleting users
  4. Adding Spaces in cyn.in
  5. Adding Smart Views in cyn.in

Read the complete article here: http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/enterprise/2009/109010104.asp

 

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Posted by romasha 4 years 21 weeks ago

Bill Ives covers knowledge management and emerging Enterprise 2.0 technologies on his blogs. He has been writing informative content on his blogs often highlighting the value of combining enterprise technologies with new age social software.
Recently he covered cyn.in on one of his blogs - The AppGap. Here's an excerpt from the review:

This looks like another useful option for enterprise 2.0 collaboration and content sharing that is continuing the trend of integrated suites of applications taken from Web 2.0.

There's also some really impressive user feedback in the comments.

Check out the full post here: http://www.theappgap.com/cynin-open-source-enterprise-collaboration-software.html

Thanks for the amazing review, Bill.

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Posted by romasha 4 years 22 weeks ago

Darrell Etherington has an interesting cyn.in review on his blog at WebWorkerDaily. He points out that people looking out for a pure collaboration platform will find cyn.in tailored to their specific needs compared to Liferay. Which is true, as Liferay offers a full-fledged end-to-end portal, CMS and collaboration solution while cyn.in concentrates on out-of-the-box enterprise wide collaboration.

Overall, Cyn.in seems like a fairly powerful tool, especially if your users are knowledgeable and experienced in customized enterprise collaboration software... I’d recommend Cyn.in for consultants working with larger, established companies looking for an alternative to their current collaboration solution.

He has blogged about his experience of using cyn.in. You can read the entire post here: http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/12/31/cynin-more-open-source-group-collaboration

Thanks for the extensive review of cyn.in, Darrell!

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Posted by romasha 4 years 23 weeks ago

Thats Ryan Stewart's opinion about cyn.in. As a Platform Evangelist at Adobe, he finds the cyn.in desktop client to be the coolest thing.

We are thrilled reading Ryan's comments about the cyn.in desktop client:

What’s great is the polish and UI design they put into it. The application is very elegantly skinned and they’ve made sure the preferences for things like alerts and “always on top” are easily accessible. It’s one of the best examples I’ve seen of AIR because it brings the full functionality of the backend system into a desktop client for ease of use and tracking. It’s unobtrusive and simple to use, and they made it look really good. I encourage you to check out the screenshots on their blog.

I'd like to say thank you to Ryan for the superb mention!

Read the full post here: http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2008/12/cynin-adobe-air-in-enterprise-20/

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Posted by romasha 4 years 24 weeks ago

An extensive review of the cyn.in desktop client was featured in the Technology section of NYTimes. The article written by Sarah was syndicated from ReadWriteWeb. Here's a snippet from the article:

The cyn.in client is beautiful implementation of how microblogging could and perhaps should) work for businesses, but it's the client's integration with the cyn.in team collaboration suite that makes it so worthwhile.

Other enterprise microblogging clients include Yammer, Present.ly, and Status, but none offer an integrated collaboration suite, too. Cyn.in is open source, but it can also be purchased as a hosted service or as an enterprise appliance.

We're thrilled to have the attention and delighted that people are really liking the new cyn.in desktop client. Our team works incredibly hard and consistently to deliver high-end technology that is usable and beautiful at the same time. Thanks for the great review, Sarah!

You can read the full review here

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