Inviting partners to resell Cyn.in and drive the value of Enterprise 2.0 software to customers

Posted by romasha 38 weeks 1 hour 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.

Tags:channel partners, Collaboration, consultants, cyn.in, Enterprise 2.0, ISVs, OEMs, open source, partner program, partners, product companies, resellers, SaaS, Solution providers

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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 1 year 28 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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SaaS adoption to increase in 2009

Posted by romasha 1 year 29 weeks ago

In the times of the economic downturn, market researcher IDC is projecting a steep growth of the SaaS model - of over 40% in 2009. The right-sized, zero-CAPEX alternatives offered by SaaS vendors is going to lure customers to adopt such technologies. Even as companies seek to reduce thier capital expenditure and postpone new technology investments, Robert Mahowald, director, On-Demand and SaaS research IDC, says:

With a broad slowdown across IT sectors, businesses are increasingly bearish about their short-term ability to invest, whether for stability, growth, or cost savings down the road. But SaaS services have benefited by the perception that they are tactical fixes which allow for relatively easy expansion during hard times, and several key vendors finished the year very strong, reporting stable financial and inroads into new customer-sets.

From our experience of selling cyn.in On-Demand, I find it to be more true than ever. The economic conditions have forced businesses to consider a "change" that was not considered necessary during more affluent times. We've been in the SaaS business since 2006 and since the last quarter we have seen a steep increase in sales in our SaaS edition. Some of the most important reasons that we've seen are:

  1. Businesses are looking at reducing travel costs for team meetings and even client meetings
  2. Recession is making companies encourage their employees to work from home - reducing infrastructural spends at the office premises
  3. Reduced staff due to layoffs is forcing companies to focus internal IT initiatives only on direct, line of business technology - and outsource infrastructure related management
  4. Low, cost-saving technology options - Companies are aiming to reduce their capex by exploring hosted applications, wherein they have to pay-as they consume without making upfront investments

Is your company looking at adopting SaaS technologies? Do share your opinions in the comments. Read more about Benefits of SaaS

Tags:analyst reports, benefits of SaaS, cost-saving tech, cyn.in, economic slowdown, on-demand, SaaS, software as a service

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

Posted by romasha 1 year 32 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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