Why cyn.in - Benefits

Why Cyn.in?

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The greatest factors differentiating your business from the rest are your PEOPLE & KNOWLEDGE cyn.in helps you inter-connect them with 10x efficiency

Where is the pain?

Billions of dollars are invested annually in the management of structured data, using technologies like ERP, MIS, etc. However this information comprises of just 15% of the enterprise information landscape.

  • 90% of all unstructured information remains unmanaged
  • Knowledge workers spend 30%-40% of their time every year managing documents
  • Businesses today spend an estimated $750 billion annually due to time spent by workers seeking information necessary to do their jobs

Who Needs the pain pill?

Any organization or team that depends heavily on digital documents, files, media and uses email or network file shares to share this content - needs cyn.in.

  • Vertical Segments: ITES, Education, Telecom, Advertising & Media, BFSI, Automotive, Government
  • Business Departments:  Sales, Marketing, Finance, R&D, Senior Management

Solutions in the market

1ST GENERATION

  • Email
  • Network File Shares
  • IRC
  • Bulletin boards

2nd GENERATION

3rd GENERATION

  • Wikis
  • Blogs
  • Social Networking
  • Social Bookmarking
  • Microblogs / Tumble logs
  • Niche Web 2.0 tools ported for enterprise use

Unified Collaboration with Cyn.in

Cyn.in is an enterprise collaboration software, that inter-connects your people with each other and their collective knowledge, seamlessly.
Cyn.in unifies the capabilities of 3rd generation collaboration tools into a seamless platform, while integrating and interfacing with existing 1st/2nd generation tools

Unique advantages of Cyn.in

UNIFIED

  • Unified user experience across applications
  • Common feature set & functionality
  • Unified content repository and search
  • Central access for employees, customers, partners

EASY TO USE

  • Intuitive interface
  • Web based access across platforms & devices
  • Cross OS desktop client for instant discussion & notifications
  • Integrates with various existing tools

OPEN

  • GPLv3 based open source codebase
  • Plug-in based extensibility
  • Compliant with various open standards and formats
  • XML-RPC / REST RSS / Atom based APIs

ENTERPRISEY

  • Advanced role based security
  • Highly scalable with clustering support
  • Workflows and rules engines
  • Faceted search, navigation and retrieval
  • Integrated robust app & OODB server

Cyn.in Use cases

SALES & MARKETING

  • Collaborative proposal creation
  • Best practice management
  • Campaign event / planning
  • Competitive intelligence building

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

  • Shared knowledge bases
  • Schedule reporting
  • Conversation tracking
  • Document sharing & tracking

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

  • Collaborative business strategy planning
  • Corporate governance planning
  • Internal mass communication
  • Goal tracking

ENTERPRISE WIDE

  • Customer involvement & self service
  • Cross location file sharing
  • Intra department knowledge flow
  • Ad-hoc team creation

QUALITY ASSURANCE

  • Process definition & training
  • Rapid knowledge propagation
  • Cross departmental interaction

FINANCE

  • Secure document management
  • Document workflows & tracking

Why users love Cyn.in

  • Find files instantly with live search
  • Control your content with rules
  • Protect & secure your sensitive data
  • Securely access all your files any time, from any place
  • Co-author content with peers remotely
  • Create content once; repurpose always
  • Find people with relevant information
  • Get quicker feedback and contributions
  • Take the hassle out of common tasks

Why managers love Cyn.in

  • Get real-time updates of team activity
  • Manage teamwork across geographies
  • Stay on top of tasks
  • Effortlessly provide feedback via contextual discussions
  • Evaluate and measure team contribution
  • Identify experts across teams
  • Create secure workspaces for projects
  • Increase accountability
  • Simplify processes with workflows

Why the IT department loves Cyn.in

  • Install and deploy under an hour
  • High focus on data security
  • Easy to manage, migrate, upgrade
  • Strong compliance with open standards
  • Based on the mature & reliable Plone – Zope – Python platform
  • High extensibility through APIs & plug-in architecture
  • Revision control & automated backups for no accidental data loss
  • Wide choice of virtualized & direct to hardware deployment options
  • On – demand option for hassle free setups & trials

Why business owners love Cyn.in

  • Increase collective knowledge capital
  • Garner & secure organizational Information
  • Reduce costs by increasing content reuse
  • Unite geographically separate teams
  • Reduce information support costs
  • Better equipped and connected workforce Involve your customers, suppliers & partners
  • Leverage existing investments on productivity software
  • Integrate & extend using open standards; no lock-ins
  • Reduce meetings & travel Affordable

Cyn.in Delivery Models

ENTERPRISE APPLIANCE

  • On – premise software appliance
  • Built in OS, database & application servers
  • Centralized management console
  • Auto updating service
  • Enterprise class professional support
  • Unlimited users / CPUs: ‘CAL free’ pricing

ON-DEMAND SaaS

  • Globally available hosted & managed service
  • Zero IT infrastructure requirements
  • Get started in 48 hours
  • All plans include hosting, software and support
  • Pay as you go: No upfront costs
  • Unlimited users: No user based costs

The future – Our commitment to innovation

Cyn.in’s goal is to be the ‘synapse’ of a business's knowledge infrastructure & invent new ways to connect people to information and each other

R&D POINTS OF FOCUS FOR 2009 – 2011:

  • Create connectors to business apps (CRM, Project Mgt.)
  • Extend connectors to communication tools (IM, E-mail, VoIP)
  • Create device specific client interfaces (iPhone, Blackberry)
  • Interface with productivity tools (MS Office, Thunderbird, G-Cal)
  • Create connectors to social tools (Facebook, Linked-in, Twitter)
  • Enhance rich media in content
  • Customer requested enhancements & features

What people are saying about Cyn.in

“The cyn.in client is a 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.” - The New York Times

“cyn.in - Would-be Challenger to heavy weights like Google and Yahoo in the Internal Enterprise Networks segment” - IDC

“I recommend checking out cyn.in - It could make collaborative group work much better” – Mark Gibbs, Network World.

“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.” – Ryan Stewart, Platform Evangelist, Adobe.