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Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 14:23

Based on Etherpad, which was recently acquired and open sourced by Google, Sync.in enables real time editing of documents through an easy to use web based word processor. Multiple users can edit a document in real time and chat using in-built instant messaging. Sync.in desktop, built on Adobe AIR enables quick access and creation of documents.

Sync.in - Real time collaborationApril 20, 2010: Cynapse, inventor of popular Enterprise 2.0 collaboration software Cyn.in, announced the public availability of a new offering: Sync.in - a real time document conferencing tool. With Sync.in, when multiple people edit the same document or note simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to communicate using text documents, useful for meeting notes, brainstorming, project planning, drafting sessions, training and more. Collaboration is further simplified with the Sync.in desktop based on Adobe AIR that works on Windows, Mac and Linux. Anyone can create free Sync.in public notes without even signing up and share its url to collaborate with others. Businesses can subscribe for a secure Sync.in Pro site for all team members at just $2/ user /month.

Sync.in provides a radically simple collaboration experience, one that is fast enough to augment natural spoken communication. Sync.in represents Cynapse's commitment to delivering the industry's most innovative collaboration tools for businesses. Sync.in is inspired from and based on the popular real time software Etherpad, recently acquired and open sourced by Google.

"Sync.in is the evolution of collaboration at its most basic level; I think users are going to love the real-time-ness that it brings to working together", said Dhiraj Gupta, CTO Cynapse. "Etherpad was a proven innovation in real time collaboration. We are impressed with the Etherpad vision and intend to keep it moving forward, with Sync.in. An important step forward is the Cynapse built Sync.in desktop, based on Adobe AIR. Sync.in is now always available right on your desktop letting you quickly create and open notes, search and filter the list of notes and more features are already on their way."

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 17:56

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Cynapse announces exclusive distribution partnership with VNC to promote sales and marketing support for their open source enterprise 2.0 software Cyn.in in the EMEA Markets.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010, Wilmington, DE- ZUG, SWITZERLAND : Cynapse, provider of open source Enterprise 2.0 software for small, medium and large organizations, today announced a partnership with Virtual Network Consult GmbH (VNC), a Value Added Distributor for Commercial Open Source & Cloud Solutions, to deliver its product Cyn.in in the Europe, Middle East and Africa markets.

Already in use by thousands of organizations globally, Cyn.in helps companies to overcome challenges associated with collaboration by providing an easy to use, affordable, multilingual Intranet that meets the emergent needs of enterprises. The commercial editions let companies harness key ingredients of Web 2.0 to suit their business objectives resulting in an always current, self healing, knowledge repository that captures the company's intellectual capital and strengthens workplace community. VNC, a top-ranked value added distributor, as part of this partnership will proactively expand the partner ecosystem and provide marketing support to drive demand for Cyn.in in the EMEA markets.

"This partnership represents Cynapse's commitment to its strategy of adding strong global partners to expand Cynapse's market presence worldwide. VNC has the best partner channel in the industry with a distinct understanding of customer requirements in their regions. Given VNC's broad geographic footprint plus its ability to expand into emerging markets, Cynapse's partnership with VNC will provide many more potential customers with powerful, easy to use collaboration software", said Viraf Sarkari, COO of Cynapse.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 19:17

Languages supported by Cyn.in

Cynapse marks their commitment for customers all over the world by offering the open source collaboration software Cyn.in in 43 languages including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi and more.

Wilmington DE: December 22, 2009 Cyn.in, the open source collaboration software, today announced version 3.1 with out-of-the-box multilingual capabilities across the software interface with support for 43 languages. The new i18n capabilities in Cyn.in will facilitate multinational enterprises to connect teams across the globe seamlessly.

In an increasingly global environment, the ability to connect with people in all areas of the world is progressively more important. Businesses are exploring newer geographies more than ever before and teams are needed to collaborate across geographic, cultural and linguistic boundaries. With the support for international languages, businesses and governments can now leverage the Cyn.in collaboration software to improve productivity while collaborating in their native language.

"We probably have the most diverse customer base a software company can possibly imagine. We have a strong presence in Central & Latin America, Europe, Russia, East Asia and quite some traction in Africa" said Apurva Roy Choudhury, CEO Cynapse. "Multi lingual support will not only benefit our customers, but also strengthen our channel partner relationships globally"

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 14:07

Facebook style discussions, rich audio and video streaming functionality expands the Cyn.in Open Source Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration Platform along with an all new user interface and great new features -- Cyn.in On-Demand Edition now exclusively hosted in the Amazon EC2 cloud.

Wilmington, DE: November 3, 2009 Cynapse, provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions, announced the public availability of Cyn.in version 3, designed with a focus to speeden communication and facilitate rapid and seamless knowledge sharing within organizations. Discussions, audio and video in Cyn.in v3 further extend the enterprise social networking and collaboration suite, in addition to existing applications wikis, blogs, microblogs, calendars, file repositories, image galleries and bookmarks. The all new user experience eliminates learning curve, accelerates value discovery and reduces adoption costs. In addition to the new offering, the Cyn.in On Demand Edition is now offered as a true "Appliance in the Cloud" with dedicated instances hosted exclusively with Amazon Web Services.

Cyn.in v3 creates an engaging experience for the employees by offering a user driven, social, collaborative Intranet that is inspired by Web 2.0, meets the emergent needs of the companies and facilitates "wisdom of crowds". The Enterprise Edition lets companies harness key ingredients of Web 2.0 behind the firewall to suit business objectives resulting in an always current, self-healing knowledge repository that captures the company's intellectual capital and strengthens workplace community.

"Cyn.in v3 offers a unified suite of intranet and social media tools giving companies an 'out of the box' intranet system that takes team collaboration to a whole new level," said Apurva Roy Choudhury, CEO of Cynapse. "The Cyn.in On-Demand Edition enables businesses to effortlessly implement intranets and extranets without the barriers of large infrastructural investments and at the same time offers more control and security with dedicated Amazon EC2 instances in the cloud."

Cyn.in v3 further adds powerful features such as faceted search and content filtering, crowd rating / voting, customizable work spaces, a quick adder bar and elegant improvements to the core experience to drive adoption. Complete feature list: http://www.cynapse.com/cynin/features

Monday, January 12, 2009 - 00:00

cyn.in an open source group collaboration software by Cynapse, announced a 25% discount and migration for all SuiteTwo (SpikeSource) customers, following the discontinuation of SuiteTwo's services.

Wilmington, DE: Intel backed SuiteTwo (SpikeSource) has discontinued their services due to shortcomings in implementations of social software for businesses. Cynapse wants to help the SuiteTwo customers find a comprehensive and affordable collaboration solution in cyn.in.

cyn.in logoFor SuiteTwo customers who wish to switch to another behind-the-firewall or a hosted Enterprise collaboration suite, cyn.in will help in data migration and offer a 25% discount on any of the cyn.in Editions. This means that the on-premise cyn.in Enterprise appliance for unlimited users will cost only $4688 annually.

cyn.in is the only provider of an on-premise 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 other social applications. 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 the cyn.in desktop client or via email
  3. No user based pricing with complete professional support