Outsourced Product Development – BETTER AND FASTER

Posted June 7, 2012, under Insights
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Outsource product development has caught the imagination of the entire business world. Sometimes, an enterprise opts for outsourced product development to manage costs, boost bottom line and save time for core activities and other times due to some strategic purposes

Onsite and in-house product development can be a very tedious task. A drastic shift from in-house product development to outsourced product development has been an ongoing trend for a long time. Inadequate market and cost analysis and a strong competitor reaction are just a few pit falls to name when it comes to in house product development. Low product awareness, Bad linkages across functional structures and unclear business strategy can totally fail in-house product development at any stage. Lack of skilled resources and the desired expertise are the biggest hassles which the firms face days which may lead to either failure of the whole project or estimated time lines and budget shooting skies.

While on the other hand outsourced product development makes it all easier. It has led to dramatic cost savings, enhanced quality, faster time to market and develop with easy access to large technical talent pool. Even the offshore product development companies are willing to work with your time zones so that there are little communication problems which might affect the project and updating and exchanging of reports.

If you are looking to grow and outstand in this competitive market and maintain an edge over the other players it’s time to switch to outsourced product development to create better products and faster!!
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JIVA InfoTech at CeBIT Australia 2012

Posted May 24, 2012, under Events, Events, Tradeshows & Conferences
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Jiva Infotech at Sydney Convention CenterJiva Infotech Booth at CeBIT Australia 2012

Darling Harbour, one of the most terrific Sydney’s landmarks, is being theatre of CeBIT 2012. Day 2 at Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre definitely delivered on expectations and provided great networking opportunities for the Jiva InfoTech team once again. Conferences and Workshops have been running all day long featuring many speakers that provided deep strategic insights on Social Media applications for enterprises, eHealth security and more.

After attending the Networking Breakfast in the early morning, we reached the Jiva stand and immediately started interacting with visitors from all around the world interested in our solutions. From Europe to Asia and Australia, the quality of the audience provided an engaging playground for our team and once again great networking and knowledge-sharing opportunities in an enjoyable surrounding environment. At CeBIT 2012, Sydney’s multicultural reputation showed up throughout the day and offered the best atmosphere to learn, share and co-create thought leadership.

May 24th will offer the best opportunities to learn and network in the ground of Online Retailing and Mobile Technology through numerous Conferences and Workshop Programs. With still one day to go, the Jiva InfoTech team looks forward to the last chance of spending some great time with its visitors at stand K60, Retail Technology / Supply Chain!

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Get Ready to Join JIVA InfoTech Team at CeBIT 2012 – The Global Business Meeting, Australia

Posted May 10, 2012, under Events, Events, Tradeshows & Conferences
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Join JIVA InfoTech Team at CeBIT 2012

JIVA InfoTech is happy to announce its participation in the#1 business event in Asia Pacific-CeBIT Australia on May 22-24 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre. Being one of the prestigious exhibitors, we would like to take this opportunity to showcase our on-site offshore development expertise through our products and services. Come by our booth and explore and understand our offerings which might be helpful to build the right custom solution for your needs from the following:

Outsourced Product Development- Outsourced Product Development at JIVA has its forte with the Customer centric processes. The Onsite-Offshore delivery model augments more client interaction for understanding the client requirements, effective implementation of the project and a judicious completion at cost-effective price.

Application Development & Management- JIVA’s app development and management solutions provide modern and productive development environment for building, maintenance and extension of enterprise applications.

Content Management system development- We can develop a Content Management System for an entire website or for portions of the website like blogs, forums, news updates, press releases, RSS, etc.

Enterprise Resource Planning- JIVA benefits companies in many ways: quick reaction to competitive pressures and market opportunities, more flexible product configurations, reduced inventory and tightened supply chain links.

Legacy system Reengineering- Our process for Migration and Reengineering allow you to get your software transformed with enhanced architecture, cleaned code, no broken links and bugs free with our experienced team of engineers and domain experts to save time and money on application development and maintenance.

Remote support & Maintenance - At JIVA, we offer Remote Support Services that have a unique module to meet the specific needs of clients from the individual support provider to the multi support center facility.

Social Media- JIVA develops technologies that aggregate relevant information into one place rather than across several sites, saving users time and effort.

Staff Augmentation- JIVA Staff Augmentation services can address the special and seasonal demands of the client and help them minimize the cost involved in hiring permanent employees.

IT Consulting- JIVA brings key consulting services that tackle all the required aspects within creased agility and a complete transformation.

Whether it’s Communications, Government Services or Business Process, there will be many compelling demonstrations to view and people to meet so this is a great opportunity to learn more about the retail world from JIVA InfoTech and other experienced professionals at the event. Join us for this unique experience and connect with us at our booth # K60 at hall 4 in the retail/tech supply chain.

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Why Attend CeBIT Australia 2012 – The Global Business Meeting

Posted May 4, 2012, under Events, Tradeshows & Conferences
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If you want to learn how to play the game of running a business by its new rules and how to win safely, securely and within your budget then CeBIT is the place to be. It’s the #1 business event in Asia Pacific

No other show in Australasia gives you such a comprehensive overview of the market or so many opportunities to extend your range of contacts or to cultivate existing connections. A driving force behind technological progress, CeBIT is the place where future industry standards are defined.

As the largest business technology conference and exhibition in the region, CeBIT Australia delivers an audience of Ministers, Directors, CEOs, CIOs, CTOs and key decision makers from Government organizations and Global Fortune 500 companies.

CeBIT Australia with a combination of 3 elements-The biggest ICT event, a global conference and a networking platform invites over 600 exhibitors and 30,000 business leaders and connects national and international leaders from industry and government. The event kick starting with key note speakers like Mr. Hon Gary Gray AO (special minister of state) and Mr. Laurie Wilson (president –national press club) is not going to be “just another business technology conference.”

For more details on the conference visit: www.cebit.com.au

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Church Embraces Technology

Posted May 7, 2010, under Insights, Technology
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Our client happens to be one of the most popular churches in Sunnyvale, CA, has more than 1,000 members. Like many houses of worship, our client wanted to embrace technology to better engage its members in the church community and to help spread its message.

With increasing popularity of the church and ever-increasing members the church is being renovated.
Before renovation they were using one projector at the front of its worship center and one at the rear, with digital switching performed manually. For the renovation, they added two more projectors and monitors at the front of the worship center, and replaced the projector in the back. Digital signage displays were added in the lobby and in the church’s Mission Café coffee shop.

Our client wanted to make use of the technology and avoid the manual process of operating the major electronic appliances, like projectors, cameras, monitors and digital signage.

JIVA suggested AV control software which can help them in video switching between multiple projectors, cameras, monitors and feeds for digital signage. We developed the software with graphic control pages to help the AV integrators. Loaded with complete graphics tools and effective functions programming the application is easy and intuitive to use. JIVA developed standard web files that can be launched from any web browser. This means that integrators can actually show live demos of touch panel interfaces on a laptop or PC, and the client can now experience the interactivity of the system before it is installed.

This application can be used for other sales and engineering departments. The application provides a comfortable, tactile, and graphical user experience. The application was designed in such a way that it supports wide range of OS compatibility for truly platform-independent functionality, and its server-side operation means that no dedicated server is required and no special applications need to be installed on the PC to access the AV control system.

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Initiatives for Effective Internal Communications

Posted April 19, 2010, under Insights
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JIVA InfoTech, Inc. has introduced new initiatives called “Formal Employee Amassing” and “Developers Apportioning” activities as part of the effective Internal Communication which takes place every month within the organization.

As part of the “Formal Employee Amassing” , every month few employees are given an opportunity to present on their chosen topic, may be anything like viz…Technology, process, current affairs, roll model etc… which creates increasing the knowledge, improvising the cohesiveness, providing an opportunity for experience sharing and Improvises the communication & presentation skills.

As part of the “Developers Apportioning” all the developers team gather once in a month and to give presentation on technology related topics , their challenges & success stories, which leads to applied science in the environment of technology and engineering.

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Hospital Internal Communication – Intranet Solution SharePoint

Posted April 16, 2010, under Case Studies, SharePoint, Technology
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Business Challenge

Our client happens to be one of the best cardiac hospitals in US. They have a chain of 25 hospitals spread across US. This group of hospitals has about 600 employees and has an additional 350 contract employees.

Our client was using an outdated HTML based intranet service to communicate and find information including phone directories, clinical forms and handbooks on policies and procedures. They wanted to have a new intranet solution as the older intranet was difficult and time-consuming to use. In old intranet application, the users required to scroll through all posted messages to find the information they were looking for. In addition, the outdated information had to be deleted manually.

JIVA’s Solution

We proposed the new intranet on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, to help the users to have a consistent, organized way to communicate and interact with content, processes and data.

We used Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to create an intranet for our client which gives its team members access to diverse kinds of information they need, all from a single location. Our solution helped in offering a streamlined user experience, enhanced employee relations by providing information important to them and helped to increase the security of information residing on the portal. Additionally, the new intranet extends content management to individual hospital department, allowing them to easily share information about themselves and their work.

Business Result

We created a document library that allows the hospital’s Chief Operating Officer to communicate to team members by creating messages and posting them in the library, and thereby improving the team member relations. In addition, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has provided team members with an efficient, easy way to conduct surveys, which can also improve team member morale.

With the tools in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, the client can now create customized security levels to determine which users can do with the content on it. Different content on the same site can even have different permissions.

The Enterprise Content Management features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 have made it possible for the client to expand content management to individual departments within the hospital. Because the new intranet solution is easy to use, it has grown to be an important part of the business process and successfully transformed information into impact.

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Build Profitable Customer Relationships with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Posted April 15, 2010, under Case Studies, Technology
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Business Challenge

Our client successfully operates magazines, trade shows and online services for the various markets it serves for over five decades now. The Company continues to expand “organically” each year capitalizing on its strong financial footing (Debt free), its lack of shareholder pressure (A Family business) and its willingness to invest by launching. Over a dozen new publications and services have been launched within the past few years with several more in the planning stage.

One of the latest in technological revolution is a modern customer relationship management (CRM) system that would make it easier to manage customers, inventory, and sales leads. Understanding its customers might not deploy such a solution on their own, our client wanted to offer its customers a CRM solution as a hosted service.

JIVA’s Solution

We proposed Microsoft Dynamics CRM, a customer relationship management solution that provides the tools and capabilities needed to create and easily maintain a clear picture of customers, from first contact through to purchase and post-sales. With our previous projects experience we suggested Microsoft Dynamics CRM as it delivers a fast, flexible, and affordable solution that drives consistent, measurable improvements in every business process, enabling closer relationships with customers and helping to achieve new levels of profitability.

Business Result

Using either Microsoft Office Outlook or Microsoft Internet Explorer, the client’s customers can access all the key CRM functions enabled by Microsoft Dynamics CRM—including customer and lead tracking, inventory control, and more. Moreover, as part of its Dealer Services offering, our client has integrated Microsoft Dynamics CRM into its own advertising and publishing system—so its customers can easily enter pictures and information about their new launch products in inventory and instantly upload that information to the client’s publishing system, where it is pushed into their respective magazines, websites and/or other publications. The CRM application integrates with their publishing system, making it easy to promote equipment through their paper and electronic publications. And it delivers these benefits without demanding additional local computing or support resources. All these benefits translate into greater customer satisfaction and retention.

Lessons Learnt

We have customized certain areas of Microsoft Dynamics CRM to accommodate industry-specific requirements. Dealers can access Microsoft Dynamics CRM using either Microsoft Internet Explorer or the Microsoft Dynamics client for. Any user using Microsoft Office Outlook can track their e mail messages right against the customer record in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The CRM solution has been beneficial for both the client and their dealers. It is easy to advertise and publish for the client. It is now easy to track the leads for the dealers. Finally, our CRM solution is one more way to help expand our client’s relationship with its customers.

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online to Drive Up-Sell Opportunities

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Business Challenge

Our client is one of the leading real estate firms in the DC area. The client was using the services of an online e-mail marketing vendor which had the client’s customer history and order data. With New anti-spamming restrictions and an unstable system, the vendor was not able to support the client’s needs and resulted in costly errors.
To overcome this problem, the client brought the data in-house. The database began exhibiting errors and progressively degraded and finally an unrecoverable crash that resulted in customer data loss. The client wanted to have a new solution which can overcome all the previous shortfalls.

JIVA’s Solution

Since the client wanted a flexible solution where it is easy to configure by non-technical people and have a friendly user interface and provide the users an access to CRM even at home, we suggested Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Earlier the company used to send direct mail to 40,000 prospects. After deploying the Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Managers now use the marketing module to remove the unnecessary 30,000 low-potential contacts and save the company thousands of dollars in direct mail costs.
In the past, employees in the loan department were not aware of activity of the customer in the other departments. The new solution allows marketers to analyze activities of the customer and use that information to optimize cross-sell opportunities.

Business Result

Since the solution we offered to the client was Microsoft Dynamics CRM on a hosted server, the company’s vital customer data is more secure. Earlier when the salesperson left the company they took their client data with them. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online ensures that hard-won customer data stays with the company and is accessible when employees leave, go on vacation, or are out sick. That way centralized customer data repository safeguards corporate assets.

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SharePoint: Connect People with information and expertise

Posted April 8, 2010, under SharePoint
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JIVA InfoTech is a leading SharePoint full-life cycle service provider. Our depth and breadth focus on the entirety of SharePoint provides our clients with an unprecedented level of service.

Over the past few years, our consultants have completed numerous implementations and development projects for a wide variety of public and private organizations. The most important aspect of these deployments is that they are functional, accessible, and fully utilized by our clients. By taking advantage of our knowledge assets and leveraging our human capital, our clients are able to save valuable time in design and deployment while reducing operational expenditures. This allows them to quickly realize the solution’s efficiencies and focus on their core business – all of which creates real ROI.

Our Advantage

Like most solution providers, JIVA InfoTech is capable of helping an organization with their deployment. Unlike most of our competitors, we can help improve your SharePoint experience at any point in its life cycle. Whether you are considering SharePoint, have already started a deployment, are looking to expand upon your existing SharePoint solutions, or have a deployment that is in trouble, we have individuals who can help.

JIVA InfoTech also provides project-based quotes and SharePoint implementations, customizations, etc. By utilizing our extensive experience with various organizations and projects, JIVA is able to assume the risk of providing a project quote rather than running the clock like many of our competitors.

Our diversified staff means, JIVA can provide solution to many different industries. JIVA can build a team capable of providing focused solutions to organizations in; Financial Services, Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology, Healthcare, Legal, Government, Telecommunication, Insurance, Creative Firms, as well as Non-Profit Organizations.

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