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Archive for August, 2009
What is Cloud Computing in Plain English
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009What is SharePoint in Plain English
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Building Web Applications With SaaS Architecture
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is amongst the fastest growing segments of information technology industry. By now, it is well-known and accepted that SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) model is not just hype and it is here to stay. SaaS is defined by the business benefits it delivers to customers; faster time-to-value, lower cost of ownership, and increasing value over time through ongoing free upgrades.
SaaS offers in terms of lowering cost of ownership and operations, predictable and recurring revenue, ability to easily reach new customers of all sizes etc are too many to resist. Its business benefits include better support (since all customers are on one version of the software and the SaaS provider knows the user’s data, configuration, and usage), easier deployment, and lower hidden costs as there are no SaaS upgrade projects, patches to apply, databases to back up and restore, etc.
All the key components of SaaS architecture and infrastructure – multi-tenant, single-version, shared infrastructure, fully webified, configurable, metered and actively monitored – simply serve to deliver these benefits.
ISHIR became one of the early adopters of SaaS model and is currently working on various SaaS migration and SaaS enablement program, leveraging their continuous R&D efforts and incremental methodology.
ISHIR offers:
- SaaS Consulting: Feasibility check of your existing product architecture for SaaS enablement and prototyping laying down the road map for a successful transition.
- SaaS Architectural Consulting: Laying the foundation of a robust architecture for successful SaaS application that is scalable, multi-tenant and configurable to achieve the economy of scale you are aiming by transitioning to SaaS.
- Successful Development: As the pioneer in adopting agile methodologies in distributed environment, we efficiently reduce your time-to-market and shorten release cycles to enhance the value you deliver to your customers.
- User Experience: Employing the best practices for developing a SaaS application, our team will work with you to build visually rich, intuitive SaaS application.
- Building Offline Capabilities: We specialize in developing Smart Clients to provide extra-rich user interface as well as provide offline capabilities empowering your power users to do more.
- Office Tools Integration: We can seamlessly integrate your SaaS solutions with familiar Microsoft Office and other Office tools to improve productivity of your users.
- SOA Integration: Integrating your SaaS application with your customers’ other on-premise and SaaS applications is always a challenge because they reside across the firewall. We have strong capabilities in building Web Services based integration solution to overcome this challenge.
- Engineered Testing: Validation of the solution using experienced test engineers to ensure that your SaaS application is ready to meet the performance and security demands of your geographically distributed users.
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How do SharePoint Online and Office SharePoint Server Feature Compare?
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009Depending on your unique business requirements, making a decision of whether you should host SharePoint on-premise or in the Clouds can be tough. We found the Microsoft SharePoint® Online Standard Service Description document, detailed and helpful. Jump to Page 23 Appendix B for a feature comparison between Office SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online Standard and SharePoint Online Dedicated. Below is summary of Appendix B from the August 19, 2009 version of the document.
This helps break out of features by:
- Collaboration Feature Comparison
- Portal Feature Comparison
- Content Management Feature Comparison
- Search Feature Comparison
- BI Feature Comparison
- Business Process and Forms Feature Comparison
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Rethinking Application Delivery
Monday, August 24th, 2009Microsoft Online Services is secure and cost effective
Friday, August 14th, 2009Key applications such as messaging, worker and group collaboration tools, and online conferencing services provide the foundation for businesses of all sizes and in all markets. Though necessary to the day-to-day operation of your business, these applications can be expensive to purchase and operate. These important online communication tools require staff with specialist skills outside the key requirements for your business, can represent a significant overhead, and must be regularly maintained and monitored to ensure that they are securely and reliably operated.
Microsoft Online Services are online applications designed especially for the needs of business customers. The Business Productivity Online Standard Suite is a set of Microsoft Online Services, subscription-based enterprise software services hosted by Microsoft and sold with partners. The Online Services operate within a complete ecosystem of features and capabilities that are designed to meet and in many cases to exceed the security and availability goals that you have for your business applications.
These services are backed by strong service-level agreements made possible by Microsoft’s investing billions in data centers to support these services. They make it easier for customers to rapidly and cost-effectively access the most up-to-date technologies, and are fully integrated and designed for rapid deployment to provide customers with streamlined communications, simplified management, and business-class reliability and security. The services, which can be purchased individually or in Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite are following:
NPower Texas and ISHIR formed alliance to provide and support non-profit organizations with efficient technology solutions
Monday, August 10th, 2009NPower Texas and ISHIR have formed an alliance to support non-profits by leveraging technology to more efficiently serve their missions. NPower Texas provides non-profit organizations with technology solutions such as assessment and planning, software selection and implementation, training, and web development services, all with the goal of ensuring organizational stability, improving effectiveness, and increasing their community impact. ISHIR has the expertise that your company needs to properly align IT and business objectives to create a long term strategy that fits the future goals of your business.
ISHIR helps its clients achieve greater level of organization agility that consolidates and/or expands your computing capacity, while increasing overall efficiency and reducing IT costs. Through this relationship, NPower will be able to further its mission to help non-profits maximize their dollars spent on technology related consulting and service fees and ISHIR will provide the technology consulting services to NPower members at not-for-profit billing rates which will help non-profits leave more of their donations available to serve their missions.
Offshoring by US Companies Surges Survey
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Last year, more than 50 percent of companies had a corporate offshoring strategy in place, up from 22 percent in 2005. Sixty percent of companies currently offshoring say they have aggressive plans to expand existing activities, according to the recently released survey conducted by the Duke University and The Conference Board.
Microsoft Online Services/BPOS : Data backup and Disaster Backup Recovery?
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009For Outlook you can be confident that your data will be available.
- Deleted items are recoverable up to 14 days old.
- Corrupt items are recoverable up to 14 days old. The newest recovered item may be at least one business day old.
- Deleted or corrupted mailboxes or any other disaster recovery will attempt to recover a mailbox up to 14 or 30 days after the problem occurred, the data may be at least one business day old.
Now that you’re aware of this you can determine your own backup strategy. The most important thing is that Deleted and Corrupt items are recoverable up to 14 days old. This means for any item older than 14 days backup/restore is up to yourself. I choose to adjust my Auto-archive settings to archive every 14 days, and make a regular backup of the archive files.
For SharePoint things are quite different, just look at this:
- Items deleted by mistake will go through the regular Recycle Bin process, this gives you 60 days to recover a deleted item. If versioning is enabled you can also restore previous versions of documents.
- If the SharePoint site is deleted by mistake or is corrupted recovery is not supported
- In case of disaster recovery MS will attempt to recover a SharePoint site up to 14 days after a disaster. The service may take six business days to be completed. The newest recovered item may be at least seven business days old.
http://www.microsoft.com/online/help/en-us/bpos/html/7b8f6b68-625d-4f45-98d8-b178c1f3f27d.htm
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