ISHIR Connect - Offshore Software Development Blog http://ishir.com/blog Offshore Outsourcing Experts from Dallas Texas and New Delhi India Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:04:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Lack of MS SharePoint Talent http://ishir.com/blog/559/lack-of-ms-sharepoint-talent.htm http://ishir.com/blog/559/lack-of-ms-sharepoint-talent.htm#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:04:16 +0000 rvishela http://ishir.com/blog/?p=559 ISHIR believes that Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is a complex environment and the US market particularly major markets such as Dallas, Houston, Seattle, New York, Austin, Chicago, Miami are facing a severe shortage of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 talent and expertise. It may be technically quite difficult and comparatively expensive for any business to implement Microsoft SharePoint 2010 employing internal resources due to lack of knowledge and expertise. More often this results into project delivery timescale’s slip and/or worse still abandon their Microsoft SharePoint 2010 projects due to lack of available talent. So, even though Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is as ‘hot’ as it can come by, it is crying out loud due to acute lack of talent and expertise. ISHIR has identified that the prominent reason behind businesses suffering from deficit of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 resources in the US is that there aren’t enough people who have the required qualifications and appropriate skills to fulfill the increasing demand for new apps. According to an industry study, the use of Microsoft Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is growing, but maintenance costs can be high, especially given the lack of trained personnel.

A “State of the Market” study by Osterman Research, which surveyed “more than 120 IT executives, managers and staffers at mid-to-large enterprises”, stated that the average cost to manage Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is $46 per user every month. Contrastingly, Microsoft Exchange management costs were found to be much lower, ranging from around $15 to $25 per user every month.

This is where ISHIR steps in. ISHIR is a Microsoft Gold Partner with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Gold competency. We are proficient in developing solutions employing Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and 2010 Platform and inter-related Microsoft and third-party technologies such as K2, AgilePoint, AvePoint, SharePoint Duet to name a few. Our large talent pool of professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007/2010 experts employ industry best practices to assure that our Microsoft SharePoint 2007/2010 solution caters to all your enterprise portal requirements, while at the same time enabling your IT resources to just focus on your company’s core business.  We have a deep knowledge in Microsoft SharePoint Branding and User Experience Design, Web Part Development; Microsoft SharePoint based product development, Microsoft SharePoint Quick Start programs, Microsoft SharePoint Consulting and Microsoft SharePoint SharePoint Governance and Administration.  Please visit us at www.ishir.com to learn more about our capabilities.

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]]> http://ishir.com/blog/523/zappos-hack-exposes-passwords.htm/feed 0 Is There Any Fix or Urgency On Microsoft To Fix The Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft SharePoint Integration Issues http://ishir.com/blog/525/is-there-any-fix-or-urgency-on-microsoft-to-fix-the-microsoft-outlook-and-microsoft-sharepoint-integration-issues.htm http://ishir.com/blog/525/is-there-any-fix-or-urgency-on-microsoft-to-fix-the-microsoft-outlook-and-microsoft-sharepoint-integration-issues.htm#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:16:43 +0000 Rishi Khanna http://ishir.com/blog/?p=525 Microsoft seems to be distracted with a number of low priority issues but they have not gotten any fix around this historic problem between Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft SharePoint.

]]> http://ishir.com/blog/525/is-there-any-fix-or-urgency-on-microsoft-to-fix-the-microsoft-outlook-and-microsoft-sharepoint-integration-issues.htm/feed 0 SalesForce.com Purposesly Makes It Difficult For Its Clients To Move to Its Competitors like Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 http://ishir.com/blog/527/salesforce-com-purposesly-makes-it-difficult-for-its-clients-to-move-to-its-competitors-like-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011.htm http://ishir.com/blog/527/salesforce-com-purposesly-makes-it-difficult-for-its-clients-to-move-to-its-competitors-like-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011.htm#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:21:18 +0000 ISHIR Marketing http://ishir.com/blog/?p=527 We have been using SalesForce.com for over 6 years.  We decided to move to Microsoft CRM Online 2011 recently but SalesForce.com makes it difficult for companies to switch providers.  Microsoft also does not provide good tools to make this migration possible.  The competition between them is just making it tough for companies to maintain control over the sales data.  I feel we should move to SugarCRM.  :)

]]> http://ishir.com/blog/527/salesforce-com-purposesly-makes-it-difficult-for-its-clients-to-move-to-its-competitors-like-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011.htm/feed 0 Microsoft Windows Server Price changes rumor http://ishir.com/blog/520/microsoft-windows-server-price-changes-rumor.htm http://ishir.com/blog/520/microsoft-windows-server-price-changes-rumor.htm#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:54:42 +0000 ISHIR Marketing http://ishir.co.in/blog/?p=520 We have been hearing this rumor about Microsoft increasing the price of Windows Server beginning from January 2012.   We investigated and spoke to our contacts at Microsoft and the LARs that we work with to confirm the rumor.  We learnt that Microsoft has announce price increase but not for North America but for Lation America starting Jan 2012.   We also seen some attention grabbing emails prospecting for additional business in December before rumored price increase.  Again, no January price increase on Windows Server has been announced.

]]> http://ishir.com/blog/520/microsoft-windows-server-price-changes-rumor.htm/feed 0 Don’t Hate Us Because We are a Microsoft Partner http://ishir.com/blog/517/dont-hate-us-because-we-are-a-microsoft-partner.htm http://ishir.com/blog/517/dont-hate-us-because-we-are-a-microsoft-partner.htm#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:19:00 +0000 ISHIR Marketing http://ishir.co.in/blog/?p=517 It feels like 20 years ago all over again when I used to read about Microsoft antitrust hearings in the newspaper. The recent news is that Microsoft is the most despised software company. This is according to research from Amplicate, a company that tracks what people say online. We were skeptical so we Binged the company and it seems legit. Then to be fair I used Google and got similar results. ;)

Amplicate gives Microsoft a “70 percent hate score,” meaning that the large majority of people that have posted on its Web site have bad things to say about the cost and stability of Microsoft Software and tools. Microsoft also received more comments (good and bad) than any other software vendor on Amplicate’s list.
We have an explanation: First, Microsoft is not perfect and does not produce the perfectly bug free products. We fight its software all too often being a Microsoft Gold Partner ourselves. Microsoft is both a target for hackers (because it is so ubiquitous) and a punching bag for millions of customers that depend on Windows, Office, etc.

By the way, Oracle claimed a 78 percent level of hate. Ouch Larry, you aren’t any better.

 

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Google said the users can still run the existing app but it will no longer be supported. Google also said BlackBerry users can still access their Gmail through the mobile Web app via the device’s Web browser.

Even with a declining share of the overall smartphone market, the BlackBerry still has a sizeable chunk of business users that plan on sticking with the device. For users of Google Apps for Business, the company continues to offer support for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, through a connector that provides synchronization. It would behoove Google to continue support for that connector if it wants to see more enterprise wins.

]]> http://ishir.com/blog/505/google-kills-gmail-app-for-blackberry-in-attempt-to-crush-mobile-phone-competition-let-mobile-war-begin.htm/feed 0 Adobe Flash with it’s falling userbase and Mobile OEM support may be canned http://ishir.com/blog/508/adobe-flash-with-its-falling-userbase-and-mobile-oem-support-may-be-canned.htm http://ishir.com/blog/508/adobe-flash-with-its-falling-userbase-and-mobile-oem-support-may-be-canned.htm#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:19:47 +0000 Rishi Khanna http://ishir.co.in/blog/?p=508 Steve Jobs and Apple rejected Flash for the iPad and iPhone, preferring open source HTML5 instead. In this case, Apple has made Flash disappear, well sort of. At least made HTML5 adoption quicker and made Adobe this week finally reveal that it is effectively killing Flash for mobile devices, moving instead to contributing to the open source HTML5. Recent purchase PhoneGap also supports their intension. Flash had become clunky for mobile developers, anyway, so it wasn’t just Apple that saw mobile Flash off to an early grave other OEM did the same. Microsoft anyone?

]]> http://ishir.com/blog/508/adobe-flash-with-its-falling-userbase-and-mobile-oem-support-may-be-canned.htm/feed 0 Will Facebook Reshape the Datacenter Through Open Compute Project (OCP)? http://ishir.com/blog/512/will-facebook-reshape-the-datacenter-through-open-compute-project-ocp.htm http://ishir.com/blog/512/will-facebook-reshape-the-datacenter-through-open-compute-project-ocp.htm#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:33:45 +0000 Rishi Khanna http://ishir.co.in/blog/?p=512 Open Compute Project (OCP) was formed by Facebook in April 2011 as an effort to shape the hardware design for its datacenter in Prineville, Oregon. The social networking giant said its datacenter improved efficiency by 38 percent and lowered costs by 24 percent. Facebook also said it achieved a power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio of 1.07, compared with 1.5 for its other datacenters. Kudos Facebook!

]]> http://ishir.com/blog/512/will-facebook-reshape-the-datacenter-through-open-compute-project-ocp.htm/feed 0 Nokila Unveils Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Line of Devices http://ishir.com/blog/510/nokila-unveils-microsoft-windows-phone-7-line-of-devices.htm http://ishir.com/blog/510/nokila-unveils-microsoft-windows-phone-7-line-of-devices.htm#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:25:34 +0000 Rishi Khanna http://ishir.co.in/blog/?p=510 Ok, is Nokia a Windows Phone 7 fan because its CEO Stephen Elop used to be a top executive at Microsoft or because Microsoft gave Nokia billion-plus dollars into the Finnish company. Either ways, we guess both got what they wanted from the deal. Whatever the reason, Nokia is cranking up the heat on Windows Phone 7 with the announcement of two brand new devices. Welcome to Mobile War, Nokia. We hope you return to glory.

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