Staff Augmentation vs Project Outsourcing

Staff augmentation and Project outsourcing are business processes to complete a project which doesn’t fall within the capabilities of the organization due to shortage of manpower, infrastructure or other project loads. The cost and liabilities of permanent expertise including remuneration and employee turnover have ushered in the concept of staff augmentation. Staff Augmentation or Project outsourcing – both the alternatives can be an option depending on the type of project, economic scenario and existing IT expertise of the organization. Yet, staff augmentation is the present norm; it offers flexible options to meet present day needs of skilled IT staff of an organization at a frugal cost
Merits of Staff Augmentation

• Control over staff: Staff augmentation is the best way to mould, and manage your resources with the type of project. Staff augmentation ushers in good hold of project work flow as resources are observed while work progresses.
• Integration with internal processes: It is way easier to integrate resources into the existing business processes, than aligning project teams to a new project cycle. Inclining processes of two units of different organizations is cumbersome to attain productive results.
• Build on resources: Staff augmentation is a strong measure to add new skill sets and creative minds to the team. It is advantageous and innovative for a company to complete projects with staff coming from different working backgrounds. On one hand, such creativity sparks innovation to projects, and on the other hand, companies gain on both external and internal resources to take their projects to completion. Besides, experienced resources with a diverse work profile are an asset to the team.
• Team co-ordination: Staff augmentation can efficiently fill in the gaps arising in outsourced project teams, as they form the same cohesive group to work on a united mission and deliver well.
• Fluctuating staffing needs: Companies may not have the same consistency in acquiring projects and consequently may not require the same amount of man power and resources at the same rate. Companies staffing needs fluctuate depending on projects and time, and in this case, staff augmentation is the befitting answer
• Reduce cost: Staff augmentation has an edge in cutting down a great deal of costs put up on training and skills development as well as internal skills development benchmarked by the organization. Besides the liabilities and costs of direct employees are more to an organization
• Flexible process: Staff augmentation is flexible and drastic changes in any form are not required to bring in staff over contract. Staffs incorporate into company’s regular work roles and chances of high scale adoption required for project outsourcing is nullified

Merits of Project Outsourcing

• Negligible training and orientation costs: Outsourcing projects to clients will make them liable to arrange their own training and orientation as set forth in project requirements. This implies reduction in cost, that is spent in training and development activities
• Flexibility with project size: Project outsourcing furnishes the flexibility to the size of the project work, you want to accomplish. Whether it is big projects or specific task outsourcing there is no hindrance to it
• Induces responsibility: Outsourcing a project envisages a great deal of responsibility on outsourcing company to accomplish the project with all due risks and credits. It relieves company’s resources from constant engagement and monitoring the project
• Focus remains on management and business: If it’s feasible to outsource projects to dependable groups, the company can focus on core competencies, management and business. Effective management lays the foundation of a strong business and outsourcing can spare time for the same
• Streamlining with company’s capabilities: IT project requires human assets with different skills to complete it efficiently and on time. Companies may not have all resources matching to the required skill set at some point of time or the resources may have engagement in other time bound projects. Therefore, project outsourcing is the befitting answer to lack of efficient resources, to deliver projects to clients on time

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Microsoft brings in real-time Skype translator

Microsoft added a new dimension to internet phone service Skype with its real-time language translator to enhance international communications. Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella, quoting it was a dream of humanity and an effort to cross the language boundary; he unveiled the real-time language translator at Code technology conference, California on 27^th May 2014. A demo of Skype’s vice president Gurdeep Pall talking in English with a German-speaking Skype manager in Europe manifested the real-time speech to speech translation.

World has turned to a global village and language barrier stands in the way of communication across global frontiers. With as vast as 300 million accounts on Skype and nearly one-third of international call traffic, it will be a boon for internet video calls and conferences.

The translator technology

The Skype translator has evolved through the use of deep neural network based speech recognition that dates back to a decade’s history of dedicated research by Microsoft Labs on speech recognition, automatic translation, and machine learning technologies. The Skype language translator starts typing the words when a speaker starts talking and then the words are translated into text in the receiver’s language which is then voice synthesized to the language opted by the receiver. Nevertheless, the company is yet to decide on the specific languages it would be supporting. The beta version is due to be available on all Skype devices by December 2014 with support of 40 languages.

Skype Translator has a great potential to enhance communication in the field of education, knowledge management, interstate ties and international business. It’s the year end that will unlock the features hidden in the Skype translator, and its value for the global community.

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App Idea Challenge by Snyxius

 If you have an idea that fits to be a mobile app, to alleviate any problem of common day, share with us and win prizes.

The Competition:
The teams need to submit App ideas that cater to the needs of any industry / sector or add value to any current business area. The winners will get cash prize and certificates.
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Round 1:
Submit a synopsis of your App idea in PowerPoint format (6 slides excluding cover page) to include the following:
a. Executive summary
b. Problem
c. Solution
d. Target Market
e. USP of the App
f. Competition & Business Model

Round 2:
On campus/Skype presentation of the idea of the shortlisted teams

Important dates:
Round 1: Submission of entries: 12th May to 25th May, 2014 (Both Dates inclusive)
Round 2: 28th May, 2014
Final Results: 29th May, 2014

Team Size:
Each team can have 1 or 2 members.

Judging Criteria:
• Quality of the business plan
• Innovation
• Feasibility – technical & financial
• USP of the B-Plan
• Target customers and market opportunity
• Economics, profitability & growth prospects

Prize Money:
Total cash Prize of 7000 INR to top two entries and certificates to top five entries

Competition Rules:
By entering a submission, the Contestant warrants and agrees to the following set of rules:
• App idea should be original idea of the contestant, and solely owned by contestant with no other person or entity having any right to it
• The decision of the Judges is final and binding
• The company holds the right to cancel the contest without any notification to the contestants
• In the event of a tie between two or more submissions, then the cash prize will be equally distributed
• Snyxius has the right to use ideas received from the participating teams to publish, for app development or for publicity

Guidelines for Submission:

• Fill up the Registration form
• Like our Snyxius Facebook Page for regular updates about the competition
• E-mail your entries to bhagyashree@snyxius.com within the stipulated dates i.e. 12th May to 25th May , 2014 (Both days inclusive )
• All presentations should be in Microsoft Power Point .PPT or PPTX format only
• The subject of the email and file name should follow the convention: SnyxiusApp – (Team Name)
• No entries will be accepted after the dead line

Eligibility/Criteria for Participants:

• Individuals who have attained the age of 18 years at the time of entry
• Internal employees of Snyxius are not eligible to take part in the competition

Website:
• Visit our lab at http://www.snyxius.com/labs.php to gather insights on our Apps and cloud solutions
• To know more about us log on to www.snyxius.com and tweet with us @Snyxius

SEO – a new dimension to digital marketing

Technology has reached to that stage that research predicts an average time spent with digital media per day will surpass television viewing time, thereby enhancing chances of promotional work getting more exposure to public through digital media. Digital media has entrapped all the possibility of a successful business adventure that there is no further necessity to exemplify if we quote digital media is a strong weapon of marketing. Among digital media, SEO has added a new dimension to digital marketing. Chances of an advertisement, work, business website, organization getting visibility, reaching people, frequency of appearing in searches will amplify if we employ digital media instead of our conventional methods of marketing. With enormous competitors it’s immensely hard for a website to get noticed when visibility is the criteria to a ranking. Ranking decides which site will appear in a search when words are typed by users. 

SEO - Today’s need

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is a strong weapon of web marketing throughout digital media. Search engines pick up the most relevant results in the desired searches. Keyword density, meta tags are important to a great extent to narrow a search to the most relevant, while in some other it’s the correct links, older domains that are crucial to get noticed and so on. Search Engine passes through a stint of operations-crawling, indexing, processing, calculating relevancy, and retrieving before it lands up with the accurate search result. Hence chances of a search getting void in the process cannot be nullified if accurate search tips are not followed.

Here comes the necessity of search engine optimization. Optimizing with technical knowhow can get one website to be on the forefront in search engine ranking when any exact or relevant search is directed. With enormous competitors it’s hard to get a website noticed when visibility is the criteria to the ranking. 

Some tools available to work on optimization among several others are

•    Keyword forecast tools
•   Content tools
•   Converter tool
•   Robots.text generator
•   Title optimization
•   Google snippet preview
•    Copyscape

Google revealing its guide to SEO optimization stresses on the following in a right manner to crawl to the top

  

Use of SEO description meta tag, improvements in URL’s ,

•  Catchy anchor text and heading tags,
• Optimizing use of images,
•   Effective use of robots.txt and
•  Promotions and analytics

SEO - Revolutionizing Business

In this world of competition and thousand others grudging your soldier at the same time, without the right applications, right tactics chances of failure and perishing cannot be ignored. Instances of business getting prominent with SEO by getting traffic aligned to their site are plenty. 

Greeting Card Company NobleWorks rises with SEO usage after employing SEO for its business. Impeccably it has seen 30% increases in traffic, an 8 point improvement in average bounce rate and attributes its success to the firm employed for leveraging SEO

A top financial advisor in Boston for 2010, 2011 and 2012 and founder of Meridian Financial Advisors mentioned that before completing the SEO optimization, Meridian Financial Advisors’ monthly website traffic was around 128 visits which soar to 343 after optimization and continued to grow with168% growth rate. 

University of Dayton, Ohio stated that its certain educational programmes were not reaching its intended users as the university name did not come in local search before they took to SEO and added “Ohio” to the title html tag of these program pages. 

Therefore in business to university programs it’s SEO that’s capturing the online marketing and will continue to be dominant in the coming years. Those having online marketing goals of redeveloping business outlook, opening new business ventures, increasing publicity and reaching out globally to new clients SEO will be the worth taking option. Search engine will continue to be everyone’s favorite and optimization will consign in a precise search to grow and gain from the endeavor. 

A tip for businesses in this new year- Think like a content marketer, analyze like an SEO (Source: SearchEngine Watch)

Top 3 Reasons Why You Should Opt For a Responsive Web Design?

With the emerging trends of technological advancements, the world has witnessed drastic changes, which are making things simpler and hassle-free. One such example is the responsive web designing, which is an evolution in web-designing. With the extensive use of new-age gadgets and devices such as Smartphones and iPads, the need of the hour is to use a web technology that allows a website to adapt the changes in respect of shape, size, etc in accordance with the device, where it is accessed or viewed. As in the recent times, more and more individuals are opting for advanced gadgets with different features, systems and display formats, to access web and shop online, responsive web design can make the work even easier and better.

Serving excess features and material than needed always populates the display and often makes the website futile. On the other hand if less or fewer features are offered, then you are either not satisfied with what you are offered or you have to explore a lot to access your material. As a service provider we will not want you to face any situation. Our responsive web designing services offer several benefits which can help you immensely.


Offers Complete adaptation:

As the trend of possessing a high-end Smart Phones or i-Pads is increasing globally, every second day new cellular phones are launched with varied features and systems. The advanced features often fail to support the existing edition of website that might create complexities. Our responsive web designing service will re-assemble itself to match up with the different facets of your product, where the website can be viewed in the best possible way. Thus, you will have all the sites and material assembled in an innovative way, without the hassles of resizing and reshaping.

 Cost-effective:

The services offered by us can serve you an incredible remedy. You can easily implement responsive web designing on various design linens. As a result your material will be accessible to different gadgets without the need of a finish re-coding. It will ultimately help you in saving a lot of money as well time.

No up-gradation required:

Our responsive web-designing service is truly a boon for the designers and developers, as they will no longer have to upgrade everything, as a continuous process. As the service adapts itself to the changing technological advances, the need to upgrade your website for every new system is no more a problem.

Thus, the above mentioned advantages offered by our responsive web designing services can help you tremendously in getting the best results, without much trouble and hassle.

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Ecommerce Solutions to build your Selling Machine

Online sales are extremely crucial for a business in today’s market. If you want your business to progress by reaching out to people across your geographical reach then we at Snyxius have the answers to all your demands. We are a company reputed for providing the most cutting edge ecommerce solutions that can be found in today’s market. With a commendable profile in providing value based technical solutions for businesses, we believe in empowering your company with technology that’s slick and efficient.

Our products are crafted to create a niche for your company in a market teeming with competition. We do this by ensuring efficiency and robustness of our technical ecommerce solutions so that you are always steps ahead of your fellow competitors. We enlarge your client base, radically increase your operational efficiency and thereby facilitate overall growth through our result oriented online sales development services. Our solutions ensure a complete and fail proof product development that covers domains as varied as inventory and stock management, shipping and tax profiles and customer management. We also have a unique facility of dynamic feedback that keeps you well informed about how your online sales campaign is faring. We implement extremely high encryption SSL certificates for sensitive data transmission too. Our ecommerce development services extend to OsCommerce development, Magento Development and Custom ecommerce development all packed with shopping cart, inventory management, stock management, shipping profiles, discount coupons and many other features.

What keeps us apart from our peers is our focus in providing value based business solutions that offer easy and extremely secure shopping on the net. Therefore, we strive to provide quality through honesty, integrity and reliable services. We ensure that we have an in depth understanding of your business needs and the goals you have envisioned for it. It is with this knowledge that we device practical and workable ecommerce solutions that efficiently and effectively automate your day to day activities thereby increasing productivity. With a taskforce comprising of talented professionals from the industry, we ensure that we have all the latest technology to assist you. Therefore, if efficient ecommerce profile is what you need for your business then just give us a call.

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Designing websites to be used in mobile devices

Technology has taken mankind to unbelievable heights. This generation has seen the most advancement in science and technology than the world has ever seen. One of the important discoveries has been the computer and the internet. The computer is able to perform superhuman calculations and the internet is an ocean of information and entertainment and helps mankind perform a number of daily activities with just the click of a button. A decade back people would not have understood the concept of online banking. Today people are crazy in a good sense about purchasing things on the internet and online banking is used by the laymen.

Websites are like firms these days as they are capable of running a huge company. Websites were generally developed for viewing on a personal computer. But that is not the case today. Initially when the internet made a huge mark on the technology, it was being used only on a computer. There were also limited service providers and the connection speeds were poor. Today the connections are very fast and computers are not the only device capable of accessing the internet. With the help of responsive design of websites, web designers are able to make a lighter version of the websites which can be accessed on any mobile device which has a browser.

When internet was first being used on mobile devices, a number of websites had problems opening in those devices either because the screens were too small to occupy the whole website or the device software did not have the necessary plugging to open the website as it is. Today every well known website has a mobile version which loads quicker, has the basic information needed and opens on all mobile devices. Major social networking websites have made use of this amazing coding to ensure that their users are connected anywhere and anytime. Wherever we go we can see people glued to their phones and have no other worries on the go. From music and videos to chatting and mailing everything is in the hands of people today.

With more people using their services the companies are able to popularize their brands and grow rapidly.  There are certain number platforms running in today’s mobile devices and all a wed designer needs to do is to create a suitable version of the website so that their website is accessible from any electronic equipment. Mobile devices have become a boon to today’s society as people are connected in whichever place they are. There are literally no boundaries. Penguin updates provide the necessary statistics needed on the latest trends. With so many options it is time to take your website to the next level.

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