Webinar - Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite

February 3rd, 2010

Cloud computing is becoming an increasingly popular approach to driving down costs while making the business more nimble. With Microsoft cloud computing, you can:

  • Increase productivity and satisfaction by providing seamless experiences across the PC, Web, and phone and from the data center to the cloud
  • Remain confident that your data and services will be protected and available as you reap the efficiency, cost, and environmental benefits of the cloud

Interested in the potential of cloud computing for your operations? We invite you to join us for a webcasts to learn how our approach enables enterprise-class services, consistent connected experiences, and the power of choice.

Register here - http://www.ishir.com/microsoft-online-services-presentation-23-feb10.htm

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Learn how “City of Carlsbad” uses BPOS to save cost – http://www.ishir.com/v7-case-form.asp?pdf=ISHIR_Case_Study_City_of_Carlsbad

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ISHIR :: Celebrating 10 Years of Creativity : Technology : Search

February 1st, 2010

10 Years of Delivering Excellence

On this day our vision turned into reality and our journey began. ISHIR India started on February 1st 2000 and has grown from a garage start up to a diversified services outsourcing company with expertise in the Casino Gaming industry as well as the Digital Marketing and Technology Business Solutions.

We started with an idea that evolved into what ISHIR stands for today. The quest for finding a niche in our business led us to Casino Gaming, Search and Technology solutions. The last ten years have been challenging, fun, memorable and full of learning. The fresh challenges and learning’s have kept ISHIRites motivated and helped evolve ISHIR.

People have been our greatest assets at ISHIR. ISHIRites and ex-ISHIRites have greatly contributed to the success of ISHIR and worked against all odds to make what seemed impossible, possible.

Their aspirations, team spirit, commitment and a great value system have been the driving force behind ISHIR’s success.

Our clients have entrusted ISHIR to solve their unique business problems and given us the opportunity to become their trusted advisers. We would like to thank all our wonderful clients that we have worked with and have supported our growth in the last decade.

Having matured in business in the last ten years, we plan to make our next 10 years even more focused in our core areas of business. We look forward to our journey ahead. We are glad we have the support of our people and esteemed clients to make that journey possible.

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Microsoft and Intuit become cloud partners

January 22nd, 2010

Microsoft and Intuit today announced plans to integrate their two cloud platforms - the Intuit Partner Platform and the Windows Azure platform - to power developers to create apps for users of the Quickbooks software. In addition, Intuit will place Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity apps in the Intuit App Center for small businesses.

The deal is non-exclusive but Intuit is naming Windows Azure as its preferred partner and is making the Azure software development kit available for developers creating apps on the Intuit Partner Platform.

The idea, of course, is to link Microsoft’s business applications to the financial data that’s found within Quickbooks to help businesses operate more efficiently. For months, Intuit has been working to push the cloud and open its arms to developers.

In July, Intuit launched an open-source community where users could share information to enhance the apps on Intuit’s platform. Prior to that, the company announced Federated Applications, which allows developers to use any programming language, host those apps on any cloud infrastructure and connect them to Intuit’s platform, marketing them to business customers who use Intuit products.

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Microsoft confirms SQL Server 2008 R2’s May due date

January 22nd, 2010

On January 19, Microsoft confirming it officially official, the latest version of its database will be out “by May 2010” and will be on the May price list.

A new  posting on the Microsoft Data Platform Insider blog confirmed the May date. According to microsoft blog, there have been 150,000 downloads by testers of the R2 release. The November Community Technology Preview (CTP) release was the last test build Microsoft is planning to issue for the product, officials said.

SQL Server 2008 R2, codenamed Kilimanjaro, will come in a number of new flavors, including a Datacenter edition and a Parallel Data Warehouse edition (formerly codenamed “Project Madison”). The Datacenter edition builds on the SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise product, but adds application and multi-server management; virtualization; high-scale complex event processing (via StreamInsight); and supports more than 8 processors and up to 256 logical processors. The Parallel Data Warehouse version will be sold preloaded on servers as a data warehouse appliance. Using the DataAllegro technology Microsoft acquired in 2008, it will scale customers’ data warehouses from the tens of terabytes, up to one petabyte plus range, according to the company.

May 2010 might end up a busy month for Microsoft.  Company execs told Microsoft partners this past summer that Microsoft Office 2010 would launch in the May/June 2010 timeframe. As one of my readers noted recently, Microsoft’s Office 2010 beta download site mentions a June 2010 final due date for Microsoft’s next-generation Office release.

It includes the latest versions of:

  • Redistributable components for SQL Server 2008.
  • Add-on providers for SQL Server 2008.
  • Backward compatibility components for SQL Server 2008.

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 3.

All versions will be available commercially in May except Parallel Data Warehouse. All Microsoft will say there is it will be out in the first half of 2010 (so its a guess that means it could be in June).

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Microsoft reveals next generation developer tools

January 8th, 2010

Microsoft has a bunch of news for developers: a simplified product lineup and pricing options for its next generation of developer tools this week, announcing Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 and new features of Visual Studio for collaborative dotnet application development, modeling, and debugging. The official launch of the products scheduled for March 22, 2010, related benefits for MSDN subscribers, and improvements to the actual MSDN website. Redmond insisted on making all of these announcements on the same day, and while we think that will just lead to lots of confusion, we’re still going to try to break it down for you as coherently as possible.

One of the main goals with the next generation of Microsoft’s development platform will be to “democratize application life cycle management” by making it easier for developers, database pros, architects, and testers to work together in Visual Studio Team System 2010, code-named “Rosario,”. Likely two of the biggest feature sets in Visual Studio 2010 will be modeling and testing.

A new tool in Visual Studio 2010 will, as the developers write code, automatically show what unit tests developers should run to validate that code. Another tool will show the developer a new level of detailed information on any bugs in the code after tests fail.

In Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft also will introduce a feature it likens to an airplane’s black box. While running a test of an application, a “black box” records the state of the machine and the application. That way, a tester can look at a debug log running alongside a video replay of the application that was under test and dive into all layers of the computing stack to see where a bug might have occurred.

Visual Studio Team System 2010 will include some pieces of Microsoft’s “Oslo” modeling strategy. The Architecture Explorer will allow architects and developers to build, customize, and see an architectural diagram of an application and enforce architectural consistency on builds of a piece of software. The software will support the Object Management Group’s Unified Modeling Language and domain-specific languages.

Other new features in Visual Studio Team System 2010 will include streamlined installation and configuration processes, new features to encourage agile development techniques like including an Excel workbook that can hook up to the back-end Team Foundation Server repository, and better build management.

Microsoft intends to roll out its software development plans in five stages. After talking about application life cycle management, the next phase will be about improvements in the .NET Framework, especially in Windows Workflow and Windows Communication Foundation, which are two critical pieces of Microsoft’s service-oriented architecture strategy. After that, developers should expect more details about Visual Studio 2010 itself, how companies can build better departmental apps with the next generation of Microsoft development software, and how the .NET Framework and Visual Studio will “enable emerging trends” in software development.

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Outsourcing Software Development To Achieve Process Improvement

January 5th, 2010

Today, most companies outsource at least some of their IT work to India, the United States, and elsewhere — as companies in other nations try to follow India’s lead in providing highly skilled professionals at relatively low price points. Outsourcing information technology related projects like software development and web development to India is cost effective and reliable.

Offshore web development is beneficial because of so many reasons the one is it is cost effective and second one is high standard of quality. All thriving Companies occupying topmost positions in their Business arenas share one characteristic that keeps their market share positions secure and shareholder value growing. They join forces with outsourcing service providers, but instead of using outsourcing just as a tactical means of driving costs or function, they use outsourcing relationships to strategically enable their capability of doing business better than their competitors.

Offshore software development outsourcing offers many benefits, among them faster time to market, lower costs, access to high-level programming talent without hiring hassles, and more time to focus on core competencies. But you’ll get those benefits only if you choose the right outsourcing partner–the wrong choice can leave you worse off than before.

Offshore web application development in India is huge business and companies in India promise their offshore business client to high quality of work for best competitive prices. Offshore web application development is like a backbone of Indian information technology industry. Outsource to India is now become custom and IT companies in India never fail to deliver quality products with high standard of work at affordable prices. Offshore web application development for foreign business clients is profitable to India IT companies related to local IT related projects. To hire web developers of is cost effective and like your own employees work for you to produce best results and output the highly qualitative work. So it is advisable and cheap to outsource IT related projects to Indian companies.

Offshore web development is beneficial to Indian It Companies also because it earns you more profits and more than profit you can earn customer loyalty by producing great results. Offshore web application Development has provided an efficient and effective route to deal with foreign clients, aimed at purely gain in cost cutting methods. Through the deployment of customized and specified web applications, a diverse range of purpose can be served. Offshore web applications or computer programs help you to gain information, collect data and to find out anything that you actually desire. The basic purpose is to get the targeted knowledge and information within a short time. Offshore web application development has boasted the growth of a virtual business market that is working and growing like a real market.

Application developed on Web are generating better business strategies and policies to smoothen the business working and initiating better concepts to gain profitability and success for all. So, when you use web application for your business purpose or your personal purpose, you are actually transferring the data and inputs to make the system more workable and gaining like never before. Companies can’t stop investing in themselves, and that may mean investing in application development even in lean times. When the lean times are over and the fat comes back, companies need to be ready with leading-edge systems and applications that will let them partake in the feast.

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Microsoft Planning Exchange Server 2007 SP3 Next Year

December 31st, 2009

Microsoft plans to update Exchange Server 2007 by issuing a new service pack late next year, enabling the mail server to run on Windows Server 2008 R2.

Last month, Microsoft announced support for Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2, pleasing many customers who had complained about an earlier Microsoft decision not to provide it. In a follow-up announcement issued last week, Microsoft’s Exchange team explained that enabling such support will require lots of coding changes to Exchange 2007.

“Our vehicle for adding this support [for Windows Server 2008 R2] will be via a third service pack for Exchange 2007 in the second half of calendar year 2010,” the team stated in a blog.

Microsoft is also enhancing support options for Exchange Server 2003 SP2 on Windows Server 2008 R2, according to the blog.

“Exchange 2003 SP2 will now be supported against writeable Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory servers,” the blog noted. ”Additionally, with the general availability of Exchange Server 2010, and [for] those looking to standardize on Windows Server 2008 R2, we have enhanced the supportability of forest and domain functional levels up to Windows Server 2008 R2. This change is effective immediately on Exchange 2003 SP2.”

Microsoft issued an “Exchange Server Supportability Matrix” document in August showing operating system support for its mail server products. However, the document hasn’t yet been updated to reflect the changes promised above. Microsoft plans to include additional support details for Exchange Server 2010 in the next version of the document.

Exchange 2010 is currently available, having been released as a final product in November.

IT pros may be happy about the additional support for Exchange 2007, but they still face complex installation and migration scenarios. For instance, simply upgrading the operating system to Windows Server 2008 R2 underneath Exchange 2007 isn’t supported. Enabling that capability “is outside the scope and complexity of what we can do in a post-release product update,” the blog explained. However, the Exchange team will consider adding such a capability in “future versions of the product.”

Currently, Exchange 2007 is supported on the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 platform, which can be enabled if users upgraded from.NET Framework 2.0, the blog explained.

Courtsey:  http://redmondmag.com/articles/2009/12/03/microsoft-planning-exchange-2007-sp3-in-2010.aspx

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Capabilities of SharePoint Server 2010

December 18th, 2009

Microsoft SharePoint is composed of a number of products forming different components and offering different functionality. Based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint offers a fully functional portal post installation and hosted SharePoint application.

Many organizations have benefited from installing it. It gives a proper basic structure to build a single workspace. Server options include news, topic areas, catalogs, private websites, websites creation, and tools for searching or viewing information, employees, and work groups. SharePoint server can serve up to 1,000,000 end users, who are registered in Active Directory, all at the same time. It also has a capacity of 250 pages per second. The high performance and scalability have prompted many organizations to opt for SharePoint web application services.

Capabilities of SharePoint Server

Collaboration, Enterprise Portal Solutions, Enterprise Search, Enterprise Content Management, Business Process and Forms, Business Intelligence and Licensed for Internet/Extranet

SharePoint 2010 Sites delivers a single infrastructure to provide portal and collaboration capabilities across internet, intranet and extranet. Bring all users together to share information, and knowledgebase across organizations.

SharePoint 2010 Search gives users the ability to find the people, content, and information they need by combining an integrated, with enterprise search technology.

SharePoint 2010 Communities empowers organization to work with people in ways that are most effective for them. Allow employees to collaborate in groups, share knowledge and ideas, connect with colleagues, and find information and experts without difficulty.

SharePoint 2010 Insights enables users to access and act together with information across unstructured and structured data sources. Empower users to discover the right people and expertise to make better and more accurate business decisions.

SharePoint 2010 Content enables users to participate in a governed, compliant content management lifecycle. SharePoint Content makes it possible to skillfully balance user experience with organization policy and business process.

SharePoint Foundation 2010 is made for small business organizations or departments looking for a low-cost entry-level or pilot solution for secure, Web-based portal. Organization can use SharePoint Foundation to coordinate schedules, share, organize documents, and participate in discussions through team workspaces, blogs, wikis, and knowledgebase on the platform that is the underlying infrastructure for SharePoint Server.

SharePoint Designer 2010 is the tool of choice for the rapid development of SharePoint applications. With the help of SharePoint Designer, advanced users and developers can quickly create SharePoint solutions. Expert users can compose no-code solutions that encompass a variety of common scenarios, from collaborative sites and web publishing to line-of-business data integration, business intelligence solutions, and HR workflows. These great solutions leverage the building blocks available in SharePoint in an easy-to-use environment. Additionally, developers can use SharePoint Designer 2010 to get a rapid start on SharePoint development projects.

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SharePoint 2010 is The Business Collaboration Platform

December 17th, 2009

Microsoft SharePoint is becoming ubiquitous. If it isn’t in your organization yet, it most likely will be soon. There are several beneficial reasons for this from an infrastructure and architecture standpoint.

SharePoint 2010 is The Business Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise & the Web that enables you to connect & empower people through an integrated and rich set of features that can be deployed as Intranet, Extranet or Internet-facing solutions.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010 helps you cut costs with a unified infrastructure while allowing you to rapidly respond to your business needs which can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive enterprise search and content management, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight, whether deployed on-premise or as hosted services,

You can quickly create and manage SharePoint sites that support specific content publishing, enterprise portal solution, records management, or BI needs. You can also conduct effective searches for people and documents; participate in forms-driven business processes; and access and analyze large business data.

From a business perspective, SharePoint 2010 solves the need for a centralized solution that can be used in conjunction with existing software and applications.  By leveraging the BCS, SharePoint 2010 can natively connect to existing sources of information.  With the Multi-tenancy feature, organizations have more control with hosted environments (from the hosting side of things as well as the client side).

As an administrator, this release has made drastic improvements toward a solution that is not only manageable, but one that is easy to maintain.  The integration with Windows PowerShell allows for more administrative control, a more efficient command line, and improves productivity.  The new s makes it easier to locate and configure settings for your environment.  SharePoint 2010 has incorporated more performance controls, logging and reporting options, as well as a much desired improvement on the native disaster-recovery options.  The revamped service applications feature ensures greater flexibility with regards to the shared services being used within the environment.

On the Developer Front, whether the challenge that you are trying to solve is a simple one-off application with a few data tables or the front end for an enterprise solution that drives the organization, SharePoint 2010 and the Office 2010 clients provide the tools you need to manage your data, support your users, and connect the processes. As a developer using SharePoint you are not tied to tediously building interactive edit screens, buried in building architecture, or stymied by building security. Building on the benefits of the SharePoint platform allows you to get more done.

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