BootStrapToday is Now Available on AppDirect

August 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Did you know that BootStrapToday is now available on the AppDirect MarketPlace? AppDirect enables businesses to easily find, buy, and use web-based applications. AppDirect is more than a simple application directory and allows companies to access multiple applications with one user name and password, invite colleagues to certain apps, and benefit from one monthly bill for all subscriptions. BootStrapToday has never been easier to use in conjunction with other great web apps.

We invite you to discover BootStrapToday profile on AppDirect! Check it out and do not hesitate to rate us, share a review or ask us questions through the appropriate sections.

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BootStrapToday now supports SnapEngage

July 12, 2011 by Leave a Comment

BootStrapToday now provides customers with a superior support integration with the SnapEngage chat client. With this release, a SnapEngage user who has a BootStrapToday account can set up a SnapEngage account to post chat queries and transcripts (online or offline) directly to a BootStrapToday account.

A user has to take the following steps to set up integration between a SnapEngage and a BootStrapToday account.

A user (say newbstuser with email id user@host.com ) creates a BootStrapToday account (say newbstaccount). Now newbstuser can log-in to newbstaccount.bootstraptoday.com, and create a project (say newbstproject). In the Project Settings tab of newbstproject, newbstuser will be provided with a SnapEngage tab which has a url. If a key for SnapEngage has not been created yet, the url will be empty, and, the tab will display a help message – “Request the account admin to create a SnapEngage Key”.

If newbstuser has account admin permissions (in case newbstuser creates an account – newbstuser is account admin), creation of key is simply accomplished by going to Account Settings and opening the SnapEngage tab.

Now newbstuser can go to Project Settings (for the project newbstproject) and access the url (say newbstprojecturl). In case of another user (say newbstprojectuser) who does not have account admin permissions, a request has to be made to account admin (newbstuser) to create a key as highlited above. Then newbstprojectuser can access newbstprojecturl in a similar fashion.

Finally, the user creates an account with SnapEngage (say newsnapengageaccount). The user can log-in to newsnapengageaccount, choose openApi as the destination option, and, provide the newbstprojecturl as the post event url. This simple set up now ensures that any query via the SnapEngage client for newsnapengageaccount will be posted as a ticket under the project newbstproject on newbstaccount.bootstraptoday.com. The ticket will be created under a component SnapEngage and will have the requisite fields filled out as per the data in SnapEngage chat transcripts.

We believe that with this new feature, we can now offer our customers 24/7 support facilities. We encourage our customers to try out our SnapEngage integration, and, provide feedback on how we can further improve BootStrapToday.

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Idea Vs Execution

May 29, 2011 by 2 Comments

According to statistics hardly 1% of the ideas succeed. I would agree good ideas are important but the factor which play bigger role in the success of the business is execution. According to O’Really blog, brilliant ideas are worth only 20% of the whole business, rest is how its executed.

And, for anyone who’s ever built up a success, you quickly learn that execution is everything. The initial ideas are usually completely meaningless.

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Do additional features in software reduce its durability?

May 20, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Software designing has become very competitive because of the emergence of many new languages. Developers spend their major time finding the most suitable compilers which can reduce the complexities involved in developing software. Market is flooded with millions of software companies. These companies target the clients by creating a need for software in almost every routine. From switching the television using remote control to launching a satellite, the major dependency is software. These softwares are the whole and sole responsibility for the success of corresponding mechanism.

The companies around the globe hire the most efficient and highly skilled developers, as the softwares developed by them makes an impression over the customer. Softwares can be developed in low level as well as in high level languages. Some softwares are designed according to the needs of the customers while some are generic. The latter ones usually are designed for mass population. These softwares are for general use. They comprise of many features and functionalities. The aim of the company behind this strategy is cost saving. They feel it better to design single, multipurpose software in spite of designing several small, single purpose softwares. The customers who tend to use these kinds of softwares usually find it much complex and time consuming. There is one other category of people who like a single software which can meet all their expectations.

It becomes very difficult when there is a bug or an issue in the software. When the multipurpose software halts, the overall work of the company stops, but the one using variety of softwares for different activities do not worry on a single software failure. He remains quite relaxed as the other work at his company continues to work smoothly. Even if the idea of having a single software to perform multiple activities sounds good but falls short during implementation. It should be noted that adding features should be in such a way that a majority of the features should be utilized at the same time, else the software starts losing its durability and becomes malicious in a long run.

Thanks,

Bootstraptoday | www.bootstraptoday.com

ken@bootstraptoday.com

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Lesser known 3rd Party Libraries For Every Project

March 17, 2011 by 1 Comment

Every project manager was a coder in his past life, and most of them carry their fortune in their current role as well. But still they become a bad guy to developers while creating a project delivery timelines. In some point of time we all must have met some projects which were planned very aggressively in terms of delivery. For small and early stage startups if getting a project is a challenge then delivering it on time is one step ahead. While talking to a team of iPhone application developers they confessed that the application development and delivery on time would have given them a real tough time  if it was to be done without using the third party library (Three 20 – the most common 3rd party Library for iPhone SDK). You blame it on customer’s weirdest requirement or the inability of native programing but the fact is that we have accepted that there is no feasible alternative to a third party library.  And the biggest question is what’s the harm? In the world of 3rd party libraries we get to hear about new kids on the block everyday. The Java 3rd party library ecosystem is a wild place. While everyone has heard of the big players such as Spring and Hibernate, too often the more humble, but equally important, libraries get left out in the cold

 

Some least heard but important such libraries which we have used in past are:

Unit Testing: DBUnit, Mockito, Hamcrest Matchers

Apache Common: Commons Configurations, Commons DbUtils, Commons IO, Commons Lang

Other: SLF4J, Google Collections, c3p0, Joda Time

 

Lets contribute by sharing your favorite but lesser known 3rd party libraries that no project should be without.

 

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Paypal payments and RBI rules making it difficult for SME’s.

March 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Paypal as a payment gateway has been a lifeline for many small and medium enterprises/Freelancers over the years in India. Most of the payments from clients to vendors were routed through paypal, which was like a boon for Indian Industry and Freelancers.

Last couple of years RBI (Reserve Bank of India) has started poking its nose into Paypal based transactions, which has created a huge confusion and uncertainty among Indian SMEs.

Last year there was some directive from RBI which created lots of confusion in SMEs mind. As the directive was not clear, some interpreted it as they will be required to get an IEC (Import Export Code) to receive money to their bank accounts from Paypal. Transaction from paypal were stopped for sometime last year as Paypal Indian officials were also not clear about the new directive. Many companies started applying for IEC. Later there was an announcement from Paypal that IEC was not mandatory, companies would require to define a “Purpose Code” to do the same. And the service was resumed in India, with “Purpose Code” mandatory while transferring money to their bank account from paypal. It was breather for Indian SMEs.

Now again this year RBI has come up with new directive. According to new directive, beginning March 1, 2011, any balance in and all future payments into your PayPal account may not be used to buy goods or services and must be transferred to your bank account in India within seven days from the receipt of confirmation from the buyer in respect of the goods or services. Also Export-related payments for goods and services into your PayPal account may not exceed USD 500 per transaction. For any transaction more than $500, you can not use paypal service, you need to find some other alternatives. Also you can not use paypal for domestic transactions. This has again become a big dampener for Indian SMEs. Now companies are not really sure about the paypal fate in India. They are not even sure what will be the next step of RBI. So companies have started looking for alternatives.

What do you think are the other options for SME’s???

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Sensible Softwares: Beginning of a New Chapter

February 1, 2011 by 3 Comments

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BootStrapping Project Management- a simple & sensible way!

January 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment

BootstrapToday - a Project Management solution with an uncomplicated and practical approach to managing projects. The solution is developed by Sensible Softwares and already bootstrapping projects in more than 200 companies across the globe. BootStrapToday has given a good thought at the project management processes in various Software companies and brings some interesting features.

BootstrapToday is a cloud based project management tool

The key advantage that it can bring in managing projects is significant reduction in communication overheads. It gives you a centralized location to efficiently manage all aspects of your project from anywhere.

BootstrapToday enables a cloud for you where your team, clients and the leadership team can work on the project together irrespective of the geographic locations. It’s a great tool bringing to you the best of collaborative technology to manage your projects, project documents and related IP, track time spent on each project, manage billing & invoices and a lot more.

BootstrapToday revolves around bringing the entire team together by empowering an uncomplicated collaborative platform that can contribute to successful project management & completion.

Bootstrap Today as a standalone version

BootstrapToday can be bought on subscription based model and brings you extremely cost effective rates & exciting deals. But this is not all; BootStrapToday has also developed a special model for companies wanting to implement it as a standalone solution. BootStrapToday can be configured and maintained on your server. This model works wonderfully for companies sensitive about their IP (Intellectual Property) and Project data security. This basically makes sense to large organizations requiring the solution to gel completely with their core processes.

More BootstrapToday features at http://BootStrap Today.com/features/

Are you a team of 5? BootStrap Today is FREE for you!

If you are a team of 5 or less users then you can avail BootStrapToday for free. We have a trial version available on our website and the solution can be subscribed to instantly. BootStrapToday brings some exciting offers and packages, you can learn more at http://BootStrap Today.com/plans-and-pricing/

Let’s take a quick tour of BootStrap Today’s key features!

  • Multiple Project handling made simple & sensible

BootStrapToday gives each of your project its own Dashboard, Calendar, Ticket Management System, Milestones, Wiki, Source and Access Control.

  • Ticket Management

Ticket Management Application can be used for Bugs, Task, Feature/Enhancement, and Review Tasks.

  • Milestones

Each Project can define its milestones & its due date. You can then attach milestone to a ticket. This way you can groups your tasks/bugs around milestone and then track the progress of individual milestones.

  • Wall

This is an interesting & innovative feature that BootStrap Today brings to your team members. We give your team a wall where your team members can post ideas/concerns. Prompt communication is the key to success!

  • Activity

Activity stream shows you all the activities happening in the project in chronological order. The activities include addition / change / deletion of tickets, subversion commits addition / deletion / change of milestones, addition/deletion/change in wiki pages.

  • Timesheet

Timesheet application can be used to record time against task assigned to user. User assigned to multiple projects can record time for all the projects from the same view.

From the day view user can record time for that particular day. Timer will be visible to the user only in the today’s view.

In the week view user can update time for any day in the week. Using calendar icon user can select any day to view the time recorded for that particular day.

Export CSV functionality can be used to download timesheet data for any user in the given date range.

We have a tour of the entire solution at http://BootStrap Today.com/tour/ we invite you to visit our website and send us a feedback on BootStrap Today at support Bootstrap Today.com

What about post-Sales Support?

We have a support team to reach out to you instantly over email, telephone, chat & voice. We support you at every stage of product implementation to make BootStrap Today a wonderful & fruitful experience.

You can get in touch with us at support@BootStrap Today.com. For more information you can also contact Ken at  ken@BootStrap Today.com.

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Rajesh Soundar joins Sensible Softwares Advisory Board

December 18, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Rajesh Soundar is Director of North American Sales at Luma Technologies. He has extensive technology sales and sales management experience within the Software, SaaS, Financial Services and Capital Markets verticals. His expertise lies in developing multi-million dollar divisions from scratch, through a systematic creation of GTM strategy, positioning, uncovering target markets, resource allocation, and P&L responsibility. He has worked for industry-leading organizations such as LinkedIn, Autonomy Interwoven, and HSBC. Rajesh holds a Bachelors in Finance from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA. He also has extensive entrepreneurial experience from the development of two companies.

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Dion Kotteman joins Sensible Softwares Advisory Board

October 20, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Dion Kotteman is Director General of the Dutch National Audit Authority.He has an extensive project management experience within financial institutions, build up in Europe as well as in India. Before going to the financial world, he was a police commissioner, responsible for international and intergovernmental programmes automating the exchange of security related intelligence. He grounded a foundation in public private partnership on security. He worked for Interpol and Europol. He was CIO of the Dutch Criminal Intelligence Service, called CRI. Before that he was CIO of the Dutch State Police. He acted as chairman of many Netherlands EU delegations on security and data exchange. He lectures on identity and access management. He holds an executive masters of business administration of Nijenrode University, the Netherlands, and of the Wharton Business School, Pennsylvania University, USA. He is member of three advisory boards of Dutch Universities, regarding the audit profession. He wrote “The Projectsaboteur ”, published in 6 countries, recently no 1 in the Swiss management book Top Ten. A new book is underway.

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