INDUS NET JOURNAL

Dear INT Customers / Stakeholders / Vendors,

Kolkata is witnessing heavy rainfalls since Saturday resulting in flooded streets and paralyzed transport system (including buses, cabs and railways) which most of our team members use to reach office. There are some areas where the flood water is above knee level and it may force our guys to stay at home.

Our team members will try their best to reach office. But it might be impossible for few members, who stay far away and need efficient transport system to be able to report for work.

If you are unable to hear from your project manager, programmer or designer, it is highly probable that he is unable to attend work. I thereby request you to kindly be patient and cooperate with us. Our team will work extra days during weekends and make-up for the lost man-hours.

If you have any urgent issue, please feel free to contact me at talash@indusnet.co.in and I will coordinate with the respective team member and try to get things resolved if he is connected.

Thank you.

Abhishek Rungta
Founder / CEO
Indus Net Technologies

PS: This notice is only for Kolkata. Our Chennai and London office is operational and functional at full capacity as usual.

We have recently completed a website http://www.chivaroli.com

This is what Scott has to say about the project and his relationship with Indus Net Technologies -

Thank you.
 
Quote: “I have used Indus Net Technologies for several projects. They are always professional, courteous and understanding of my needs. On our last project, a complete redesign of a website, it took us months to get the content to them. With patience they waited for us until we were ready. Then we had several changes that were completed by Indus Net without hesitation. I work with several outsourcing companies in India and Indusnet Technologies is always on the top of my list.”

Scott E. Palmquist

What can I say?

A BIG Thank you to Scott for having faith in us. We existance is due to well-wishers and partners like you.

Abhishek 

 

Adobe has revamped the Photoshop logo with a new tagline (“See What’s Possible”) to match the feel of the software. It will be released soon with their new product set. It’s nice, bit web 2.0ish, but not sure how they will manage it in b/w!

Adobe press announcement says:
“To represent this rich family of products, Adobe is introducing the Photoshop visual logo. This logo will soon appear in all Photoshop-related marketing, so keep an eye out for it. The Photoshop logo on a product, service, or technology, represents the rich legacy, technical quality, and attention to detail that has made Photoshop the gold standard in digital imaging.”

Hello Friends,

On 17th September, Indus Net Technologies completed a decade of operations. We started operations on 17th September 1997 as a small one man – one computer – one customer (we were lucky to get our first customer the day we started) company like any other startup.

The event was celebrated with a gala event at Stadel, a boutique hotel in Salt Lake, Kolkata. The event comprised of CEO’s keynote, presentation by project leads of new ventures, annual award distribution ceremony and a three course lunch. It was attended by 200+ attendees including employees of Indus Net Technologies, members of our Work @ Home team (we call it WAH team), employees and stakeholders of CustomerFirst (.NET division of Indus Net Technologies), and all stakeholders of Indus Net Technologies.

I will like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to everyone - our employees, our wonderful customers, our vendors and our advisors (to name a few) for their on-going support. I look forward to the same in years to come. 

I will soon post pictures of the event along with the slides of the presentations and transcription of the keynote for your reading.

Abhishek

Today, our Chennai Development Center, which is one of our two delivery centers for open source project delivery has completed two years of operations.

During these two years this office has grown from a three member team to a thirty-four member team accounting for almost 17% of company’s revenue and manpower strength.

We have aggressive plans for further expansion in Chennai which will be implemented after a consolidation & cool off period of three months.

I wish all our team members great success in days to come and congratulate everyone on this achievement.

Abhishek Rungta
Founder / CEO
Indus Net Technologies

Some photographs to remember this great day!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Organizations need to continuously improve themselves, not for capturing more market share but for maintaining the current share that it holds. However, most of the improvement efforts tend to focus on levels that are not directly contributing to creation and delivery of products and services. I don’t blame people for this, but if you are trying to improve too much without actually impacting the way the work is getting done then you will achieve too little.

If you don’t see the link, then try to think your organizations performance as a summation of performance of all individuals within it. This chart will probably help you think:

∑ Individual’s performance = Performance of the Team

∑ Team’s performance = Performance of Department

∑ Department’s performance = Performance of Organization

Now given the above relationship, look at what you need to do to improve the organization:

To Improve the Organization => Improve Departments

To Improve the Departments => Improve Teams

To Improve the Teams => Improve Individuals

Thus, before wasting a single dollar on any silver bullet solution, the most important questions to ask is – “Will it improve the way the individuals works?”. If you can’t say yes, then it ain’t worth doing it and on the other hand the smallest change that can improve the way an individual works, is worth doing right away.

MySQL 6.0 Alpha version has been announced on September 4′ 2007. The actual production ready version is slated to be launched sometime on mid-2008. So, it will be sometime before your business can benefit from it but our developer community will take notice and start playing with it.

MySQL 6.0 features a new database engine called “Falcon”. MySQL has been working on it since Feb’2006 when it acquired a company called Netfrastructure. With this acquisition came Jim Starkey who is created of InterBase database and has helped in the Falcon effort. Here is why it is cool:

Full Acid Compliance
Acid compliance has to be at the core of any database if has to be taken seriously and adopted in any business. Falcon manages transactions through a multi-generational approach in which only committed data is stored in the database.

Built for Speed
Falcon manages all transactional activity in memory (with optional paging to disk if necessary) so all requests are serviced from the memory instead of reading it from the disk, which makes it very fast. In addition, rollbacks of even the largest transactions are accomplished in a near instantaneous manner.

Row Level Caching
Falcon has a distinct memory cache called the Record Cache that differs from traditional database caches in that it only holds the necessary rows being requested by end user queries instead of full database pages that may or may not have data being asked for via SQL queries. This equates to more efficient memory utilization plus it ensures needed data stays hot/resident in memory all the time.  

Multi-Threaded System
Multi-threading is required for parallel execution which leads to superior performance. Falcon’s design takes advantage of multi-core systems to provide parallel execution of user and service threads. Falcon uses fine-grained multi-threading to increase parallelism with locking on internal structures being done at a low level. In some cases, two threads can change different attributes of the structure at once, because the attributes are separately lockable

The Falcon engine currently has following limitations:

1. A single database limit is 110TB
2. Each table is limited to 32,000 columns
3. Each table is limited to 4 billion rows

These limitations is more than luxury for full 99.99% of web-apps and we don’t see anyone hitting that limit anytime soon. You can start learning about Falcon from over here.

A quick tip for budding entrepreneurs:

If your business starts at the right time, you can extract maximum growth by getting ready when the industry segment gets the peak demand. I strongly suggest that a new business should be started during the “low-tide”, i.e. when markets are not doing well and industry sentiments are not positive. It helps in many ways:

1. You can get the best talent available in the industry due to lay off by major players.

2. You will not have major competition and you can prepare your competitive edge ”in hiding” to give surprise to your competitors.

3. Tough times results in innovation. It is highly probable that your company will have the “innovation” advantage as you try to come up the adversities of a low-lying market. This innovation can become a catalyst when the markets are strong and can become the deciding factor.

4. You can concentrate in building the right processes, measurements, quality control systems and genetic-composition of your company which will result in its rapid growth when the right time comes.

5. Your expenses will be lower in building the fundamental framework for the company.

It is well known that markets have both the ups and downs. I feel “downs” should be well utilized to prepare the company for taking maximum advantage of the “ups”. It makes much more business sense and also keep your spirits up!

Note: It is important to be patient. It is very important to know that you are preparing for the “good days” and, it is most important to know that you should not blow up all your money, since capital is another thing that you need to scale up your company fast when the right time comes.

 

Of late there is pressing demands of kinds of professionals who suggests user experience and are called user experience experts. But what is user experience? A common idea is, behind a website’s success two factors contribute; namely great design and flaw less script. The third perspective is often ignored and this is the most vital aspect of a website. It is called user experience. A great design can lure you to stay glued, some good dynamic HTML can make you feel elated and flawless code can add joy in the exploration of the web site. But what if the messages, graphics present in the website are confusing or ambiguous? A small example will help you. Say in a shopping cart after adding an item to cart, the message flashed is ‘Thanks for buying this product’. Will it not confuse you, when you actually are not buying the item but adding it to cart?

Some eye-catching designs sometimes found to be totally ignorant in terms of user perspective. I often come across blogs which have light colored fonts against dark background. A blog is meant for reading and if it is not soothing at all, you will not be able to concentrate leaving a bad user experience. CAPTCHA is one other case where more than 50% of websites only harass visitors. CAPTCHA is to block automatic form submission through script and it is often distorted so that electronically it cannot be read. Often websites remain ignorant of this fact and make CAPTCHA text so complex and distorted that one need to hire a calligraphist to decipher it. All these only leave a long sustaining bad impression in your mind and whenever you visit the website it haunts you in the back of your mind.

The wikipedia definition of user experience states that ‘User experience design is a subset of the field of experience design which pertains to the creation of the architecture and interaction models which impact a user’s perception of a device or system. The scope of the field is directed at affecting “all aspects of the user’s interaction with the product: how it is perceived, learned, and used’. For every successful product or service there is a context and content of website is built upon it. The content and context is enjoyed by the user of that product or service. If we go by user perspective and satisfaction level and if our website answers in positive for all the questions asked below, and then only we can claim it to be satisfying user experience.

• When the user first visits the website (and every time) is it accessible to him?
  If it is accessible then can he find information easily?
• The information he gets, is it useful?
• Is all the information he gets credible enough? If he ever gets wrong information, he will never trust you.
• When he browses the website, then all the messages or helps he gets, are relevant?
• If you providing any text, message etc in any area, then are the placement of such texts, images desirable?
• Is there any flaw exists in the usability of monetary transaction in your website? The user will never come back if he is harassed with payments.
• Is the website overall bug free?
• Is it eye catching?
• And last but not least how unique is its service or product? Are all these information valuable?

Proper mingling of content and graphics in the light of context will draw visitors to your website and accessibility and usability will keep them loyal and contented.

Friends,

I wan to take this opportunity to let you know of a small milestone that we have achieved in our journey towards excellence and becoming the No. 1 Web Solution Company in the world.

CRISIL, which is a premiere rating, research, risk and policy advisory company has rated Indus Net Technologies amoung Top 100 SMEs in India. CRISIL’s leadership position continues with over a 60% share of the Indian ratings market. They had 1 lakh+ entries and we feel priviledged to be in this elite class.

I will like to congratulate all INTians on achieving this ranking and will like to thank all our customers for their continued support during this journey.

I look forward to the same in future.

Abhishek Rungta
Founder / CEO
Indus Net Technologies