Mindfire Solutions to attend Casual Connect 2010
Subhendu Pattnaik (Press Release): 09 February 2010, Hamburg, Germany: India based IT Services provider, Mindfire Solutions, announced that it is attending the Casual Games Conference in Hamburg from 10th Feb to 12th Feb 2010. The event, called as Casual Connect 2010 would be a sight to see where in young, creative brains from all over the globe would meet, interact and brainstorm about taking gaming industry to a newer league altogether. The event participants include industry leaders in gaming, media houses, experts, sponsors and customers from all over the world.
Mindfire Solutions is attending Casual Connect 2010
When asked on why did Mindfire Solutions choose to attend Casual Connect 2010, Subhendu Pattnaik, Manager, PR said, “The industry is one of the most happening industries. Customer choices have evolved and so has the technology. With both evolving at a rate which is higher than absorption capacity of the industry, the shelf life of games are increasingly getting reduced. At the conference, Mindfire would look ahead to augment its existing expertise with latest innovations around. At the end of the day, we aim to have delighted customers. Thats why, you would see us there.”
It would be great to see of all of you at Casual Connect 2010
Program Manager, Yogita Sahoo commented, “Our Gaming application development skills extend over the last 7 years. Our services portfolio includes Desktop Games Programming Services for Windows/Mac, Online Games Programming Services using Flash, Java, & Action Script, Mobile Games Programming Services for iPhone, Symbian, Android, BlackBerry, Series 60, BREW, J2ME and Game Testing Services offered for Online, Video & Mobile Games. We also undertake Game testing projects and have Xbox and Nintendo wii setup in our office recreation premises. So its work and fun, both at the same time.”
“We are attending the Casual Connect conference to meet fellow gamers, experts and innovative minds in the area and to share our expertise with all. Events like this has always given us an opportunity to learn as well as to understand changing needs of customers.” Yogita added.
If you are toying up with an idea of getting a game developed for any device or you are already into game development and need an extra hand to get things completed sooner, contact us. Our Business Development Manager would be glad to discuss your needs and help you with a solution. We look forward to seeing you there at Casual Connect. Lets get connected.
About Casual Connect:
Casual Games. Developed for the general public and families, casual games are non-violent video games that are fun and easy to learn and play. Available on PC and Mac, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo DS, Wii and even mobile phones. Popular classic casual games include Mahjong, Bejeweled, Tetris and Solitaire. Recent hits include Mystery Case Files, Diner Dash and Wii Sports. Casual Games Association Events are the premiere events for the casual games industry with over 3,500 professionals attending Casual Connect Events each year. Casual Connect Europe brings together the most talented and knowledgeable experts in the casual gaming field to further the casual games industry with the best of networking and learning.
For more information about the conference, click here.
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Mindfire Solutions to attend Macworld Expo, San Francisco
Subhendu Pattnaik (Press Release) – Feb 05, 2010 – 5/2/2010, New Delhi, India: Macworld expo is one of the biggest events which is going to be held in Moscone Center, San Francisco from 09 Feb – 13 Feb 2010. This is an event for Mac enthusiasts to discuss and learn about the new Mac offerings. It would more serve as a platform to network with industry leaders, service providers, customers and Apple experts to take acceptance and usability of Mac to the next level. The event would be more of a interactive one where people will get more exposure to showcase their expertise and readiness to brace Mac and Mac products.
Mindfire Solutions to attend MacWorld Expo 09 Feb - 13 Feb 2010
Mindfire Solutions being one of the leaders in Offshore Mac software development and gaming softwares sees this event as an opportunity to interact with global audiences who are Mac savvy. Mindfire Solutions has a good presence in iPhone and Mac application development and we are working on iphone and Mac software more than five years. Mindfire’s team of iPhone developers have rich experience and skills in iPhone application development and gaming software development.
“We will be attending the Macworld event on 9th Feb, 2010 at Moscone Center, San Francisco. Industry peers are keeping an eye on this event to avail maximum business leverage for conversions that might come out of it. This five day event seems promising and would definitely bring in a lot of positive energy and educate Mac savvy audiences about the forthcoming innovation,” said Mr. Suryakant Behera, Marketing Manager, Mindfire Solutions.
The world is getting increasingly networked and events like Macworld expo becomes the platform where you would find companies talking about their Mac technical skills, products and services. Innovators from all around the globe would meet and discuss about latest Mac trends, technologies and applications and their usability. VP Sales, Mindfire Solutions, Mr. Jim Norris would be attending the expo and would discuss how Mindfire expertise can be leveraged in development of mac applications including iPhone and iPad.
If you have a business idea, a concrete plan or just a simple thought of creating an application which can be the next killer app in Mac, we request you to contact us. Our expertise coupled with your idea would help significantly reduce the time to market for your new application.
For more information on Mindfire Solutions information, please feel free to visit the following links:
http://www.mindfiresolutions.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfire_solutions
For more information on Our Mac services, please visit the below link:
http://www.mindfiremac.com/services.html
Why does Mindfire Solutions See Freedom as a Value?
I spent hours thinking about how Mindfire Solutions, an upstart in the area of Software development can distinguish itself. I had been a part of the discussions with the Senior management at Mindfire. It was Chinmoy, CEO, Mindfire Solutions who said we will define our values differently. Rather than taking up a positive trait at random and then trying to force it, follow it or carve it in stone, we would rather just look back at our history and see what we have done in the past which has been reflecting in all our work, our dealings and our partnerships with stakeholders.
Mindfire Solutions is an upstart just by its employee numbers, but not by its experience. Mindfire Solutions today has over 100+ active clients and a overall client base of over 220. The number of projects executed in the 10 years of existence has been over 1000 and it is significant because the company is based on a core value of Freedom which at first glance looks like it hampers growth! At times people grow skeptical working in companies which are slightly smaller in size but are growing. I also have heard tales of Infosys not getting people to sit for its campus placements at IIM-A in late 90’s. 30 years and an IT behemoth just stood up from nowhere. Just like I was born along with Infosys. Freedom to choose, freedom to act comes in handy in all these places. And at Mindfire, as Chinmoy stated – We have upheld freedom all thoughout and tried to make the abstractized intangible, a tangible thing!
Mindfire Solutions Corporate Building
Freedom is an abstract concept. It is good to be free. But then from a business point of view, uncontrolled freedom might lead to substantial losses on the bottomline of the Balance Sheet.
How do you ensure Freedom in a professional company? That too in an Offshore IT Services company. There is no room for a lot of flexibility because of the strict deadlines, declining profit margins because of a weak forex and where competition is just becoming stronger with every passing day. India might be seeing atleast a hundred thousand IT companies opening up shops every week. In such a scenario, is it possible to ensure freedom is granted to employees and Customers.
Chinmoy says a resounding “Yes”.
When we grant freedom to employees, we give them an option to leave us whenever they want, with a one month notice period. While the entire software industry has a offshore notice period of 3 months after probation, Mindfire just ensures that client deliverables are not impacted and releases the person in a month, mostly 2 weeks! When Mindfire states that we have an Unlimited Leave Policy, people actually understand that they have access to unlimited leaves in this company without losing even a day’s salary. And there is no concept of “Loss of Pay” because your leaves are unlimited and you never run out of them. Mindfire believes than if the people are treated well, they are aptly fit into their roles and they are given a challenging role which aids them in their growth, they engage with the company and would never leave. And when they do, they go to join organisations where they are highly valued for their knowledge. That is when we at Mindfire feel proud that it is our guys who are being counted as one of the best, because of the our training processes and exposure we provide. We also take this as a learning step and try improving processes in our HR and other employee engagement activities.
But what if people take advantage of freedom?
“2% will always. But for the 2%, we never have thought of penalizing the rest 98%. It is like throwing away the baby with the bath water. We are ready to bear the loss caused because of these 2% but for us, it is the rest 98%, our jewels, who matter to us. Hence employee freedom is written on stone. It is one of our core values.
Freedom to Clients is another facet of our core value.
We do not insist on any lock-in period. Our contracts give clients the freedom to quit if they are not satisfied with our work. That the transition to any other company/organisation/team will be seamless, is drafted into the contract. Our unique patented methods of 2MV, Non-stop 168 are the unique models which help clients gain greater control, so we give them freedom to experiment. In a way, we are actually always on the hook because now that we are transparent and clients have freedom and contracts are less rigorous, the pressure on our Advanced Development Centres (ADCs) to consistently increase the levels of work and increase customer delight.
Now with Freedom as one of the core values, I do believe that Mindfire would definitely be able to distinguish itself as a player, a promising upstart and would definitely be a company which the entire information and broadcasting media would be looking forward to. What do you feel?
Feel free to put in your comments.
Cheers!
Mindfire Launches iPad Application Development Services
Mindfire Solutions is committed to serve the technology needs of all cutting edge applications. And with an Apple Premier Partnership, Mindfire Solutions is all set to serve your “Apple” needs!
Mindfire Solutions iPad
It gives us immense pleasure to announce the launch of our Apple Ipad Development Services. We have Apple Premier connection partnership since last 8 years and our team of Iphone experts bring innovation to the table. With iPad being launched all over and iPhone SDK being launched today, now we are all set to serve your iPad needs.
Contact us now to get your iPad app developed sooner. Sample projects in iPhone.
About Mindfire Solutions:
Mindfire Solutions is amongst the leading providers of Software & IT services encompassing development and delivery of complex projects for enhancing business growth of its customers. Mindfire has added value to more than 100 clients in US, Europe, Australia and Asia in the 10 years of its operation. The company has over 400 people, spread across 2 Advanced Development Centers(ADCs) in India, which are equipped with ultra modern facilities, and where Mindfireans strive round the clock for achieving customer delight. Mindfire understands and appreciates the fact that happy employees create better products and eventually create happy clients.
Mindfire Solutions is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner & an Apple Developer Connection Premier Member. The company is the only organization in India to be at the highest level of partnership with both Microsoft and Apple. Mindfire also partners with global technology leaders like IBM, Adobe, Sun, Autodesk and Java.
For more info on Mindfire Solutions, please visit the following links:
http://www.mindfiresolutions.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfire_solutions
Mindfire Solutions releases FTP plug-in for Servoy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Subhendu Pattnaik (Press Release) – Jan 27, 2010 – 27/1/2010, New Delhi, India: Mindfire Solutions, leading IT software Services company in India announced the release of a FTP Plugin for Servoy which can be used for various FTP operations, today. The plugin can be used for file upload, create/change/delete directories, etc. The inhouse product was developed by engineers at Mindfire Solutions and is available for free download on Mindfire website. The plug-in is named as mfFtp.
“We value our time and always engage ourself during the free hours in developing small software applications which the software fraternity can use for workspace productivity improvement and this FTP plug-in for Servoy is the outcome of it”, said Kiran K Singh, Project Manager, Mindfire Solutions.
Premchand Mali, Senior Software Engineer at Mindfire Solutions who spearheaded the initiative, is thrilled. There are a lot of FTP plugins or Beans available for Servoy which are free to download. However, mfFTP is different. One of the major advantages of mfFPT is the facility to upload Files/Directories in the background. This in turn, means that in all other Servoy FTP Plugins, the application freezes or ‘hangs’ when upload is in progress. But this one does it seamless! In addition, it also displays the percent completion upload status. The Plugin can also be scripted to get the Servor Response string. MfFTP has also its Default Update status window which shows list of files and its directory(s) to be uploaded with the progress bar. File uploading runs in the background.” He added.
Asst. Manager, Marketing, Bijayani said, “If we have invested time in making something which increases our productivity, we would also like to share our learnings with others. This way, as we grow, we also facilitate an environment where growth is an uncontrolled nuclear fission reaction. Knowledge share leads to more and better sophisticated knowledge. We welcome all to download the free version of mfFTP.”
For more detail about the plugin and to download please visit this link:
Download mfFTP
About Mindfire Solutions:
Mindfire Solutions is amongst the leading providers of Software & IT services encompassing development and delivery of complex projects for enhancing business growth of its customers. Mindfire has added value to more than 100 clients in US, Europe, Australia and Asia in the 10 years of its operation. The company has over 400 people, spread across 2 Advanced Development Centers(ADCs) in India, which are equipped with ultra modern facilities, and where Mindfireans strive round the clock for achieving customer delight. Mindfire understands and appreciates the fact that happy employees create better products and eventually create happy clients.
Mindfire Solutions is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner & an Apple Developer Connection Premier Member. The company is the only organization in India to be at the highest level of partnership with both Microsoft and Apple. Mindfire also partners with global technology leaders like IBM, Adobe, Sun, Autodesk and Java.
For more info on Mindfire Solutions, please visit the following links:
http://www.mindfiresolutions.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfire_solutions
Mindfire-Solutions releases plugin for Servoy 5.X
Mindfire Solutions, a leading software company in India announced today the release of a Server Utility Plug-in for Servoy 5.x. This inhouse product is developed by engineers at Mindfire Solutions.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Subhendu Pattnaik (Press Release) – Jan 21, 2010 – 21/1/2010, New Delhi, India: Mindfire Solutions, a leading software company in India announced today the release of a Server Utility Plug-in for Servoy 5.x. The plugin is named as “mfServerUtils 1.0″. This inhouse product is developed by Mindfire software engineers and is available for free download on Mindfire website.
“We have always utilized our time “on-bench” in creating applications which the software fraternity can use for workspace productivity improvement”, said Kiran K Singh, Project Manager, Mindfire Solutions.
Arup Ranjan Sahoo, a Senior Software Engineer at Mindfire Solutions who spearheaded the initiative, is elated. “mfServerUtils”, is a Servoy Plug-in that gives the power to developer to control the Application Server and any connected Clients, running on the server. The Plug-in is smart enough to give you the capability to control the client’s (Rich Client & Web Client) behavior such as alerting Client, shutting down Client etc. Not only about the Clients but also you can control your Servoy Application Server such as alerting all Clients, shutting down the server, restarting the server etc. And all these powerful things right from your Servoy Solution it self. For the security reason, we have added one property called “com.mindfire.plugins.mfserverutils.accesscode” to the Servoy Properties. This property should be set and checked while calling any methods of the Plug-in. He added.
Salient Features of mfServerUtils Servoy plug-in:
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>Getting all/specific Client connected to the Application Server
>Shutting down Application Server
>Restart Application Server
>Alerting all the clients connected to the application server
>Checking Client is alive or not
>Shutting down clients
>Alerting clients
Benefits of mfServerUtils Servoy plug-in:
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>Can be used for controlling Client’s behavior such as alerting Client, shutting down Client etc. straight with in your Servoy solution.
>Can be used to get the list of all currently connected Clients and other remote Clients.
>Can be used to communicate in between Clients by alerting Clients.
>Can be used for controlling Application Server’s behavior such as alerting all Clients, shutting down/restarting Application Server etc. straight with in your Servoy solution.
>Much more functionality to be added to make this Plug-in more powerful… Check back later.
About Mindfire Solutions:
Mindfire Solutions is amongst the leading providers of Software & IT services encompassing development and delivery of complex projects for enhancing business growth of its customers. Mindfire has added value to more than 100 clients in US, Europe, Australia and Asia in the 10 years of its operation. The company has over 400 people, spread across 2 Advanced Development Centers(ADCs) in India, which are equipped with ultra modern facilities, and where Mindfireans strive round the clock for achieving customer delight. Mindfire understands and appreciates the fact that happy employees create better products and eventually create happy clients.
Mindfire Solutions is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner & an Apple Developer Connection Premier Member. The company is the only organization in India to be at the highest level of partnership with both Microsoft and Apple. Mindfire also partners with global technology leaders like IBM, Adobe, Sun, Autodesk and Java.
For more information, please visit the following links:
http://www.mindfiresolutions.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfire_solutions
Mindfireans emerge winners in Japanese Proficiency Examination
“It is a great achievement for all of us at Mindfire to be selected for this awards ceremony. It symbolises the spirit within each Mindfirean to learn about foreign cultures and traditions.”
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Subhendu Pattnaik (Press Release) – Jan 15, 2010 – 15/1/2010, New Delhi, India: The Japanese Language certification awards ceremony was celebrated in great pomp and show at Orissa Computer Academy (OCAC) today. With the 200 seater mega-auditorium packed with invites and guests, there was excitement in the air and the jovial atmosphere was lighted up by Mindfireans achievement.
“It is a great achievement for all of us at Mindfire to be selected for this awards ceremony. It symbolises the spirit within each Mindfirean to learn about foreign cultures and traditions. The first step being learning the foreign language. We are happy that we could come this far and won pride for ourselves and our organisation”, said Rasmita, Senior Software Engineer at Mindfire Solutions, after receiving the prize.
The Japanese delegates seemed immensely delighted by the language proficiency of these young crowd. Handing over the prizes, Mr. Oikawa, Vice Consul,Consulate of Japan, expressed his heartfelt thanks and shared his gratitude for a warm welcome ceremony and awards function.
Mr. Ashok Panda, Director, Foreign Languages also congratulated Mindfireans on their achievement and opined that with greater mastery of foreign languages, Mindfire would be much better equipped to deal with a foreign clientele than other competitor organisations in India.
About Mindfire Solutions:
Mindfire Solutions is amongst the leading providers of Software & IT services encompassing development and delivery of complex projects for enhancing its client business growth. Mindfire has added value to more than 100 clients in US, Europe, Australia and Asia in the 10 years of its operation. The company has over 400 people, spread across 2 Advanced Development Centers(ADCs) in India, which are equipped with ultra modern facilities, and where Mindfireans strive round the clock for achieving customer delight.
Mindfire Solutions is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner & an Apple Developer Connection Premier Member. The company is the only organization in India to be at the highest level of partnership with both Microsoft and Apple. Mindfire also partners with global technology leaders like IBM, Adobe, Sun, Autodesk and Java.
“Mindfire Solutions believes in investing in people for enhancing its customer delight. At Mindfire, we understand that the more comfort we provide to customers, the better will be our Customer Delight Quotient.” said Preet, a senior software engineer. “People at Mindfire Solutions are certified with other foreign languages such as French, German, Spanish etc”, he added.
For more information, please visit the following links:
http://www.mindfiresolutions.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfire_solutions
Elephants Can Dance – Deers can better.
When Louis Gerstner wrote his book on IBM – Who says Elephants cant dance, it actually was a wake-up call for a lot of the mammoth organisations to reorganize and drive changes in the organization. The most impressive change was obviously at IBM where Louis headed the sea of turnarounds. It was an exceptional turnaround.Well, the question is not whether IBM and mega-sized organisations can change, adapt to newer business environments and deliver in a sustained manner, but it is about if the big sized organisations can adapt, would not the mid-sized companies change and adapt to newer situations, faster?
It would make a lot of sense to assume and then verify the fact that Elephants Can Dance – Deers can better. In todays business scene, we are all subjected to uncertainty. Uncertainty of quality, timelines, business needs, customer orientation and the list just keeps extending. When you outsource, you do it for some or the other need. It might be to gain competitive edge over your competitor. It might be you want to leverage technology for better margins. Even this imagination is driven by changing business scenario. 30 years ago, people would have laughed at it when Infosys initiated the concept. Now, they laugh at it when someone has not heard of Infosys.
One thing to understand and think about your offshore partner – its size. Why would you choose a mega company as your vendor? Because of its brand? Because of its Stability? Pause for a while. Wont you believe it I tell you that incase an Elephant is hurt, and when it falls, it creates such an impact on the ground that the anthills nearby get demolished to dust? And think of the instances when an elephant can get hurt by a bullet than a deer.
Let me drive home a point. We outsource to mega sized companies in India because we want the vendor to live, not to die prematurely for unforeseen situations. However, if you are a company which has 20, 200 or even a thousand people and you need to outsource, I would never advise going in for a offshore vendor who is more stable than you are, whose headcounts are more than that of yours, whose processes are more rigid than that of yours, whose policies are way strong and stable than yours. Because if you do, indeed, you might get a good brand to be associated with. You might also get a great product and even better, at a cost cheaper to insourcing and quicker than the timelines you might have set for your inhouse team.
However, you would lose control. Period.
When you start a project, you never know what it might finally end up being, unless you have a crystal clear vision of what you want. Let us be honest – Most of the time we actually dont know how the system would look like. We have a vague idea at the start and once the first skeleton is ready, then we can see a step ahead. That is where you need changes to your original requirements. Change Requests. No big-offshore provider would provide you with the luxury of accommodating change requests beyond a 5% threshold. There are organisations which might even bid the lowest or even less than their expenses on the Baseline initial project and earn exorbitantly from the change requests alone. Imagine the months of inactivity of contract generation process with a mega-people sized offshore company. Startups can give you that flexibility that your work can start instantly with basic legally bound contracts. However, offsetting the problem of premature death of a startup does not fit well with the risk appetite of many like you. So they look at India intelligently.
They look for companies which have been in business for a significantly longer period of time. A decade is a great timeframe to prove stability. In case you are able to find such companies which have been in business for a decade and still are able to meet your custom needs without charging too high for the change requests, which employ dedicated people to your projects even if you own just a 10 people team, are a single entrepreneur, a sub-contractor or anything, you tend to look at the company with a better perspective. In all such cases, I would advise checking the company profile out in detail, having a discussion with the top management in such companies in India, before actually discarding mid-sized organisations as a concern.
Another aspect which as an Offshore Services customer, you should be looking at is the duration of the project. Hope you would agree, if you have a project which you plan to get completed in 2 months, you are least bothered if the offshore company can actually sustain beyond a year. All is you are concerned about is the next 2 months and possibly 2-3 months after deployment so that the project delivery is not affected. I would request you to do the Maths, get your numbers correct and then decide to plunge into offshoring or outsourcing. Being associated with a behemoth is not bad, but you have to lose your freedom. It is high time to wake up, look at the Midsized companies which have been there for decades and which excel in software delivery as an offshore destination. Welcome to organisations like Mindfire.
Mindfire Solutions. Freedom to Clients. Period.
No harm in checking the corporate website of Mindfire Solutions. Cheers.
See you guys tomorrow.
Shubh
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