The Octaware Picnic on 10^th June,2011 to Aayush Resorts.

This subject will be covered in two parts:

PART-I

Just last month on the 10^th of June, 2011, Team Octaware went on an adventurous mission…A Mission to enjoy come together and themselves, a frivolous task of course but adventurous none-the-less.

The entire Octaware Team (along with its management) got together for a day to let their hair down and enjoy, with no airs about who is the President and who is a Trainee Engineer, all came together as one single family to enjoy.

As is the Octaware, every year on one particular day the entire Octaware Family comes together for an outing for on full day. The Teams from the Corporate Office and Both the Development Centers (Mumbai as well as Pune) gather to have a day full of enjoyment, merriment and fun.

As usual, a central location was decided upon for the mutual convenience of the Mumbai & Pune team. This year the location chosen to get together was Ayus Resorts on the Mumbai- Goa highway. This place is one scenic beauty, spread over an area of more than a Kilometer this is a wonderful place to retreat. What with its lush green pathways, bird sanctuary, this place is a nature lover’s delight. There is also a grand replica of a Majestic Palace, Beautiful swimming pool with 3 big slides, indoor games like snooker, badminton, Table tennis and facilities to play outdoor games like cricket, volley ball and football, this place has something or the other for everyone.

The Pune Team outdid the Mumbai team to reach there first and did a good review around the place. Finally when the Mumbai team reached that’s when both the teams got together over breakfast. It was great to have aloo parathas and idli sambars bread butter and jam. After a fulfilling breakfast Later on, Mr.Syed Najeeb – G.m. Sales & Marketing did the welcome address and then Mr.Aslam Khan, President Octaware gave a brief over-view about the organization and its progress over the period of last year. He made the team aware of how the organization is growing at a great pace.

The Highlight of the event was the felicitation of a couple of good performers Rizwan Ahmed who won the top honours and and Sarfaraj Shaikh followed him up.

(To Be Contniued)

By Najeeb.

Be a Charming Personality | How to Charm Anyone

Psychologists tell us that the core of personality is self-esteem. This has best been defined as "how much you like yourself." Your self-esteem is the sum total of how important and valuable you feel you are at any moment.


The Secret of Charm
The deepest craving of human nature is the need to feel valued and valuable. The secret of charm is therefore simple: make others feel important.


Five Ways to be Charming

1. Acceptance. The greatest gift you can give other people is the attitude of "unconditional positive regard." That is you accept them in their entirety, without limitation. You never criticize or find fault. You are totally accepting of everything about them. This is the starting point of being charming.

2. Appreciation. Whenever you express appreciation to others for something they have done, small or large, their self-esteem increases. They feel more competent and capable. Their self-image improves and their self-respect soars. And how do you trigger this wonderful feeling in others? It is simple. You say "thank you" on every occasion, for any large or small reason.

3. Approval. It is said that "babies cry for it, men die for it." Throughout life, all humans have a deep subconscious need for approval of their actions and accomplishments. No amount of approval ever satisfies for long. The need is ongoing, like the need for food and rest. People who continually seek opportunities to express approval are welcome wherever they go. Perhaps the best definition of approval is "praise." Just remember, whenever you praise other people for something they have done, their self-esteem is elevated.

4. Admiration. As Abraham Lincoln said, "Everybody likes a compliment." When you give people a genuine, sincere compliment about a trait, possession, or accomplishment, they automatically feel better about themselves. They feel acknowledged and recognized. They feel valuable and important. They like themselves more, and they like you more. Compliment a person on an article of clothing. Compliment someone on a trait, like punctuality or persistence. Compliment for small things as well as large.

5. Attention. This is perhaps the most important quality of all. It is the most powerful behavior for building self-esteem and is the key to instant charm. The more closely you pay attention to other people, the more valuable and important they will feel they are, and the more they will like you.



Action Exercise

The next time you meet your significant other or even someone you work with, conduct this exercise: Imagine that when you were young, you had a dear friend with whom you shared many important emotional experiences of your young life. But years passed and you lost touch. You had no idea where your friend had gone. One day, when you are walking down the street suddenly there he is! Your whole face lights up and all you can think is, "It's you!"

Now, the next time you meet a person or persons who are important to you, especially loved ones or dear friends, create this same feeling and act as if you are rediscovering them after a too-long absence. Treat these special people as if seeing them makes you feel incredibly happy. No matter who they are, they will think that you are an incredibly charming person.

-Haroon
 
 
 
(Article by Brian Tracy)

iCloud - Cloud services from Apple

There is now another major player in the Cloud market now. Apple introduced its services in the cloud naming it as iCloud.Apple announced its services on 6^th June 2011 at the Apple Wordwide Developers Conference (WWDC).

Apple is giving data storage of upto 5GB to its users, and it would help a lot to users who have more than one Apple device. Users do not have to worry about synchronization. iCloud helps in accessing songs, Apps, books, Documents etc. all from just one place. As per Apple, iCloud will have automatic information sync with iPhone and iPad applications.

The cloud service’s tight integration with iPhone and iPad services will give an edge over other competitors like Microsoft’s Live Mesh.

More information about this can be found at following links.

http://www.apple.com/icloud/

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/11piubpwiqubf06/event/

Siraj

Make Your Life a Masterpiece | The Seven Ingredients of Success

This is the age of achievement. Never have more people accomplished more things in more different fields than they are accomplishing today. More people are becoming successful at a faster rate than at any other time in history. There have never been more opportunities for you to turn your dreams into realities than there are right now.


The Seven Ingredients of Success

Your ideal life is a blending these seven ingredients in exactly the combination that makes you the happiest at any particular moment. By defining your success and happiness in terms of one or more of these seven ingredients, you create a clear target to aim it. You can then measure how well you're doing. You can identify the areas where you need to make changes if you want your life to improve.



Peace of Mind

The first of these seven ingredients of success, and easily the most important, is peace of mind. It is the highest human good. Without it, nothing else has much value. In corporations, peace of mind can be measured in terms of the amount of harmony that exists among coworkers. The wonderful truth about peace of mind is that it is your normal natural condition. It is the basic precondition for enjoying everything else.



Health and Energy

The second ingredient of success is health and energy. Just as peace of mind is your normal and natural mental state, health and energy is your normal and natural physical state. If you achieve all kinds of things in the material world, but lose your health then you will get little or no pleasure from your other accomplishments. So imagine yourself enjoying perfect health, and think of how you would be if you were your ideal image of physical fitness. Then strive for your mental goal of fitness and health.


Loving Relationships

The third ingredient of success is loving relationships. These are relationships with the people you love and care about, and the people who love and care about you. They are the real measure of how well you are doing as a human being. At almost any time, you can measure how well you are doing in your relationship by one simple test: laughter. This is true for companies as well. High-performance, high profit organizations are those in which people laugh and joke together. Examine your relationships, one by one, and develop a plan to make each of them enjoyable and satisfying.



Financial Freedom

The fourth ingredient of success is financial freedom. Achieving your financial freedom is one of the most important goals and responsibilities of your life. A feeling of freedom is essential to the achievement of any other important goal, and you cannot be free until and unless you have enough money so that you are no longer preoccupied with it. When you decide exactly what you want your financial picture to look like, you will be able to use this system to achieve your goals faster than you might have imagined possible.



Worthy Goals and Ideals

The fifth ingredient of success is worthy goals and ideals. To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.



Self Knowledge and Self-Awareness

The sixth ingredient of success is self-knowledge and self-awareness. To perform at your best you need to know who you are and why you think and feel the way you do. It is only when you understand and accept yourself that you can begin moving forward in other areas of your life.



Personal Fulfillment

The seventh ingredient of success is personal fulfillment. This is the feeling that you are becoming everything that you are capable of becoming. It is the sure knowledge that you are moving toward the realization of your full potential as a human being.



Action Exercise

Take the brush of your imagination and begin painting a masterpiece on the canvas of your life. It is for you to decide clearly what would make you the happiest in everything you are doing.


-Haroon

Welcome To the Freshly Revamped Octaware Website

Octaware launched its newly revamped website today,  11^th of May,2011 at 11am.

It was indeed a great moment for the Management and the entire Octaware family as the hard work and labour finally bore fruit and turned out very beautifully.

A lot of pain-staking efforts went into this website which was developed completely in-house, and each and every aspect was worked on with minute detail while developing and designing the website.

Finally, the outcome seemed to be well worth the efforts as the new look and feel was well appreciated by one and all.

The event was celebrated at its Development Centers in Mumbai & Pune over sweets and pastries.

So you are welcome to visit www.octaware.com

A few glimpses of the website J

Dynamics CRM 2011

Dynamics CRM 2011 which is a latest version from CRM software from Microsoft, is really a wonderful product and loads of improvement over its previous version. I thought of listing down few of the features for those who want to have a quick handy feature list.

Tight Integration with Outlook.

The Outlook client of CRM allows users to access the CRM from within the native interface of outlook. It is based on the similar look and feel of Outlook 2010. This reduces the learning curve dramatically.

Dashboards

There are different built in dashboard which allow various users have quick and summarized view of information relevant to their functions. For e.g. the sales manager can have quick access to team performance, sales pipeline etc. User can setup and configure multiple dashboard for monitoring overall performance.

Office 2010 ribbon bar

The latest version of CRM 2011 comes with the Ribbon bar UI similar to office 2010. It is context sensitive and allows easy access to functionality in much better way.

Data Import

The existing customer data can be imported to Dynamics CRM 2011 using import wizards. It is easy to use field mapping based wizard which allows users to import data from other sources to CRM 2011. The data can be imported from Excel based CSV format by appropriately formatting the fields before importing.

User Personalization

Users can personalize the UI interface as per their needs depending upon the functions they do in the organization. Customization is decentralized and users have quick way of creating new views, modifying forms etc.

Mobile Access

Apart from the web-client and native outlook client, users can also use the mobile client to access the CRM information on their handhelds.

Cloud based development and deployment

As against the previous version the newer version allows developed to develop and deploy application based on cloud computing architecture using Azure platform services.

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Siraj

The "Tranforming Healthcare with IT" Seminar in Hyderabad.

Last month, I had an opportunity to attend a seminar on Healthcare & IT titled - “Transforming Healthcare with IT.” wherein we also had an awards function by NASSCOm for pioneering solution providers in the Healthcare domain, which was held at the superbly constructed Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC) at Novotel in Hyderabad.

I had participated in the seminar with my Colleague, Shahnawaz and it was quite an enriching experience. It was nice to see the way IT has revolutionized the Healthcare sector across the globe, and with quite a few initiatives being taken in India we are soon catching up.

The role of IT in the Healthcare sector has just started picking up in India and the future seems to hold a lot of promises for it.

It was an overwhelming experience to mix around with CEOs and Directors of various organizations along with many top notch bureaucrats and dignitaries. We did meet up with Harsh Manglik, CEO NASSCOM, Ms.Sangeeta Reddy, Exec. Director, Apollo group of Hospitals (the pioneering lady behind this event), Mr. Santosh Babu, (IAS officer and CEO of Electronic Corporation of Tamil Nadu, Mr.T. Ramasami, Sec. Dept of Science & Technology, Goct. Of India,  Mr. Mohammed, Director- Asia & Middle East, Microsoft. etc.

Needless to say Octaware has embarked on its journey on the Healtcare-IT sector at the right time and yes we do have a complete roadmap in place. With its focus on the Healthcare vertical, its just a matter of time when we are ready with our pioneering solution for the Healthcare sector.

cotributed by Najeeb,
Octaware Technologies.
Octaware Technologies is a Software Development, Enterprise Solutions & Consulting Firm.