Treasure Hunt Winners

Christmas Celebration Continued with "Food Without Flame!

Holiday Season

Sigma'ites Celebrating the Christmas Week Season with Bay Decoration.

Sigma Infosolutions Boosts India Expansion With New Ahmedabad Office!

We are happy to share that we have opened another branch office in Ahmedabad located on the 8th floor of SAFAL PEGASUS Business park which marks another important step forward for Business Expansion

 

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Sigma Infosolutions, Wishing you and Your Family a Very Happy and Safe Diwali!

Let's make this “'Festival of Lights” a bit more special not by giving Special Gifts all around but by spreading a Smile at a stranger and surprising someone by wishing or meeting them!
This Diwali, light up the spark in someone's eye and make someone's day!

Ethnic Day & Dandiya!

Rangoli Competition on Ocassion of DIWALI

May the Festival of Lights & Colors bring joy and prosperity 

to you and your family!

Celebrate Vision, Celebrate Life! Eye Check up Screening Camp @ Sigma Infosolutions!

Test Includes:

• Power & cylindrical value of the eye.
• Detection of  the exact power of the eyes to prescribe glasses.
• Determination of the  visual acuity of the eye.

Spot Award Today!

Sigma Infosolutions are happy to announce that One of the team member from Accounts department was awarded THE "SPOT AWARD" today.

"He is very dedicated, fast learner and takes challenges . Within a short period of time he has understood the process of STPI and done a good job in streamlining the STPI related works. Completes works on time. His co-ordination within his team and for ISO activities is really appreciable".

Team Outing @ Sigma

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime...

Here Sigma Infosolutions Team Outing @ Prakruthi...

Also, heartily Thanking to the One who has completed 7 wonderful years with Sigma"

 

Magento Store Successfully Created

Sigma Infosolutions launched Magento demo store, visualize your store at http://demo.sigmainfo.net/magentostore 

Try for FREE hands-on demo of admin features, write to sales@sigmainfo.net

Second Quarter Appreciation Award

"There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them"

There are the employees @ Sigma Infosolutions who went the extra mile. Second Quarter (July, August, September)  following employees were nominated for the Quarterly Appreciation Award.

Achievement by Award Winners.......

includes instrumental in executing and managing most of the Business Intelligence projects, CMS and more!

Ganesh Chaturthi Celebration

Sigma Infosolutions heartily wish Lord Ganesha filled your home with prosperity and fortune. Best wishes on Ganesh Chaturthi!

What the iPhone 5 Means for Developers and Apps?

iPhone 5 has an improved camera and is welcomed by various genres of apps, from augmented reality to barcode-scanners. iOS Developers community is geared up to fill that new four-inch screen as the existing apps will be centered, and developers are engaged to figure out how best they can make use of that additional space left around.iPhone 5 has an improved camera and is welcomed by various genres of apps, from augmented reality to barcode-scanners. iOS Developers community is geared up to fill that new four-inch screen as the existing apps will be centered, and developers are engaged to figure out how best they can make use of that additional space left around.

Impossible is Just Nothing!

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible".

We are happy to announce that a Person from our Team has been awarded THE SPOT AWARD today for his commitment and enthusiasm to make the changes to Android build for our customer.

He has done a great job on building android changes requested by customer, as a QA engineer we would expect robust testing but he took a step ahead to build the changes and fix the bugs without requesting for any development resources. It’s really great initiative taken by him. Apart from android build, he has also done a great job in our project by setting up  local development environment in his box to cross verify the issue versus staging, which is really interesting.

Kudos! Keep up the good work.....

HAPPY ONAM

The Onam Celebration is an occasion for people to remind themselves of the all pervasive nature of the divine. We wish you and your family members HAPPY ONAM!!

Quarterly Appreciation Award

"There's nothing greater in the world than when somebody does something remarkable and everybody gathers around to encourage and appreciate "The Quarterly Appreciation Award""

First Quarter (April, May, June)  following employees were nominated for the Quarterly Appreciation Award @ Sigma Infosolutions

Achievements of Award Winners inculdes Magento Applications, Openbravo and more!

Final Results of SPL III

Titans, Vikings
Champions: Vikings
Man-of-the-match: Nagesh from Vikings

Man of the Series: Praveen
Super Women: Shubham Jain

Blood Donation Camp on Ocassion of Independence Day

We are pleased to inform that in "Blood Donation Camp" there were 45 volunteers to donate blood out of which 33 donors successfully donated. With that being said, we would like to  thank those individuals who voluntarily gave their time for this noble cause without any reward except for the understanding that they have helped to save lives.

Sigma Family also like to thank those individuals who tried to donate but for whatever reason where deferred.

Happy Independence Day!

"Blood Donation Camp"

On the Occasion of Independence Day, We had a "Blood Donation Camp" in Our Office Premises..
And for that Spot Award given to Anup Kumar Singha for being the "Followup King"

SPL 3 : Semifinal Results

First Match:
Highveld Lions, Titans
Winner: Titans
Man-of-the-match: Praveen from Titans

Second Match:
Vikings, Unicorns
Winner: Vikings
Man-of-the-match: Prasad from Vikings

SPL 3 - Match Results Today!

First Match:

Ocho Dashers, Sigma Dragons

Winner: Ocho Dashers

Man-of-the-match: Chirag from Ocho Dashers

Second Match:

Minotaur, Vikings

Winner: Minotaur

Man-of-the-match: Abhishek from Minotaur

Sigma Premier League - 3 : Day 10 Update

Today's Match is between Pool A(Sigma Dragons, Ocho Dashers) & Pool B (Vikings, Minotaur).

Wish you all A Good Luck!!..

Stay Tune for Updates on SPL!!

http://www.sigmainfo.net/

SPL 3 : Todays Match Result

Aviators Vs Titans
Winner: Titans
Man-of-the-match: Abhilash from Titans

Sigma Premier League - 3 : Day 9 Update

Today's Match is between Pool A(Titans, Aviators) & Pool B (Trophy Fighters, Highveld Lions).

Wish you all A Good Luck!!..

Stay Tuned for more Updates on today's SPL!!

.....................................................................................to be Continued

http://www.sigmainfo.net/

Today's SPL Match Result:

First Match:
Aviators, Unicorn
Winner: Aviators
Man-of-the-match: Ankit from Aviators

Second Match:
Highveld Lions, Gangs of Sigmapur
Winner: Highveld Lions
Man-of-the-match: Nagraj from Gangs of Sigmapur

Sigma Infosolutions Ltd Recently Held An All Hands Meet

Sigma Infosolutions Ltd Recently Held An All Hands Meet

Sigma Premier League - 3 : Day 8

Today's Match is between Pool A(Unicorn, Aviators) & Pool B (Gangs of Sigmapur, Highveld Lions).

Wish you all A Good Luck!!..

Stay Tune for Updates on SPL!!

.........................................................................................to be Continued

http://www.sigmainfo.net/

SPL 3 : Match Results Today

First Match:
Ocho Dashers, Unicorn
Winner: Unicorn
Man-of-the-match: Iyappan from Unicorn

Second Match:
Minotaur, Gangs of Sigmapur
Winner: Minotaur
Man-of-the-match: Vivek Singh from Gangs of Sigmapur

Sigma Premier League - 3 : Day 7 Update

Today's Match is between Pool A(Ocho Dashers, Unicorn)     & Pool B (Minotaur, Gangs of Sigmapur)
.

Wish you all A Good Luck!!..

Stay Tune for Updates on SPL!!

........................................................................................to be Continued

http://www.sigmainfo.net/

SPL 3 : Today's Result

First Match:
Sigma Dragons Vs Titans
Winner: Titans
Man-of-the-match: Abhilash from Titans

Second Match:
Trophy Fighters Vs Vikings
Winner: Vikings
Man-of-the-match: Prasad from Vikings

Sigma Premier League - 3 : Today's Match Update

Today's Match is between Pool A(Sigma Dragons, Titans) & Pool B (Vikings, Trophy Fighters).

Wish you all A Good Luck!!..

Stay Tune for Updates on SPL!!

..................................................................................to be Continued

http://www.sigmainfo.net/

SPL Match Results (Day 6)

First Match:
Sigma Dragons Vs Titans
Winner: Titans
Man-of-the-match: Abhilash from Titans

Second Match:
Trophy Fighters Vs Vikings
Winner: Vikings
Man-of-the-match: Prasad from Vikings

Sigma Premier League - 3 : Day 5 Update

Today's Match is between Pool A (Sigma Dragons, Unicorn) & Pool B (Vikings, Gangs of Sigmapur).

Wish you all A Good Luck!!..

Stay Tune for Updates on SPL!!

...................................................................................to be Continued

http://www.sigmainfo.net

SPL-3, Day 4 Results:

First Match:
Ocho Dashers Vs Aviators
Winner: Aviators
Man-of-the-match: Ankit from Aviators

Second Match:
Highveld Lions Vs Minotaur
Winner: Highveld Lions
Man-of-the-match: Arshad from Minotaur

http://www.sigmainfo.net/

Day 3 SPL 3 Match Results

First Match:
Titans Vs Ocho Dashers
Winner: Titans
Man-of-the-match: Praveen from Titans

Second Match:
Minotaur Vs Trophy Fighters
Winner: Trophy Fighters
Man-of-the-match: Abhishek from Minotaur

Sigma Premier League - 3 : Day 4 Update

Today's Match is between Pool A (Ocho Dashers, Aviators) & Pool B (Minotaur, Highveld Lions).

Wish you all A Good Luck!!..

Stay Tune for Updates on SPL!!

......................................................................................to be Continued

http://www.sigmainfo.net/

Sigma Premier League - 3 : Day 3 Update

Today's Match is between Pool A (Ocho Dashers, Titans) & Pool B (Minotaur, Trophy Fighters).

Wish you all A Good Luck!!..

Stay Tune for Updates!!

........................................to be Continued

http://www.sigmainfo.net/

SPL 3: Day 2 Match Results

First Match:
Titans Vs Unicorn
Winner: Unicorn
Man-of-the-match: Iyappan from Unicorn

Second Match:
Trophy Fighters Vs Gangs of Sigmapur
Winner: Trophy Fighters
Man-of-the-match: Vivek Singh from Gangs of Sigmapur

Sigma Premier League - 3 : Today's Match Update

Today's Match is between Pool A (Titans, Unicorn) & Pool B (Trophy Fighters, Gangs of Sigmapur).

Wish you all A Good Luck!!..

Stay Tune for Updates on SPL!!

........................................to be Continued!!

Terrace Cricket- SPL III Update:

First Match:
Sigma Dragons Vs Aviators
Winner: Aviators
Man-of-the-match: Ravi from Sigma Dragons
Heartiest Congratulations to Aviators & Ravi

Second Match:
Highveld Lions Vs Vikings
Winner: Vikings
Man-of-the-match: Malay from Lions
Heartiest Congratulations to Vikings & Malay

Opening of Terrace Cricket-SPL III

 

The Most Awaited Day, Most Awaited SPL Starting from Today as a Premier League - 3... Most Awaited day for Sigma'tes.

Match is between Pool A (Aviators, Sigma Dragons) & Pool B (Highveld Lions, Vikings) starting @ 4:00 PM today.

Wish you all A Good Luck!!.

Stay Tune for more Updates on SPL!!

http://www.sigmainfo.net/

Happenning @ Sigma : Sigma Premier League - 3

Roster for Terrace Cricket SPL 3

Cricket has always been the religion to a land called India where it has millions of followers. The enthusiasm for cricket in Indians filled over and led to creation of two major cricket leagues, first the Indian Cricket league and now the Indian Premier League or IPL in short. Its stimulated to create a special league to grab attention of Sigma’ites from their busy work schedule called “IPL with a Twist”. 

Here is a Schedule for SPL - 3

 

“Sigma Infosolutions Limited” WELCOME NEW JOINEES

More new joinees this quarter, Improvement of consulting services upto almost 100% accuracy and client satisfaction.  And this is not everything which is happening at Sigma. They are just soaring in the track to be the best IT Consulting worldwide.

This quarter Sigma had new joinees or new Sigma'ites. As per tradition, new Sigma'ites  
are given a warm welcome and was introduced by Sigma’s HR team to all employees at Sigma Infosolution.

This Quarter many young and experienced talents joined our family, for most of them it was a complete new environment and to answer their curiosity, HR team organized a welcome briefing session with the Directors. Getting a chance to interact with the Directors is considered to be a rare and a golden opportunity. The level of excitement among the new Sigma'ites can easily be seen through the participation in this meeting. Everyone who was present knew the importance of this meeting and tried their best to gain something useful for their career and personal front. It is always possible for an employee to have an interaction with the directors later, but for a fresher just out of college, a lot of doubts and queries arise in their mind. This meeting cleared all their doubts and prepared them for their new phase of their professional life. This meeting indeed turned out to be a Golden opportunity for Sigma'ites. FRESHERS are the most enthusiastic, rejuvenated and curious part of any organization.

Sigma Infosolutions always believed in open door policy where everyone is free to share their thoughts. The motive is full filled when fresh minds are ready to take challenges and work towards accomplishing these challenges. Everyone passes through the period of “being fresher” new environment, new people, new culture etc. All these remain 'new' until we interact with the “new”. Meeting with the Directors helped new Sigma'ites to know more about the core values of the Company. Thousands of thoughts traveling in their minds have finally arrived at their destination. Every new Sigma'ites got a chance to interact with the Directors and other Sagma'ites as it was more of an open discussion rather than a meeting.

During the concluding session, it was an open platform where everybody was interacting, giving their own thoughts, discussing about the Company’s future plans and their roles in the Company. The interaction with the Directors gave a big boost for the new Sigma'ites self-confidence. Finally freshers became Sigma’ites, curiosity became satisfaction, crumbled thoughts are now integrated and finally.          

About Company :
Sigma Infosolutions is a global IT & Product Engineering Services company. Sigma Infosolutions is headquartered in Irvine, US and has operations in Bangalore, India.
Sigma Infosolutions provides free consultation for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing solutions using Open Source technologies and tools such as Jasper, Pentaho, BIRT & OBIEE. Any interested person can visit their website at www.sigmainfo.net

Source: http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/information-technology/20120711124818.htm

Milestone for Our Grails Team : Completed the Development of Plugin for jmesa in Grails

We are pleased to share that we have completed the development of plugin for jmesa in Grails.

This is uploaded and available at http://www.grails.org/plugin/jmesa .

We congratulate all the involved people for making it happen.

This is just beginning and stay tuned for seeing more of this from Grails as well as other teams.

Many more such Extensions/Plugins/Custom Modules would be developed and contributed back to community, in the days ahead with respective teams.

Cheers!!!

Open Source Reporting on iPhones/iPads

Reporting on iPhones/iPads is an interesting area that has a lot of potential. Yes there is an easy possibility of rendering HTML based reports on an iPhone or similar devices. But those are still in a way the default browser content on which there’s no control of an iPhone’s inbuilt capability to recognize objects and present it in a manner easy for the user to view. It requires some adjustments before we can see it in action.

Open source reporting tool, Pentaho offers a great help in this area. Pentaho provides a plugin which can sit in the server and dynamically render the pages based on whether it is viewed from a typical desktop/laptop or through an iPhone device, for the entire reporting application. This might also be applicable if the results are embedded inside a page of another application through frames, etc.

Here is how it works: Firstly some interceptors are created to detect iPhone requests and re-route those requests to the correct iPhone view. Secondly, an extension is created to allow the parameter forms to render correctly on the iPhone. The user interface can still be designed to suite the branding requirements. The typical interfacing framework can be anything like iUI (User Interface Framework for Mobile Web Devices) and you can build a custom login page and Home page. You can then,

• Create Navigational Menus and iPhone-style interfaces from standard HTML
• Create modern mobile web pages
• Handle phone orientation changes
• Provide a more "iPhone-like" experience in your Web apps

Similarly, the code is available for android  http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/ServerDoc1x/Deployment+Configuration

Other than Login, Navigation, and Parameter Forms, no changes are actually necessary for Pentaho Platform. This is due to the combination of Pentaho rendering in standard formats, and the iPhone being able to render standard HTML and PDF pages. Below are some samples of the same.

5 Reasons, SMB’s should Invest in Business Intelligence Solution

BI turns data into actionable information which supports business in strategic decision making. A strategic deployment of a Business Intelligence solution can have a major impact on the growth and profitability of a company. (BI) has become quite the ‘buzzword’ in the software industry in the last few years. Many small business owners still relegate BI the domain of only large companies. When a BI solution is built specifically for SMBs, there’s no business too small. Business should understand what to be aware of and how to select the best software while sifting through the marketing buzz of BI trends. As we move towards the information edge, SMBs is now starting to realize that BI can benefit them too. Vendors are getting better at making software that’s easy to use and affordable. Technologies such as open source, cloud, in-memory and visualization technology are making BI tools much more friendly to SMBs.

Here are 5 real advantages that BI can deliver to SMBs:
1)    Information at your fingertips :-
In order to move towards any goal, you first need to know where you are. Manually monitoring your business just isn’t an option. You need the right information right time which meeting the stated business goals at your fingertips when needed. BI software can collect data from a number of sources for different purposes like Trend Analysis, monitor performance, track the marketplace, adjust business direction and plan for future changes. In short your data would be available on fingertip so that you can take strategical decisions in time to be ahead of your competitor Help to answer ‘what if’ questions with a click of a button for better forecasting.

2)    Boost Business Productivity :-
Small businesses, by nature, need to get more done with fewer people! One of the key benefits of BI is that it will automate reporting in your business, saving time and money in the process and ultimately increasing productivity. Reduce resources and labor costs used for the collation, analysis & distribution of vital business data. Can pull data in a format known by Business user to manipulate and distribute meaningful information in the familiar face. Traditionally take days every month to compile. BI can provide real-time automated reports, executable at the click of a button, which draw up-to-date trusted data directly from existing sources and deliver a single version of the truth. By providing on-demand real-time reports, BI plays a significant role in creating time-savings and increased productivity and allows you to start using the information in your system to more effectively manage the business.

3)    Effective Decision Making :-
Right Information can give a complete picture of the performance of your organization. The key performance indicator (KPI) which in turn helps in effective decision making in an identification of chances and risks. The most popular use of business intelligence is in Decision making by monitoring the current performance and forecasting future phenomena, such as customer behavior, demand, and inventory levels. Business intelligence provides you with solid, effective actions you can take to yield measurable results. BI techniques are already helping SMB alike to make smarter, better-informed business decisions. Opportunity, costs and risks can be evaluated up front.

4)    Immediate ROI :-
BI will bring down company's operational costs immediate by improving operational efficiency, minimized total cost of ownership and optimize business processes in the long run. A good business intelligence solution will not only create, but enforce processes to follow from day one. Different Types of ROI organization get benefited via BI solution - Revenue enhancement, Margin protection, Cost reduction, Cost avoidance, Capital cost avoidance, etc. Also see some intangible (qualitative) benefits of strategic value, such as faster reporting, better management information, better decision making, more productive users, efficiency, customer satisfaction, reducing risk and strategic attractiveness.

5)    GET WHAT YOU AIM FOR :-
BI can help to get answers of all your 'W's' such as what, when, where, why etc. to GET WHAT YOU AIM FOR.
Get key business metrics reports when and where you need them. Also can access reports and dashboards on mobile devices like iPhone, iPad, Android or BlackBerry, giving sales and marketing people access to critical business information on the fly. Information with security and control across platforms and devices when & where, in a format as per need, with a single click or as an automated alerts for action. Right information to the right people at the right time using facts-based analysis. Competitive, legal and regulatory requirements can more easily be assessed and planned.
In short BI implementation will help you in achieving “what you aim for” your business.

Pessimist Vs Optimist

 

Pessimist: “The glass is half empty.”

Optimist: “The glass is half full.”

Database Administrator: “The glass is sized correctly for peak loads.”

Virtualization Admin: “This person should be sharing a Dixie Cup with the guys in accounting.”

Business Intelligence Admin: “How can we upsell this customer to bottled water?”

Security Admin: “Whose glass is this? Half of the water has gone missing.”

Storage Admin: “This glass needs thin provisioning.”

ETL Admin: “We need a faster way to fill this glass.”

Active Directory Admin: “We need a secondary glass for redundancy.”

Backup Admin: “Nobody told me to take a snapshot of the full glass.”

Break Fix Admin: “Hang on, I’ll go get you another glass.”

Linux Admin: “I bet I could build a better glass myself.”

Project Manager: “I need a FTE for 15 minutes to accomplish the deliverable of a full glass.”

Azure Developer: “Why buy your own glass? The clouds are full of water.”

jQuery Developer: “When you start drinking, it automatically refills.”

Mac User: “Check out how much thinner and smaller my glass is, and it holds that much water too.”

Twitter: “The faucet is over capacity. Please wait a moment and try again.”

Software Project Management in Real Life

The life of a software project manager is full of compromises - a balance needs to be struck between time-to-market and quality, cost and manageability, reusability and deadlines etc. 
The 4 main variables in a development process considered as
1. Time
2. Cost
3. Features
4. Quality
A typical project plan contains specifications for all above them and the problem is that they often contradict each other. As the project moves through the schedule, the pressure on the participants increases, priorities often change and the project manager is forced to cut corners in the development process to save time and energy for other "useful" tasks.


Here we @ Sigma work focuses mainly on Customer Satisfaction.