Jog Falls & Shimoga

Jog Falls, one of the highest waterfalls in Asia is located in Shimoga District of Karnataka state. And the Sharavathi River, which falls from a height of 292 metre (958 feet) is the cause for the water falls.

Two weeks back 10 of us, well I can refine "us" exactly as 10 Software Engineers went to Jog. Its our friend Arun Prakash Devarajan working with INFOSYS, initiated the idea. And with Arun, 5 more INFOSICIANS and 2 of our friends(Senthil & Ganesh) and of course me started off to Bangalore from Madras on 29th-Sep-2006 night. We reached there at 6am the next day and

Saksoft acquired, Acuma Group UK

 

 

Just few weeks back, Saksoft was awarded with CMMi Level 5 Accredition, and now it has acquired Acuma, a UK based high end consulting Firm for about 17 million USD.

About  Acuma : It is UK’s largest, dedicated provider of information value management solutions and strategic consultancy. Acuma works with organizations to consolidate,organize and manage the huge volumes of data collected by suiness. Acuma has built an enviable track record delivering hundreds of solutions ranging from strategic advice to large multi-million pound developments. It is this experience and knowledge base that is encapsulated in their IVM(Information Value Model) framework. Acuma also offers licensing  and training services in Business Objects.

Acuma have industry consultants for information management & BI consulting and several professionals who know BO, Cognos, SAS, Terradata etc. They have a product called Acusend that distributes BO reports in email or Blackberry phones. Also Acuma have an Office @ Hyderabad which is a Offshore Unit.

Explaining the rationale for the acquisition, Aditya Krishna, said that “This is a very synergetic association as the combined entity’s offerings will now be multi-vertical, multi-service with customer facing domain experts and back-end technology/service specialists."

Adding to Aditya’s comments, David Ince (CEO of Acuma) said, “We will now have stronger ability to scale-up the business model through efficient use of onsite resources and leveraging on access to offshore resources.  We will be able to better serve our market with local knowledge and a global perspective”.

Saksoft share Price was up by about 20% in the last 5 days. I think it could have gone more, but this Circuit Breaker is not allowing it to grow

 

Update : Acuma is having a Offshore development team in Hyderabad, and it is also under Saksoft now!!. So, as of now Saksoft have three Development centers in India I dont know whether it will be continued or not!! But as of now, in the Development Center list we have CDC, NDC & HDC (Chennai Development Center, Noida Development Center & Hyderabad Development Center )

Am I a FICTION Writer ??

 

You Should Be a Science Fiction Writer

Your ideas are very strange, and people often wonder what planet you're from. And while you may have some problems being "normal," you'll have no problems writing sci-fi. Whether it's epic films, important novels, or vivid comics... Your own little universe could leave an important mark on the world!

Deploying & Deleting a SSIS DTS Package in SQL Server 2005

Here we are going to see the steps involved in installing/deploying a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) DTS Package.

Deploying a SSIS Package in SQL Server 2005

SQL Server Integration Services Package can be deployed in many ways in SQL Server 2005.  The best way is creating a manifest file, and running that.

1. After creating the  SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) DTS Package in Visual Studio 2005 goto the project properties, (by right-clicking the project in the solution explorer, Select : Configuration Properties -> Deployment Utility,  in the Right side pane, you have a property named : CreateDeploymentUtility which must be set to True. 

2. After that, build the project, and check for a folder called Deployment inside the projects' Bin folder.

3. All the .DTSX file(s) which was used in the project, along with the manifest file (name will be like : <Project Name>.SSISDeploymentManifest ) will be....

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Smallest Projector

The world techies (Germans) has done this nice job. Everything is becoming so small now a days, starting from Computers to Camera. This projector is from Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics & Precision Engineering in Jena. Its a 16mm wide projector which works by shooting LASER on a mirror. These projectors can be embedded into a Portable Medium, but they didn't convey anything about the price & availability. [SOURCE]

Saksoft Achieves CMMI ® Level 5 Maturity Rating

Our company Saksoft has been appraised at (Capability Maturity Model Integration)  CMMi Maturity Level 5. This is considered to be the highest ranking a software engineering company can obtain. Saksoft, before assessed as a CMMi level 5 company, was ISO - 9001:2000 certified and it happened somewhere in 2002, and in 4 years with few hundred employees, Saksoft attains the greatest level once for all, but as per Level 5 we will keep growing always!!

What is CMMi ?

CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) is a collection of best practices that helps organizations improve their processes. It was initially developed by a product team from Industry, U.S. government and the Software Engineering Institute for application to process improvement in the development of products and services covering the entire product life cycle from conceptualization through maintenance and disposal.

Capability Maturity Model^® Integration (CMMI) is a process improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes. It can be used to guide process improvement across a project,