Syrinx Consulting Corporation, an IT consulting and software development firm, announced today that it has signed a contract for approximately $100,000 with a leading biopharmaceutical company in the Boston area. The engagement includes securely migrating thousands of users and gigabytes of data from a SharePoint 2003 environment to the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 platform.
Syrinx Consulting Corporation, an IT consulting and software development firm that delivers easy-to-use .Net and SharePoint applications, today announced its calendar of complimentary Webinar events covering popular aspects of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Events include... "Breakthroughs in BI: The Power of SharePoint Dashboards", "SharePoint Workflows: Out-of-the-Box and Beyond", "SharePoint Content Management: External Sites & Intranets", "Using SharePoint for Enterprise Search", and more.
Syrinx Consulting Corporation, a software development and consulting firm with expertise in Microsoft .NET and SharePoint Server 2007 technologies, today announced that Gilbane Inc. has selected Syrinx to define and develop an enterprise search solution for its 2,000 employees nationwide. More than one dozen organizations have signed contracts with Syrinx for SharePoint development since the company's SharePoint Practice launched in July, 2007.
The Boston Business Journal ranked Syrinx in the top 25 organizations on its 2008 list of Largest IT Consulting Firms in the region (11/3/08 issue). The company also announced additions to its management team in response to growing demand for Syrinx's on-time and on-budget custom development and training services.
Business Intelligence, or BI, is a rapidly growing sector of IT development and expenditure budgets. The products range from financial modeling tools, data analysis, data mining, reporting, charting, etc. The large vendors, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft, all have products in this space and continue to develop new ones and refine the existing ones. These tools generate huge amounts of additional data and charts about the business data. This, in turn, creates a new problem: how do you make all this data readily consumable and, more importantly, actionable. How do you summarize the data? The answer is a Business Intelligence Dashboard, or Dashboard.
Andrew Gelina, Syrinx CEO, said that his company's initial offering was large-scale Web developments. "Then we noticed early on that Microsoft was selling an awful lot of licenses around the SharePoint platform, that Microsoft had a winner on its hands, and that everyone was going to need services to get it implemented," he said. He was right, and Syrinx moved into the SharePoint consulting arena. And with the skyrocketing uptake of Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 over the last year and a half, that path has proven to be a good choice.
At least half our engagements began with clients asking exactly what SharePoint can do for their companies. In most such cases, they've already purchased the enterprise version of SharePoint with enough licenses to cover their entire organizations-and yet they typically have little understanding about how to best use the product. In one case, the client, a 300-employee leadership consulting company, was so frustrated with its initial SharePoint experience that it was close to starting over from scratch with another product or custom-built solution. We had been brought in to help clean up that problematic installation. As we did, something interesting happened: The company's executives completely changed their minds about SharePoint.
In 2003, Syrinx Consulting of Waltham had three employees. Today, it has 35 people and ranks among the fastest-growing IT consulting and software development firms in the region.
Syrinx Consulting Corporation, a software development and consulting firm with expertise in Microsoft .NET and SharePoint Server 2007 technologies, today announced that the Boston Business Journal ranked Syrinx 9th among the fastest-growing private companies in Massachusetts in its second annual Pacesetters awards. The Pacesetters list was determined by survey information gathered and analyzed by the Boston Business Journal from private companies throughout the Greater Boston region. The honor recognizes the company's skill in managing a rapid growth, demonstrating robust revenues and creating business strategies that led to success in a competitive business environment. Sixty companies were selected based on their revenue growth between 2004 and 2007, which had to exceed at least $1 million as of 2004. Syrinx's growth rate of more than 411 percent during the three-year timeframe made it one of the top ten fastest-growing companies in the region.
Syrinx Consulting, Corporation, a software development and consulting firm with expertise in Microsoft .NET and SharePoint Server 2007 technologies, today announced that its second annual Charity Poker Tournament helped raise more than $25,000 for the ALS Foundation for Life. Nearly 200 players and individuals donated time and personal money toward the March 31, 2008 event, making the fundraiser a huge success.
Working in IT isn't always pretty. After all, we can't all work on the cutting-edge technologies all the time. Some of us have to get dirty -- in some cases, literally. "There's an interesting inversion principle at work here," Gelina says. "The value of people with skills built around those systems had been going steadily down for a long time. Now that companies can't find anyone to work on them, the reverse is true. If you're a consultant who specializes in one of those older technologies, you've got a pretty good niche."
The issues of controlling processes, securing financial data, auditing, and managing document lifecycle, retention, and destruction have become top priorities for CIOs striving for Sarbanes- Oxley compliance. With most offices heavily relying on electronic documents and data, it is essential for companies to have a strategy for managing compliance as it relates to Section 404 of the Act. Here are some simple, but often overlooked do's and don'ts for CIO's who are faced with the challenge...
Syrinx today highlighted several key success metrics that contributed to the company's 25% increase in year-over-year revenues. Syrinx secured nearly 20 new clients in 2007. Additions to Syrinx' market-leading roster included...
Syrinx today announced the debut of a blog dedicated to the discussion of applications and best practices for Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007. The blog is written by several members of the Syrinx Microsoft Gold-Certified SharePoint development team.
Mass High Tech has quoted Syrinx's CEO and President Andrew Gelina in a recent article about financial services firms and their adoption of Web 2.0 technologies.
Inc. magazine today ranked Syrinx Consulting 438th on its 26th annual Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. and 47th of the top 100 IT Services firms named on the Inc. 5000 list. "Making the list is a testament to the strength of our team, and the power of the Microsoft technologies we leverage to build solutions for our clients. Particularly in the Financial Services, Banking, and Insurance verticals, Microsoft .NET and SharePoint 2007 have been tremendous tools to empower collaboration, compliance, and enterprise search, and our expertise in building solutions with these tools is much sought after," commented Andrew Gelina, CEO of Syrinx Consulting.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating informationsharing across boundaries for better business insight. SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability.
VoteWeb LLC, a political campaign startup based in Cambridge, Mass., retained Syrinx Consulting to provide rapid application development (RAD) services to develop the site, which underwent a successful field test during Philadelphis's 2007 mayoral race. "When we originally decided to develop a social networking site, we knew we had to get our application up and running very rapidly and on a limited budget," recalled James Katz, CEO of VoteWeb. "Syrinx Consulting was able to meet our stringent deadline - getting us up and running in just six weeks, from start to finish."
Syrinx Consulting Corporation raised over $27,000 for the ALS Foundation for Life in its First Software Industry Poker Tournament, held on Sunday, April 1, 2007, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Waltham. Prizes were awarded to the top eight players with first- and second-place prizes valued at $2,000 and $1,000, respectively. The prize pools valued at $5,250 and all tournament expenses were donated by Syrinx Consulting.
Inc. magazine today ranked Syrinx Consulting Corporation, a software development and consulting firm with expertise in Microsoft .NET and SharePoint Server 2007 technologies, No.876 on its annual ranking of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the country. The Inc. 5000 list is the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy - America's independent-minded entrepreneurs.