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January 2009 - Posts

• Vishwak develops Mahindra’s Homestays portal

  Vishwak developed this state of the art travel portal for Mahindra Homestays. Vishwak used its Rapid Web development model to deliver the portal in record time. The portal was built on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 platform and Vishwak integrated SharePoint with external systems – TALISMA and with a 3rd party Payment Gateway. The Homestay portal is a showpiece travel site with extremely user friendly and a pleasing design. The holiday planning tool is designed to provide an interactive information display and helps the users to choose a location to spend their holidays. Google Map (Web 2.0) integration is included to provide the user to interact directly and select the location and the variety of 'activities' available at the location. Mahindra Homestays: Mahindra Homestays is an effort by Mahindra Holidays and Resorts India Limited to organize the growing Homestay industry in India and market it under a strong brand. Mahindra Homestays has set up a pan-India network of homes that delivers the real India through an enriching host- guest interaction. Share this post: email it! | del.icio.us! | digg it! | newsVine! Posted Jan 29 2009, 05:49 PM by newsroom with no comments Filed under: MOSS, SHAREPOINT, Portal, Asia, Travel

• VPF powers ESakal.com

  E-Sakal, the popular Marathi paper for over 7 decades in the country, has launched its new look online edition at www.esakal.com on Jan 22nd.  The site is developed by Vishwak Solutions using its flagship offering “VPF” – a robust CMS that facilitates distributed Editorial teams. For culturally oriented Marathi audience who are online, the site presents many Web 2.0 provides seamless user interactions, user generated contents (UGC) like Reader Contributed stories, images and videos. The conventional news section and article sections are given a facelift with new look and feel. The beta site promotes the following sections of NEWS – National, International, State, District, Sports, Business, Features - related to other news sections and Editorial Blog, Chintu (Children Cartoon),  Graffiti, Photo Gallery , Videos, Horoscope , Astrology,  Editorial news section and many more. Vishwak Portal Framework (VPF) helped E-Sakal with fastest time to market, increased revenue opportunities – through quick and reliable delivery of all types of contents to a wide variety of browsers and platforms. The site is developed with Unicode Fonts for Marathi (which VPF supports fully) and native language search across all sections. Share this post: email it! | del.icio.us! | digg it! | newsVine! Posted Jan 22 2009, 12:49 PM by newsroom with no comments Filed under: Portal, Multi-Lingual, Content Management, VPF

• Amway India web portal running on MS Commerce Server

  Amway, the direct selling FMCG major has recently launched their e-commerce web portal for India at www.amway.in. The portal has facilities for consumers to access Amway's product information and for the 4 Lakh+ ABOs (Amway Business Owners) around the country to know about their business and orders at any time. The user-friendly website automates the workflow and avoids traveling in person to pick orders from warehouses for the ABOs. The portal has been designed and implemented by Microsoft on the Microsoft .NET platform including Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, BizTalk Server 2006 and Microsoft Commerce Server 2007. Vishwak Solutions is proud to have been associated with Microsoft in delivering this solution. Share this post: email it! | del.icio.us! | digg it! | newsVine! Posted Jan 02 2009, 04:50 PM by newsroom with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Asia, Commerce Server, Retail