Month: February 2017

Wakeupsales New UI Overhaul: Making CRM work Joyful

Posted on by Jay

What is the first thing that impresses you when you sign up to an application – Correct, it the look and feel of the application followed by the features and functionalities.

Before getting involved to any web or mobile application, it’s highly important to think “How should the user interface interact and how will it help to your targeted users ?”

A high quality app interface design should be in-sync with user’s requirements and you must have such elements in store so as to make the working environment for the user a smooth experience.

It’s all about designing your product – in a way that is well understood by the user and it should self-initiate interaction easily.

In past we are very much familiar with Flat UI with gradients and now virtual-augmented reality UI has become the main goal.

Before we drill down deeper, let’s have a quick look at what experts say on UI Design Concept:


“2017 will be a year when we focus on user choice”

Sarah Doody
User Experience Designer and Product Strategist.
Founder of the UX Notebook


“I think the biggest UI trend in 2017 will be the lack of UI”

Andy Budd
Managing Director, Clearleft

The current trend in UI is simple and its needs more human interaction and conversation

We at WakeUpSales, tried to implement the above UI (Look & Feel) Concepts to make CRM work joyful for users across the globe, doesn’t matter which industry you serve.

To give better user experience in products, Andolasoft has given a fresh new UI to one of its popular product –WakeUpSales – check out the New UI

With lots of R&D with the addition of hard work – our UI, Development and Testing team have made a huge improvement in WakeUpSales UI. Let’s have a quick look at WHATS THE NEW UI IS ALL ABOUT

Wakeupsales

  • Have all your leads stacked up in one place
  • Send them emails, follow-ups and all other activities that you never miss out.
  • Arrangement of task listing page and chances of missing task is very less.
  • Multiple user collaboration facilities.
  • Easy to track daily and periodic updates and schedule tasks.
  • Storage of documents, images and invoice can store systematically.
  • Report Generation with CSV and PDF format and many more…

Energized with WakeUpSales New UI, Try the demo

 

The new UI of WakeUpSales is stimulating the web now and getting huge numbers of feedback. Some of WakeUpSales Capterra reviews.

“I really loved the UI of WakeUpSales. It’s very pleasant to work with. The Plugin library is not so rich at the moment but I’m sure it will grow by time. This crm is definitely worth for a try!”

Taylan Toprak
Owner, Estateslist.com, Turkey

Orangescrum Project Management Tool Journey With The Evolution Of PHP

Posted on by Jay

What’s the first thing that strikes your mind, when I say – “Project Management Tool and Web Application Development”!

That is correct – How to do it and which technology should I go wth?

Most of us might sketch to go with PHP and CakePHP, because of its performance and user friendliness.

In 1995, PHP was released as a server-side scripting language for developing web applications. It is the dynamic programming language to update HTML page with similar syntax like Perl.

2017 – Huge evaluation has gone through in the original version of PHP in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf and it’s growing enormously to acquire a significant space in the web application development arena.

This article will be more on learning about the journey of Orangescrum – the #1 Project Collaboration Tool with the evolution of PHP and its various new features in its latest versions.

Let’s have quick overview on the user statistics and market position of PHP;

PHP

(Source: w3techs.com)

Currently PHP is being widely used as a scripting language majorly for web development embedded into HTML.

Quick Facts

Facebook – World’s most popular social media website, Twitter and Wikipedia (the free online encyclopedia) are all developed using PHP.

Let’s have a quick look on graph to know the uses of PHP in various categories of websites.

 

PHP

(Image Source: trends.builtwith.com)

As an open source programming language, PHP is upgrading its version (from PHP5 to PHP7.1) and bringing wide set of enhancements, which supports the object-oriented programming with classes, and interface.

PHP community developers are adding new features to applications for better performance and scalability with less memory use – and the same is being implemented in Orangescrum to make it more robust. Have a look at the uses of PHP version bellow;

 

PHP

(Image Source: seld.be)

Let us have a look at the areas on where PHP has improved its performance on version 7.1

PHP 7.0

Most of the improvements listed here are related to the Zend Engine:

  • Core data structures re-factoring
  • Better VM calling convention
  • New parameters parsing API
  • Yet another new memory manager
  • Many improvements in VM executor
  • Significantly reduced memory usage
  • Improved __call() and __callStatic() functions
  • Improved string concatenation
  • Improved character searching in strings

PHP 7.1

  • New SSA based optimization framework (embedded into opcache)
  • Global optimization of PHP bytecode based on type inference
  • Highly specialized VM opcode handlers

 

According to the above improvements as described, we may think that the possibility of PHP 7.2 or PHP 8 might be nearing in with many advance features.

In 2011, we upgraded Orangescrum Project Management Software with PHP 5.5 and very soon, we are going to launch the new version of Orangescrum with PHP 7 in its DNA, which is under development.

Now, as per the source, PHP new version is under development with the base of 7.1 by Dmitry Stogov of Zend under the “experimental JIT” branch.

“PHP 7.1 is going to see a lot of security improvements and I’ll only be driving a handful of them.”

Sarciszewski

With my experience and expertise – I think, the time is right to migrate your old application to the latest one to avail the upcoming updates of PHP.

Want to feel the power of PHP – Try Orangescrum (It’s Free)

Share your thoughts with comments below.

‘n’ number of information downloads are always a welcome. Also, if I have missed on some updates – please do share your opinions.

Why You Need An ‘Effective’ Project Collaboration Tool!

Posted on by Jay

The next big question after big bang theory is “Do I need a Project Collaboration Tool” and if Yes – what is an ideal project collaboration tool.

Before I answer you the big question, ask the below questions to yourself;

How much time do you spend on excel in documenting your, and your team’s tasks (with the vulnerability of missing out the timelines)?

How many times do your email your colleagues or a member for a single task?

Who is actually working on the task your assigned yesterday to the marketing team?

What is the expected date of delivery of the presentation, for internal verification’s?

Don’t tell me you’re maintaining an excel sheet or a notepad or a post it note to do these stuffs!

Time to adapt to the change.

Project collaboration tools are the best alternatives to keep track of your projects, task, time management, resource management, milestones setting, file management, invoice generation, sync emails and many more – all under a single roof.

Near about 50% of entrepreneur and business owners are using collaboration tool but the next big question is – is it worth it?

My Answer: it is worth more than anything in your business resource.

You might or might not be using a project collaboration tool!

Bur before using, you might think once–which is the ideal project collaboration tool and what it should consist?

It doesn’t matter if you opt for a paid, free or customize one as per your business domain. But it’s important to choose the ideal one that’s right for your business.

People, who are not yet using any smart collaboration software’s and maintain all their stuffs (from email conversations to resource management) manually – approximately, they are doing 15% – 25% repeated work daily (i.e., around wastage  of 3-4 hours a week).

Introducing OrangeScrum– The #1 Task Management Software by Andolasoft.

 

Orangescrum

From 2011, OrangeScrum is serving to our global customer and until now we have “47,000+” users.

Through Orangescrum, we have understood business requirements and the way a daily official routine works while maintaining each aspect (such as resources, projects, deliveries, clients, payment, quote etc.) to manage this all in one place.

Orangescrum consistently gets ranked within the top ten project management software from past three years by “Capterra”.

So it’s time to hurry up and try OrangeScrum free Sign up

 

We have not implemented any rocket science with Orangescrum. Always focused to provide better user working environment for any industry, team-size or requirement.

“Orangescrum simplifies the process of project management for our organization with its power collaboration tools. We couldn’t be happier with Orangescrum!”

Jamie Smith – Director of Marketing Automation
An Orangescrumer

OrangeScrum was born with PHP and Andolasoft’s PHP developers have been consistently feeding nutrient to make it more user friendly, transparent and increase real time visibility for multiple projects.

“We can highly recommend this software to anyone needing project management software with an easy to use interface and clearly presented lists and work flows. Orangescrum increased our project management efficiency dramatically.”

Brent Kerr – CEO, Kewico GmbH
An Orangescrumer

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Wakeupsales CRM Suite: Powered by Ruby on Rails

Posted on by Jay

How popular is your web application or will be if you want to build one?

Well the answer to this lies on a lot on the framework that’s used to build the application. Because, along with the popularity a lot matters also on the continuous development, deployment and maintenance as well.  Easier the development, better the progress of the app.

Big question is that which platform is best towards application development that’s more productive and with less probability of errors.

Let me Answer you on this: As an experience and successful application developer I will suggest you to go with “Ruby on Rails” for any type of application that you want to build.

Let me remind you a quick overview on ruby on rails or who don’t have idea about this,

“Rails is a framework which is widely used in web applications development with Ruby programming language. It is the high-level object oriented programming language like Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, Java.”

Some of the World’s most popular Project Collaboration Tool: Basecamp and the most powerful CRM (customer relationship management) Wakeupsales has been developed using ruby on rails.

To name some others, that are built with Rails –GitHub, Jobster, Kickstarter, Shopify, Scribd and other popular websites that have been developed using ruby on rails.

At Andolasoft, we are passionate and very much watchful to exercise the power of Ruby on Rails to develop apps. Among all we have achieved great success in one of our product-“Wakeupsales-The free CRM application”.

In this article, I am going to tell how Rails helped to develop some of the smart features of Wakeupsales, with minimum turn-around time.

1. Contact Management:

Both individual and company can be easily managed. In ‘Contacts’ user can add and create company with company name, email, company size, website, country & phone number. Along, with that we can add associates with that company. User can also edit and delete contacts from the contact manager.

2. Lead Management:

in lead management, section user can add and create new leads with lead information like contact name, email, country and phone no. In case of non-availability of contact name, individual contact will be created associated to the leads. User can also set the priority and type of lead for specific lead.
Lead Management

3. Task Management:

In task management section user create new task with task information like task title, task details, task start and end date and can assign task to member. User can also set the task priority and sent email to assigned users.
Task Management

4. Sales Flow Boards:

It’s important to know where your leads are (at this moment)– not only for you but for the entire team. It might be that the lead that came as ‘New’ last week might have been turned to ‘Need to send Quote’. This Kanban Visualization makes the sales pipeline management transparent. On top of that you can also drag-n-drop lead from one stage to another with ease.
Sales Flow Boards

5. Website (Contact Form) Integration:

Contact form in your Web page can be integrated to Wakeupsales so that anyone who contacts you can be placed (inserted to Wakeupsales, automated) as hot leads at one place. Oh Yeah! – That’s how easy it was to make the cumbersome process of writing the information of a hot lead to the CRM. We automated the entire process. Go Rails!!!

Wakeupsales is completely free… Sign Up now!

Finale (for now)

Ruby on rails is the backbone of Wakeupsales and it’s going strong each day.

This is not the end and there is of course more to it. Check out this space next week to know more. At any time you want to learn more about our CRM tool latest news and information, you can visit the Wakeupsales Blog.

Technology like Ruby on Rails is making it easier to build apps, leading to the creation of more startups. It used to take longer to get a company up and running than it does today.    -VC money

Are you looking to develop your next application with ruby on rails! Lets discuss