Sankalp Successfully Appraised at CMMI Maturity Level 3

Software Development, including mobile app development, covers various projects, ranging from creating universal apps to custom apps that are complex and take a longer time. Similarly, it includes quick software projects that can be handled by one developer and delivered within a week's time. Then there are sophisticated software projects that go on for months that require big and dedicated teams for development, testing, and service delivery.

There are many companies out there that offer software development. It becomes difficult for a potential customer to know whether the software development company is the right one for their organization. Looking at the experience or testimonials might not be enough for potential customers to choose the right developer. This is where the CMMI Maturity Level 3 certification could be handy in finalizing the right software developer. 

Let's delve deep into details of CMMI Maturity Level 3 and the benefits of doing business with a company that has been appraised at CMMI level 3.

Let's understand CMMI

CMMI stands for "Capability Maturity Model Integration" and is a model that offers evaluation and training for process improvement in organizations. CMMI was first conceptualized by Software Engineering Institute (SEI). It happened as a result of research into organizations that consistently delivered quality software within the stipulated timeframe and the approved budget. 

SEI studied the companies that did very well in timely software delivery against the ones that fared poorly in the same parameters. SEI began documenting their findings shared by the top-performing companies, which eventually became the benchmark for CMMI. SEI also began offering training on how to become a top-performing company with well-defined goals for the purpose.

CMMI can help improve a person's capability, a department, a particular project, and the whole company.

Let's talk about CMMI-DEV

There are three models of CMMI:

  • Services (CMMI-SVC)
  • Acquisition (CMMI-ACQ)
  • Development (CMMI-DEV)

While the CMMI-SVC model gives direction to companies that provide services within their organization and to external customers, the CMMI-ACQ model lends guidance to companies and their leadership teams to make informed acquisitions.

The CMMI-DEV model is used for process improvement in organizations that develop products, such as Sankalp. CMMI for development contains best practices covering entire customer life cycle management project management, which includes all the facets of product development ranging from process management to software development to service delivery and maintenance.

The practices of CMMI-DEV are suitable for wide-ranging industries, including product and service development. They provide standardization of all the processes against which the company can compare itself. When a company is said to be appraised at CMMI for Development, it means the same has been thoroughly trained, evaluated, and assessed in product and service development.

A company needs to meet all the parameters for the level to be appraised. For example, for Maturity Level 3 (ML 3) in CMMI-DEV, Sankalp met all the below-mentioned process areas:

  • Decision Analysis and Resolution (DAR)
  • Integrated Project Management (IPM)
  • Organizational Process Definition (OPD)
  • Organizational Process Focus (OPF)
  • Organizational Training (OT)
  • Product Integration (RD)
  • Requirements Development (RD)
  • Risk Management (RSKM)
  • Technical Solution (TS)
  • Validation (VAL)
  • Verification (VER)

Sankalp having being appraised CMMI-DEV (v1.3) Maturity Level 3, means that as a company, we adhere to the detailed process guidelines of ML2 and ML3. This means we use the CMMI best practices for product and service development throughout the customer life cycle.

Guarantee for Customer Delight

Corporate Quality Certification brings pride and adds to the responsibility of delivering uncompromising quality to the customers, something Sankalp has been doing for around two decades now. The company has achieved great success in providing excellent customer service to its clients. The company also provides training to its employees on how they can improve their performance.  

  • After this certification, the customers can look forward to:
  • Further improvement in quality throughout the project lifecycle.
  • More value for money.
  • A thorough evaluation of various approaches for a given project and choosing the best of the lot.
  • A review of customer feedback and proactive steps to eradicate the chances of any forecasted issues.

What the certification means to Sankalp

The certification is a reassurance for the cutting-edge processes that they follow at each step. This certificate will inspire them to re-dedicate themselves to the utmost quality and performance improvement to delight the customers at each stage of the project. 

As a team, they are determined to get better in everything they do. Which means:

  • More defined processes.
  • Process adherence at every stage without a compromise.
  • Higher predictability for consistent quality in projects of all sizes.
  • High quality at every step.
  • Lessened re-works.
  • Decreased turnaround time.

Benefits of doing business with a company that has been appraised for CMMI

When you do business with a company that has been evaluated for CMMI, you have many benefits:

  • Assurance of quality products.
  • Predictable and realistic service delivery timelines.
  • Best value for money.
  • A thorough evaluation of each project and advising the best option.
  • Reduced instances of customer issues as the company proactively works to reduce the probable problems.

SoftInWay Looks to Change Turbomachinery Design Methodology and Toolsets in Latest SBIR Grant

Burlington, MA, September 8, 2020 – Start spooling your jet engines and your computer fans, because SoftInWay is embarking on a new R&D project thanks to its latest SBIR award from NASA. SoftInWay will seek to improve the methodologies and workflows that are currently used to develop highly complex turbomachinery.

Compressor efficiency is one of the most important factors in developing an efficient gas turbine engine. Often, it can take years of designing, building, and testing a compressor before a proper design is found which operates both reliably and efficiently.  With the AI and machine learning technology being developed by the SoftInWay team, optimizing a compressor, or any turbomachine for that matter, to function at optimal performance will be possible in weeks instead of years.

Naturally, creating an autonomous program that can accurately optimize a compressor’s operating efficiency and generate performance maps is a daunting task. At the heart of the program, however, will be the AxSTREAM platform, more specifically, the AI capabilities being created in AxSTREAM ION. This new AI-based workflow will be trained using AxSTREAM, but it can also be trained using proprietary software and third-party codes such as those at NASA. These programs will be able to automate performance data generation for compressors in this test case. When subsequently combined with data gathered from test rigs, the autonomous AI program will be able to generate accurate turbomachinery performance data, with minimal error percentages; significantly shortening the time required to design a complex machine such as a multistage compressor.

The potential impact on the industry that this project offers cannot be understated. Every manufacturer from industry stalwarts such as General Electric and Siemens to startup companies are all looking for ways to cut development time and costs on advanced turbomachinery projects. This technology will go beyond axial compressor R&D, into applications such as turbopump design for liquid rocket engines, as well as turbocharger design. While all of these machines are very different, the engineers creating them all share a common challenge, which is being able to create more powerful, efficient, designs which operate optimally in ever-shortening time frames.

Dr. Maksym Burlaka, the Project Leader, said that while the project is daunting, SoftInWay’s engineering team is more than up to the task. “We’re not ones to back down from a challenge. The big objective for us will be to streamline this workflow with our AxSTREAM platform and the other tools at our disposal and allowing them all to work in tandem. AxSTREAM will of course be critical in this project, as it is the foundation upon which this infrastructure will be built, and it’ll be relied upon to optimize the compressor’s performance and operating conditions in this test case as well as countless other turbomachinery in future projects. Obviously we will be handling the design work as well, however the operation performance and optimization will be sanity checked by AxSTREAM, and in turn we will be sanity-checking the iterations given to us by AxSTREAM.” Dr. Burlaka added that they aim to prove that while complex turbomachinery designs are the future of mechanical engineering, a long development period is something that can be left in the past.

SoftInWay’s engineering team is confident that the framework being developed here for predicting and optimizing compressor operation will set a precedent in turbomachinery R&D going forward. With the successful completion of this project, the era of spending years developing one turbomachine will end.

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About SoftInWay, Inc.

SoftInWay, Inc. is a global R&D engineering company specializing in the development of efficient turbomachinery components and systems by offering its integrated and automated software platform, AxSTREAM ® for all steps of the turbomachinery design, redesign, analysis, and optimization process (including complete 3D design, thermodynamic cycles, rotor dynamics, and secondary flow and cooling system simulation). SoftInWay also offers a number of engineering services and educational courses, available both online and in a classroom-style setting.

SoftInWay is ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100:2016 certified and committed to providing our customers with products and services that meet international quality standards.

SoftInWay supports more than 450 companies worldwide, and works closely with universities, research laboratories, and government organizations. You can find more information at www.softinway.com

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Sysintegra Transitions to ServiceNows Premier Partner Program Segment

Sysintegra reaches Premier partner segment in eleven weeks

 

Melbourne, 31 August – Sysintegra today announced its transition to the ServiceNow Premier Partner Programsegment. ServiceNow's global partner segment framework is designed to determine how well a Partner strategically supports ServiceNow's goal of $10 billion and beyond, as well as a Partner's ability to successfully deliver specific customer outcomes. Sysintegra’s transition to Premier recognises achievements in the ServiceNow partner assessment methodology, which focuses on the 4Cs (committed capacity, competency, customer success and capability) and go-to-market maturity. 

 

Sysintegra is a rapidly growing ServiceNow Partner with a strong focus on simplifying and automating business services for sophisticated customer and employee experience. Providing both depth and breadth of expertise in workflow automation, as a Premier partner, Sysintegra is now even more strategically positioned to deliver immediate value and impact to its clients. 

 

 “Our relationship with ServiceNow helps us deliver fast and effective IT solutions and results for our customers every day. I applaud our colleagues at ServiceNow for their great support as well as our consultants whose dedication to customer success has driven exceptional results in a short period of time.” says Arun Nair, CTO Sysintegra. 

About Sysintegra

Sysintegra is a specialist in Service Automation using ServiceNow. Sysintegra’s main business offerings are expert ServiceNow consultancy and Identity Security solutions. Visit https://sysintegra.com.au for more information. 

 

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Keyfactor Expands End to End Crypto Capabilities with SSH Key Management

SSH Key Manager Proactively Discovers, Manages and Automates the Lifecycle of SSH Keys, Mitigating Security Risks

CLEVELAND, Ohio – September 8, 2020 – Keyfactor, the leader in crypto-agility solutions, today announced the release of SSH Key Manager for Keyfactor Command, its complete certificate lifecycle automation and PKI as-a-Serviceplatform. The solution replaces manual management methods, automating access and distribution of SSH (Secure Shell) keys across machines, applications and devices within the enterprise.

SSH keys are used to secure remote access to critical systems and applications. However, lack of adequate management and evolving cyber-attack vectors make SSH keys increasingly vulnerable to exploit. Developers and system administrators often generate SSH keys using default configurations, with many left unmanaged on the network and vulnerable to compromise.

“Unlike other kinds of access credentials, SSH keys don’t expire,” said Ted Shorter, chief technology officer and co-founder at Keyfactor. “Between servers and cloud workloads, organizations can have upwards of a million SSH keys. Tracking all active and abandoned SSH keys makes manual management next to impossible. As a result, we’ve seen an uptick in attacks using SSH keys as an access point to critical systems, applications and sensitive data.”

As enterprises expand their use of cryptography to protect sensitive data and secure connections across the business, managing sensitive SSH keys, X.509 certificates and cryptographic keys - sometimes referred to as machine identities - becomes critical. Keyfactor enables customers to establish an end-to-end machine identity strategy, with a centralized platform to manage all keys and certificates in the organization.

According to Gartner, machine identity management “encompasses a number of technologies, that today remain mostly siloed (i.e., X.509 certificate management, SSH key management, as well as secrets and other crypto-key management).”Gartner advises security and risk management leaders focused on identity and access management (IAM) to “use full life cycle management or discovery-centric tools to audit the number of deployed machine identities; and to identify the potential risks from expiry and overall compliance.”*

SSH Key Manager for Keyfactor Command enables:

  • Reduced risk exposure–maintaining a real-time inventory of SSH keys and the ability to delete or rotate weak or inactive keys.
  • Complete visibility–allowing teams to find SSH keys and map trust relationships to users, machines and web services, whether on-premises or in the cloud.
  • Greater control–providing a simple dashboard to identify risks, assign key permissions and simplify audits with easy-to-generate reports.
  • Seamless automation– automating SSH key deployment as workloads are spun up in multi-cloud and CI/CD environments.

“From a technical perspective, SSH Key Manager seamlessly integrates with a variety of supported Linux and Unix systems, making this a turnkey option for teams seeking greater visibility and control,” said Shorter. “Visibility is key in establishing trusted connections within the enterprise. Adopting an automated tool like SSH Key Manager hardens an organization’s overall security posture as teams can easily manage any key, any certificate, anywhere.”

To learn more or to request a demo of the SSH Key Manager for Keyfactor Command, please visit: www.keyfactor.com.

  

*Gartner Hype Cycle for Identity and Access Management Technologies, 2020, 16 July 2020, Ant Allan

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About Keyfactor:

Keyfactor empowers enterprises of all sizes to close their critical trust gap – when breaches, outages and failed audits from digital certificates and keys impact brand loyalty and the bottom line. Powered by an award-winning PKI-as-a-service platform for certificate lifecycle automation and IoT device security, IT and InfoSec teams can easily manage digital certificates and keys. And product teams can build IoT devices with crypto-agility and at massive scale. Exceptional products and a white-glove customer experience for its 500+ global customers have earned Keyfactor a 98.5% retention rate and a 99% support satisfaction rate. Learn more at www.keyfactor.com.

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CRMJettys Salesforce WordPress Customer Portal is Now on AppExchange

8th August 2020, Ahmedabad: CRMJetty is a portal solution company, powered by Biztech. They have just announced that their Salesforce WordPress Portal is now available on Salesforce AppExchange, a leading enterprise cloud marketplace. 

Their Salesforce WordPress portal is a popular portal solution for enterprise customers looking to enhance the way they connect with their customers and carry out their business. 

“We wanted to go the extra mile for clients and have them know that we adhere to the standards of the Salesforce marketplace and that our product is built keeping in mind all the necessary Salesforce regulations.”, said Maulik Shah, the CEO.

A portal built on this platform has the capacity to scale up for your enterprise requirements and comes with features that truly help your business flow. Some of the features are secure access to CRM, real-time notifications, ticket management, unlimited customers, etc. 

When you use this portal for your Salesforce CRM, you can truly leverage the potential of the CRM software not only for yourself but also for your customers. They can use this access to your CRM to solve queries, ask more questions, leave feedback, and plenty of other support and support tasks.  

We are excited to see how our customers take advantage of the portal to create more efficient workflows and business processes with the combination of Salesforce and WordPress. 

Find CRMJetty’s Salesforce WordPress portal on AppExchange here. 

About CRMJetty 

CRMJetty is an ISO 27001-certified company and adheres to industry-standard strict security and privacy rules. CRMJetty also provides customization services for portal CRM per clients’ requirements. To learn more, visit https://www.crmjetty.com/

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