http://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxThe rss feed of ArtfulBits company news.http://www.artfulbits.com/images/ab_logo_90_53.gifhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx9053ArtfulBits News Channelen-usArtfulBits © 2005-2015, All rights reserved.webmaster@artfulbits.com (Webmaster)60ArtfulBits Custom Codehttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l1 Best sparkling ideas are generated by the crowd of professionals from all over the world, but not in the office lobby. That’s why ArtfulBits is launching SPI – SharePoint clues for the tasks and problems that someone dealt with. ]]> [http://sharepointideas.artfulbits.de/] SPI is a community platform for SharePoint professionals provided by ArtfulBis Inc. SPI goals are the following: Showcase real SharePoint tasks or problems solved with the help of ArtfulBits SharePoint components or web parts. Provide SharePoint professionals with the complementary resources to tackle similar issues. Entertain by competing with each other. We believe that there is no better source of ideas than the community of people. After the years of marketing own SharePoint solutions, ArtfulBits doesn’t see any alternative to partnership with its users. Best sparkling ideas are generated by the crowd of professionals from all over the world, but not in the office lobby. That’s why there is SPI – SharePoint clues for the tasks and problems that someone dealt with. What we call you to do? Identify the challenging task or a problem that you solved with the help of any of ArtfulBits SharePoint components or web parts. Record a short video from your screen displaying the step you have made to solve this task. Save video. Submit a post on www.sharepointideas.artfulbits.de with the download link to your video and text description of the task that was handled. Evaluate solutions of fellow-professionals. Get reward for the most popular solutions. Every user of ArtfulBits SharePoint component or web part is able to submit any number of posts. How the contest works? Note: the contest is not the main goal of SPI (this is just #3). Therefore the prizes are symbolic. However we want to award the most inventive posts. Also the number of winners and the prizes may change in future. Everyone can vote for the posts that are inventive and helpful. A user can submit as many posts as he/she wants. 2 most popular post are rewarded every 3 months. The 1st place receives $100 discount from ArtfulBits, and 2nd place receives $50 discount from ArtfulBits. Every post can participate in the contest only once, even though the possibility to vote for the post is always open. After submission, a popularity of the post will be evaluated only during the next 3 months period (clock on the site counts the time to the end of the 3 months context). Inventive and practical recommendations for dealing with the real business tasks is our main goal. Therefore, we admit that SPI will open a possibility to submit ideas with the help of any 3rd party SharePoint web parts and applications in future. Our vision of SPI is to SharePoint pit-stop for the professionals from all over the world. You build SharePoint Ideas, not us! ]]>Wed, 14 Oct 2015 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l2 ArtfulBits Master Calendar is capable to connect to multiple data sources (SQL, Outlook on-premise and online, SharePoint lists, Google Calendar), and display all events in one view. ]]> It provides the powerful capabilities for much more convenient events manipulation and team collaboration. Main features: Multisource support. ArtfulBits Master Calendar collects events from SharePoint Lists of any type, from any SharePoint site, in one Calendar view. Multiple data sources. ArtfulBits Master Calendar provides four data source types: SharePoint List, SQL Database, Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar (cloud based or on premise). Multiple views. This feature includes the following views: day, week, month, quarter, year and Gantt. ArtfulBits Master Calendar is a logical sequel of ArtfulBits Calendar Web Part , which is available only for SP 2007 and 2010. Master Calendar , on the other hand, provides more possibilities in terms of connectivity with different data sources, and team collaboration, in terms of working with information on the task progress. ArtfulBits team is determined to continue extending functionality of Master Calendar . That’s why we are especially thankful to all our clients, friends and visitors of our website for providing us with valuable insights in this regards! Visit Master Calendar page for more info! ]]>Mon, 16 Nov 2015 03:42:34 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l3 iOS and Android mobile application is capable to turn a potentially boring place into an interactive playground and personalize your experience! ]]> ArtfulBits developed mobile application for Dinosaurs: Dawn To Extinction exhibition in ArtScience Museum (Singapore). All credits for creating an idea of the application go to the organizators of the exhibition. Our team implemented these ideas into the mobile solutions, and we believe this is a great example of the influence that information technologies have on all industries. Often, people think that museums artefacts are boring, the atmosphere is funereal and there is nothing fun. On the other side, specialists know how vivid all this information may be. The problem is not about the information. The problem is the presentation method. If, even 50 years ago people were receiving new information via books and newspapers, in today’s world it is not enough anymore. Information has to be interactive and engaging in order to be worthy of the people’s attention. One may not like it, but the truth is, that if the information is worthy, you need to frame it in the best available form. And there are a few good reasons why up-to-dated technologies are a better frame! Dinosaurs: Dawn To Extinction main features: 360* panorama of the environmental changes over hundreds of millions of years creates a life-like illustration making it look like a cretaceous jungle. “Paint the Past” feature. This is a coloring game to paint the dinosaur in the application. “Diggin Dinos” - digging up a dinosaur. Users use their fingers to interactively scrub out the rock revealing a skeleton. Once the skeleton is completely exposed, an animation is played with the bone-puzzle assembling itself. “Rex Race” (a feature unlocked outside) which you are able to race your virtual dinosaurs to the museum in the shortest time. “Dino Demose” – watching how the environment around you transforms into fire, ash or snow helps the visitors to feel how the extinction phase could possibly looked like. “Scare a dinosaur” in an augmented reality photo experience “Croc-o-Attack” feature. It enables you to point at the empty hall and watch an epic battle of reptiles. “Daily Dino” treat with Dinosaur trivia, exclusive promotions at ArtScience Museum, Dinosaur ringtones and even unique Mobile Wallpapers. Visit ArtfulBits Blog for the full article! ]]>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l4 ArtfulBits continues to develop Shopping Cart for SharePoint, and releases it's 1.6 version with the new features, like "approvers" and "Send Email Upon Order". ]]> Shopping Cart for SharePoint from ArtfulBits has proved to be a very useful tool for our customers. We've seen a lot of intrest towards this solution, and we are very much excided about the decision that was made more than a year ago to launch the development project of this solution Moreover, one of the important decisions in regards to Shopping Cart has become a decision to take advice from our customers for the further development. Usually custom development is an issue of the additional payment, but with the Shopping Cart it's not. If the suggestion is valuable and interesting, we accept it and implement in the future versions for free. Here are a few new features that we implemented in 1.6 version: Added "Send Email Upon Order" feature Added "Approvers" feature Added German localization With these new features, a user can chose an approver who will be receiving a notification about the order. The message that the approver will receive is fully-customizable - "Send Email Upon Order" feature. These new features doesn't presume a possible change of the order workflow. But it may become a matter of the further development. Please, contact our support team, if you think that you have some valuable idea for further development of the Shopping Cart for SharePoint! Shopping Cart Details ]]>Mon, 16 Nov 2015 03:42:34 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l5 ArtfulBits is introducing Carmon app, a new companion application for the car drivers, developed by our Android team. ]]> Carmon App is a professional measurement and displaying tool for all models of VW, Audi, Seat and Skoda starting from 2001. Carmon provides an access to over 70 different values in real time, like acceleration, CO² emissions, tire temperature, battery charge level and etc. The data acquisition rate is a factor of 1000 higher than that of an OBD adapter, because all measured values are read out directly from the engine CAN bus of the vehicle, stored and sent via Bluetooth to the APP. Visit ArtfulBits Blog for the full article! ]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l6 There will always be an unspoken expectation that a software developer should participate, at least on some level, as a business consultant! ]]> Recently we had a customer, a small start-up enterprise with the idea to penetrate the market of paleo dishes recipes. In ArtfulBits, we decided that our approach should not be indifferent to the business model of the software that we develop for our clients. We agreed on the simple thesis: “we’ll be advising our clients to the extent they think our advice is valuable for them”. One of the marketing tools we use, market positioning diagram, is a tool that can greatly benefit IT entrepreneurs. With the hundred of thousands of mobile application now available on Google Play and Apple Store, there is a very little chance that the brilliant idea one may be stiken with will find an empty nishe market. Therefore, deep and qualified analysis is required in order to make your software distinctive and valuable. How to perform market positioning analyis?: Gather information about ALL competitors Identify the the distinctive categories and group categories accordingly (examples of categories: age group, price range and etc.) Map applications on coordinate system Decide which market segment you'd like to penetrate Choose the best strategy, so that to be better that your competitors in the same segment The business model behind the requirements was explained by the customer very little, as always. However, with the simple tools like market positioning analysis and mapping, ArtfulBits is able to become the best advisor! Visit ArtfulBits Blog for the full article! ]]>Mon, 25 May 2015 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l7 ArtfulBits is glad to announce about the new and even more powerful version! New filtering and sorting options, ramified categorization and other new features! ]]> Shopping Cart Web Part is a great solution for very different types of businesses. It can be used in very different contexts, starting from the most obvious, like electronic commerce, up to the non-profit organizations trying to handle their inventory. Our team is constantly working on improving Shopping Cart. And, thanks to your comments and feedback we were able to provide a lot of new features during the last 6 months. Main new features: Added ordering by Price Added main view filter and sorting by the name and description along with the alphabetical sorting Added second level of categorization (requires new list and columns) Added option to show/hide product in the list (requires new list columns) Added product desc/image to "My Orders" tab (new orders only) "Order Now" form template can now contain dropdown fields Shopping Cart Details ]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l8 Our SharePoint team is almost ready to release a new and powerful solution for direct communication with the SharePoint users on their iOS and Android mobile devices. ]]> Push Message Web Part is a new and powerful solution for direct communication with the SharePoint users on their iOS and Android mobile devices. Mobile devices have become a necessary target for online marketing and successful team collaboration. You can deliver news and get the feedbacks from your users exponentially faster if you reach them on the mobile devices. And today our crew has released a new SharePoint tool for connecting your SharePoint site users with their mobile devices. Our Push Message Web Part is full-cycle solution that contains every part necessary for reaching your SharePoint users on their mobile devices. It contains SharePoint web part itself, iOS and Android SDK for your application that will enable your application to communicate with Push Web Part, web service that will actually send data back and forth, and certainly an extensive and easy to understand documentation for each part. Documentation contains extensive information on deployment of the web part, iOS and Android SDK, web service and its usage and how to establish the connection between all parts. The only part that we do not provide in this cycle is certainly your own mobile application. We presume that you have it already. Though, if you don’t have it yet, but would like to communicate with the users of your SharePoint site via their mobile devices, please, contact us to get the advises on the development. We specialize not only in SharePoint, but also in all major mobile platforms: Android, iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry. If you need our advice for the development of the mobile application , please, send us a request to sales@artfulbits.com . We will be glad to talk with you on this matter. If you already have the mobile application, Push Message Web Part will certainly become your greatest assistant. Just imagine what you can do with it - inform your customers about your new products, send messages to your team, schedule marketing campaign notifications, congratulate your staff and much more! And, remember, that our SharePoint team is looking forward to hear from you! Your feedback, queries and comments are extremely valuable for us. So, please, shoot us an email to sales@artfulbits.com or chat with our live support. ]]>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l9 You can get a 20% DISCOUNT for any purchase from ArtfulBits at the period since Black Friday to Cyber Monday this year! ]]> ArtfulBits announces special holiday on-sale opportunities for your favorite SharePoint components and web parts, or aiCharts.Beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET on Black Friday (November 28) and continuing through 9:00 p.m. on Monday, December 1, all visitors can get and use a 20% discount, after completing online form . ]]>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l10 SharePoint sites are also doing online marketing, even though it was told many times that the main strength of SharePoint is document management and team collaboration! ]]> Today our team has released a new version of the wonderful solution for small and mid-size retailing companies on SharePoint. Frequently, small and mid-sized companies can’t afford the full-scale SharePoint e-Commerce solutions. This is when Shopping Cart from ArtfulBits can help. ArtfulBits Shopping Cart provides a whole range of useful capabilities for marketeers for a reasonable price! Moreover, our team is eager to enhance this solution in order to make it even more scalable. We are looking forward to receiving your feedbacks, and we promise to review them all. After that we’ll gather the most valuable and include them in our development list. If you had offered the feature that was further developed by our team, we promise to provide you with absolutely free update of our Shopping Cart. And even if your suggestions wasn’t yet developed, you’ll get a 10% discount if you have just offered an idea of further development or improvement. IDEAS MATTER! You can send us your ideas to support@artfulbits.com , or leave your suggestion in this FORM . Now, shopping Cart provides the following capabilities: “Shelves” for goods and cart view Product categorization Price for the same product can be adjusted according with the subcategories of the same product Each product contains an image, description, price, drop-down menu with the subcategories (e.g. different sizes, different colours) and etc. History of orders and resend order option Order confirmation Contact form Purchase confirmation and Email template Multilanguage support Shopping Cart Details With the help of the whole community we will make SharePoint closer for small and mid-sized retailers! ]]>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspxhttp://www.artfulbits.com/company/news.aspx#l11 Dear friends, we experienced temporary problems with our infrustructure, but succesfully survived it. ]]> Please, accept our apologies for the gaps in the communication. Our support is again available, and you can contact us via support@artfulbits.com or sales@artfulbits.com. Live chat is also available! ]]>Mon, 16 Nov 2015 03:42:34 GMTMon, 16 Nov 2015 03:42:34 GMTMon, 16 Nov 2015 03:42:34 GMT