This is the first post in a series where we will review enterprise collaboration products.
Cyn.in is a group collaboration software created by Cynapse, an Indian company founded in 2001. This dynamic knowledge collaboration suite is commercially available as a desktop client as well as a cloud based web interface. While the product is positioned for behind the corporate firewall usage otherwise known as intranet use, some clients have custom setup Cyn.in as their public community platform.
Cyn.in caters to small, mid as well as large enterprises with its starting price of $99 per month for unlimited number of users for the SaaS version and $6250 per year for the enterprise appliance. Interestingly enough, you can also download an open source version of Cyn (for free) and host it on your corporate domain. We could find 13,529 downloads for Cyn on SourceForge since Jun 2008. A Cyn.in representative cited that they have 200+ global paying customers and close to 25,000 open source users.
Read Write Web in their review of Cyn.in focus mostly on the microblogging feature citing it as a noteworthy enterprise microblogging tool that integrates with its collaboration suite. Information Advisor's Quarterly issue (June 2009) reviewed 3 leaders from the Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration domain - Cyn.in, Jive SBS and Socialtext and rated Cyn.in as the "Best Interface and Design" amongst the three.
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