If you are into e-commerce, you might well take advantage of Magento and its power punched extensions to strengthen your e-commerce online platform. If you have not yet read about the advantages – here is a quick summary of what can be done and how we at mindfire solutions have done it for our clients.

At Mindfire we have expert Magento developers with a good exposure to all the features of Magento and who have implemented them in building applications for our clients. Our offshore Magento Development team takes Magento development to the next level, moving towards an e-commerce framework solution which is easier to develop and maintain and which minimizes the cost of maintenance of the systems. In addition, it provides a variety of features which helps your e-commerce website work exactly as you want it to by using the Magento features like Easy-to-Use Admin System, Single Page Checkout, Ship to Multiple Addresses, Change Prices, Site-wide quickly, Administer Multiple Websites and move data easily using DataFlow. Using Magento, Mindfire enables customers to set up online stores fairly quickly and at reasonable rates.

Mindfire’s Offshore Magento Development India vertical has rich experience in Magento Customization, Custom Magento Design, Magento Extensions Development, Magento Template Development, Magento Mobile Development and Magento Custom Module development. Mindfire’s Magento Development Services have been used by global customers who vouch for our expertise, quality of work and commitment to business growth of our customers.

At Mindfire we have worked for projects involving various challenging features and work. For example recently we worked on a project which involved Magento and vTiger integration. The customer had a CRM application (Vtiger) with inventory tracking and wanted product sales website using an existing e-commerce product (Magento) for quick turnaround. The challenge was to bring the CRM data to the web while keeping the CRM data in sync with the web based e-commerce application for inventory tracking, sales orders and customer management.

Another challenge we faced as we proceeded with development and overcame was the mapping of entity attributes/datatypes in the two separate systems that had their own schemas and ways for storing customer, product and sales order data. We architected and developed a solution using the codeigniter (PHP) framework to synchronize the information between the two systems; Magento - one of the biggest online shopping solutions and vTiger CRM, a branch from the Sugar CRM code.

The bridge requires some initial configuration in order for it to work. The application requires the user to enter the Magento and VTiger API credentials in order to connect to their API's and access data. We used PHP SOAP client for accessing Magento APIs and PHP CURL for connecting to vTigers API/database.

To read more about this and other projects delivered by us, please feel free to visit our Offshore Magento development India page. Mindfire Solutions is the right destination for you to hire dedicated offshore Magento programmers/Developers. Our Magento application development team has an average experience of 3+ projects and has successfully executed different domain projects till date .In addition to this you will also get the benefit of flexible hours of working at affordable cost. To get our new clients to understand and experience the quality of our delivery, you can also avail a risk free trial – contact us to know more.

Last few years have seen mobile phones being used extensively for digital marketing. With a sharp increase in the number of smartphones and tablets users, which runs into millions, the potential of mobile marketing is only expected to go up further. With consumer adoption of mobile apps increasing exponentially, the marketing opportunities which gets thrown up for marketers and businesses are enormous. And it surely makes it worth thinking through the app strategy for different mobile platforms by any enterprise. Thus companies which make mobiles central to their marketing strategies have a very good chance of gaining from this opportunity. Savvy advertisers have already started devising campaigns so as to take advantage of the new age customer’s multi-tasking behavior. Mobile campaigns also help in filling the gap which at times exists between the offline and online world .So in a way, it has become imperative for every marketing professional to figure out innovative ways in which they can use mobile phones to reach out to their audiences better and in a more effective manner.

Amongst all the operating systems being used in smartphones, the penetration of Apple’s iOS has been phenomenal. Since the launch of iPhone in 2007, Apple's share of industry revenue and profit has been very impressive. Although Android devices account for most of the smartphones in service, the latest figures suggest that users are opting for the Apple devices over alternatives in high numbers. The iOS app retention rates are also improving by the days. As a digital marketing agency if you desire to build smartphone campaigns which engage customers, it is a must to be supported by a strong iPhone/ iPad development team. This is where Mindfire Solutions can be your trusted offshore development partner.

Mindfire Solutions has been on the forefront in providing iPhone custom software development for its clients for 5+ years now. For clients who already use apps and want it to be ported to their iPhones/iPads, we provide iPhone migration & iPhone porting services. We have executed multiple iPhone Software support and maintenance projects for clients who wanted support to their existing apps and iPhone web application development projects for clients who wanted a mobile version of a desktop application they used. We have a highly experienced team of iPhone SDK developers who can understand your complex requirements and execute projects successfully. Some of the iPhone/ iPad apps our developers have built fall under the category of Games, Maps/Search, Social Networking, Music, News, Entertainment , Video etc.

Mindfire Solutions is the right destination for you to hire dedicated offshore Mobile programmers/Developers. Our iPhone Application Development team has an average experience of 4+ years and has successfully executed 50+ iOS projects till date .In addition to this you will also get the benefit of flexible hours of working at affordable cost. To get our new clients to understand and experience the quality of our delivery, we have the provision of a risk free trial as well, of course with some conditions in place.

For most businesses WordPress is the favorite CMS. So what are those ingredients that make it the CMS of choice? We all know that choosing a CMS for a website is the most crucial first task for a webmaster. The chosen CMS will play a great role in defining how the particular website is created as well as what tools will be available for creating a desired website.


Here are a few advantages that WordPress has over the gamut of CMSes that are currently available and sets it apart from them:

Speed of development:
The speed with which WordPress comes out with its multitudes of minor and major upgrades is unmatched in the CMS market. Additionally, WordPress makes it extremely convenient to update both the core and complimentary plugins. The presence of an agile Wordpress CMS Development community ensures that upgrades are readily available.

Greater Security:
At one point of time, websites built on WordPress faced the maximum number of hacks and security issues. Today however, with the availability of many security plugins for WordPress which makes the work of managing the security even simpler, WordPress is once again the most widely used CMS.

Higher Flexibility:
The idea behind creating WordPress was to be able to utilize plugins to create just about any type of website that a webmaster might need. WordPress which no longer remains a simple blogging platform, has graduated into the most powerful CMS that can be used to create full-fledged websites, sales pages, squeeze pages, and even membership sites.

Search-Engine Friendliness:
Only a few content management systems have the advantage of being search engine friendly. WordPress, with its library of plugins has been designed specifically to be search engine friendly. This allows for amazingly fast load times coupled with a lightweight core which makes adjusting the settings of particular websites to meet the needs of search engines easy.

Smaller learning curve: Compared to other Content Management Systems, WordPress seems to have a much smaller learning curve. The back-end is designed to be very intuitive and user friendly which helps to download and install plugins from inside the dashboard. The ease of updating the core and plugins with a single click and the flexibility of having the updates notified on the dashboard whenever they are available substantially helps in making it the CMS of choice.

Less Resource Consuming:
WordPress consumes less server resources than any other available CMS and does not load the server as such.

If you finally choose WordPress as your desired CMS, then you may seek WordPress experts who would help you set up your site in time with full functionality. We would be glad to assist if you hire our expert WordPress development services.

Mindfire Solutions is a 12-year old leading Software Development and IT services company with a strong track record of working with SMBs worldwide on projects as these. Our 750+ spirited software engineers located across three advanced development centers in India have collectively executed more than 1000 projects for our 300+ clients.

The conference Board’s CEO Challenge Survey 2006 which was conducted in July gave out some interesting facts about CEOs and the challenges they were facing in running their small businesses. Improving Sales pipeline visibility was the highest priority need voted by 76% CEOs. While Increasing sales revenues was still there at 65% CEOs voting it as a challenge, the interesting thing to note was that most of the top hunks in the organisations, about 57% of them were keen on improving customer data quality and management.

And when a year later, these CEOs were asked to take up Salesforce platform and asked the question whether their needs were met by salesforce – it was a rhetoric Yes! 110% of the CEOs said Customer data quality and management has become smooth! Salesforce helps CEOs manage, measure and grow their businesses in a single dashboard. There are a lot of metrics including Sales Metrics, Service and Marketing metrics which can be measured in Salesforce. However, every business is unique and each business might need customizations to the salesforce application. That is where you can hire Salesforce experts who can do Salesforce CRM customization to perfectly fit into the needs of your enterprise.

Salesforce development services enable Salesforce CRM customers to customize and extend Salesforce. Salesforce.com is one of the most popular and powerful customer relationship management (CRM) products in the world today. Since every business is unique, Salesforce CRM is by design highly customizable. To suit one’s unique business needs better, Salesforce CRM customers usually get some Salesforce customization done. Business needs evolving over time may also necessitate further Salesforce customization and extension. Whereas simple customization requires point-and-click and basic understanding of Salesforce.com system, more powerful Salesforce development requires knowledge of Apex programming language and Visualforce framework.

Salesforce development service providers, such as Mindfire Solutions, come in handy in times such as these. With years of experience of providing Salesforce development services for a variety of industries and customer needs, they can make the process of customization faster and worry-free. The Salesforce development team at Mindfire has helped many clients in adapting Salesforce.com functionality to their company’s existing processes and workflows and in improving them to make them more efficient and effective. Mindfire has made deep use of Apex classes, Visualforce pages, S-controls, Triggers, Views, Page Layouts, Workflows and generated advanced reports and dashboards and have successfully delivered many high-quality projects for global clients across diverse industries such as Software, FMCG, Insurance, Media, Utilities, Tourism, etc.

Companies providing Salesforce development services, such as Mindfire, can also help with Salesforce migration (migrating your customer data from other applications to Salesforce) and Salesforce integration (with your organization's on-premise applications or external cloud services). They can also help you create powerful custom applications on the Force.com PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) cloud platform.

If you are an existing Salesforce.com user and want to extend its capabilities or new to Salesforce.com, migrating from other technologies, endless possibilities await you. With professional Salesforce development services, you can make a customized Salesforce CRM your competitive advantage.

First of all – Why is QTP Testing needed? And then Why is QTP Keyword driven testing important at all? The main advantage of KDT (Keyword driven testing) is its low cost for maintenance. If there is a change to the test case, only the test case file needs to be changed and the startup and driver scripts don’t even need to change. Result – Quicker turnaround and less cost. To know what all components and files are present in QTP testing – let us take a look at it in more detail.

The basic components of QTP Keyword driven testing framework are the control file, the test cases file, the startup script, the driver script and the utility script. The control file is the key of the Keyword driven testing approach and contains the list of all the test cases which need to be executed. Test cases file contains the detailed steps in which order a test case needs to be executed. The startup script executes the first step and initiates the sequence. Driver scripts read checks for the presence of keywords and calls the specific utility scripts for specific functions.

Software QA Testing is an essential part of software development life cycle since it lets you measure your software quality. Without testing, there is no way to verify that whether your software works correctly or not. It has been long 12 years for Mindfire’s Software QA and Testing team to serve global customers as a trusted offshore partner for QA and testing services. One of key strength of our Software testing team is QTP Automation Testing and Descriptive programing in QTP. Having 6 years of experience in QTP and Descriptive programming in QTP, all our QA engineers are QTP certified. Our QTP team is well capable on both manual as well as automation testing. In the automation part our team is efficient in ‘record and play’ and QTP Keyword Driven Testing.

Keyword driven testing is a software testing technique that separates much of the programming work of test automation from the actual test design. Mindfire Solutions test automation and QTP testing team is very skillful in this technique to server our client to develop earlier and makes the tests easier to maintain. When a software application or a product coming to the QTP testing team, our QTP testing professional thoroughly analysis the flow of the application/ product with all relevant document and prepare testcase to execute. Our testing and QA lead is always in touch with the client to update the status of the project beside the daily work report and maintaining bug lifecycle.

Mindfire Solutions is a leading offshore company in QTP Keyword Driven Testing services. Mindfire’s QTP testing India vertical has rich experience in Descriptive programming and creation of testcase and test plan designing. We have severed many clients globally in different vertical and technology. We leverage our QTP testing expertise in different domains such as Content Management System (CMS), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), HealthCare industry, E-Commerce, Mobile applications etc.

Small and midsize retailers have widely used Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) to meet their unique requirements. The package helps in automating their store operations and POS processes besides providing centralized control for retailers who have multiple stores. The ability to integrate with many popular applications and in particular with MS Office has helped tremendously in increasing the usage of this package. With Dynamics RMS you will be able to quickly respond to your customer needs with personalized service besides running your operations at high efficiency levels.


Mindfire Solutions has been 4+ years of experience in developing MS Dynamics RMS solutions .The projects we have executed have enabled our clients to improve their business efficiency, have greater flexibility, save money and time and most importantly provide their customers with a better shopping experience.


Our solutions are designed for efficient installations with minimum disruptions to your retail operations. We can customize fields to help you track the exact information that you want to see about your customers, inventory, and suppliers. It will also not take too much of an effort to get your internal staff to use our systems. Our user friendly interfaces will make their job simpler and convenient. Getting immediate access to prices, stock availability and location will be just a click away. We understand how important it is for a retail setup to have access to right data points. This is where our skilled developers will provide you with customized and flexible reporting systems which will enable you to access, analyze, and share data across your entire business setup—including multiple store locations. These reports will also enable you to take more informed business decisions.


Mindfire Solutions’ expert MS Dynamics development team has successfully partnered with many of its clients across various industries such as Gas Stations, Liquor Stores, Restaurants, Grocery, Utility, Gift/ Novelty/ Souvenirs, Pet Stores, Kiosks, Discount Stores & Convenience Stores. We have worked on 3rd party Integration, Custom Application with RMS db, Support & Maintenance, Data and Application migration projects in addition to Custom POS Add-in development, Reporting and Receipt Customization. Our apps are designed keeping in mind the exact workflows of our clients to help them get the maximum leverage out of them. Custom logic for Transactions at POS, Custom Gift Certificates generation, Custom Reports Generation & Integration with Custom Accounting system are to name a few projects which we have completed.


Mindfire Solutions is the right destination for you to hire dedicated offshore Dynamics RMS Programmers/Developers. No matter how unique or demanding your retail needs are, we have a team of certified people in Dynamics RMS and .Net 4.0 framework who can help develop applications to meet them. Our Dynamics RMS Custom Development team has an average experience of 4+ years and has successfully executed multiple projects till date .In addition to this you will also get the benefit of flexible hours of working at affordable cost. To get our new clients to understand and experience the quality of our delivery, we have the provision for a 100 hours risk free trial.

WordPress CMS is no doubt one of the top finalists which you would choose when you are deciding on choosing the CMS for your website. Why? The prime reason being its highly active and responsive community and the robustness of the platform.

Once you are decided on that and then if you are looking for a company who can provide custom WordPress development services, you might actually pause and ask yourself - First of all why would I need to do custom WordPress development? Is it because you are trying to create a brand new website for your company and would like to use WordPress as the content management system?

Obviously, there are subtle or stark differences in the nature of operation or the business needs of any two companies. And that is what makes customization such a necessity. Hence, if you are building a website with WordPress as the CMS of of your choice, you would definitely want to include some customized WordPress tools into your website. WordPress is undoubtedly the best blogging tool that provides an SEO optimized platform to post content online. WordPress helps to create websites that have a number of applications and powerful content management system by allowing customization of templates, themes, widgets, tags etc. Choosing WordPress Content Management System as the CMS of choice also makes it easier for you to tap into the vast resources that are available from the steadily growing WordPress community. What used to be a threat earlier is a threat no more. WordPress being open source was an easy target for hackers. But now, security issues which were a menace earlier are immediately dealt with thanks to the alert community who come up with patches and fixes quite often. WordPress which has a shorter learning curve than most other CMSes is often the chosen to create new websites or to ramp up websites quickly.

There are several web design and web development companies which specialize in creating custom web sites and custom WordPress themes all over the world. Mindfire Solutions, from India, has established itself as a professional WordPress development services provider and is one of the leaders in providing reliable offshore WordPress development services. Mindfire’s team of 20+ experienced WordPress developers offer experience, expertise and a sense of security to your business, having successfully executed more than 100 WordPress projects over the last 5 years for a basket of industries. The service offerings include Installation and Setup, Custom plugin/widget development, third party plugin customization, theme development, Web Services creation for native mobile apps, Mobile template design using WordPress, Third party theme customization, Xml-rpc services implementation and customization, Multisite and Multiuser and Multilanguage applications, Maintenance and Support services.

Mindfire Solutions is a 12-year old leading Software Development and IT services company with a strong track record of working with SMBs like you who are present across geographies. Our 750+ spirited software engineers located across three advanced development centers in India have collectively executed more than 1000 projects for our 300+ client base. Along with a guaranteed Mindfire promise of unparalleled quality, we also have 100 hours risk free trial* for new clients.

SharePoint development services enable SharePoint users to customize and extend SharePoint’s core capabilities to suit their unique business needs better. SharePoint was launched by Microsoft in 2001. Ever since its first release, SharePoint has significantly evolved adding much new functionality over the last decade. It is credited to be Microsoft’s “fasted growing product in the company’s history” with significant adoption amongst enterprises and Fortune 500 companies around the world.

SharePoint: Both an Application & an Application Platform
SharePoint derives its massive popularity from its power, flexibility, and extensibility. A part of SharePoint is the pre-built, off-the-shelf application for quickly deploying collaboration and productivity sites. The other part of SharePoint is the platform itself on top of which to develop any web-based functionality imaginable to suit your business needs. SharePoint development services come in handy to customize the SharePoint experience for your users and to build and deploy custom applications and business solutions.


SharePoint: Endless Possibilities
SharePoint is compared by many to the versatile Swiss Army Knife – the one which contains many. SharePoint is multi-faceted in its capabilities and different organizations can use it very differently. Depending on their business needs, organizations might use SharePoint for intranet portals, extranets, document management, collaboration, social networks, websites, enterprise search, and business intelligence. Expert SharePoint development services can not only expedite the process of SharePoint customization, they can also bring to the table years of experience in extending SharePoint’s intrinsic capabilities and developing optimized business solutions to realize its true power. Depending on your business needs, you might be interested in SharePoint integration, SharePoint custom solutions development, SharePoint migration, SharePoint branding, etc.


SharePoint Integration
Recognizing the progressively important role SharePoint plays in organizational collaboration and productivity, many Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application software packages offer SharePoint integration capabilities. SharePoint also has a complete development stack based on web standards to facilitate integration with other organizational software suites. SharePoint development service providers immensely facilitate, through their cross-product expertise, SharePoint integration with SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Siebel, MS Dynamics, MS Office, MS Commerce Server, Exchange Server, etc. products.


SharePoint Migration
SharePoint development services in the area of SharePoint migration may include migrating from ASP.NET or earlier versions of SharePoint (SharePoint 2001/2003/2007) to newer SharePoint versions (SharePoint 2007/2010). SharePoint migration may also entail migration of external databases (Oracle, Excel, Access, SQL, etc.) into SharePoint Lists / Libraries.


SharePoint Custom Solutions Development
The possibilities are enormous here, including but not limited to customizing SharePoint Workloads / Capabilities such as Sites, Communities, Content, Search, Insights, Composites; developing Custom Web Parts, Application pages, Content Types, Search (simple and advanced), Workflow (using Visual Studio), Event Receivers, Features (custom Actions, custom Ribbon controls, etc.), Timer Jobs, HttpModules, Delegate controls, Web Services, Reports, Utility apps using SharePoint object model, Utility apps using SharePoint web services, etc.


Companies like Mindfire Solutions provide expert SharePoint development services backed by years of experience of providing SharePoint services for a variety of industries and customer needs. We have served over 50+ clients in this technology domain.

Applications in Flash find their usage in various industries and very few IT solutions company provide the complete range of specialized services in Flash application development. Services can range from Flash Application Development, Flash Internet Application Development, Flash Website Development, Flash Template Design, Multimedia Flash Presentation, Flash Banner Design, Flash Animations & Elements, Flash Web Intro, Flash Game Development and much more !

At Mindfire we have developed a lot of interesting applications using Flash. Our team of highly experienced & certified programmers is capable of delivering a wide range of customized Flash application development projects as per the client requirements. Our Flash game development skills are second to none. We have built Flash based games to run in Facebook, games for Gaming industry, apps for industries like publishing, education etc. We have build Flash based apps for iOS. With the release of Flash Media server 4.5 apps build in Flash can be used for iOS, since it has the inbuilt feature to convert it to HTML5 which is supported by iOS. This is one area where a lot of our clients benefited because of our understanding of iOS and Flash.

Our experience and expertise, not only in Flash but also in areas related to it, has helped our clients reap the maximum benefit by working with us. Recently one of our clients, who is into selling medical products, wanted to build a product which would help it increase its sales. They had a marketing budget and wanted us to build something to help in advertisement. What we suggested was using Gamification to build the application, where the whole message is conveyed in the form of a game. So it’s exciting and engaging for the user and by playing it, very subtly, he is made aware of our client’s products. We also did the social media integration so that it can be shared easily among users. Once the product was developed and delivered to client there was a wonderful impact in sales for our client – this proved to be the solution they were in need of. At the end of it all we felt happy that we could help our client realize the true benefit of technology and get a good return on their investment in it.

Similarly one of our clients who is into building E-Learning application for kids wanted to develop an app for smart phones. Since we have Flash development teams working exclusively in building apps for iOS, android based phones – we leveraged that and build the app as thought of by client. Having a dedicated smart phone testing team helped improve the quality and usability of the app built. Real testing in the smart phones helped in improving finer aspects of the app and this in turn benefited our client in getting a totally market ready app. Since at Mindfire we do the testing and development in parallel and handle the testing in house (as part of our own focus and commitment to deliver best quality product to our clients) - client got the whole app developed within time and with no extra overhead cost. In the end another happy customer and a good day at office for us.