Ideafarms continually looks for product ideas, some of which we stumble upon while working on customer projects. Our innovation efforts are directed at making software easier to use; the interfaces must be intuitive and navigation should be logical. This approach propels our effort into the realm of human-centric design, reflected in every aspect of our products.

Our product philosophy is so beautifully captured in Hugh McLeod’s

 

• Product Selection Guide
• User Tutorial Framework
• WhizPhone
• InDExT
• IMS

Product Selection Guide

A product selection tool that guides the customers and the sales team to select products based on their requirements.

Features		Benefits
	Guided and interactive product selection		Reduced dependency on Sales personnel
	Selection-based product suggestions		Faster conversion of leads to deals
	Quantitative and qualitative parameteric selection		Easy access to updated product information
	E-Brochureware: Updated and detailed product info		Schedule orders
	Seamlessly integrate with existing order processing, purchas/sales modules of ERP application software

User Tutorial Framework

In a typical training scenario, instructors travel worldwide, visiting every location to conduct training sessions for focused user groups. The power of Internet combined with structured interactivity provides elegant and cost-effective possibilities that have been exploited by our User Tutorial Framework – a web-based tutorial solution on a simulated environment – available ‘Anywhere you are, Anytime you want’. Flash-based walk-throughs and simulations to help users get familiar with the interface in a simplified manner. Easy steps are provided in the tutorial so that the user does not have to grapple with the main application.

Features
	Robust and scalable framework architecture
	Guided and interactive product selection
	Easy content management and maintenance
	Version Control
	Reusable framework with full content customization
	Multimedia capability
	Simulated ‘real environment’ feel

WhizPhone is a Telecom VAS solution (in Beta Testing) that will enable mobile and landline telephone users to directly manage their multiple individual telephone systems by routing inbound calls to a self configurable set of policies to take custom actions.

Benefits:
A web interface for user to create his/her call rules based on caller ID, date & time. Facilitates user to:
	Manage all your phones using one number
	Route calls to the phone of your choice
	Block unwanted callers
	Send calls to voicemail
	Travel anywhere in the world without changing your number

Interactive Document Exchange Template

InDExT is a tool which provides a graphical way to understand and visualise the representation of organisational processes and their implementation. It provides a powerful and intelligent graphical navigation system to quickly find the related material when needed the most, backed up by a highly flexible and secure centralised "Document Management System". InDExT provides a web based collaborative environment to create, store, share and manage electronic documents based on organisational process.

Features at a glance
	Business Process Mapping		Release Number
	An organizational process can be mapped to a Sub Process or a document from the InDExT repository or from a network drive.		To uniquely identify a document a release number is attached to each document created based on the selection made by user.
	Version Control		Watchdogs and alerts
	Different versions of document are managed by InDExT with their own history.		Watchdogs and alerts can be set by user on certain processes and on documents.
	Work in Progress		Restricted area
	Work in progress can be managed through drafts.		Restricted areas can be created to avoid general access.
	Approval Cycle		User Access Control
	Every document created in InDExT goes through a workflow for approval. Document status depends on the action taken by the approvers.		Users are created and authenticated from LDAP directory services. Mass user creation is possible through CSV files. Roles and access of users is managed by InDExT.
			Document Status
			Document can be approved, revised, rejected or can be recalled at any point of time. After approval it can be published for general use.

Feed Reading powered by i-Fetch
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Handling information from disparate sources is really tough and sometimes a very demanding task. When it comes to internet the story is no different at all. Everyday on the internet you surf millions of websites for variety of news, you visit blogs and read just about everything that’s visible to you. Practically it’s not possible for you to keep a track of all the websites. Sometimes you find an article interesting but want to read it later since you don’t have the time. i-Fetch is a handy feed reader that provides a solution to all your problems. i-Fetch handles information from various sources on internet and provides a consolidated view to it. So, the next time you want to read something i-Fetch is there for you.

Features
	Reduces bandwidth requirements
	Collects information at a single interface
	Pull-based, not Push-based
	Groups information conveniently
	Integrated browser
	Auto discovery of feeds
	Support for RSS, Atom & Rdf formats
	OPML Support
	Quick search
	Predefined with 20 popular feeds

RSS Mapping powered by i-Map
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i-Map creates local machine map in RSS compatible format. The beauty of i-Map is the compatibility of generated XML file with i-Fetch. i-Map assists the user by creating local maps of folders that he or she uses the most, needs to keep a track on, or has the most critical data in. So you’ve a folder which contains files of various types and you want to categorize them by their authors, their dates, or their file types i-Map handles just about anything. i-Map manages information for you in the simplest of ways and ensures that your data is not messed up.

Features
	Properties stored in flat(RSS) file
	Structured storagee
	Scheduling automatic RSS file generation
	Inclusion and exclusion of files within a folder

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