By srikusum at 2007-07-23

PF the press release below: & To see the top 10 companies click here.

BrickRed listed amongst Top 10 in the Outsourcing Black Book

BrickRed Technologies, a global software development player has been distinctly positioned amongst Top 10 outsourcing companies in the Black Book of Outsourcing in “Product Development & Processes”. The ranking puts BrickRed in league with big players such as Infosys, Wipro and Satyam. The new ranking clearly positions it at the top of all software product players in its genre.

“It is about how the world is sitting up to take notice of a more lean, thin, agile yet confident and matured players led by BrickRed Technologies,” says Vishal Singla, CEO BrickRed Technologies. “Our leadership is not merely a matter of earning a position; it’s about an extremely focused offshored product development mindset.”

Geared by its 2PC focus, which is about drastically structuring People, Process and Communication. Today, the company is a top destination for global SMEs in industry domains such as Education, Healthcare, Travel, Retail, Finance, and Insurance. BrickRed’s ranking borrows from its adherence to strong process and value metrics. The current world ranking in outsourced product development is strongly indicative of how size no longer determines value; rather it’s a strong process metrics that drive success rates and performance.

BrickRed’s non linear investment in HR in comparison to its revenue today has enabled it to farm a rich manpower to propel growth. The buoyant management is also eyeing some inorganic opportunities to consolidate further up. Today the company has partnered with global software product companies – ranging from start-ups to established ISV’s – to provide full product life-cycle solutions and its portfolio carries an impressive track-record of partnering with more than 50 software product companies in the domains of Education, Healthcare, Travel, Retail, Finance, and Insurance.

Raj Singhal - VP Engineering, BrickRed Technologies says, “This is not a demystified technique, rather the key lies in implementation and adherence of zero tolerance on variance.” “Its also about e-Governance within the organization that is the place of action, apart from our execution capability in a product lifecycle service, our selective hiring and strong measures for motivating talent.”

About the Black Book of Outsourcing
The Black Book of Outsourcing is an annual, independent, nonbiased ranking of outsourcing vendors by users, clients and analysts that ranks global software companies. The ranking is compiled by Brown & Wilson Group, Inc. and is based on a number of factors, including client satisfaction and relationships, innovation, and implementation to help the global outsourcing industry.

About BrickRed Technologies
BrickRed is amongst world’s Top 10 offshoring companies providing Commercial Software Development for ISVs and SMEs worldwide. Headquartered in India, the company has a presence in Europe, North America and the Middle East

Darlings i am missing you a lot these days.

Actuallly i am very new to this “Web hosting” stuff. I am just a normal blogger who post regularly(not that regularly!) using blogspot/blogger. i maintain a blog @ Hill Stations in India which is an Ok blog(gets 55 to 60 visitors a day) i know thats pretty low.Couple of months back i came to know about Google Adsense stuff & applied for that, got some 10k Rs till now.Ha i am satisfied.
I always thought of having a own site (with my name “Sridhar Varma”) to have some benefits, so here i am posting on my own site/blog Sridhar Varma which i started couple of days back with BlueHost which offers quite a good package with a space of 300gb,250 mail a/c etc.
At First

1.I dont know what to do after purchasing the domain name & space.(How to carry on after that)

2.How to frequently post on my site(in a confusion that i should know html stuff very well)

3.About template/Design, What should be the content of my site?(not sure).

4.Will i use this site for Adsense?

Huh, i got all access to FTP, cpanel accounts & using the cpanel wizard, created mail ids, database & users.
What next? searching about some cool templates for the site, i gotta see so many site Powered By “WordPress”, so decided to use 1.
But how to install wordpress?
Below are the few simple steps to install wordpress.

1.Have a domain space (E.g you can have it from bluehost)
2.Download the latest wordpress in to your Local computer, un zip it.
3. Access you FTP using your Id & Password.
4. From the left hand side you can see the files/folders from your Local computer & Right hand side will the files under your www.testsite.com, there will be a folder called Public_html.
5.Select the wordpress folder on the left hand side from your Local computer & select the public_html on the right hand side
6.Click Upload.

FYI: if you want to install the wordpress at the root of your site, follow the above steps.
If you want to install on a subfolder, create a subfolder first(E.g. under Public_html create a folder called blog or wordpress, you can enter any name) & transfer the files from your Local to the sub folder you just created.

Depends on the proceedure you follow, you can see www.testsite.com or www.testsite.com/blog
Now the main part comes(You have downloaded & copied the files to your root or the subfolder)

Log in to your cpanel & double click on Mysql database, create a database & a user,Assign the user to the database.
E.g. Database Name: wordpress
User Name : sridhar

Click next & give full control like create, insert, modify rights.

Now you need to do some changes in wp-config-sample.php

Rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php.

Even if you give database name & user name as “wordpress” & “sridhar’, it will create xxxx_wordpress, xxxx_sridhar.

You need to enter these details along with your password in the wp-config-sample.php

After completeing all the above things, open a browser & enter the url as www.testsite.com/wp-admin/install.php in case of the root, or www.testsite.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php

wordpress install page is displayed, follow the instructions.

If you dont give the full control of the database, you will see some database errors. other wise its as simple as that.

After installing, you can post, change your themes, what not!

Just wrote what I did, & dont know how much it will be help full for you guys.
Keep blogging ):

By srikusum, shot with DSC-S600 at 2007-07-23