Colorful calendar for vtiger CRM
Just a short post to point out that is available through the work of some members of the community of vtiger CRM vtiger version 5.0.4 with a patch that allows you to have a calendar in the management of diverse colors for individual users.
The patch had a small flaw in the script that modifies the database, which we corrected and published in the thread on the forum vtiger.com
In the future maybe will release a version a bit 'less complex to install and with some instruction in Italian. For now, for those interested / or, here's the link to the right post on the forums vtiger.com: this one
For more information, if: support@vtigersolutions.com
"Business, IT and economic crisis": a conference
Wednesday, December 3, Synthesis Studio is organizing a day meeting with clients, partners and prospects, titled "BUSINESS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMIC CRISIS." The event will consist of two separate parts, and complementary.
The morning session will be devoted to "bespoke software solutions, low cost, thanks all'opensource", while in the afternoon the focus of the conference will move to the proposed study area in Synthesis of "open source business intelligence tools."
Lunch, buffet, and the report of Professor Brentari "What do you know of a cornfield? The economic crisis and the companies "will be the hinge between the two parts of the day.
Vtiger vtlib 2.0 released
For those who follow closely the development of vtiger CRM, as well as the continuous (and every time ... amazing +) changes to the new version - 5.1 (Expected Release Date: Spring 2009) - there are also good news regarding the development tools.
The vtlib - the new tool to create forms for vtiger - came to 2.0 release - announced today. From this release, the modules created can be related to other pre-existing modules in the system.
To download code and documentation, as always refer to forge vtiger CRM. This page with the download packages.
Service Pack for vtiger CRM 5.0.4
The development team of vtiger CRM today released a cumulative patch - a sort of Service Pack - for vtiger CRM version 5.0.4
More information in my ad in the Italian forum of vtiger CRM.
Pentaho Training Day
Synthesis Studio is pleased to announce the First Pentaho Training Day Italian. The training day will take place Monday, November 17 at the headquarters of Study Synthesis (Via Matteotti 37, Gardone VT - Brescia).
The Training Day is divided into two modules of 3 hours and 30 'each. The first module will focus on an introduction to the subject overview Business Intelligence, with special focus on OLAP tools. The second module will go into the specifics of hand tools for the Pentaho BI Suite offered by, with particular attention to components for ETL.
The meeting will begin at 9.30 and is limited to 8 participants. It 'must register by November 12. For more information about quotas and how to participate, you can write to info@studiosynthesis.biz or call us at 030/8336089.
The Training Day on 17 November is only the first of a series of events for the dissemination, analysis and training of Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence and programmed by Studio Synthesis - Pentaho Partner System Integrator - for autumn / winter 08/09.
Stay tuned.
Embrace change
October has been so intense that we do not find nearly the time for keeping the company blog.
To summarize some of the news concerning the presence of Synthesis Study on the Web:
- A new version is online, completely renewed, our corporate website
- Also this blog has acquired a new domain (the traditional studiosynthesis.wordpress.com was given a nice www.synthesisblog.com (and there are new graphics coming soon)
- We spent a long time - and we have removed the pleasant satisfaction - to manage, Brentari with professor and students in his class of systems for CRM (Faculty of Economics, UNIBS), www.corsodicrm.org , a blog theme, the CRM, always hosted here at WP. Almost 200 posts in 40 days. Whoa.
- we will soon be online with our vertical portals on CRM solutions (based on vtiger) and BI (based on Pentaho)
We obviously worked a lot even off the web. We like to remember:
- The three seminars organized together with the Department of Quantitative Methods, University of Brescia,
- formalizing the partnership with the Belgian company Kjube for the realization of projects of open source Business Intelligence,
- the adaptation of numerous companies to legislation on occupational safety (81/2008)
- participation ConnectingDay of Verona,
- the creation of websites for prestigious clients (including Gexcel Ltd.).
We grow. And we want to do with you.
More sensational news from Vtiger 5.1
Version 5.1 of vtigerCRM tarry a while ', compared with forecasts, but will contain more news of the highest. Broke the news Friday, October 3 Kanumuru Sreenivas, vice president of Vtiger, via a blog post on the company.
Version 5.1 will be released as no new stable release before the end of the year, but in return will also, in addition to new features announced in recent months, including:
- a layout editor that allows you to change the order of fields in various modules through the admin panel, as well as create, move, hide blocks within the modules
- a much more comprehensive customer portal
VtigerCRM a live demo of version 5.1 is available at: en.vtiger.com / wip
Sreenivas to participate in a videoconference seminar on October 16 Vtiger and evolution of open source CRM organized by Synthesis Studio in collaboration with the University of Brescia.
Conferences on vtigerCRM and Pentaho BI by Studio Synthesis
Synthesis Studio is pleased to present a series of events on emerging issues of information technology for the corporate world.
The conference, which will be held at the ' Hall of the library of the University of Brescia, Department of Economics, in Via S. Faustino , 74 / B , are as follows:
October 2, 2008, 14.30 - meeting with the Trackset multinational company, specialized in the development of highly innovative web analytics tools.
Web Analytics Tools: The missing link with CRM
Speaker: Alessio Semoli (CEO Trackset - trackset.com )
October 9, 2008, 14.30 - meeting with Dr. Ian Aertsen, managing director of Kjube, international expert on implementation of Business Intelligence and BPMS processes, which operates mainly on the European scene. The focus of the conference will be data integration software.
Open Source Tools for Corporate Governance: CRM and Pentaho Data Integration through
Introduction: Prof. Eugenio Brentari , Dept. of Quantitative Methods UNIBS
Speakers : Dr. ALBERICI Andrea (President Studio Synthesis srl, Pentaho Systems Integrator, Brescia) - Introduction to Pentaho Suite , dr. Jan Aertsen - (Managing Director KJUBE Business Intelligence, Brussels - kjube.be ) - Focus on Data Integration
October 16, 2008, 14.30 - meeting with Joe Bordes, owner of Spanish society TSolucio, specializes in customizing open source software and in particular vtigerCRM
The Evolutionary Management: How to build the "perfect software" expandable with respect to the growing needs of your tools with CRM Open Source
Speakers: Dr. ALBERICI Andrea (President Studio Synthesis srl, Vtiger Partner - studiosynthesis.biz ) - Introduction to VTiger; Joe Bordes (Tsolució Consultoria Computing, Alicante, Spain - Vtiger Gold Partner - tsolucio.com ) - ERP and Evolutionary VTiger
The meetings are open to all and free.
Amazon Web Services: an introduction
Studio Synthesis, always attentive to the most advanced solutions available in the IT industry, has been testing for several months, the services offered by Amazon that go under the name of AWS (we had already written in June, read here ).
In the coming weeks we will launch on the Italian market, in partnership with a major U.S. company, an online backup solution based on its AWS. And 'Now it's time for a brief second more ...
Pentaho BI Starter Guide in Italian
In the download section of the site Synthesis Studio is available in Italian language version of the Quick Start Guide of Pentaho BI.
To download the file directly. Pdf can be found here .
For more information on the suite of open source Business Intelligence Pentaho, and the proposal for Synthesis / Pentaho, please visit the section dedicated to the BI of our site .



