Hello everyone, as usual we want to update you on the latest news, and especially to share our development plans for 2012.

Forgive the temporary absence for the beginning of the year.
Causes family, holidays, and especially EuropaCRM which will be discussed later.

Besides these factors you should have learned our proverbial availability in solving your problems.
For the uninitiated there is always available at email info [at] diegocampiglia.com or info [at] scarletkangaroo.com

We come with the updates.

VCUBE ONE - Installation Tutorial from dcstudio on Vimeo.

We have just finished the first round of tests with good results.
In this pre-release time we have encountered and resolved about 80 small problems with different types of hosts.

So expect some small bugs in this first version :-) we are confident of your support and your understanding, and above all more than ready to receive your feedback.

Here is the demo page
and the page of our offers, happy surfing!

Seven months later the launch of Natural Customer, I really want to thank all those who have demonstrate their interest in our initiative.

The customer portal by SK

Seven months of data collection on Vtiger, withover 200 active participations from all over the world, helped us to increase our knoledge and to get a concrete idea about the VCUBEdevelopment, a project born after that your requests, tips and suggestions have opened our eyes to the potential of this project.

Are you ready for a revolution for your customer?

VCUBE is the new Scarlet Kangaroo framework designed for advertising agencies, web agencies and web designers who want to expand their range and especially to facilitate the development of their projects in Vtiger.

What are the key features?

VCUBE is a separated backend able to interact with the traditional Customer Portal, the choice to develop a completely independent back-end was born to no affect the delicate structure of Vtiger data.

No Hack.

To complicate things do not seemed to us the right way, so the main effort was to maintain the integrity and ensure a smooth structure with future developments.

VCUBE is a configurations writer of XML in PHP 5.3, it does not require any tampering with Vtiger. just upload it to your server and follow the instructions of the wizard.

VCUBE stores his data separately without the use of MySQL.

Expandable.

These are some shortly available extensions:

SKDashboard Base (included)
A practical dashboard that displays installed modules.

SKSmallCms (included) 
It manages the template modules, allows to activate RSS or Atom readers, to add headers, HTML forms and other future modules.

SKTemplate Manager (included)
Allows to manage packages templates downloaded separately.

SKIntro (included)
Allows to customize the introductory pages of forms with HTML.

SKInstaller (included) 
Allows to verify the correct upload of packages.

SKNotifier (commercial / hosted)
Allows the dcstudio to send a message to the individual user or to all customers of the Customer Portal.

SKCart (commercial / hosted)
Allows to use the module Product as a e-commerce catalog or as an automatic generator of quotes with direct payment.

SKPaypal for Invoice (commercial / hosted)
A form to enable the payment of invoices by Paypal.

SKAdvanced Dashboard (commercial / hosted)
Allows to insert customized links for each user, useful to connect external services activated per customer: email, FTP, Plesk, CMS, etc. Reporting system for the last modified/submitted documents by the administration.

SKApprove (commercial / hosted)
Approves, rejects and comments quotes.

This month we introduce a new category of information, the Case History. The first in time is Alibraba.com
Alibraba.com project began as a bookseller for Booksellers Italian School, has become a wonderful portal for information publishing, marketing and promotional functions truly innovative. 
The first is the first search engine, developed in about 6 months. 
The grandeur of this system (currently still in beta) is the enormous amount of data that can move. For those who have been dealing with affiliate systems (TradeDoubler, zanox and Amazon) will know for sure the problems of real-time updates of prices and offers. Unlike the technology industry or any other, the bookseller industry is very vast, and full of offerings. Putting together all the major booksellers and the Italian business world has been really difficult. 
Currently the system is able to evaluate and extrapolate in real-time data from various servers and return them to affiliate with a good speed, considering the volume of about 180 million articles, an extension of the other 80 million by the end of February.

With this data Alibrabà.com is the price comparison site for publishing largest in Italy.

We are proud to announce the first and super-unique template (Seeing is believing) for Vtiger Customer Portal 5.1/5.2!
No, you will not find anything like that, not even loking good on google =)

Pending a settlement of the deepest Joomla 1.6 platform this month we decided to focus on something really unique, out of the general mayhem (and sometimes unnecessarily chaotic) of the CMS platform, Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, etc., in some ways we think too saturated with respect to the templating system and plug-in.

CRM platforms are extremely charming, without the shadow of a doubt, but the excessive concentration on the management (very impressive in some respects) has meant that the side dedicated to end users (the customer portal) was a little overlooked.

But also the eye wants its part, especially when we talk about customers.

For this reason "Natural Customer" template engine is born.

We carried out projects, tailored clothes for our customers for over 18 months. We know the huge potential that this platform can deliver, and we're pretty sure we will continue to focus our future efforts to strengthen and improve the characteristics of the unspoken Vtiger Customer Portal.

Customer Natural is a very basic template, simple and versatile, but replaces the source code, without any particular alteration.

For practical reasons we did not include any kind of additional functionality (as the useful print template), leaving intact the core of the application, restricting ourselves to make some cosmetic changes only by small tweaks to code and heavy use of CSS.

The finishing touches on version 1.1 included:

- Separate configuration file

- Added option for subtitle menu

- Fixed the lack of records in
Ticket

- Add banner code from the configuration file

- Google Font

Try and let us know your impressions!

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