Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- What is Viburnix?
- How is it different from Orkut / Facebook or other social networks?
- What are the benefits of using Viburnix?
- Do I get a subdomain under Viburnix or an independent domain?
- It seems Viburnix is best used as a alumni portal, can it be used for any other purpose?
- Who will manage the system?
- Is the product customizable w.r.t to the features offered?
- How is the data security, privacy and confidentiality ensured?
- Is the data backed up to prevent data loss in emergency situations?
- Is training required to get acquainted with the various portal features?
- What is the approximate implementation cost of Viburnix?
Answers
What is Viburnix?
Viburnix gives schools, colleges, universities and corporates a unified communication and collaboration platform. It enables them to leverage their national and international reputation to create a climate of engagement and benefaction necessary to building a vibrant alumni community while building their brand identity. It brings together the most useful features of collaboration software and social networks into a system that empower groups to easily communicate, share and network.
How is it different from Orkut / Facebook or other social Networks?
Viburnix is not a destination or social network like Facebook and Linkedin. It’s not a software that you buy and need your IT staff to maintain, like Sharepoint.and neither it is a listserv where emails sent back and forth live in your inbox like Yahoo! Groups.
Viburnix is a social collaboration platform, uncluttered with the needless distractions often found in social Networks and are group-centric . It has been designed specifically to empower groups of all types and sizes to come together, share, socialize and make and effective community.
What are the benefits of using Viburnix ?
The benefit of an online forum is that it provides a platform for peers to connect, interact and build relationships with one another, as well as share information—be it in terms of career options or simple knowledge sharing, event updates or giving back to your Alma Mater.
Viburnix provides members with a rich set of functionality to facilitate dialogue and exchange of ideas including:
- • Discussion Forums
Making the site a hub for information and discussion encourages visitors to return again and again. It's also a highly effective way of improving service to customers or users of the website. The discussion groups featured in the portal keep up to the forefront of new Internet innovations, while always keeping an eye on security and performance. In addition, features like Private messaging system, sort by topics, reporting offensive posts, marking spam also help make the forum a great place to interact and share ideas.
- • Rich Media Sharing
Multi-dimensional content allows members to use and post video, images, and audio to fully illustrate and share concepts across the community.
- • Customer Profiles
Individually customizable profiles, creating a community identity that organizes activity, participation, and connections.
- • Events
The Event module features a centralized event calendar, easy-to-use online registration software for free and paid events, partner or sponsor management tools and attendee management focused on preparing all facets of a facility, providing the ability to efficiently organize information.
- • Polls
Reach out to the members for input and feedback on trends, product concepts, etc.
- • Newsletters
Electronic content delivery provides a way for universities to communicate with their alumni on a scheduled basis and, in the business-to-business arena, it is becoming increasingly important to find ways to maintain strong ties that build brand loyalty and solidify relationships.
Besides, there are a host of features like :-
- • Gift Shops.
- • Google analytics.
- • Business exchange strategies.
- • Community notice board
- • SMS gateway integration.
- • Online chatting
- • Guest lectures
Do I get a subdomain under Viburnix or an independent domain?
The motive of Viburnix is in the brand building of an organization and thus, each client gets their own customized domain name(e.g. for an institute the final URL would be like http://www.[institute _name]alumni.com. It is not a subdomain under Viburnix or any other website. This gives the impression to any external visitor that the college has separately developed the website and not merely subscribed to any Alumni community and helps in brand building.
It seems Viburnix is best used as a alumni portal, can it be used for any other purpose?
Our radar screen not only focusses on Alumni portal, but instead, Viburnix has a host of features like discussion forums, media sharing, event management, business exchange strategies, guest lectures which not only makes it suitable for a Alumni Community portal but also highly useful for general communities such as RWAs, professional social network, association member community, conference community, product user community and many others purposes.
Who will manage the system?
Saviance Technologies has a highly skilled development team. The hosting and other developement activities will be taken care of by our professional technical team. The content and profile management can be done by a system administrator, through a fully functional back-end panel or Content Management System. Our team of experts is always available for the training and to respond to any sort of queries/issues from the customer end. Saviance has also developed fully functional administration panel for the management and updates on the website.
Is the product customizable w.r.t to the features offered?
Viburnix comes with a comprehensive set of features which can be easily customized according to specific requirements of an institution which make it even more convenient for our client.
How is the data security, privacy and confidentiality ensured?
Saviance Technologies hosts the product on world-class US servers. Data security is guaranteed . We also sign a separate master level agreement, which ensures our clients that their data would not be utilized without there prior consent.
Is the data backed up to prevent data loss in emergency situations?
Yes, Saviance Technologies backs up data on a regular basis.
Is training required to get acquainted with the various portal features?
Our team of experts is always available for the training and to respond to any sort of queries/issues from the customer end.
Viburnix is designed to be easy to learn and can be used immediately. The service is built to be extremely intuitive and user-friendly.
What is the approximate implementation cost of Viburnix?
Saviance is pleased to offer its client a flexible model for the Viburnix implementation.
Contact Arjun Mahajan - +91 0124-6650100 for further details. You can also click here to get a quote for your organization.