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Features

Communifire delivers a comprehensive set of integrated social networking features, collaboration, and business software features. Below is a partial list of the many features available in the Communifire platform:

General features

• Customize the layout and design • Flexible signup • Secure login • User profile • User directory • Privacy options • RSS feeds • Highly SEO optimized • Content search

Community driven content

• Blogging • Articles / news manager • Commenting • Polls • Ratings • Photo albums • Video galleries • Event manager / calendar • Jobs module • Wiki • Document / file sharing

Online interaction

• Friends & friending • Discussion forums • Private internal messaging • Loyalty, rewards, points system • Spaces / groups (“sub‐communities”) • Messaging “wall” / status updates • Share content / email to friend

Platform & management

• Workflows • CMS / Page builder • Single sign‐on capabilities • Third party integration capabilities • Multiple deployment options • Multi‐level content moderation • Abuse / spam management • Email template management • Logging and user tracking • Rich permission system • Enable / disable modules • Url mapping & forwarding


Technology

Communifire is designed to provide flexibility and scalability in meeting your specific requirements.

Architecture Communifire is built with the latest and greatest in technology platforms, using the ASP.NET 3.5 Framework, C#, jQuery, MS AJAX, and Microsoft SQL Server as the database. It’s based on a scalable and robust 5‐tier enterprise SOA architecture, fully object oriented code, optimized database schema, strongly typed objects & collections, data caching, a unique state management system, and an extensible provider model ‐‐ ensuring that Communifire can scale to accommodate the most demanding high‐traffic communities.

Security Communifire is built with security in mind ‐‐ protected against SQL injection attacks and malicious JavaScript code. Communifire uses CAPTCHA image technology to discourage and prevent spammers from automatically submitting your comment and registration forms. Communifire can run as a public community or can run as a private community protected behind a secure login.

Supported browsers Communifire is supported to work on the web browsers below:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 • Mozilla Firefox 2, 3 • Google Chrome • Apple Safari

System requirements T he following technologies have been used to build Communifire:

Technology Components

Development Platform Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 / jQuery / C# / Visual Studio.NET 2008 / MS AJAX

Database Microsoft SQL Server 200/ 2005 / 2008

Web Server IIS 6.0 or above

External 3rd party UI components tinyMCE, PDF Maker, AJAX HTTP Uploader


Licensing Information Communifire is available in two flavors. No matter which level you choose, you get guaranteed performance, personalized support, customization options, and no recurring fees or subscriptions—ever. Once you purchase the software, it’s yours.

Pricing varies because no two implementations or companies are alike. There is a high level of customization available for you to meet your specific community, business, and collaboration needs and objectives. Please contact us today so we can learn more about your community needs and provide you with the most finely tuned and adjusted competitive pricing.

Standard license Developer license

This license is for organizations that require a social networking and collaboration platform with the standard features. This is a non source code version that you are able to install on our own servers or hosting. You can upgrade to the Developer version at any time.

This license is the most flexible license available. It provides all of the base features and functionality in the standard license, as well as the complete C# source code and Visual Studio Solution. You can extend features, build and customize new features, modify the source code, and integrate seamlessly with other applications.

What you get: • Licensed & self‐hosted platform. No subscription fees.

Ever. You can host Communifire on one public domain and on one testing domain.

• Installation and personalized support. We install your platform for you. You can get support through our community forums, as well as through your own personalized support booth. Get in touch with us anytime—we want you to make the most of Communifire. You receive free updates and personalized support for one year. If you need additional updates and customization, you can take advantage of our preferred pricing for Premium Support.

• Full control. You can have unlimited users, full permission, and the ability to customize your platform with special features and your own look and feel.

What you get: Everything in the Standard License, plus: • The complete ASP.NET / C# source code and Visual

Studio Solution so you can customize the platform yourself. For example, you can:

o Create and modify features o Tinker with the source code o Integrate seamlessly with other applications

• Premium support. Got a question? Give us a call or

send us an email. We’ll walk you through anything that comes up, from integrating special features to navigating the source code.

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Support Axero Solutions offers premium and standard support. Each support option covers updates and upgrades to the software for 12 months after the next minor release of the software after your purchase. If your version is no longer supported, please understand that we will do what we can to help you to remedy any problems you may possibly encounter.

The types of issues covered by Support include:

• Software problems or bugs • Issues during setup in the customer environment • Basic help understanding specific features • All patch releases released during your support

period

Issues not covered by Support include (but we will do our best to help you):

• Feature enhancements • Debugging code not written by us • Custom development • HTML / CSS authoring • Training & Education • Integrating Communifire into other software

applications Support Hours

Axero Solutions provides support for Communifire during normal business hours. Normal business hours are defined as 5:00 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific Time, Monday through Friday, minus the following holidays.

• New Years Day • Martin Luther King, Jr. Day • Presidents Day • Good Friday • Memorial Day

• Independence Day • Labor Day • Thanksgiving Day (and day after) • Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and the Day after

Our Guarantee

Communifire comes with two guarantees:

1. Your software is guaranteed to work. Bugs happen sometimes. When they do, we fix them promptly and with a smile.

2. You’re guaranteed personalized support, including implementation, installation, and setup. Your platform will be easy to use, flexible, and scalable.


About Axero Solutions

Serious software by a seriously world class team

Axero Solutions builds complex software that is easy to use. Companies hire us to design, develop, and deliver desktop software, web applications, and social media solutions faster, cheaper, and better than they can do themselves.

Axero's team members are experienced Microsoft© MVP’s, recognized ASP.NET Subject Matter Experts, published authors, serial entrepreneurs, and technical leaders in the software development community.

We combine our experience, technical know‐how, leadership, personal touch, and quality in delivering the most robust, scalable, and flexible software solutions for your business or organization.

Axero Solutions was founded in 2008 by:

• Vivek Thakur – a Microsoft© MVP (ASP.NET), author of ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design (Packt Publications 2008), and a Subject Matter Expert for Microsoft© ASP.NET 3.5

• Tim Eisenhauer – Subject Matter Expert for Microsoft© ASP.NET 3.5 and a veteran in ASP.NET web site development and UI design.

Axero Solutions values your input, comments, questions, and business.

We are conveniently located in sunny San Diego California.

Contact us today for more information about our services and products and how we can help your business become more valuable.

For more information, visit: http://www.axerosolutions.com

Visit our blog at: http://www.axeropulse.com

Axero Solutions, LLC. 4876 Santa Monica Ave. #152 San Diego, California 92107 USA

EMAIL: [email protected]

PHONE: (619) 573‐4073

FAX: (760) 536‐0582

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