Type of Service: Extended Offshore Engineering Team providing Development and Quality Assurance Services. The team is dedicated to TradeBeam
Environment: J2EE, Java User Interface (Swing and Applets), Core Java, EJB, JDO, Jchart, ant, Junit, XML, Oracle, WebLogic.
Duration: Ongoing since Aug 2005
Peak Team Size: 30 and growing
Summary: : TradeBeamTM is a Global Trade Management software and services company providing solutions that streamlines global trading processes for enterprises and their partners. TradeBeam delivers an end-to-end solution across order, logistics and settlement to improve global trade operating efficiencies and cash flows. We expect TradeBeam 3.0 to deliver twelve plus (12+) days of improvement for your business' cash flow.
Informance
Client: Informance International, USA
Domain: Manufacturing Analytics
Type of Service: Offshore Product Development Partner
Environment: .Net, C#, Visual Basic, MS SQL Server, Crystal Reports
Duration: Ongoing since May 2003
Peak Team Size: 8
Summary: Informance International (www.informance.com) is a leading provider of manufacturing analytics solution. Informance’s flagship product, The FactoryPulse™ System, introduced in 1996, is an integrated, portable hardware and software system designed to analyze the performance by measuring availability, performance, quality, and OEE. The company's customers are some of the top manufacturers from around the world, which includes Chevron, Cargill, Clorox, Unilever, Merck, General Motors, Intel, Motorola, and Celestica.
CIStems offshore development team is assisting Informance in transforming the plant based system into a distributed enterprise level manufacturing analytics solution. The solution will let enterprises collect data from their global manufacturing facilities, and analyze it across various dimensions including plants, assembly lines, products, and time. The analytic reports can be used to identify performance bottlenecks, quality issues, and under utilized capacity.
Harbinger TechAxes
Client: Harbinger TechAxes
Domain: Financial Analytics
Type of Service: Product Development Partner
Environment: .Net, C#, MS SQL Server, Analysis Server
Duration: Ongoing since Feb 2004
Peak Team Size: 10
Summary:Harbinger TechAxes (www.techaxes.com) is developing a business intelligence solution that would integrate financial, operations, CRM, and HRM data coming from several entities of an enterprise. The current emphasis is on integrating financial data.
The system provides workflow that integrates ETL, rule based processing, manual transactions, and consolidation. A key feature of the system is online analytic reporting on consolidated data that would meet the needs of all stakeholders including shareholders, board of directors, statutory bodies, and managers. The system is being driven by meta data architecture that defines the dimensional schema, constraints, processing rules, and consolidation rules.
Current Analysis
Client: Current Analysis
Domain: Financial Analytics
Type of Service: Offshore Product Development
Environment: .Net, C#, MS SQL Server
Duration: Ongoing since Oct 2004
Peak Team Size: 8
Summary: Current Analysis (www.currentanalysis.com) helps clients beat the competition by providing continuous, in-depth competitive intelligence. Its tools enable sales teams, marketing professionals, product managers, and executives to anticipate and quickly respond to competitor threats.
Current Analysis is developing an analytic tool to support the field executives selling office automation products. The core of the tool is TCO/ROI calculator that will enable client sales reps to demonstrate ROI and NPV to the prospects, thus providing financial data points for quick purchase decisions. Calculator will work in a hosted ASP model and will be rolled out in web, and standalone versions.
Thar
Client: Thar Technologies
Domain: Embedded System and Chromatography Analysts
Type of Service: Offshore Product Development Partner.
Environment: .VC++. NET 2003 (Managed Extensions), Borland C++ Builder Ver 6.0, Borland Star Team Client 6.0
Duration: Ongoing since Feb 2005
Peak Team Size: 7
Summary: Thar Technologies delivers environmentally friendly supercritical fluid solutions to the pharmaceutical, foods, chemicals and electronics industries. SuperPure Discovery is an analytical system for supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC).
Process Suite application interacts with different devices of Super Pure Discovery System like Pump, Detector, and Column Oven etc via serial communication interface (RS-232). Communication with most of these devices is done using Modbus Protocol and some with Sparklink Protocol.
The key functional areas of ProcessSuite are:
Configuring SFC System:
Support of script editor
Data Logging
Chromatogram Analysis
Supercritical Fluid System (SFS) Device Simulator (.NET Module)
The Supercritical Fluid System (SFS) Device Simulator is a software package capable of emulating the communications of the various devices found in Thar Technologies' supercritical fluid systems. The software includes a windowed GUI front end to allow the user to control the communications data that is being generated by the simulator, changes the configuration of the simulated system, and alters settings for the simulated devices. The software runs on it's own PC, which is connected to via RS-232 from another PC running control software such as Process Suite, or any software that talks to one or more of the simulated devices. To the control software, it appears as though it is talking to a device or set of devices.
Other Component Used:
IOComp CLX Components 3.04 SP2: Used for graphical representation of LED Indicators,Switches, Tanks/Valves and plotting Chromatographs in the system.
NrComm v6.32 library: NrComm Lib provides tools for performing serial communications (RS232) tasks for Delphi/CBuilder development.
BL Healthcare
Client: BL Healthcare, Inc
Domain: Remote Healthcare System
Type of Service:Offshore Product Development
Environment: .Net, C#, MS SQL Server
Duration: Ongoing since Nov 2005
Peak Team Size: 4 and Growing
Summary: BL Healthcare, Inc. (BLH), develops, installs and supports remote health management application solutions. The Company's solutions link patients, providers, and care-givers for the monitoring and management of chronic disease states at distributed points of healthcare access, particularly in the patient's home.
The BLH service introduces the convergence of interactive video, voice and data over broadband using the television as the home-health, managed care, disease management patient-user interface. Data from wireless medical peripheral devices throughout the home are available to healthcare providers at home healthcare agencies and disease management organizations. Personalized multimedia content is broadcast to patients and care-givers for disease-specific education and training. Real-time, interactive video enables tele-visits on demand over the patient's own television.
The BL Healthcare service is sold as a bundled hardware, software communication network application package to healthcare providers charged with the care of chronic patients at remote sites. It is a few customer / many user, business-to-business model.
DCMS
Client: Orgamation Technologies, Inc, USA
Domain: Management for Childcare Centers, Preschools, Family Daycare Agencies, Montessori and Private Schools.
Type of Service:Offshore Product Development Partner.
Environment: Microsoft Technologies such as Windows 98/2000 Prof. /XP, Visual Basic 6.0, MS Access 97/2000, ASP, and Crystal Reports, X-Charge Development Kit, Mabry Alarm, ImageFx FXTools, Graphs, Installed Shield Scripts.
Duration: Ongoing since Jan 2002
Peak Team Size: 15
Summary: Orgamation Technologies (http://www.orgamation.com/ ) is a leading provider of enterprise class software solutions for the best management solution for childcare centers and private schools. Orgamation is providing a new generation of 'open-system' software package : DCMS, that is the innovative business management technology behind the childcare and early education management software packages - iCare and edMaster.
DCMS is a customer-driven software technology. iCare and edMaster child care and early education software systems- a repackaging of their original product, DCMS. With unparalleled flexibility and customization, iCare and edMaster become the most complete software systems in the market.
iCare and edMaster, these childcare software packages offer unparalleled flexibility in organizing and automating childcare centers’ daily operations. They even let you create forms and reports to meet your specific needs.
iCare and edMaster also give the latest technologies in query building, report making and scheduling, open mail merge, EFT, ADP and QuickBooks integration, time and attendance collection. These are developed for the custom application as strong Management software for Childcare Centers, Preschools, and Family Daycare Agencies and for Montessori and Private Schools respectively.
iCare Childcare Management Software does more than organize; iCare will automate your center and make the management of your center easier day after day. iCare will reduce your child care and daycare administrative tasks such as child enrollment, child and staff scheduling, staffing, child care billing, accounting, center financials, attendance tracking, food program, waiting list management, child and staff reviews, and drop-in services.
From accounting to scheduling to tuition billing and everything in between, edMaster is the management software for your Montessori or private schools' specialized needs. edMaster School Management Software will organize and automate all of your Montessori or private school's administrative tasks like student enrollment, scheduling, waiting list, grading, staffing, tuition billing, accounting, school financials, and attendance.
CIStems has created a Captive Offshore Development Center for Orgamation Technologies, which provides software development and quality assurance services.
eBRP Toolkit
Client: eBRP Solutions Network, Canada
Domain: Business Continuity Planning
Type of Service: Offshore Product Development Partner
Environment: ASP, MS SQL Server, Active Reports
Duration: Ongoing since Jan 2004
Peak Team Size: 4
Summary: eBRP Toolkit (www.ebrp.net) is web-based utility permitting users across an organization to participate in the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan Development process. Business Continuity Planning has become imperative with increasing globalization of business, advancing technology, and emergence of new threats like terrorism, pandemics, network viruses, denial of service, and hackers.
At the core of eBRP Toolkit, Business Process Modeling is used to simulate an organization and inter-connect its critical elements to create a true model of the present state of the organization.
eBRP Toolkit can be used to generate true 'What if?'
+ What is the impact on the business if a particular facility is inaccessible?
+ Which processes are critical if the incident happens on particular day or month?
+ Which processes are impacted if there is an extended telephone outage?
+ Which processes are impacted in an Application Server outage?
Ship Refund
Client: ShipMatrix Inc., USA
Domain: Automated Package Tracking for Shippers
Type of Service: Offshore Product Development Partner
Environment: Visual Basic, MS Access, MS SQL Server, InstallShield, Crystal Report Writer, ActiveX, VB Script, ASP, LogiXML
Duration: Ongoing since Oct 2001
Peak Team Size: 6
Summary: Ship Matrix Inc., specializes in developing software related to the logistics industry. It has feature rich software, which assists shippers in tracking the delivery of their packages, by extracting data from the web sites of the shipping companies like DHL, Fedex, and UPS. The software analyzes the data it gets from the web sites to determine whether the packages were delivered as per the service delivery contract, and helps in filing claims if the delivery contract is violated.
CIStems has set up a dedicated offshore team to maintain and enhance the software developed by ShipMatrix, and has successfully met the challenges offered by this assignment.
First Clinical Research
Client:First Clinical Research, USA
Domain:Clinical Research
Type of Service: Website development and Journal production
Summary: First Clinical Research is engaged in a continuing program of best practices research. It provides a strong information system that is equally beneficial for each of the entities involved, namely Sponsors, Sites, Investigators and Volunteers, in identifying the information and resources as per their needs.
On one hand this website helps the sponsors and clinical research organizations to select the investigative site best suited for their clinical research requirements. On the other hand, it also helps the volunteers to go through the list of ongoing clinical research activities as per their medical needs and demography.
Avalon
Client:Purato, USA
Domain:Content Management System
Type of Service: Extended Offshore Engineering Team providing Development and Quality Assurance Services. The team is dedicated to Purato.
Summary:First public release of Purato stack. Scope of this release:
Target an individual who could be a consumer or a corporate citizen
Provide a solution that will
allow consolidation of a knowledge base from across
Multiple file systems accessible to this individual
Multiple email accounts of this individual
Allow browsing of the knowledge base from the desktop and/or from a web page
Allow searching of the knowledge base from the desktop and/or from a web page
Focus on Windows folders only as a source of files (2000 and above)
Focus on the following email platforms
Outlook/Exchange
Lotus/Domino
Yahoo (pop enabled)
Gmail
Hotmail
TalkShoe
Client:TalkShoe, USA
Domain:Online community building
Type of Service: Extended Offshore Engineering Team providing development. The team is dedicated to TalkShoe QA completely.
Environment:Developed in JAVA, MySQL, Testing on IE.
Duration: Ongoing since May 2006
Peak Team Size: 4 and growing
Summary:TalkShoe™ — a new way to talk with interesting people with similar interests around the world.
TalkShoe™ is the brain child of Dave Nelsen, who spent his career in the telecommunications and software industries. Dave observed that there is no good way to find, connect with, and talk to interesting and like-minded people wherever they are.
Sure, there are chat rooms, but they often deteriorate into useless jabberwocky. There's IM, but it’s just text. Then there's the phone, but finding new people to talk to is not practical. Thus was born TalkShoe
Valdero
Client: Valdero, Inc, USA
Domain: Supply Chain Visibility and Analytics
Type of Service: Offshore Product Development Partner
Environment: J2EE, Java User Interface (Swing and Applets), Core Java, EJB, JDO, Jchart, ant, Junit, XML, Oracle, WebLogic.
Duration: 3 Years
Peak Team Size: 14
Summary: Valdero Corporation (www.valdero.com) is the leading provider of enterprise class software solutions for Real-Time Supply and Demand Chain Execution. Valdero creates high velocity supply and demand chains through real-time visibility, collaboration and execution. With Valdero, businesses can shorten order cycle times, minimize inventory, and reduce shortages. Valdero’s solution can be implemented in as little as three months. Applicable across manufacturing companies in the high technology, medical and consumer markets, Valdero is currently in use at industry-leading companies such as Advanced Fibre Communications, Extreme Networks, Juniper Networks, Motorola, Polycom, LeapFrog and net.com. Based in Palo Alto, California, Valdero is a privately held company backed by premier venture capital firms including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Integral Capital Partners. For more information visit www.valdero.com.
Valdero's standards-based, open architecture is based on J2EE Technologies, XML schemas and platform neutral scripting languages. It uses metadata repository to represent data and data relationships across the entire supply chain.
The system runs on Sun Solaris, Linux or Windows NT Operating Systems, and on the server side uses Oracle RDBMS and a J2EE App Server.
Metacube has created a Captive Offshore Development Center for Valdero, which provides software development and quality assurance services.
Intercom
Client: AT&T Research Labs, USA
Domain: Instant Messaging and Network Communities
Type of Service: Offshore Development, Quality Assurance, Onsite Consulting and Staff Supplementation
Summary: This project involved development of an Internet based platform technology to deliver instant messages and presence notification on all kinds of devices including desktops, hand held devices, mobile phones, and regular phones. One of the key objectives of the technology was to provide interoperability with other IM/PN services such MSN Messenger and AOL’ AIM. Another important goal of the project was to provide an extensible environment, which could be used to offer advanced network community services.
The core part of the technology consisted of a collection of servers, collectively referred to as the Matrix Server, which supported the key notions of players, places, properties and presence. The core technology also supported the framework for having an extensible, open collection of “world objects”, also called worldlets, which provided additional functionality to the user.
CIStems was selected as a key development partner for the platform technology and was asked to provide both an onsite team, which could work at Florham Park, and an offshore team, which could work from India.
The onsite team worked in close association with the AT&T Research Labs management and technical staff to develop the core technology consisting of the Matrix Server and Matrix Clients.
The offshore team had the responsibility to develop a collection of worldlets and also to perform system quality assurance for various components of Matrix. The following worldlets were developed as part of the project- photo album, FAQ, bulletin board, guest book, chess, tic-tac-toe, note and lotto.
Alysida
Client: Alysida Inc., USA
Domain: Asset Visibility
Type of Service: Offshore Product Development Partner
Summary: Alysida's software suite enables companies to fully manage their global supply chains for inventory management and operational excellence. Alysida provides global visibility and collaboration with suppliers and customers, inventory management, buyer management, and collaborative commerce. These features support the informed management decision processes necessary for global inventory management and operational excellence.
Metacube offshore development team is assisting Alysida in customizing the software to meet the requirements of AT&T Wireless for a comprehensive asset management solution; for managing the assets and spares valuing several billion dollars distributed across thousands of locations such as cell sites, switch sites and warehouses.
Aceva
Client: Aceva Technologies, USA
Domain: Working Capital Management
Type of Service: Consulting for Creation and Successful Operation of an Offshore Development Center
Duration: One Year
Summary: Aceva enables leading enterprises to unlock working capital trapped in their supply chain by compressing their DSO and reducing revenue leakage. In addition, enterprises benefit from increased productivity in their order administration, accounts receivables and collections teams, and stronger overall customer relationships through the use of the Aceva solutions. Aceva's technology is implemented today at some of the world's leading component, contract, systems manufacturing and distribution companies.
CIStems has been awarded a comprehensive turnkey contract to create the offshore development center for Aceva at Delhi. The services being offered by CIStems include identification of space, procurement of hardware, setting up the network and development environment, recruitment and induction of team members, process oversight, and ongoing audit of the operations.
Summary: The Bank of Rajasthan is a leading private sector bank in India with several hundred branches. The bank has stand alone branch automation software referred to as CBS, which is operational at 100+ branches. The bank wanted to create an automated mechanism to daily upload the data from all the branches to its server located at the central data center. This will allow the bank to consolidate the data at one place to provide analytical reporting, and also to offer anywhere banking facilities in future.
CIStems has developed a J2EE based solution for the bank. The solution architecture incorporates multi threaded synchronous and asynchronous components to handle large volumes of data coming concurrently from several branches across the country.
FlagShipMD
Client: Geysers International Inc., USA
Domain: Application Service Provider for Healthcare Practices
Summary: Geysers had contracted to CIStems the development of a web-based application for a typical single or multiple physician practice environments in US. The application offers several features that can minimize time spent by physicians and their office staff on routine tasks such as paperwork, collection of data, maintenance of documents and accessing various integrated information. These features include schedule management for doctors, maintenance of patient records, patient billing, and filing of insurance claims for the services provided etc. This application is being offered as a web based service to the practices.
Summary: Project Sullivan consists of the development of a financial derivatives trading site. This site allows its members to trade derivative securities interactively with a web interface, as they would do with a real life trading partner or market maker. The website contains a trading engine, which provides ‘put’ and ‘call’ options to the members of the Site. The trading engine calculates the price of each option using Black-Scholes options pricing model or its variations. It incorporates option contracts with a primary focus on forex, stock indices and prices of individual stocks as the underlying assets or variables. The system has the ability to add or drop different kinds of options contracts.
Summary: The UML Bridge is an import-export facility that will allow ObjectAssembler 2.0 to exchange components with UML models created in Rational Rose and other OMG-compliant UML modeling tools.
The UML Bridge is comprised of three primary Java subcomponents:
· Java code to handle UML-to-ObjectAssembler 2.0 component conversion and ObjectAssembler 2.0-to-UML component conversion. The UML Bridge uses Novosoft’s comprehensive API (called “NSUML”) for constructing UML models and exporting these as XMI. · An “Import from UML” Wizard that allows users to control the import process.
· An “Export to UML” Wizard that allows users to control the export process.
The UML Bridge and its user-facing Wizards were built using existing ObjectVenture code wherever possible. In particular, the import/export process relies heavily upon the “Feature” object framework and wizard APIs already in use by ObjectVenture.
Summary: Adroit Information Management, Inc, USA, outsourced the development of a data extraction utility for Oracle DBAs from CIStems. This product helps the Oracle DBAs in performing data extraction operations in development, test and production environments. The data extractor not only makes it easy for the DBAs to extract logical subsets from huge data warehouse, it also allows managing several extraction specifications, and creates command scripts to load the data extracted from a source database into a target database. The software has been developed in Java making it platform independent.
Summary: Betsxchange is an online betting site being developed for Webtransact Sdn Bhd, a Malaysia based company. The site involves configurable betting propositions based on real world verifiable events like outcome of matches, stock prices etc. It lets the site owners configure online betting games with predefined risks and filters. It allows users to place bets based on pool and fixed odd concepts. The site has extensive accounting features.
Summary: CIStems Offshore development center worked closely with Peoplink Inc., to develop a powerful, economical ecommerce system, CatGen, designed to overcome the challenges of international trade.
CatGen offers a desktop application that enables merchants to build their own online and offline catalogs. A vendor can host his catalogue any CatGen server being run and managed by a CatGen partners. A CatGen server is like a B2B Exchange with catalogues and shopping options available from several vendors.
CIStems was responsible for developing various components on the CatGen server including hosting of a catalogue on a server, display of catalogues, shopping cart etc.
Summary: Madlah is again a lottery centric gaming site being developed for Webtransact. The site has four interactive web-based games, namely, Durian Lotto, Scratcha, Tell Monger and Spin & Win. Among these games, Durian Lotto is played in real-time and the other two are batch processing based. The site would also be offering SMS based interface to play the games using hand held mobile devices. The users can play games to win points that can be collected over a period of time and redeemed against gift items available on the site.
The project also involved building an Advertisement Management System (AMS) and an Ad Server for the site. AMS can be used by clients for registering and uploading their advertisements for various banner spaces available on Madlah. AMS also provides complete accounting system for the billing and payments related to these advertisements. The Ad Server is responsible for serving the ads based on various policies available on the site.
AdFlow
Client: Adflow Inc., United States
Domain: B2B Trading Site for Online Advertising Properties
Type of Service: Offshore Product Development
Environment: Visual Basic, ASP, VB Script, COM/DCOM, MTS, MS SQL Server, Windows NT, IIS
Duration: 6 months
Peak Team Size: 4
Summary: www.adflow.com is an innovative B2B web property, which provides a platform for buying and selling online advertising spaces. The site allows advertising suppliers to list their sellable advertising space, and those wishing to buy an advertising space to submit their bids. The supplier may wish to sell, auction or exchange an advertising space and can accordingly list the advertising space as inventory listing, auction listing or asset exchange offering.
CIStems developed the complete website, except for the graphical user interface, at its offshore development center in India. In the second phase of the project the site was migrated to component based architecture using COM/DCOM and MTS.
Maxene Reporter
Client: MV Software Company Inc., USA
Domain: Reporting Tools
Type of Service: Offshore Product Development
Environment: Windows 2000, IIS, ASP, MS SQL Server 7.0, MS Excel
Duration: One Year
Peak Team Size: 5
Summary: Maxene Reporter™ is a very powerful, yet easy to use Internet based MIS reporting tool for management executives. Maxene Reporter™ recognizes the power of a spreadsheet as a modeling and data presentation tool, and is designed to use this tool as the “front-end” framework for presenting business data. One of the key strengths of Maxene Reporter™ is its ability to populate a spreadsheet with data from one or more ODBC compliant data sources distributed across a network. It provides simple mechanisms to define, schedule, generate, and send Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet based reports over email.
Profit Plus
Client: MV Software Company Inc., USA
Domain: Legacy ERP System for Reprographic Services Organizations
Summary: MV Software has a legacy business application, which supports wide suite of business functions, such as- financial accounting, sales, purchase, inventory and payroll. MV Software contacted CIStems to provide a dedicated offshore team for maintaining the legacy application and to develop tools, which would help in interfacing the application with modern data retrieval, and presentation tools.
One of the most important tasks in the project was to build a Universal Data Access component that could retrieve data from legacy Alpha Basic data files and expose them in the OLE DB format. This component was developed in C++ using ISG Navigator.
Summary: This Cost Per Click games-based web site has been built for New York based Internet start-up TeenQbator, Inc. The site has three interactive web-based games, namely, Instant Payoff, Scratch Off, and Spin Off. The users come on the website and play different games and are allotted different bet Ids. The bet Ids are processed on daily and weekly basis and winners are declared after a random number generation by the computer program. The business model of this site is similar to that of freelotto.com which one of America's premier lottery sites.
PointSpeed
Client: PointSpeed Inc., United States
Domain: B2B Procurement Site
Type of Service: System Quality Assurance
Environment: Windows 95/98/NT, Linux, Netscape, IE
Duration: 6 months
Peak Team Size: 5
Summary: PointSpeed Inc., USA has developed the web site www.pointspeed.com as a cost and time saving procurement solution for small and medium sized businesses. The real challenging task for the site is to continuously integrate with increasing number of suppliers offering wide spectrum of choices to its members. This dynamic nature of the site calls for ongoing system quality assurance (SQA) efforts.
PointSpeed Inc., contacted CIStems to participate in the system quality assurance efforts. CIStems organized a quality assurance team at its offshore facility to work under the overall supervision of the SQA manager at PointSpeed’s San Mateo office. CIStems developed exhaustive Test Cases and Test Procedures, which were then executed. The anomalies found were classified based on their type and severity and were reported on a web based anomaly tracking system.
After every new release regression testing was performed to study the effects of the changes.
iSite
Client: Cyber Business Solutions, USA
Domain: Application Service Provider for E-Business
Type of Service: System Migration
Environment: Visual Interdev, Active Server Pages, Visual Basic, SQL Server, VBScript, JavaScript
Duration: 3 months
Peak Team Size: 15
Summary: iSite is a web application, developed by Cyber Business Solutions, that allows a customer to build and maintain a website without any programming efforts. The application allows the customer to offer several powerful features on his site including product catalogue, shopping cart, e-payment, discussion lists, job boards, etc. This code was written in a server side language called iHTML that interfaces with data from a SQL Server 7.0 database. iHTML has proven to be hard to scale, and hard to work with, not to mention the lack of programmers who are familiar with this language. The system has limited documentation, and most of it is in the form of server-side commented code.
Cyber Business Solution approached CIStems to convert iSite from iHTML to ASP technology. A team of around 15 members worked on this migration project, and completed it successfully in less than three months.
Staff Supplementation - VayuSphere
Client: VayuSphere Inc., USA
Domain: Wireless & Mobile Computing Services
Type of Service: Staff Supplementation
Summary: CIStems has provided highly experienced Java consultants to work onsite at VayuSphere’s development center in New Jersey. These consultants have played a major role in the development of software that provides instant messaging and presence notification services on wireless devices.
Staff Supplementation – Everest Solutions
Client: Everest Solutions LLC, United States
Domain: Miscellaneous
Type of Service: Staff Supplementation
Summary: CIStems has provided highly experienced developers to Everest Solutions to meet their demand for onsite consulting business. These developers had a very wide spectrum of skills including Oracle, MS SQL Server, Visual Basic, C++, Java and COBOL.
Hospital Management System
Client: Santokba Durlabhji Hospital, India
Domain: Health Care
Type of Service: System Development, System Migration, Application Support, Training
Summary: Santokba Durlabhji Memorial Hospital (SDMH) is a large private sector multi specialty hospital with more than 300 beds for indoor patients. SDMH in 1988 commissioned CIStems to develop a comprehensive computer based hospital management system. This has been one of the most extensive turnkey projects for CIStems, which spanned five years in various forms including system development, maintenance, application support and system migration. The software developed included systems for indoor and outdoor patient management, patient billing, diagnostic labs, inventory management, financial accounting and payroll.
Banking Applications
Client: The Bank of Rajasthan Ltd., India
Domain: Banking
Type of Service: System Development, Training
Environment: Unix, Unify, Accell, C
Duration: 1+ year
Peak Team Size: 8
Summary: The Bank of Rajasthan is a leading private sector bank in India with several hundred branches. The bank after a careful selection process in 1988, chose CIStems as the consultant to introduce computerization at the corporate office level. The bank identified the following applications for the first phase of automation- Credit Information System, Share Accounting, Payroll, Personnel Information System, Provident Fund Accounting, and Stationary Inventory. This was a turnkey project and the CIStems’ team was responsible for all phases of the system development life cycle including analysis, design, coding, acceptance testing, user training and installation. The team successfully met the challenge and delivered the applications in about a year’s time
Summary: www.netbsr.com is an interactive B2B website that enables creation and maintenance of tenders for civil contracts; and its target audience consists of large corporate bodies, governmental organizations, and business agencies. The site provides templates for preparing tenders.
One of the most powerful feature of the website is online rate analysis using the BSR (Basic Schedule of Rates) provided by the state government. The biggest challenge in the project was to represent the BSR in the form of a structured database. The site also offers the feature for House Loan estimation, which facilitates the administrator to handle house loan estimation requests sent by the users through email in a specified format.
Summary: The software has been developed for a company engaged in selling household products using the network marketing concept. This is a net-based solution catering to the needs of the corporate office, economic distribution centers, economic service centers, network members, and potential clients.
The network members are organized in different pools and hierarchical structure; and earn income through various schemes such as enrollment income, enrollment incentive, royalty, PV/BV income, and leadership bonus. The software supports automatic computation of income for members on a periodic basis. In addition to income computation the software provides features for inventory management, interface with accounting software, tax computation, cheque printing etc.
Housing Finance Sector
Client: The BOB Housing Finance Ltd., India
Domain: Web and E-Commerce
Type of Service: System Development, Training
Environment: Windows 2000, ASP, Visual Basic, MS SQL Server 7.0
Duration: 2 months
Peak Team Size: 5
Summary: BOBHFL is the subsidiary of Bank of Baroda, incorporated in December 1990, in association with National Housing Bank. With headquarters at Jaipur, it commenced business of providing loans for housing activities in February 1991. The Company was formed with the sole objective of making housing loans easily accessible to the public.
CIStems was retained by the top management of BOB Housing Finance Ltd. to develop its corporate web site that provides information about the various services offered by it to its clients. The web site also provides the facility to BOB HFL’s clients to submit their loan applications online.
NutriMonitor
Client: UNWFP (UNO), India
Domain: Logistics
Type of Service: System Development
Environment: Visual FoxPro
Duration: 8 months
Peak Team Size: 3
Summary: United Nations World Food Program(UNWFP) is an organization which supplies food commodities in various states of India like Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala and Assam. The distribution of these food commodities in villages is done with the help of the Department of Women and Child Development (DWCD) of the respective states. Tracking the food commodities throughout this long distribution channel was a major problem for UNWFP.
CIStems developed a customized Commodity Tracking System, also nicknamed Nutrimonitor, for UNWFP using Visual FoxPro. Nutrimonitor helps UNWFP and state governments to track all the food commodities starting from the port to the distribution centers in villages.
Project Management System
Domain: Distributed Project Management
Type of Service: Product Development
Environment: Windows 2000, IIS, ASP, MS SQL Server 7.0
Duration: 6 months
Peak Team Size: 4
Summary: PMS is an evolving groupware specially designed to support project management and tracking in a collaborative development environment where the client and development teams are distributed geographically and may never share the same physical space. PMS attempts to provide a virtual workspace that can be shared by all the project stakeholders who may be distributed across the world. It provides for greater participation of all project stakeholders and improves the transparency about the project progress.
PMS is based on N-tier architecture and can be accessed by the users using a web browser. It is being offered both as a product and a service on the Internet. A company that acquires PMS as a product needs to host the application on a web server. A simpler route is to rent PMS as a service on the Internet.
PMS currently provides features to create projects, create task hierarchies, assign people to tasks, assign roles to team members, maintain time sheets, monitor workload, manage issues, and track defects. PMS is evolving and several more features are being planned for the coming versions including context based online discussions, client feedback, knowledge management etc.
Pegasus
Domain: School Management
Type of Service: Product Development
Environment: Windows 2000, IIS, ASP, MS SQL Server 7.0
Duration: 6 months
Peak Team Size: 4
Summary: Pegasus is a web based solution being developed for schools; that will be offered both as a product and a service on the Internet. Pegasus offers solutions that would enable the school administrators, teachers, students and parents work in a collaborative environment.
It offers standard services to the school administration related to admissions, academic session planning, scheduling of classes, curriculum management, grade sheet, promotions, human resource management, fee accounting etc.
The teachers get the facilities for managing question banks, generation of question papers, online testing, flexible design of evaluation scheme for a course, course grading, student attendance monitoring etc.
Parents can access the academic and other details of their ward on need basis. The software also offers standard network community facilities like notice boards, FAQ, and forums.
