2. Technical Competency Matrix of core team
Core Team Total
Members Experience
Primary Skills Secondary Skills
J2EE - Struts, Core Java,
Hibernate, ANT, AJAX, Oracle, PHP, Perl, JavaScript,
Ajay Lulia SQL Server, MySQL XSLT 9 Years
.NET Framework - asp.net, C#,
VB.net, Oracle, SQL Server, ASP, VB, PHP,
Bhavin Shah MySQL JavaScript 7 Years
J2EE - Struts, Core Java, C#, asp, VB, PHP,
Hibernate, Spring, Oracle, SQL JavaScript,
Manav Vora Server, MySQL XSLT 7 Years
.NET Framework - asp.net, C#,
VB.net, Data warehousing,
Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, ASP, VB, PHP,
Rajesh Kumar EAI JavaScript 7 Years
J2EE - Struts, Core Java,
Hibernate, Spring,
Tapestry, Drools, Oracle, SQL
Sujay Bhowmick Server, MySQL PHP, JavaScript 6 Years
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3. Projects experience of core team
Core team members in their individual capacities have played key roles for various projects in
their respective Organisations. Some of the projects are as follows:
• ISMC-CiTR - Australia - http://www.citr.com.au
Domains:
CiTR AccessPoint has been applied to the following domains:
o eGoverness - to create e-government systems that use Internet technology to
improve the delivery of Government services.
o Human Services - to create a directory of human service providers and the services
they provide, for service providers to share information, and refer cases and work
together to provide services
o Law and Justice - to create a portal to quality assured information on legal matters
and services provided by the legal sector
o Education - to create a portal to quality assured information for use by education
professionals and students
o Emergency management - to provide a single point of entry for planners and
emergency service workers to access a wide variety of types of information.
CiTR AccessPoint is a platform for creating a portal, i.e. a single point of entry, to a sector or
community of organisations. It provides information management, service directories, referral
management and transaction management.
CiTR AccessPoint is designed for service-oriented portals. That is a system for people to find
and obtain services. It is therefore designed for use by service industries.
AccessPoint can be accessed from various channels like Phone, IVR, Mobile/PDA, and
Computer.
The team members were a part of team, which traveled onsite (Australia) to understand the
product and enable the further development and maintenance of the product from the
offshore development center in mumbai, India.
Technologies used: Core Java, Proprietary MVC implemented framework, XML, XSL, EJB
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4. • CGI-AMS - http://www.cgi-ams.com
Functional Domain: eGovernance
AMS is a US based product company with ERP applications deployed for various
government agencies in US. There is an on going effort to move the product development
and maintenance work offshore in India. Team member was responsible for traveling to US
and bring the product domain and technology knowledge to India.
Project: Advantage Budgeting
Performance Budgeting applications for federal, state and local governments provide a
comprehensive budgeting solution designed to address these issues, while supporting
broader government performance management initiatives. The product is built upon robust
relational database structures that have superior functionality and performance in the public
sector budgeting environment. CGI-AMS Performance Budgeting is the first enterprise-wide
budgeting system exclusively designed for the government. All elements needed for public
sector budget formulation, analysis, reporting and monitoring are integrated into one
package.
Advantage Budgeting coordinates the unique processes of a budget cycle into one system,
which meets the unique requirement of US State and Local governments, state governments.
Advantage Budgeting is developed using in house developed Core Web Framework.
Core Web Framework is Web-based Application Framework having HTML-based user
interface with JavaScript, Java-based business logic and variety of domain-independent
components like Object/Database Persistence, Service-oriented Architecturequot;
Team member traveled to US for understanding the architecture and implemented the
processes at offshore business unit.
Team Size: 20
Technologies Used: J2EE, Web Framework, Eclipse 3.2, WebSphere, Weblogic, XML,
JUnit, SQL Server 2000 & 2005, Oracle 9i & 10G, DB2 Server.
Project: infoAdvantage
AMS infoAdvantage unlocks the potential of distributed data to improve government
operations. The solution blends key components and methodologies-including data mart/data
warehouse capabilities and extract, transform, and load (ETL) tools-to simplify information
collection and aggregation and integrate data across disparate systems. End-user query and
reporting analysis is its primary access method; users log in only once to access standard
AMS Advantage functions and AMS info Advantage's query and reporting capabilities.
Powered by web-based technologies, AMS info Advantage can analyze data from disparate
sources in a seamless fashion and tailor downloaded data into business intelligence. The
result is fast, focused, coherent information that can help you analyze, measure, and monitor
performance, and deliver service excellence.
Team Size: 30
Technologies Used: Pervasive (Data Junction), Business Object (6.5.2 & XI), J2EE, SQL
Server 2000& 2005, Oracle 9i & 10G, DB2 Server.
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5. • COTT - http://www.cott.com
Functional Domain: Manufacturing
COTT Corporation is the world's largest retailer brand soft drink supplier, with the leading
take-home, carbonated soft drink market shares in this segment in its core markets of the
United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Their product line also includes clear,
sparkling, flavored beverages, juices and juice-based products, bottled water and iced teas.
Their products are principally sold under customer controlled private labels like Wal-Mart, but
also under their own control brands and licensed brand names.
Project: Automated Data Capturing System for Warehouse Management (ADC)
Automated Data Capturing System (ADC) is used to automate warehouse inventory
management. It interfaces with the BPCS ERP system using a middleware IBM MQ Series.
The main objective of the ADC system is to automate the inventory management and
shipping activities using RFID wireless technology. The inventory management and shipping
transactions between ADC and BPCS ERP system are automated using a third party product
suite called IWork ADC. This suite enables programmers to implement business process
workflow in the warehouse by writing transaction scripts.
The scope of this project was to support the Canadian warehouses that are already running
the ADC system in production environment and new rollouts for the Canadian and USA
plants.
Project: Crystal Reports to Cognos Reports Migration
ADC and Sales EIS system of BI had reports that were generated using crystal reports.
It involved using of a custom application to schedule the reports for generation. The client
wanted to replace the custom application and implement the crystal reports in Cognos.
The scope of the project was to understand the reports that were in crystal and improve and
implement the same using Cognos impromptu reports and eventually getting rid of the
custom application built for scheduling the reports. The Cognos reports were scheduled and
accessed on the web using Cognos upfront suite of applications.
Team Size: 25
Technologies used: MS SQL Server 2000, IBM MQ Series v5.3, Windows 2000, Java,
JSP, Struts and IWORK script development studio, Cognos Impromptu 7.1 reports developer
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6. • CLSA – http://www.clsa.com
Functional Domain: Securities and Derivatives Market.
CLSA is leading Investment bank based out of Hong Kong and having offices in more than 12
countries. CLSA specializes in Securities and Derivatives brokering in Asia Pacific markets.
Most of its clients Fortune 100 companies like Barclays Capital, Fidelity etc.
Project: OMS (Order Management System) and FIX Systems:
OMS is the trading platform used by CLSA to trade in all the Asia-pacific markets. This
project involved implementation of OMS platform to new CLSA offices for upcoming markets
for trading. The main information protocol used to exchanges data between stock exchanges
and the OMS is FIX (Financial Information Exchange Protocol). Web Methods integration
server was used to integrate client applications with OMS platform. The database supported
was Oracle 8i, 9i.
Team Size: 15
Technologies used: Java, J2EE, Hibernate, Rules Engine (Jess), Web Methods 6.5,
Oracle9i, Solaris 9.
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7. • WebMD - www.webmd.com
Functional Domain: Healthcare/Insurance.
WebMD Corporation provides services that help physicians, consumers and providers. Their
products and services streamline administrative and clinical processes, promote efficiency
and reduce costs by facilitating information exchange, communication and electronic
transactions between healthcare participants. WebMD is one of the largest health care
service providers and also one of the biggest Insurance clearing house in US.
Project: Submitter Tracking System (STS)
The STS application has 110 reports and security for restricted user access is distinguishing
features of the application. STS has four modules:
1. Bulldog:
The Bulldog module tracks the sales and marketing information of the various healthcare
and insurance products that are marketed to the doctors and hospitals.
2. Malcolm:
The Malcolm module converts the contact to Client (permanent account). It maintains the
doctor/hospital account and captures various phases of account life cycle like Provider
Authorization, Product Installation, Migration and test Info.
3. Morocco
The Morocco module is associated with data mining and deals with analysis of the
monthly claims that are sent to the insurance company. Morocco reports account wise
details and summary of the claims.
4. Pactrack
The Pactrack module provides proactive tracking of claims and handholding with the
existing clients. WebMD executives analyze the accuracy and errors in the claims that
are sent to the insurance company.
The scope of the project is to convert the Tracking application to Web based application.
This application will be accessed using the Internet / Intranet. This system is in
production.
The team was involved in designing the systems, which enabled various applications
running on various platforms to share data. The biggest challenge in the project was that
WebMD being one of the big clearinghouses had Hugh volume of data, which was
entered by the personnel’s at WebMD and from various sources of data (Insurance
Claims, Application etc.). The team was successful in implementing a solution, which
could handle the Hugh volume of data.
Project: CMS (Client Management System):
CMS uses a middleware interface to integrate the Bulk Enrolment System
(BES). BES is a generic oracle application that is used by various WebMD systems. The
data required by CMS is fetched through a middleware interface called Bulk Enrolment
Interface (BEI). BEI is developed using Java stored procedures residing inside ORACLE (8i)
database. XML and XML Schemas are the standards used for mapping and validating the
data between both CMS and BES respectively. These applications encapsulate the core
business process and provide simplified workflow to WebMD. These applications are used
extensively across WebMD offices and are playing significant role in contributing to the
business growth. This system is in production.
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8. Team Size: 20
Technologies used: PHP, Java, J2EE, Oracle 8i, SQL Server 2000, XML, XSLT,
• Xactans
Xactans is a vertical search engine for the Biotech industry. It is under construction and is in
the user acceptance testing stage.
Xactans is based on google scholar and is expected to handle millions of user hits as search
requests. Team has designed a framework, which ensures that the performance is kept
constant irrespective of the amount of traffic/volume. The biggest challenge was to ensure
that the product can be scaled up and down as and when the need arises and the team has
been successful in ensuring the same.
Xactans has been implemented using the Lucene search engine as the core engine and
Spring Framework. Team members have been responsible for understanding the core engine
and making up gradations to the core engine.
Team Size: 3
Technologies used: Java, J2EE, Oracle 8i, Spring Framework, Lucene Search, Ibatis.
• Pulte Home – http://www.pulte.com
The system is a web-based application that will enable both the Pulte employees and their
vendors to create and monitor the status of the Field PO's. The requirement for application
integration stems from the need to keep the two sources of information in sync.
Team has integrated the ePO System with Lawson 8.0 finance ERP.
Team Size: 20
Technologies used: ASP, VB 6.0, COM+, XML, SQL Server 2000, Active Directory, BizTalk
Server 2000 & IIS
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9. Current Projects: .Net
1. An Inventory Management application
Client Name: Bond Street, India.
Project Brief: Client (a retail giant) needed an inventory management application to manage
inventory at national level.
Challenges: Synchronizing inventories at all the branches across the country and at local,
regional and national level.
Solution: Developed a framework which would ensure that there is a centralized server which
would have the status of all the branches with failover mechanism to ensure that the data is
transferred to and fro even incase of communication problems.
Technology: VB.NET, MS SQL Server, DTS.
2. A data grabbing application
Client Name: 3D informatics, USA
Project Brief: Client (A Bio-Tech Company) needed a product which could search various online
publications, fetch user filtered data and create a knowledge repository.
Challenges: Crawl and retrieve data from a large number of online publications having different
search patterns and different manner to display data.
Solution: Developed a framework to ensure a generic crawling and data fetching mechanism
which can be templatised to fit N number of publications with minimum procedure and reduced
time to crawl.
Technology: C#, SQL Express (Personal Edition of MS SQL Server)
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10. 3. elearning Simulation Application
Client Name: One of the largest elearning companies in India – The Company has
subcontracted work to us.
Project Brief: Client (An elearning company) needed to create a desktop and browser based
business simulation application.
Challenges: There were multiple challenges, which are as follows:
• Identify a single technology platform to services entire spectrum of requirement of being a
desktop and browser based application.
• Rich user interface needed on the desktop and also on the browser based version.
• Developed a testing mechanism to ensure the functionality works equally well on desktop
and browser at the same time.
Solution:
• Team came up a complete technology suitability matrix based on the complex needs to
the client. Implemented
• Test Driven development for the project to ensure that the simulation product is tested at
every stage of development.
Technology: MS .NET, SQL Express
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11. Current Projects: Java
1. An Intranet for Training Organization
Client Name: Ultramax, India
Project Brief: Client needed an intranet which could take care of all their internal operations
(Registrations, fees, courseware, batch schedules etc.) spanning multiple branches.
Challenges: Built a flexible application where the functionalities can be customized with the
growing business requirements by the users of the system.
Solution: Developed a robust admin module which has the rules configured outside the
application to ensure that they can be customized by the end user as and when required.
Technology: Struts, Core Java, Tomcat, MySQL
2. A Content Management System
Client Name: One of the largest elearning companies in India – The Company has
subcontracted work to us.
Project Brief: Client (an elearning company) needed a content management system as a part of
its knowledge management system. Application should allow the users to create/update/delete
documents/process/policies etc. and also maintain a version of the same.
Challenges: Stringent deadlines, Unavailability of resources with Java-Flash (flash & flash
scripting) integration skills.
Solution: The team came up with a plan in co-ordination with the client’s development team to
ensure that all the project management and integration issues are managed and the project is
delivered in a timely manner.
Technology: Struts, Core Java, MS Sql Server.
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12. 3. A Portal for Government Security Agency
Client Name: An intelligence agency in USA consulting to FBI. The client has subcontracted
work to us we are under an NDA with the client
Project Brief: The portal will be one application which will host various applications to handle
leads, cases and notifications for the security agencies. The objective of the portal is to help the
users to view the status of criminal cases
Challenges: Stringent deadlines, Integration of multiple web based application with different
functionalities into one web portal.
Solution: Team successfully created a portal where multiple applications with different
functionalities are integrated.
Technology: JBoss Portal Server, Hibernate, Birt Reports
4. A Vertical Search Engine
Client Name: 3D Informatics, USA
Project Brief: Search engine addresses current search engine issues by applying patented
technology to first broaden a query with synonyms and abbreviated forms of the search term, and
then allow user-directed priority weighting to inform the overall scoring scheme.
Challenges: Stringent deadlines, patented technology, Integration of multiple High end
technologies.
Solution: Team created a framework which merged the different high end technologies and
created a platform on which the search engine is based.
Technology: Spring, Lucene, iBatis, Oracle.
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13. Synergy Technology Services
conceive implement measure
Synergy Technology Services
302, Acropolis, Military Road, Marol,
Mumbai 400059, India
Tel: +91.22.28561001/2
Fax: +91.22.28561003
eMail: info@synergytechservices.com
Web : www.synergytechservices.com