because technology came 2nd
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Towards a TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
AND
PRODUCT ENGINEERING ecosystem
Overview
UNIKEN is a technology innovation and product engineering firm that works
closely with its customers to provide high quality products that meets their
business automation and cutting edge technology needs
We specialize in taking our in house innovations from concept through to
production through patented product engineering design methodologies. Our staff
includes more than 50+ product designers and engineers, technologists and
researchers with backgrounds in computer science, software technology, embedded
systems and professional services.
As a company we invest in technology innovation, product design and
product engineering
Headquartered in Tampa, FL, US, with offices in US and India, we have a R&D and
Product Engineering Center in India.
Management Team Profile
NAME DESIGNATION QUALIFICATIONSDETAILS OF RELEVANT
WORK EXPERIENCEEXPERIENCE
Sanjay DeshpandeCEO
Director
M. S.
(Computer Science)
Tata Research Development &
Design Centre
Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd.
13 years
Nanjundeaswar
Ganapathy
CTO
Director
B. Tech.
(IIT Kharagpur) Infosys Technologies Ltd. 12 years
Prakash SalviCDO
Director
B. Tech
(Computer Science) IMR Global 15 years
Vivek Saxena CBOPGDM
(IIM Ahmedabad)
Tata Consultancy Services
Infosys Technologies Ltd.16 years
Nilesh DhandeCOO
DirectorMBA (Systems) Infosys Technologies Ltd. 9 years
Subramanian
Gopalan
Advisor to the
Board
MBA
M. Tech.
(Automotive Engg.)
Director, Sourcing and Quality,
Greater China, GE
Six Sigma Master Black Belt
40 years
Dr. Pat ShankarAdvisor to the
BoardPh. D.
Chief Scientist – Motorola
Biometrics Division30 years
Dr. Lev GoldfarbAdvisor to the
BoardPh. D.
Associate Professor, University
of New Brunswick20 years
Ajay Dubey DirectorB. Tech.
(IIT Kanpur)
VP - Infosys Technologies Ltd.
COO - Persistent Systems Pvt.
Ltd.
25 years
• UNIKEN Technology R&D Center• Concept innovation and rapid prototyping
• Conducts research in
• Information Security
• Pattern Recognition
• Embedded Systems
• Performance Modeling
• UNIKEN Product Engineering Group• Customized product development
• Requirements Analytics
• Product Design (patent pending process)
• Product Development
• Performance Testing
• UNIKEN Products and Solutions• ADAPT (Digital AD Sales Automation Solution)
• FUELCORE (Fuel Purchase and Sales Automation Solution)
• REL-ID (Identity Security)
• DEEKSHA (e-Learning)
• SHOPPEX (Mobile Shopping)
What do we do?
Products
Product
Engineering
Technology
R&D
Customers
Business
Requirements
Product Delivery
Market Analysis and
Problem Specifications
PRODUCT ENGINEERING
GROUP
IT Solutions - An outlook
• The evolution of the information technology industry over the past few decades – has witnessed the departure
of the industry from some of the basics in engineering
• The oft heard statement – “software engineering is not like other engineering disciplines” - has given the
freedom to the industry to ignore the basics of engineering principles which has resulted in poor quality products,
tremendous budget overruns, and worst, rework has become an acceptable practice
• Any product development fundamentally needs an engineering design foundation – unfortunately
fundamental concepts in computer science and core software technology basics have been ignored
• Being compliant with processes and getting quality certifications (like CMMI) is fashionable – though these
contribute little to the true quality of the end product that is being delivered to the customers – since process
quality compliance has very little to do with PRODUCT DESIGN quality
• According to us Software (or Technology) Product development is an engineering discipline and it should be
dealt like one
• Every IT project according to us should be considered as a PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT effort and one must
apply the product engineering design principles to achieve highest quality, and appropriate business impact
Product Design and Engineering Services
• We offer our product design and engineering expertise to build/enhance existing products of
product companies
• We use our patented product design and engineering processes to build these products as per
the product specifications
Product Engineering Services
Product ResearchHuman Factors
Engineering
Product Prototyping
Product Development & Deployment
Product Testing & Quality Assurance
Performance EngineeringTechnical Support &
MaintenanceDocumentation
Product Ideation Technology Exploration
Product Testing Services
Business Process Models
Process Analytics
Process Innovation
Assess internal controls
compliance for IT systems
(Sarbanes-Oxley Act)
Symptom Analysis
Root Cause Analysis
Symptom Classification
Business Impact Analysis
Enterprise Architecture
Analysis
Requirements Engg.
Use Case Analysis
Architecture Design
Solution Design
Implementation
Performance Engineering
Testing
Production Testing
Continuous
Improvement
Lifecycle Services
24x7 Application Support
Custom built product solutions for business automation
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4
• We offer our product engineering expertise to build custom products for business automation
• We use our patented product design and engineering processes to build the products as per
the customers business requirements
• Currently, we have business process experts, and process templates for the following business
verticals - Aviation and Fuel Industry, Business Process Management, Internet & Media, Shipping,
BPO & Specialized Service Providers, Retail and Education
Why is Product Engineering critical in Custom Built Solutions?
• The basic assumption in custom solutions that the business requirements areknown (or can be frozen) is a MYTH – business requirements/features evolve justlike in any product development ecosystem – one should be able to deal with thisright at the foundation – hence we firmly believe that every IT project must beviewed as a PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT initiative and dealt with the same qualityrequirements as that of a PRODUCT initiative
• Excellence in product engineering ensures the following
• You get exactly what you want in the custom built product (Product FeaturePrecision)
• You get a working product/solution within the time frame that has the rightbusiness impact, within the budget that you planned (Time-Money-BusinessImpact)
• An end-product that is robust and of high quality (Durability)
• This is invariant to the industry in which you operate since any business automationsolution MUST satisfy the above basic requirements
Uniken Product Engineering Process - UNIPRO (Patent Pending)
Requirements Analysis
Product Specifications
Use Cases
Product Prototype
Test Plan
Test Cases
Interaction Map
Technology Architecture
Product Development
Domain Model
Class Diagram
Sequence Diagram
Class Definition & Specification
Integration & System Testing
Implementation Plan
User Acceptance Testing
Production Deployment
• We have patented/proprietory Product
Engineering Processes
• These processes have been developed by
experts who have been working in the
industry for more than 30+ years
• Our product managers and product
engineers are trained in these processes
and work towards getting UNIPRO
certifications
• These certifications are given by the
Product Engineering Excellence Group -
based on their compliance, contributions to
the process and on successful completion
of product initiatives using these processes
UNIPRO High Level Process Chart
Technology R&D
Technology R&D
The members of the innovation center engage in cuttingedge research, identify problems, develop rapidprototypes, work closely with the UNIKEN productengineering group to provide them with go-to marketsolutions.
The primary objective of the innovation center is ensure ahealthy pipe line of viable technology concepts that couldbe launched either as separate business initiatives orblended with the operations of the product engineeringcenter.
The members of the innovation center, work closely withthe academia and business partners to exchange ideasand are responsible for showcasing and promoting thecutting edge research in various platforms and forums
Research Areas
Identity and Authentication
Information Representation and Retrieval
Product Design and Engineering Process
Embedded Systems
Non-Conventional Energy Resources(Solar)
Performance Engineering and Modeling
Hand Geometry Verification System Random Number Generator
True random number generation
based on
semiconductor noise
production
*Used in developing the highest
level security algorithms.
Improving efficiency of solar
energy systems.
*Mobile device embedded with
solar cell phone charger.
Real time Solar Cell Optimizer
Hand Geometry Biometrics used
to establish individual unique
identity.
*Used for ID verification in areas
where environmental factors do
not allow for fingerprint or
retinal scanning.
Lab Prototypes
Core Technology Expertise
INTERFACE
APPLICATION
SYSTEMS
HARDWARE
Multi ChannelWindows CE, Palm OS, Symbian (EPOC),
WAP, SMS, RFID
Web TechnologiesJ2EE, J2ME, .NET, ASP.NET, Weblogic,
Websphere, Oracle, Tomcat, JBoss, XML,
XSL, XSLT, XSD, DTD
Client-ServerC, C++, Java, Visual Basic, ASP, Perl, Shell
Scripting, Python, COM/DCOM, TAPI, Lex-
Yacc, MS-Access, Oracle
Systems ProgrammingWindows, Unix (all flavors), Linux, C, C++
Embedded SystemsDSP (ADSP21xx, C), Micro-controllers
(ATMEL, C51), MATLAB Devices (DSP:
ADSP21xx, MuC: PIC12F629
UNIKEN SOLUTIONS
ADAPTTM
ClientRediff.com
Custom Product Automated Revenue Tracking System
Client Business Online Commerce (e-Commerce, m-Commerce, Media Sales)
Objective To design and develop an Automated Revenue Tracking platform which integrated
seamlessly with
(a) the commerce delivery systems, as well as
(b) the financial accounting package in use.
Furthermore, the platform was required to be extensible to accommodate newer commerce
channels as and when they are conceived and put into production.
Key points
- Developed in Java – using Struts MVC2, on Caucho Resin Web Application Server
- Distributed database – on Oracle 9i DBMS
- Was developed to be a plug-and-play system, accommodating any number of new
commerce systems (revenue generating systems) to be added
Achievements
-Automated accounting for over 95% of the clients business via the developed solution –
complete doing away with manual accounting for these transactions
-Covered all commerce channels
FUELCORETM
ClientMercury Fuel
Custom Product Fuel Sales Processing and Inventory Management (FSP-IM)
Client Business Aviation Service Provider
Objective Mercury Air Group is a global leader in the aviation services industry
providing fuel and related services to commercial business and government
aviation customers.
FSP-IM is designed to automate Customer Invoice processing, Vendor
Invoice processing and Interfacing transactions with Accounting System.
Product Features • Batch Invoice Process implementation optimizes the application to greater
extent by importing Sales transactions from file system, process sales
transactions and interface the resulting Customer Invoices with Accounting
System
• Periodic reports generation
Benefits Great reduction in effort involved for Customer Invoice processing
CASEPLUSTM
Custom Product Legal Case Management
Client Business Aviation Service Provider
Objective Case Management Product is designed for Corporate Legal
Department of Mercury Air Group Inc. to provide an automated
application for daily activities carried out in legal department
Key Points • Synchronization of Case Management System Contacts, Calendar
Events and Emails with Microsoft Outlook and vice versa.
• Developed a Document Management System.
• Developed a Text Search mechanism to search text content of a
document
• Developed a Reporting tool using FPDF library
• Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP implementation
Achievements Efficient Text Search mechanism to search large number of
documents stored on disk and provide results
ClientMercury Fuel
PRODUCTS
Information Security Products
www.REL-ID.com
REL-ID Anti-Phishing and Website Authenticator Toolbar Key Features: Protection for White-List Websites, protection from Black List, Positive Identification of White-List
Websites, Dynamic Branding, Dynamic Customizable Service Buttons
REL-ID Mutual Authenticator Platform Key Features: Mutual Authentication, Multi-Factor, Multi-Format, Zero-Transmit, Dynamic Identity, Strong
Authentication, compliant with various regulatory requirements, Protects Web Application Servers from direct Internet
Exposure through secure REL-ID R-Tunnel Architecture
Application Formats: Toolbar Software, Desktop Agent Software, Component Library
Multi-Factor Devices: Laptop/PCs/Mobile, USB, CD-Rom
REL-ID High-Security Transaction Browser Application Key Features: Key-Logger Protection, Secure Communication, Branded Browsing Application, REL-ID Mutual
Authentication Protocol
Application Format: Desktop Application
REL-ID Secure Email Key Features: Secure Mutual Authentication, Message Flow Control (Reply, Reply All, Forward, Compose), Message
Content Control (Editing, Copying, Pasting, Printing), and Encryption
Application Format: Plug-in Component for Outlook Client and Thunderbird
e-Learning and e-Management Productsfor Education Institutes
www.deekshasystems.com
DEEKSHA Provides technology solutions to the rapidly growing EDUCATION market. DEEKSHA
through its product portfolio focuses both on managing the operations of the EDUCATION
INSTITUTE and delivering Quality Education through its E-LEARNING platform.
e-MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONKey Features: Education Productivity Tools, Library Management, Automatic Attendance, Payroll Management,
Admission Management, Student Management, Examination Management, Placement Management & Timetable
Generator
e-LEARNING SOLUTIONKey Features: SCORM compatible, Advanced editor to build training material, Online tests/assignments, Online
collaboration tools, Advanced education delivery features keeping in mind sound pedagogical approach
The e-MANAGEMENT solution improves productivity and significantly reduces the cost of
operations of the institute and the E-LEARNING platform increases revenues by rapidly increasing
the delivery capacity of education to a large number of students without impacting the quality of
education.
Mobile Shopping Products
ShoppEX is a next-generation Customer Engagement technology for the Retail Industry that
leverages the customers mobile presence to help retailers increase customer reach, customer
stickiness and basket value by improving the shopping experience of the customer.
Shopping List ManagementKey Features: Shopping List generation (user-side / server side) and maintenance, Shopping List Aggregation,
Customer Info Aggregation
Back-end AnalyticsKey Features: Demand Aggregation and Real-time Analysis, Lost-sale value capture, Recommendation engine,
Integration with COTS Business Analysis tools.
Mobile MarketingKey Features: External Network Integration, Offers & Promotions Generator, Mobile Coupon Generation and
Validation (online/offline), Digital Content Management System
Integration with Retail Systems InfrastructureKey Features: Integration with existing Inventory Management System, Store Management System, Point-of-sale
System, Loyalty Management System
Why engage with us?
• Core expertise in software technology, product design and engineering
• Breadth and depth of experience in the IT industry in the management
and product engineering team
• Patented Product Engineering Processes that ensures high quality end-
product
• Backed by a computer science and technology innovation team – giving
the right technology edge to your organization
“We are rooted in R&D and backed by some of the brightest young minds. Our goal is to provide organizations with unique solutions and unsurpassed service. At heart, we are problem solving engineers looking to dedicate our technologists to our clients business needs.”
-Uniken CEO
Contact Us:
Amar GopalanBusiness Development Manager9902 Connechusetts RdTampa, FL 33617P: (813) 215-2069E: [email protected]
www.uniken.com
Corporate Office
12362 Berkeley Avenue
Tampa, FL 33626
Solution Center
Office 1-2, Aditi Commerce,
Baner Road, Pune,
Maharashtra, India