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AGILE LABS

INTRODUCTION

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Agile Journey

Indian IT Product company, head

quartered in Bangalore, India.In existence from

2001

Created Axpert ™

- Software

Application Platform

used for creating

large , complex

database intensive

business

applications

150+ enterprise customers in India, Middle-East , USA,

Canada, Africa , Bhutan, & Srilanka

300+ Manyears of experience in

Enterprise space

o Built and deployed applications in o Constructiono E-Governanceo Manufacturingo Sales &

Distributiono Logistics,o Educationo Textiles o CRO

Partner driven Model:

Strategic Partnership with WIPRO,

Mindprint, Transworld, Infoway, New Edge,

etc

(10+ Partners worldwide)

NASSCOM innovation award

finalist – 2008

Axpert – US Patented technology

Patent No : USPTO - 8539460Patent Dt : 17-Sep-2013

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AXPERT

INTRODUCTION

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Axpert Introduction

Axpert - An enterprise software platform to create and manage form based transactional software

US Patented technology - Axpert

Application Development made easy ( Effort reduction >50% )

No code & Program, Application Maintenance made easy

Robust, Highly scalable

Successfully running in large enterprises for years

Less H/w & Connectivity investment – TCO significantly low

Supports “Distributed Database Deployment”

SOA & Cloud deployable

AXPERT

14+ Years of continuous innovation

7 Million USD Investment

125+ Man years of R&D

Efforts

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Custom Software - Development process

Application server

Database server

Database

Dot net, Java

HTML, JQuery

Domain experts

Data tables Stored

procedures

Triggersand

functions

Web page design

Web page coding

Access control

Submit data

Search & List

Print & PDF

EMail & SMS

Work flow

integration

Skill set required For

Traditional S/w development

This is what typically goes in development of

ONE FORM In

Custom s/w development

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Custom Software - Development process ….contd.

Application server

Database server

Database

Dot net, Java

HTML, JQuery

Domain experts

Data tables

Stored procedure

s

Triggersand

functions

Web page design

Web page coding

Access control

Submit Data

Search & List

Print & PDF

Email & SMS

Workflow

Web page design

Web page coding

Access control

Submit Data

Search & List

Print & PDF

Email & SMS

Workflow

Data tables Data tables Data tables

Stored procedure

s

Triggersand

functions

Stored procedure

s

Triggersand

functions

You have the same set of people writing

multiple Stored procedures ,

Triggers, Code and hence the efforts

are Duplicated

What happens during multiple FORM

Development ??

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Database server …(Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL)

Axpert Architecture

Database

Domain experts

Lets understand how S/W development

through “Axpert”

Isdifferent

TABLE 1

Transaction Structure 1Data elements, data flowComputation logicValidation rules & actions

TABLE 2 TABLE 3

Transaction Structure 2Data elements, data flowComputation logicValidation rules & actions

TABLE 4 TABLE 5

Transaction Structure 3Data elements, data flowComputation logicValidation rules & actions

TABLE 6

What you need is only

- Database experts &

- Domain experts

WEB server

Submit data

Search & List

Access Control

Workflow

Authorization

Mail / SMS

Print & PDF

Integration

AxpertService

Bus(Web

services)

Third party scheduler

Axpert activity manager

Axpert Background Service

Login Page

Common Input Page

Main Page

Common utility page

AxpertWEB Pages

Common listing / reporting page

Axpert Web services & Axpert Standard Web pages comes along with

Axpert Platform. There is NO need to

code these.

Your efforts reduces to defining the TRANSACTION STRUCTURES alone using

AXPERT IDE ….hence significant effort

reduction of > 50%

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Axpert Security

No Vulnerabilities likeCross site scriptingSQL injection, etc…

Supports HTTPS

Database server …(Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL)

TABLE 1

Transaction Structure 1Data elements, data flowComputation logicValidation rules & actions

TABLE 2 TABLE 3

Transaction Structure 2Data elements, data flowComputation logicValidation rules & actions

TABLE 4 TABLE 5

Transaction Structure 3Data elements, data flowComputation logicValidation rules & actions

TABLE 6

WEB server

Submit data

Search & List

Access Control

Workflow

Authorization

Mail / SMS

Print & PDF

Integration

AxpertService

Bus(Web

services)

Third party scheduler

Axpert activity manager

Axpert Background Service

Login Page

Common Input Page

Main Page

Common utility page

AxpertWEB

Pages

Common listing / reporting page

Effective access controlRole & rule based control on forms and every data element and button.

Maintains audit of usage

Data is safe within database

Login page can be modified to support Single Sign on

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Axpert Performance

Database server …(Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL)

TABLE 1

Transaction Structure 1Data elements, data flowComputation logicValidation rules & actions

TABLE 2 TABLE 3

Transaction Structure 2Data elements, data flowComputation logicValidation rules & actions

TABLE 4 TABLE 5

Transaction Structure 3Data elements, data flowComputation logicValidation rules & actions

TABLE 6

WEB server

Submit data

Search & List

Access Control

Workflow

Authorization

Mail / SMS

Print & PDF

Integration

AxpertService

Bus(Web

services)

Third party scheduler

Axpert activity manager

Axpert Background Service

Login Page

Common Input Page

Main Page

Common utility page

AxpertWEB

Pages

Common listing / reporting page

Database TuningCan be done to improve performance independent of the application

Auto PaginationLarge data fetches are paginated automatically

App ServerMost processing is done in this layer and hence reducing the stress on DB

Scale across serversDeploy across many servers as the demand increases

CachingPreprocessed data & metadata is cached in Web server

Optimized AJAX callsHTML pages makes optimized AJAX calls

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Axpert - Open ArchitectureChangeThe web pages can be changed to suit need by dot net programmers

Database server …(Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL)

TABLE 1

Transaction Structure 1Data elements, data flowComputation logicValidation rules & actions

TABLE 2 TABLE 3

Transaction Structure 2Data elements, data flowComputation logicValidation rules & actions

TABLE 4 TABLE 5

Transaction Structure 3Data elements, data flowComputation logicValidation rules & actions

TABLE 6

WEB server

Submit data

Search & List

Access Control

Workflow

Authorization

Mail / SMS

Print & PDF

Integration

AxpertService

Bus(Web

services)

Third party scheduler

Axpert activity manager

Axpert Background Service

Login Page

Common Input Page

Main Page

Common utility page

AxpertWEB Pages

Common listing / reporting page

My Stored proceduresMy Triggers &

Functions

My Service

My Page

Add your Service

Add your Page

Add your Procedur

es, Triggers

& Functions

My CSSDifferent UI Styles can be applied based on need.

My FunctionsYou can write functions using C sharp in the web service layer

DB ProcedureNew tables, Procedures, Functions can be added based on your requirement

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App server

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ices

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Database server

User

data

tab

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Tran

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Axpert Data Exchange

Sta

gin

g

serv

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Success Fail

3rd Party App

Axpert user

Transit

Axpert Data Exchange

Tran.Data

Tran.Data

TranData

Is new part OK? Tran.Data

Tran.DataYE

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NO

ADX – Axpert Data exchange

helps you to exchange data between Axpert

and 3rd party applications

Lets understand how the data exchange happens between

3rd party app Axpert

ADX Process- Keeps monitoring the

Transit folder . - Process the file and

pushes to the respective folders

(Success or Failure)

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Axpert - Stable & Proven platform

Proven – Axpert is a stable and proven platform that is used in more than 150 customer sites in 10 countries.

Tried and tested – Successfully running in many customer locations for more than 5 years now. Some of them are large government agencies including the defense.Mission critical needs - Axpert is also deployed for managing many mission critical processes that needs high availability.

Comprehensive – The complex tasks of database transaction management, optimized server calls, resolving dependencies, printing, background tasks, managing work flow, access control, security are part of platform. Hence, these are well tested and stable. That reduces time for stabilization.

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Axpert - Approval flow

Roles, responsibilities and users – You can create roles and responsibilities & attach users to them. For every transaction you can optionally define the approval flow through various roles.Condition based flow–– You can define your own conditions on how the approval flow should happen . This can be easily configured .Thdata in a single form can be initRules - You specify rules on what a user can do when a transaction lands for approval. It may involve skipping of levels, returning or asking for clarification.Delegation – Users can also delegate tasks pending with them to other users in their absence.Exceptions – You can also define actions in case a user does not act on a transaction that has arrived for approval for more than specified time.

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Axpert - Reporting & BI

Information views – All transactional reports that may need drill down can be defined as Information views in Axpert. You define it by providing an SQL statement. Drill down – An information view consists of columns to which hyper links are defined to connect to other reports or forms.Native PDF designer - Axpert comes with a native PDF designer to make free form PDF reports.

MS Word linking – Report formats can be made using MS Word with data embedded as tags in the docx. These are printed with data in run time.

Fast report – Axpert is integrated with this award winning report writer (like Crystal reports)

BI – Axpert comes with Intelliview. This is a powerful BI tool that lets you create cubes, graphs and reports on the fly.

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Axpert - other KEY features

Language support – Axpert is multi lingual. It is now used in Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, French, Portugese, Indian languages to name a few.

Multi site – Axpert excels in multi site implementations that need data to be synchronized. It comes with its own data routers that do data exchange between sites in the background whenever internet connection is available.

Multi tenancy – Axpert supports multi tenant implementations and hence can be used to run many apps in a single database that may exchange data at the data layer.Mobile devices – A mobile application can be created and connected to Axpert using its web services.Hybrid deployment – The same Axpert application can be used as a client server app, web application or distributed data application.

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Deployment Architecture

DB SERVERFTP /WEB SERVER

Head Office

DB Server

AxSync.exe

Ax EXE

I-View

TSTRUCT

Ax EXE

Desk Top

ADR - Synchronization [Option 1]

Browser client [Option 2]

AxSync.exe

Desk Top

Ax.exe

Desk Top

Ax.exe

BranchesWebWeb

Citrix [Option 3]

CITRIX / Terminal Service client

Desk Top

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Global Footprint

Canada

India

Bhutan

Angola

Bahrain

Sri Lanka

DR Congo

Oman

Agile Labs, Bangalore

USA China

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Customer list ……Partial

Industrial

Sales & Distribution

E-governance

Textile

Middle East(Bahrain & Muscat)

Africa & Srilanka

North America

GLOBAL

INDIAN

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KEY CASE STUDIES

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DMS IntroductionClient is India's third largest manufacturer of heavy commercial vehicles. Fastest growing truck brand in India with a volume growth of over 100% for the last three years. Trucks are manufactured ain Bhuj, Gujarat with a capacity of 50,000 units per annum and sales through 100+ dealers across INDIA

•Lead tracker, Vehicle demo requisition, MIS

Presales

•Sales order, Sales Invoice, Inventory Mgt, Stock transfer, MIS reports

Sales

•Parts Master, Goods Receipt, Parts Sales, Kit / De-Kit, Part stock management, MIS

Parts

•Job order, Service bill, Claims management, Campaign Mgt, MIS

Service

•Reminders, Followup, Customer satisfaction Index,

CRM

•Automatic voucher creation, Receipt & Payment entry, Journal, Integration with Tally

Finance

KPI

&

MIS

SAP

INTEGRATION

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DMS : StatisticsSubject Numbers

Project Implementation & Rollout (Elapsed time)

12 Months

Efforts ( Man Months ) 120 MM

Users 500+

Number of Dealers using the application 100+

Deployment WEB

Integration Tight integration with SAP & TALLY

LIVE Since Aug’2011

Implementation Partner WIPRO

Transaction volume / Month (across all dealers)

1 Million +

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CRO – Contract Research Organization ( Clinical)

Company Introduction

ethica CRO is a full-service Contract Research Organization (CRO) that conducts and manages ethical clinical research on behalf of sponsors within the international pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, nutraceutical, and cosmeceutical industries

AlcheraBio LLC, a leading veterinary clinical contract research organization (CRO) and animal health consultancy.• Headquartered in New Jersey, with a satellite office in Kansas City. AlcheraBio is a subsidiary of Argenta, a global formulations R&D and manufacturing company• AlcheraBio is a comprehensive resource supporting many facets of the animal health industry. AlcheraBio has provided a variety of services for animal health companies, biotechnology and life sciences companies.

Ockham Oncology : • provides a comprehensive support system for clinical research and management for biopharmaceutical and medical device companies striving to develop new cancer treatments around the world. • Ockham is headquartered in US & has operations in Scotland• Ockham Oncology has conducted Oncology trials across all phases of development, including pre-clinical preparation

Veritas IRB : • an ethical foundation for conscientious research Veritas IRB provides unbiased ethics review services and risk management solutions for sponsors and investigators conducting research on humans in the United States and Canada. • Since 1996, Veritas IRB has been reviewing research through its boards and specialized panels of national experts.

CRO and IRB Clients

ethica CRO Inc. Alchera Bio LLC Ockham Development Group Veritas IRB

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CRO : Module / Process details

Reporting

CRM

Budgeting and contracts

Timesheets &

Event Sheets BillingHR

Expense

Resource forecasting

Site visit scheduler

Units sheets

Study management and Change

orders

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UWL IntroductionUniworld Logistics A Total Logistics Company having

operations in India, Singapore, Malaysia, China & Hongkong 

Workflow & Event Management

Order Management Track & Trace

EDI Integration

Portal(Dashboards , Task Management)

Air Freight Management Sea Freight Management

Invoicing & Job Costing

MIS Decision Support(MIS , KPI)

Finance

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UWL : Statistics

Subject Numbers

Project Implementation & Rollout (Elapsed time)

1 Year

Efforts ( Man Months ) 60 + Man Month

Users 150+

LIVE Since 2009

Implementation Approach Big bang

Deployment Web

Locations 20 + Branches across the globe

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BDF : Bahrain Defence Force – Module / Process details

Inventory

Requests

Issues

Return

Transfers

Inventory Cycle

Loan

Mobile Inventory

Scrap Yard

Procurement

Budget Management

Requisition

Order Management

FMS

Receiving

Shipment

Repair

Freight Tracking

Quality

Inspections

Weight & Balance

Operating Procedures

Resource Management

OJT Management

Defect Analysis

Maintenance

Configuration

Maintenance Sch

Warranty

Equipment Log

Work Order

Calibration

System Upgrade

Serviceability Status

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BDF : StatisticsSubject Numbers

Project duration 2 Years

Efforts 120 + Man Month

Implementation Approach Phased

Forms Developed 900 Forms

Reports and Documents 1000+

Concurrent users 600+

Deployment Web, Synchronization

Volume of records 3 Million – Item master

Integration Oracle Financials

LIVE Since 2012

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IKYA Introduction

Company Introduction

• IKYA Human Capital Solutions is the fastest growing HR solutions company in India, with specialized service offerings in Executive Search, Recruitment Solutions, Staffing Services, Training and project based RPO hiring.

• Avon Facility Management Services Pvt. Ltd. is an ISO 9001:2008 certified company. • The company offers Housekeeping, Pantry, Mail Room, Lawn and Garden Maintenance, Pest Control, Engineering and Maintenance, Civil and Plumbing, DG Set operations, STP, Waste management and other specialized services to its clients.

• CoAchieve offers services in Statutory Compliance that enable the corporate partners to focus on their core business while ensuring them to be law abiding entities.

• Magna Infotech is one of India’s leading IT staffing solutions companies offering technology expertise to their customers across industry.

• Styracorp Management Services provides various staffing solutions in Middle East. • Their services include Recruitment, Executive Search, Contract Staffing/HR Outsourcing, Temporary Staffing, HR services and Managed Services

IKYA Group companies

IKYA Human capital

solutions

AVON Facility

Management

CoAchieve Solutions

Magna Infotech

(IT Staffing)

StyraCorp Managemen

t services

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IKYA : Statistics

Subject Numbers

Engagement For the last 5 Years , Technology partner

Implementation Approach Agile Methodology

Application developed Payroll, Finance, Facility Management, Custom application – Training , Statutory Management

Users 100+

Deployment Client server , WEB

Volume of records 75000+ Employees Payroll processed every month

Integration RADAR

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PARTNERS

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Partners

Overseas Partners for Axpert

Strategic partnerSolution Partners for Axpert

Technology Partners

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Reporting tool - Dashboard reports

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THANKS


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