A small view at the journey of Compassites

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1. Sneak Peek N S W E www.compassitesinc.com Custom Software Solution Experts Custom Software Solution Experts N S W E
2. "We are focused on solving business critical problems through custom applications which can be scaled via cloud enabled infrastructure; thus allowing you to make effective decisions based on real-time analysis of your big data." Elevator Pitch
3. Compassites Software is a technology services firm that works in the space of big data, cloud computing and consumerization of IT. Compassites was founded in early 2005 by a bunch of highly passionate industry veterans. Compassites is focused and committed to help enterprises realize their business potential by taking their ideas from concept to reality by implementing the right technology solutions. Compassites has a vast experience in product development and building custom solutions and partners with clients to design, develop and deploy technology solutions rapidly. The clientele is a mix of domestic and foreign customers, and some of the products that Compassites has been involved in include Jiffle, iCharts, Payback. We typically use the 'Agile' development methodology to help clients meet their critical time-to- market deadlines and adapt to the changing needs of their user-base. We are also flexible to follow the development methodologies and models that suit the customer's needs. We have a team of about 100 employees, sitting across two locations: Bangalore and Pune, India. The team is well versed with technologies such as J2EE, .Net, PHP, and Ruby on Rails (RoR), Cloud Enablement, Big Data & Data Analytics, e-Commerce frameworks and various open source technologies. About Us Compassites Sneak Peek 2013 l Copyright 2013, All rights reserved. www.compassitesinc.com
4. Customer Success - We are driven by making our customers successful. Our navigators are curious and talented. They want to understand the challenges that our customers are facing and implement solutions to shorten time-to-market . Continuous Innovation - We believe that everyone is capable of innovation and it should be a daily practice as opposed to a one-time event. Innovation at every step of the way in our software delivery is a key measure and every Navigator is encouraged to continuously come up with innovative ways to create a difference. We are driven by a larger than life mission which is supported by our work culture. Mission Driving Force Culture Driving Forces To create a WOW experience for all the stakeholders through innovative technology solutions and delivery excellence. Compassites Mission Statement
5. At Compassites, our employees are called as Navigators. We believe in a culture which empowers our people to make decisions, make a difference to our customers via innovative solutions and most importantly, have fun as they grow within the organization. Our c u l t u re e n c o u ra g e s n u m e ro u s initiatives that benefit Navigators and help them to learn and grow into well rounded personalities. Our Culture Compassites Sneak Peek 2013 l Copyright 2013, All rights reserved. Foster Conceptreneurship - After fostering entrepreneurship for more than 7 years and bringing 30 products to life from ideation, we are equipped to guide our customers by taking their ideas from concept to market. Our focus on technology and Innovation acts as fuel to accelerate the process. Success & Profitability - Profitability is important for every company. For us, success is measured based on variety of factors other than just Net Profit. We want to be profitable to be able to invest back in the company and in our passionate Navigators who are working towards making our customers successful. In addition, through our employee driven programs, such as COACH (Compassites On A Cause for Help), we are determined to make a real difference to the world around us. Value Employees - Compassites is a services company and core to our business is passionate our people. We help our Navigators realize their potential and chart a clear path for their career growth. www.compassitesinc.com
6. Our People Our employees are our biggest strength and their well being is our priority. We ensure that we hire the brightest and best people from the software industry. We love to work with people who are passionate and want to make a real difference with their work. Our people are highly customer focused and obsessed about delivering the best software to clients. Tech Mobile People Quality Fun .Net Results Geeky Java C# Lean Ruby Refactoring Big Data Services Testing on Cloud Open Source Agile XP Scrum
7. Our Approach Light documentation Continuous deployment Test automation Frequent regular demo to the customer The Idea: Put YOU (the customer) in control Complete Transparency Daily standups Information radiators Access to environments Iterative Development Time-to-market and Use of cutting edge technology Rapid churn from Ideation to Realization Bringing Cloud Enablement, BI, Analytics, Big Data and Core Technology expertise together Leveraging our eco-system built over 7 years Amplification of your success End Goal Compassites Sneak Peek 2013 l Copyright 2013, All rights reserved. www.compassitesinc.com
8. Key Offerings At Compassites, we develop custom software solutions with flexible engagement models tailored to suit your unique needs. Here are the following ways we can help you:  Cloud Strategy | Collaboratively develop a sound cloud strategy  Application Development | Developing applications to take advantage of the power of the cloud  Cloud Migration Services | Helping you move your existing applications to the cloud Big Data Analytics  Big Data Strategy | We help you make sense of opportunities that Big Data presents  Application Development | We develop and deploy Big Data based applications  Hadoop / mongoDB / DynamoDB / EMR Implementation  Strategy Consulting | We bring our collective experience to help you make the right choices  Application Development | We build custom solutions in an agile fashion  e-Commerce Enablement | We help you go online, extend the reach and increase your sales Technology Consulting  JEE, .Net, LAMP, RoR, HTML5  Mobile Application Development  Content Management Platforms - Alfresco, Liferay, Sharepoint  Analytics Tools - Pentaho, Palo, Mondrian  Our philosophy on the choice of technology is very simple - to be vendor-neutral and select the "best technology for the job". Cloud Enablement Consumerization of IT
9. Predominantly Off-shore Co-location during Inception On-shore presence with Off-shore Delivery Fully On-shore Engagement Models & Practices On-shore Off-shore Inception Estimation Customer Feedback UAT Deployment Test driven development Test automation Unit testing Code Reviews Iterative Development Incremental Delivery Scope Management Project Metrics Scrum Wall Iteration Planning Meeting Test automation Continuous Integration Compassites Sneak Peek 2013 l Copyright 2013, All rights reserved. www.compassitesinc.com
10. Our Clients We appreciate that our clients are looking for quality software services from their vendors and we are committed to deliver software of the highest standards. Our client roster includes companies from various countries and we are flexible to working with clients from various domains. The following is a representative list of customers that we have worked with over the years. Hydratech CYRUN NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY Graymatics
11. Why Compassites Leadership that cares We have an experienced leadership team which is passionate about you - the customer! We understand and know where you are coming from and want you to succeed. Solid portfolio of previous projects We have fostered more than 30 software products. Our stellar delivery track record speaks volumes about the kind of complex projects that we have delivered over the years. A plethora of choices We have a slew of offerings that can be customized as per your needs and requirements. We work on various technologies across multiple platforms and different domains. You just need to pick! A technology deep dive Technology is the core of our existence. We have proven expertise in multiple technologies. When it comes to anything tech related, we are very comfortable in the deep end of the pool. Connect the loose ends You can rely on us to take your project to completion. We love solving business critical problems and won’t relent until your project is delivered. Also if your project needs a rescue, we are the right people to call. Compassites Sneak Peek 2013 l Copyright 2013, All rights reserved. www.compassitesinc.com
12. CLOUD Enablement Helping you take advantage of the cloud. Cloud computing has radically changed the world of software. More customers are seeing the value of having applications on the cloud. We have designed, developed and deployed several cloud applications over the years globally. We can specifically help you to:  Assess your software platforms and products for cloud readiness.  Refurbish & revamp your applications to be cloud ready.  Migrate your targeted applications to the cloud.  Scale your applications that are already on the cloud. The Cloud is Here to Stay Software implementations that would cost 5x the license cost are a thing of the past. The software industry has matured and deploying applications on the cloud has become common across the world. Service Oriented Architectures on the Cloud deliver a technology choice that is hard to resist for the businesses as they bring costs and overheads down increasing the ROI significantly. Leverage PaaS to Your Benefit We have built platforms that have enhanced the business delivery with reduced cost and increased customer base. We have developed several mission- critical applications for businesses where PaaS has become a competitive advantage. Talk to us today and we will help you make your SaaS and PaaS dreams come true. Our Expertise Amazon Web Services Windows Azure Google AppEngine IBM Smart Cloud Rackspace HP Cloud Private, Public or Hybrid Cloud
13. Case Study Cloud Migration Client Profile iCharts is a cloud-based charting tool that makes it easy to visualize, share and distribute data. It accelerates data-driven storytelling with interactive charts for publishers, marketers, journalists, bloggers, and market researchers. The iCharts community today is over 14,000 strong, including users such as Coca Cola, IDC, Marketwatch, Focus Online and NRF. More information about the team at www.icharts.net The iCharts tool enables processing, visualization and distribution of big and small data. Their vision is to empower the world to explore and share data by enabling the free flow of visual data among data owners, media, business and consumers. Users can upload and connect to Excel sheets, csv files, dynamic data, Google spread sheets, survey data in the form of SPSS or iCharts proprietary data, OLAP data sources, process the data, and use it to create attractive, interactive charts and dashboards using a web application. Business Situation The company was founded in 2008, with their SAAS application on dedicated infrastructure hosted with a hosting provider. It went on to be become a popular data visualization provider with bloggers, teachers, government analysts and small business owners, along with Fortune 500 companies and other market research partners who started harnessing the power tool. The business need was to grow further, in terms of storage, bandwidth and processing capacity called for ad hoc needs for scaling the infrastructure, which was limited by SLAs provided by the infrastructure vendor. Solution Approach Compassites proposed and implemented migration of the whole application stack to the public cloud to ensure elastic, auto scaling, fault tolerant and high capacity infrastructure, using the following services provided by Amazon Web Services. Benefits / Results  Elastic infrastructure provided by elastic load balancer and auto scaling.  High availability and fault tolerance provided by installing the elastic load balancer against two availability zones.  Higher processing capacity through Amazon RDS.  Reduction of infrastructure costs by half. "The most interesting and unique approach of Compassites is to create a real relationship with it's customers. This means that it is a partnership which can go far beyond the level which is normal in business life." Hans-Bernd Dreis VP, Data Visualization and Special Projects Compassites Sneak Peek 2013 l Copyright 2013, All rights reserved. www.compassitesinc.com
14. BIG Data Analytics Big Data: Right cost, better impact Information explosion is going to stay and grow. This manifold growth of information is due to businesses & individuals embracing digital communications and creating data accumulation of unforeseen proportions. If your business is one of those that have this problem, your technology solutions are surely under a stress! We are familiar with such challenges and have helped companies overcome them. From our point of view, this challenge also presents unprecedented opportunities.The data generated by complex systems has tones of knowledge, which if leveraged correctly can reveal high potential business opportunities, reduced costs and higher positive impact for organizations. We have been on the big data path and are willing to bring our experience to bear to help you with your journey. Gearman RabbitMQ Redis Memcache Solr ElasticSearch MongoDB Hadoop Map Reduce Mondrian Our Expertise
15. Case Study Client Profile The client is division of the world's largest beverage company. Globally, through the world's largest beverage distribution system, consumers in more than 200 countries enjoy their sparkling beverages, ready-to-drink coffees, juices, juice drinks and beverages at the rate of 1.8 billion servings a day! Business Situation The client sources the market research data from one of the largest market research companies, which provides around 34 trillion data points of relevant market research data, which was made available to client using their proprietary tool. The market research department of client would then work through this data for about two months to manually create a 220 tabbed excel report. Most of the report generation process was manual; giving scope to human errors. Creating reports was extremely time consuming and an expensive process. This was a very inefficient approach since there was loss of valuable time until the report was published. Most of the process was manual; giving scope to human errors. The reports were shared through emails, physical documents creating lack of flexibility and easy availability. Creating new reports was extremely time consuming and an expensive process. The client has to source some of the data from one of the largest market research companies, which usually turned out to be expensive. Big Data : Market Research Solution Approach We got the data from the market research company in the form of raw database files, and processed this data, to generate a macro level database in the form of OLAP cubes, to be served to end users through a web based, advanced data visualization platform called iCharts. Since this was a huge data set that needs to be processed and analyzed, the data was processed in parallel through a MapReduce implementation. Benefits / Results  Fully automatic process preventing any human errors. Quick turnaround of reports and the monthly data is now available to managers within 3 days.  Highly organized dashboard, with advanced data visualization capabilities like filtering.  Access controlled dashboard to give selective access to different users.  Individual reports can be downloaded, to be shared with management.  Availability of filtered raw data allows for creating new reports in short time, with fractional cost.  Intermediate database allows for merging data from other sources to create an integrated report.  Built on open source technology stack, thereby saving tremendous cost on software licenses. Beverages Compassites Sneak Peek 2013 l Copyright 2013, All rights reserved. www.compassitesinc.com
16. Consumerization of IT Your business needs typically get translated into technology challenges that warrant the need for custom solutions. From e-commerce enablement to custom portals, we have the experience of designing and implementing these kind of projects globally. Talk to us and we will be happy to share stories that include enabling large brick-and-mortar businesses to go online, providing niche solutions to large banks and automating key processes for nanotechnology. We would love to be on your side bringing our technology expertise to be a competitive advantage for your business. IT: Taking it to the consumers Custom Solutions We realize that your unique needs warrant building of one or more custom solutions. We have a long history of successfully building and implementing custom solutions to clients worldwide. Be it developing a data collection platform, trace and track of supply chain, ecommerce solutions, developing internal facing or external facing portals or to customizing and deploying technology and business frameworks, we are ready to serve you NOW. Big data is important since services enabled by personal-location data can allow consumers to capture $600 billion in economic surplus. The use of big data will become a key basis of competition and growth for individual firms in the coming decade. Creating Value We don't believe that ONE technology is the answer to ALL problems. However, we do believe that with the right use of technology or a combination of technologies, problems can be solved and opportunities can be realized. We follow the Agile methodology right from the word go and throughout the lifecycle of the project. Our team includes experienced developers, architects, UX experts, test automation experts and support professionals who are ready to embrace your problem as their own and deliver results. Alfresco Magento Microsoft Sharepoint Liferay iOS programming Android development Social Engine HTML 5 OpenX Our Expertise
17. Case Study Client Profile Awarded the best "Customer Loyalty Program" award by Asia Retail Congress, imint is known as the common element between brands, retailers and local merchants that could deliver a superior shopping experience. Some brands were running their own loyalty programs but consumers were disillusioned with these programs as they did not see value in them. It took too long to collect points and mostly, the points could be redeemed for items that had a poor perceived value. Also, there were too many cards in the consumer's wallet. That's when the idea of i-mint was conceived whereby a single card could be used across a network of brands and local merchants to accumulate points. A consumer would have to carry only one card and all the points that he earned across different categories of spends would get aggregated on one card. Hence, a consumer can earn large number of points quickly and redeem them for better rewards. Business Situation The previous design of the portal had availability issues. The downtime was severe and significantly high crippling the operations. The user interface and user experience had failed to live to the expectation of the stakeholders and customers. The customers were not able to redeem points due to the outage resulting in unacceptable portal behavior and bad user experience. When the business grew in size with more vendors being pooled to offer their products. The portal failed to scale and cost the company. It was a typical Java/J2EE portal built with MySQL as backend and hosted on Apache. While the setup was in place, the system had many issues with regard to handling and development of code. When there were concurrent users, the load test failed and the Case Study – Payback’s Online Shopping portal shut down. When more vendors wished to showcase their products, the system could scale only beyond a number and crash thereafter. Hence, from a technical and business standpoint, it was decided to scrap the entire project and start ground-up. Solution Approach The client approached Compassites initially to create a user interactivity module. Eventually they enlarged the scope to the development to the entire portal's development. Compassites went on to create the portal ground-up by restructuring the portal using Java\J2EE. We built a reliable front-end by bringing onboard the most user-friendly features and handled the performance issue with a judicious mix of business acumen and technology edge. The various features there were built later into the portal greatly enriched the user experience. With the change in layout, logo and multi-features, more vendors came forward to exhibit their products and customers were more than willing to redeem their points as the uptime was to a close 99.9%. It was a phenomenal achievement in a timespan of just 5 months, by which the system was rigorously tested, soft launched and then taken live for production. Benefits / Results  The redemption increased by 70% and the number of online customers and vendors increased.  The user experience went up, so did the comfort factor.  There was no outage faced ever since and downtime became a rarity.  The portal became very consistent and reliable in terms of behavior.  We enabled the client to articulate their business models effectively. Compassites Sneak Peek 2013 l Copyright 2013, All rights reserved. www.compassitesinc.com
18. TECHNOLOGY Consulting Technology: at the heart of everything we do. Technology is what drives us. We are truly passionate about using technology to help our clients take their business to the next level. Our philosophy on the choice of technology is very simple - to be vendor-neutral and select the "best technology for the job". We take great care to identify the technology stack that best suits your unique needs. In addition, we bring a wealth of experience and expertise in Open Source technologies too. Driven by our philosophy and support system, our teams strive hard to keep up to date with the emerging technologies, thereby providing most accurate, cost effective, robust technical solutions to you.
19. Client Profile Authentix is the global leader in authentication and tracking solutions for excise tax recovery and brand protection. As the inventor and developer of many of the leading nano-scale authentication solutions in use today, Authentix is renowned in the realm of verification and validation using a world-class technology portfolio. Business Situation Tobacco tax evasion is a problem that costs federal and state governments billions per year. This creates challenges in securing the manufacturing, distribution, and application of the tax stamps. Tracking of cigarette packs throughout their distribution would enable tax authorities to ensure proper tax collection, but currently taxes on cigarettes are collected via a stamp system that has very limited track and trace capabilities. In order to manage tobacco tax revenue collection efficiently and securely, it is necessary to significantly improve tax stamp security features and transition stamp distribution from a centralized print and distribute model to a secure print-on-demand model. Solution Approach Authentix partnered with Compassites in creating the Digital Solution along with RED Stamp, Inc. and Assure Digitax to offer the next generation solution for tobacco tax revenue management and recovery. This unique system enables tax collection authorities to collect tax revenues effectively and track the status of legally issued stamps electronically. This Case Study solution brings tax stamps into the digital era by eliminating the need for expensive and vulnerable inventories of printed stamps while providing real-time auditing and immediate cash retrieval. The Authentix Digital Tax Stamp Solution significantly improves security and operational efficiency of tax stamp production, distribution and monitoring. With the Authentix solution, cigarette distributors and licensees can print, authenticate, and report tax stamp consumption electronically. This high-tech system combines the latest in nano-scale security technologies, sophisticated encryption technologies and secure e-commerce services. Benefits / Results  Each stamp includes multiple layers of overt, covert and forensic security features.  Digital validation since each stamp is validated in-line post application.  The equipment applying the stamp can be monitored remotely by the authorities.  Stamping now is at the rate of 100 cartons per minute, as opposed to traditional systems which did about 70  This solution offers the ability to generate real time reports, rather than waiting for monthly reports to be filed.  Due to 24/7 availability and access to data, auditing capabilities and accuracy are improved. Product Authentication Compassites Sneak Peek 2013 l Copyright 2013, All rights reserved. www.compassitesinc.com
20. Bangalore Center 'Gayathri Chambers', #948, 24th Main Rd, 2nd Phase, J.P.Nagar Bangalore - 560078 Karnataka, India Pune Center 608 Kapil Zenith, Off Bangalore - Mumbai bypass, Near Chandani Chowk, Bavdhan, Pune 411021. Maharashtra, India You can read more about Compassites at www.compassitesinc.com Reach out to us at +91 80 42032572 +91 20 6500 2371 Via email info@compassitesinc.com Compassites Sneak Peek 2013 l Copyright 2013, All rights reserved. Dover Center 3500S, Dupont Highway Dover, DE Kent - 19901 United States Australia Center 5/18, Ethel Street, Erskineville, NSW Australia /compassites @compassites /compassitesinc /compassitesphotostories /compassites New Delhi ‘SAIRAM’, F-49, Sector-39 Near Ryan International School Noida – 201301(U.P.) info@compassitesinc.com