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Calibre® Mindware Programming Pvt. Ltd
An Overview
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1.About Calibre® Company Profile Company History Managing Director’s Profile Organisation Structure
2.Calibre® Skill Set Company Skill Set
3.Calibre® Products and Services Mobile and Web Applications Financial Software Services Educational Software Products
4.Calibre® Infrastructure Infrastructure
5.Calibre® Methods And Practices Software Development Life Cycle Client Communication Model Support Practice Confidentiality Policy Quality Policy
6.Calibre® Clients Client List
7.Calibre® Contact Contact Information
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About Calibre®
Company Profile
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Calibre Mindware Programming Pvt. Ltd (Calibre®) is a software solutions and services provider, with its development center in Pune, India.
Calibre®’s mission is to simplify, accelerate, and enrich business processes for clients so as they can gain an edge over competition.
Calibre®’s offerings are as follows:• Mobile applications• Web applications and user interfaces• Enterprise business solutions• Outsourced product development• Legacy systems upgrade and maintenance• Value added services
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Company History
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Calibre® has its roots as the IT division of Career Forum Ltd., a pioneering and premier private-sector Indian educational services organization imparting training and competency building services for international and nationwide competitive examinations.
As the in-house software development division for over 10 years, Calibre® was also an independent profit centre. It undertook various projects for building, automating, operating and maintaining ERP’s of other companies.
In 2008, Calibre® was spun off as a separate company.
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Managing Director’s Profile
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Mr. Sunil Khanna, Managing Director, Calibre®, has 27 years’ experience in the software industry. He received his B.Tech. in Engineering from National Institute Of Technology, Calicut, India, in 1986. He worked with Tata Consultancy Services and Citicorp Software, before joining Career Forum Ltd. as the Chief Technology Officer.
During his tenure at Citicorp Overseas Software Ltd., Mr. Sunil Khanna was actively involved in the 'Project Banker', a bank branch operations suite. This was later branded 'Finware', and was a very successful banking product.
At Career Forum Ltd., he took up extensive computerisation of all the organisational functions. The usage of technology in managing distributed campuses across the country made the Career Forum business model highly scalable.
He founded Calibre® as a business division of Career Forum in 2005. Having successfully executed a number of projects, he hived off the software division as a separate company in 2008, with the aim to venture into other domains.
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Organization Structure
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Board Of Directors
Managing Director
Sales & Marketing
International Domestic
Admin & HR FinanceProduct Support
Delivery & QA Systems
COO
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Calibre® Skill Set
Company Skill Set
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Calibre® has expertise in implementation of solutions based on client server architecture, two tiered, three tiered web based solutions and distributed client/server technology.
Microsoft Technologies• MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2010• .Net Technologies• ASP.Net• C#.Net• VB.Net• MS Access C, C++ VB Script/ Java Script Java/Open Source Technologies
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Company Skill Set
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XML/XAML, HTML 4/5, JSP, Struts, Web services• HTML 5: UI in HTML 5 facilitates an application to run in most latest web browsers.• Hot Towelette Template: This template is used for implementing single page applications. It uses
Durandal Libraries (framework) which supports single page application routing mechanism. Knockout Libraries are used for data binding. It is purely a client site app which makes web request to server to get data. The services which provide data are hosted on a server.
• CSS3: Used for design definition, animation/transitions• CSS Sprites: Used for images Designing Software• Adobe Photoshop, • Dreamweaver• Flash• Coral Draw
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Calibre® Products & Services
Mobile & Web Applications
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The objectives of any business are increasing sales, increasing market share and enhancing geographical reach. With so much information and interaction to be effected on internet, businesses must have their online strategies in place to reach the world market place effectively. Moreover, mobile devices have drastically shifted the online landscape to the point that today more than 50 percent of all Internet access is being done via handhelds of some sort. Calibre®'s core competency is delivering quality online applications solutions that focus
on making the user interfaces approachable and the technology intuitive to users. Calibre®'s mobile application development solutions can work in different browsers and
across various mobile and tablet devices from popular iPads, iPhones, and Android devices to business-oriented BlackBerry smartphones, Playbooks, and Windows tablets.
Calibre® adheres to design standards of usability, keeping in mind the scalability and interactivity needs of its clients.
Mobile News Production Application
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Financial Software Services
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Calibre® offers a range of services to financial institutions that enable them become high performance businesses. Calibre® helps manage risk, comply with regulations, enhance product features and manage business transformation challenges.
Global Payments
Calibre® provides the technological support to global payments facilitators, both bank and non-bank.
Calibre®’s expertise lies in programming systems for sending money from one country to another via wire transfer systems, SWIFT and correspondent banking foreign exchange.
Upgrading and managing online and offline legacy systems
Calibre® has proven expertise in managing the evolution of business systems, giving its clients the full support that they need, and without the constraints they have in-house.
If the client’s longer term solution is inevitably to migrate to a new technology or to continue develop it, Calibre® gives the client the time to evaluate these options carefully while mitigating the risk elements associated with the legacy systems/applications.
Forex Web Application
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FXecute provides an easy to use platform for clients to execute payments.
Forex Web Application
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Educational Software Products
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Calibre® with its expertise in various verticals has developed the following suites of products that are currently being used in various organizations.
ERP Solution• Multi-user application environment • Multi-location & Multi-level application set-up• Web-based user interfaces
Online & Offline Testing Services • Caters to various large sized business organisations• Assessment delivery for over a 10 million candidates Managed Learning Service • Training frameworks • E-learning solutions
Testing & Assessment Application
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Calibre®Infrastructure
Infrastructure
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• Available 20,000 sq. ft. independent and centrally air-conditioned office space• 400 Work Stations with LAN, Internet and Telephone points• Exchange server, currently having a 10 mbps line, situated within the premises for future
expansion of telephone and internet bandwidth• Work Stations for Project Managers• Conference room with a capacity of 12 to 15 • 22 KVA HT connections for reliable power supply• Round the clock Generator Backup of 125 KVA• Fully automatic temperature controlled work environment• 24x7 UPS backup• Security cameras• Electronic swipe card reader security doors on office premises and server rooms
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Snapshot Of Facilities
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Calibre®Methods & Practices
Software Development Life Cycle
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Requirement Analysis
Gap Analysis
Customization
Development
Integration of Modules
Testing
Deployment Pilot
Training
Design
Go Live
Support
Customer Sign Off
Customer Sign Off
Customer Sign Off
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Client Communication Model
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Client Leadership Team
Calibre Management Team
Customer IT Team
CalibreBusiness Analyst
Project Manager
Product Specialist
Support Services
Team Leader
TestLeader
Software Developer
Test Engineer
Solution Architect
Domain Specialist
QA/QCExpert
Graphic Designer
SystemAdmin
SupportEngineer
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Onsite Offshore
Support Practice
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Level 3: Support Type• Remote infrastructure management support• Multi-level tech support
Level 2: Support Coverage • 24X7 support for all the queries related to implementation, process, system
crash etc.
Level 1: Support Infrastructure•Dedicated data server having Xeon 2 processor, 8 GB RAM and 500 GB SATA•Dedicated leased lines with high bandwidth of 10MBPS each•SonicWall firewall with Quick Heal antivirus•Multi-chanel support – voice, chat, e-mail & web
Differentiators• Support team lead by product• Low turn around time with ITIL framework
Confidentiality And Security Policy
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•Development environment on secure separate LAN without internet connectivity•Visual Source Safe(VSS) for code security•Multi Level secure logins for servers•Backup Policy for codes on external devices and stored at secured depository
Client Data Back Up
Head Office and Web servers are data back up servers for each other and can be located at different geographic locations.
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Quality Policy
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The management of Calibre® recognizes that consistent satisfaction of client needs is essential to business survival. Hence our quality policy is as follows:• To consistently meet or exceed our clients’ expectations for product quality and
performance• To ensure timely delivery of products and services to meet our clients’ requirements• To ensure our personnel are properly trained and the development team members are
aware of their quality responsibilities, so they are better able to serve our clients• To plan, implement and control projects in compliance with recognized best practice,
which includes requirement analysis, architectural design, coding, testing and documentation
• To continually improve our processes and systems
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Calibre® Clientele
Client List
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Calibre® Contact
Contact Information
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Skype - Calibre.helpdesk
Email - [email protected]
Calibre® Mindware Programming Pvt. Ltd110-111/10, Baner Road,Off NH – 4, Pune – 411 045, India
Phone - +91 20 30688 666/670
Website - www.calibre.co