Case Studies - BEAS Consultancy and Services Pvt. Ltd.

Development of DMS and Digitization Services for Uttarbanga Sambad

Business Need

Requirement of a Document Management System and Digitization by Uttarbanga Sambad, Kolkata which needs scanning of newspapers, taking snap of newspaper pages and images/scanned documents to be uploaded in the Private GoDaddy cloud server for future reference. Advance search is required to find a required document based on search parameters. Performance of the application should be optimized despite high volume of images uploading in PNG and JPEG format and scanned documents in PDF format.

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS designed and developed this application in MVC framework to implement security measures in this application. Users from various offices working at various regions can login, scan the required newspaper pages and upload the same in the form of image or PDFs in cloud server. In fact, approx. 1.5 lakhs pages scanned, digitised and indexed in DMS. It generates a unique identification number of each image which can be used to find out any image or any version of newspaper for a specific date. System provides expanded view of any image or PDF and an advanced search option that helps users to search and download the required images pertaining to any date. System will provide the list of document number, date, description and thumbnail images. User would be able to click to view the image and download the actual image if required. System tracks all the information about the user who uploads the info.

Benefits to the customer

This application was developed for Uttarbanaga Sambad to manage their day-to-day published newspapers for future reference. That information is precious and referred frequently by the Governments, investigation agencies and other companies.

Technology Platform

PHP
CODEIGNITER
AJAX
JQUERY
MySQL
Private GoDaddy Cloud

Insurance Mobile App for Oriental Insurance Company Ltd. (OICL), India

Business Need

The Oriental Insurance Company Limited (OICL), a public sector dealing in non-life insurance products is ahead of its peers in the industry in adopting information technology. OICL has been enjoying the highest rating from leading Indian credit rating agencies CRISIL and ICRA. OICL has its own web application to provide services to its users. In this phase, OICL aspires to develop Mobile apps on all major device operating systems such as Android, iOS, Windows and Blackberry in order to proliferate its insurance policy adoption to the population. Practically, having a mobile app for policyholders, acts as a big incentive to attract more users. Mobile apps make filing claims a breeze, which provides a better customer experience and value proposition. From a cost standpoint, mobile app also saves on expenses of the Organisation by improving the overall process of un-manned buying and renewal.

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS used its earlier experiences in designing and developing various mobile applications on Android, IOS and Windows with all the functionalities as was required by OICL for addressing their customer’s needs, in a very tight time line. Dynamic screen design and dynamic field validation techniques were adopted in order to generate all complex forms required to purchase various new policies thus reducing total time for project development. This application provides services such as – Buy New Policies, Renew Policies, Track Claims etc. for the existing users of Oriental Insurance Company as well as to the incumbent customers. Bill Desk’s third party service has been used to integrate payment gateway to the apps. Customers are notified by email notification for confirmation of their transactions. Also ‘Feedback’ and ‘Contact us’ services are available through integration of SMS gateway.

Benefits to the customer

Facilitate OICL to launch their application in time as per their market need and stay ahead of their competitor. Facilitate online services to users of OICL via mobile app. Anywhere-Anytime purchase or renew policies such as Motor Insurance Policy, Personal Accident Policy, Individual Mediclaim etc.

Technology Platform

Android / IOS / Windows / Blackberry SQLite database Payment gateway integration

Application Value Management Engagement for mjunction

Business Need

mjunction services limited (mjunction) operating at the cutting edge of Information Technology and the Internet, is India’s largest eCommerce company that runs the world’s largest eMarketplace for steel. mjunction wanted to ‘outsource’ the support required to maintain their Existing applications developed with Java, PHP, DotNet, Mobile Technologies and to take part in their new developments / enhancements planned for – to align its IT support needs with the overall strategic business goals.

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS proposed to use an Optimized Development/Support Delivery Model to provide maintenance and support for mjunction’s existing applications in agreed SLA mode. Key highlights of the solution are:

Deputed a team of 20+ consultants for different application domains at mjunction premises
Execution through a process driven methodology
Well Defined Execution methodology to ensure no disruptions
MBM approach – Manage by Metrics, focus on SLA, Documentation and Knowledge Management
Relationship focused engagement governance model
Core and Shared Pool Team structure to maximize the resource utilization, increase responsiveness and bring efficiency to the services provided by the application support team to the mjunction business

Benefits to the customer

Enabled mjunction to focus on their core business and obtain IT solutions / support from IT Experts
To align its IT support needs with the overall strategic business goals
Obtaining the best-of-breed solution and achieving process excellence
Certainty with assured service levels (SLA)
Quality to improve end-user satisfaction
Cost Savings
Increased flexibility, high quality & faster time to market, towards the development as well as support of the applications under scope.

Technology Platform

Operating System (OS):	Linux, Windows, Android, IOS
Language:	JAVA/J2EE, PHP, C#, SWIFT
Others:	AJAX, JASON / Jquery / HTML5 / Webservice, Struts, Spring, Hybernate, EJB, JBoss, OracleAS, Eclipse/NetBeans
Database:	DB2 / SqlServer, MySql
Framework	Struts, Spring, MVC framework

Digitization and DMS Services for Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC)

Business Need

Kolkata Municipality Corporation (KMC) has a very large Supplier / Customer base for their day-to-day operations. To facilitate the ‘payment (for vendors)’ / ‘invoice (for Customers)’ processes to be effective with all the relevant ‘document’ level validations, KMC wanted to create ‘Digital Collections’ of all the relevant documents (like Contract, NEFT mandate form, etc.) required for the same enabling their departments to expedite the transaction process using these ‘digitized’ documents enhancing end-user experience.

BEAS’s Solution

As a part of KMC’s ‘Digitization’ drive, BEAS create a Java based application with the following features:

Documents storage in web accessible repository with versioning on KMC’s private Azure Cloud
Handled a volume of 1 lakh+ documents in A2 / A3 / A4 formats
Digitized Documents to be available in defined folder structure
Documents search based on metadata indexing
Documents to be display selected metadata for Supplier / Customer when opened for viewing
Digitized copy to be available in read only form
Document viewing to support mobile, desktop and laptop client
Digital rights of view only, view and download, view and print should be available based on user groups
System to maintain system logs for document library

Benefits to the customer

Expedite the Payment and Customer Invoice process with minimized Supplier / Customer interface
Accessible solution for all the ‘Departmental Users’
Documents / Set viewing on mobile, desktops and laptops
Preserving document content as replica of original
Secured and long-lasting preservation of document content
Easily to explore, view and search content

Technology Platform

Expedite the Payment and Customer Invoice process with minimized Supplier / Customer interface
Accessible solution for all the ‘Departmental Users’
Documents / Set viewing on mobile, desktops and laptops
Preserving document content as replica of original
Secured and long-lasting preservation of document content
Easily to explore, view and search content

Everlasting Testament – Social Media for American Marines

Business Need

The mission at Everlasting Testament is to provide service for the user legacy in a way to preserve their past experiences while they create long lasting future memories for loved ones. The purpose is to provide a simple yet comprehensive method for the preservation and sharing of moments of life, keeping family and close friends forever connected on a deeper level regardless of time or distance.

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS designed and architected the application to sustain considerable amount of load of concurrent users at peak time. Some of the features as developed and implemented by BEAS are as follows:

Inbox: The Inbox was designed to hold all new contents (document/picture/video) which have been uploaded to the site. Items will remain in the Inbox until the user moves/removes the file.
Time Locked Content: Users will be able to store information that they want to share at later dates and time. The content can vary from special birthday messages, congratulations, anniversary messages etc.
Legal Documents: The goal was to store important legal documents such as a “will”, living will, trust, bank information etc. The content in the legal document folders was only be released upon presenting of a death certificate to Everlasting Testament. The work-flow to send notifications to beneficiaries of deceased persons could be pre-defined by the user.
Eulogy Presentation: The Eulogy presentation contains documents for his or her Eulogy. This presentation was made available to the family only after 80% of the recipients on the account have reported the account holder as deceased.
Add Recipient: With this option a user was be able to add new recipients/beneficiaries to his or her account

Benefits to the customer

The product is visually distinct from the competitor’s website creating a completely new and improved user experience.
Strong end to end data security of the application makes it acceptable to US military personnel
Cloud based hosting in azure IAAS has substantially reduced initial and recurring hosting cost of the application.
Quick content delivery via Akamai CDN service has yielded optimum customer satisfaction.

Technology Platform

Java/J2EE
MySQL
JBoss App server
Microsft Azure(IAAS)
Akamai CDN

Development of Mobile Application for coaljunction

Business Need

coaljunction is mjunction’s coal sales division which enables the entire coal buying community in India to buy coal through the Internet. coaljunction conducts eSales on behalf of Coal India Limited (CIL) and its subsidiaries, the largest coal conglomerate in the world.

The customers of coaljunction, after being successful in the coal auction process, calls up their representatives to request for booking to lift the material from the yard along with the transport details. The subsequent confirmation from coaljunction, status of lifting, cancellation / extension of booking, feedback, etc. were all manual through the telephone calls.

It was desired to put in place a mobile solution which would facilitate coaljunction customers to do the ‘booking request’ and subsequent activities to monitor the booking status on ‘real time’ basis for greater efficiencies.

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS implemented a mobile solution that helped the customers of coaljunction register the booking request faster and more efficiently than ever before
This mobile application receives the delivery related data (such as Delivery Order, Quantity, etc.) for the customer from coaljunction ‘back-end’ auction system and can be thus check conformity.
Facilities like cancellation, extension, viewing booking status and sharing feedback are also made available to the customers, enhancing their business experience
This application also provides an option to coaljunction customers to raise a money refund request in case and monitor the status thereof.

Benefits to the customer

Improves bi-directional communication between coaljunction and customers and attain conformity at every stage
Improve customer collaboration
Customer delight with personalized experiences
Reduced turnaround time and continuous improvements to the material lifting process

Technology Platform

Android (Native)
Web Services

“Customer Connect” Mobile App for mjunction Services Ltd.

Business Need

mjunction services limited (mjunction), a 50:50 venture promoted by SAIL and TATA Steel, is India’s largest e-commerce company that runs the largest e-Marketplace for steel. ‘mjunction’ wanted to develop a mobile application on Android, IOS and Windows platform for their 3 ‘service divisions’ namely ‘mjunction’, ‘buyjunction; and ‘coaljunction’ to facilitate its customers with ‘real time’ information on auction results, financial information related to EMD and material payment, order booking etc.

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS created the “notification solution” for mjunction based on the ‘Device ID’ of the customers. The source of the notification was from mjunction server (for the auction messages generated from the auction system) along with the provision for app-Admin to ‘push’ additional messages as and when required. This mobile solution also includes the features such as individual ‘login’ facility for each of their ‘service lines’, ‘work in offline mode’, display count of ‘unread’ messages, facilitate customers to ‘switch’ devices (e.g. from Android to IOS, etc.) with proper notifications, periodic message archival, etc.

Benefits to the customer

Helps its’ esteemed customers to stay updated with various business events / happenings with respect to the auction process
Facilitates mjunction to track the customer’s geo-position/location.

Technology Platform

Android / IOS / Windows
SQLite database
Payment gateway integration

‘Food Ordering’ Mobile App for MILADA, New York, USA Business

Business Need

An USA based Entrepreneur (Milada) wanted to develop an iOS app to service her customer’s daily needs for cooked-food, vegetables, consumer items, etc. The apps encompasses all steps of order placement and delivery – ‘Order Capturing’ till ‘Delivery’ along with ‘tracking’ facility (against the orders) and ‘Delivery receipt’. The requirements also included the functionalities such as item search, creation of ‘shopping cart’ and customer payment through ‘payment gateway’, etc.

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS designed and developed this app for MILADA for handling their delivery services to their customers. Registered customers are able to login and select the product category. Products belonging to that category will be displayed and the customer can add any product to the shopping cart. Customer may continue adding more items to the cart and finally will be advanced to the checkout screen where all the item details, quantity booked and cost for each item are displayed. Customers need to feed shipping address and pay for final order booked. Admin can view that order and assign a delivery boy to that order and the delivery boy captures signature of the customer as a confirmation of receipt, after the delivery is made. Customers are able to view their order history with all the details of delivery status. Admin is able to see the payments made by the customers and status of all the requested orders.

Benefits to the customer

This iOS app (MILADA) is a unique app that facilitates delivery services to the customers. Customers can order preferred products sitting at home and would be able to receive those products at their door step. On the other hand, MILADA would be able to capture large sections of customers who do not have time to go to the shops, restaurants to buy those products and thus MILADA would be able to enhance revenue and marketshare through this apps.

Technology Platform

XCODE
Objective C
PHP
Web service
MySQL

Mobile App on Teacher / Educators. Hong Kong

Business Need

A Hong Kong based company, with an objective of building a bridge between Teachers and Learners, wanted to develop a Mobile Apps to create a greater student engagement with an expansion of learning environment beyond normal class hours fitting their needs with teachers living close to the respective student localities.

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS designed and developed a comprehensive solution related to ‘Teachers / Learners’ to enable the teachers in defining their location, subjects , availability calendar and helping students to select their learning needs. This application also provides functionalities such as starting / ending / changing / cancelling appointments, and “running late” information for both teachers and learners. At the same time, payment and refund (for learners) options are also available

Benefits to the customer

Teachers perspective:Effectively manages the tutoring business and profitability as well as provides market visibility of the Teacher’s services.
Students perspective: Enables search / appointments of tutors at a reasonable rate close to their location

Technology Platform

Android
IOS
Codeigniter
MySql

pc-chandra Customer Kiosk for PC Chandra Jewellers showrooms, India

Business Need

P C Chandra Jewellery Private Ltd., a part of multifaceted P C Chandra group of companies, is a manufacturer and supplier of gold, platinum, silver and diamond jewelleries. To facilitate their customers with an ‘information based’ and ‘self-driven’ selection process, P C Chandra Jewellers wanted to build a KIOSK for their POS shops.

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS designed and developed the ‘Customer Kiosk’ for P C Chandra Jewellers Showrooms (POS’s) for the ornaments that are stacked in wall display racks in a Five column and Eight row arrangement. Each of this ornament display racks in the showroom will have this kiosk displayed in front of them. The kiosk will have the items (ornaments) displayed in the same sequence as physically placed on the rack. Thus the physical display and the virtual display (on Kiosk) are replicas. The customer can have a close view of the item displayed on the Kiosk which shall contain high resolution pictures along with all the relevant details for their selection.

Benefits to the customer

Facilitate customers on their ornament selection process with all the relevant details and in comfort.
Optimized use of ‘Sales Persons’ for each of their showrooms and easy crowd management
Proper management of displayed ornaments

Technology Platform

IOS
MySql

Content Management Portal for Federal Bank, India under PWC’s Guidance

Business Need

Federal Bank Limited is a major Indian commercial bank in the private sector headquartered at Aluva, Kerala having more than thousand branches and ATMs spread across different States in India. Driven by the need to streamline their core processes and meet organization-specific requirements, Federal Bank wanted to develop / deploy a portal for managing documentation and control to enable the customers to use and view the same online.

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS designed and developed the portal keeping in view the Federal Bank customer’s ‘ease’ with the following functionalities:

Search Engine Optimization: SEO friendly Website was developed . Meta tag and meta-texts were added at relevant places in this website so that it helps in google ranking.
Implementation of Workflow in web content publishing: Application maintains the basic workflow for content uploading and content viewing.
Mobile friendly:This web application is mobile friendly and can be operated on mobile devices.
Managing concurrent users: Website can manage 1500-2000 concurrent users and the database was designed to handle this requirement.
ATM Branch locator: Website can find out nearest ATM depending on the user’s current location.
Implementation of Survey/Polls: Website provides survey/polls functionality for different products of the bank.
Microsite development
Grievance handling

Benefits to the customer

The entire manual process of filling up of various forms and sending them to branches or visiting branches to fill up and deposit various forms , by bank customers’ was reduced and the process was automated enabling an improvement in Process efficiency for the bank and its customers. This website is used both by the customers and the bank admin at their ends. Tracking and monitoring activity details of customers is possible through this site. Online information about bank facilities and locations further enhanced customer experience.

Technology Platform

Liferay / Alfresco
Velocity
Java
Oracle 10g

Development of CCO (Customer Care Officer) Application for mjunction, India

Business Need

mjunction services limited (mjunction), a 50:50 venture promoted by SAIL and TATA Steel, is India’s largest e-commerce company that runs the largest eMarketplace for steel and metal. They also conduct auction services for various industrial materials. mJunction wanted to develop a web application as well as mobile applications (Android, IOS) for continuous monitoring of performance of their Customer Connect Officers (CCO) whose role is to convert potential buyers to registered bidders.

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS’s initiative was to align mjunctions’ IT solutions with the overall strategic business goals of tracking and monitoring CCO effectiveness to improve buyer acquisition and participation in the auctions and provide easy access to relevant information, including KPI tracking. Accordingly, the web application was developed on a robust java based MVC architecture to support their huge customer base. Offline version of the application was also developed in order to ensure seamless operations even in remote areas. Various complex reports were developed to support appropriate information flow to higher management levels.

Benefits to the customer

Obtaining the best-of-breed solution and thereby achieving operational excellence.
Certainty and Quality with increase in customer acquisition efficiencies.
Cost effectiveness.

Technology Platform

Java
Spring Framework
Hibernate
BIRT report tool
Android / IOS

Solution on Enterprise Technical Support Centre (ETSC) – Partnered with LMC Software

Business Need

LMC Software Solutions (USA) provides software support solutions for companies that deploy and support enterprise business applications. While deploying and supporting critical business enterprise applications for a large IT enabled organization, most of the support tickets come from ‘non-functional’ requirements such as non-software issues, configuration and environmental issues, etc. The business objective is to improve the operational efficiency of the entire environment and to have a predictive outcome of environments that need to be managed (both in development and in the production instances) in a real time mode with the ability to track all types of changes as an integral part of DevOps strategy.

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS, with continued consultations with LMC technical team, has approached the solution with tracking all the individual components in real time and are combined into an environment “view” where users are presented with a comprehensive status of all changes. It also facilitates production operations to successfully achieve its mandate of stability and 100 percent uptime, yet allowing for speedier software deployment. The essence of this solution is to ensure glitch-less collaboration between the development and operation teams and help DevOps engineers to automatically execute administrative tasks and control processes on highly complex IT infrastructure.

Benefits to the customer

Eliminates 20 – 25% of mistakes, miscommunications and misunderstanding around change that affect system downtime and also reduces ‘problem to resolution’ time between 40% – 50% as compared to conventional, existing tools and processes.
Improving up to 40% productivity of Tier 3+ development maintenance resources while reducing the impact on internal QA/Testing quality by 20%

Technology Platform

Java
EJB
JMS
MS-Sql

Development of Market Place for 2ndTech.com, India

Business Need

2ndtech.com (2ndTech), with its many unique features, is a dedicated Single Window / Platform to buy and sell Genuine gadgets which includes Smartphones, Tablets, Laptops, Gaming Consoles, Music Pods and so on. 2ndTech wanted to build a complete eCommerce website to support their operations to the full satisfaction of their esteemed users for selling gadgets and / or upgrading their gadgets with the latest launches.

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS addressed the unique requirements of 2ndTech with the primary functionalities of

Search with various parameters
Listing of products based on categories
Viewing product detail
Sharing of preferred products
Approval of Distributors profile by admin
OTP Verification for Distributor
Product upload by distributor
Shopping cart
Checkout with all address details and selected products to buy
Product wise tax handling
Online payment

Benefits to the customer

Enables various distributors and customers to upload, view and buy products without going to a store,inperson.
Facilitates “price” comparison among products belonging to various distributors.
Increase in distributor and customer base all over the world which is directly helping their revenue growth

Technology Platform

PHP
CODEIGNITER
AJAX
JQUERY
MySQL

Development of Corporate Portal for Wipro Consumer Care Ltd., India

Business Need

Wipro Consumer Care & Lighting, under Wipro Enterprises (P) Limited, is the fastest growing FMCG company (in India) with product lines including soaps, toiletries, personal care products, baby care products, wellness products, electrical wire devices, domestic and commercial lighting as well as modular office furnitures. The business need was for the development of a Corporate Website that would provide information to all stake-holders including customers of the company about the Company Overview, details of all company locations, financial growth, senior employees and top management, Health and safety policy, Awards and recognitions, products that WIPRO Consumer Care is dealing with and how people would be able to acquire them. This was to be a Corporation information portal.

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS designed and developed this Corporate website focusing on easy navigation, enablement of search engine optimization and strong branding incorporating all the business requirements as shared by Wipro.

Benefits to the customer

WIPRO Consumer Care website brings their customers under one umbrella as far as sharing of information is concerned. It also helps WIPRO to increase bulk leads and finally convert them to actual business

Technology Platform

PHP
WORDPRESS CMS
AJAX
JQUERY
MySQL

Development of e-Commerce Website for HHEC, Noida, India

Business Need

The Handicrafts & Handloom Exports Corporation of India Ltd (HHEC), working under the aegis of Ministry of textiles, aims to nurture the magnificent portrait of human creativity in the form of weaving and artistic style of Indian craftsmanship to show-case to the world in its authentic and rarest form.

HHEC wanted to develop a complete eCommerce website to facilitate its’ valued customers (domestic and international) to ‘view’ and ‘shop’ the products of their choice with complete payment (multi-currency) and tracking options.

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS designed and developed this website in Majento for HHEC, enabling domestic and international customers to search products based on various parameters, view the entire range of products and their details based on categories. The eCommerce site has facilities for shopping cart, sharing of preferred products, checkout with all necessary address details and selected products to buy, provision to choose adding shipping options based on locations, product wise tax handling, listing of related products and online payment .

The Admin section of this eCommerce site provides provision for product upload, category upload, viewing sales, shipping and tax information.

Benefits to the customer

This e-Commerce website enabled various domestic and international customers to view and buy HHEC’s varied and quality products at one place without having to go to multiple shops. HHEC being a Central Government department focusing on promoting Indian Handicrafts, has the best possible product collection and thus buyers are greatly benefitted by the range of products to choose from. This has helped HHEC to increase customer base all over the world which is directly helping to increase revenue and visibility of ethnic Indian craftsmanship.

Technology Platform

PHP
MAGENTO
AJAX
JQUERY
MySQL

Development of “Music/Video Streaming” Application for StationDigital Corporation, USA

Business Need

An US based entertainment Company intended to create a web application where online users could seamlessly listen to free music streams according to their tastes & preferences. The application automatically issues reward points to every registered users for every hour they listen to. Social networking sites such as Facebook, Tweeter etc. were also integrated to ensure a viral growth.

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS designed and developed the application to withstand the challenge of consistent delivery of buffered streams across different geo locations to huge number of concurrent users with disparate network environments. The application was architected to be immensely scalable with ELB layer for Load balancing along with session stickiness. Static content delivery was managed via AKAMAI CDN. HLS processor engine was implemented as media streaming communications protocol for uninterrupted streaming on low memory foot print. Client side caching was added as an additional support for playing music for some more time in case of intermittent non-availability of internet connection, especially when consumers were on the move.

Benefits to the customer

Uninterrupted data flow: The website served as a dynamic showcase for music/videos of Station Digital and offered user-friendly trending Audio/Video music
Rich user experience: The product was visually distinct from the competitor’s website creating a completely new and improved user experience
Increased hit to ecommerce store:Due to the increased number of users and tempting redeemable reward points of the Stationdigital site the number of visits to the linked ecommerce store increased, thus enhancing overall revenues.

Technology Platform

Java
Alfresco
Oracle 10g
Bugzilla (Issue Tracking tool)
SVN (Version Control tool)
AKAMAI CDN.

Mobile Application On Tracking Material Movement

Business Need

Requirement for the development of an android based application for a ‘Packing and Moving’ company (Australia based) to facilitate booking and tracking of consignments from one location to another along with the storage functionalities. The application covers the following distinct features:

Uploading of consignments from source location
XLOAD which is basically unloading of consignments in a hub / go-down
Move and deliver the consignment at the destination location

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS created the solution by generating and applying ‘bar codes’ on each consignments identified for packing. The trucker would use a bar code reader to scan the ‘bar codes’ while the consignment is getting uploaded on the truck. Once all the consignments are scanned and uploaded, the application would request for drivers details such as his vehicle number, name, signature, etc. and would generate the “uploaded” consignment list for the customer. The XLOAD functionality would validate the consignment at each of the intermediate transporter hubs/go-downs during the movement process. Finally, at the time of delivery, the apps would ensure the completeness, by re-scanning the consignment and marking the consignment as ‘delivered’ – along with customer’s approval signature. This application also has the option for ‘direct point-to-point delivery’ without the consignment moving through the hubs (without using XLOAD process).

Benefits to the customer

Facilitate flagging and tracking of materials through barcode scanner (bar-code scanning was integrated with the mobile apps)
Better control of activities through access control
Availability of consignment information on transporter’s figure tips
Security control through ONLINE signature

Technology Platform

Phonegap
SQLite
Socket programming for device scanner integration

A Streaming Music/Video facility

Business Need

An US based entertainment Company intended to create a facility where online users could avail free streaming music/video of their choice (taste, genre, period). Along with a web facility where users could listen/view on their PC; Android & IOS based free audio/video, streaming mobile applications were needed to be developed, with attractive promotions such as redeemable “Listener Rewards” that would automatically issue reward points to every registered user for every hour of their listening/view of music/video. Other complex marketing mechanisms were also to be incorporated to ensure a viral growth of the facilities’ popularity amongst listeners and their friends/associates. To further promote this facility organically, a Store was connected/affiliated to the facility to allow listeners/viewers to buy various items by redeeming the points acquired through listening to the music. The facility was to generate revenues from advertisements. Geo-fencing the facility for certain specific (licensed) countries was also a requirement

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS used its experience to design and develop an on-demand music/video streaming application that would run on Android & IOS with all the functionalities as was required by the customer for its promotion, marketing and revenue assurance. With a Scalable architecture, Buffer stream management and Client side caching to provide uninterrupted flow of music streaming and through the incorporation of all the promotion nuances BEAS completed the assignment in only 4 months

Benefits to the customer

This Android/IOS enabled entertainment facility serves as a dynamic showcase for audio/video music of the entertainment company and offers real-time, user-friendly trending of audio and video music. The incorporated rewarding system with attached Store, integration to social media and capture of user-behaviour enhances listening experience as well as attracts more users to the facility, thus increasing ad-revenues for the company, exponentially

Technology Platform

Android
Objective C
REST Web Services
AKAMAI CDN Services

Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC)

Business Need

Kolkata Municipality Corporation, wanted to provide the citizens of Kolkata the advantage of being able to view information/status related to their taxes, licenses, rebates, representations and hearings, mutation and a host of other important information, for which the citizen would have had to visit various offices of KMC and wait on long queues. They wanted to provide citizens with mobile applications from which they could query on such information anytime and receive statuses and information. They invited BEAS to develop such an application on Android phones to start with.

BEAS’s Solution

This Android Mobile Application was developed by BEAS using a Scalable architecture and Buffer stream management to provide the required citizen services provided by KMC. The application can easily be downloaded on a citizen’s android mobile. Various services offered by the application can be accessed using Menu/Icon option. Once a citizen, identified by a unique id and password logs in, all relevant information related to that citizen can be queried and viewed. Currently the information that can be viewed are – Property Tax Due, Last Date of Rebate (PD Tax), Last Date of Rebate (F/S Tax), Hearing Date (Property Assessment), Mutation Status, Outstanding License Fees, Building Plan Status, Date of Hearing u/s 400(1) (Building), Heritage Building, Tanks, S.P.I.O. under R.T.I. and Appellate Authority under R.T.I. The engagement is ongoing and more and more information as decided by KMC is being made available through the apps.

Benefits to the customer

This solution has greatly helped both KMC and the citizens. For the citizens it benefits in getting all important information without having to visit KMC offices and waiting on long queues. For KMC, similarly queue management and crowd management has been reduced. Citizen-interface efficiencies have gone up as well as their customer satisfaction.

Technology Platform

Android Environment
Java
Web services / Apis
Oracle 10g

Reserve Bank of an African Nation

Business Need

Requirements for functional enhancement, maintenance and support of their G-to-C Export / Import System for the Reserve Bank to enable them to effectively track and manage the exports out of the country and imports into the country.

BEAS’s Solution

With a rich experience in the financial and export/import domain, BEAS created enhancement solutions for the Reserve Bank in-line with the government policies and catering to their client’s immediate needs. As part of the on-going maintenance and support, BEAS has designed the “support SLA” depending upon the priority set by the customer to ensure that their system has a ‘system availability’ of 98%. As a part of this support process, BEAS has effectively deployed issue tracking tools, change management processes and review mechanisms to pro-actively monitor the deliveries ensuring efficient and defect-free deliverables.

Benefits to the customer

Through the enhancements developed by BEAS,the Reserve Bank has been able to create a more feature rich solution for their clients. At the same time, with BEAS’s effective monitoring and on-time resolutions,the Reserve Bank could get immediate solutions, to their issues – thus achieving a high level of customer-satisfaction for their clients (exporters / importers).

Technology Platform

Java
Alfresco
Oracle 10g
Bugzilla
SVN

Royal Civil Service Commission (Bhutan)

Business Need

Requirement of a complete Human Resource (HR) management application by the Royal Civil Service Commission (Bhutan) with primary functionalities such as recruitment, training for employees, transfer of employees, employee deputation (secondment) along with various analysis to support their senior management’s decision-making process.

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS designed and developed an integrated Human Resource (HR) management application for RCSC (Bhutan) enabling their users to perform recruitment services, connecting to RSCS’s examination database, training services for their employees with proper approval work-flow and transfer services with in-built validations, deputation of employees with all the validations / relevant documentations. This application also included critical analytical reports to facilitate management’s decision-making process. This application also offered other unique features that are the part of HR Management and helps in decision making.

Benefits to the customer

This integrated HR system enabled RCSC (Bhutan) to decentralize the entire human resource management operations , to its various offices spread over the country, for effective utilization of manpower and training needs ensuring high data currency, information tracking and decision support.

Technology Platform

C#
NET Framework 2.0
AJAX
JQUERY
SSRS
SQL Server 2005

Development of a Retail Point of Sale (POS) Application for a Beverage Group

Business Need

The objective of this engagement was to construct and deliver an e-commerce web application for a beverage company.

The business need of this application was to provide complete Retail e-commerce / POS application features for delivering alcoholic beverages with functionalities covering maintainence of Items (category wise), viewing details, adding to cart, modifing cart, maintaing wishlists, order booking, automatic store selections based on customer’s location, etc. The engagement also included a POS (Point of Sales) application for the STORES having the functionalities such as direct sales, servicing of online customers, invoice preparation, delivery, etc. BEAS was engaged in the full life-cycle of this project.

BEAS’s Solution

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BEAS designed and developed this application in MVC framework to implement security measures in this application. Users from various stores working at various locations could login, create / update “stock” through requisition / GRN and could “sell the product” from POS (Point of Sales stores). To “manage stock inventory” on an ‘on going’ basis, users were provided with Day–to-Day sales register, Purchase register, Stock register, ABC Analysis, Ageing analysis reports, etc. The “Online Customers” were being serviced by approx. forty (40) stores (POS) and the database was organised and optimized to take care of such transaction volume. The “Online Customers’” location are detected automatically (with an option to select the ‘location’ manually also) by the application and products get displayed from the ‘Nearest Stores’ from the customer. The customer has the option to ‘search’ the product using different product parameters such as Category, Brand, bottle capacity, etc. The customer has the option to see the product details, addition to ‘cart’, addition to ‘wish list’, modification of the ‘number’ of the products (with a validation against the available inventory), check-out, payment and monitoring of the status of delivery. The “Invoice” gets generated from the POS’s and the stock is adjusted accordingly. Also, the application has the facility for ‘stock adjustment’ for the POS’s and ‘stock transfers between different POS’s.

Benefits to the customer

Easy access to the Market
Reduced Overheads
Potential for Rapid Growth
Widening of the market in reaching out to their Customers
Customer Intelligence
Track and Manage Inventory across Stores
Comprehensive management of Sales, inventory and customers

Technology Platform

PHP
CODEIGNITER
AJAX
JQUERY
MySQL
Private GoDaddy Cloud

Development & Implementation of Gym Management System

Business Need

DVISION LLP envisioned to offer a Gym Management Software platform to the gyms that would help manage Day to day operations of a Gym which would be device agnostic in order to cater customers of all sections of our society. While this would encompass customer management functionalities at one side, it would also include sales and marketing related business functions on the other side.

BEAS’s Solution

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BEAS designed and developed this application with Spring framework keeping in mind maintainability and scalability of the application. Gym Admin, who have access to all information of the system on web-based console would be able to set up New Gym Entities and monitor their day to day functionalities. Gym owners and Trainers, who have access to workout plan, Nutrition plan and calendar view of their respective customers on web-based console. Customers, who have access to their details like view workouts, nutrition etc. via mobile app would be able to follow their respective workout plan and nutrition plan and follow the instruction of the trainer. Monthly payment and invoice generation can be managed by the payment module.

Benefits to the customer

Providing unified platform to all entities involved
End to end paperless standardised process
Enhancing service levels by online monitoring
Increasing security of transaction and maintaining authenticated records
Better relationship management with the customers

Technology Platform

Java/J2EE
REAST API
Angular 8.0
MySQL
IONIC for mobile app

Healthcare visualisation Tool

Business Need

Our customer intended a solution to design a BI visualisation tool which takes master and transactional data of a hospital and presents the analysis across clinical, operational and financial areas in order to help hospital level CXOs to understand business performance and get insights across different input materials of a hospital and its consumption by different doctors in different departments and OPD. With the help of some filters uploaded data can be displayed more precisely which would help the hospital management to take decision on various consumption mix. The solution is comprised of three areas – Procurement, Consumption and Revenue.

BEAS’s Solution

BEAS designed and developed this application with R Shiny Dashboard keeping in mind maintainability and scalability of the application. This application is maintained by one super-user who can upload data to database and can register and delete users. The registered users can play with the filters and analyse to visualize different types of analysed charts and graphs for procurement, consumption and revenue sections.

Benefits to the customer

Periodically evaluation of all procurement variations and based on that take better decision.
Monitoring the work of all doctors and drugs for better revenue of a hospital.
Supervising the consumption deviations and variances by doctors, drugs, investigations
Monitoring department-wise consumption deviations.
Evaluation of revenue losses.
Monitoring the causes of revenue losses.

Technology Platform

R Scripts
R Shiny
Excel
MySQL

Optimised Production Planning and Monthly Timetable

Business Need

Our customer envisioned a solution to optimize their production of pipes by allocating total monthly demand of pipes of different diameter to the machines available to them with their different production capacities considering some constraints specific to the industry.

The objective of the application is to maximize monthly production along with a day-wise timetable(Factory Plan) of loading the pipes on allocated machines and the next month’s plan is made considering the previous month’s timetable.

BEAS’s Solution

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BEAS designed and developed this application with R Shiny Dashboard keeping in mind maintainability and scalability of the application. A user can upload one spread sheet containing all necessary information regarding demand of a month and asks the solution to give one optimized way to allocate the load to different machines taking care of all the constraints so that the production can be maximized keeping in mind the market demand of the products. The application also gives one analysis segment to compare the visual difference between the actual and optimized demand. The application is also designed to inform the user about any kind of infeasible demand.

Benefits to the customer

Providing a platform to easily get a monthly plan to start work.
Obtaining optimized production every month.
Reducing effort and labour to generate such plans every month.
Reducing uncertainty of meeting the target.

Technology Platform

R Scripts
R Shiny Server
Excel

Development of a Car Parking Application for Lambert Parking Solutions

Business Need

The business need for Lambert Car Parking Solution is to provide an innovative parking management solution that helps commuters find parking spaces within seconds from anywhere, in advance. The purpose here is to reduce the pain of vehicle owners caused while looking for parking spaces after reaching the destination. It even allows them to choose the space from the gamut of visible options from the parking spaces on the app. The app provides the users with available parking space data and is customized in a way that it allows you to book the space based on your vehicle size & specifications. This solution also looked for ‘Automation Number Plate Scanning’, integration to ‘Boom Barriers’ and ‘Printers’ and ‘Offline Mode Operation’ for the Attendants. Beas was engaged to provide the total technical development services to the customer for this project.

BEAS’s Solution

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BEAS designed and developed this application in MVC framework to implement security measures in this application. This Car Parking application solution is a subscription-based model for both the Corporates and the Private Agencies. The Administrator will be able to define the ‘Parking Lots’ with the Vehicle Types, Number of Vehicles and their revenue structures. Also, they need to attach a ‘Parking Charge Calculation’ engine which are flexible
for different parking usage. At the same time, this application also has the ‘Advance’ and ‘Pass’ facilities incorporated for some of the specific user communities. This application also integrates the ‘Boom Barrier’ sensors and have the facility to ‘Print’ the Entry / Exit tokens for the customers.

This solution also has a mobile application for the Parking Attendants to make the Entry / Exit of the Vehicles along with the calculation of the parking charge with the help of in-built ‘Calculation Engine’. The attendants will be able to view the allotment of Vehicles, number of vehicles, occupied slots, calculation model, etc. specific to their Parking Lots. The attendant has the option to ‘SCAN’ the car number plates to automatically capture the car number. The attendants have also the option to record the parking data in ‘Offline Mode’ in case the network is not available at a certain point in time with ‘Synchronization’ option whenever the network is up.

The mobile app for the Citizen provides the customers with a view of Parking Facilities available for their destination along with a detail of the ‘Available Slots’. The customers will have the option to get his Parking Details history once their Mobile Numbers are captured in the system. The customers have the option to go for “Advance” booking for a certain Period or to obtain a “Pass” with various periodicities.

Benefits to the customer

Optimised Parking
Enhanced Customer Experiences
New Revenue Streams
Real Time Data Trend Insight
Decreased Management Cost
Increased Service and Brand Image

Technology Platform

PYTHON
PHP
IONIC
CODEIGNITER
JQUERY
AJAX
MYSQL
Private GoDaddy Cloud

Development & Implementation of Banking Services for enterprise level Letter Of Guarantee generation

Business Need

Saudi Arabian Govt. took a an initiative based on Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency(SAMA) and Ministry of Finance to automate Letter of guarantee.

The application is intended to establish a trusted communication channel that serves as a mediator between banking firms and other Government Agencies and Private Agencies those require the use of letters of guarantee for their business. The project will establish a unified marketplace platform that allows end-to-end, paperless standardised process related to LG.

BEAS’s Solution

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BEAS designed and developed this application with Spring Boot framework keeping in mind maintainability and scalability of the application. Entities of various types working at various locations can do their login. They can create LG issuance request which is submitted to a central repository system. The system in turn forwards the request to respective banks after verification of the correctness of the request details. The bank acknowledges the receipt of the request and asynchronously approves the LG if the entity is legal, information provided the is valid and the entity has sufficient fund for generation of the electronic LG. An active LG can be further amended, confiscated or release through the system in due course. The Beneficiary can view the LG and act upon it as required.

Benefits to the customer

Providing unified platform to all entities involved
End to end paperless standardised process of transaction
Enhancing service levels by reducing the overall processing time.
Increasing security of transaction and maintaining authenticated records
Create a master repository of LGs
Intelligent statistical reporting system

Technology Platform

Java/J2EE
SOAP & REAST AP
Angular 8.0
MySQL
IBM APP Connect