News – 2013

We are proud to add a feather to our cap by acquiring a new logo on the east coast in USA. The scope was to deploy 15 web applications with three different DB schemas in 5 different servers. This company, grew out of its founders passion for helping children cultivate their natural curiosity and love of learning, combined with the belief that supporting the home-school connection can make a difference in a child’s education and future.

A new project has begun at the Bangalore centre where the team works on a country enablement on the finance track for the customer. This customer is an MNC and is into networking business.

Received the purchase order from a leading Commercial Cooperative Bank for implementing Finacle 10x, the project is starting by 18 December’13.

Our Finacle talents have successfully completed engagement with a one of the leading Banks in Nigeria

Proud to have won an order for Finacle Interfacing Project with a Leading Cooperative Bank in Pune, wherein we have engaged a dedicated resource for the requirement gathering and the development for the interfacing the bank’s core banking solution – Finacle with the business intelligence tool.

The Economic Times and IBM Present Innovate2013 Executive Summit I 6th November | Chennai attended by our Solutions and Marketing Team.

“Analytics Summit” scheduled on 20th November 2013, Wednesday at Sheraton Park, Alwarpet, Chennai attended by our Solutions Team.

“Coromandel Infotech allows us to become more efficient in areas of the business that are so unpredictable, saving us crucial time and money. We would proudly recommend Coromandel Infotech consultants as they are knowledgeable and able to map our process with the product functionalities. Our users are happy with the Implementation of Microsoft Dynamics NAV.”

The client is an Multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, that designs, manufactures, and sells networking equipment. Customer has Business Networks for their range of routers, switches, wireless systems, security systems, WAN acceleration, energy and building management systems and media aware networks. Customer is on e Biz R12 and C2il has approached to support their Global Financials Implementations in Ukraine. The project will be executed involving US onsite resources and offshore resources based in Bangalore. Recently, we have set up a dedicated Offshore Delivery Centre for this client in Bangalore. By this win, we will be positioning ourselves as a global partner for this MNC.

Oracle Oil & Gas and C2IL have partnered up to offer a Joint solution for Material Visibility in transit for the Oil & Gas Industry. The Solution consist of technologies such as RFID, GPS and Mobility integrated into Oracle Transportation Management System ( TMS), currently we are in discussion to initiate a pilot project with one of the top five Oil & Gas production companies in the world.

Our Finacle team to coordinated with one of the leading Cooperative Bank in India to provide techno-functional training sessions for the bank’s core project team.

Our Finacle team is in process of adding a new logo by liaising an audit solution for a leading bank in Kerala for their core banking solution.

Our Sales Team had attended a sseminar on “Take your business to the Amazon Cloud”, at New Delhi on 11 October 2013.

“Smart Card Expo-2013” at New Delhi from 16-18 October 2013 and “Global Conference on Financial Inclusion & Payment Systems” at New Delhi from 24-25 October.

We celebrated Diwali at our Manapakkam Office on 31st October & 01st November 2013. The Associates participated in programs conducted with lots of enthusiasm where we had games, dance and other entertainment programs during the day one, followed by music entertainment on day two. The Associates participation was rewarded with surprise gifts and appreciations.

“The solution provided by Coromandel Infotech adopts one of the best practices and has also added value to our business processes. Coromandel Infotech consultants listened to and considered our ideas also and tried to enrich the solution even more.

Our compliments to the team of Coromandel Infotech consultants for their skill, their responding to our queries satisfying various departments, their promptness and accuracy.

We can safely recommend them for any project requirements.”

A telecom tower company, Incorporated in November 2007, corporate office at Gurgaon with a portfolio of more than 1, 11,819 towers, is the largest telecom tower company in the world. This unprecedented connectivity gives India the means to realize untapped potential that could truly transform her economic leverage. This company is on e Biz R12 and C2il has approached to support their Supply Chain Process across entire North India. We won this opportunity and have kick-started Oracle SCM support project at Gurgaon.

We have added a new logo from the Middle East where we have secured an order for Finacle support from a global company for a bank in Muscat.
Our Finacle team is performing advanced negotiations with Infosys for implementation of Finacle for a popular bank at Indonesia.
We are proud to announce that C2IL has been identified as the exclusive partner for Finacle CBS implementation services for various banks in Indonesia.

A Billion Dollar Global Process Industry Headquartered in California USA has eight different entities comprising of Nuts, Cut Fruits, Fruit Processing, Liquor Processing such as Wine and Beer etc. Some of the Process Industries run on eBiz R12 – Oracle Process Manufacturing. C2il has now brought in their expertise in supporting this billion dollar company on Oracle R12 Financials Global Support from our Offshore Centre in Hyderabad.

Our BFSI Sales Team participated in “National Conclave on e Governance and m governance” on 7th September, 2013 at PHD Chambers New Delhi.

INIRUS (A C2IL Company) participated at Oracle Open World (Booth #1136) in SanFranscisco from September 22 – 26. This is Oracle’s flagship educational conference and the world’s largest event dedicated to helping enterprises understand and harness the power of information. Most of our clients visited our booth and this was a grand success.

Our Marketing and Sales team attended the Conference & Exhibition on “Towards Scaling New Frontiers in ICT” 24th & 25th September 2013: Chennai Trade Centre, Chennai.

We are proud to add another feather in our cap by winning a new logo for Consulting Services for SharePoint in Chennai.

The client is into Design, Manufacturing and Constructing of Structural Engineering with HQ in London, UK. It has 2 manufacturing locations – London and Abu Dhabi. Their Design Center is in Chennai.

We have won another order on Oracle Process Manufacturing Global Support from our Offshore Centre in Hyderabad for a Billion Dollar Global Process Industry Headquartered in California USA.

The client has eight different entities comprising of Nuts, Cut Fruits, Fruit Processing, Liquor Processing such as Wine and Beer etc.

Our BFSI team has bagged an Implementation Project – Finacle 10x – Universal Core banking Solution from Infosys for an established Commercial Cooperative Bank in Ahmadabad.

The bank is a multi state bank with its presence in Gujarat & Maharashtra. The bank has around 38+ multi state branches with 35 ATM setups.

The Oracle practice at Coromandel Infotech has added two new logos last month, one on Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM) and the other on Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE).

The consulting service on Oracle SCM is being provided to a USD 3 billion global enterprise head quartered in Los Angeles, USA, that deals in diverse range of branded products – from flowers, to nuts, to beverages and more. OBIEE project is undertaken for an Indian subsidiary of a world leader in pneumatics.

The IT services of Coromandel Infotech in Oracle space is expected to increase in the coming months for these customers. It may also be noted that the Oracle practice has added key leads in both OBIEE and Hyperion, which are strategically positioned as key service offerings in ME, India and the North American markets.

Coromandel Infotech has been awarded the Gold Level Certified Integrator status by ‘Inductive Automation’. It may be noted that both the companies have been associated over the last two years and have implemented some significant and complex projects in India.

‘Inductive Automation’ specializes in software that fills the gap between Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) systems and Business Applications through OPC and standard SQL databases. They provide affordable web based Human-Machine Interface (HMI) and distributed Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.

The elevation of Coromandel Infotech to Gold Level Certified Integrator, qualifies for additional license discounts, customer referrals and more prominent listing on the ‘Inductive Automation’ website.

An innovative ‘Track & Trace’ solution has been launched by Coromandel Infotech to cater to the needs of road transport logistics operations across industries. The solution is being implemented at one of India’s premier industrial conglomerate and the results are very promising.

The key features of the solution are:

• Live Tracking
• Longitude – Latitude Mapping
• Vehicle Movement Status
• Vehicle Location Map
• Alerts
• Ignition ON / OFF
• Over speed
• Application Alerts
• Geo-zone
• Vehicle speed

The ‘Track & Trace’ solution is proposed to be taken to the market across geographies and industries in the near future.

A leading law firm in US based out of Nashville, Tennessee has chosen Coromandel Infotech for developing a multilingual case management application to handle the United States immigration law reform and support complex dynamic workflows based on different criteria.

The application will have extensive automated interfaces with external entities such as government departments, payment gateways etc. as well as internal interfaces with internal corporate applications. It is being developed with open source stack on Drupal framework and allows end users to create custom workflows without any intervention of technical team. The application will support more than 300 internal and thousand external users at the peak load.

The law firm, known for its expert and friendly service, has clients from all over the world representing a variety of cultures and nationalities. After carrying out a thorough evaluation of various vendors, the contract was awarded to Coromandel Infotech, as the firm was extremely impressed with its competency and professional approach.

In a constant endeavour to promote and update the technical proficiency of its employees, Coromandel Infotech had sponsored the professional certifications for 32 associates in Q1.

The certifications included Oracle EBS R12: E- Business Essentials (10 associates), Java Standard Edition 6 Programmer Certified Professional (1 associate), C/SIDE Solution Development (5 associates), Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: .Net Framework 4, Web Application (5 associates), Oracle Certified Java Professional 1.6 (8 associates) and Oracle Certified Java Professional (3 associates)

Apart from this, during the last quarter, several technical sessions were conducted by external trainers as well as senior associates to impart knowledge on latest technologies and quality processes to upgrade and exceed benchmark skill sets of the industry.

Coromandel Infotech participated in INTEC 2013, the leading International Industrial Trade Fair in South India, being held at CODISSIA Trade Fair Complex, Coimbatore from 6th to 10th June 2013.

INTEC 2013 brought together the very best in technological advancement and was a congregation of various industries exhibiting their finest innovations and services.

The event provided a perfect platform for Coromandel Infotech to show case its new generation software solutions and services for the manufacturing and engineering industries.

A leading provider of complete live-broadcasting solution, which has created its own broadcasting client, cloud servers and website that all work together to provide the most robust live-broadcasting technology in the world, has selected Coromandel Infotech to test the application that has been developed for live broadcasting and integrating online users for the gaming portal.

This Florida based company is developing a website as a social portal for gamers. The desktop application which interacts with the gaming portal has features like screencasting, videoconferencing, recording the screen, uploading videos to Youtube & Allcast.

The customer had issues with the portability, the application did not work on certain environments and they wanted to make sure that their application works on all intended environments before releasing it to the market. Building up an infrastructure to test in the environments would cost them more. This is where they looked at Coromandel Infotech for the opportunity.

Coromandel Infotech’s scope in this project would be to do an Installation & Recovery Testing, Compatibility Testing, Functional & Regression Testing, which covers their objective of application working on multiple platforms and browsers.

The Application Development and Maintenance Services (ADMS) team at Coromandel Infotech has been clinching projects continuously from US over the last few months. This includes a few repeat orders from clients, which is a reflection of team’s delivery quality and commitment to customer delight.

A premium creative services & advertising agency based out of North Carolina has placed three orders in a span of last four months that includes some complex development projects using cutting edge technologies.

The team has also bagged orders from a global, full-service web development and marketing firm, rated among top three Silicon Valley web development firms that offer a full range of web services to clients of all sizes. The scope includes development, maintenance and support of multiple websites encompassing wide variety of technologies from the open source stack.

The Chennai Office of Coromandel Infotech celebrated CSK Week from 21st May to 24th May, in support of the ‘Chennai Super Kings’, the most successful cricket team of Indian Premier League (IPL). This is in commemoration to CSK Team qualification to the final rounds of IPL season VI.

Floor decoration activity was carried out using CSK flag and the memorable moments of CSK were revisited through video clips. On the last day of CSK week, quiz competition was conducted on floor, during which associates participated enthusiastically and won prizes in form of CSK T-Shirts and Caps.

It may be noted that Coromandel Infotech is the IT partner of CSK and is proud to be associated with the team.

A Premier Bank in West Africa has chosen Coromandel Infotech for providing high level support services to its Core Banking application. This deal was facilitated by Redbridge, the South African partner of C2IL. The Bank operates in 18 countries on the African continent, including South Africa, as well as in other selected emerging markets./p>

C2IL shall work on improving the life cycle and delivery of enhancements in the application by incorporating its quality standards and to augment the services that the Bank renders to its customers.

The following services shall be provided by C2IL

Onsite Technical Support
Scripting, Reports and Interfaces
EOD/EOM technical support
Report development using Jasper – Cognos
Defect debugging
Report development / modification using MRT
Application testing

The BFSI team at Coromandel Infotech released the enhanced version of its automation framework. This lightweight framework significantly reduces the automation life cycle execution and management. The enhanced framework reduces development time by up to 50%. It also allows test case automation by business analysts and test engineers with minimum learning curve resulting in shorter go-to-market time and reduced cost for clients.

Some of the key features of this framework are

User friendly interface for creation of test suites
Execute test case module wise & individually
Easily configurable and can run unattended for any number of test suites
Automatic email notification on the completion of test execution
Automatically add library files on the runtime
Test summary report and detailed test execution report with an option of HTML and PDF format

The BFSI team at Coromandel Infotech has successfully implemented Finacle 7x- Universal Core banking Solution from Infosys at PSCB – Punjab State Co-operative Bank covering a maximum of 20 district co-operative banks.

This was one of the ambitious projects for NABARD, in transforming all the district co-operative banks in the nation into the core banking network. This conversion of the banking practice from the conventional method to a core banking methodology was a visionary project aided by the Government of India.

With unbound efforts and enthusiastic cooperation from the entire team, the project had transformed 20 district co-operative banks into Finacle core banking platform covering stringent timelines.

The team was complemented by the clients for inclusion of the industry best practices combined with solution oriented approach. The clients have also expressed high satisfaction for enhancing their business usage with the product.

As a part of the Industry – University partnership initiative, Mrs. Latha Sankaran, Project Leader in Business Analytics division of Coromandel Infotech, was invited for a guest lecture by Sathyabama University, one of Chennai’s premier private University. The lecture was delivered on the topic, “Introduction to Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence”, to the post graduate students at the University on April 12th, 2013.

Mrs. Latha started with an overview of Enterprise Resource Planning. Then she introduced important concepts of Data Warehousing to the students at length and finally concluded by discussing different facets of Business Intelligence. This was followed by an interactive Question and Answer session. The students found the session to be very useful and participated actively.

The Sathyabama University management thanked Mrs. Latha and Coromandel Infotech for this noble contribution of knowledge enrichment to students. The University has also extended an invitation to Coromandel Infotech for their forthcoming Workshops and Seminars.

Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT), a nomenclature broader than its earlier version – Direct Cash Transfer – is the ambitious scheme from the Government of India for channelling subsidies to eligible beneficiaries through bank accounts with Aadhaar numbers.

During the first phase of implementation, 43 districts spread across 16 states have been selected. Of the 5 districts allotted, Andhra Bank has chosen Coromandel Infotech as the end to end service provider in Chittoor & Ranga Reddy districts of Andhra Pradesh.

This marks a significant beginning for Coromandel Infotech as a prominent service provider in the DBT project space, as the Government of India proposes to introduce this facility across all the districts of the country by March 2014.

Coromandel Infotech has signed the first deal for InCise EAM on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model with a major engineering firm that provides professional and contracting services to power plants, petroleum, chemical, steel and cement industries.

InCise EAM, the Asset Life-cycle Management system from Coromandel Infotech, was chosen to maximize the performance of complex assets and align them with overall business strategy of the organization. Initially, the system will be implemented and maintained at 7 sites.

With the introduction of InCise EAM on SaaS model, the total cost of ownership for the application would be considerably reduced. Coromandel Infotech has invested in state-of-the-art hardware infrastructure for this purpose and the customers will not have the trouble of maintaining servers at their end.

InCise EAM, which is also available as on-premise model, offers extensive multi-organization tools to manage several tasks and departments from one integrated solution. It helps in reducing cost through effective systems management, comprehensive work-order functions and easy-to use scheduling tools.

The BFSI team at Coromandel Infotech has successfully implemented the Financial Messaging Gateway (FMG) solution projects from Union Bank of India and Andhra Bank, under very stringent timelines.

FMG has been integrated with the Core Banking System (CBS) of the Banks and the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) Switch using ISO 8583 message formats. Also the Central Biometric Authentication Server has been deployed to carry out online fingerprint authentication.

With these integrations, Financial Messaging Gateway can process the following financial transactions in real-time originating from FI TSP Servers:

On-Us CBS transactions without Central Biometric Authentication
On-Us CBS transactions with online fingerprint authentication through Central Biometric Authentication Server
On-Us Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS) transactions with online fingerprint authentication through UIDAI

Apart from financial transactions, FMG processes Enrolment data submitted online. FMG carries out enrolment data validation, fingerprint de-duplication, upload of customer data to CBS for account generation and generating output files for TSPs.

A leading technology firm head quartered in Atlanta, GA has selected Coromandel Infotech to design and develop a cloud based document management system using MOSS 2007. The application is created such that multiple companies can register with flexible storage spaces. Also, the companies can create, manage and allocate storage spaces to users.

Other features of the application include access through internet browsers as well as desktop application, scheduled backup / restoration of documents and user specific dashboard for storage / utilization details.

This innovative application development project will be completed under very compressed time lines using MOSS 2007, Asp.Net, .NET Framework 2.0, Web Services, SQL Server and SVN.

InCise EAM has been selected by CIO Strategy Exchange (CIOSE) as one among the 8 #MadeInIndia product to be showcased on a global platform. The director of CIOSE, Ernest M. von Simson reviewed many applications that were submitted and chose 8 products to be showcased when he is here in Bangalore.

CIOSE received many applications from early stage technology start-ups to those who have spent few years in the industry, with exciting ideas across Big Data, Social Networking, Analytics, Healthcare, Education, Mobile Applications, Security, etc., during the one week period starting January 31, 2013 until February 8, 2013. The final 8, including InCise EAM, were selected after several rigorous rounds of screening by CIOSE.

The demo from these selected products will happen in Bangalore and the dates are yet to be announced.

Coromandel Infotech has bagged an order for a referential web application development project from USA. The order is awarded by a premium creative services & advertising agency based out of North Carolina on behalf of its client, a contract research company providing a wide range of clinical research services for biotech and pharmaceutical clients globally.

The project scope includes design and development of web based interactive map application, wherein the consultants will work on Asp.Net, .NET 4.0, WCF Services, JSON, JQuery, amMaps (Javascript APIs) and SQL Server technologies. Handling huge data volume to summarize the data and showing real time interactively on map in a web page would be the two highlights of this project.

A BK Birla Group Company, based out of Rajasthan, India, has chosen InCise EAM, the Asset Lifecycle Management system from Coromandel Infotech, to streamline their plant maintenance process.

Upon thorough evaluation and assessment, InCise EAM was selected to take the performance and possibilities of asset management at the company to a higher level.

It may be noted that the company has already implemented inDice ERP, the Enterprise Resource Planning solution, to optimize their commercial business operations and the system is running successfully for past four years.

More details on InCise EAM can be found in http://www.incise-eam.com

Further to successfully establishing solution labs for Oracle EBS and SAS, skill upgradation training programmes were organized by C2IL for its associates.

Oracle India conducted 3 days of training on R12.x Oracle E-Business Suite Essentials for Implementers from 15th January 2013 to 17th January 2013. This initiative was undertaken to strengthen the Oracle Practice, by cross training resources across the organization.

20 consultants participated in the training programme and all the participants are now eligible for generic R12 certification from Oracle Corporation. The training had emphasis to hands on, solution design, best practices and a pilot implementation project.

In furtherance to the alliance partnership signed with SAS, a day-long event with 2 sessions on Visual Analytics was conducted by SAS.

SAS VA (Visual Analytics), a part of SAS business Analytics framework, is a new in-memory business intelligence (BI) solution that uses a highly visual interface to bring powerful analytics to a broader class of users than ever before.
SAS has combined the sophistication of visual data exploration with in-memory analytic computations in a way that makes it easier for large numbers of users to understand and benefit from complex data.

As a ‘Finacle’ Value Partner, Coromandel Infotech has been providing extensive value added services in Finacle Core Banking Solution space.

The ‘Finacle’ experts and domain specialists across Core Banking, Treasury, Trade & Forex and Lending among other areas, offer best in class service, which has enabled Coromandel Infotech to be the partner of choice for Infosys and a host of customer banks.

For the BFSI team, New Year starts with commencement of customization services on behalf of Infosys for State Bank of India and successful completion of Finacle CBS implementation project in I&M Bank, Tanzania, 18 Co-operative Banks in Haryana and 10 out of the 20 Co-operative Banks in Punjab.

It may be recalled that, in September 2012, Coromandel Infotech bagged orders for implementing Finacle Core Banking Solution at 18 Co-operative Banks in Haryana, 20 Co-operative Banks in Punjab, and 2 Co-operative Banks in Bihar for full-fledged Finacle CBS implementation including all the retail modules.

Yet another win for Financial Messaging Gateway Solution – January 2013

Close to the heels of winning the Financial Messaging Gateway project at Union Bank of India, Coromandel Infotech has won a similar project from Andhra Bank.

Close to the heels of winning the Financial Messaging Gateway project at Union Bank of India, Coromandel Infotech has won a similar project from Andhra Bank.

communicate to the Bank’s CBS through ISO 8583 messages,
format the messages as per AEPS specifications for forwarding to NPCI and
receive enrolment and transaction data from the gateway of various FI vendors of the bank

The solution also provides for a central biometric authentication component for storing biometric fingerprint data during enrolment data upload and for validation during transactions.

As a pioneer in Financial Messaging Gateway solution, the BFSI team Coromandel Infotech is confident of closing many more Financial Messaging Gateway projects in the new calendar year.