Idhasoft - Vision Packaged. Delivered

Idhasoft's Web & Wireless Application Practices SBU, Grey Matter India (GMI) Technologies Pvt Ltd has, over the years, garnered extensive experience and a cutting-edge skill-set that facilitates the conception of innovative yet simple to use web 2.0 solutions that not only captivate user attention but are also of a high interactive nature.

The years gone by have seen Idhasoft earn an untarnished repute at delivering state-of-the-art web 2.0 based design solutions while adhering to strict schedules. The prime focus at Idhasoft has always been on the target audience while designing which allows the finished solution to incorporate legible navigation and interaction levels par excellence.

The crux of Idhasoft's competencies showing golden results is composed of:

• Development of robust entertainment applications
• Social networking portals
• Conceiving State-of-the-art Mobile community applications
• Facilitating Content Distributions / streaming portals
• Enhancing Publishing Networks and Delivery channels
• Cutting-edge Product Engineering, IT consulting and Research & Development services for global organizations.

With a view to service every opportunity raising its head from all sectors of the global economy Idhasoft's web expertise has been segregated into verticals called domains.

Retail Domain

The revolution that the industry has undergone in the recent past has seen the birth and demise of business ventures at an equally astonishing pace. The retail industry is the only sector to sustain its growth and retain its current standing through the surrounding chaos. Extensive research on consumer buying patterns has resulted in a startling revelation that the market paradigm has shifted in the buyer's favour with the wide array of options available. The market, today, is flooded with value based offers that provide value for money to the end customer.

The dynamic shifts in the standard market processes have affixed certain patterns on the everyday retailer causing him to think out-of-the-box and be more customer centric. The retail domain is characterized by solutions such as online e-commerce applications, store management, merchandise management, POS application customized to suit niche business expectations and to contribute towards optimization of business processes.

Retail Norms

Idhasoft has always prided itself at being at the helm of changing market affairs. The expertly skilled retail group successfully caters to opportunities arising out of the market. Extensive domain expertise and a comprehensive consulting approach has forged Idhasoft's path.

Our Retail Solutions includes:

• Employee social networking solutions
• E-commerce solutions
• Mobile and web based coupon system
• Mobile and Enterprise solution for supply chain and Inventory management
• Secondary Sales management system
• Expense management system

Education Domain

The education sector has been vastly influenced by the inception of open source technologies and web 2.0. Students and faculties alike prefer the propagation of knowledge online with an increased amount of interaction possible that transcends geographical borders. The costs of education have been brought down with customized software applications being employed to impart knowledge online.

Education Norms:

Our expertise is well known and believed in with an untarnished reputation of designing enterprise level applications for schools, colleges and specific educational groups. Conceiving solutions through accurate and apt design, development, installation and deployment of applications are an inevitable part of our portfolio. Developing integrated learning solutions and customized education products and portals are an arena where we can excel at assisting our clients.

Our solutions in education domain include:

• Community portal for students
• Web based Collaborative applications
• Scientists Lab Management system
• Web based e- learning and LMS solutions

Media and Entertainment Domain

The driving force behind providing people with relief from their daily stress relief is the media and entertainment sector that will persist to be at the top of its game. With an increasing number of processes and sectors being added to this segment such as films, television, advertising, print media and music, the potential for growth through the use of software applications is tremendous. Such is the wide scope of business in this arena that international production houses have turned towards media and entertainment solutions to satisfy their ever growing investment needs.

Ticket booking systems, CRM, SCM, business intelligence applications, consumer analytics systems, KMS etc and similar solutions will have rising demand in such situations.

Media and Entertainment Norms:

At the crux of Idhasoft's expertise is the ingenious conception of social network and content distribution over the web and mobile networks. The media and entertainment domain expert team at Idhasoft commits itself to deliver solutions conforming to and outdoing industry benchmarks.

Our Media and Entertainment Solutions includes:

• Locations Based Services over the Various Mobile Networks
• Content Streaming Over the Various Mobile Networks
• Social Communities and Corporate Networks
• Mobile Internet Applications
• Wireless Web Connectivity Enterprise Applications
• Mobile Communications/ Messaging and Streaming
• Group/ Blogging and Event Portals.

Advertising Domain

Post product conception, the activity that would make the product and brand visible to the target audience is advertising, especially in today's competitive environment. Advertising is used by small and large business ventures and initiatives alike to help them achieve their goals.

With the advent of web 2.0 the already existent potential of this domain has brought to light never seen before opportunities. State-of-the-art online advertising solutions like PPC management system, affiliate management system and P2P advertising platforms are pioneering the growth of the industry.

Online Advertising Norms:

Idhasoft's expertise is extended to the online advertiser-publisher networks, adword-adsense portals and comprehensive management systems for pay-per-click advertising areas. Design and deployment of e-commerce solutions like B2B, B2C exchanges is our strength at Idhasoft which ensures robust performance. Along with online affiliate platforms and affiliate management system implementation, large scale P2P advertising platforms are also developed by Idhasoft

Idhasoft's offerings allow the conception of portals allowing publishing of SMSs, MMS from the web to mobile phones, advertising & content distribution networks that incorporate dynamic content like RSS, ATOM feeds and high profile streaming media solutions etc...

Our Advertising Solutions includes:

• Online Advertising Platform for Advertiser and Publisher Networks
• Online PPC Management System
• Online Affiliate Platform and Affiliate Management System
• E-Commerce Advertising Platform
• P2P Advertising Platform

Technology Offerings

Idhasoft provides the following technology offerings

• Microsoft Internet platform
  .NET & SharePoint Technology Practice:
  

  The constantly evolving technology scene has been witness to numerous technologies that have been imbibed by the industry. Idhasoft takes the lead in imbuing these technologies and implementing them in an array of solutions that redefines the web arena. .Net expertise has been cultivated with an ardently dedicated team combining efforts to develop state-of-the-art solutions for web, desktop and console alike.

  SharePoint development is another area that Idhasoft excels at by designing sites which include tasks such as project activities, content management, documentation etc... Idhasoft's team of skilled SharePoint experts excels at transforming customer SRSs into technological products exceeding customer expectations. Clients such as Godrej, Aruba and Johnson & Johnson have been catered to with levels of satisfaction marking new records in customer experiences.

  Our Microsoft .Net & SharePoint competencies include:

  • NET Enterprise Servers
  • Visual Basic.NET
  • C#
  • .NET Compact Framework(2.0 and 3.0)
  • Web Forms, Web Services and Web Server Controls
  • Web Services, SOAP, WSE, SOA, UDDI
  • Win Forms
  • ASP.NET, ADO.net
  • SQL Server 2000/2005
  • Windows CE.NET
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Server
  • Microsoft Internet Information Server 6.0
  • Microsoft Windows SharePoint Service 3.0
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Open Source Development
  Open Source Development Practice:

  Cost effective solutions providing advantages of latest technologies has always been a core value at Idhasoft. The widely accepted LAMP architecture has been adopted and with fully object oriented platform independent languages such as PHP which have been leveraged to build complex solutions. PHP and MySQL applications display portability features which enable our developers to combine the advantages and use them across multiple environments such as PC, Mac, Linux, UNIX, Windows, Lindows, Internet, Intranet etc...

  Idhasoft's Java development team has achieved utmost perfection in developing efficient solutions through the complex implementation of Java and Perl Platforms.

  Open Source Content Management Systems form a major rung in the IT infrastructure ladder. A CMS typically involves computer base or manual procedures to manage the flow in a collaborative environment. The Model-View-Controller (MVC) application development framework is employed in Joomla. Free open source content management system features are written in PHP through Drupal which forms an integral part of Idhasoft's offerings bouquet. Some examples of developed applications include back-end system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to Enterprise 2.0 collaboration and knowledge management for large scale corporate and political sites.

  Expert teams are committed to developing cutting-edge solutions based on open source CMS using Drupal and Joomla technologies.

  Our Open Source Development competencies include:
  • PHP 5/PHP4
  • Smarty
  • Symfony framework
  • Zend
  • AJAX
  • MySql 2005/2002
  • JStruts framework
  • Drupal 5.15
  • Joomla! Version 1.5.14
• Rich Internet Application Development
  Rich Internet Application Development practice

  The current day browsing experience is transmuting to newer levels of user demands and user viewing satisfaction. Increased levels of user interactivity are demanded to keep them interested. Idhasoft values the new age concept of building a satisfying and interactive web experience through the use of interactive animations, advertisements, captivating web based audio/video players and development of rich internet applications in Macromedia Flash.

  Adobe's Flash and Flex are today's leading web design tools that mainly cater to the interactivity and rich internet architecture demands. The development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on Flash Platform can be done through Flex.

  Microsoft continues in its legacy of developing new products that redefine standards by coming out with Microsoft Silverlight which provides functions similar to Flash. Silverlight can integrate multimedia, graphics, animation and interactivity into a single runtime environment.

  All these novel and innovative solutions have been harnessed and squeezed into vital knowledge which has been fed to our teams devoted to the development of graphic content targeting the elevation of the web experience of users. Numerous applications like chat applications, flipbooks, social dating sites and avatar customizations have already been developed by our talent pool.

  Our Rich Internet Application Development competencies include:
  • Web Application development using Adobe Flash
  • Cross Platform rich internet applications using Adobe Flex
  • Microsoft Silverlight
  Offerings Grid

  Operating Systems	Linux Unix, Windows OS, Mac OS, Symbian OS, Win CE OS, Palm OS, RIM
  Development Environments	LAMP Framework, Microsoft .NET Frameworks, Microsoft Visual Studio, Symbian Platform, Win CE MS.Net Platform, Mac OS for iPhone, Code-Warrior, Java
  Development Tools	Visual Studio .NET, Visual Source Safe, C#, Photoshop, CorelDraw, Macromedia Flash, Flex, C, Borland C++, Flash Media Server (FMS), MS-TFS, Brew, Carbide ,Objective C, Cocoa C, D, Xcode IDE, Microsoft Silverlight
  Web 2.0 Platform	Symfony Framework, Cake PHP, Zend, AJAX (EXT JS, Dojo, Jason, Microsoft, Web.Atlas), Open Social Platform, Facebook Platform, SOA, NHibernate, Lucene Framework
  Application Development	ASP. NET, C#, C, C++, VC++, ADSI, COM & DCOM, WinSock & Win Inet., PHP 5.0, Perl, Win CE 5.0, Symbian Series 9.0, Palm SDK, I phone SDK, J2EE, J2ME,  Drupal 5.15, Joomla Version 1.5.14
  Databases	Oracle 9i, MS SQL Server 2005, MySQL 5.0, PostGreSQL
  Protocols	XML/XSL-XSLT, TCP/IP, SOAP-XML, WAP, Bluetooth, SMS, MMS, P2P, GPRS, VoIP, SIP, WiFi.