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Technology has been one of the key strategy and driving force behind innovation and transformation of organizations in last decades. Chenoa Technology Centers are the source for innovation and excellence in providing technology solution and cost effective implementations. Chenoa has formed “Center of Excellence” to accumulate and leverage our experience of technology solutions from various industries for research and development of emerging technology and products. At the same time COEs are our focused approach for delivering superior IT services and solutions that offer greater value, consistency and efficiency to our clients. The centers of excellence are created along the frameworks:
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Higher value for our customers
Due to Chenoa’s investment in resources and time, COEs enable us to provide customers with:
- Superior competency in specific areas of business and technology
- Gains in efficiencies through collaboration and shared tools and technology
- Intense management attention and access to Chenoa’s best talent
- Solutions that are continually improving in content, value and innovation
- An improved ability to align customers' IT organizations with strategic business goals
- A headstart in determining future technology needs of industry
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With the increasing cost of software licenses for proprietary software, more and more enterprises are beginning to leverage the benefits of adopting open source technologies. The open source adaption allows enterprises to use best-of-breed open source technologies, which are developed from contribution from communities all over the world at a much lower cost. Yet while open source implementation promises benefits, it also brings with it equally huge challenges that need to be overcome, such as poor or no support, minimal documentation, and low proven reliability when deployed across an enterprise.
Chenoa Open Source COE is dedicated towards researching right open source solution for enterprise while minimizing the risk by overcoming the limitations of open source and allowing enterprises to capitalize on cost and time advantage. Chenoa’s Open Source COE offerings are:
- Partner with Open source groups to share best practices and to create knowledge base
- Design, develop and Integrate mission critical open source applications into enterprise architectures such as web applications based on open source frameworks, web servers, application servers and databases
- Increase reliability of Open source solution by providing “vendor” support for open source based applications and infrastructure components
- Evaluate and conduct feasibility study for open source solution vis-à-vis proprietary solutions
Open-source tools exist for custom application development as well as for business-centric functions like ERP, CRM and content management. Chenoa has rich experience of implementing solutions with open source as the core offerings, some of the open source platforms implementations included: |
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- Alfresco: An easy to use open source Enterprise Content Management system with features like Document Management with Intelligent Virtual File System, Collaboration with threaded discussions on Folders or Documents, Records Management, advanced Object Type and Multiple Taxonomy/Category searches.
- Liferay Portal: A java based open source portal platform for enterprise. An industry standard (JST-168) complaint platform with large number of out-of-box pre-bundled Portlets. A very robust architecture to separate content from layout to significantly reduce the operating cost of publishing, managing, and maintaining web content and document libraries.
- Compiere: An open source ERP package with integrated CRM solution. Compiere is fully customizable for a global enterprise needs with support for multi-lingual, multi-currency and multi-accounting requirements.
- SugarCRM: An open source CRM system built on the LAMP platform: Linux or Windows, Apache or IIS, MySQL, PHP. Sugar CRM offers a single system for managing customer interactions across different lines of business for enterprise. SugarCRM also offers Sugar plug-ins to integrate with other productivity applications (like Microsoft Office) so users can reduce manual reentry of information and share important customer information.
- Spring and Hibernate Framework: A very robust and reliable open source framework for Java application design and development. Spring and Hibernate are industry standards for middleware and ORM layers.
- MySQL database server: An industrial strength open source database server. Robust transactional support, high reliability and ability to scale has made MySQL database of choice for high performance web application development.
- Eclipse Platform: An open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle.
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| .Net Platform |
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Microsoft .Net platform is most productive environment to design and develop complex Internet enabled applications for business. Ever increasing software systems are being developed for business and organizations to realize benefits of Web Service, which enable seamless integration and interoperability of applications based on different hardware platforms, software languages and operating systems to quickly and easily communicate with each other.
Chenoa's .Net services offerings includes:
- Designing and developing web based using .NET
- Migrating web based and stand-alone applications to .NET
- Development, Support and Enhancement of existing applications in .NET
- Porting of Legacy applications to .NET based application
- Windows Application Development
- Application development in .NET Compact framework
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Microsoft .NET architecture key features implemented by Chenoa:
- Microsoft Compliant / .NET design and development guideline
- Enterprise Application - N-tier architecture
- Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) for asynchronous message delivery
- Active Directory Service Interface (ADSI) for organization level user access control
- Windows Services for background processes
- Web Services using XML - SOAP/HTTP
- Advanced ADO.NET features
- Centralized Exception/Error handling
- Microsoft SOA
The Microsoft .Net Center of excellence team has experienced and/or, Microsoft Certified professionals with applications development experience in wide variety of industries. Currently the center focuses on designing, developing and enhancing custom software solutions developed using C#, VC++ or VB .NET /ASP.NET , WinForms on the .NET platform.
"Only .Net platform provides a very cost effective complete set of tools for application development for enterprises." |
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| J2EE COE |
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Java has emerged as a leading development platform based on its modular, component-oriented architecture. Chenoa’s experienced team ensures the highest application quality and shortened development cycles by employing best-in-class Java and J2EE application. The most common reason for adopting Java is that it simplifies development and deployment, also reducing time and costs. It offers companies portability and scalability to meet changing business needs. J2EE promotes Programming in Java resulting in Java-centric computing, and all components deployed into a J2EE deployment (like EJB components and Servlet). Other languages can be integrated into a J2EE solution through web services, CORBA, JNI, or the JCA.
Our Java COE brings together state-of-the-art technology and advanced process knowledge with personnel highly skilled in:
- Application design and development on J2EE compliant framework
- Expertise on EJB 2.0 with experience in Entity, Session and Message Beans
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- Web Application design and development using Java Server Faces (JSF), JavaServer Pages (JSP)and Servlets
- Createing data centric applications using ORM frameworks (such as Hibernate) and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
- Integration using Java Message Service (JMS)
- Web Service based SOA components with WDSL, UDDI, SOAP, ebXML
- Development on J2EE compliant application servers, including BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere, JRun and JBoss
- Design and development of Enterprise Applications using frameworks such as Spring, Struts Framework etc.
With the benefit of interoperability and the smooth integration of systems and sources of data, Java platform based software solution helps businesses deliver unprecedented levels of value to customers, partners and employees.
"Achieve greater productivity and faster returns on your IT investment by using Java / J2EE." |
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| ECM COE |
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Enterprises today have wide variety of contents in the form of electronic documents, multimedia and knowledge based web portals. Chenoa ECM COE team is geared towards creating a process to streamline and improve the content management process for the Internet, extranet, and intranet for enterprises. Our some of the service offerings are:
- Formulate a content management strategy for content creation and usage
- Implement content management system by customizing packaged proprietary solutions such as Documentum, Livelink as well as Open Source solution such as Alfresco.
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- Workflow customization for creation, review, and publication of content
- Creating a robust security model for content creation and sharing by identification of all key users and their content management roles
- Integrating security model with existing user databases such as Active Directory
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| Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing |
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Our Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Solutions practice ensures the availability of business-critical information for critical decision making. Chenoa’s Data Warehousing team has extensive expertise in delivering comprehensive DW solutions. These solutions include:
- End-to-end solutions design and development
- Business requirements analysis and data modeling
- ETL architecture and development
- Custom reporting and OLAP solutions: data mining
Chenoa provides Data Warehousing Strategy and helps in architecting high-end DW&BI solutions for clients by leveraging extensive business domain experience and deep technology expertise. We help weave Business Intelligence Technology into the very fabric of business. We have helped several clients turn data resources into a source of sustained competitive advantage. Our services include: |
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- Analyze complex data systems and design data layers for BI/DW
- Develop sophisticated reports for any business module within the organization
- Use the best practices for Relational and Dimensional modeling for designing framework manger and report development
- Providing global template to maintain uniformity in reports creation
- Dashboard reports to view all the analytical data in one single page for management
- Reduce Cost and Increase productivity by training power and business users to use BI tools
Chenoa’s Business Intelligence offerings include experience in proprietary and open source tools like:
- Cognos 8
- Microsoft Reporting Services
- Business Object
- Pentaho Business Inteligence
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| Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) |
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Today’s Enterprise consists of varied type scalable and high performing applications serving critical business needs. In dynamic environment, companies are seeking innovative ways to respond more quickly and effectively to changing market conditions. To achieve this, Service Oriented architecture (SOA) provides a integration platform for applications, that integrates functionality from multiple systems.
SOA provides a flexible architecture to utilize business processes and the underlying IT infrastructure as standardized components (services) that is secure, reusable and cost effective. As SOA evolves as the leading industry standard, Chenoa SOA COE offers: |
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- Experience of implementing enterprise bus using Apache Service Mix
- To deliver high quality services-based solutions on time and with-in budget
- Design and development of Microsoft .Net and Java based web services to seamlessly integrate business applications.
- Expertise in Visual Studio and Eclipse based IDEs for quick integration to build composite applications
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| Rich Internet Applications (RIA) |
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Emergence of increased interactive and complex requirement for web applications has led to increased adaption of Rich Internet technologies in modern web application development. Chenoa has leveraged experience of client-server and web application design and development in utilizing newer technology such as AJAX to have asynchronous communications to support more responsive web user interface. Some of the key offerings are: |
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- DHTML and JavaScript for creating AJAX based RIAs
- Development of applications using Flash user interface based on MXML
- Using Activex Control in web applications to develop RIAs
- Creating real time RIAs using Java Applets
- Creating standalone Java based RIAs using Java Web Start
- Using JavaFX Script to rapidly develop rich user interfaces
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| Quality Assurance (QA) |
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Testing is a critical step in ensuring software quality and reliability. Chenoa leverages its deep experience and understanding of testing process—from planning and preparation through execution and reporting to provide a high value add and significant time-savings in software development. Chenoa’s broad testing expertise and years of experience enable us to make our testing services available as an independent Center of Excellence (COE) for Quality Assurance. Some of the key features of offerings are:
Functional Testing — Chenoa provides functional testing to ensure that software functions as per specifications. We offer expertise in testing tools such as Mercury QTP, WinRunner, Rational TeamTest, and SilkTest.
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Performance Testing — We provide load testing, stress testing, volume testing and reliability and scalability testing to benchmark a system or component with specified performance requirements. We offer expertise in LoadRunner, SilkPerformer and other performance testing tools.
Security Testing — Chenoa security testing services include installation verification and vulnerability testing.
Test Management — Chenoa utilizes tools such as Rational ClearQuest and Mercury TestDirector to help our clients to manage test activities including design, planning, creating test cases and scenarios, execution and defect reporting. |
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