Software Development

The Development Services

Remain in step with your competition by continuously improving your information technology-based business solutions. Outsource your software development requirements to a company that strives to achieve Total Customer Satisfaction for companies in various vertical industries. Hawx India's quality processes and standard project-tested project delivery methodologies increase the predictability of deliverables on time, in budget and of desired quality.

Transparent project management and change management practices that emphasize customer communication at pre-determined intervals through e-mail, teleconferencing and video conferencing ensure that the customer and project delivery teams carry a consistent understanding of requirements and project status at all times.

Hawx India has a multiply skilled employee base with skills across platforms and technologies gained on projects spanning vertical industries and related applications. This experience lets us bring to the project, best practices in application functionality, development and project management acquired across industries, geographies, and technologies.

Hawx India provides application and product development services in the following areas:

Maintenance & Support

Applications Maintenence and Support

Customers with large legacy installations can continue to maintain their installed software without hampering development activities in more strategic areas. They can re-allocate resources so as to maximize the strategic benefits of new technology. With Hawx India's offshore development and support activities, customers can increase the value derived from their legacy applications.

Hawx India's offshore center provide the following services covering the whole range of maintenance activities

• Application support and bug fixes
• Enhancements to functionality
• Adding new interfaces such as Internet interfaces
• Restructuring of code and rationalization of data
• Performance tuning
• Specialized reports generation software

Hawx India's professionals are skilled in many legacy platforms with both language and database skills and are adept in the use of many third party tools. Hawx India can replicate the client environment at its center in Pune or it could use high-speed links to utilize existing capacities at customer locations.

Product Maintenance and Support

Software product vendors can use our offshore maintenance services to continue to maintain their current products while using their resources in building newer versions of their products. They can manage the ramp-up and scale-down of efforts that are required for peaks and troughs that are typical of a product over its maintenance cycle.

Hawx India's offshore centre can provide the following services to software product vendors

• Product Support and bug fixes
• Customized enhancements of the product installed at client sites
• Feature upgrades for clients with old customized installations
• Performance tuning
• Bespoke customization of the product for new customers

The product vendor can use the multiply skilled resources at Hawx India for specialized skills without having to invest in them. Hawx India can replicate the client environment at its centre in Pune or it could use high speed links to utilise existing capacities at customer locations.

Software Product Development,
Support & Management

Practice Overview

Software product companies typically face the following challenges.

• How to build a new software product while managing the existing product?
• How to manage the cost and delivery in the given window of opportunity?
• How to manage the ramp-up and scale-down of efforts and specific skill requirements that characterize a software product's life cycle?
• How to feel confident to incorporate new technologies?

Hawx India's product management practice is primarily focused on resolving these issues for software product companies. The company has acquired expertise in conceiving, building, maintaining, supporting and managing a software product.

Services

Hawx India provides software vendors with a virtual extension of their design and development centres. Individual services provided by Hawx India are outlined below. All these services can be offered under an umbrella agreement to product vendors, who can then benefit from economies of scale.

Product Development: Hawx India provides you the ability to ramp up development efforts temporarily and cost-effectively to take advantage of a narrow window of opportunity.

Product Support: Hawx India can supplement your defect-fixing efforts. The company has developed effective processes for periodic communication, defect tracking and configuration management at our offshore support centers to facilitate product management by the client.

Product Customising and Implementations: Let Hawx India customise your products to customer specifications and implement these customised products at customer sites for you. Our professionals are very mobile and they can reach your customers with ease.

Product Maintenance: Take advantage of the scalability of Hawx India 's services to perform one-time maintenance tasks This service is also ideal for re-engineering your product or migrating it to new platforms.

Product Enhancements: Hawx India can systematically perform feature upgrades for your product. Add functionality to the product or add newer interfaces such as Web interfaces. Benefit from Hawx India 's processes for systematically scanning and evaluating new technologies and incorporate these into your products.

Product Testing: Hawx India can perform testing tasks for a new product or the new release of an existing. The company can prepare the testing strategy, write test plans, implement these test plans, and track defects to closure. For each of these tasks, Hawx India uses a defined methodology and has extensive experience in the usage of test tools.

Reengineering and Migration

Over the years, organisations have acquired a complex network of legacy applications. Sometimes these legacy applications co-exist with seperately developed applications using more recent technologies. Running such a setup can be big drain on resources. They can free these resources for other more critical requirements, achieve greater efficiencies and derive more value from their existing applications by consolidating applications on fewer platforms using technologies that are more in step with business requirements. They can do all this by lowering the cost of applications ownership.

Hawx India's re-engineering and migrations service offering helps organisations to consolidate on fewer platforms and integrate applications more effectively. This may involve migrations across platforms, databases and operating systems. Hawx India can also re-engineer your applications in response to changes in regulations or other environmental factors.

Hawx India uses a tool-based approach to reengineering and migration project. Hawx India has experience with a variety of tools to support specific reengineering activities. Tools are either sourced off-the shelf or built in-house. Well defined methodologies integrating the use of tools to automate reengineering tasks such as transformation and testing leads to faster delivery schedules and greater accuracy.

Our professionals are experienced in a variety of technologies and are generally multiply skilled to be immediately deployed on cross-platform re-engineering and migration projects. The expertise of our consultants extends from languages and environmental knowledge of legacy platforms including IBM, Unisys and VAX to more recent technologies such as client server, object oriented and Web technologies.

Implementation of Business Intelligence solutions

Practice Overview

Hawx India has a very experienced Business Intelligence team.

The implementation of a Data Warehouse can be a daunting task requiring interfacing with a multitude of a company's core information systems. Our implementations are designed on philosophies that give our customers the advantages of continued value addition. These philosophies underlie each of the important tasks within our methodology, the key tenets of which are maintainability, performance, results-orientation, and end-user involvement.

The Hawx India Business Intelligence executive team consists of business analysts, technical designers, technical consultants, OLAP consultants and project managers. They will provide the level of experience, value and guidance that you expect from your implementation partner.

Services

Our service offerings encompass the entire development lifecycle from assessment of a Data Warehousing strategy to the implementation of a complete BI solution followed by continued post-implementation services.

Assessment Services: Our Assessment Service allows you to better understand the risks and benefits of various data warehousing / data mart strategies. It provides you with a clearer picture of the organization commitment and the steps to be taken to implement the solutions, the time frames, and the corresponding economics.

Implementation Services: Our Implementation Services follow a well-defined approach to implementation. The major phases of our methodology are focused on completing deliverables and effective deployment for better returns.

Data Extraction and Transformation Services: With experience on multiple platforms, technologies and tools, our professionals are adept at performing this crucial activity in any implementation where data is sourced from diverse environments.

Post Implementation Support and Maintenance Services: With BI technology constantly changing, upgrades and incorporating newer tools can be critical to the effective use of a data warehouse. Hawx India offers a scalable on-site/off-site/off-shore service delivery methodology that could significantly bring down your maintenance costs and provide increased returns on your implementation investment.

ERP Implementation

Hawx India built its Oracle Applications Practice from the ground up. Having trained over 100 professionals on Oracle Financials, the company began to undertake its own implementation projects in 1998.

The implementation of Oracle Applications can be a daunting task requiring the replacement of a company's core information systems. Our implementations are designed to give our customers the advantages of continued value addition through results-orientation and end-user involvement.

The Hawx India Enterprise Applications executive team consists of industry analysts, functional and technical consultants, and project managers. Multi-disciplinary teams and a track record of large implementations provide the level of experience, value and guidance that you expect from your implementation partner.

Services

Our service offerings go beyond just an Oracle Applications implementation.

Assessment Services: Our Assessment Services help clients understand those areas that do not fall within the traditional Oracle Applications product. Assessments provide you with a clearer picture of the steps that must be taken to implement Oracle Applications and the corresponding economics.

Implementation Services: Our Implementation Service follows a well-defined approach to implementation. Our methodology is proven in its approach to rapid deployment and in their focus on completing deliverables.

Post-Implementation Support Services: Timely application of upgrades, updates, patches and enhancements is critical to the ongoing state of the enterprise. Hawx India has a scalable on-site/off-site/off-shore application maintenance methodology that could significantly bring down your maintenance costs and provide increased returns on your implementation investment.

Conversions & Interfaces Services: Our C & I Practice serves the needs of those organizations facing complex conversion and interface problems. This Practice brings knowledge of leading conversion, interface and Enterprise Application Integration tools in the marketplace and of methodologies that help accelerate implementations.

Interface to Business Intelligence Systems: With CONSIDERABLE experience in the Business Intelligence area, Hawx India could be your ideal partner for extending the benefits of an Oracle Applications Implementation to bring information to the decision makers.