Regulatory Reporting Engine for a Global Bank, Singapore
A leading global bank’s Mumbai operation needed to submit statutory reports to Reserve Bank of India. Reports have varying frequencies - weekly, fortnightly and monthly. We developed a reporting engine that extracts data from transaction systems. This engine addresses regulatory reporting requirements of Reserve Bank of India, across banking operations securities trading and Primary Dealer activities.

System was developed in PowerBuilder ver 5.0 and Sybase ver 11.0.2 in conformance with bank’s technical architecture. Executables run on individual user workstations while reporting engine database is hosted running on a Sybase server located in Singapore. Connectivity to other systems such as Excel is provided through ODBC connectivity.

J2EE Evaluation for Emirates Airlines, Dubai
Emirates Airlines was porting their existing cargo system from Oracle Developer platform to object oriented architecture, using Java on J2EE platform. There were doubts about applicability of architecture, its ability to perform and benefits of object orientation. Surya's mandate was to validate this technical architecture.

Emirates also wanted to evaluate availability and load performance of J2EE architecture on combinations of hardware, software and middleware. They also wanted a comparative study of Application Servers and Integrated Development Environments (IDE) for J2EE development. Our consultant validated the architecture, conducted load studies and a comparative study of software environment in a month’s time and helped Emirates make quick decision on the new architecture.

ProKnowledge Management Planning for Hindustan Lever, India
As a part of their millennium initiative, HLL Mumbai developed a knowledge base. This effort consisted of getting definitions of what constitutes knowledge and developing dissemination engines for the same. As a part of Y2K business contingency planning, HLL discovered that a lot of practices could be documented and placed on their Intranet for meaningful retrieval.

We participated in design of new Intranet for HLL and subsequently its development as well. As a part of this project, we coordinated with HLL's consultants, McKinsey & Co. and executed this project from Bangalore, while implementing it in Mumbai concurrently.

Maintenance of LUXICOM, EDELCOM, Paris
EDELCOM is a specialist in Power line carrier control. EDELCOM is an EEC award winner for innovative designs. Their unique product LUXICOM is used for lighting control of streetlights. We are maintaining LUXOCOM and undertake enhancements at Surya.

Complete lamp history, defect history, communication address definition, command logs and control system for lighting control is maintained by Surya. In addition, we have built a very unique geographic module where maps are primary interface for users. Typically, a user may go to a specific lamp on a street and control ON or OFF or DIM. This highly specialized software is being supported by Surya for EDELCOM installations throughout the world.

Chicago Logistik Zenthrum Verden Gmbh, Germany
Chicago involved design of functional specification of a warehouse management system for LZV Gmbh, Bremen, Germany. This involved interviewing CEO, warehouse supervisors and workers to arrive at a requirement specification that was subsequently converted to a functional specification.

LZV is a third party warehouse with one major client - Effem, which is a leading pet food manufacturer. Their existing system did not allow for shipping smaller volumes of mixed SKUs. It assumed full pallets. Shipping mixed pallets was a new business for LZV. Their challenge was to help LZV achieve this in a small timeframe. RFTs and other warehouse specific equipment like conveyors have been used in this warehouse. Thus, design had to support both RFT based and regular screen transactions.

We created front-end Non-RFT transactions using ORACLE FORMS with ORACLE hosted on a Windows/NT server. We used transaction server for RFT front-end and middleware for bourses.

Security module for banner plus gadnet.com, United Kingdom
Banner Plus is banner exchange software. Members of this exchange earn credits by displaying banners on their site. These credits are then used in displaying their banner on other members' sites. Security module for banner plus prevents someone running up a lot of credits simply by repeatedly pressing "Reload" button on their browser. This system logs activity, banning a particular IP address from entering banner plus system, displaying log file and logging errors.

Chicago Logistik Zenthrum Verden Gmbh, (LZV Gmbh), Germany
Chicago involved design of functional specification of a warehouse management system for LZV Gmbh, Bremen, Germany. This involved interviewing CEO, warehouse supervisors and workers to arrive at a requirement specification that was subsequently converted to a functional specification.

LZV is a third party warehouse with one major client - Effem, which is a leading pet food manufacturer. Their existing system did not allow for shipping smaller volumes of mixed SKUs. It assumed full pallets. Shipping mixed pallets was a new business for LZV and they bid for this in Effem and got it. Their challenge was to help LZV achieve this in a small time frame. RFTs and other warehouse specific equipment like conveyors have been used in this warehouse. Thus, design had to support both RFT based and regular screen transactions.

Front-end for Non-RFT transactions was ORACLE FORMS and database was ORACLE hosted on a Windows/NT server. Front-end for RFT was transaction server. Middleware used was bourses.

Planning Budgeting System, Leading Software Company
We built a Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting (PBF) system for a leading software company to be a part of their banking suite on .NET platform (c# and ASP). We provided complete life cycle support from functional specifications to acceptance test. We ensured all building components required were adequately researched and development team finished engineering this product in record time.

PBF enables enterprises to plan their budgets, track them and analyze budgets in real time. PBF enables smart forecasting using forecasting methods. We are implementing PBF on at two banks – one in India and one in Africa.

Classified Advertisement System for gadnet.com, UK
CLAD is a packaged, configurable classified advertisement system for web sites. This allows a web site to host its own classified advertisement system on its server. Any advertiser may post their advertisement in this system from browser and these are displayed in this system.

Security Module for Banner Plus, gadnet.com, UK
Emirates Banner Plus is banner exchange software. Members of this exchange earn credits by displaying banners on their site. These credits are then used in displaying their banner on other members' sites. We developed the security module for banner plus that prevents someone running up a lot of credits simply by repeatedly pressing "Reload" button on their browser. This system logs activity, banning a particular IP address from entering banner plus system, displaying log file and logging errors.

Autonomous Computerized Complaints Centre, Department of Police, Government of Karnataka
We developed aCCC for State Crime Records Bureau of Karnataka State Police. Objective of this system is to introduce flexibility and transparency for people who want to file a complaint. We are currently maintaining this software.