Aghreni Technologies Private Limited

IMPROVING YOUR ROI BY LEVERAGING OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES AND SOLUTIONS

Brief Overview

• Inception in 2008. Based out of Bangalore India.

• High performance, tightly knit senior technology team working on Open

Source Software, Technologies and Solutions

• Over 30+ highly focused UI and backend engineers led by a US returned

HP veteran. Project Management and quality assurance expertise for
remote delivery

• Moved over from Marlabs, India to focus on providing technology and

domain focus on Open Source Technologies and Solutions

• Several years of experience in building and supporting US based

production environments remotely.

• Locations
– NY City, NY : Sales and Business Development
– Bangalore, India : Global Development Center

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Aghreni Global Delivery

• Aghreni’s Global Delivery can help you:

– Leverage about 50+ man years of open source technology

development and remote delivery expertise

– Ready to go workforce

– Work around the clock for faster delivery

– Harness capabilities of a trusted partner to deliver projects on time and

within budget

– Scale and adapt quickly with ready access to a wide selection of

services and skills

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Aghreni’s Offerings

• Product Development

• Software Engineering Services

• Portals and e-commerce

• Infrastructure & Application Management

• Business solutions

• Skill enhancement

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IT Services Portfolio
• Application Development, Integration,
Maintenance & Migration
 User Interface and back end design
 Open Source Technologies (Linux,
Apache, MySQL, Perl, Php, Ruby) and
Java/J2EE environments
• Strategy and roadmap consulting
• Architecture, design and
implementation
Software
Engineering
Services Client
Portals &
e-commerce
• Portals and e-commerce development
(Open Source, .NET and Java/J2EE)
• Site assessment for usability
• Search Engine Optimization
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• Idea generation and Incubation
• Outsourced Product Development,
maintenance, enhancements, and
support
• Professional Services
• Training and Documentation
Product
Development
Infrastructur
e/Applicat
ion
managemen
t
• Application call management
• End-user support/ help desk
• Database, Unix/Linux/Windows and
Network systems management
• Application monitoring and
performance enhancement
Services – Core Technology Expertise

Languages

• Java/J2EE, Perl (OO-Perl, Mod Perl, Embed Perl), PHP and Ruby on Rails

Platforms

• Unix – AIX, HPUX, Solaris, SCO, Red Hat, VA Linux, SuSE

• Windows – NT, 2000, XP

Databases
• Oracle, MySQL, Postgress

• SQL Server, Informix

Network

• Network administration – Cisco, Foundry, F5 BigIP and GTM

• System administration – UNIX, Windows, Linux

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Services – Applied Technology Expertise

Web Applications

• ASP, JSP, Servlets, Mod Perl, PHP

• XML, SOAP, UDDI, Web Services, XSLT, XHTML

• Weblogic, Websphere, Silverstream, Borland, Apache, Sybase EA Server, IIS

• Portals, Intranets / Extranets, Integration & customization

• Content Management Systems – Mambo, Joomla, Alfresco

Application Development

• J builder, Visual Age, J Developer

• CVS, Visual Source Safe

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Aghreni’s Business Solution Expertise

• ERP:
Rapid implementation of ERP at affordable cost by implementing Openbravo
and Compiere Solutions
 
• CRM:
Implementing Commercial Open Source CRM platforms like SugarCRM
 
•  ECM:
Implementing either Mambo or Joomla or Alfresco
 
• Marketing:
Best of breed open source marketing solutions

• DW & BI:
Pentaho-based Business Intelligence and Data Mining solutions

• Project Management
Offering license-free web-based open source project management tool
Achievo

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Skills Enhancement

Aghreni offers skill enhancement programs in all its technology

capability areas for:

• Experienced professionals - Corporate training model

• Fresh students – Finishing school model

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Skills Enhancement – Corporate Training Model

Aghreni’s corporate trainings are suited for working professional

and covered in depth by highly experienced practicing
professionals to address the needs of skills enhancements. 

PERL Technologies
• Basic Perl
• Advanced Perl
• Web programming with Perl
• Systems programming with Perl
• Perl for QA
• Service oriented Architecture with Perl

Ruby on Rails Technologies

• Basic Ruby and Rails
• Advanced Ruby and Rails
• Ruby for QA
• Service oriented Architecture with Ruby

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Skills Enhancement – Corporate Training Model (contd.)

UI Technologies
• UI Basic
• Usability engineering

Unix, Linux and Veritas

• Basic Linux Administration
• Advanced Linux Administration
• Basic Solaris Administration
• Advanced Solaris Administration
• Basic Veritas Volume Manager Administration
• Advanced Veritas Volume Manager Administration
• Shell Programming

MySQL Database Administration

Management and Leadership

• Project Management Processes
• Leadership

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Skills Enhancement – Finishing School Model

Aghreni has embarked on a mission to transform the just out of

college tribe into tech savvy open-source technologists. It has
experience in transforming several batches over the last 2
years, who have become highly productive in several Industries.

Aghreni's senior tech savvy leaders will provide this training

directly.

1. Certification Course in Open Source Technologies with Perl

2. Advanced Developer Certification Course in Open Source Technologies with Perl
3. Certification Course in Open Source Technologies with PHP
4. Advanced Developer Certification Course in Open Source Technologies with PHP
5. Certification Course in Java Technologies
6. Advanced Developer Certification Course in Java Technologies
7. Certification Course in Ruby on Rails
8. Advanced Developer Certification Course in Ruby on Rails
9. Certification Course in Web Designing
10. Advanced Certification Course in User Interface Technologies
11. Certification Course in Linux System Administration

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Aghreni’s quality framework

• Adoption from best International Standards and Models

• Nature of business drives quality initiatives

• Adoption of SEI CMM Level 5 Practices

• Best Practices for Project Management

• Wide use of Project Management and Software Development

Tools

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People Management

Attract Best in class talent Attrition Management

• Job rotations
• Strong brand equity
• Work environment
• Employer of choice
• Learning opportunities
• Competitive compensation
packages

Competency Development People Practices

• Employee development plan
• Competency development group
• Certification programs
• Partnerships with academia for
continued education
• Foster Belonging and Involvement
• Regular feedback sessions
• Share customer feedback
• Performance management
• Counseling program
• Performance based compensation

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Delivery engagement model

Onsite Offshore

Project
management
• Manage knowledge
Program transfer
management office • Ensure successful Project delivery
Onsite engagement startup team
• Define, establish and • Change management • Detailed designed
customer prioritize projects • Monitor & track project • Code development
• User requirements • Review project scope, process • System testing
• Reviews/ approvals
timelines and budget • Post implementation
• Acceptance testing • Monitor and review support
project process Quality
• Status reporting management
• Escalation management
• Methods, tools &
standard
management
compliance
Office of the • Process compliance
customer
• Customer escalations • Metrics
• Issue resolutions
• Customer satisfaction

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You can now demand more

• Agility
– rapid implementation
– Scalability

• Accountability
– reduce risks associated with delivery of complex, multi-vendor, multi-
platform global solutions
– proven expertise

• Greater return on your investment

– partnering with an organization you can trust
– proven track record

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 Profiles of some Senior people

Role Education Experience Summary

Managing Director M.S. and e-M.B.A 23 Years in delivering IT projects across multiple technologies and domain. Ex-HP employee. 3+ years
in email technologies. Worked in US for 4 years.

Director Engineering B.S. and currently 8+ years of experience on products and applications on open source technologies.
pursuing e-MBA

Director Business B.S. and MBA 20+ years of experience on developing business applications on open source technologies and
Solutions managing products and application development

Director QA B.S. 10+ years of experience on products and applications development and QA.
6+ years of QA experience on software testing life cycle and automation. Building strong QA team.
UI Development M.S. 7 years of experience in IT industry. Expert in User Interface Design and Development., Accessibility,
Manager Usability,
Web Standards and DOM and websites

Network Architect B.S. 12 Years of experience in Networking Architecture and Systems Management.
High speed WANs, Large LANs with Cisco networking equipments, Netware, Windows, Unix, Servers
across multiple locations

Database Manager B.S. 9+ years in Database administration on Oracle 8i, 9i and 10g, 11g, Informix and MySQL databases.
Hands on experience on production support, maintenance, and tuning production database servers

Unix / Linux Systems B.S. 15 years of experience in Unix / Linux systems administration and support.
Manager Remote Unix / Linux infrastructure administration and support for Solaris 10, different flavors of Unix,
Redhat enterprise servers and data centers

Director People MBA 17 years of professional experience, which includes 8 years in recruitment of IT professionals for Indian
Practice and US based companies. Before that she practiced maritime law for 9 years.

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Contacts

India Development Center

335 Double Road

Indiranagar 1st Stage
Bangalore – 560038, INDIA
Ph: +91 80 25216514
Email: info@aghreni.com
Web: www.aghreni.com

USA Business Development Center

246, Fifth Avenue, Ste 301

New York
NY 10001
USA

Phone: +1 646-340-3409
Email: ussales@aghreni.com

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