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620028 Ekaterinburg, Russia

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E-mail: info@x-tensive.com, http://www.x-tensive.com

© 2003—2009 Xtensive LLC

Company

Xtensive is software development company focused on development for

Microsoft .NET platform. We develop components and products for .NET
developers as well as custom software solutions for small and medium
sized enterprises.
From the very outset in 2003 our company was demonstrating stable
growth – we’ve passed the way from the group of 3 enthusiasts to
medium sized company – one of the most well-known in Ekaterinburg.
Today our team consists of more than 20 professional developers.

Company’s evolution begins from the idea to
create the product with revolutionary features
based on .NET Framework and to lead it out to
worldwide market. Now it’s visible it was
successful. Foregoing product has been
named DataObjects.Net and now it is adopted
in more than 50 countries worldwide.
Growing success of DataObjects.Net, as well
as high professional skills of our developers
lead to establishment of custom software
solutions development department at our
company. Service-based part of our business
is growing in parallel with product
development during last years.
Products

Combines comprehensive business logic layer (BLL) development

framework, object-relational mapper (ORM) and a set of storage
implementations enabling the same BLL code work everywhere –
dramatically reducing the resources needed to develop generally any
application dealing with persistent data.

Web application development platform allowing to build rich internet

applications (RIA) using DataObjects.Net faster by providing a set
of commonly used components (AJAX UI controls, JS DOM, search,
navigation, etc.) and patterns (MVP, DI\IoC, etc.). For now we use it only
internally.

Web (ASP.NET) application allowing to browse the content of .Chm and

.HxS help files via internet. Powers up help.x-tensive.com.
Products Overview
DataObjects.Net is our key product. It was initially
designed to considerably reduce the efforts needed
to develop a database application – by handling all
persistence related tasks transparently for developer.
Now this framework allows to almost forget that the
underlying database exists – it handles even database
schema updates.
DataObjects.Net seems to be quite related to OR\M
solutions at first glance, but its directivity in “hiding”
the underlying relational storage, support for writing
secure business code within persistent entities and
services and wide set of commonly used extensions,
such as full text indexing and search, makes it
possible to relate DataObjects.Net to object-oriented
databases as well – it really makes you feel there is
nothing behind your .Net entity classes at all.
Moreover, its forth version brings this approach
to much higher level – in addition to support
of several existing RDBMS platforms it contains first
implementation of our own storage: full-featured
integrated in-memory database (IMDB). File system
storage implementation (a regular RDBMS!) is
upcoming in several months.
LiveObjects.Net acts as integration and common
service layer for web applications providing a set of
unified components and services for them, such as
“default” AJAX-enabled management interface and
a set of common actions (e.g. copy \ paste).
Management interface design is quite familiar to almost
any Windows user – they used to have some
experience working with built-in Windows Explorer and
Management Console.
Among essential features LiveObjects.Net provides are
advanced user access control management
(authentication, users, roles, permissions, per-object
access control lists) and ubiquitous advanced search
features (search by attributes \ full text phrase, “Search
Folders”, etc.).
LiveObjects.Net is used only internally now. Some of its
deployments include a set of document and asset
management applications we developed for USTU.
Help Server helps to publish .Chm \ HxS
documentation on the web with just few clicks – it is
exposed on web site in the very same fashion as at
Microsoft MSDN library, so user can search and
navigate through it with ease. Help Server user
interface is quite similar to built-in Windows Help
Viewer (or MSDN Library Viewer), which is familiar to
almost any Windows user.
Partner Software Solutions
Built with our significant involvement

MESware MEScontrol.net is extremely configurable Manufacturing

Execution System (MES) that adheres to the principles of lean
manufacturing in order to manage the production workflow on the plant
floor. It completely automates manufacturing processes by solving such
tasks as production planning, scheduling, execution, efficiency
optimization and much more.

Izenda Reports lets ordinary business users create and customize

reports without needing the help from technical experts.
MEScontrol.net Overview
What is MES?
“MES” is Manufacturing Execution
System. Manufacturing company can use
it to measure and control its production
activities. Benefits of MES solutions are
increased traceability, productivity, and
quality.
MEScontrol.net serves as MES and is
being developed by MESware nv –
a Belgian company specialized in MES.
We took a significant part in development
of this project: MEScontrol uses our
DataObject.Net as ORM technology;
moreover, a part of MEScontrol is
designed and implemented by our team.
We’ve implemented a significant part of
its business and data tiers, and partially –
its user interface.
Our partnership on this project is
continuing during last 3 years. The
feedback from both sides is very positive.
MEScontol is
implemented on several plants now.
MEScontrol.net features:
 Complete formalization (definition) of manufacturing
process. All you need to know produce any manufactured
product: ingredients, packing materials, processes, equipment
settings, etc. is known by MEScontrol;
 Real-time management feedback – management gets
a clear view of the results and Key Performance Indicators
(KPIs) thanks to auto-generated graphs and reports;
 Production process planning – MEScontrol have built-in
scheduler, so loading of manufacture equipment can be planed
in automatic and manual mode;
 Automatic planning of orders received from external systems
(from company’s ERP system for example);
 Equipment control – any equipment that could be controlled
by PC or PPC can be easily connected to MEScontrol. Most
frequently used equipment (label printers, RFID scanners) are
provided with built-in support.
 Track and trace – MEScontrol gathers actual production data
and allows to browse it with ease. Actually produced amounts
of products, equipment operation parameters, failures and
employees controlling it – it knows everything.
 Operator control panels display the operations scheduled
in work centers and allow to control their execution right on the
site. The operator may get the information on all the orders in
queue, e.g. bill of materials, equipment settings, work
instructions and procedures, as well as any production related
knowledge.
 Clients

 We have more than 300 clients in 40 countries all over the world. You
can find some testimonials on DataObjects.Net here
 There are some well-known companies among our clients – in
particular, Parature, Inc., NetIQ, Quantum Art
 Our local customers (based in Ekaterinburg) include
Urals State Technical University and Data-Center
 Our abroad clients have been visiting our trainings in Ekaterinburg.
And vice versa, our developers have frequent business trips to Europe
and USA.
 Even some of our straight competitors use our products! For example,
TechTalk GmbH has been published Genome-e with the aid of our Help
Server.
 Our Team

 Today there are more than 20 developers in our team. Practically all of them
graduated from mathematical department of Urals State University – it
provides the most rated computer science and mathematical education in
the whole Urals.
 Good background in computer science is, in fact, one of the strongest
requirements for all our employees. Almost all of them are Bachelors of
Science at least.
 High level of technical English knowledge is also a “must have” skill for any
of us – most of our clients are located outside of Russia; all the team
members directly interacting with them have fluent spoken English.
 Most of us have practical experience in wide range of technologies – it is
definitely much wider than a set of .NET and RDBMS-related ones.
 As you see, we’re very technically oriented – there are almost no non-
technical people there; our management team consists of IT professionals as
well. We think it’s a benefit, especially for agile development.
 We’re proud that during last 3 years only two developers have left our team
by their own will.
 We have a good web and UI designer in our team – you can see some
examples of his works here.
 Our Benefits

 We use agile software development process: requirements specification is

based on user stories, unit testing is used to test everything, build servers
provide continuous integration and immediate post-commit test runs,
frictionless deployment and documentation (wiki, XML comments) processes.
This approach significantly increases development speed and final reliability
of the solution.
 We not just perfectly know RDBMS: we wrote relatively well-known
commercial object-relational mapping tool, that means we were dealing with
all the RDBMS-related issues faced by our users. So we’re experts in this
area.
 Obviously, we can use DataObjects.Net better than anyone – actually just this
fact can ensure a really quick startup.
 We are capable of producing full documentation for a complex API – even for
very large projects. Check out:
 DataObjects.Net v3.9 API documentation (~10000 members are
documented)
 An example from preliminary DataObjects.Net v4.0 API documentation
(>13000 members for now).
 We provide excellent technical support – there are more than 8000 messages
in our software support forum.
 Thank you!

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