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a transition partner providing both business & technology professional services, helps its clients build value, manage risk and improve their performance.visit www.avontechnologies.com
Avon Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Corporate Presentation
Executive Summary
Avon Technologies is focused on providing innovative e-business and mobile computing communication solutions and help customers take their Business – Anywhere , Everywhere; leveraging on organization’s current IT assets with a focus on people and process development for quicker adaptation.
In terms of positioning, Avon is between the costly high end international software firms and smaller system integrators to provide best of class IT solutions to prepare companies to compete effectively and increase profitability through efficient asset and process management.
The model of Avon Technologies, as a Transition Partner is envisioned as the leading end-to-end solution provider in the wireless messaging and collaboration revolution. It brings world class practices through strategic alliances to fulfill your requirement and offer a quantum leap to the next era.
This statement of qualification also asserts that Avon stands ready to enhance competency, introduce best practices, and offer value for money in fulfilling its customers needs.
Build
Develop collaborative
solutions to meet
business objectives
Operate
Optimize production
and promote
continuous
improvement
Transition
Transfer knowledge,
processes, metrics
and tools
Avon Technologies Overview
Avon Technologies is created specifically to address the most fundamental and important business challenge confronting the clients today which is an agile workforce, and providing best-in-class Messaging and Communication solutions to accelerate the pace of information age.
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Software Industrye.g. Software Developer, Large Corporations
Vertical Markets-Telecoms
- Automobile- Utility Services
- Retail, Manufacturing & Service Industry
Software Industrye.g. Software Developer, Large Corporations
Vertical Markets-Telecoms
- Automobile- Utility Services
- Retail, Manufacturing & Service Industry
…and organize around two work streams:
Communication & MessagingUnified MessagingMobile Computing
Wireless MessagingIP Telephony
Communication & MessagingUnified MessagingMobile Computing
Wireless MessagingIP Telephony
E-Business SolutionsMarketing Information Systems
Service AutomationOther Solutions: Microsoft Technology
Java Based Systems & System Integration
E-Business SolutionsMarketing Information Systems
Service AutomationOther Solutions: Microsoft Technology
Java Based Systems & System Integration
Mobile Computing SolutionsSales Force AutomationField Service Automation
Collaborative Solutions on PDAs
Mobile Computing SolutionsSales Force AutomationField Service Automation
Collaborative Solutions on PDAs
People & ProcessDevelopment
Best-in-Class
IT Solutions
Our Development Center
Our Development Center
Own premise ,housing the State-of-the-art development centre at Hyderabad (India).
Capacity to seat over 200 people.
256 kbps dedicated leased line connectivity.
Dedicated Fixed IP Servers, FTP servers for client access.
Avon Technologies Solutions Portfolio
Unified Messaging
Enterprise Integration
Other Services Offering
IP Telephony, Extended Enterprise Solutions,
Hi-Tech Solutions, Telecom and Voice based Technologies,
Application Management and Migration and IT Outsourcing, and BPO
Wireless Applications
Proven Methodologies
• Leverage on sophisticated methodologies for organization design and transition
Rapid Implementation• Ensure that together we deliver
the results. Our approach is not “change for change sake” and it is not a “big bang”
PLC Framework • Use framework for managing
people and organization dynamics of technology and people driven change
Software Development• Proficient in the entire software
development life cycle with a dedicated team of back-end developers.
Knowledge Transfer • Transfer skills and knowledge to
enable the change to meet performance goals
E-Business Solutions
Mobile Computing
Our Chief Architect
Dipu Ghosh: Is the CEO and Co-founder of Rhonet Technologies Inc. Is a member in the board of Avon Technologies.
He has 25 years of experience in Tele-communications and messaging sector.
He leads a team of more then 30 Associates in the development and reliability engineering of Intelligent network products with Bell Laboratories.
He managed the development of the first distributed Network Database Application, a $22 million project in less than 12 months.
In 6 years of occupation the application has performed with a 100% uptime. He lead architecting the ISDN interface for a SS7 signalling network and developed the connection oriented SS7-SCCP protocol in ANSI and CCITT standards.
He taught for 2 years to the R&D community in the area of convergence of networks, content, delivery networks and 3G wireless.
He holds a PHD degree in Electrical Engineering from U Conn and a MBA degree from Ohio University.
Our Strategist
Dushant Lall: An engineer from BITS Pilani, has 25 years of experience in Information technology industry . He is also a member in the Board of Directors.
He had started his career in TCS , the largest IT company of India .
During his stint in TCS , he has seen and worked on the early IBM machines to the latest Pentiums .
He finally quit from from Tata Steel , the largest integrated steel manufacturer (the second lowest cost producer in the world) , as its CIO .
Ashok Nandi: MBA, cost accountant, CFA, is one of the founder member of the company.
He has spent 12 years in financial services industry. He has rich experience in Project financing, investment banking, fund based financing etc.
He has worked for reputed companies like CEAT Financial Services Ltd, RPG group company, and L&T FINANCE LTD and pioneered structure financing in Infrastructure funding.
He currently strategies for tie-ups, alliance and working relationships. He is also critically responsible for evolving a vision for the company and providing direction.
THE TEAM
Umesh Agarwal: Commerce graduate from University of Andhra Pradesh, is one of the founder member of the company.
Umesh brings with him the rich experience of business development and marketing for the last 9 years at Avon Organics Ltd.
Umesh currently spearheads the marketing and business development efforts of the company.
Ambika Prasad Das: An engineer from REC Rourkela, is one of the founder members of the company.
He has ten years of experience in the software industry.
He has been primarily engaged in designing, development of software in telecom space for reputed organization.
He has spent his time with HCL Information Systems and Satyam Computers etc.
In his last stint with Satyam, he has been primarily responsible for design, implementation of the entire IT systems for FASCEL, a cellular operator in Gujarat and PALTEL in Israel.
Now spearheading the IT Program Management and implementation of mobile applications for SIAM Motors a group of 49 companies in Bangkok.
He is responsible for marshalling the technical resources, review the output, and provide the much-needed technical guidance.
THE TEAM
Anupam Srivastava : He is a B.E. Mechanical Engineer from A.M.U Aligarh.and certified E-Commerce professional from IBM. He started his career with as Production Engineer and has been working for Larsen & Toubro Limited for past 10 years in Sales and Marketing of Specialized Engineering Solutions . He worked as Project Manager in IT Company has been leading the on-site technical team as single window interface for client for End-to-End deliveries of projects.His expertise includes business articulation, deep understanding mapping business processes, transforming in IT applications, Business negotiations and customer relationship are his domain knowledge. Currently at Avon he is General Manager- Marketing for business development,Customer relationship and an with technical team to transform business need into revenue.Contribute in formulation of new product/ services design and development, enhancements.
Rohit Arjaria : He is a B.E. Computer Science from R.E.C. Rourkela. He started his career with TCS and has been working for Lucent Technologies for past 3 years. He has been leading the on-site technical team at Lucent Technologies. His expertise includes telecom applications, 5ESS switches, Prepaid card implementation and telecom system design. Currently at Avon he is responsible for new product/ services design and development, enhancements in the area of different communication channels and wireless applications.
Our Solution Differentiators
Flexware is built on J2EE platform and thus is OS independent . For Ex Organon can initially implement Flexware with its existing system and later on integrate with any other system. The Flexware solution will involve very little changes due to changes in Platforms . Auto program generator allows changes to be made to the SFA solution like generating new templates , adding new fields in the existing templates , other changes at the click of the button Provides efficient Business rules engine to map the current requirements and can be modified as and when required.Addition of new applications can be done through Application repository reducing time delay and cost.Thus Flexware is a highly flexible solution taking care of changes in business , changes in backend systems or changes in functionalities which can be easily, quickly mapped.Easy to Configure & Deploy
Security Plan
Security Plan– 3 levels of security
• User level Security & Authentication
– All the users will be assigned User Ids and Passwords to access the information/data through the Web.
• Network Level Security
– Data & Information will be sent through the Internet in an encrypted format. Third party Digital Signature ( example : Verisign) can be enabled (Optional).
• Profile Based Access:
– The assigned User Ids and Passwords will determine the level of access to information/data store.
» Example: Sales Agents will have access to information pertaining to their respective region whereas the Head-Sales will have access to certain privileged sales information/data.
Technical Overview of the Flexware
The Flexware platform has been built on latest cutting edge technology J2EE ,Java struts, XML on MVC
architecture
Implementation of Flexware
Implementation time frame will be 14 weeks or 3.5 months User manual will be provided for the users to referTraining : can be conducted in two manner
1. Avon conduct training to Key users , who in turn will train the other users
2. Avon take up training for all the users at different locations
Hardware & Software requirements for Flexware
SOFTWARE: Operating System
Windows 2000 advanced server
Linux 7.x onwards
J Boss ( Free to be provided)
Database : Oracle 8i or above OR Sybase Anywhere
Hardware : Pentium 4 , 2 Ghz or above ,single processor 40 GB HHD, 1 GB RAM
Can be initialized on Citrix server
Back Up Server :Pentium 4 , 2 Ghz or above ,single processor , 40 GB HHD, 1GB RAM
Implementation of the Flexware
Implementation Architecture:
Future Enhancements of
proposed Flexware
Future Enhancements of Flexware
Overview
Sales Force Automation using PDAs for Sales Agents– Enable Sales People to view customer records,
product details, order history, contract/service details, technical look ups etc.
– Enable to key in Sales Order , Sales Enquiry, Outstanding and quotation using PDAs
– View stock position in ware hoses , factory , upload daily reports
– Synchronize wirelessly / Serial cable with SAP.
Enable CRM in handheld– Extend CRM/KM into PDAs– For Sales People to view and manage new
prospect list.– Maintain Connectivity with SAP for Push or Pull
of Information during the sales process.– Competitor & Market Information
PDA’s/Devices
This Palm device – Zire provides date book , address book with 2 MB memory and serial cable
This are Pocket Pc based devices with similar functionalities
Avon’s solution ‘ Flexware’ is device independent and can be implemented on any of the above OS . In case of device up gradation , then also Flexware runs without any problem
Application Process Flow
Views stock details, discounts & promotions,
price changes etc.
Takes Orders on the PDA and can print sales
invoices
Updates the cash receivables at the
backend
Portfolio
MC Updates the stocks positions at the depot on the sold items
OrderSales Agent
Synchronizes PDAwirelessly
Automatically the PDA gets updated along with any
price changes, new customers, promotions,
discounts etc for the day.
Checks Inventory from the field and can post
the sales order wirelessly.
MC Updates the Back End SAP System
At Field At HQ
MC generates the settlement sheet for
settlement and the log report with date and
time stamp.
Order Confirm
.
Sales Agent receives updated
records during next
synchronization
How It Works- Solution Architecture
Connectivity Options Data SourcesUsers
WirelessLAN
WirelessWAN/GPRS
Infrared
CradleSynchronization
ExistingNetwork
Flexware Server Applications:SFA, Email, SMS, MMS, News etc
HQ
SAP systems
NetworkedPC
Inte
rnet
• Sales Agents
• Service Agents • Always On Move
Executives
Flexware Architecture
Database
Systems
(Oracle/
MS SQL)
ERP/ CRM
/SCM
PMS System
s
Messaging
Systems
(E-mail)
Synchronization and
Security Layer
Data Layer Templates
Business
Rules
Appln
Layer
User Interfaces - Offline Client
Synchronization and
Authentication Layer
Data Layer
(XML)Templates
Appln
Repository
Business
Rule
Definitions
User Interfaces - HTTP
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C-1
C-2
C-3
C-4
C-5LDAP
Server
C-1, C-2, C-3, C-4 & C-5 are Connectors for Various Enterprise Applications
PDA
SMS – Alerts & NotificationsFrom
Flexware
Wireless
Overview Of HexaAlert SMS Platform
The HexaAlert platform is a SMS Push & Pull based platform which interfaces with SAP for offering relevant data to mobile executives, customers and partners.
Alerts & Notifications can either can be pull based (user initiated) or push based (system initiated).
Alerts can be generated for specific actions or when a particular value crosses the threshold or critical limit.
User choice for Notification over:– Mobile Phones as SMS– Email (Optional)
HTTPConnectiv
ity
Incoming
Outgoing
SMSC
Welcome Maria, The inventory of Classic
Gold Battery (CG0001) as on 12th Jan 2004(2:00PM) is
6000 units at Warehouse w1 Enterprise
Premises
SAP
Item CG001, Classic Gold,Warehouse:w1,Inventory:60
Sends message “Item Num
CG001<space> Inv<space>warehou
se w1 to mobile phone number “0123456789”
SMS Pull Application: Checking Inventory
Authentication Layer
Event Monitor
Notification Agent
Response Processor
Application Connector
Content Generator
Business Rules Layer
HexaAlert Platform
GSM
Network
SMS Push Application: Payment Follow up
HTTPConnectiv
ity
GSM
Network
SMSC
Enterprise Premises
SAP
Cust No:102358Payment due Date:01/12/2003Amount Rs 1 lacs
Authentication Layer
Event Monitor
Notification Agent
Response Processor
Application Connector
Content Generator
Business Rules Layer
HexaAlert Platform
Maria, Pls follow up with customer XYZ
(Cust ID:102358) for payment of Rs 1lacs due since 01/12/2003
Outgoing
Capability
Avon technologies has successfully worked with large MNC’s and Indian Conglomerates like Coke India , SSA Global ,Aurther Anderson (Former) , KPMG Tata Refractories , Tata Indicom , Siam Motor Group Thailand , Bureau of Budget , Ministry of Finanace Thailand etc to name a few
Avon has met the quality and capability standards of the above international companies in a satisfactory manner
Avon has personalities like DR Dipu Ghosh , a PHD from university
Of Winsconsin , spend 35 years with Lucent , US in the Board to provide direction and guidance
Mr. Dushant Lall , Ex CIO of Tata Steel is also in the Board to to provide the necessary guidance .
Avon has mix of people drawn from reputed companies like HCL, Satyam , TCS in its fold
Avon has domain knowledge of the Pharma industry and has the services of people Mr. Arun Sagar , who has 15 years of experience in dealing with pharmaceutical industry and people from leading Pharma company like Dr Reddy’s
Case Studies
Coke India needed a system to streamline the business process of their truck sale .
Avon provided a solution on hand held devices for the truck sale team by automating the entire process of load taking , Empties and Fulls reconciliation , Payment reconciliation , which reduced their operation time a good 60%
KPMG is the consultant for AP Transco under a world bank project for reengineering their operations and stream lining their process . Avon has been their technology partner for the last two years for implementation of systems which extensively used work flow for their reporting solution .
SSA Global , the company owning reputed software like Baan , BPCS, ETC wanted to build a independent module of localization which can be interfaced with all their products to be sold in India. Avon has been chosen against stiff competition from their development center .
Tangible Return on Investment
Return On Investment– Flexware MC Platform is
more than a IT purchase – It’s a strategic investment that can change the way to do business.
– Flexware delivers significant and demonstrable ROI – by improving the Sales staff productivity.
– Current Cost – Rs 750 per month per person
– At current cost the ROI will be within 5 months
Printing Formats Outbound
Sorting and Courier
Outbound
Wastage
Postage charges Inbound (MR to AM)
Courier charges Inbound (AM to RM, RM to Corporate)
Processing – man power
Telecommunication costs
In Tangible ROI
A cost effective solution with low maintenance due to high flexibility to take care of any changes in the organization
Better PPC planning due to stock visibility at Distributors end hence reduction in Inventory holding costs.
Sales Agents can concentrate on selling, prevent lost sales, thus higher productivity leading to increased Sales.
Visibility of expenses - cost reduction in the sales management process
Fleet footed organization – steps ahead of competition
OUR CLIENTS
Complimenting Strengths through partnerships
1. We are able to market our solutions in Middle East, Thailand and Malaysia through our partners who have local presence in the above geographies.
2. Having a local face, it is easy to gain customer confidence and leverage on the local factor.
3. Leveraging on our partners existing client’s, we are able to compliment each others in strength and value offering.
a transition partner providing both business & technology professional services, helps its clients build value, manage risk and improve their performance.visit www.avontechnologies.com
Thank You
Avon Technologies, a transition partner providing both business & technology professional services, helps its clients build value, manage risk and improve their performance.
Avon Technologies provides a full range of technology services to leading global, national and local companies. Copyright by Avon Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd.
For More Information, Contact:
Avon Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Anupam Srivastava
H/P: +91-98490 33745
Tel: +91-40-5558 08367
Fax: +91-40-2330 7025
