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"We are focused on solving business critical

problems through custom applications which

can be scaled via cloud enabled

infrastructure; thus allowing you to make

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analysis of your big data."

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About Us

Compassites Software is a technology services ﬁrm that

works in the space of Big Data, Cloud Computing and

Consumerization of Information Technology. Compassites

was founded in early 2005 by a bunch of extremely

passionate industry veterans. Compassites is focussed and

committed to help enterprises realize their

business

potential by taking their ideas from concept to reality by

implementing the right technology solutions. Compassites

has a

vast experience in product development and building

custom solutions and partners with client to design, develop and

deploy technology solutions rapidly. The clientele is a mix of domestic

and foreign customer and some of the products that Compassites has

been involved in, include, Jiﬄe, iCharts and Payback.

We typically use the

‘Agile’ development methodology to help clients

meet their time to market deadlines and adapt to the changing needs of

their user-base. We are also ﬂexible to follow the development

methodologies and models that suit the customer’s needs.

We have a team of 125+ in Bangalore, India. The team is

well

versed with technologies such as J2EE, .Net, PHP and Ruby on

Rails(RoR), Cloud Enablement, Big Data & Data Analytics

e-Commerce frameworks and various open source technologies.

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Compassites Mission Statement

Our Culture

To create a WOW experience for all stakeholders through innovative technology solutions

and delivery excellence.

We believe in a culture which empowers our people, whom we call Navigators, to make decisions,

make a diﬀerence to our customers via innovative solutions and most importantly, have fun as they

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www.compassitesinc.com

Driving Forces

2005

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2007

2008

2009

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2011

2012

Founded

Launched Compassites

Jiﬄe goes live

Authentix

iCharts launched

Odondo signs up

Airtel

ICICI

Home Connect

Payback

2013

Decision to scale

Milestones

02 Continuous Innovation

Innovation at every step of the way in

our software delivery is a key measure.

04 Foster Conceptreneurship

We are equipped to guide our

customers by taking their ideas

from concept to market.

03 Success & Proﬁtability

Proﬁtability for us is being able to

reinvest in the company and our

passionate Navigators.

05 Value Employees

We help our Navigators realize their potential and chart a clear path for their

career growth.

01 Customer Success

We are driven by our goal to

make our customers successful.

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Our employees are our biggest strength and their well being is our priority. We ensure that we hire the

brightest and best people from the software industry. We love to work with people who are passionate and

want to make a real diﬀerence with their work. Our people are highly customer focused and obsessed about

delivering the best software to clients.

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Light documentation

Continuous deployment

Test automation

Frequent regular demo to the customer

The Idea: Put YOU (the customer) in control

Complete Transparency

Daily standups

Information radiators

Access to environments

Iterative Development

Time-to-market and Use of cutting edge technology

Rapid churn from Ideation to Realization

Bringing Cloud Enablement, BI, Analytics, Big Data and

Core Technology expertise together

Leveraging our eco-system built over 7 years

Ampliﬁcation of your success

End Goal

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At Compassites, we develop custom software solutions with ﬂexible engagement models tailored to suit your

unique needs.

Here are the following ways we can help you:

Enterprise Collaboration: We build custom solutions in an agile fashion

Mobility: We help your business go mobile

E-commerce: We help you go online, extend the reach and increase your sales

Key Offerings

Consumerization of IT

Cloud Enablement

Assess your software platforms and products for cloud readiness.

Refurbish & revamp your applications to be cloud ready

Migrate your targeted applications to the cloud.

Scale your applications that are already on the cloud.

From e-commerce enablement to custom portals, we have the experience of

designing and implementing these kind of projects globally.

Our Expertise: Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, Google AppEngine, IBM

Smart Cloud, Rackspace, HP Cloud, Private, Public or Hybrid Cloud

Our Expertise: Alfresco, Liferay, Magento, Microsoft

Sharepoint, Social Engine, HTML 5, OpenX, iOS programming,

Android development

Cloud computing has radically changed the world of software. More customers

are seeing the value of having applications on the cloud. We can speciﬁcally help

you to:

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Big Data

Consulting

Technology: We are authorized partners of open-source softwares like MongoDB

and Cloudera to provide Hadoop solutions and services.

Predictive Analysis: The data generated by complex systems has tones of

knowledge, which if leveraged correctly can reveal high potential business

opportunities, reduced costs and higher positive impact for organizations.

Business Intelligence: We help organizations transform volumes of data into

meaningful and useful information to gain more insight and drive better

outcomes in every aspect of their business.

Search: We help organizations use search to unlock business value.

Our Expertise: MongoDB, Gearman, Hadoop, Map Reduce, Mondrian,

RabbitMQ, Memcache, Solr, ElasticSearch, Redis

Our Expertise: Json, Amazon Web Services, Java, Python, PHP, Alfresco, JQuery,

Tornado, My SQL, MongoDB, ZEND Framework, Ruby on Rails

Strategy Consulting: We provide consulting services like ideation, inception,

Business Solutioning. We are partners with Jive one of the pioneers and world’s

leading provider of social business solutions.

Process Consulting: We provide services like Independent Testing, DevOps and we

also do Support & Maintenance for products.

We are passionate about using technology to help our clients take their business

to the next level.

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At Compassites we are ﬂexible with regards to how we engage with clients. We understand that every

client is in a unique situation had are able to engage with them based on their needs and priorities. The

following are a bunch of ways we work with clients:

Projects with well-deﬁned requirements have very

little ambiguity and can be executed in ﬁxed time

and price. This model limits risks associated with

the project.

Engagement Models & Practices

Fixed Bid

It provides the ﬂexibility of varying the size and

workloads of the development team assigned to

your project, while optimizing time and costs.

Time & Materials

In this model, the total cost is a function of the

total time taken for the execution of the project

and the resources used. It is highly ﬂexible

according to the needs of the project.

Eﬀort based pricing

This model reinforces monitoring of project

progress at regular milestones. It helps to justify

payments based on achievable milestone and

visible progress.

Milestone based pricing

In this model, Compassites helps you to design,

construct, and operate a solution.

Build Operate & Transfer

The purpose behind an Oﬀshore Development

Center is to take advantages of the technological

know-how cost advantages and the reduced time

to market.

Oﬀshore Development Center

Inception

Estimation

Customer Feedback

UAT

Deployment

Test driven development

Test automation

Unit testing

Code Reviews

Iterative Development

Incremental Delivery

Scope Management

Project Metrics

Scrum Wall

Iteration Planning Meeting

Test automation

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Our Clients

We appreciate that our clients are looking for quality software services from their vendors and we are committed to deliver software of the highest standards. Our client roster includes companies from various countries and we are ﬂexible to working with clients from various domains. The following is a representative list of customers that we have worked with over the years.

Hydratech

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NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY

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Why Compassites

Leadership that cares

We have an experienced leadership team which is passionate

about you - the customer! We understand and know where you are

coming from and want you to succeed.

Solid portfolio of previous projects

We have fostered more than 30 software products. Our stellar

delivery track record speaks volumes about the kind of complex

projects that we have delivered over the years.

A plethora of choices

We have a slew of oﬀerings that can be customized as per your

needs and requirements. We work on various technologies across

multiple platforms and diﬀerent domains. You just need to pick!

A technology deep dive

Technology is the core of our existence. We have proven expertise in multiple

technologies. When it comes to anything tech related, we are very comfortable

in the deep end of the pool.

Connect the loose ends

You can rely on us to take your project to completion. We love solving

business critical problems and won’t relent until your project is delivered.

Also if your project needs a rescue, we are the right people to call.

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Case Study

Cloud Migration

Client Proﬁle

iCharts is a cloud-based charting tool that makes it easy to visualize, share and distribute data. It accelerates data-driven storytelling with interactive charts for publishers, marketers, journalists, bloggers, and market researchers. The iCharts community today is over 14,000 strong, including users such as Coca Cola, IDC, Marketwatch, Focus Online and NRF. More information about the team at www.icharts.net

The iCharts tool enables processing, visualization and distribution of big and small data. Their vision is to empower the world to explore and share data by enabling the free ﬂow of visual data among data owners, media, business and consumers. Users can upload and connect to Excel sheets, csv ﬁles, dynamic data, Google spread sheets, survey data in the form of SPSS or iCharts proprietary data, OLAP data sources, process the data, and use it to create attractive, interactive charts and dashboards using a web application.

Business

The company was founded in 2008, with their SAAS application on dedicated infrastructure hosted with a hosting provider. It went on to be become a popular data visualization provider with bloggers, teachers, government analysts and small business owners, along with Fortune 500 companies and other market research partners who started harnessing the power tool. The business need was to grow further, in

terms of storage, bandwidth and processing capacity called for ad hoc needs for scaling the infrastructure, which was limited by SLAs provided by the infrastructure vendor.

Solution Approach

Compassites proposed and implemented migration of the whole application stack to the public cloud to ensure elastic, auto scaling, fault tolerant and high capacity infrastructure, using the following services provided by Amazon Web Services.

Beneﬁts / Results

 Elastic infrastructure provided by elastic load balancer and auto scaling.

 High availability and fault tolerance provided by installing the elastic load balancer against two availability zones.  Higher processing capacity through Amazon RDS.  Reduction of infrastructure costs by half.

"The most interesting and unique approach of Compassites is to create a real relationship with it's customers. This means that it is a partnership which can go far beyond the level which is normal in business life."

Hans-Bernd Dreis

VP, Data Visualization and Special Projects

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Client Proﬁle

Business Situation

Solution Approach

Case Study

Beneﬁts / Results

Technology Used

Enabling mobile users with location based services

A brand owned by Y2CF Digital Media Private Ltd., Hoppr is a mobile device agnostic location based service. It has partnered with Bharti Softbank, in order to actively participate in the growth of the mobile ecosystem in India. The firm ties up with most of the leading mobile service providers in India to give a seamless experience for location specific data and content. Hoppr leverages location data and merchant offering to provide custom deals to people searching for information around their locations; all that needs to be done is to go for location based ‘check-ins’.

Ruby on Rails (ROR), MongoDB The Hoppr value proposition really caught on and increased

in popularity resulting in about 200 merchant registrations to be made per week. The merchant registrations were carried out by the Hoppr Sales team. The complete signing up process, along with verification, would require ample amount of time (approximately 10-15 days). The processing time for the Point-Of- Sales Collateral publishing was around 4 weeks as it needed involvement of Hoppr for approval and posting it for customers. The entire process was controlled by the firm where the merchants could only place their requests to be considered by Hoppr team and wait for upgrading their offers.

The merchant registration could now happen within lesser time, aiming at a complete processing time of up to 48 hours in the future.

An eﬃcient as well as leaner system reduced the processing time eﬀectively.

Automation ensured less of manual errors and slack times.

Helped the merchants with “self help” features to satisfactorily tailor their oﬀers for their target customers.

The solution that was created was aimed at creating a fully automated system where the merchants are given the scope to place their oﬀers and collaterals themselves. It created a platform called called “Merchants’ Self Service” which provides the merchants with a self sign-up feature.

This allowed the merchants to be able to put up their oﬀers themselves.

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“We have been engaged with Compassites for the past few months and the one thing that I would say which is the most unique is that they are a partner which instead of being followed-up actually is known to follow-up with the customer. You have helped us pushing people in my company and I love it. Promis-ing on-time delivery and makPromis-ing sure it happens is what Compassites is all about. Love you guys.”

Imthiaz

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Case Study

Client Proﬁle

The client is division of the world's largest beverage company. Globally, through the world's largest beverage distribution system, consumers in more than 200 countries enjoy their sparkling beverages, ready-to-drink coﬀees, juices, juice drinks and beverages at the rate of 1.8 billion servings a day!

Business Situation

The client sources the market research data from one of the largest market research companies, which provides around 34 trillion data points of relevant market research data, which was made available to client using their proprietary tool. The market research department of client would then work through this data for about two months to manually create a 220 tabbed excel report. Most of the report generation process was manual; giving scope to human errors. Creating reports was extremely time consuming and an expensive process.

This was a very ineﬃcient approach since there was loss of valuable time until the report was published. Most of the process was manual; giving scope to human errors. The reports were shared through emails, physical documents creating lack of ﬂexibility and easy availability. Creating new reports was extremely time consuming and an expensive process. The client has to source some of the data from one of the largest market research companies, which usually turned out to be expensive.

Big Data : Market Research

Solution Approach

We got the data from the market research company in the form of raw database ﬁles, and processed this data, to generate a macro level database in the form of OLAP cubes, to be served to end users through a web based, advanced data visualization platform called iCharts. Since this was a huge data set that needs to be processed and analyzed, the data was processed in parallel through a MapReduce implementation.

Beneﬁts / Results

 Fully automatic process preventing any human errors. Quick turnaround of reports and the monthly data is now available to managers within 3 days.

 Highly organized dashboard, with advanced data visualization capabilities like ﬁltering.

 Access controlled dashboard to give selective access to diﬀerent users.

 Individual reports can be downloaded, to be shared with management.

 Availability of ﬁltered raw data allows for creating new reports in short time, with fractional cost.

 Intermediate database allows for merging data from other sources to create an integrated report.

 Built on open source technology stack, thereby saving tremendous cost on software licenses.

Beverages

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Case Study

Client Proﬁle

Awarded the best "Customer Loyalty Program" award by Asia Retail Congress, imint is known as the common element between brands, retailers and local merchants that could deliver a superior shopping experience.

Some brands were running their own loyalty programs but consumers were disillusioned with these programs as they did not see value in them. It took too long to collect points and mostly, the points could be redeemed for items that had a poor perceived value. Also, there were too many cards in the consumer's wallet. That's when the idea of i-mint was conceived whereby a single card could be used across a network of brands and local merchants to accumulate points. A consumer would have to carry only one card and all the points that he earned across diﬀerent categories of spends would get aggregated on one card. Hence, a consumer can earn large number of points quickly and redeem them for better rewards.

Business Situation

The previous design of the portal had availability issues. The downtime was severe and signiﬁcantly high crippling the operations. The user interface and user experience had failed to live to the expectation of the stakeholders and customers. The customers were not able to redeem points due to the outage resulting in unacceptable portal behavior and bad user experience. When the business grew in size with more vendors being pooled to oﬀer their products. The portal failed to scale and cost the company.

It was a typical Java/J2EE portal built with MySQL as backend and hosted on Apache. While the setup was in place, the system had many issues with regard to handling and development of code. When there were concurrent users, the load test failed and the

Payback’s Online Shopping

thereafter. Hence, from a technical and business standpoint, it was decided to scrap the entire project and start ground-up.

Solution Approach

The client approached Compassites initially to create a user interactivity module. Eventually they enlarged the scope to the development to the entire portal's development. Compassites went on to create the portal ground-up by restructuring the portal using Java\J2EE. We built a reliable front-end by bringing onboard the most user-friendly features and handled the performance issue with a judicious mix of business acumen and technology edge. The various features there were built later into the portal greatly enriched the user experience.

With the change in layout, logo and multi-features, more vendors came forward to exhibit their products and customers were more than willing to redeem their points as the uptime was to a close 99.9%. It was a phenomenal achievement in a timespan of just 5 months, by which the system was rigorously tested, soft launched and then taken live for production.

Beneﬁts / Results

 The redemption increased by 70% and the number of online customers and vendors increased.

 The user experience went up, so did the comfort factor.  There was no outage faced ever since and downtime became

a rarity.

 The portal became very consistent and reliable in terms of behavior.

 We enabled the client to articulate their business models eﬀectively.

“The client handling has been exceptional, always responding to the need of the hour. The team has always delivered when the project schedule had real tough deadlines to deliver, by taking into account the methodology of Agile.”

Srinivasa Lakshminarayan

AVP of Business Consulting Technology at Payback

portal shut down. When more vendors wished to showcase their products, the system could scale only beyond a number and crash

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Client Proﬁle

Business Situation

Solution Approach

Case Study

Beneﬁts / Results

Technology Used

A big data challenge

Informatics is the leading and oldest information vendor for journals, reference books, e-books and technology products to the academic and corporate research communities in India, including engineering, medical, management and agriculture colleges, Government funded research institutes, and R&D based corporate.

Informatics was founded three decades ago with the intention to pioneer the business of e -information. With the vision of proving itself to be an ever-shining star in the domain of global information and publishing industry, they laid their main focus on scholarly and research articles, the intention was to help scholars benefit from publishing media and help libraries to filter information relevant to the search item and help suffice the needs of the users.

Amazon EC2, Solr

This system was launched in 1984 in India by sharing global databases with Indian universities through Telex and gradually moved to having a large pool of users as well as databases to manage, Informatics started facing the problem of keeping up scaling up. The key problems faced by the client included non-scalable system that was not yet ready for a global audience. The existing system had a downtime of 4-6 hours per day to update the system. Also the system lacked proper access to subscriptions date wise and lacked a ﬁner way of deﬁning access.

The solutions provided by Compassites had its evident results as the number of libraries, which was earlier restricted to 1700, now was expandable up to 5000 libraries. Other than this, 32 million records held earlier were now scalable to 100 million records, which could be easily retrieved using multiple entry points. Apart from the existing access deﬁnition of journals, now the author name as well as journal time frame could be used to retrieve relevant information, which functioned around the clock without any downtime for updating the system.

Compassites executed a technology solution to help Informatics deal with standing issues. Amazon cloud services was used to improve the processing power and

storage, and make the infrastructure scalable. Faceting the search instead of relying on the simple search which provided multiple entry points for the users to retrieve information from the database. Standpoint of search index platform was given importance to in order to make the system scalable as it used sharding to break big chunks of data into smaller manageable indexes, which could be easily retrievable as well.

Great bunch of guys to work with. What could not have been achieved by other vendors for years, Compassites could crack it in less than 4 months. We plan to work with Compassites for futher enchancement of our product.

Sreekandh Balakrishnan Technologist at Informatics

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Client Proﬁle

Authentix is the global leader in authentication and tracking solutions for excise tax recovery and brand protection. As the inventor and developer of many of the leading nano-scale authentication solutions in use today, Authentix is renowned in the realm of veriﬁcation and validation using a world-class technology portfolio.

Business Situation

Tobacco tax evasion is a problem that costs federal and state governments billions per year. This creates challenges in securing the manufacturing, distribution, and application of the tax stamps. Tracking of cigarette packs throughout their distribution would enable tax authorities to ensure proper tax collection, but currently taxes on cigarettes are collected via a stamp system that has very limited track and trace capabilities. In order to manage tobacco tax revenue collection eﬃciently and securely, it is necessary to signiﬁcantly improve tax stamp security features and transition stamp distribution from a centralized print and distribute model to a secure print-on-demand model.

Solution Approach

Authentix partnered with Compassites in creating the Digital Solution along with RED Stamp, Inc. and Assure Digitax to oﬀer the next generation solution for tobacco tax revenue management and recovery. This unique system enables tax collection authorities to collect tax revenues eﬀectively and track the status of legally issued stamps electronically. This

Case Study

solution brings tax stamps into the digital era by eliminating the need for expensive and vulnerable inventories of printed stamps while providing real-time auditing and immediate cash retrieval. The Authentix Digital Tax Stamp Solution signiﬁcantly improves security and operational eﬃciency of tax stamp production, distribution and monitoring. With the Authentix solution, cigarette distributors and licensees can print, authenticate, and report tax stamp consumption electronically. This high-tech system combines the latest in nano-scale security technologies, sophisticated encryption technologies and secure e-commerce services.

Beneﬁts / Results

 Each stamp includes multiple layers of overt, covert and forensic security features.

 Digital validation since each stamp is validated in-line post application.

 The equipment applying the stamp can be monitored remotely by the authorities.

 Stamping now is at the rate of 100 cartons per minute, as opposed to traditional systems which did about 70  This solution oﬀers the ability to generate real time

reports, rather than waiting for monthly reports to be ﬁled.

 Due to 24/7 availability and access to data, auditing capabilities and accuracy are improved.

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Client Proﬁle

Business Situation

Solution Approach

Case Study

Beneﬁts / Results

Mobility - iOS and Android

Destinu is a start-up company based out of Bogota, Colombia. They wanted to build & launch a product which will enable consumers to request private taxis/cabs on-demand. The product was initially launched in the Colombia market with potential to expand in other countries and geographies quickly.

Destinu had a very well designed concept for cab seekers to access taxis at their beck and call. The challenge was to deploy the concept into a real time application. They wanted a mobile application, which would run on all versions of the iPhone and Android platforms. To handle the back end operations they want a website to be built.

The customers were able to get taxis at their disposal with minimal eﬀort.

The cab booking process was simpliﬁed to just a few clicks.

The system provides a cashless transaction beneﬁt to customers.

Customers can rate the drivers and drivers can rate the customers.

The system enables customers to set their favorite pick up locations.

The application also provides the facility for drivers to accept the number of requests made from customers for pick up.

Real time maps are displayed to set the location. From the customer's perspective, he would request for a car

by dragging the blip to a particular location. This enables him to set the pickup location on the map. The Destinu server in return allows the user to view all taxis in the vicinity of 2 kms in the form of blips. The customer can now select the nearest taxi available by the click of a button. A visual aid has also been provided to the customer who can see the car moving towards the pickup location on map. Meanwhile a pin is sent to customer and driver. Now the customer can just hop into the car and get out at his destination, with no need of fumbling for money because Destinu automatically charges his credit card once he has viewed the amount, which needs to be paid to the bearer.

From the driver's perspective, he receives a list of requests, which is sent from the Destinu server. The driver has the option to accept a request. Accepting this request will make

the request inactive for all the other drivers who have received the request. The driver is provided with an option to call the customer or text the customer. The bill is calculated and sent online to the customer's device for accepting it. The solution also has some additional features. The customer can rate the driver and vice versa. This is possible at the end of the trip or even if the trip is cancelled. The customer can also view the proﬁle of the driver and vice versa. Compassites developed a minimum viable version of the website which handled the back end operations. We also developed the native application for iPhone and Android platforms. Thus the smart phones helped to connect the cab seeker and driver. The product also had a customer app and driver app, which could be downloaded easily.

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