Offshore Product Development

Flexur Systems offers Product Development / Maintenance services to Software OEMs as part of decreasing their software development costs without compromising on quality and productivity and enables them to leverage the experience and skills of Flexur Systems to enrich the overall software development team.

We at Flexur understand the importance of various software development practices like code review, coding standards, daily automated builds, source code versioning, daily regression testing, performance testing, language & platform specific testing, tracking detection rate and closure rates of critical & non critical defects etc. etc.

The offshore team at Flexur not just works like an extended team for the Software OEM but also complements the overall objectives.

Why should you outsource your product development?

You should consider creating a low cost extended team for your product development for following situations:

• Taking up non critical or low-tech activities like Porting, Internationalization, Installations, Documentation etc.

• Doing background work for future versions of your software such as Prototyping, Researching, Experimenting etc.

• Providing rapid response to customer's requests by carrying out bug fixing and minor enhancements without disturbing the main team working on new version.

• Resource heavy activities including Testing for GUI, Performance, Multiple Platforms, Installation, Documentation, Compatibility etc.

• Maintenance of old software or older versions

• Reduce overall development costs

What Can Flexur do for you?

Flexur will do followings for you for outsourced development:

• Create an offshore team equipped & trained with required software skills and with right mixture of experience levels

• Setup dedicated development & communications infrastructure for this team

• Phase-wise scale up or scale down offshore team based on OEM's plans

• Provide mentoring to the team

• Monitor team's performance, productivity & Quality

• Conduct periodic review with Software OEMs and manage escalations

• Ensure legal framework for IPR protection, non-compete and non-disclosure

• Ensure security framework for protecting source code & trade secrets

What kinds of product developments you can outsource?

Flexur offers offshore product development in following domains or technologies:

• Engineering software related to Design, Visualization, Graphics, Analysis, Optimization, Validations, Data Management, Process Automation, Data Translation etc.

• CAD/CAM/PLM integrations, Add-on and Connectors

• Desktop software based on Microsoft & Java Technologies

• Database & Web based Applications based on Microsoft, Java and Oracle platforms

• Mobile based Applications

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Software Services / PLM Implementation

Flexur Systems offers Software Solutions Development and PLM Implementation services to Engineering Industries, Software OEMs and Software Services Companies on Project based engagements. Flexur offers to take projects either on Time & Material basis or fixed cost basis.

Similarly Flexur also offers sourcing services whereby it make available its Subject Matter Experts (SME) on time based engagements to its customers.

Why should you require software services?

If you are an Engineering industry, then following situation demands taking up software services from us:

• Our software expertise combined with your domain knowledge can be used to create software tools to automate your time consuming manual tasks and reduce the human errors

• If your internal IT department is already occupied with many tasks at hand and needs outside help to speed things up

• You don't want to scale up / scale down your IT department head counts as & when new projects start or close down

• You need to create software tools to give you competitive edge.

If you are an IT company, then you can source our experts on time based engagements for augmenting your project teams working on PLM implementations or software developments.

Which software services Flexur provides to you?

Flexur can provide following services:

• Biz. Process Study,  Requirement Analysis & Mapping

• Use Case Analysis

• Data & Process Modeling

• PLM System Configuration & Customization

• Software development / prototyping

• Testing

• Technical Support

• Training

• Maintenance

Which PLM software implementations Flexur can take?

Flexur can provide implementation services for following products:

• Aras Innovator (Configuration & Administration, Server side / Client side Customization)

• Teamcenter 2007 / 2008 (Unified Architecture)
  (Business Modeler IDE, Configuration & Administration, ITK (Server Side), Rich Client Customization, Web Client Customization)

• Teamcenter Engineering
  (Configuration & Administration, ITK (Server Side), Portal Client Customization, Thin Client Customization)

• Teamcenter Enterprise
  (MODeL/Method coding, Classic Client / Thin Client Customization)

• Teamcenter Express
  (Business Modeler IDE, Configuration & Administration, Smart Codes)

• SmarTeam (Configuration & Administration, Server side / Client side Customization)

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PLM Trainings

Flexur Systems offers class room training & client site training on various courses

TEAMCENTER Trainings at its  Siemens Authorized Training Center (ATC), Pune

Flexur offers class room training for Functional, Administration & Customization courses on Teamcenter 2007 (Unified Architecture)

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Corporate Trainings

In addition to providing class room training at its ATC, Flexur also offers onsite training at client's location. In this case Flexur deputes its trainer to client's location and client arranges for all training setup & licenses.

Flexur offers corporate trainings on following topics:

PLM trainings (Functional / Administration / Customization) for:

• Teamcenter 2007 / Teamcenter 2008

• Teamcenter Engineering

• Teamcenter Enterprise

• Teamcenter Express

• Aras PLM

• SmarTeam

Company specific Customized Trainings

Flexur also takes up customized trainings for those companies who have customized and implemented the PLM system and want their work force to get trained on their PLM system.

Flexur takes up following activities for such trainings:

• Understanding company specific & departments specific business processes

• Preparing company specific training materials with focus on both Domain Knowledge and software features

• Actual class room training with hands-on practices

• Conducting post training tests (examination) & evaluations

Similarly Flexur also helps companies to do upgrade trainings for their work force when ever their is major change in PLM versions or Business process changes.

Flexur also offers developing web based self learning materials for companies.

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Why you should Partner with Flexur Systems?

Corporate Philosophy

Flexur is a young, dynamic and a growing company managed by highly qualified industry professionals, with a view to carry out best for its customers. To our customer, Flexur values on followings:

• Flexibility in business model

• Corporate and Personal Integrity

• More attentive and focused on your needs

• Sensitive to Quality & IPR Protection

• Less overhead & management costs

We see our customers as our long term partners and we believe in providing value to them - Financially, Professionally & Technically

Software Engineering Approach

Flexur believes in executing software development as per tried and reliable engineering approaches and some of the key highlights are:

• SDLC & Quality standards for Programming/Testing

• Importance on flexible, modular, simple & neat architecture, algorithms & designs

• Use-case based incremental development approach & tracking

• Daily builds and Auto tests

• Source code management & Versioning

• Regular code review & documentation

• Rigorous unit testing & regressions testing

• Sensitive to Memory, Speed & Scalability Performance parameters

• Incidence Report (IR) & Bug tracking mechanisms & responsive resolution

A continuous focus on efficient software development

Experience Summary

Flexur's founding directors who carry the values and set the guiding principals for Flexur have had a long experience of  working on various aspects of software development business including:

• Developing software products from scratch

• Executing project based software services

• Involved in various PLM implementations

• Providing Engineering product Design / Analysis services

• Setting up dedicated offshore Product Development Centers for customers

The directors of Flexur in their earlier organizations have been:

• Involved in product development of Virtual N'gineer, RoofCAD, ArchCAD, 3D InterOp, eDrawings,  PLM Interoperability etc.

• Involved in setting up and/or operating Offshore Development Center for SDRC & UGS Corp. products (now part of Siemens PLM Software) and Dassault Systems products including CATIA, ACIS, SolidWorks, Enovia, Matrix & SmarTeam.

• Involved in Manufacturing and Product Design optimizations

• Involved in PLM implementations at Automotive & Aerospace majors

Through our accumulated experience of 75 man years, we have worked with many Software OEMs and Engineering Companies as our esteemed customers and we have strived hard to satisfy their business needs.

Location Advantage

Flexur is located in Pune which is an important Education, IT & Manufacturing hub in India. Pune is home to Indian Dev. Center of major PLM companies like Dassault Systems, Siemens PLM, PTC, MSC, Bentley, Geometric, Autodesk, Fluent (ANSYS) as well as world leading automobile manufacturers like Daimler-Chrysler, Fiat, General Motors, Volkswagen, Tata Motors etc.

Pune which is just 100 miles off Mumbai also offers added advantage of:

• Access to large pool of students, universities & IT professionals

• Relatively cheaper resources as compared to Bangalore

• A good climate like Bangalore

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Software Expertise Summary

Software Types

• Stand alone software with 2D/3D graphics capabilities

• Client server based Applications (Business Server and Rich Clients)

• Web Server based Web Applications (Business Server and Thin Clients)

• Mobile based Applications

Solution Domains

• Geometry & CAD Modeling

• Visualization &  Collaboration

• CAE & Machining

• CAx Data Exchange / Translation

• System Integrations

• Data Management & Automation

Development Environment

• C/C++/C#/Java and Other programming languages & scripts

• CORBA/J2EE/.Net/Web based Client Server Environment

• Windows & Linux based IDE and debugging tools

• Tools for Auto Build, Source code Mgmt., Auto Testing

• Tools for Memory Management & Performance tuning

• Tools for Documentation / Online Help Creation

Product Knowledge

• Geometry Platforms (ACIS, Parasolid, CAA etc.)

• Visualization Platforms (OpenGL, DirectX, Java3D)

• CAD Platforms (CATIA, SolidWorks, NX, WildFire etc.)

• PLM Software (Teamcenter, SmarTeam, Aras etc.)

• Database (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.)

• Web/App Server (Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, Weblogic etc.)

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