Arowana Leisure

LEISURE

Arowana’s culture is based on a work friendly environment. At Arowana we believe that leisure plays an important role. To reduce stress and improve the mind, the employees involve themselves in leisure activities. Here we work in a heterogeneous environment, believing in creativity and innovation. Every employee is allowed to share their opinions freely without any restrictions. An Arowaiite is allowed to unleash their creative talents, to channelize a path to remain in the forefront of competition. We believe in all work and no play makes an Arowanite a dull person”. When not at work, the employees find time to play a game of cricket. The employees share their views and write for an internal monthly e-magazine. At the end of the month there are group activities in which the employees actively take part and win prizes. Arowana enco.rages its before an audience. We also encourage our employees to learn a new language by conducting language learning activities. Our employees feel enthusiastic, with a sense of belongingness and see themselves as a part of a corporate
community.

                                 

TALEFIN

Talefin started as a month!, internal e— magazine of Arowana Group. Shadow is Talefin’s mascot. Talefin is a creative platform for the employees of Arowana. It is an area for expression of words, where the pen meets the paper. It express everything that is notwork or corporate related. A fun magazine with creative illustrations making Talefin a light read. The Talefin editorial team is handled by a group of enthusiastic Arowanites. They fake the initiative of planning the magazine design and content. Every month there theme set up for the magazine and activities are conducted. It is a space for employees to come together and unleash their hidden creativity. It brings joy to the employees in an otherwise humdrum day. There is no code of conduct, it is informal and there is no hierarchy. everyone is equal and contribute voluntarily. Talefin creates a positive atmosphere in the office. The Talefin committee organize monthly activities, that act as stress busters. The employees let their hair down, interact and enjoy. Employees from various departments come together and work as a team. It builds a healthy competitive atmosphere. They win prize which are kept at their work stations and this brings a smile on their face. From a monthly e—magazine. Talefin has evolved as a brand of Arowana..

LEAD

Each day we engage in a wide range of communication activities, speaking and hearing literally thousands of words and constantly trying to adjust to our
thoughts to suit our speech . When It comes to speaking before a public audience. We get tongue tied, There is a sense of loss of words to speak a
sentence. In order to overcome this fear of public speaking, Arowana has become a member of Toastmasters International and have established a dub of their own, Arowana Toastmasters Club.

TALK

TALK. as the term suggests, is an activity where we encourage our employees to teach and learn the local language and its culture, Kannada. It , Form learning that we teach and from teaching that we learn”. We believe that corporates In Bangalore work In an isolated and an alien environment. We see people from various
regions come to Bangalore and live here without learning a single word of the local language or the culture. TALK alms at making our employees Kannada friendly. The employees who are non-native and do not know the language should try and learn enough of the language to help them navigate through their day to day affairs,
like negotiating with the localities or while asking someone for directions. The activity Is based on educating and making our
employees learn and respect the state and the regional language.

Arowana Consulting Testimonials

Quality leadership

Arowana has excellent experience with Enterprise Customers, strong Management Backing to grow and improve services
Dubai Aluminum,
United Arab Emirates

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Reliable partner with proven track record

Arowana has successfully conducted ERP Project Auditing and Health Check at our premises. We would like to record our appreciation for the experience that Arowana brought on to the table and would have no hesitation in recommending Arowana for any similar engagements
Mawhiba,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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Commitment to go the extra mile

I am amazed with their desire to complete tasks on hand and on their motivation levels…
Oracle Corporation

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Tangible, measurable business results

Arowana has a highly experienced team of Professionals, deep understanding of our business needs, access to appropriate technologies and custom solutions to our specific Requirements.
Emirates Integrated Telecommunication Company,
United Arab Emirates

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Business and Domain Expertise

Arowana has a detailed understanding of the Banking Domain and an excellent PMO Facility which enabled to deliver our projects with excellent Documentations.
Real Estate Bank,
United Arab Emirates

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Young, Dynamic, Transparent and Flexible

Excellent response to all our requirements, well defined Offshore Process . Arowana has been able to extend their support in offering various models to meet our budget constraints. A very reliable and agile partner for our business.
Emaar Group,
United Arab Emirates

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Beautifully designed and implemented App

"I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the tremendous effort you paid during phase 1 of iPhone / iPad App Project (The iPad App). Your effort results in a beautifully designed and implemented App that everybody here is loving. At this stage, I would like to encourage myself as well as you guys to continue at the same pace to finish phase 2 with even better and more mature Apps for both iPhone & iPad. Thank you again and I appreciate your efforts"
Information Technology Division,
Saudi Stock Exchange

WHAT AROWANA CONSULTING DO?

Arowana Consulting is an Excellence is home to development teams concentrating on

The offshore centre also is fully equipped to provide remote support 24 x 7 to all products and solutions, implemented and developed by us.

Additionally we also provide consultancy, solutions and services in various emerging technologies such as

Arowana's Theme of the year, "Happy Employee".

Introducing Arowana Consulting theme for the year 2014 "Happy Employee"

Arowana aims to keep all its employees happy this year...
for a happy employee is a productive employee.

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Arowana Consulting Business Intelligence

On Business Intelligence (BI), one of the largest IT Organizations in the world – Oracle Corporation has this to say “90% of the world's data has been created in the last two years, most of it is unstructured. And data is set to grow 50-fold by 2020. So understandably, business intelligence has never been more important” Oracle’s set of Business Intelligence tools are helping Companies rapid transform themselves by reading into the data and analysing data to understand and prioritize Organizations challenges to meet opportunities globally.
Oracle Business Intelligence provides Aggregated Details of your Suppliers, Customers, Sales, Business Activities & Financial Performance with the ability to drill down to transaction level. With Oracle Business Intelligence, a business should know what are their top performing customers, their key suppliers and sales trend that help the executives to make better decisions.

Oracle today is the undisputed leader in BI and Arowana is a Platinum Level Partner with Oracle which means that

1. We are a specialized partner at an Elite Level
2. We have specializations in multiple Oracle Applications including Oracle Business Intelligence & Enterprise Performance Management Implementations.
3. We have access to Oracle resources and support from their Business Partner Centre 

At Arowana, we have to our Credit some large implementations of BI and have recognized the growing awareness and potential of BI to organizations. Our ‘Data Scientists’ are skilled in Business Analytics and Statistics. Besides an exposure to BI Tools from Oracle, gives us the edge in delivering a good BI project and we can support your initiative by through our support.
One of the major challenges noticed in BI practice is architecting an appropriate BI solution to meet client Analytics requirements. Our resources can help Organizations to architect the perfect solution for them. We will train Organizations in implementing and maintaining the solution with a view to maximising returns. We’ve expertise in the following Oracle Business Intelligence Tools:



We implement best in class products from Oracle, for reporting, ad-hoc queries, OLAP, Dashboards, Scorecards and architecture it, through a unified foundation that is complete, open and integrated. We can build custom solutions tailored to suit individual user needs within your organization.

Arowana Consulting Data Analytics

Organizations around the world have realized that there is a pile of data residing in their system and there is a need to determine how this data can be mined to understand their customers better. There is a lot of chatter around this subject and Organizations are waking to the fact that they are sitting on a Gold mine of data which actually can help them to get valuable business insights and chart a future course of action.
Every Day, almost every company generates huge amounts of data that goes into different systems, servers and storage. The Core systems, ERP systems, web logs, call centre records, emails, all piles up and eventually becomes a huge avalanche of data and it resides, mostly untouched.
We at Arowana recognize the opportunities and challenges these vast quantities of data can provide. Proper capture, duration, management and process of these data can help Organizations derive highly intuitive intelligence that can identify trends and influence decision making. These data can be massaged using complex mutually interdependent algorithms and the resultant computer based simulations can provide a useful tool in the hands of the decision makers.
To be able to unearth these valuable nuggets of information, Arowana can help Organizations to implement ‘Big Data Analytics’, around systems, create dash boards that can seamlessly collect data using multi variate methods such as factor analysis and cluster analysis in a efficient manner. When this information is made available within set timelines, it will result in improved decision making, when the data and the information gleaned are actually relevant. Arowana has the capabilities to use the latest tools in the market that can work with separate sets of data, from various resources in real time, which will greatly assist in finding co-relations in a wide range of situations.

Arowana will collaborate, work closely with Organizations, understand the business and will be able to present the results which can actually help in improving Market Share, identifying potential opportunities and pitfalls and make the emerging technologies work in synergy with existing investments - towards new data-driven applications and analytics that can provide not only excellent business insights but also a ‘competitive edge’.

These tools and applications can integrate Data warehouses and BI tools in an optimized processing environment that will deliver maximum business value with low cost of ownership, resulting in a unified approach to big data architecture to support big data analytics.

Arowana Consulting QA and Testing

AROWANA provides world class quality testing to organizations to build robust software systems by being a reliable partner in their software quality assurance process. AROWANA has the capability to provide manual and automated test environment.

Our QA team prefers to start work at the early stages of software development cycle to ensure timely and exhaustive coverage of the application for quality assurance. With this approach, we have developed an agile quality assurance process that offers unique benefits to our clients. AROWANA has been specializing with and produced reliable services to many clients in the below typical solutions: QA for Software products, QA for Projects.

AROWANA QA & Testing services covers testing strategy development, set-up and management of test organizational structure; test planning, test environment/ test lab design & setup, test automation architecture and test monitoring & assessment.
AROWANA's Testing services include load testing, functional testing, platform compatibility testing, usability testing, integration testing, quality assurance and more via our test lab facilities and service offerings.

AROWANA's Offshore Development Centre possesses the agile testing expertise using the following technologies:

Platforms : VSTS, Eclipse
OOPs: C#, Java and Python
Open source Functional automation tools: Watin, Selenium, Sahi
Open source Performance automation tool: JMeter
Licensed automation tools: RPT, QTP, RFT

Providing clients with a disciplined, seamless and traceable process for moving their software to market, our integration testing services are tailored to client needs from the industry best practices. Our testing methodology is focused on your critical business scenarios to eliminate risk through effective software testing.

Arowana Consulting iAccess

iAccess is a solution developed by Arowana for a large Middle Eastern Airline. The Airline had a huge appetite for investments and it partook in several takeovers and mergers to grow their business organically. As the size increased, there was a need to maintain high levels of service and quality, which the airline was known for.

The newly acquired business needed to follow existing accounting standards to bring about uniformity in the accounting system. This was problematic, as these new entities were following different accounting standards. There was a need for an automated process to eliminate human errors in parameterizing accounting standards to facilitate easier understanding and acceptance of existing standards of the parent company by the new user community.To apply existing accounting practices and also to maintain uniformity in approach to accounting, amongst the newly companies, the Airline approached Arowana to develop a solution that will stringently adhere to the overall Corporate Compliance, with reference to access to ERP - especially in creation and use of general ledger heads and accounting practices.

The Solution termed iAccess was developed by Arowana after carefully studying the Corporate procedures. The overall aim was to inculcate discipline and uniformity in approach to transactions and accounting for all business users.

The System restricts the access privileges and enables the creation of roles and responsibilities amongst the user community. The system defines the process for setting up privileges and produces an audit trail on the activities of the Administrators and users of the system. It tracks the activities of those given the responsibilities to assign privileges to the users and also it will assist the Corporate Finance and Compliance Department to restrict the usage and set certain parameters in accessing and transacting certain General Ledger accounts.

Thus iAccess brought in more discipline and orderliness, besides enabling the Airline to integrate the accounts of the newly acquired businesses into their balance sheet and exercise uniformity and easier understanding/ implementation of accounting standards.

Key Benefit With Arowana iAccess

• A web based paperless system which will minimize manual process
• Compliant with security and audit requirements
• Better control on access provided to users
• Helps audit and maintain staff access to multiple internal applications
• Rule based application access eligibility and Restrictions
• System generated alerts for access deactivation
• Auto generated access request for New Hires
• Technology Use In iAccess

Technology Use In iAcess
Arowana delivers custom applications leveraging on various technologies such as

• OA Framework
• PL/SQL
• J2EE
• .NET

The Fun side of Arowana Consulting- " Talefin "

The Fun side of Arowana Consulting- " Talefin "
Shadow is Proud to Introduce Talefin and his team. Talefin is everything but work... For all the employees of Arowana. A video on talefin activities for us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FkFsAusJBE



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Arowana Consulting

Arowana consulting offers a wide array of services. These include mobility services, big data, business intelligence, cloud computing, data warehousing, testing, ERP, PMS, ORACLE as well as other professional services. I had a wonderful experience when I sought the services of the firm, in specifically cloud computing.

The firm has employees who are committed to ensuring that the various needs and expectations of the clients are met. In addition, the response from the employees of the firm is prompt. The dedication, integrity, timeliness, of the firm marveled me.

Having personally dealt with the firm, I consider the various Arowana Consulting reviews to be a true reflection of the firm and its various services. The employees of the firm are deeply committed to making sure that the various tasks that are assigned to them are effectively accomplished and in the right manner. Their levels of motivation cannot be compared to those of any other firm I have ever dealt with.

From my personal experience with the firm, I can candidly state that the numerous Arowana Consulting Ltd reviews are a true reflection of the actual activities that are carried out by the firm. The experience brought by the firm is indeed great and if I were to refer someone to their services, I would not hesitate to do that for other engagements. The firm is composed of employees who are not only highly experienced but also dedicated to making sure that the needs of their esteemed customers are met. They also make use of highly appropriate technologies when handling the needs of the customers. Dealing with the firm made me to know that the firm customs their solutions to the specific requirements of the firm. The firm always ensures that tasks are completed on time. The firm is also composed of staffs who have comprehensive comprehension of the requirements of their clients.

Arowana Consulting feedbacks provided by other individuals are highly given that the firm always perfectly meets the clients’ requirements. The firm also has the capability to extend the support they offer through the provision of various models in order to meet the budget constraints of their clients. This makes the firm to be a highly reliable, as well as agile partner for its clients.

Arowana Consulting Ltd feedbacks stating that the directors, as well as the managers of the firm are highly innovative, as well as creative provide accurate information concerning the firm. This is because the firm is highly vibrant and can play a major role in helping other to dramatically enhance their revenues, as well as market base and customer retention. Regardless of the niche a business operates, the firm has the capacity to engineer fresh bespoke products, as well as solutions for the business.

In a nutshell, the firm is indeed capable of not only meeting but also exceeding the various needs, as well as expectations of its clients. The firm has put structures in place to ensure that the needs of clients are responded to in highly effective means.

Arowana Consulting Professional Services

Arowana has a wealth of talent and an experienced pool of developers (from Junior Developers to Senior Solution Architects) spanning many technologies and domains as follows.

• Microsoft Practice
• Mobile Applications and Development
• Oracle Technologies
• Java Practice

We also have a very good exposure to the following domains, primarily due to the extensive nature of our involvement in high profile IT projects in these segments:-

• BFSI
• Aviation
• Real Estate and Master Developers
• Telecom Companies
• Manufacturing
• Healthcare
• Government
• Public Sector
• Retail

We additionally have resources (both Functional and Technical) from in the following key areas.

• Oracle E Business Suite
• Hyperion
• Primavera
• Data Warehousing
• Business Intelligence
• Oracle Fusion
• Oracle Communications Data Model
• Oracle Field and Tele-service

Our Professionals are available for short term and long term assignments. Their expertise can be availed remotely from offshore development centres and also on-site.
We also have skills which can be sourced from our ‘Centres of Excellence’ in

• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• Big Data Analytics
• Testing Services
• Training Services

To know more, please get in touch with us. Our Co-ordinates are available here:- Or you can also write to us Email: info@arowanaconsulting.com

Automated Reconciliation System

Organization worldwide uses Transaction processing systems with direct client interface to manage receivables. Industries like Telecom and other similar industries with large client bases, offer their client multiple payment options through various channels. These payments flow into the accounts held in various banks. Multiple payment options is a convenience demanded by the customers and more flexible the payment options are, the prospects of retaining the customer and realizing the funds becomes easier, smoothening the overall business cycle.

However difficulties crops up in reconciliation. The transaction systems have to be reconciled with the bank statements. In turn the Bank statements need to be reconciled with the General Ledger.

Technology Stack

• Flexible, scalable that can be tailor made across verticals. Very useful in Telecom/ Insurance/ Banks & Businesses with large client bases.
• Can handle data from disparate systems and bank statements in multiple formats. Data can be brought in from Payment Gateways/ Collection accounts/ Pooled accounts/ Current accounts, deposit accounts and from ERP systems.
• Ability to reconcile reconciliation in a multi-pronged manner – Between two systems or multiple systems.
• Auto match/ Manual/ Force Matching
• Matching of Single Entry/ Multiple Entries.
• Speedy implementation.
• Flexible enough to handle multiple transactions and users at any single point of time.
• Interface with existing and future versions of required modules of Oracle ERP.
• MIS reports as required, for analysis and planning. 

Key Benefits

• Speedy Implementation.
• Scalable and can be customized to suit the business model of any organization.
• Exhaustive MIS facilities.
• Will lead to better utilization of funds and customer service

Arowana Consulting Mobility Services

Arowana Consulting has an in-house development facility that handles Mobile Application Development for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile. We have set high standards in developing cross platform mobile applications that are light, user friendly and has intuitive interfaces that are now being used across many verticals like Hospitality, Real Estate, Property Management, Retail and also Stock Exchanges and other Banking / Financial institutions.
We offer complete Mobile Application Development Services, with a focus on Utility and Location Based Services, Productivity applications, Entertainment and Games. These services span the entire mobile application development cycle from initial design and architecture, development and integration into existing systems.


Mobile strategy 

Our Mobile Consulting Team helps companies refine their mobile objectives and plan out full life cycle of each initiative.
 

Mobile Design 

Our in-house User Interface/Experienced designers work alongside developers to maintain perfect balance between usability and functionality:

 

Technology

Arowana Consulting setting new grounds

In this revolutionized world of e-commerce and advanced communication, Information Technology is the first and last word which rules the roost. Hence the need of quality ITES for flourishing commerce is an indispensible parameter that needs serious thought altogether when revenue and management are the top most priorities.

When we first went ahead with Arowana Consulting, it was our heartiest wish to see them emerge as an enterprise striving hard to deliver simply the best in terms of quality and credibility. The specialty of Arowana lies in its multifariousness combined with impeccable perfection and diligence which helps it in catering to innumerable domains in the industrial and commercial sector.

The bigwigs of the aviation and logistic industry, technological firms, e-commerce and trading enterprises as well as management establishments are among the biggest beneficiaries of Arowana’s unique ITES solutions that add new dimensions to the meaning of commerce and management. The foremost thing that every sector finds useful in vesting their interests in Arowana is its sheer diligence and effort put into the rightful areas to give a picture of completeness to every service in offer.

The deep business insights possessed by the seasoned experts at Arowana Consulting and their fruitful conversion into utilizable resource is simply unparalleled in the industry considering the efficacy and minimalist cost at which they come. Perfect understanding and estimation in the business and management domain is what further alleviates the satiation factor.

Arowana Consulting has combined professionalism with a cordial service platform which ensures entrepreneurs like us garner benefits in truckloads. The basic ideology of the enterprise which revolves around the concept of uncompromising and undying zeal for development and innovation in ITES makes this enterprise a benchmark by its own rights.

What is apparently clear is the fact that Arowana believes in working smart instead of hard. The essence of the belief lies in the fact that it’s always the smart ideas that stand apart from the rest besides also making the enterprise reap golden harvests implementing the supreme motto of organisation.

On a personal front, our enterprise would feel honored enough to forward hearty appreciation for the effort and innovation Arowana has instilled into our framework to make it more effective. Undeniably it has resulted in transformed dynamics in resource management and streamlining, implementation of technology and ideas as well as increased revenue generation and savings. Add to this the unmatched support and backup by Arowana, what we got in return of our vested trust is a complete solutions package to take our enterprise a few notches higher in the global scenario.

The personal experience coupled with the industrial feedback it has been garnering in the recent past ever since its inception, Arowana is showing promise as a robust ITES solutions coming exclusively belonging to the neo age of the 21^st century. With further progress in the pipeline, we expect coming back to them routinely for transforming our outlook once and for all while recommending others to get a taste of Arowana and its capability in meeting ITES needs with unmatched perfection.

Arowana Consulting Ltd

Arowana Consulting is focused on providing IT services and holistic solutions across Banking and Financials, Airlines and Aviation, Healthcare, Public Sector and Telecom industries.

Arowana has successfully executed turn-key ERP projects, Application Development and Support, Banking business solutions, Managed Services and Skill Secondment on core functions, Infra structure and Securities as well as Compliance / Consulting projects for these important clients. In the process, Arowana has acquired a significant knowledge base and an enviable intellectual pool in the specific verticals.

Arowana has a focused product offering coming out of its development centers in Bangalore and Chennai – India. Arowana Consulting has its headquarters in Bangalore – India, which is complete with an Application development facility (Airlines and Healthcare products) and then a full fledged Product development facility in Chennai – India which is focused on developing Banking applications and Products. Regional Office for Middle East and Africa market is based out of the Dubai Internet City – Dubai. Arowana’s North American Operation is based out of Chicago – USA and other offices are also present in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman and Tanzania.

Engagement Model Arowana Consulting

Arowana’s engagement models are convenient, flexible and customer centric. These engagement models are designed keeping you in mind and covers the entire spectrum of our Services.

These Services include

1. Technology
2. Application Development and Management
3. Centres of Excellence

  Arowana can handle the entire lifecycle of the product or solutions which will cover upgrades, warranty and long term support. We can enable 24 x 7 support on-site or from our well equipped off-shore development centre.
Arowana have an excellent team of very skilled and competent staff that can render off-shore or on-site services and support which are at par with industry standards.

Engagement Models include

Time and Materials 

Arowana will provide you with resources on a agreed rate. These resources will work either off-shore or on-site for a specified period.

Fixed Price and Time

This is a well known and widely accepted model, where we sit together with you and arrive at an estimate based on the Scope of the project and the resources involved. The Full project life cycle management is handled by us with agreed upon milestones and deliveries. In this term Arowana will also commit to full cycle of testing , implementation, assist in global roll out and deliver full set of documentation.

Hybrid Model  

In Hybrid model, a combination of Time and Material is used along with Fixed Price/Time. This is very useful, especially where Organizations cannot allocate full time resources to work on the project. Our Analysts and Domain experts will study the requirement and translate it into a working solution.

Joint Development 

These models are so designed such that Organizations can reduce costs, get a superior returns on investments and obtain access to the latest technologies. 

Arowana Travel and Logistics Applications - Fly

In the Arowana's suite of Airline products, ATLAS today occupies a proud position. Initially developed for one of the biggest Budget Airlines in the Middle East, the product has generated considerable interest and many airlines are evaluating ATLAS to meet their Business Requirement.


Salient features.

• ATLAS is web based solution with wide range of modules to book tickets and receive notifications
• ATLAS is a solution flexible enough to handle multiple traveller categories – Individuals, Corporate and travel agents.
• ATLAS can interface with SITA reservation system ( New upgrades are being planned for interface with additional systems) for booking, listing, pricing and e-ticketing online through Web services
• ATLAS is a comprehensive ticket booking system, which can manage different type of sector wise discount fares
• ATLAS is a solution that has the ability to interface with other travel related tools
• ATLAS is a solution that is user friendly front-end using GUI, thin-client built using modern technologies
• ATLAS is a solution that is an appropriate, customizable, supported, scalable, flexible and evolutionary
• ATLAS is a solution that provides easy future interoperability between internal and to external applications

Product Overview.

Above shown figure illustrates the product overview for ATLAS. Following are the highlights (architectural) of ATLAS

•  Interface with various reservation system for booking, listing, pricing and e-ticketing online through Web services

• A solution that provides and supports Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). 

Design.

The Illustrated figure (below) describes the functional design of ATLAS. Following are the functional overviews of ATLAS.

• Dynamic display of best routes
• Seat Selection
• Multiple Payment Modes (Cash, Credit Card, Debit Card, Net Banking)
• Partial, Downgrade and Full cancellation and refund
• Comprehensive notifications and alerts through email and SMS

 

Technical Architecture.

ATLAS will integrate with the following third party application

• Reservation System
• Payment Gateway
• Pricing System
• Partial, Downgrade and Full cancellation and refund
• Departure Control System

 

Key Benefits.

•  Using simple approach to architect a modular system
• Ease of use and data consistency
• Ease of use in querying and reporting
• Easy and end-to-end support for maintenance achieved through deployment of simple technology
• The system will also provide operational features for seamless but controlled access across functionality, loading of data from various systems, Access Control and Audit trail.

Arowana has a long history of association with airlines. We have built up considerable domain expertise around the industry and have implemented ERP systems and several mission critical applications for Airlines. We are quite enthusiastic about the new addition (ATLAS) to the existing suite of products we have for Airlines.

Arowana Consulting Oracle

Arowana Consulting is a Platinum Level Partner of Oracle, which is a recognition of our expertise in implementing and supporting complex and very niche Oracle products and solutions, globally, across verticals.


Arowana has successfully completed several prestigious assignments for Industry leaders across several verticals. We have a off-shore and Onsite model, which helps us to be cost effective, efficient and deliver desired results to our customers within challenging deadlines. We have a strong team of Domain experts, Senior Functional experts and Technologists that can help you implement Oracle products and solutions in a time bound and efficient manner.
Arowana provides an end to end solution that covers Gap Analysis, User Training, global roll outs, upgrades and support, which includes Database Management support.

The technology that deliver your vision in today's world

Arowana Consulting established in 2006 is an emerging IT services and products Company of the future. At Arowana we realize that, IT Companies that can survive and thrive will be the ones that can prove their credentials and establish themselves as a reliable partner to Organizations, enabling them to effectively deliver their vision. Arowana can help Organizations maximize returns on their existing investments in technologies and solutions to an entirely new level by adopting emerging trends in IT.

As Organizations gets increasingly exposed to the opportunities from Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics, Mobility, Social Media and Virtualization, there is an increasing awareness of the tremendous potential these emerging technologies can have on business. Many have identified the need to adopt and harness the immense potential of these services to help create a bigger market place and increase their global footprint.

Arowana increasingly sees itself at that position – a vibrant Company that can deliver precisely these services, engineer new products and solutions, be a valuable resource in training, testing, and support especially in emerging technologies in a cost effective and efficient manner. Arowana Consulting today is relied on to deliver customized solutions, to provide end to end services in Product engineering, participate in the Product Management Life cycle, leverage technology evolutions such as Mobile Application Development and Social Media. Arowana Consulting's core competency is to keep Organizations competitive by providing niche services and helping them to evolve with painless adoption of new technologies, by standardizing business process, reducing costs, increasing agility and eventually in reaping the benefits.

Today's new breed of Managers, CXOs, and entrepreneurs has Global ambitions. They understand the power of technology. Besides, they know and practice technology. They possess a good awareness of products, and product engineering, best practices and the usefulness of emerging technologies in enhancing productivity and profitability.

Woman's Day At Arowana

A woman is a person who can solve any problem. Charity for them begins at home. They take firm decisions, they plan and organise, all this they practice at home and imply it outside. A video dedicated to the women of Arowana...

Arowana Case Study iSecurity Employee Access System

Client:                                                                                                               Technology:
A leading Airline in the United Arab Emirates,                              Oracle Application Framework

Awarded the ‘World’s Leading Airline’ three

years in a row.

Industry: Annual Revenue: Employees: Customizations:
Aviation US$4.1 billion 9,000 and growing Oracle ERP System

Network:
Over 85 Passenger and Cargo destinations in more than 55 countries
operating more than 1300 flights per week

THE NEED: The Airline’s Corporate Security Department was managing and maintaining every employee’s access request to various classified zones, within the Airport and other designated areas. They used excel spreadsheets to manage the issuance of ID cards, car stickers, Airport passes and Apartment keys to

Guest Houses. They wanted to automate this process and do away with excel sheets, to create a fool proof and failsafe method. There also was a need to integrate the process with their HR system and have an approval workflow process. There were audit concerns about the existing system and the directive was to regulate access to various facilities depending on an employee’s job description.

CHALLENGES:
Arowana was called in to study the existing system and develop a web based work flow system that will meet the needs of the Airline. The project named ‘iSecurity’ was expected to deliver superior control

and compliance with security regulations to maintain and organize individual access to secured zones. The system was expected to help enforce security related protocols on all employees in an efficient and uniform manner.

WHY ORACLE APPLICATION FRAMEWORK (OA FRAME WORK)?
This framework developed by Oracle Corporation for application development within the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) excels at creating 3-tier web-based applications. The framework maintains all security features.

 One of the most important features of CA framework model is that it facilitates the customization of existing modules and also allows development of new Self Service Web Application modules. CA Framework provides benefits of productivity, scalability, and customization. Although the CA Framework is J2EE based, it can work on other industry standards like HTML, XML, Java, JSP, SQL and Web Services. 

THE SOLUTION:-
Arowana developed a solution for the Airline, for employee physical access management, using Oracle Application Framework. It was designed to effectively and efficiently run the process of indentifying employees and providing access to security zones.
iSecurity integrated with data from existing human resource management system to identify the role of an employee.
Since request and approvals were automated, the role of IT departments in facilitating the process was removed and transferred to corporate security.

KEY BENEFITS:-
• Building key maintenance module that integrates with facility management system for master information.
• Facilitate corporate employees/ contractors to submit Car parking sticker requests; through Oracle EBS suite self service.
• Automate ID card request generation for new employees once recruitment process completed.
• Facilitate corporate employee to submit ID card request on behalf of new contractors; through Oracle EBS suite self service.
• Facilitate corporate employees! contractors to submit Airport pass request sticker requests; through Oracle EBS suite self service. 

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Vivek- The essence in Theatre

Inspired by ordinary people's extraordinary lives.- Stories of people who have climbed the ladder of success and tell their stories to inspire us to climb the Ladder as well.

As a part of LEAD initiative Arowana Consulting had a guest speaker to inspire and motive their employees...

Congratulation for completed a Project Arowana Oracle Apps Team

Congratulation for completed a Project Arowana Oracle Apps Team And best wishes for your upcoming projects.

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The Internet of Things

It's not too long ago since the 'go to' microcontroller for electronics designers was a humble 8bit device, often featuring the 8051 core. But times are changing, as 32bit MCUs become the device of choice and 8bit parts begin to be phased out.

Those were changes already in progress, but the Internet of Things (IoT) appears to be having a major influence on how microcontroller technology develops.

In broad terms, the IoT comprises three elements: edge devices, which often perform one dedicated function; hubs or fusion devices, which integrate data from edge devices; and larger processing elements. It's the first two categories which are currently focusing the minds of MCU developers. The reason? The IoT demands two things above all others – minimal power consumption and the lowest possible cost. Thomas Barber, director of marketing for wireless products with Silicon Laboratories, explained why. "Estimates suggest there may be 30billion edge devices. They can't all consume 1W because we don't have enough energy, so they need to consume microWatts and they need to be inexpensive."

Andreas Eieland, Atmel's senior product marketing manager for flash MCUs, agreed. "Being able to have the right features at the right power consumption will be critical. Edge devices will need to run from harvested energy or for their full lifetime from a single battery."

Geoff Lees, general manager of Freescale's microcontroller business, added: "We are being directed towards more and more integration. What were low cost devices need to have more RAM, more resources, but we can't increase the power budget or the price. That is pushing us to move geometries such as 40nm and 28nm more quickly than we would have expected."

While the three companies agree on the general shape of the IoT market, where they differ is on the technology that will be applied at the various layers. But all agree that MCUs targeted at the IoT will need to offer wireless connectivity.

Silicon Labs, for example, has just released the Si106x/108x range of wireless MCUs, designed with the IoT in mind (see fig 1). And sitting at the heart of these parts is an 8051 core; not the 32bit device you might expect. There's also a sub GHz RF transceiver and peripherals such as a 10bit A/D converter, comparators, 16bit timers and serial interfaces.

Barber said: "Every time there's an 'obit' for the 8051, it keeps going and we're not betting on it going away. There is a large base of developers who like it and it will continue to sell." But Silicon Labs can also offer devices based on the ARM architecture; not only its own designs, but also from recently acquired Energy Micro. "ARM sees the Cortex-M0 as an 8bit killer," Barber continued, "but it will come down to customer preference."

Eieland noted that power requirements will drive this element. "MCUs will have to consume less than 1µA and less than 200nA in deep sleep. Whatever 'wins' will have to offer 8bit type performance.

"Atmel makes 8051 based MCUs, but if you want to connect to ZigBee, for example, our AVR cores are a better choice." Atmel's offerings here include devices from its ATMega range. "But we also have a Cortex-M0+ part that competes in that sector."

Lees noted: "You can make the 8051 work, but what happens when you have a lot of sensor data which is more than 8bit? We see the Cortex-M0+ as a major platform for edge node devices, but we're already seeing more products with what would have been thought of as an excess of processing."

For the moment, Freescale is targeting its Kinetis-L range of M0+ based devices at edge devices, but Lees perceives that, even at the edge, there will be the need for more performance. "Where there would have had one processor, we're now seeing an M0+ as sensor hub and a Cortex-M4 as the apps processor handling communications."

What is also generally agreed is that the standalone microcontroller will be, to some extent, superseded by an SoC implementation. Barber said: "We'll see devices with lots of peripherals and memory and we won't have one chip that meets all needs." And he believes that, in the long term, integration on die will be preferable to in package integration. "It's always better to integrate on die; it's cheaper and a better solution."

Lees pointed out: "As fast as you can integrate, there are more sensors – and some we've not heard of before. So these parts will have sensors, low power connectivity and sufficient processing."

In terms of in package integration, Atmel has worked with Bosch Sensortec on the development of the BNO055, said to be one of the first application specific sensor nodes to be announced. "There are six dice in the package," Eieland noted, "including a SAM D20 MCU. It's a good example of how we are working with sensor manufacturers to get the most size efficient solutions possible."

While Lees is confident that MCUs for IoT applications will need to be made on low geometry processes, Barber and Eieland are not so sure. Eieland thinks refinement of existing technology may be sufficient. "We don't think we want to go to 55nm because leakage at that node will be significant. Processes in the range from 100nm to 150nm may well be suitable, with one more product generation needed to evolve the low power aspects."

Barber implied that smaller geometries may not be at the top of Silicon Labs' agenda. "We will win the process technology battle," he asserted, "assuming we've done the right things to control leakage. Architectures will become more important, with more efficient computation. The longer you can keep the MCU powered down, the better off you will be, so the device will need to come in and out of sleep modes and to feature autonomous peripherals which don't wake the core up.

"We're still trying to maximise battery life and energy consumption is critical. How you have low consumption for a device with a lot of functionality? But I think another two device generations will get us to the price and power points we need to hit."

Lees noted: "Freescale has already moved Kinetis to 90nm and there will be a more rapid move to smaller geometries. We are fighting leakage in deep sub micron, but we are putting a lot of work into developing libraries, power gating and so on. All of this work is now becoming a fundamental part of MCU design.

"The power budget is a continuing discussion point in all my design teams; it limits what we can do and directs our road map towards next generation energy efficient cores."

And that road map could be interesting. "Although Freescale is a lead partner with ARM for its Cortex-M cores, we are beginning to see more IoT applications suited to low end Cortex-A processors, rather than high end Cortex-M cores," Lees concluded. "Application processors are coming to the domestic market, and that's something that was unexpected."

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Managing Projects with CMMI

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Project Management and planning is one of the process areas in CMMI. The purpose of Project Planning is to establish and maintain plans that define project activities. Project managers follow certain criteria’s to make the process of a project easy.

These days every one you meet in a corporate managerial position is talking about project management. Why? Is it actually that important? Yes, it is necessary to have a good project management system at a workplace. Nowadays many companies, whether their business is big, medium or small opt for a project management specialist. Project managers are paid well.   Organizations believe that these managers can get the maximum returns by using the minimum resources, help cut expenses, increase productivity of employees and their team mates. Project teams are coached to work professionally to give the customer the required satisfaction.

Presently IT businesses are in great competition.  There is a need to perform better than the other companies.  Products and solutions designed have to be out of the box and innovative if they have to sell. Project management ensures both creativity and innovation is adapted in order to make the project unique. Project management helps you to complete the work systematically as everything is done in a proper sequence starting from setting the goals and objectives of the project to implementing the strategies for achieving these goals.

Earlier organizations used traditional means of project management for running a business or a project. They had to constantly ensure that the project techniques used was new and different to ensure success. These days project managers are employed to make tasks easy.

CMMI’s core objectives are to help developers adopt best practices in requirements management to achieve greater efficiency, improve product quality and ensure that the product will meet customer needs most accurately.

CMMI helps implementing best practices in business process improvement. However, the CMMI approach does not say exactly “how” to achieve this, which allows each company to create its own approach, based on what works best. Because there are many ways in which an organization can perform these activities, each process can be unique to each individual company.

Project Management is an umbrella term, it covers  various techniques, methods, processes and strategies. The main purpose behind this is to manage the risk involved and minimize the loss or failure of a project. Companies that adapt CMMI ensures that every detail in a project is covered, be it resources or  deadlines given for any project, it is all channelized and structured.

 

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