New Product Development

Pronto's New Product Development services helps its clients build tomorrow's software today. We support our clients in all aspects of software development cycle, offering turnkey development to taking-over specific modules of software development. Our teams work seamlessly with client teams leading to enhanced productivity and ensuring competitive edge.

In an increasingly competitive market which demands more functionalities/features from each release, our teams offer the kind of productivity which ensures our clients stay ahead of market at all times. Pronto offers its customer shorten time-to-market through high quality, cost-effective and on-time delivery.

We offer the following software development services -

New Product Development From requirements gathering, architecture design, implementation, testing, deployment to maintenance, Pronto Software Solutions offers expertise in all aspects of product development. Being technology agnostic, our teams are equally at ease working on .Net, Java, J2EE, C++...

Product Enhancement and Maintenance Pronto's product maintenance services encompasses creation of product maintenance and transition plan, modification analysis, implementation, testing and if necessitated even product migration activities. Pronto Software Solutions specializes in Mobile, Web and Database application development.

Key Benefits of Pronto Software Solutions' New Product Development Services

Leverage multi-disciplinary expertise - Given the exposure of Pronto's engineering team to various technologies they offer the customer the best possible solution to complex issues, this would be difficult for an in-house team specializing in a single technology.

Extend engineering capacity, easily and quickly - Some projects may require sudden scaling-up of resources for short term. Hiring full-time resources would not only impact short term costs but prove expensive in long-term due to benefits and other incentives which need to be extended to full-time employees. Further, finding resources with the right expertise and hiring them from the market quickly is quiet challenging. Pronto's Offshoring services helps customer overcome the above challenges by offering high quality resources who work with client teams seamlessly.

Reduce cost and time-to-market - Pronto's New Product Development services offers the natural cost arbitrage which comes with centers based in India, add to this Pronto's adherence to Agile methodologies, client's experience reduced time-to-market.

Engagement Models

Pronto Software Solution delivers it's development services thro' the following engagement models,

Project Outsourcing - Pronto Software Solution engages with its client worldwide in project outsourcing model and helps them realize benefits in terms of reduced cost, improved quality, offer access to resources with wider experience and knowledge which in turn helps our clients focus on their core business. We along with the client define the project scope in terms of deliverables, quality, cost and time and ensure the same is delivered as agreed.

Dedicated Resources - Pronto Software Solution offers highly skilled engineers in multiple technologies who directly work for our clients on their projects. This model is ideal for projects which has entered the maintenance phase and calls for long term support.

Build-Operate-Transfer - Under this model, Pronto Software Solution setups the off-shoring facility in terms of infrastructure and manpower, operates it for agreed time and goals before it is transitioned back to the client. This offer our client greater flexibility, particularly for those companies who are engaged in outsourcing for the first time, lower risks and cost.

Software engineering experts often describe Product Maintenance as Product Development "on-the-run" as it forms a critical phase in the product lifecycle. Contrary to the notion, product maintenance goes beyond "bug fixing", a recent study estimated almost 80% of the maintenance activity are "non-corrective", with a mjority being functional enhancement in nature. Considering that Product Maintenance is a long-tail in the product devleopment lifecycle it consumes significant cost, time and resources.

We at Pronto Software Services understand these challenges and have evolved our product maintenance methodology to help our clients increase life of the software application, ensure the application is in-step with the market, reduce downtime and leverage their internal resources for critical tasks.

Pronto' product maintenance services encompasses four major activities,
Adapt - we ensure that the application adapts to the current and ever-changing technology in terms of software.
Perfect - we make sure the application is enhanced to match customers functional requirement perfectly.
Correct - we fix reported bugs quickly and effectively.
Prevent - we ensure latent issues are solved before they turn into show-stoppers.

Services

We offer the following outsourced product maintenance services -

• Reengineering/Porting/Migration
• Product enhancements - version upgrades and feature enhancements
• Tactical engineering - defect tracking & debugging
• Testing - functional and performance testing
• Documentation

Key Benefits of Pronto Software Solutions' Outsourced Product Maintenance Services

Leverage multi-disciplinary expertise- Pronto's engineering teams have expertise in multiple technologies/tools/methodologies and processes and hence can ramp-up fast on any project. Considering their expertise in the area of outsourced product maintenence they offer faster results with better quality.

Extend engineering capacity, easily and quickly- Some projects may require sudden scaling-up of resources for short term. Hiring full-time resources would not only impact short term costs but prove expensive in long-term due to benefits and other incentives which need to be extended to full-time employees. Further, finding resources with the right expertise and hiring them from the market quickly is quiet challenging. Pronto's outsourced product maintenance services helps customer overcome the above challenges by offering high quality resources who work with client teams seamlessly.

Bring back focus on core business- Outsourcing product maintenance activities to Pronto Software Solutions offers the much needed time and resources for our clients to focus on their area of business.

Reduce cost and time-to-market- Pronto's outsourced product maintenance services offers the natural cost arbitrage which comes with centers based in India.

Engagement Models

Pronto Software Solution delivers it's product maintenance services thro' the following engagement models,

Project Outsourcing- Pronto Software Solution engages with its client worldwide in project outsourcing model and helps them realize benefits in terms of reduced cost, improved quality, offer access to resources with wider experience and knowledge which in turn helps our clients focus on their core business. We along with the client define the project scope in terms of deliverables, quality, cost and time and ensure the same is delivered as agreed.

Dedicated Resources- Pronto Software Solution offers highly skilled engineers in multiple technologies who directly work for our clients on their projects. This model is ideal for projects which has entered the maintenance phase and calls for long term support.

Build-Operate-Transfer- Under this model, Pronto Software Solution setups the off-shoring facility in terms of infrastructure and manpower, operates it for agreed time and goals before it is transitioned back to the client. This offer our client greater flexibility, particularly for those companies who are engaged in outsourcing for the first time, lower risks and cost.

Pronto Software Solutions' Independent Testing services ensures our customers cut cost, speed up testing, improve quality and most importantly release precious in-house resources for critical tasks.

The philosophy behind the design of our Independent Testing services is to adequately respond to one of the major unsolved challenges for software enterprises, i.e. cyclical pattern of testing with huge troughs and peaks. This calls into question the need for maintaining large in-house testing teams, which in itself means additional costs - on recruitment, retention, infrastructure, software...Add to this the ever changing demand from the market for resources with newer skills and domain expertise. The challenges become whole lot complex.

Services

Pronto Software Solutions offers the following testing & QA services

• End-to-end Test and Quality Consulting
  
• Functional Testing
  
• Automation Testing
  
• Performance Testing
  

Key Benefits offered by Pronto's Independent Testing Services.

By outsourcing their testing and QA functions, our customers have experienced the following benefits,

Increased testing expertise by gaining access to experienced and trained manpower, specialised testing environment and software.Lower testing costs.Independent and reliable testing results.Augment their testing staff, meet tight deadlines without need for hiring additional resources..

Engagement Models

Pronto Software Solutions delivers it's testing and QA services thro' the following engagement models,

Project Outsourcing - Pronto engages with its client worldwide in project outsourcing model and helps them realize benefits in terms of reduced cost, improved quality, offer access to resources with wider experience and knowledge which in turn helps our clients focus on their core business. We along with the client define the project scope in terms of deliverables, quality, cost and time and ensure the same is delivered as agreed.

Dedicated Resources - Pronto offers highly skilled engineers in multiple technologies who directly work for our clients on their projects. This model is ideal for projects which has entered the maintenance phase and calls for long term support.

Build-Operate-Transfer - Under this model, Pronto setups the off-shoring facility in terms of infrastructure and manpower, operates it for agreed time and goals before it is transitioned back to the client. This offer our client greater flexibility, particularly for those companies who are engaged in outsourcing for the first time, lower risks and cost.

Pronto Software offers Supply Chain Management solutions that reduce cost and waste, improve customer services, increase revenue and productivity for our clients. Pronto's approach to Supply Chain Managment is two-pronged, our supply chain consultants evaluate customers existing operations and suggest process changes to improve the operational efficiency while our technical consultants study the existing systems, re-engineer them and custom develop system to help meet efficiency goals.

Pronto Software Solutions has built specific tools/services (Pronto's Customer Insights, Pronto Fleet Manager and Warehouse Insights) to manage each components in the SCM process.

Supply Chain Management Processes

Pronto Supply Chain Management Solution's encompasses the following core components,

Customer Service Management concerns the relationship between the organization and its customers. Customer service is the source of customer information. Pronto's Customer Insights is a tool specifically built to fulfill this need to understand customer segmentation and behavior.

Procurement Management process involves managing suppliers to support the manufacturing flow management process and the development of new products. It further involves resource planning, supply sourcing, negotiation, order placement, inbound transportation, storage, handling and quality assurance...

Product Development and Commercialization integrates suppliers with customers into the product development process in order to reduce time to market.

Manufacturing Flow Management process enables production and supply of products to the distribution channels based on past forecasts.

Physical Distribution concerns movement of a finished product/service to customers. In physical distribution, the customer is the final destination of a marketing channel. Pronto's Fleet Manager was developed to synchronise with this function and hence reduce the risks associated with vehicle investment, improve efficiency, productivity and reduce overall transportation and staff costs.

Warehousing Management helps in tracking inventory and hence optimize company cost & expenses. Pronto's Warehouse Insights offers operational analysis, reporting and an alert management tool for warehouse management and ensures ease of administration while reducing cost on manpower and infrastructure.

Mode of Delivery

We deliver our solutions in the following models,

Scratch-up Development - Pronto Software Solutions has built tremondous capabality in building SCM solutions to meet specific and niche client requiremnents. Members of Pronto's Management team have architected, designed and developed the framework for industry's leading Warehouse Management software.They were responsible for upgrading WMS solution from Microsoft technology based product to open system (Cognos) based product with enhanced functionality.

Re-engineer existing system - Our technical consultants are adept at evaluating existing systems, re-engineer them and custom develop the re-engineered system to help meet organization's goals. This ensures increased level of software adoption and automation in supply chain management at minimum cost and quicker ROI.

Implementation of Best Of Breed SCM Solutions - Pronto Software Solution has extensive experience in implementing best of breed SCM solutions. From single retailer to multi-channel retailers to roll-out multi-site, multiproduct solutions, Pronto's SCM consultants have done it all. With over two decades of experience in the SCM industry, the team has architected, developed and implemented industry's "Best-of-Breed" SCM Solutions.

Key benefits offered by Pronto Software's Supply Chain Solutions

• Nearly two decades of experience in architecting, developing and implementing various Supply Chain solutions for varied customer scenarios, hence quicker implementations with lesser errors leading to predictable outcomes.
  
• Focused in the area of SCM and having developed innovative products to aid challenging aspects of SCM processes, Pronto Software Services offers a more complete solution in comparison to many of its competitors.
  

Engagement Models

Pronto Software delivers it's mobile development services thro' the following engagement models,

Project Outsourcing - Pronto Software engages with its client worldwide in project outsourcing model and helps them realize benefits in terms of reduced cost, improved quality, offer access to resources with wider experience and knowledge which in turn helps our clients focus on their core business. We along with the client define the project scope in terms of deliverables, quality, cost and time and ensure the same is delivered as agreed.

Dedicated Resources - Pronto Software offers highly skilled engineers in multiple technologies who directly work for our clients on their projects. This model is ideal for projects which has entered the maintenance phase and calls for long term support.

Build-Operate-Transfer - Under this model, Pronto Software setups the off-shoring facility in terms of infrastructure and manpower, operates it for agreed time and goals before it is transitioned back to the client. This offer our client greater flexibility, particularly for those companies who are engaged in outsourcing for the first time, lower risks and cost.

In today's fast paced market customers increasingly demand more responsiveness which calls for optimizing the efficiency of resources while reducing cycle time of key processes in the value chain. This has led to increased adoption of Mobile solutions by the businesses.

Pronto Software's Mobile Development and QA services have been designed with the above aspects in mind. Pronto Software partners with its customers to develop mobile applications to increase responsiveness, tighten processes and improve decision making.

Services

New Mobile Application Development and Testing.

Platforms

Android, iOS, Windows Mobile & Blackberry OS.

Devices

Palmtop, PDA, MDA, Cell Phones, Pocket PCs and Smartphones.

Applications

Business Apps, Games Apps and Social Networking Apps.

Pronto Software Advantage:

Developers who have behind them solid amount of hours working on varied Mobile platforms and devices, who among them have developed numerous apps both proprietary and open source.

Developers who are in-tune with ever changing/evolving technology and who adhere to standard industry guidelines.

Having developed productivity tools for business like ...

Engagement Models

Pronto Software delivers it's mobile development services thro' the following engagement models,

Project Outsourcing - Pronto Software engages with its client worldwide in project outsourcing model and helps them realize benefits in terms of reduced cost, improved quality, offer access to resources with wider experience and knowledge which in turn helps our clients focus on their core business. We along with the client define the project scope in terms of deliverables, quality, cost and time and ensure the same is delivered as agreed.

Dedicated Resources - Pronto Software offers highly skilled engineers in multiple technologies who directly work for our clients on their projects. This model is ideal for projects which has entered the maintenance phase and calls for long term support

Build-Operate-Transfer - Under this model, Pronto Software setups the off-shoring facility in terms of infrastructure and manpower, operates it for agreed time and goals before it is transitioned back to the client. This offer our client greater flexibility, particularly for those companies who are engaged in outsourcing for the first time, lower risks and cost.

With increasing capabilities of a mobile phone, it is now possible to move enterprise systems more closer to the place where action really is and as it happens.

Welcome to Pronto Software Solutions' Mobility Solutions which puts the strength of the enterprise system onto your mobile, be it a sales lead that has just entered your system or track a consignment which has left your warehouse we can help you manage this through a mobile.

Here of some of the industry specific solutions we can help you with,

Real-estate Industry- We can help you reach out to your customer the very instant they start the search or list their property, with all the listings on your mobile (including photos, videos and other critical data) there is no way your customers would be looking somewhere else.

Warehouse Management– We can help you “track pack, pick and ship” of consignments from the warehouse, we can enable you to keep tab on stock receipts and returns, empowering you to manage your warehouse through your mobile.

Fleet Management– We can help you manage your fleet through your mobile, whether it is vehicle maintenance, telematics or driver management, everything would be available at your finger tips.

Lead Management– From a qualified lead entering the system to closure, we can help your salesforce manage the whole process using their mobile. Be it lead prioritization, follow-up reminders or reporting our mobility solutions will ensure less lead dropouts and increased conversion.

Platforms

Android iOS, Blackberry OS, Symbian OS and Windows Mobile.

Devices

Palmtop, PDA, MDA, Cell Phones, Pocket PCs and Smartphones.

Pronto Software Advantage:

• Developers who have behind them solid amount of hours working on varied Mobile platforms and devices, who among them have developed numerous apps both proprietary and open source.
• Developers who are in-tune with ever changing/evolving technology and who adhere to standard industry guidelines.
• Domain experts who have more than two decades of experience in Supply Chain Management, Warehouse Management, Fleet Management, Sales Management...

Engagement Models

Pronto Software delivers its mobility solutions thro' the following engagement models,

Project Outsourcing- Pronto Software engages with its client worldwide in project outsourcing model and helps them realize benefits in terms of reduced cost, improved quality, offer access to resources with wider experience and knowledge which in turn helps our clients focus on their core business. We along with the client define the project scope in terms of deliverables, quality, cost and time and ensure the same is delivered as agreed.

Dedicated Resources- Pronto Software offers highly skilled engineers in multiple technologies who directly work for our clients on their projects. This model is ideal for projects which has entered the maintenance phase and calls for long term support.

Build-Operate-Transfer- Under this model, Pronto Software setups the off-shoring facility in terms of infrastructure and manpower, operates it for agreed time and goals before it is transitioned back to the client. This offer our client greater flexibility, particularly for those companies who are engaged in outsourcing for the first time, lower risks and cost.

Pronto Software offers products and solutions in the area of Warehouse Management, Fleet Management and Customer Analytics.

Below are some of the products we offer -

Picvie is a simple-to-use mobile app that helps users build and view albums that not only display photos but also videos, audios and web content. Picvie creates photo albums on the fly, directly from a smartphone or tab, even while clicking photos. Picvie organizes all the photos into neat albums and offers templates and layouts to set appropriate mood for the viewer.

For more info visit http://www.picvie.com

Warehouse Insights

Is a web based operational analysis, reporting & alert management tool. A wide array of analysis artifacts, dashboards and alerting mechanisms enables the users to analyze data of multiple warehouses from a a single screen. The tool ensures higher service levels and greater customer satisfaction with better KPI monitoring and management.

Pronto Fleet Manage

Is a productivity enhancing web application that helps in management of a range of functions, such as vehicle financing, maintenance, telematics (tracking and diagnostics), operator management, fuel management and customer management.

Customer Analysis Tool

Understanding customer segmentation and behavior is the topmost priority for all businesses and Pronto's Customer Insights has been developed keeping just that in mind to ensures enhanced cost-efficiency and productivity while optimizing revenues.

Data Insights

Data Insights is an easily configurable dashboard and reporting tool. The tool provides visual access to multiple data sources on a single dashboard with online access.

Picvie is a simple-to-use mobile app that helps users build and view albums that not only display photos but also videos, audios and web content. Picvie creates photo albums on the fly, directly from a smartphone or tab, even while clicking photos. Picvie organizes all the photos into neat albums and offers templates and layouts to set appropriate mood for the viewer.

Features -

Merge all digital content to tell compelling stories – Whether it is videos, audios or web content, the user can merge them all with photos to create fantastic albums to tell some great stories.

Offer great viewing experience – Picvie offers an incredible viewing experience and makes the user experience the occasion “completely”, photos, audios, videos and web content all-in-one.

Set the right mood and context for each occasion - Picvie allows the user to set the mood and context for photo viewing with different themes (Birthday, Indian wedding, outdoors...) and layouts (1,2, 3, 4, and 9 pictures per page)

Create albums even while clicking pictures - With Picvie the user can create albums on the go, even while clicking photos from a smartphone/tab.

Share framed photos with your friends - Picvie allows for sharing the photos with the theme and layout, onto FB, What’s App, Google+, or any sharing app on the device.

Available on all Android devices and to be shortly launched for iPhone and Windows8 phone.

For more info visit http://www.picvie.com

Pronto Fleet Manager is a web based internet application that helps in management of a range of functions, such as vehicle financing, vehicle maintenance, vehicle telematics (tracking and diagnostics), driver management, fuel management and customer management.

Pronto Fleet Manager minimize the risks associated with vehicle investment, improving efficiency, productivity and reducing their overall transportation and staff costs.

Key Features

Pronto Fleet Manager offers the following key features -

• Vehicle Maintenance - Track vehicle maintenance records and other information like insurance/permits etc. also track tyre change/usage records.
  
• Vehicle Telematics (tracking and diagnostics) - The tool allows for easy integration with GPS devices for real time tracking of vehicles hence allows for planning of routes and tracking of shipments.
  
• Driver Management - Track Drivers’ safety record, configure driver to vehicle type eligibility, understand drivers’ profile and their accident records.
  
• Fuel Management - Track Fuel usage and analyse the fuel consumption of a vehicle to compare it with other vehicles of same type.
  
• Vehicle Financing - Track loan/EMI related information, also determine ROI at any given time.
  
• Customer management - Allows for grouping of customers based on the usage levels/profitability/contribution to the revenue (top line), track accounts receivable and automatic invoice generation for recurring services.
  

Key Benefits offered by Pronto Fleet Manager

• Greater overall operational efficiencies
  
• Improved vehicle safety
  
• Run-time metrics for best practices
  
• Identify fleet inefficiencies & underused vehicles easily
  
• Reduced fuel costs
  
• Increased productivity
  
• Better Customer Management
  

Understanding customer segmentation and behavior is the topmost priority for all businesses and Pronto's Customer Analysis Tool (CAT) has been developed keeping just that in mind. Our tool allows you to analyze and segment your customer base in a multitude of ways to understand customer acquisition and retention, analyze revenue per customer and segment your profitable and non-profitable customers, assess efficiency of customer services organization and its impact on customer satisfaction and identify cross-sell opportunities for new lines of business.

With our predictive models you can now utilize the historical data you have already accumulated and put it to work. Our self-learning algorithms let you assess the risk propensity of any segment of your customers.

CAT is built using the industry leading BI tool Microstrategy and Microsoft's SQL server. The tool has been designed to accommodate a variety of operating models and business processes.

Key Features

Customer Analysis Tool offers the following key features -

• Built using highly robust and scalable BI technology.
  
• Pre-built dashboards that offers greater understanding of the KPIs that drive your business.
  
• Allows interaction with the data elements to slice & dice the data along and across the configurable hierarchies.
  
• Critical reports/dashboards generated in self-serve mode without having to wait for days.
  
• Rich array of delivery modes, through web-based client, desktop interface, via Microsoft Office, directly thro' mail
  

Key benefits offered by Customer Analysis Tool

• Built on industry's leading Business Intelligence software ensures enhanced cost-effciency and productivity while optimizing revenues.
  
• Apt for one store enterprise to multi-chain enterprises
  
• Pre-built dashboards offer constant data flow, trending visibility and ability to drill into details
  
• Flexible delivery modes to match needs of different stakeholders
  

Warehouse Insights is a web based operational analysis, reporting and an alert management tool for warehouse management. It provides a wide array of analysis artifacts, dashboards and alerting mechanisms. and has an ability to let users analyze data of multiple warehouses from a a single screen. Warehouse Insights sits on top of an existing Warehouse Management System (WMS) and extracts data to perform the required transformations and stores it in an internal data warehouse. The presentation layer of the tool and the business engine use this data to provide a wide array of analysis artifacts, dashboards and alerting mechanisms.

Warehouse Insights provides a very visually rich user interface with user friendly and intuitive dashboards that present a wide variety of data across multiple dimensions.

Warehouse Insights offers the following key features -

• Rich UI and Intuitive Dashboard that provide wide variety of data across multiple dimensions. The tool offers a single dashboard with a summarized view of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Alerts across multiple warehouse.
  
• Rule based Alert Management System with visual display of alerts on an actual 2D warehouse layout allowing users to act on these alerts from within the tool.
  
• Unique Performance Analysis features like location utilization, inventory fragmentation, inventory again... this analysis can be done across all logical and physical warehouses.
  

Key Benefits offered by Warehouse Insights

• Ensures higher service levels and greater customer satisfaction with better KPI monitoring and management.
  
• Increased ease of administration with single screen management of multiple warehouses at different locations.
  
• Reduced manpower and infrastructure cost as a single person can manage multiple warehouses through a single system.
  
• Ready to use solution without the need to write a single line of code or perform customization.
  

In this era of Information Technology, businesses consume and generate huge amount of data. Also, it is a known fact that data grows with organization, what could have been managed earlier by spreadsheets now becomes increasingly challenging.

Pronto Software's Data Insights is a configurable dashboard and reporting tool which is easy to build/configure and integrate with data source. The tool offers visual access to multiple data source on one dashboard with web based access.

Key Features

Data Insights offers the following key features -

• Ease of customization, users can customize graphs based on Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for individual roles and departments. It further allows users to change the visual properties of the dashboard.
  
• Allows users to adopt the tool for their requirements instead of the other way round. Users can drill-down into data to the desired micro-or macro-view.
  
• Role-based Access to comply with statutory and regulatory requirements for privacy and confidentiality.
  

Key benefits offered by Data Insights

• Faster analysis of complex data, thus supporting business users in varied tasks including decision making, knowledge management and performance management.
  
• Highly interactive tool, allows varied forms of visualization of the same data, users can drill-down and drill-in until the info they are seeking is revealed.
  
• Data Insights supports industry standard database & technologies and employs Fusion Charts & Maps, Adobe Flash/Flex for faster data browsing.
  
• Easy to use, no technical training is required for users to customize the tool.