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Advanced Technologies |
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ny organization needs a strong solid foundation of their business process implementations for it to sustain in the industry and increase ROI. With the ever-growing technologies and available design, architectural and implementation solutions, businesses are finding it difficult to evaluate the right choice for their business needs. The right choice is the one that not only makes the design, development and deployment in the most effective way but also ensures application enhancements and maintenance that could be done with minimum effort.
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Four Soft Suite of Products are built on J2EE platform. Four Soft services for the products built on
advanced technologies include the following |
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- Full Product life cycle engineering
- Customization services
- Managed services
- Full product testing lifecycle
- Implementation and business consulting
- Documentation services
- Helpdesk services
- Training, client education
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Legacy Services |
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Four Soft also provides services for the products built on legacy systems.
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- Reducing TCO and the complexity involved with the legacy applications
- Deep and thorough understanding of the existing legacy application portfolio
- A rationalized portfolio and modernization plan
- Reverse and reengineering
- Increased value, longevity and performance of existing legacy platforms
- Modernization and extension of legacy systems to support IT goals
- Delivery of critical skills and an experienced and reliable mainframe professionals
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SCM Services |
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upply chain management systems have evolved greatly over the years. The fact remains that enterprises are flooded with information and application growth more than ever before; information that is still isolated into various systems within an organization. The key challenge, therefore, is to build an enterprise information architecture that effectively manages data and resources, to develop applications, 'do more with less' that help businesses enjoy lower costs and higher quality of services, giving them complete supply chain visibility.
Four Soft assists enterprises in developing a supply chain vision, assessing the potential for business performance improvement, mapping a program for supply chain excellence and defining performance measurement metrics through strategic IT initiatives.
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The consulting deliverables include: |
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- Business process management
- Business-IT alignment
- Supply chain functionality assessment
Four Soft implements leading SCM products in enterprises by deploying a team of technical and functional consultants with deep expertise in the product and related technologies.
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The application integration and System integration solutions include: |
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- Package evaluation / vendor selection
- Package implementation / upgrades / interfaces
- Custom solution development
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Application Maintenance solutions include |
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- Application sustenance
- Support / rollouts / enhancements
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Outsourced Product Development (OPD) |
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n today's competitive business environment, software product development requires a bright business idea, strong strategy, innovative practices and in-depth market knowledge. Many ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) / software product development organizations also start-ups adopt the smartest outsourced product development strategy that frees their valuable resources which in turn can be directed towards the more vital activities of product innovation, product management, differentiation, CRM, marketing & distribution.
As an Independent Software Vendor or software product company, you must be interested in shorter development and testing life cycles which directly affects time to market, reducing software development and support costs & enhancing product functionality in order to generate greater value to your customers.
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Our Approach |
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Our approach to the OPD is purely process driven, right from engaging with customers to conceptualizing, requirement management building, testing and delivering products in order to meet the demands of our customer in its entirety. Our team of product development specialization architects and project managers collaborate with our customers from the concept stage and share the customer's vision for the product. This helps in building a robust architecture for the customer's product, which is core for any product's success. Our standards based methodology helps building the products that suit market conditions that prevail in different geographies our customers would like to sell their products. Four Soft's flexible approach to product development activity enables it to engage at any stage of the development cycle or the entire life cycle depending on the customer's requirements in a seamless way in association with the technical teams of the customer.
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At Four Soft, we understand Outsourced Product Development (OPD) requires the offshore team to work in very close collaboration with the client's engineering team. In the process, partnering with Four Soft for your product development services helps you leverage a strong value proposition, low time to market, reduced development costs and quality manpower.
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Our Infrastructure |
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We have the best-in-class computing infrastructure that facilitates our teams to deliver quality work and achieve customer satisfaction. Our communication infrastructure is equipped with dedicated connectivity links that enables voice and video communication for effective interaction with our customer's geographically dispersed teams. Our technology centers could be leveraged by our customers as their virtual extension center at offshore that helps in reduced operating costs without compromising on the time-to-market and quality considerations. We are aware IP protection is 'key' in such engagements and hence we have the necessary protection mechanisms in place. We are flexible in meeting the IP protection needs of the customer and can customize it according to needs of the customer in areas like physical security, network isolation, NDA from the resources that work on the project and so on.
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Four Soft specializes in following key offerings covering entire
Product development lifecycle, including |
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- New product design and development
- Product platform migration
- Software product testing
- Software product maintenance and support
- Reverse and re-engineering
- Product release and license management
- Implementation and support of third party solutions
- Product packaging for distribution
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BPO Services |
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reight forwarders, custom brokers and logistic service providers in general are facing spate of problems including growing competition, drop in profitability, unpredictable global demand and increased government regulations. With economy slowing down (worse economy getting into recession), the operating pressures on freight forwarders and custom brokers are likely to increase. To elevate the effect of these external forces, Four Soft offers proven cost effective business process solutions.
Four Soft business process solutions are customized for freight forwarders and custom brokers.
Operational business processes such as tracking constitute more than 60% of all operational costs and yet the operational processes provide little or no strategic advantage.
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- Cutting operational costs as low as possible
- Reducing management burden of the operations
- Allows to focus on core business and business growth related issues
- Managing cyclical or economic ups and downs
- Will have control of business processes
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Four Soft believes that BPO is one of the most important areas of growth.
Four Soft BPO Services include :
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Domian Specific Solutions |
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4S operations management |
Scheduling and routing support, business reference data management, EDI management support, track and trace |
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4S order management |
Quoting, order entry, order management, expediting / substitution, contract renewals & management, customer support, logistics support, returns management |
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4S customer documentation |
Input of bills of lading, import / export documentation, freighting and invoice generation, claims management support |
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4S compliance and audits |
Manifest filings for customs, internal invoice audits and agency audits |
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Horizontal Solutions |
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4S human resources |
Recruitment and staffing support, workforce deployment, HR administration, benefits administration, HR helpdesk |
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4S finance and accounting |
Accounts payable, accounts receivable, finance planning & analysis, billing and invoicing, fixed assets |
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4S customer services |
Help desks for both inbound and outbound, movements manufacturing, distribution, help desk for business systems |
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4S procurement |
Contract management for vendors, strategic procurement, spend analysis, master data management |
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Corporate Chronology |
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1999 |
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 Four Soft Limited (Four Soft) was established, initially as Four Soft Private Ltd., at Hyderabad in the State of Andhra Pradesh ( India) by Mr. Palem Srikanth, with an objective to build the enterprise software/IT solutions in supply chain process management using advanced web technologie |
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| Four Soft's unit at Hitec City, Hyderabad is registered as 100% Export Oriented Unit under Software Technology Park scheme of the Govt. of India |
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2001 |
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Four Soft has set-up a wholly owned subsidiary Four Soft LLC, San Francisco (USA), to support implementation of products in the USA. |
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2003 |
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Four Soft was converted into a Public Limited Company with listings in NSE and BSE. |
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2004 |
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Achieved ISO 9001:2000 certification by BVQI
Acquired Cargo Mate International, a Netherlands based, premier transportation and freight forwarding software solutions company.
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2005 |
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Acquired Comex Frontier Pte Ltd, a Singapore based Software solutions provider and MY Comex Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian eCommerce solutions provider for Logistics.
Acquired DCS Transportation and Logistics Solutions division, a UK headquartered Transport & Logistics Software solutions major, with operations in UK, The Netherlands, US, France & Germany.
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2006 |
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Four Soft has set-up a wholly owned subsidiary Four Soft Singapore Pte Ltd to support implementation of products in the Singapore.
Four Soft has set-up a wholly owned subsidiary Four Soft Japan KK to support implementation of products in the Japan.
Acquired FWL Technologies, UK, a freight and Shipping Software Business through our wholly owned step Subsidiary Four Soft UK ltd
Acquired Transaxiom Holding A/S, a Denmark based company head quarters in Denmark and regional offices in Australia, UK, USA and Hong Kong.
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2008 |
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Four Soft presently has global footprint in more than 10 countries across the globe with 379 customer installations and more than 53,000 users. The Company currently employees more than 1,000 staff, including 300 plus foreign nationals. |
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