Modular InfoTech Pvt. Ltd.
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Case Studies

Recent projects undertaken by Modular Infotech

  • Microsoft Incorporation, USA
    MS Office (2002) - Open Type (OT) Fonts Development Project
  • Sun Microsystems, USA
    OT Fonts, Spellcheckers, Software Development for Transliteration Utility
  • Microsoft Corporation, USA
    Windows 2000 Add-On Software Development Project
  • Hewlett Packard India
    Browser based edit component and Server side conversions
  • Microsoft Corporation, USA
    MS Office - 2003 - Localization Project (I)
  • Microsoft Corporation, USA
    MS Office - 2003 - Localization Project (II)
  • Microsoft Corporation, USA
    MS Windows XP - Localization Project (III)
  • Rediffmail ltd.
    Development of Indian languages tools for www.rediffmail.com web mail system.
  • Excellead Technologies, Japan
  • DX Technologies, Singapore
    Document Scanning and POD (Print on Demand) generation Work
  • LCJ, Italy Spain & Logoscript, Barcelona
    Word Breaker Engine Output Testing for 10 Indian Languages
  • Merlion Conversion Labs Pvt Ltd (Digital Publishing Solutions Ltd. Singapore)
    Document Scanning and POD (Print on Demand) generation Work
  • J. Walter and Thompson
    Customized office tools software package
  • Goodlife Facilities
    Customized Retail Enterprise Solution
  • Wockhardt Limited
    Customized web application and localization of web contents.
  • Reliance Industries
    Customized web application development for adaforindia.com site (The personal website of Mr. Anil Ambani.)
  • Milkotronics
    Development of Milk Densitometer


  Details of some of the projects completed recently
 

 

Open Type Fonts Development
MS Office (2002) - Open Type (OT) Fonts Development Project
Client Microsoft Corporation, USA
Duration 3 Months
Year 2002
Persons worked: 4

Brief Description:
Open True Type Fonts have been specially developed by MITPL for use by Microsoft in Devnagari, Tamil and Telugu language. TrueType Open is an extension to the TrueType font standard. TrueType Open fonts contain additional information that extends the capabilities of the fonts to support high-quality international

Typography:
True Type Open addresses complex typographical issues that especially affect people using text-processing applications in multilingual and non-Latin environments.

OT Fonts, Spellcheckers, Transliteration Software Development
Client Microsoft Corporation, USA
Duration 9 Months
Year 2002
Persons worked: 10

Brief Description:
Sun Microsystems required to develop Language Open Type Fonts, Spellcheckers and Utilities like sorting, phonetic transliteration for integrating with their newer version of Star Office software product. The software developed was required to work on Windows, UNIX and Solaris platforms. They gave the contract to Modular after carefully evaluating Modular's credentials. The software development was completed in the stipulated time period. The development was done in C++. The customer has developed confidence in Modular's capabilities, and has given a software maintenance contract for the upgrades (which may be required in future) for the next year’s.

Software Development / Testing
Windows 2000 Add-On Software Development Project
Client Microsoft Corporation, USA
Duration 3 Months
Year 2002
Persons worked: 4

Brief Description:
Modular InfoTech has developed a software module for Microsoft which is a product named "Indic IME 2". Microsoft has been shipping Indian language support for Hindi, Hindi Traditional, Marathi, Konkani, Sanskrit and Tamil languages with Windows 2000. But the IME available in Windows 2000 supports INSCRIPT as the keyboard layout for all the above mentioned languages. With Indic IME 2, this facility of inputting text is being extended by providing support for other popular keyboard layouts for all the above mentioned languages. Indic IME 2 provides support for Typewriter Keyboard Layout for Hindi, Hindi Traditional, Marathi, Konkani and Sanskrit. For Tamil language, Indic IME 2 supports Typewriter, Tamil 2, and Transliteration keyboard layouts. Indic IME 2 is an additional IME input application for inputting text in Indian languages in all the Microsoft Office XP Applications. This includes MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, and MS FrontPage. Indic IME 2 is available as a free download to all the users from the Microsoft Web site. Once downloaded and installed, Indic IME 2 will allow you to type in Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Konkani and Tamil language. Indic IME 2 requires Windows 2000 or above as the Operating System.

Development of Quark extensions
Client Daily Deccan Herald newspaper
Duration 4 Months
Year 2002
Persons worked: 4

Brief Description:
The Deccan Herald newspaper required Kannada Language support from Quark CopyDesk and Quark Express pagination software for their Kannada edition – Prajavani. The extensions involved development of keyboard handlers, conversions and spellchecker. The development was done in VC++ by Modular.

Advertisement-Billing and News-Collection Software Development Project
Client Daily Prabhat newspaper
Duration 6 Months
Year 2003
Persons worked: 3

Brief Description:
Modular Infotech has worked for newspapers for Indian language solutions and developed software for newspapers for their advertisement-billing system for Ads displayed in the newspaper and PTI (Press trust of India) news collection system. Daily Prabhat, a well known newspaper in Pune, India, was using a total manual system for advertisement - booking and billing. They were facing lot of problems in the billing process in terms of keeping track of outstanding amount of the bills. Modular Infotech has given software solution to Daily Prabhat using Delphi 6.0 and MS SQL server.

PTI news collection and management system
Client Daily Tarun Bharat newspaper
Duration 2 Months
Year 2003
Persons worked: 3

Brief Description:

Tarun Bharat, a well known newspaper in Nagpur, India, wanted to develop a software for the News Collection from Press Trust of India. Modular gave solution in the form of a Delphi 6.0 based software with MS SQL server as the backend database server. This software reduced the efforts in collecting news, deleting unwanted news items, archiving and retrieval of news-data and reduced the printing cost of the newspaper.

Browser based edit component and Server side conversions
Client Hewlett Packard India
Duration 6 Months
Year 2002
Persons worked: 4

Brief Description:
HP India required an edit component for an e-Governance project which they were developing for the Government of Andhra Pradesh, India. The component needed to have the facility of online composing of Telugu script with conversion to the standard code (ISCII). The component is based on ATL COM technology and was developed in VC++. They also needed server side conversions. These were developed in Java.

Software Localization
MS Office - 2003 - Localization Project (I)
Client Microsoft Corporation, USA
Duration 3 Months
Year 2002
Persons worked: 6

Brief Description:
In a view to enter in Indian Language market Microsoft Corporation came out with an idea of localizing Windows XP and Office 2003. In mid 2002 team from Microsoft made survey in India and as a result of the survey, Modular Infotech proved out to be the most experienced and trusted company in India for Localization needs of Microsoft. As a result of this, Modular was awarded the Localization project for Office 2003 for Hindi language. The first localization project was completed within time with quality up to the mark required by international standards. This version of Office 2003 was recently launched by Microsoft in India.
In this project a specially designed tool called as localization studio from Microsoft has been used. In the process of localization all menus, messages, dialog boxes, Help files, and manual has been translated to Indian languages. In the localization project, while translating a particular sentence it is very important to check the context of translation. The work involved the Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing and validation.

MS Office - 2003 - Localization Project (II)
Client Microsoft Corporation, USA
Duration 7 Months
Year 2003
Persons worked: 20

Brief Description:
As a result of the excellent performance in the Localization project (I) of Office 2003, Modular InfoTech was awarded the localization project for Office 2003 for three more Indian languages namely - Marathi, Konkani and Punjabi. For this part of Office 2003 localization project (II), work started in October 2003 and project has been completed within given time frame without missing a single deadline. All deliveries were made on time with excellent quality for which Modular is well known. In this project a specially designed tool called as Helium and Dr. Know from Microsoft has been used. In the process of localization all menus, messages, dialog boxes, Help files and User manual has been translated in Indian languages. In the localization project, while translating a particular sentence it is very important to check the context of translation. The work involved the Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing and validation.

MS Windows 2003 - Localization Project (I)
Client Microsoft Corporation, USA
Duration 6 Months
Year Year: 2004 (currently ongoing)
Persons worked: 55

Brief Description:
By this time Modular proved out to be a reliable vendor for Microsoft for Localization projects hence the localization project for Windows XP for five Indian languages, namely - Marathi, Konkani, Punjabi, Malayalam and Bengali languages was also awarded to Modular. Currently a team of about 55 internal as well as external technical translators are working on the localization project for Microsoft. In this project a specially designed tool called as localization studio, helium and Dr.Know from Microsoft has been used. In the process of localization, all menus, messages, dialog boxes, Help files, Manual has been translated in Indian languages. In the localization project, while translating a particular sentence it is very important to check the context of translation. The work involved the Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing and validation.

Document Scanning and Digital Publishing
Document Scanning and POD (Print on Demand) generation Work
Client Merlion Conversion Labs Pvt Ltd (Digital Publishing Solutions Ltd. Singapore)
Duration Ongoing open ended contract
Year Year: 2004
Persons worked: 15
Present capacity 200 seats

Brief Description:
Modular is focusing on Digital publishing projects taking into consideration the need of
Publishing industry. As a part of this strategy, Modular has undertaken an ongoing contract of digital publishing of big libraries and publishers. Digital publishing involves scanning of the hard copies of the books, refining the scanned pages, image processing as per customer specification, and finally print on demand (POD) file generation. Modular has the necessary equipment which is mainly computers, and document scanners, and is ramping up the operation by training the skilled manpower required for further e-book publishing.

Microprocessor based projects
Development of Milk Densitometer
Client Milkotronics
Duration 6 months
Year Year: 2003
Persons worked: 2

Brief Description:
The client required to develop the Milk Densitometer equipment on a turnkey basis. The
Specifications were given by the client. This involved designing and implementation of the complete instrument – the hardware, firmware, mechanical and electrical system, display, and enclosure. Modular did the complete designing of the Microprocessor board, display and keyboard panel, stepper-motor interface, the firmware, the mechanical system (using Linear Motion bars and ball-bushes) and the enclosure. The mechanical and electrical fabrication was done outside Modular as per Modular design. Modular did the complete system integration, testing to specifications and commissioning. The Microprocessor used was the Intel 8052 variant (made by Phillips with 64 K memory). The system measured the temperature compensated density of milk sample, displayed it on the display and printed the results on a standard 80 column Dot Matrix Printer. The Instrument also had a serial interface with IBM-PC Tools used for development – PC-based C Compiler for 8052, ALL-11 programmer, Tektronix Digital Oscilloscope.

Development of CNC Machine for PCB Drilling
Client Lalita Enterprises
Duration 10 months
Year Year: 2000
Persons worked: 3

Brief Description:
The client required a CNC Drilling Machine with X-Y table driven by stepper motors, ball-screws and riding on LM guides. The work done by Modular involved the hardware design, interface with IBM-PC, software design interfacing with stepper motor drives, integration, system testing. The processor used was Intel 486 processor. The firmware was entirely written in assembly language. The hardware and software was integrated and tested as per specifications.

Development of Software Protection Dongle
Client Automatic Control Equipment
Duration 6 months
Year Year: 2000
Persons worked: 1

Brief Description:
A parallel port software protection Dongle was developed using the PIC12-509 microprocessor. This was a hardware device with a password algorithm to validate authorized software. The hardware, firmware and complete design and implementation were done. Windows 2000 / Xp and Windows 98 drivers were developed for the same. These drivers are developed in C++ and assembly language of PIC12-509

Development of firmware for Dot Matrix Printer
Client TVS Electronics Limited
Duration Ongoing T&M project
Year Year: 2000
Persons worked: 2

Brief Description:
TVS-E is the largest Dot Matrix Printer manufacturers in India. Modular has a T&M contract with TVS-E for the continuous development and enhancement of DMP firmware for their different models of DMPs. This involves the development of multiple Language-enablement of the firmware with character generators, composing Logic, and rendering.

Word Breaker Engine Output Testing for 10 Indian Languages
Client LCJ Italy, Spain & Logoscript, Barcelona
Duration 3 Months
Year Year: 2005
Persons worked: 11

Brief Description:
In this project we have tested/judged the output of a Search Engine which is developed for searching the text similar to input text in various files for Indian Languages. The engine actually breaks the expanded word to its original word and performs search in all the files which are containing the input word or its possible expansions in it. Languages involved in this were: Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Urdu, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali & Malayalam

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