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June 2, 2009

In this Issue:

From the desk of the CEO
 
Webinar Announcement

Brain Teaser
 
Kovair Enterprise Solution - PaaS
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From the Desk of the CEO

Dear Readers,
 
The first five months of 2009 have been very exciting for all of us at Kovair. After working feverishly for several months we were successful in releasing our comprehensive SaaS offering for the ALM suite of applications in late March and we just formally announced Release 6.0 for the Kovair Global Lifecycle Solution. We consider this one of the most comprehensive ALM and IT Service Management solutions in the industry today. It has multi browser compatibility, dash board reporting, advanced task based process with versioning capability and an excellent cross entity traceability that can be graphically represented for all entities in any application as a very simple network diagram and many more features that I cannot cover here. That is why we are all very excited and euphoric at Kovair.

Soon to follow will be our release of an Applications Development Platform - Platform as a Service - PaaS for enterprises of any size to develop their own specific applications with codeless, drag and drop configurations.  The best way to describe this is that any business user can use this platform to create their desired applications without needing a programmer or software developer to do it for them!  This is made possible by the mouse click configurability of Kovair for all aspects of the applications entities, rules engine, forms and processes or workflows.  This capability is being offered as SaaS on the cloud on a monthly subscription basis.  There is no better empowerment of the business user that is constantly constrained in his or her ability to do their jobs efficiently by a lack of IT resources or outsourcing of such resources. They now have Kovair as a possible choice to create their desired applications.  Today's IT savvy employee is in a perfect position to take advantage of such a capability.  Please visit www.kovair.com and go to entreprise service bus solution on the home page for more details.

If you are looking to reduce the cost of your applications development, improve quality and delivery and manage your outsourced partners or product development, then you owe it to yourself to look at what Kovair is able to offer.  We think you will be extremely pleased with what we have created.  It is one of the most comprehensive tools available on the browser 24x7 from any of your company's locations globally as it is 100% browser based and allows all professionals to collaborate on a single platform and a single interface for multiple functions.

Let me also inform you that I've just started a blog at www.kovair.com/blog I'll be providing frequent updates about what's happening at Kovair. Please visit our new blog. If you know of any friends or family members who would like to receive this newsletter, please email us at marketing@kovair.com. For any of your product needs, do not hesitate to write to Sales@Kovair.com or visit us at www.kovair.com.

Cheers and Best Wishes,

Bipin Shah
CEO
Kovair Software, Inc.
 
Webinar Announcement

"Requirements Traceability and Reuse"
 
     Date: Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Time: 11:00 AM PST (Pacific)
                           12:00 PM MST (Mountain)           
           1:00 PM CST (Central)
             2:00 PM EST (Eastern)
 
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Brain Teaser

There are a total of 9 unmarked boxes; each contains 10 balls of the same size, color and appearance. Each ball weighs 1 lb. The 10th box contains 10 balls with the same appearance but each ball weighs 1 lb., 1 oz. There is a weighing scale which can be used to weigh any number of boxes or any number of balls together and measure the total weight in lbs. and oz. You are only allowed to weigh the items in any combination just once. Your job is to find which box holds the heavier balls.
 
 Answer is at the end of this Newsletter.

Kovair Enterprise Solution - PaaS

Sign up today ! Kovair now offers "Enterprise Solutions" product Platform as a Service (PaaS) to our customers on the cloud on a subscription basis. Kovair PaaS is a visual language that differentiates itself from previous generations of coding languages by the following characteristics:
 
1. No Coding
Kovair PaaS Does not need any coding. You can create businesss applications just by drag and drop, and using only a browser. Kovair PaaS provides a set of common building blocks that are needed for developing database oriented business applications. 
 
2. Distributed Collaborative Applications
Applications created on Kovair PaaS are intrinsically collaborative and distributed. Being 100% web based and web architected from the ground up, it provides all the necessary tools for users of various disciplines to collaborate online.
 
3. Typical Database Application
A typical database application is a repository of various kinds of objects related with each other.
  
4. Process Management Platform
  
5. Built-in Integration Bus Technology
 
6. Reporting and Dashboard
 
7. Kovair PaaS is Great for a Wide Range of Business Applications
Kovair PaaS is suitable for certain kinds of business applications. You cannot create a Game or an application with custom user interface with Kovair PaaS. In addition any program with complex algorithm is not suitable to develop using Kovair PaaS. However there are a wide ranges of business applications which can be created and configured for the exact needs of each organization. Some of these are: 
 
IT/ ALM Applications
>>    Requirements Management    
>>    Incident Management             
>>    Test Management
>>    Problem Management
>>    Issues/ Defect Tracking          
>>    Change Management             
>>    Risk Management
>>    IT Release Management
>>    Release Management             
>>    IT Asset Management
>>    Helpdesk/ Service Request 
 

CRM/ Sales Automation Application
>>    Leads Management  
>>    Sales Opportunity Management
>>    Contacts/ Account Management 
>>    Sales Discount Tracking
  
HR Management Application
>>    Employee On-boarding
>>    Employee Database
>>    Leave application
>>    Employee Expense Tracking

Finance Management
>>    Customer On-boarding
>>    Employee Expense Tracking 
>>    Contract Management
>>    Vendor Management
>>    Purchase Order Management
>>    Invoice Management
 
 Project Management
>>    Construction Project Task Management   

 
Kovair PaaS empowers the Line Of Business (LOB) users to create the applications without any need of IT resources. IT can offer an On-Premise internal PaaS service for all the LOBs to create their own applications. The main advantages are:

>>    Empower the end users

>>    The time spent in creating the Requirements will produce a fully functional highly scalable application,
        not just a prototype.

>>    No additional cost involved once it is deployed enterprise wide

>>    Saves money in development, training, administration, management and support

Go to www.kovair.com and click on the Kovair Enterprise Solution to find out how PaaS can help your business needs.
 
 

Answer to the Brain Teaser

Mark each box by a number 1,2,3…10. Take one ball from box #1, take two balls from box #2…and take 10 balls from box #10. Altogether,  you should have 1+2+3+…+10=55 balls. Put them on the weighing scale. If all balls were of the same 1lb weight, the 55 balls would show a total weight of 55 lbs. But it will be more than 55 lbs. since some of the balls are heavier by 1 oz. each. Now if the total weight is say 55 lbs. and 4 oz. then you know the box #4 has the heavier balls since we have taken 4 balls from box #4. Similarly if it the total weight is 55 lbs. 7 oz. then it is the box #7. 
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