About Us

Mission

To provide tangible value through Ace quality software to our customers

Vision

Presently we provide custom software development and related services. We would like to establish ourselves as a vendor of software product in 2010 as an additional offering.

Technology and Tools

We at Acism focus on saving our customers' money, through the use of Open Source technologies and tools. We implement variety of open source products like Content Management Systems (such as Joomla), Blogging platforms (such as Wordpress), e-Learning applications (such as moodle), payment gateways (such as magento), Customer Relationship Management (such as vtiger), Document Management (such as DocumentTree) and the like. If needed, we enhance their functionality and usability.

In case a product that aligns well with the customer requirements is not available, we use mature open source technologies (primarily Java and PHP) to custom-develop the needed software applications. At Acism we have a good understanding of mature frameworks (such as J2EE, EJB, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, JFC/Swing, J2ME for Java; and CakePHP for PHP), and are conscious about the impact that a good software architecture, software design and coding practices make on scalability, robustness, security and performance of the software applications.

Processes

Our ability to generate efficient and stable yet cost-effective products comes from our in-depth knowledge of industry best practices. For example, our developers collaborate and manage revisions effectively using a configuration management tool (SVN). All defects and enhancements are housed in a defect tracking tool (Bugzilla), and every code change can be traced to back one of them. Our dedicated testers ensure that all software deliveries happen only after rigorous testing using pre-documented test cases.

Having said that, we do not remain hidebound to processes and documentation to the extent that it can prove fatal for smaller projects. Rather, we believe in tailoring processes to suit needs – be they of projects or customers.

We promote an agile iterative approach that we feel is better suited to most customers and most situations. This approach gives our customers:

1. Visibility of project progress, and
2. Flexibility to be able to make mid-term course corrections

Acism has created a web-based Project Center tool for effectively tracking the project communications. Most customers find it convenient to use it instead of traditional email.

Team

Acism has a motivated team comprising of programmers, web developers, quality engineers and a project assistant. The leadership team comprises of:

• Ashish Belagali – Director: An IIT alumnus with over 16 years of rich experience, spanning a wide spectrum ranging from highly technical software design to project management and client management.
• Pramod Narkar – Project Manager: MBA Marketing with a solid 18 years of IT experience. Last employment with HSBC Software Pvt. Ltd.