July 201619all application needs under one umbrella and provide the necessary leverage from market offerings. It customizes the standard products that can adopt to any global or local requirement to suite the clients' needs. With specialization in web application development, MariApps also offers custom solutions like stand-alone applications and utilities for specific purposes among others. Mobile first and cloud first are the mantras of today's business success. Hence adapting to mobile technologies is one striking element to take your business to new heights. MariApps created history in the segment by being one of the very first companies to introduce mobile apps for shipping world. Its huge expert pool of mobile developers build marine applications that runs on all mobile platforms like Andoid, Windows and iOS, thus equipping clients with the power to take decisions anywhere anytime. Its Seafarer Portal app is a one-stop solution mobile app for seafarers to communicate with shore, know vessel and planning updates, review travel documents, look for pay slips, submit bills and others. The company is also engaged in developing applications for new building services and is now working on solutions for the cruise and the offshore industries. MariApps products come with no leakage guarantee, since products are toughly tested internally for security risks. The company has engaged security consultants to regularly test its product and ensure that its vulnerabilities are identified and addressed. These reports are made available for its customers to view, should they have any concern on the security aspects. MariApps offers annual maintenance and a 24x7 support service to its global customers. The annual maintenance brings free software upgrades, free hours of customizations and a SLA based support package. On the other hand, the company licenses PAL e3 to major ship management and ship owning companies, and supports them with an annual maintenance agreement that provides the clients with continuous new version upgrades, and SLA based support. No wonder this is the major revenue generating source for the company.Walking Strongly Towards FutureMariApps provides a typical startup work environment to its 160 aficionados operating from various locations like India, Cyprus, Singapore and Germany. The company does not work by the clock, but enjoys flexible work hours and work from home options. The employee friendly HR policies ensure that MariAppsers get motivated continuously throughout their carrier with the company through regular trainings on new topics and latest technologies by inviting corporate trainers and technology experts. MariApps' in-house training program is mentor based and ensures that every new joinee gets a mentor and is trained real time on a project. Not looking at any external funding right now, this bootstrapped, privately owned company envisions working towards providing the best marine ERP in the market that is simple, intuitive, feature rich, and scalable. It is also working on SaaS model for SMEs that cannot afford the licensing model. "We will focus on smart companies that consider IT as an investment, not a cost, along with companies that are willing to partner with us in developing the best marine ERP," concludes Sankar. TestimonialCreating an ERP module to manage the maritime catering business wasn't easy. Luckily for us, the team at MariApps understood our needs at SeaChef to enhance our services encompassing the latest IT tools available, Not only has the development reduced our operational load but we have cut down on many duplication/errors that were common with manual based system. The operational efficiency within the SeaChef team has greatly improved which helped us attend to our onboard customers' needs faster and efficiently. The support from the MariApps team is prompt, which enables to resolve any issues in the minimal time thus having no impact on our business flow. Kudos to them for creating a very unique module for the Maritime industry which definitely can benefit many in the long run.- Tapan Kumar, General Manager, SeaChefCase StudyBSM has about nine ship management offices, 25 crew management centers, 18000 seafarers and 1500 onshore staff. The challenge was to integrate the various locations into the PAL e3 ERP suite. MariApps implemented all its 15 modules for this customer with rapidly converting data. The data conversion to the implementation stage until the delivery was meticulously planned and executed with no deviation to the delivery dates. The ship installations were smooth and it was complemented by its flawless replication software that moves data between the office and the vessel. Successive version upgrades and customer requirements were also implemented as per the customer need.MariApps offers a common platform to integrate all application needs under one umbrella and provide the necessary leverage from market offerings
< Page 9 | Page 11 >