Insight Driven Health

Driving Business Value for Lasting

Transformation

POLESTAR SOLUTIONS

INDIA:A-30, Sector 63Noida

B-602, Burlington Court,Borivali East, Mumbai Website: www.polestarllp.com

ABOUT

POLESTAR

POLESTAR

Who We Are

A sharply-focused boutique firm working on Enterprise Application Software (EAS)development, Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence

Having a team of 75 extremely competent Software developers, designers,architects, Project Managers.

Track record of delivering IT solutions for large enterprises across the globe

Staffed with people from premier technology institutions with hard to beatownership-interest motivation

Operating from Noida & Mumbai, India

Our IT Services Focus:

Bespoke Software based on Microsoft stack (.NET, SharePoint, MVC, Bootstrap) /Open Source technology (Node.Js, AngularJS)

Data Warehousing

Business Intelligence (certified Qlik Solution Provider)

Mobile Applications

Team with strong consulting background

Illustrious colleagues from top notch consulting companies of the world with over a decade experience

Deep Domain Expertise

A deep domain expertise in Finance & Capital Market, Retail, Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Utilities,Hospitality, having served many large clients in these sectors globally. Extensive functional expertise acrossthe whole gamut

Technology driven team with excellent communication skills

A solid technical background leverages the art of experimenting in newer areas and mastering them. The

team has always aimed to raise the bar of possibilities in the mastered technologies

Quality Assurance

A major focus area of the team has been Quality. With the core idea of ‘Delivering Excellence’, Polestar has

devised multiple ways for multiple rounds of Quality check via Code reviews and Testing.

‘Bug tracker’ excel templates are maintained that help in overall quality assurance

Quick Turn-around

Agile methodology with a quick turn-around thereby reducing the “time to respond” to key businessscenarios

OUR NICHE

LINE OF BUSINESS

POLESTAR

Custom Application Development

We understand your business and identify the bottleneck in day to dayoperations, henceforth develop a transactional system that helps in a day to dayactivity

We have developed Enterprise applications such as Billing system, Costingapplication, CRM system, Warehouse management system, Hospital managementsystem, Document Management System etc.

Our experts use state of the art optimization techniques to make aceapplications. We’ve mastered development on Microsoft Technologies like SQLServer, .NET framework & SharePoint, and open source technologies likeAngularJS and Node.Js

Our BI Capability has been delivering solutions to clients helping them take rightdecisions. Our BI practice consists of experts who bring in Industry, Domain andTechnical expertise, thus bringing a unique value proposition to our client

Business Intelligence

Preferred Tools:

Qlik Suite

Microsoft BI Suite

PROCESS

POLESTAR

Methodology to be Used

Given the changing & evolving nature of business requirements, the methodology that

is to be adopted needs to be flexible & adaptive. The only methodology suited for this

scenario is Scrum based Agile Methodology.

Agile development process means that IT teams work in short, iterative cycles based on

end-user demand. Organizations are able to respond to rapidly changing market

conditions and reporting demands, and deliver actionable insights in shorter

timeframes.

Agile BI rollouts deliver organizations’ this flexibility by:

1. Being faster to deliver

2. Increasing user adoption

3. Increasing ROI

USER STORYDETAILED TASK

CREATION

DEVELOPMENT

(Daily Scrum)

SPRINT REVIEWSPRINT

RETROSPECTIVE

FUNCTIONAL

TESTING

Frequency - Daily (At the day start)Time limit - 15 mins.Discussion - Each team member answers thefollowing three questions: What did you do yesterday? What will you do today? Are there any impediments in your way?

Any impediments that are raised in thescrum meeting become the ScrumMaster's responsibility to resolve asquickly as possible

SCRUM

Bottom Up Governance

ScrumFrequency: DailyAttended By: Development Team + Project Manager (Polestar)

Weekly Status Frequency: WeeklyAttended By: Project Manager(Polestar) + Project Manager(Client) Informed To: Project Leadership Team(Client) + Project Director (Polestar)

Steering CommitteeFrequency: MonthlyAttended By Project Manager(Polestar) + Project Manager(Client) + Project Leadership Team(Client) + Project Director (Polestar)

Quality Assurance Process

A major focus area of the team has been Quality. With the core idea of 'Delivering Excellence’, Polestar has devised multipleways of Quality check via Code reviews and Testing. ‘Bug tracker’ excel templates are maintained that help in overall qualityassurance.

The QA activities are broadly divided into:1. Peer Review2. Code review3. Functionality testing

Peer ReviewPeer review constitutes a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer reviewmethods are employed to maintain standards of quality, improve performance, and provide credibility.

Code ReviewCode review is the systematic examination of application source code done by the Technical Lead on a bi-weekly basis. It isintended to find and fix mistakes overlooked in the initial development phase, check for deviations from best practices andconventional naming conventions

Functionality testingUnit Testing - carried out by the developer on his/ her end to ensure minimal changes. Post that, aSystem Integration Testing - carried out by Polestar team comprising of a Business Analysts and Testers. The test instance is thenhosted on a static IP which is followed byUser Acceptance Testing – That is carried out by the Business Users

MANAGEMENT

TEAM

POLESTAR

Ajay Goenka

Polestar, Director• Accountable for BFSI segment at Polestar and leading two business projects

in BFSI segment.

• Subject matter expert in Finance .

JM Financial, Sr. Vice president• Instrumental in process / system automation initiatives in wealth operation.

• Responsible and Accountable for Wealth Operations and accountable to

facilitate business in executing complex large transactions.

• Instrumental in implementing new wealth Operation system and lead

business initiatives in consultation with IT team.

• Implemented various control methodology to ensure error free transaction

processing.

• Build credibility, establish rapport with stakeholders at all levels.

Citi Bank, Vice president• Was one of the founder team member while Citi was setting up capital market

business in India.

• Heading Capital Market Operation for Citi Wealth Advisors and was part of the

Management Committee team in leading various business initiatives.

• Implemented strong operations processes and control mechanism and

cleared all audit / inspections.

Anand Rathi, Vice president

Was heading operations for Depository Services, back-office risk management

and critical capital market operations.

Work Experience

Experience SummarySeasoned leader and capital market subject matter expert with over 17

years of experience in designing, implementing & transforming business

processes including Risk management, compliance, operations for Capital

Market. Ajay was instrumental in setting-up business operations excellence

for Capital market for a Global company in India. Prior to Polestar Ajay has

played leadership roles in Citibank & JM Financials. Ajay is a fellow

member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).

Ajay has more than 17 years of work experience in Indian Capital Market.

He was instrumental in setting up Business operations for capital Market for

Citi Wealth Advisors in India and was also heading capital market

operations in India and expert in setting complex business process for

capital markets in India. In his stint he was also heading Wealth operations

for JM Financials, one of the top 5 Wealth Service Providers in India. He is

known for business operations excellence and system automation. He is

subject matter expert in Capital market operations, compliance and

operation risk management.

Functional Industry Expertise

•Capital Market

•Wealth Management

•Operations

•Program Management

• Financial Services

Chetan Alsisaria

Polestar, Director• Successfully delivered many large scale IT projects for clients within & outside

India.

• Delivered end-to-end BI project for a very large infrastructure company in

India where Chetan was instrumental in defining the BI roadmap for the

Company, implementing the phase 1, planning the change management &

finally moving over to phase 2.

• Conceptualized and delivered a large scale Warehouse Management System

for a fortune 500 Consumer Electronics Company

Deloitte, Manager• Architecting complex & multi-dimensional application using a variety of

Technologies

• Qlikview Territory Lead for Polestar India

• Design & development of enterprise wide Business Intelligence applications

using SAP BO and QlikView.

• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple

related projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational

objectives.

• Build credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication with

stakeholders at multiple levels, including those external to the organization.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Kolkata India, Senior ConsultantWorked on some of the most critical projects in Microsoft Technologies & helped

PwC, India develop as a back office for all the Technology work in US & UK.

Work Experience

Experience Summary

Experienced Leader with expertise in IT enabled Business transformation

having more than 15 years of experience in formulating IT Strategy as well

as in designing, developing & delivering Enterprise Level Applications.

Chetan is a excellent team leader and program manager with in-depth

experience in implementing large scale projects across globe for private,

public & government sector clients. He has a strong exposure to sectors

such as Financial Services, Healthcare, Oil & Natural Gas and

Manufacturing. Prior to Polestar Chetan has held senior positions in

Organizations such as Deloitte & PwC. Chetan was a Senior Application

Architect with the Research Lab of PwC (Centre of Advanced

Research).Chetan holds a degree in Computer Sc. & Engineering from

Jadavpur University.

Functional / Technical Expertise Industry Expertise

• Application Architecture

• Microsoft Technologies

• QlikView, SAP BO, MSBI & Arcplan

• ITStrategy & Roadmap

•Program Management

• Financial Services

• Insurance

• Retail

• Automotive

• Manufacturing

Amit Kumar

Polestar, Director

Managing a portfolio of clients and projects in Business Intelligence

capability and acting as Functional lead in the areas of Finance,

Procurement, Manufacturing, Sales and Marketing, Quality Management,

Plant maintenance, Supply chain collaboration and Business Information.

Accenture, Manager

Delivered multi million dollars projects and provided industry specific

consulting services to these global clients across USA , Egypt, Morocco,

Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Indonesia, Singapore, UK, Sweden, Denmark,

Finland, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic,

Netherlands , Greece, Slovakia, Ireland, Germany.• Unilever

• Kellogg

• Ferrero

• Akzo Nobel

• PepsiCo

Amit acted a functional lead and managing consultant for these clients,

wherein he delivered complex BI applications spanning across all

business domains to the business.• Gathered business requirement

• Mapped it with the BI tool that was used for reporting

• Designed and developed the ETL as per the requirement

• Built and tested reports

• Conducted UAT with users

• Managed cutover and brought the BI system Live

Work Experience

Experience Summary

Experienced Functional Expert in Supply Chain, Finance,Purchase etc., excellent team leader and managing consultantwith extensive experience in managing and implementing largescale business transformation projects across globe for fortune500 clients. Amit has worked globally across 20 countries andprovided consulting to many clients in the areas of BusinessIntelligence, Data Mining, Master data Management, DataCleansing, Business Analysis, Supply Chain Planning, BusinessProcess Analysis and designing, Amit has delivered largeaccounts and has many years of experience in multiple functions.Amit holds a degree in Civil Engineering from Delhi College ofEngineering and an MBA from SJ SOM, IIT Mumbai.

Functional / Technical Expertise Industry Expertise

• Finance• Manufacturing & Procurement• Sales & Distribution• Business Analysis• Process improvement• SAP & QlikView• Supply Chain Collaboration

• Consumer Goods• Utility• Automotive• Manufacturing• Chemical

QUESTIONS?

CHETAN ALSISARIA

CHETAN@POLESTARLLP.COM

POLESTAR