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While in a project which involved handling lots of data, we came across an interesting issue. After importing data into our database, we had to validate the data and mark the invalid ones.

I have come across a plethora of applications over the Web that allow organizations to conduct Online Tests. The disadvantage? None seem to provide a way for the Organization to customize the tests which makes those products to be classified under use-and-throw i.e: if the Organization wants to conduct a different test they are stuck!!

iView is a vessel performance monitoring system. Its commercial module helps you to log the performance attributes of the vessels in your fleet. It also consists of a simple yet powerful inventory management module that guides you through the process of procurement of an item for your vessel.

Recording and analysis of ship related insurance data is a hectic procedure. Hence, one of our clients, a multinational shipping company, asked us to develop an application that could perform the above as well as track the insurance status of its assets and provide alerts based on user-defined criteria. Web Access has come up with WO- ICD, a Shipping Insurance and Claims Tracking System that meets our client’s requirements and has an extremely flexible and comprehensive reporting tool. It also provides extensive MIS and allows users to do extensive comparative analysis.

Million dollar criminal fine, felony charges,.. I was quite surprised when I read through my search results for Oil Record Book violations. Filling up an Oil Record Book is surely a tough job. And the onus would be on you to fill it up consistently. without committing mistakes.

Now think of an application that can help you fill up your ORB by identifying entries to be made in your ORB, calculate values automatically and alert you with warnings when your ORB entries are inconsistent.. digiORB is your new saviour.

Web Access has recently developed Virtual Camera, a learning tool for composition of photos, which also serves as a hands-on training tool.

VCam (Virtual Camera) is developed in a way that allows faster loading of images. It also consists of an Easy snap shot tool that can capture snaps and can Save multiple snaps.

WA Presenter is a presentation tool, which is currently being tested by 1 of the world’s leading research agency. It will let you relax, while it does the hard work of creating presentations with Charts from your Survey Data that may be present in files like CSV and XLS. It parses the input file, matches the input data with the Rules specified by the User and generates the PowerPoint presentation upon a single button click. The presentations are created in a time that is 90% lesser compared to the conventional manual method, saving large amount of time.

I have always felt the need to accommodate all my learning resources like books, videos and animation and images, at a single place. I am sure many of us do feel the need. K-Class comes to our rescue for solving this very problem.

K-Class has been developed keeping in mind the requirements of the Educational Domain, the prime concern being the Cost. It has been built in Java, which is Cost Effective but doesn’t compromise on providing us with its umpteen advantages.

“Think about it this way”, explained my colleague, “You have to purchase a set of Computers for your company from a dealer; you would first sign an SLA(service level agreement) which would include all the details regarding the dealers service, e.g. their response time(i.e. the time taken for their response when they are called for upon any complaints with the product) or the product replacement time. This is somewhat equivalent to guarantee claims for Ships”. And he, who was once the Captain of a Ship, went on to explain in detail the process of guarantee claims.

When the explanation completed, I concluded that it is really tough to manage and track the guarantee claims for Ships. The ships personnel involve people from all over the world. The ship’s yard would be in Denmark, its parts would have been made in Korea, while the ship would be currently sailing somewhere close to South Africa. How difficult it would be to track the guarantee claims of a specific defective part in such a situation. The simplest yet the most effective solution that we got, “Build a Service”.