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Februari 2009

Produkt för Hälsovård Gislen Software     tecknar avtal med Lundaföretag för utveckla ett komplett nytt system inom hälsovård. Projektet kommer att löpa under hela 2009 och innebär att ett team från Gislen Software     kommer att tillsammans med två personer från kunden utveckla ett nytt system som skall ersätta en produkt från 90-talet. SCRUM kommer att användas och indiska och svenska teammedlemmar kommer att träffas en gång per månad för att det indiska teamet skall lämna över förra månadens resultat och tillsammans gå igenom nästa månads utveckling. Utvecklingen kommer att ske i CodeGear Delphi 2009.

November, 2008

Utveckling av kundanpassat Containerdepåsystem Gislen Software     tecknar avtal med Göteborgs Containertjänst (GCT) för utveckling av ett komplett containersystem för GCT's två depåer i Göteborg. Systemet innehåller fullständig hantering av gate in/ut, estimering, reparation, fakturering samt EDI kommunikation till större kunder. Systemet kommer att kunna köras både från vanliga PCs och från portabla trådlösa enheter i truckarna. Dessutom kommer kunder att kunna logga in via webben och följa upp status mm. i realtid.

Oktober, 2007

Gislen Software  AB är registrerat Vi har nu bildat ett helägt dotterbolag till vårt indiska företag. Det svenska bolaget skall succesivt ta ansvar för all försäljning i Sverige. Det känns skönt efter alla dessa år att äntligen ha ett svenskt bolag.  Nyheterna nedan är från Gislen Software Private Limited och på engelska. De finns på hemsidan för att visa på vår historia.

February, 2007

Swedish IT delegation On 2/2 the Swedish IT delegation arranged by Invest in Sweden Agency visited our office together with reresentatives from 10 local Indian IT companies. Mikael Gislén shared some of the company's experiences of business culture  in both Sweden and India and there was time for networking between the delegates and the local companies. The IT delegation was only one out of 4 delegations visiting Chennai at the same time.

January, 2007

September, 2006 Gislen Software     Participated in ICT Week 2006 in Stockholm The company participated, together with our partner Fifth Generation Technologies, in a leading Swedish IT Exhibition. We are trying to get more business from Sweden. We do have a strong connection to Sweden and most of our project experience is from the Swedish and Norwegian markets. Currently the Swedish interest to outsource to India is increasing and Gislen Software     having more than 12 years of experience in working with Software development for Swedish companies has a unique opportunity. Gislen Software     announces Planner Suite version 1.5 Gislen Software     announce a new version of Planner Suite, its wholistic project management tool (formerly known as PromegaSuite). The new version is a substantial overhaul with new features for overview, document management and budgeting. The new release will be available to our customers in November 2006.  September, 2005 Substantial growth Gislen Software     has during the last year grown and now has 45 people working for customers in Norway, Sweden, UK and the US. Some of these are coming from our partners. We now work in close collaboration with Camelot, EWAK, Songbird Technologies and Clasticon. Together with our partners we are currently about 250 experienced engineers in the network.  Gislen Software     announce good sale and profit for 2004/05 The management presents a good result for the last accounting year. The management is also confident that the current accounting year will be even better. April, 2005 Partnership with Ewak Creative Compusoft Ltd Gislen Software     and Ewak Creative Compusoft Ltd, announce a partnership. Ewak core competence is Powerbuilder, J2EE and Dot Net.  September, 2004 Gislen Software     signs large order with Q-Free ASA, Norway Gislen Software     in September 2004, signed a large contract for outsourcing of a large project for Norwegian and Swedish end users. Q-Free ASA World Leader in Road Toll Applications and a Scandinavian Leader in IT Systems for Public Transportation &  November, 2003 Market improvements We have noticed a major increase in requests for projects. The company has also got a number of new contracts. We expect a much improved result for year 2004. Among the new contracts to be mentioned are: • Process designer tool for a large European marketing company • Fund raiser relationship management system for a well known international NGO • Project for a Singapore company where we are developing a high level product for the financial industry • Web based Resource/Time reporting product for a Swedish company Alliance with International Ethical fund will support future growth We have recently entered into a deal with an international Ethical fund. This fund will add one person to our board, and provide working capital as well as expertise and advice. Among the plans we have as outcome of this agreement is a sales office in Europe during next year. We believe this alliance is a key strategic step for us! September, 2003 PromegaSuite version 1.1 launched Promega Suite version 1.1 was released in September. The new version includes export/import to MS Project and export to MS Excel, it has a much improved document module, and the planner is improved in various ways and among other things it now supports baselines. For more information on PromegaSuite please go to the www.promegasuite.com site. March, 2003 Camelot Software Together with DBA, AIS, Fifth Technology and Vispark we have founded Camelot Software. Camelot Software is a consortium of about 240 programmers in the Chennai region. The company is staffed by the founder's staff and has the following objectives: To take on larger projects than any of the owner companies can handle, the projects will be handled by joint efforts of the company, but following the Camelot common process. To ensure a clear roadmap for process and quality excellence. The member companies meet regularly to implement a common process. Camelot Software have probably jointly the largest number of PSP trained software engineers outside the US (PSP = Personal Software Process, which is a service mark of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US). Together we have a wide area of knowledge, lots of experience and marketing channels. All the member companies have a strong focus on quality and we plan to get Camelot CMM certified by 2005. January, 2003 PromegaSuite Launched We managed to release PromegaSuite ahead of schedule in late January. PromegaSuite is a holistic Project Management system which includes a process module where you can enter your own process description to make the system support CMM, ISO 9001, RUP or other processes. The package targets not only IT companies, but all kinds of knowledge work where time and planning matters. Tha package supports document handling and is integrated with MS Office. PromegaSuite includes modules for planning, reporting, analysing, document handling and ensuring process adherence. PromegaSuite is released both in a desktop and a web edition, both versions works over Internet or Intranets and can support all from small to large sized organisations. The release and support is handled by Gislen Software     Pvt. Ltd. (India), Gislen Software     LLC (USA). The web site for PromegaSuite can be found here. A complete trial version is available for download. December, 2002 Launch of PromegaSuite in February We have renamed Omega Suite into PromegaSuite, and will release the commercial version soon after January 30. After more than 8 man years development and about 6 months of beta testing and further development Gislen Software     plans to release an holistic project management package with support for processes like CMM, ISO 9001, RUP and other. The package targets not only IT companies, but all kinds of knowledge work where time and planning matters. The package also supports document handling and is integrated with MS Office. PromegaSuite includes modules for planning, reporting, analysing, document handling and ensuring process adherence. Omega Suite is released both in a desktop and a web edition, both versions works over Internet or Intranets and can support all from small to large sized organisations. The release and support is handled by Gislen Software     Pvt. Ltd. (India), Gislen Software     LLC (USA) and CRS Marketing AB Sweden. The web site for PromegaSuite can be found here. If you are interested to review the software the beta program is still open. The beta program for Omega Suite will end once the product is launched. June, 2002 Launch of Omega Suite Beta release Program Gislen Software     today June 7, 2002, released its complete project management Software - Omega Suite(TM). We have about 25 beta testers lined up and the Beta Test program will continue for 3 months. Omega Suite includes modules for planning, reporting, analysing, document handling and ensuring process adherence. Omega Suite is released both in a desktop and a web edition, both versions works over Internet or Intranets and can support all from small to large sized organisations. The release and support is handled by Gislen Software     Pvt. Ltd. (India), Gislen Software     LLC (USA) and CRS Marketing AB Sweden. We are looking for beta testers and if you are interested to find a holistic solution for project management, we would like you to register at the beta site. March, 2002 Strategic Alliance with Corporater AS, Norway We have recently started a strategic alliance with Corporater AS, A leading Norwegian Company specialising in products for Balance Scorecards. We will work together in different areas, including development and sales. Corporater has a successful product for supporting Balanced Scorecard systems in larger corporations. For more information please see Corporaters web site. December, 2001 New Products We are in the pipeline to launch 3 new products - A complete Project Management System for Consulting Companies. Expense Pro - a Palm and Pocket PC tool for handling Travel Expenses Tellma - together with CRS Marketing in Sweden, we have developed a Telemarketing system which support outbound call centers July, 2001 New COO, Fiona Crossling Fiona Crossling, who has earlier helped us to develop our Software Development Process, has joined us. She will be working part time until October when she will join us full time. She is a Canadian from Quebeq and has a background as a process consultant from Bell Canada.She will focus on developing Internal Systems, training of Project Leaders and help the company to move forward. Mikael Gislén will focus more on marketing and strategy. February, 2001 New time reporting system Our staff has developed a Socket based Middleware Time Reporting System which works over the Internet. Staff working at our clients offices can now do their time reporting from any computer connected to the Internet. The system is using MS Project 2000 (with ODBC connection) for planning but all time reporting is done in our module. Only project leaders needs to have MS Project installed. The time reporting system is one module in a suite of productivity tools we have developed to support the development process. Other modules are Defect Tracker and Attendance system. We might release these tools in the market at a later time. Little Lambs Educational Trust Gislen Software     has recently founded an educational trust for underprivileged children. The trust will initially focus on education in small classes for small children. Currently the trust can only receive contributions from Indian donors. If you want to contribute, please click here. October, 2000 OneclickHR A group of 4 people are working on site with OneclickHR plc. UK, A company we worked with earlier and which has now gone public. September, 2000 Business Support Processes Defined Together with Rory Gowers the Management team has defined a full set of Business Support Processes on a strategic level. The work will procede with defining the same on a tactical level and certain of these will be supported by software modules. This will enhance the company's focus on processes and the support processes will support the software development process which was defined earlier and is currently being implemented. The Facilitator The first batch of staff went through the training program facilitated by Rory Gowers. The program includes methods for group communication and for customerizing the organisation and to help in the requirement gathering process.  April, 2000 Carpe Diem Gislen   We had a staff conference at Mahabalipuram where we discussed the future focus, the objectives for the next 12 month and challenges ahead. We got good help from Rory Gowers from Australia who led the sessions.   January, 2000 New Software Development Process We started our first pilot project using the new development process. We have also started to use the new process in a phased manner on some new projects and will implement it for most old projects before the end of August 2000. It is a radical change in our way of developing software and will change our quality as well as performance. Our customers will see the results of the new process mostly in the way communication is handled and in the document templates and checklists which will ensure consistence at all levels.   December, 1999 5 years anniversary On December 12th we celebrated that Gislen Software     have successfully finished 5 years of Software consulting business. We had a party under the Chennai sky with current and former employees, the Swedish Honorable Consul, the MEPZ Development commissioner, families, friends etc. Sponsors where Dynamic Marketing Enterprises, Milesworth Travels and Tours and Fresh and Honest Coffee.   September, 1999 Business Process Redesign Our Millennium (re)design team together with a consultant from Canada - Ms. Fiona. Crossling - has started to map our current process and will redesign our process in order to make our organisation better more profitable and quality oriented. The implementation of the new process will start from January 2000. July, 1999 Richard Buchanan appointed Business Development Manager Richard Buchanan, from New Zealand has joined us. He has wide experience in IT departments of organisations like CSFB, Citibank and Union Bank of Switzerland. Richard will be working to extend the client base as well as developing the existing ones. He will also work with improvements in the organisation in India.   April, 1999 Gislen Software     certified by Microsoft We are now a Microsoft Certified Solutions Provider which among other things means that we will have access to all nationalised versions of different MS operating systems and other products. This will help us in different ways one way would be to test what we do for our customers in similar environments as they use it. The MCSP certificate will also give us access to Beta versions of all MS products.   February, 1999 Living Questions to acquire a minority share Chennai and Stockholm 16.2.1999. Living Questions and Gislen Software     today announced that Living Questions plans to acquire a minority share in Gislen Software    . Living Questions being one of the largest clients of Gislen Software    , wants to assure the continuity of the production for them and there is a first refusal agreement between Living Questions and the majority owner of Gislen Software    . Gislen Software     sees this as an opportunity to get more credibility especially in the Swedish market.   December, 1998 New official company name Chennai 31.12.1998 The board of directors have decided to officially change the name of the company from Gislen & Co. Software Export Private Limited to Gislen Software     Private Limited. Locally we have often been called Gislen Software     even before and we also feel that an abbreviation is not very personal.   November, 1998 4 new employees We are now 34 people all together. In November we were joined by the following people. March, 1998 Executive Director From April 1st we welcome Mr. M. C. Abraham as our Executive Director. Mr. Abraham who has a Management degree from XLRI, Jamshedpur, has a wide experience in various business fields and has till recently been the Executive Director of Integrated Stock Brooking Services Pvt. Ltd. in Chennai. He writes about himself "My wide experience, particularly in setting up complete business organisations backed by a keen interest in new developments and challenges makes me confident of success even in totally new environments and setting up new businesses from inception. My strength lies in people management and in an informal, hands-on approach". New client Visual Communication from UK, whom we will help with modules for their HRD software.    February, 1998 7 New Employees We have employed 7 new employees during January and February.   January, 1998 Expanding our office In early January we moved in our new office extension. We are now 24 people working in our office  With the new expansion we will be able to expand up till 50 people.   Meeting in our new conference room     The new office is organised into 6 blocks of 4-5 work places each, the new conference room, two manager rooms and a reception.