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MAKES YOU GROW

MAGAZINE

4# September 2011

WORDS OF INDPRO

Indpro makes you grow. With these words in mind we came to start Indpro. In this magazine you will get to know our company, our members and our values.

We work with values in our company. Values are important. They will guide you, they will give you comfort and provide a foundation for effective communication, production and decision-making. Values provide the foundation for the organiza-tion to move forward as one entity. Values provide the informal rules and routines that make the formal organization work as a community of practice pursuing a joint enterprise in the name of the company and its members.

These values do not only make our company and members grow, it enables us to provide services to our clients that make them grow.

Our mission has always been to make our organization, our members, and our clients grow. And we work towards professionalism and personality. We work to-wards communication, collaboration and agility. We work together with our clients to achieve business wellness a nd growth.

Together we will grow!

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NEW INDPRO OFFICE!

In the end of July Indpro was proud to open its second office in Bangalore.

The new office, “Indpro Annexe” is located in the build-ing right next to the existing office in New BEL Road. President Bobby Biswas says: “During this spring we have grown from about 50 to 75 co-workers, and we are still hiring. We simply had outgrown our old office and were in need of more space. It is very exciting and inspiring that we now have two offices in Bangalore. It’s a big change compared to what it looked like when we started up Indpro five years ago! Now when we’re divided into two offices, it’s even more important that

we do things which will contribute to the feeling of us being ONE Indpro. I will do my best to keep the sense of togetherness that we have. My ambition is to see to it that we as soon as possible can be in the same building again.”

About half of Indpro’s personnel are now working from Indpro Annexe. On 29 July we celebrated the new premises with Pooja in the morning and an inauguration party in the evening. Compared to the old office, the new one has cubicals and we have access to a spacious ter-race on the top of the building. Please come visit us!

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NEW INDPRO WEBSITE

In the end of August, Indpro relaunched its website with a new, more modern look.

Indpro’s Bangalore based president, Bobby Biswas, explains: “We have had our previous website since 2008. Since then, Indpro has grown as a company, in terms of the number and type of clients as well as in experience and competence. We’re recruiting and we have been needing to expand our office space. We can now deliver

programming services in a variety of IT fields and within CAD/BIM. The new site shows that Indpro has grown and matured.”

“I wanted the new website to very clearly describe the type of services we deliver and our technical know-how. I also hope that the new site conveys a feeling of Indpro as a company where there is a balance between the pro-fessional and personal life, and where Indpro grows

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together with its co-workers and clients.”

The website was relaunched in Swedish, but will be available in English early this fall.

www.indpro.se

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INDPROIAN TESTIMONIALS

For how long have you worked at Indpro? 3 years and 5 monthsWhat is your education? Bacherlor of Science, Master of Computer ApplicationsDesignation: Senior Software EngineerWhat are you working with at Indpro? What project(s)? I’m working with Microsoft technologies such as C#, .Net. Projects: Bonasoft, Active SolutionThoughts about Indpro: Indpro bridges the expertise and qualities of Sweden and India, bringing together the best of both the worlds. It is a blend of both cultures, where we share our knowledge and experiences – add-ing value to our working methodologies.Native place: Kolkata, West BengalLanguages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Swedish (learning)If you weren’t into IT, what would you be doing? Sing-ing in a band.Favorite place: KolkataFavorite movie: Under the Tuscan SunFavorite music : Sonu NigamInterests: Anything I do, I do with a lot of interest. Apart from that: visiting places, cooking, cycling.

For how long have you worked at Indpro? For more than 2 years and 10 months.What is your education? Bachelor of Engineering (Informa-tion Technology)Designation: Software EngineerWhat are you working with at Indpro? What project(s)? I am into development of .Net applications and currently I am working for the Time Care project.Thoughts about Indpro: Great place to work and learn many things. I am happy with the work environment and my project and colleagues.Native place: Gangavathi, KarnatakaLanguages: English, Kannada, Hindi, Telugu, a little bit of Tamil and Swedish (learning)If you weren’t into IT, what would you be doing? I would have been a lecturer in an engineering college.Favorite place: ManyFavorite movie: ManyInterests: Reading psychology based novels, to watch cook-ery shows and to try new recipes.

Victoria Vilasiny

Debraj Saha

For how long have you worked at Indpro? April 2011What is your education? Master in Business Adminis-tration from the Stockholm School of EconomicsDesignation: Marketing managerWhat are you working with at Indpro? Market and communicationThoughts about Indpro: I was so glad when I received the message saying I had a job at Indpro. Indpro is a young and modern company. I am also very glad to be a part of the offshore outsourcing industry as well as the IT industry. I really believe that India and companies like Indpro are the future.Native place: Orminge, Stockholm (Sweden)Languages: Swedish, English, French, intermediate Ger-man and beginner’s HindiIf you didn’t have a office based job, what would you be doing? I would have liked to be a dancer.Favorite place: India!Favorite movie (Bollywood): DabanggFavorite music: Soul, R&B, dance and since recently Bollywood music Interests: Dancing, travelling, reading

Jeanette Reinbrand

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For how long have you worked at Indpro? From June 1st of this year.What is your education? Bachelor of Engineering (Comput-ers) och Bachelor of Science (Chemistry major)Designation: Software EngineerWhat are you working with at Indpro? What project(s)? I am working as an open source programmer with the PHP platform. I am currently working for “AllMyLooks”.Thoughts about Indpro: As its punch line says ‘makes you grow’, the organization with the employees has got an attitude to grow. We also look for quality in every step of the software development process. Native place: Mysore, KarnatakaLanguages: English, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Swedish (learn-ing)If you weren’t into IT, what would you be doing? Business man.Favorite place: My home town Mysore and my office (i.e. Indpro)Favorite movie: Any movie having a message of attitude to win.Favorite music: Sonu NigamInterests: Cricket, soccer and chess

For how long have you worked at Indpro? I joined in February this year.What is your education? Bachelor of Science (Statistics) and Master of Computer ApplicationsDesignation: Software EngineerWhat are you working with at Indpro? What project(s)? My first project was FloorPlans, my second is Qsys, which is my current project.Thoughts about Indpro: Indpro is really a fast growing company and it is also true that it’s making me grow professionally. Now I have also developed the confidence to handle clients, before I did not have this much confidence in me. Truly speaking, in my previous companies I never had such environment, such work quality and nice projects. Here, everyone is of a helping nature and kind too... No doubt I enjoy my work here everyday.Native place: I was born in Vijapur (Gujarat) and brought up in Indore (Madhya Pradesh).Languages: Hindi, English (learning Swedish and Kannada)If you weren’t into IT, what would you be doing? I would have run dance classes, painting classes and I would have been doing lecturership in some college.Favorite place: Munnar (Kerela)Favorite movie: “Kungfu Panda”, “The Lion King”, “Dil to Pagal Hai” and “3 Idiots”Favorite music: Shaan and Lata MangeshkarInterests: Dance, painting, playing chess and all indoor and outdoor games.

Rishi Dhupia

Gopala Krishna Shetty

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DEVELOPER SUMMIT GIDS

This year’s Great Indian Development Summit (GIDS) in Bangalore was held on April 19th to April 22nd.

Indpro’s software engineers were of course present to keep up with the latest trends. This year’s edition focused on Microsoft computing technologies, Web and Java.

Here’s a pick of seminars and topics covered during the conference:

- Design Patterns for .NET Programmers- Caring about Code Quality- .Net Collections Deep Dive- JavaScript for the C# Developer- Is NoSQL The Future of Data Storage?- WF and WCF with AppFabric - Application Infra-structure for OnPremise Services- Programming with HTML 5- Designing User Experiences for multi-screen appli-cations with Flash, HTML5 & CSS3- Unleashing a more Beautiful Web- Alternate JVM Languages- Java EE 7: the Voyage of the Cloud Treader-What’s Brewing in Java 7?

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INDPRO PREMIER LEAGUE

On 21 May, this year’s edition of Indpro Pre-mier League (IPL) took place at a resort in the outskirts of Bangalore. Two buses waited out-side the Indpro office on New BEL Road early in the morning, ready to transport the former co-workers, now rivals, to the field.

After some warming up, the four teams Kings, Tigers, Nawabs and Strikers met each other in a first round. Strikers and Nawabs won their respective matches, end-ing up in the grand finale. After a very tight and exiting game, Nawabs managed to beat Strikers by a few points.

Jeanette Reinbrand, new marketing manager at Indpro, and at the time of IPL only a month old to Bangalore,

explains: “This was a fun experience for me. We don’t play cricket in Sweden and I didn’t know much about the game from before, but I’ve heard that it’s a very popular sport here, and I’ve been curious to know more about it. And now I know, it’s actually quite fun, but I’m not sure I would be able to endure a game of several hours – nor days! But I really liked the experience and I would like to do it again some time.”

Congratulations Nawabs and a tribute to all the teams!

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SWEDISH CLASS

Hej! Välkomna till Swedish class!This spring Indpro started its own language course in Swedish. Each Thursday a group of valiant students meet for Swedish class. Join us! Vi ses!

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Name: Ullas MalleshwaraAge: 31Origin: Kollegal, KarnatakaRole: Project leader, working with .NetCurrent projects: MathemTime of visit: April 2011 together with Rama (2 weeks)

What were your expectations before going to Swe-den, both as a country and hoping to achieve work-wise? This was my first time flying and my first time going to another country. I thought that I had to learn lots of things to prepare before the trip, but once in Swe-den I didn’t think the differences were so great. In terms of infrastructure and environment it is very different, in Sweden everything is cool, calm and clean. But I don’t think people were so different from India.

What was the purpose of your visit? To know the pro-cesses of Mathem better and to get to know them more as a company. We also discussed how we could optimize the Mathem website and its functionalities.

Was there anything that striked you as different in Swedish culture compared to Indian culture? Yes, once we went to the Uppsala Cathedral. I’ve never been to such a big church before. It was almost a bit creepy, because there were graves below the church floor and the church organist was playing gloomy church music.

What can you tell us about your experience of a Swedish work place and work culture? I would say that Swedish people’s sense of time is really good and that they are really hard working.

Many people are curious to hear about the Swedish climate. What did you think about the climate? There was not much snow when I went there, but there was a cold wind. I haven’t experienced that weather since childhood. You always had to wear a jacket. I thought the weather was really good. In terms of day light, there was a huge difference compared to India. At 6-7 pm evening falls in India, but there I didn’t know when evening would fall!

TRAVEL DIARY: SWEDEN

Did you experience any difficulties with the food and food habits in Sweden? Yes, a little bit, because I am a pure vegetarian. However, Indpro’s Stockholm based management Marcus Lippert and Pavel Siddique helped me to find the right food (also Erik and Fredrik from the Mathem team helped me a lot). Actually, I always went to Indian restaurants. They are good, but the food is not as spicy as in India. I also liked a one particular type of Swedish candy, the “black fish”.

What’s your best memory from the trip? The Friday afternoon/evening party at Indpro’s Stockholm office. All the clients were there, some previous Indpro em-ployees, Marcus, Pavel and Pavel’s wife Stina. It was very nice. I also enjoyed going to the home of Tomas from Mathem. Tomas’ house was built of wood, something that you wouldn’t see in India. And his living room table was from India! I also got the chance to meet his teen-age kids. They were very curious to hear about Indian culture, for example about arranged marriages and how that works.

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What were your expectations before going to Swe-den, both as a country and hoping to achieve work-wise? To get to meet and personally interact with the people I have been working with for three years! And it’s also always interesting to visit new places.

What was the purpose of your visit? With our existing partner, the discussions were mostly related to planning in the longer run. The purpose was also to visit new clients and prospective clients.

Was there anything that striked you as different in Swedish culture compared to Indian culture? It’s very different. It’s more silent and calm in Sweden, and there is almost no pollution. I also felt that you can move more freely, for example since there is a subway in Stockholm. The social life is also very different in Sweden in the sense that society provides public education, public health care, etc. I was in Sweden during the Easter pe-riod, and therefore got the chance to see Easter. I never celebrated, but I saw Swedish people buying chocolates, Easter eggs, etc.

What can you tell us about your experience of a Swedish work place and work culture? It is well-planned and punctual. Actually, it’s not that easy to say because when it comes to developing software the

working process is more or less the same everywhere. What I did find different was the Swedish approach to marketing.

Many people are curious to hear about the Swed-ish climate. What did you think about the climate? It is very much a new experience if you’re travelling from India. It is cool, when I was there it was about 4 to 8°C. I also got the chance to see snow. I think that if you just have the right clothes, then it’s no problem. I never caught a cold while being there. In Sweden during spring it is also very light early in the morning and at night. One morning, I got a call at 5 am, and when I looked out the window, there was sunlight! That was an exiting experi-ence.

Did you experience any difficulties with the food and food habits in Sweden? No, not really, because I like to try out new things. I’m not a full vegetarian, so I had a bigger variety to choose from than others. I also had persons who could help me choose.

What’s your best memory from the trip? Going to the top of Globen with Managing Director Pavel Siddque. (Globen is a sports arena and concert hall in Stockholm, shaped like a globe.) I also enjoyed roaming around in the streets of the Old Town (Gamla Stan) in Stockholm.

Name: RamakrishnaAge: 30

Origin: Hyderabad, Andhra PradeshRole: Project leader, working with .Net.

Current projects: Time Care and prospective clientsTime of visit: April 2011 together with Ullas (2 weeks)

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Name: Rajesh KolliAge: 33Origin: Visakhapatnam, Andhra PradeshRole: Project Manager for the AEC (Architectural Engineering Conctruction) divisionCurrent projects: Tyréns (Swedish urban and rural planning company)Time of visit: June 2011 (3 weeks)

What were your expectations before going to Swe-den? I wanted to present Indpro at different Tyréns offices, to share my knowledge and also to work with them – which we also did during the visit! I was hoping to achieve a deeper collaboration with Tyréns.

What was the purpose of your visit? To visit different Tyréns offices throughout Sweden (in the cities of Stock-holm, Malmö, Göteborg and Lund), hopefully get new projects and to do some work for Tyréns in Sweden.

Was there anything that striked you as different in Swedish culture compared to Indian culture? Some-thing that striked me was the Swedish traffic. I found the traffic superb! So systematic and disciplined. Everybody was following the traffic rules! I also felt that people had moral responsability. We have that in India too, but still this was something that striked me in Swedish culture.

What can you tell us about your experience of a Swedish work place and work culture? Nothing really striked me as different in terms of work culture. It’s the same way as here; people help and support each other.

Many people are curious to hear about the Swedish climate. What did you think about the climate? When I was there it was the same climate as in Bangalore. One day it was +27°C. However, one day it was raining con-tinuously. This was different from Bangalore, where you would have had a gap between the rain showers.

Did you experience any difficulties with the food and food habits in Sweden? I didn’t experience any difficul-ties. I really liked salmon fish and chicken. My general impression is that the food it not spicy.

What’s your best memory from the trip? The archi-pelago! It’s right outside Stockholm. I had a nice time there. We played “kubb” (a Swedish outdoor game), went for sightseeing and stopped for a picnic at one of the islands.

You have been to Sweden and Stockholm once be-fore, did you notice any differences in Sweden com-pared to your previous visit? I was in Sweden for four weeks during spring 2007. I would say that the biggest difference was that now things were well-known to me and I could more easily go around by myself. But actu-ally I didn’t have time to be out much and to really see Swedish society – I had to work! One thing I did notice was the celebration of students graduating from high school. Groups of students went around on the streets in open-air trucks, singing, dancing, celebrating and party-ing. It striked me as quite similar to road shows in India, especially at times of festivals.

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What were your expectations before going to Swe-den, both as a country and hoping to achieve work-wise? Whenever I get the chance to go to Sweden, I feel that it is a tremendous opportunity for my personal as well as professional life. It strengthens the motivation to work: the Swedish clients are using cutting edge tech-nologies, which makes you learn a lot and feel that you develop both career wise and on a personal level. It’s inspirational.

What was the purpose of your visit? The core pur-pose was to meet and get an understanding of the initial requirements from Indpro’s new partner, Qsys. I also visited two of Indpro’s other partners, Tyréns and Exi-com. It is always good to meet the people you work with face-to-face. With Tyréns I got to know more about how they work and about their focus areas. Instead of just knowing that they are into construction, I got a better picture of exactly what it is they are doing. With Exicom, we talked about them wanting to have a mobile applica-tion of the product we are working on for them. We also looked at how our collaboration can be even better.

Was there anything that striked you as different in Swedish culture compared to Indian culture? My feeling in general is that every society and culture has its advantages as well as its down sides. My impression was that many people in Sweden, or at least in Stock-holm, are racing. It almost seems as if it is self-generated or self-created. It’s not that people don’t have time for themselves, they can have time, to a certain extent the stress really seems self-imposed. However, I would prob-ably be the same if I had grown up there.

Something else that is different is that many Swedish people will not say that something is bad. They will say “this is good, but...”, which actually means that they are not satisfied. This took a while for me to understand. In India, we are more direct. If something is bad, we say so.

Name: Ashik AliAge: 43Origin: Malda, West BengalRole: CTO, working with multiple technologies and pro-gramming languagesCurrent projects: Qsys, Tyréns and ExicomTime of visit: Feb-March 2011 (3 weeks)

What can you tell us about your experience of a Swedish work place and work culture? I would say that the Swedish work place is satisfying: it takes into account aspects such as lighting, seating, etc.

Many people are curious to hear about the Swedish climate. What did you think about the climate? I have had the chance to experience both summer and winter in Sweden. (I’ve been to Sweden once before with Ind-pro, that time during summer). Both seasons have their own uniqueness. This time I really got to experience the bitter cold of Sweden. It was -22 C° when I was there. I have heard of the cold that really bites you, but I’ve never experienced it – but now I know what it’s like!

Did you experience any difficulties with the food and food habits in Sweden? No, not at all! Indians like more spicy food and more processed food, but I didn’t have that problem. I really liked the Max burgers (Max is a Swedish hamburger chain). Indpro’s Marcus Lippert wanted me to try some traditional Swedish food, so he invited me for raw fish – and I liked it a lot. Overall, I en-joyed the food. I think it was good and tasty. But I don’t know if others would have liked it.

What’s your best memory from the trip? I like the nature vey much. If you want to see nature in Bangalore you first have to travel for a while. In Sweden, and even in Stockholm, nature is always close and you see lots of greeneries everywhere. I also got to see new places and new people.

You have been to Sweden and Stockholm once before, was this visit different from the previous one? Yes, I was in Sweden in 2009. This time I was more prepared. I knew things such as travelling on the local train, where to withdraw money, etc. It also felt easier to speak to people this time. And now I also know that Kexchoklad (a Swedish chocolate bar) is a very good emergency food!

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THE 4 SWEDISH GUYS

In the month of May four Swedish students from the University of Jönköping came to the Indpro Bangalore office for a university proj-ect.

Specialising in media and communication, the aim of their stay was to study, analyze and give recommenda-tions on Indpro’s graphical profile and communication strategy. President Bobby Biswas says “Collaborating with the academic world and having university students at our office guarantee access to the latest technologies and trends. It also gives us new ideas and alternative perspectives, which is imperative if you want to grow as a company.”

The four students, Martin Bergsten, Simon Sandeborg, Robin Thyselius, Nils Kempe and the fifth member back in Sweden, Louise Hagberg, interviewed Indpro’s employees, members of the management – in India as well as in Sweden, they spoke to customers, etc. At the end of the stay the team could present a proposal of an updated graphical design and communication strategy for Indpro. “They are clearly very talented and gave valu-able input on how Indpro can use different medias to reach out to new and existing clients, as well as to future employees”, says Jeanette Reinbrand, marketing man-ager at Indpro.

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The four Swedish guys: Simon Sandeborg, Nils Kempe, Robin Thyselius and Martin Bergsten

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NEW JOINEESSince the last issue of Indpro Magazine (De-cember 2010), Indpro has grown with 31 new joinees. We are reinforcing among our software engineers as well as within HR and markets.

In the end of August Indpro counted about 75 co-work-ers (in total, counting both the Bangalore and Stockholm offices).

We wish Hasib, Renuka, Rishi, Soumya, Alphonse, Adesh, Jeya, Ramesh, Jeanette, Tony, Sen, Sanjeev, Vishnu, Sha-hir, Suketha, Amresh, Manikandan, Nagaraju, Balamuru-gan, Hari, Vinoth, Gopala, Deepika, Pooja, Supriya, Hitha, Sumit, Ravikant, Ahetesum, Venkatesh and Samyuktha welcome to Indpro!

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www.facebook.com/indpro

Have you seen our facebook page? Here we convey the more personal side of Indpro, with updates about everyday life at the office in Ban-galore, and from time to time at the Stockholm office. Visit www.facebook.com/indpro!

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