News and Events 2010

New Fancy Jewelry, Inc. is a USA based firm dealing with Jewelry Retail business. They were looking to create a functioning E-commerce based web application for their established retail jewelry store. They required a CRM, Accounting and Inventory Management System that will allow their existing operations work with the web operations, and other features that will produce a functional e-Commerce site.

For these IT services, they contacted ESOLPK. We have proposed a complete solution for them in Magento/PHP. New Fancy Jewelry, Inc. also plans to expand their business to China/Hong Kong, and also prefers to create a few internal applications that will help them with their internal workflow better.

PRESS RELEASE

Islamabad | Pakistan, June 20th, 2010:

We are happy to share that Dr-SIR has been engaged to explore the possibility and feasibility of setting up a Children’s Hospital in Hayatabad, Peshawar. A comprehensive Activity Plan has been laid down for conducting a feasibility assessment for the construction and operationalization of this hospital. This project has been initiated by USAID/Health as part of its commitment to help Pakistan reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for maternal and child health.

Winrock International (WI) – a non-profit organization, is responsible for the overall management supervision of the Feasibility Assessment for this Children’s Hospital. As requested by USAID, the Community Rehabilitation Infrastructure Support Program (CRISP), by Winrock International,has formulated a methodology and assembled a team of experts to carry out the feasibility assessment.

CRISP and its sub-recipients will work in partnership with Dr-SIR health consulting company. Chaired by Dr. Syed Iqbal Raza – the acting Executive Director of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Dr-SIR has pioneered a software toolkit for the assessment and audit surveillance of public and private healthcare providers. Dr-SIR has been developed as a healthcare management system primarily for the diagnostic of general hospitals and health care institutions. It has its applications such as hospital planning/ development, fiscal effectiveness, operating efficiency, risk coverage, standardization and quality control in all areas of hospital and patient care in developed as well as developing countries. This can therefore be used either as a self assessment facility by the hospital administrator or healthcare financial managers of an institution or by any other external entity for the same purpose. Dr-SIR is an effective tool to serve the needs of those desiring to do capability assessment, hospital planning of a health care facility for purposes of management assessment, investment assessment, or even capability/ capacity building.

Responsibilities of Dr-SIR:

A structured approach has been developed for carrying out assessments that will provide valuable input into the decision-making process for establishment of the Children’s Hospital. Based on the objectives set forth in the SoW, Dr-SIR will be involved in undertaking the following responsibilities:

• Determine if a Children’s Hospital of the proposed size and nature is feasible from the location, catchment and security standpoint.
• Recommend the feasible size, functions and location for proposed Children’s Hospital if different from the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (GoKPK) proposal.
• Determine the scope and cost of construction and operationalization of the proposed children hospital.
• Propose at least three alternative financial models and institutional mechanisms for the sustainability of the hospital.

Dr-SIR will also be involved in Design Assessment, surveying the Need Assessment and undertaking Cost and Social Assessment of this project. The need assessment will comprise of a number of surveys that will determine the location and accessibility of the hospital by defining the catchment area based on socio-demographic data, health data, market research and other factors that will impact the viability of the hospital.

Following activities will be involved:

• Social Survey
• Catchment Survey
• Socio Economic Survey

• Accessibility Survey
• Area Route Maps
• Transportation Analysis

• Cost Assessment
• Construction Cost
• Start-up Cost
• Operation and Maintenance Cost

• Social Assessment

About Winrock International (WI):

Winrock International (WI) is a nonprofit organization that works with people in the United States and around the world to empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity, and sustain natural resources. WI is prime recipient of CRISP, and is responsible for the overall management supervision of the Feasibility Assessment for the Children’s Hospital. WI will provide administrative, logistical and financial management support to the project team. In addition to these support functions, WI will be responsible for hiring and monitoring of consultants and sub-contractors for carrying out the activities included in the Activity Plan. WI will also play a coordinating role between the consultants, WI staff, CDM staff, sub-contractor, government stakeholders and USAID.

About Community Rehabilitation Infrastructure Support Program (CRISP):

CRISP is a program being carried out under supervision of WI. It supports a variety of medium and small scale development initiatives including the reconstruction and renovation of schools, health clinics, vocational education schools, youth and recreational centers, small-scale water and sanitation systems, and small-scale infrastructure in the agricultural sector in Pakistan.

CRISP sub-recipients include CDM International and Anjum Asim Shahid Rahman Chartered Accountants (AASR). These sub-recipients have been specifically selected for particular tasks.

A simple design originally drove the passion of the two co-founders; to create a brand designed for gentlemen with similar tastes and standards. Their goal was to create a company that would transform the ordinary grooming routine into a rewarding experience that a gentleman could look forward to.

The HOMMAGE E-commerce site concept aims to integrate similar framework and aesthetics from the HOMMAGE website. This allows simple and efficient interaction between the interface and consumer for a streamline purchasing experience. The site contains precise product information, fluid and user friendly for customers.

Client has a business of cosmetics and they were looking to deploy out‐of‐the‐box ecommerce solution to complement their brand website. Client wants the portion of the e‐commerce website to be separate from their main “brand” site where users will arrive only through links presented on their brand site.

ESOLPK has designed and developed complete website for HOMMAGE successfully in Magento. For further details about the project, please visit the website

ESOLPK is recently working upon the phase II for this website, which includes promotion feature, wholesale site, shipping costs, product management features, subscription service and Magento upgrade. Our SEO SEM department has also laid out a full fledged plan of six months to optimize and promote the website on various search engines and social networking portals.

New Home Star is a national sales and marketing company in USA. They provide home builders and developers with comprehensive sales and marketing services.

They required to engage someone in an ongoing relationship to mange their sites, update content, add pages periodically etc. For this purpose, they approached ESOLPK. They engaged our resources to work upon Three Sisters Mountain Village website. The website has flash content, dynamic forms and Google Maps functionality. For more details, visit http://threesisterscanmore.com/

Black Card Marketing Group is a full service marketing, special events and promotions company in Canada that builds brand experiences for consumers through lifestyle, entertainment, fashion and nightlife programs.

They have selected ESOLPKOnline (SEO Division of ESOLPK) for SEO/SEM services. This project includes web page audits, Meta tags, CSS, back linking, article distribution, video distribution, social networking, and social book marking.

ESOLPK is also providing various web and IT services to this group. We are developing a module for PHP Amazing Mail Postcard in WordPress and MySQL.

Islamabad, Pakistan, April 13, 2010: The United States Employees Association is a prestigious Club that caters the foreigners/diplomatic community in the federal capital and in all major cities of Pakistan.

USEA was currently facing serious problems in managing financials, Assets management, human resource management, Supply Chain management and Member Information management. The USEA administration was not getting optimized and clear picture for works detail in progress, budgeted expenditures, contracted expenditure, scheduled date of expenditure and the committed financial amount report that may help USEA administration and top management in efficient decision. For this purpose, they approached various solution providers of SAP, Oracle Financial and Microsoft Great Plains in Pakistan. After undergoing an extremely competitive selection process, ESOLPK GROUP has been selected to do this automation project on the Microsoft Great Plains platform and technology. ESOLPK has been awarded this contract for IT solutions and services for American Club on the basis of its past excellent track record and history of 10 years.

The solution that we have proposed here can manage USEA routine tasks smoothly. In addition, our proposed system can generate extensive reporting that may roll fast USEA administration and top management decisions in an efficient and realistic way.

The solution by ESOLPK includes supply/ implementation of Financials, HR & Payroll and Retail Management System of at 7 locations in Pakistan. This will facilitate USEA administration in efficient handling of Member Information Management System, Financials, Asset management, Supply Management System, Human Resources and Payroll. The Microsoft Dynamics solution embedded with extensive and efficient reporting system will deliver reports to USEA top management regarding Asset management, Cash Management, Supply Chain, Human Resources and Payroll. We congratulate all the ESOLPKIANS who were involved in the success of achieving this important domestic contract. We look forward to provide USEA with services beyond excellence for the automation of its processes.

ESOLPK today announced that it has received ISO 9001:2008 certification renewal successfully, affirming its adherence to the internationally recognized standards of quality management. The certification process for ISO 9001:2008 involved review on projects and key processes in ESOLPK that were audited on March 26th, 2010.

ISO 9001 certification is an important measure of management and operational controls, as it evaluates organizations according to the same rigorous standards employed by the most highly respected manufacturing companies in the world. ESOLPK earned its first company-wide ISO 9001 certification in 2004, and has successfully renewed them on schedule every years since.

The ISO 9001 standard was revised in 2008 to incorporate improvements gained from experience, to focus on organizational compliance and to align the certification with the approach of other ISO specifications, such as ISO 14001. ESOLPK was audited and certified to the new requirements. Some of the requirements in ISO 9001:2008 include:

- a set of procedures that cover all key processes in the business;
- monitoring processes to ensure they are effective;
- keeping adequate records;
- checking output for defects, with appropriate and corrective action where necessary;
- regularly reviewing individual processes and the quality system itself for effectiveness; and
- facilitating continual improvement

Certification was granted by auditors from the Moody international certification agency. We thank all the people who were involved in the success of this process. Congratulations to all members of ESOLPK family to have achieved the latest ISO certification.

The Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001 in North America and is the predecessor to the Xbox 360. It was first foray of Microsoft into the gaming console market, and competed with Sonys PlayStation 2, Segas Dreamcast, and the Nintendo GameCube.

Xbox Live is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service currently the only online gaming service (on consoles) that charges users a fee to play multiplayer gaming. It was first made available to the Xbox system in 2002.

ESOLPK was awarded a contract to design a system that could connect the Xbox Live with a laptop. This design will include a serial port cable that would be connected between Xbox Live and Laptop using a microcontroller. The end result would be the control of Xbox through the Laptop keyboard. In this design, Xbox Live will have a standardized display for scores (in all games) as we will be screen scraping and parsing images. ESOLPK technology experts will use Image processing technologies and will calibrate our algorithm with full accuracy in designing this system.

SPO is a national civil society organization. Their mission is to strengthen and support community organizations and public interest institutions of Pakistan for the benefit of poor and disadvantaged sections of society for sustainable development through a participatory approach. SPO’s area of activities is spread across Pakistan covering four provinces and more than 60 districts. More details about them can be found at: http://www.spopk.org/

Our monitoring and evaluation solution enables SPO to control and monitor their different projects across all the regions. Having tools to monitor all the activities, Budged allocation and risk analysis, and various useful reports and lot more, SPO is able to be more efficient in current projects and future forecasting.

Sheikh Zayed Hospital was established in 1928 as a Civil Hospital in the Municipal Committee building, Lahore. ESOLPK is privileged to provide a complete solution for the Efficiency Measurement of different departments of Sheikh Zayed. Our product, Dr-SIR, is an ideal tool for healthcare administrators as it provides them with revealing analysis of a health unit performance and efficiency, thus enabling effective decision making and smoother healthcare management. Currently this product will be fully utilized at the surgery department of Sheikh Zayed Hospital.

In the future, we plan to automate the whole hospital, so that the administration can easily monitor the efficiency of their employees and the departments of this hospital, and ensure quality services to all the patients.

ESOLPK is proud to announce the acquisition of another project - Web based Inventory System - for one of our esteemed Client, Systematic Ltd. in Afghanistan.

We have provided a complete inventory management solution in which data entry operators populated inventory details and update the stocks. Now any person on the web after authentication can view the status of stock too. This is web based application and developed using PHP/MySQL. This application keeps track of all the inventory and sale and hundreds of customized reports.

United Nations Development Program is an important partner of the Government of Pakistan for achieving national development goals and international commitments. UNDP has a presence and an unrivalled track-record in supporting national development efforts in more than 160 countries. The UN in Pakistan combines all UN agencies' strengths to increase efficiency and support to Government, donors and implementing partners for effective and cohesive contribution towards humanitarian assistance and human development.

ESOLPK has been selected to develop a huge portal for UNDP using Microsoft’s SharePoint technology. Our developed portal will facilitate UN administration in managing the customization of default MOSS template for Master site and child sites, Weather Forecasts, Security Alerts, useful links, Minutes and Circulars, Monthly Polls, Greetings Alerts, Discussion board, etc. This system embedded with an extensive reporting system will deliver reports to UN’s top management.

Through this portal, users can access different applications through a single platform. This portal provides an integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the UNDP organization. There is a separate portal for each department and an administrator can manage contents, documents, discussion board and image/video gallery for this department, and can also share different resources for other departments.

ESOLPK takes pride in achieving a project of website development with membership capabilities. Some of the important features of the website include search functionality, Registration, testing, Dating Coach Certification, Video Streaming and Conferencing.

About DatingCoach.net: Dating Coach.Net helps people find success in the difficult world of meeting and dating. DatingCoach.Net provide have dating coaches and image consultants to provide people with the best advice available on meeting, dating and style. All of their Coaches are certified by DatingCoach.Org and have been trained in human psychology, dating behavior and coaching.  For more information, visit www.DatingCoach.net

MDL Technology, LLC is a Kansas City-based company that creates computer networking solutions to help make running a business easier. They partner with companies to design, build and install network systems to fit their needs. Once up and running, they train other companies' associates and keep the network running smoothly to help meet the needs of the company.

ESOLPK provided a full time dedicated resource to MDL Technologies who is responsible for Client CRM needs. Developer is fixing issues with CRM systems and adding features for client websites. We are also providing following services to client on ongoing basis:

• CRM Implementation
• Customization
• SharePoint
• Process Implementation of CRM