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Software is an automation tool for the industry. It is a means of compressing work, is deployed to eliminate several stages in production and to consolidate several skills. But generating code for the software is in itself an arduous process which involves time and talent. A Bangalore based innovator, M. P. Ahmed Hasan has come up with a product ‘mPire’ that may provide the easy route to developing short software. Its forte lies in bringing automation in generating software. The innovative product reduces the time and cost in coding part of the software development by 80 and 40 per cent respectively and thereby enables preparation of high-end applications, say, in a jiffy. Moreover, the generated code is completely custo-mizable, free from errors and compatible with all operating systems and browsers and can be accessed through PDA or mobiles.

It could be a major breakthrough in the software industry. The product ‘mPire’ is an outcome of research by a relatively new firm in Bangalore, TransIT mPower Labs, and could cut down the time involved in web-based applications to just about one-tenth of what it normally requires.
Hasan’s ‘mPire’ was adjudged a winner in the recently concluded FICCI – Lockheed Martin [USA] India Innovation Growth Competition 2008 in Delhi which saw more than 300 presentations from around the world in fields like aeronautics, automotive, information technology etc. Says Hasan, “it’s a software product based on JAVA technology and addresses the current challenges of the IT industry which is facing a shortage of skilled programmers.”

Today clients look for real fast delivery of software. The IT industry is facing a crunch of skilled personnel. Nasscom President Kiran Karnik has cautioned that the IT industry could face a talent deficit of nearly 500,000 persons by 2010. All these may sound bizarre to anyone who may be thinking that the IT boom has had its heydays. But IT czars only expect the industry to grow in India and the world over. In an atmosphere like this, a tool for automatic code writing for software which could bring down cost by 40 per cent could be a real boon. TransIT mPower’s new product has therefore a vast scope for acceptance. For instance, with the help of ‘mPire’, one input file of 20 lines to the software generates 8000 lines of code in just three seconds which is rated highly in the industry. Says Rama Krishna Prasad, Director of the TransIT, in software industry, time being money, the new product ‘mPire’ will, beside cutting down manpower by 80 per cent, will bring speed to the delivery schedules by reducing the testing time.

The innovation is the brainchild of M. P. Ahmed Hasan, an MS from BITS, Pilani who was the founder of the TransIT mPower Labs in 2005 as a product based company focused on innovation. Formerly with General Electric, Hasan has been the founder of groups like Soft Breaks, Soft Blr and inikah.com. During the last three years, the company has developed over a dozen high-end portals for companies like ABB, Qatar Airways and Travelocity. It has partnered with Ionidea and Next Level Enterprise, USA, and Sun Microsystems. No wonder then why ‘mPire’ has won laudatory reviews from the bigwigs in the software industry. Sun Microsystem has applauded the ‘mPire’ as ‘an innovative tool which does a good job of automating the generation of JSR-168 portlets’. MindTree Consulting has lauded the innovation in the following words: “From the first feel, it looks great. I would expect the SaaS (software as a service) Module.” Caravel Info Systems says, “It is an excellent tool for building the basic framework for the enterprise level projects quickly, thereby reducing the development time.”

With the innovation in hand and patenting process on, TransIT mPower Labs eyes huge opportunities in the market. Says Director, Marketing Akbar Ali, the company is looking for just 0.2 per cent of business in portal server licensing and 0.04 per cent of the market in portal development in the first year. Currently the two sectors offer $ 1 billion and $ 5 billion business respectively which is shared among biggies like IBM, BEA, Vignettes and other major IT companies.
The new product has a social relevance too. Customers like NGOs who cannot afford expensive software programmes can benefit from the product and auto-generate their own software and portals at a minimal cost. Ali says the company has been employing and training professionals from two and three-tier cities like Hubli, Tirupur and Ananthapur.

For more details contact: Akbar Ali. TransIT mPower Labs Pvt. Ltd., #42, Nandidurg Road, Bangalore-46 India. Ph: 91-80-41289572, Cell: +91-9880800488