At the beginning of 2007, Pentalog Technology, the offshore R&D subsidiray based in Brasov, took on the quality control and assurance activities for Parrot’s Bluetooth® solutions.
Pentalog Technology performs industrialized tests on cellar equipment, automotive and audio systems (Bluetooth® stereo portable soundbox, Bluetooth® driver headsets, Bluetooth® wireless photoframes, CD/MP3/ Bluetooth® car receiver).
This assignment started with a team of 3 persons 10 months ago. The team now includes 18 persons who are in charge of the following tasks:

• mass testing of prototypes before product launch on the market. The results of these tests are kept in complex Excel data sheets.
• random testing to check the products’ reliability and behaviour in extreme situations.
• compatibility testing between Parrot products and the latest mobile devices released on the market. The results of these tests are kept in a database which is available on Parrot’s website to inform consumers about the compatibility characteristics of Parrot’s products with diverse latest generation mobile telephony products.

The Haulotte group has delegated to Pentalog the supervision of its industrial unit's information system based in Romania. The goal of this unit is to increase the company's production capacities.
Pentalog is in charge of the following tasks:

• resolution of any user request of intervention (resources access, technical dysfunction).
• resources supervision (workstations, servers, printers, network equipment).
• controls of automatic tasks.
• daily, weekly, monthly reporting.
• proposals for architecture evolution and optimization.

Colas Rail entrusted Pentalog with the supervision, administration and support of the IT infrastructure of its two Romanian sites, Bucharest and Arad.
The IT management services Pentalog took on are split up in several levels:

• purchase of IT equipment and material updating.
• setting up of the IT management system: writing procedures and SLAs, preparation of the supervision platform, installation of the computing equipment management system, implementation of the project management and internal communication tools (Epole, Wiki, Mail Projet, FTP, etc).
• incident management, further to phone calls or requests through the incident monitoring tool.
• follow-up of the logs via the supervision system in order to detect and qualify incidents in the management system.
• system administration, through the analysis and solving of unknown incidents, and writing of simple procedures resulting from these incidents.

Pentalog is in charge of adding new functionalities to DmailerSync, a software allowing users to easily and securely access, synchronize, backup and edit data (i.e. Word documents, Outlook files, tasks, contacts, pictures, audio files, etc.) from any computer to any removable storage peripheral (USB flash drive, flash card, hard disk drive, mp3 player, SIM card, iPod etc...):

• development of a middleware to allow connection to an Exchange Server by the WebDav protocol.
• evolution of the synchronization tool to make it Windows Vista compatible.
• development of a functionality dedicated to mobile phones (PC and Outlook environment backup on a SIM card).
• development of a file directory and FTP synchronization functionality.

Since July 2005 Pentalog is in charge of the supervision of the resources of Leroy Somer's information and production system.

Pentalog's team grew from 3 engineers to 5 in 2006 and is now in charge of the following tasks:

• Resource monitoring (disk space consumption, power, memory, …)
• Recurrent task execution (data backup check, execution of non-automatable batches, …)
• Automatic task control Daily, weekly, monthly reporting
• Proposals about and architecture optimization and evolution

Coronis Systems, part of the Elster International Group, is an innovative and fast-growing company that provides package solutions specialized in low power radio network architecture
Pentalog was in charge of the evolution of a software package dedicated to the management of wireless telecommunication products.
This package is composed of several module: some of them are available in a web mode, and some in a client/server mode on a mobile data terminal.
Inquiries are forwarded through GSM phones (SMS) and/or through radio waves.
Pentalog’s team took on the applicative maintenance and the functional and technical evolution of the whole software package.

This project consisted in setting up a tracking system for all the input components of RAID storage bays in order to meet the ecological regulation and also to be able to check up the products’ quality (cards, electronic, cables, components consumables).

This software had to be integrated in the production process without making it tedious. So each PC was equipped with a wireless barcode scanner or PDA with bar code scanner in order to scan all the identified components as soon as they are in the warehouse. The PC and PDA software use a thin client (JSP) and a Wi-Fi network ensures communication with the server.

Pentalog’s team carried out the analysis and the development phases for this software, chose the PDA and also did the complementary developments required in order to meet the user’s needs and improve their productivity.

Marvic is improving relationship with its clients. In this purpose, it integrates an intranet/extranet tool managing orders between the French clients and Romanian production factories.

Its team integrates clients' data (pending orders, pending invoices, incidents) in an intranet site, which can be consulted by clients via Extranet.

In order to complement Assetmaps.com, Lowendal Group offers its customers an embedded application for inventory control: Assetmaps Pocket.
The application is connected to the database on Assetmaps.com and installed on a Symbol PPT 8800 barcode scanner.

It allows to run inventories in a remote location and to match them with the online asset management application data. The PPT 8800 Symbol enables instant reading and the transmission is automatically through a link completed WiFi, allowing the inventory counters to be mobile.

This innovative solution has not yet been equaled by any competitors of Lowendal Group.

Within the scope of the expansion of its asset management product range, Lowendal Group offers its customers an online asset management tool: Assetmaps.com, in ASP mode.

This revolutionary position determination tool is based on the most innovative aspects of barcode management (2D). The whole expertise of Lowendal Group was integrated into this unique platform.

Assetmaps also provides reporting functionalities - automatically adjusting parameters - that set up proposals according to the typology of the managed assets.

Dionex is currently working on a new software version of their chromatography management system called Chromeleon.
For this new version, Dionex has entrusted Pentalog with two important modules to develop: the Backup and Restore module and the Comparison module.

The team is in charge of the following tasks:
- Propose a design architecture for the backup / restore module
- Implement the functionalities according to client reviews and needs
- Optimize the process of comparing large XML files
- Optimize the process for low memory consumption and speed of execution
- Create and implement unit tests for the business objects
- Weekly conferences, weekly and monthly reports.

Cityvox is the leader of online city guides in France with www.cityvox.fr (5 million visitors per month) and www.webcity.fr.

The Cityvox websites network is available for various European cities and its goal is to make the Internet useful to everybody's day-to-day life.

Restaurants, cinemas, ticket offices for various shows, free online ads, the cityvox websites make life easier for millions of townsmen.

With this websites Cityvox contributes to the cultural development and allows people to share their passion.

Cityvox entrusted to Pentalog the creation and maintenance of various cultural websites:
- development of the CityVox sites (cityvox.fr, concerts.fr, spectacles.fr, cinefil.com, cityvox-tv.fr, webcity.fr, etc.)
- development and maintenance of projects for mobile telecommunication (NFC Bordeaux, Webcity Mobiles)
- development of modules for on-line sales
- maintenance of Back Office and spaces dedicated to the CityVox clients.

Based on the same principles as the stock exchange market, this site provides the quotation of the best world wide wines.

The web site integrates dedicated consulting pages for tasting or buying wines. You can create your own account, set up a virtual wine cellar and follow up its quotation.

This software solution for managing and creating portal sites allows to deploy faster and easier intranet / extranet / internet sites (www.inet.fr).

This application allows a cross management of profiles and contents as well for enterprises as for institutions.

It integrates customized interfaces, communication tools (e-mail, chat, forum), tools managing time and resources, documentary management tools, customized information distribution tools. It also integrates indicators following up the production's management of the enterprise.

Beyond the application development, our teams integrated it for many clients.

This project is about the realization of a CRM portal and decisional applicative satellites.
Applications are distributed according to the users' profiles. Cerib chose for this project The Port solution, which had been developed by Pentalog Group's software business unit, iNet (www.inet.fr).

Besides the development and integration opportunities offered by The Port (creation and management of portals), Cerib was impressed by the immediate compatibility of the product with its existing software park (Windows NT, IIS, Oracle).

With The Port, Cerib anticipates on its future needs, reduced its development costs and rationalizes the access to html resources, already existing. The project was delivered at the beginning of first quarter 2001.