Elansoft eyes the Indian market for its SVG tool

HYDERABAD: Elansoft Infotech Ltd. is eyeing the Indian market for its

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) based chart and graphs tool — AgileBlox Chart.

The company is engaged in talks with Indian companies like iflex, Polaris, TCS

and Satyam for having OEM partnerships with them.






"Our product is ideal for generation of intensive analysis and reports and
that’s where we are hoping to develop synergy with all the major IT companies

in India. We are talking to iflex to integrate our product with Flexicube’s

business objects and MIS system and the deal is yet to be finalized soon.

Similarly we are engaged in talks with Satyam and TCS also," said Elansoft

CEO, K Pravin Raju.






The need for SVG arises as the bitmapped graphics rendered on the Web suffer
from resolution differences across devices. "The range in resolution just

across computer monitors is very significant. The problem of using bitmapped

images is even worse when we consider other output devices like printers. It is

the need for resizable graphics that is the motivation behind SVG", he

added.






SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML. Graphical
objects can be grouped, styled, transformed and composited into previously

rendered objects. Text can be in any XML namespace suitable to the application,

which enhances searchability and accessibility of the SVG graphics. The feature

set includes nested transformations, clipping paths, alpha masks, filter

effects, template objects and extensibility.






AgileBlox Chart provides a set of Java classes to generate custom financial
charts by taking run time data from business applications. It supplies various

charts (building blocks) for web content and these building blocks have the

ability to create a web of presentational components dynamically in terms of

data and presentational requirements.



These charts follow AgileBlox methodology to generate custom charts, which allow
developers to integrate a chart with another chart, a chart with a table, a pop

up charts, drilldown capabilities with very little integration code. These

charts create SVG output, which is next generation XML based graphics technology

that is lightweight, platform independent and provides graphics.






"Each AgileBlox component provides an interface, which is consistent across
all the other components. This interface allows web developers to provide the

component with appropriate runtime data and attributes. The product is designed

to cut development and maintenance costs while providing excellent presentation

capabilities," he explained.



The same charts can be used for wireless devices too. The company is developing
the wireless version of the product, which would be ready within two month’s

time. "Once the wireless version is ready we will be targeting the PDAs and

the pocket PC for our product. The product will facilitate all the charting

features on the PDAs. While other charts and graphs take more than 20K of

memory, the largest chart with our product occupies only about 5K of memory

space so it will be easier to manipulate as well," he added.






The company has priced the product at $1,350 for the developer community and is
looking out at the royalty option as a source of revenue from the big companies.

"In India we have already identified more than 40 companies having various

kinds of chart and graph requirements and we are going to approach them through

direct marketing," he explained.






Released in the month of January 2002, the product has more than 10 customers
worldwide. The company has a network of six channel partners in Europe and US

for the product and is looking forward to doubling this number within two

months. "We rely on our channel partners as far as the European and US

market is concerned but in India we are going in for the direct marketing of the

product, this is because the market dynamics demand such a move as of now,"

Raju added.






Elansoft was incorporated in the year 1999 with an investment of Rs 3.5 crore
and has an employee strength of 20 software professionals as of now. As the

company entrenches itself in the Indian space, it is expecting to add another 20

people by the end of this year.