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Blaise Information Systems (Blaise) has acquired over the last ten years of operation significant strength in large data handling.
Of specific importance are the following:
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Capability
to handle large volumes of textual data of unstructured nature and convert them
into structured data and in the process eliminating duplicate data.
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Conversion
of data across multiple formats.
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Significant
expertise in Oracle Database and Oracle/Developer tool.
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We have
executed many projects using Free-To-Use software basket of Linux, Apache,
MySql, PHP, Postgres, Perl etc.
In
all the places where we have executed projects, we are known for our commitment
to the job on hand as well as exemplary support. Our core strength
is in understanding the business needs and customer expectation of any
software/ITES project and a clear focus in implementing technology to fulfil
user expectations.
We have given below
some specific projects undertaken by blaise, to illustrate our capability.
1. Data Handling:
(a)
CLJ Legal Network Sdn Bhd, Kualalumpur
CLJ Legal Network (www.cljlaw.com)
is a legal database service provider in Malaysia. As part of ramp up of the
database they had over 10,000 case law files in RTF format and another 20,000+
files in Adobe PageMaker format. These files had differing formats and
styles which changed over a period of time as well as general arrangement of
the document.
We undertook the
challenging task of converting all these files into a structured format (SOIF)
similar to XML within a demanding schedule of six weeks.
A thorough analysis of
many samples and by using a fuzzy logic based on Style, Form and Content, we
accomplished the task in stipulated time. The solution was not a one shot
approach. Our approach was to go in for incremental improvements right
from the first week onwards, and on the way adding significant fuzzy rules to
the program, which in the end resulted in us converting successfully all the
30,000+ files. Out of these less than 30 files could not be processed entirely
by our rule set, which required manual editing to the file to process them as
well.
Simultaneously, we
developed the application for CLJLN for Search and retrieval of the Case Law
and Legislation Database, providing Full Text as well as Fielded Text
search. Today CLJ Legal Network is among the few successful sites
providing Legal Database services in South East Asia.
For further details on the data conversion process for CLJLN, click here:
(b)
Dun & Bradstreet, Singapore
D&B Singapore was
looking after bringing into its fold the Philippines country Data. The
data kept at Philippines was in MS Word Format and they had over 15,000
files. We had problems of varying styles, form and data
presentation. The time limit to convert these files into a Database was
less than two weeks. In this process we also need to remove duplicates,
where the names could be mis-spelt or transposition of first name and last name
etc.
Using our experience to
build rapidly on an iterative basis we accomplished the task well in time and
was appreciated by D&B for our excellent efforts.
For further details on the data conversion process for D&B, click here:
(c)
National Credit Systems, Atlanta, USA
NCS is a Collection
Agency based at Atlanta, to whom we provide regular data services. As a
value addition to our data services we regularly provide with them potential
duplicate entries using fuzzy checks, checking the current data with historical
data. We also identify possible errors in telephone numbers in the hand
written scanned documents based on specific rules. We have
allocated dedicated resources for NCS to ensure that data volumes upto a
particular level received on a given day will be completed by next working day.
We have been providing
the off-site data entry services to NCS from August 2001 onwards.
For further details on the data entry for NCS, click here:
(d)
Others
Some of the other
customers to whom we are providing data services currently are Northbang
Corporation Sdn. Bhd. and to Mr. Tushar P Shah on behalf of ASHA, an NGO based
in USA.
2. Large Data
handling
(e) Cable &
Wireless Global, USA
Internet Traffic Data
Capturing and Reporting
C&W has carrier
class IP Network spread across the world with main concentration in North
America and Western Europe.
We had developed an application for Traffic and other performance Metrics data collection using redundant, optimized, distributed collectors spread across Network. These collectors send the collected data to a central Oracle8i database server every fifteen minutes. The data collected everyday is in many Giga Bytes.
The principal challenge
is to compress the data to the extent possible, and aggregate the data which is
100s of GB everyday, within an acceptable time limit.
We achieved a time of less than five minutes for loading fifteen minutes of incoming data and about fifty minutes for end of day aggregation of data.
By looking at the
abnormal dips closely, we implemented 64bit counters for data collection and
eliminated data glitches causing abnormality.
One month rawdata is
kept in the database. Summary tables at every levels are built each day for
data mining.
Internet Performance
and Loss Measurement
We also developed a system to measure roundtrip time and packet loss SLA for C&W. ICMP packets are sent from each C&W node to every other C&W node. This node to node ICMP packets are sent every six seconds and the results are collected real-time to a Central Oracle8i database server for presentation on the net (http://sla.cw.net). This application has facilities for updating in two redundant databases (in two different machines) and facilities for switching the database used for Web presentation from one to another under five minutes.
3. Web based projects
EdMaster is an Educational web site (www.edmaster.com), which was operating in Malaysia providing Testing and Evaluation Services on the Web. We did the total turnkey project including data preparation for EdMaster
4. E-Publishing
(a)
Current Law Journal, Malaysia
We have prepared over
10 years of previous years journals from 1981-1990 at our off-site location at
Chennai. The source was the hard copy of the journals, which needed
to be re-entered, proofed and formatted using their current style sheet.
Simultaneously an XML like soft-copy was also prepared to enable publishing on
the Internet.
After preparation of
the basic journal, to enable printing and binding requirement, we developed a
software which prepares the pages in the order required (signature) by the
printer/publisher.
(b)
EdMaster Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
As part of our project,
we provided complete data preparation services for EdMaster Sdn Bhd,
Malaysia. This task includes co-ordination with content preparation team
and data entry, scanning, verification and finally preparing the data ready for
publishing on the Net.
5. Other projects
We have
developed and implemented a complete ERP package using Oracle Database and
Oracle/Developer tools for Metrod (Malaysia) Berhad, a Copper Wire, Rod and
Strips manufacturing company, which includes module for Metal
Trading. We continue to provide off-site maintenance, off-site
support and need based on-site services to Metrod.
We also
computerized the operations of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
(ICAI), many years back. Our work at ICAI is notable because of the
introduction of Computerised Information Systems in the Institute for the first
time, amidst high resistance to change.
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