Xtensive presentation (En)

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12 Nagornaya St., 303620028 Ekaterinburg, Russia

Phone & fax: +7 343 263 71 74E-mail: [email protected], http://www.x-tensive.com

20032009 Xtensive LLC
mailto:[email protected]://www.x-tensive.com/http://www.x-tensive.com/mailto:[email protected]


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Company

Xtensive is software development company focused on development forMicrosoft .NET platform. We develop components and products for .NETdevelopers as well as custom software solutions for small and mediumsized enterprises.

From the very outset in 2003 our company was demonstrating stablegrowth weve passed the way from the group of 3 enthusiasts tomedium sized company one of the most well-known in Ekaterinburg.

Today our team consists of more than 20 professional developers.

Growing success of DataObjects.Net, as wellas high professional skills of our developers

lead to establishment of custom software

solutions development department at our

company. Service-based part of our business

is growing in parallel with product

development during last years.

Companys evolution begins from the idea tocreate the product with revolutionary features

based on .NET Framework and to lead it out to

worldwide market. Now its visible it was

successful. Foregoing product has been

named DataObjects.Net and now it is adopted

in more than 50 countries worldwide.
http://www.x-tensive.com/


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Products

Combines comprehensive business logic layer (BLL) developmentframework, object-relational mapper (ORM) and a set of storageimplementations enabling the same BLL code work everywhere dramatically reducing the resources needed to develop generally anyapplication dealing with persistent data.

Web application development platform allowing to build rich internetapplications (RIA) using DataObjects.Net faster by providing a setof commonly used components (AJAX UI controls, JS DOM, search,navigation, etc.) and patterns (MVP, DI\IoC, etc.). For now we use it onlyinternally.

Web (ASP.NET) application allowing to browse the content of .Chm and.HxS help files via internet. Powers up help.x-tensive.com.
http://help.x-tensive.com/http://www.x-tensive.com/http://help.x-tensive.com/


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Products Overview

DataObjects.Net is our key product. It was initiallydesigned to considerably reduce the efforts needed

to develop a database application by handling all

persistence related tasks transparently for developer.

Now this framework allows to almost forget that the

underlying database exists it handles even database

schema updates.

DataObjects.Net seems to be quite related to OR\M

solutions at first glance, but its directivity in hiding

the underlying relational storage, support for writing

secure business code within persistent entities andservices and wide set of commonly used extensions,

such as full text indexing and search, makes it

possible to relate DataObjects.Net to object-oriented

databases as well it really makes you feel there is

nothing behind your .Net entity classes at all.

Moreover, its forth version brings this approach

to much higher level in addition to support

of several existing RDBMS platforms it contains first

implementation of our own storage: full-featured

integrated in-memory database (IMDB). File system

storage implementation (a regular RDBMS!) is

upcoming in several months.

LiveObjects.Net acts as integration and commonservice layer for web applications providing a set of

unified components and services for them, such as

default AJAX-enabled management interface and

a set of common actions (e.g. copy \ paste).

Management interface design is quite familiar to almost

any Windows user they used to have some

experience working with built-in Windows Explorer and

Management Console.

Among essential features LiveObjects.Net provides are

advanced user access control management(authentication, users, roles, permissions, per-object

access control lists) and ubiquitous advanced search

features (search by attributes \ full text phrase, Search

Folders, etc.).

LiveObjects.Net is used only internally now. Some of its

deployments include a set of document and asset

management applications we developed for USTU.

Help Serverhelps to publish .Chm \ HxSdocumentation on the web with just few clicks it is

exposed on web site in the very same fashion as at

Microsoft MSDN library, so user can search and

navigate through it with ease. Help Server user

interface is quite similar to built-in Windows Help

Viewer (or MSDN Library Viewer), which is familiar to

almost any Windows user.
http://wiki.dataobjects.net/http://www.ustu.ru/http://www.ustu.ru/http://www.x-tensive.com/Products/HS/http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspxhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspxhttp://www.x-tensive.com/http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspxhttp://www.x-tensive.com/Products/HS/http://www.ustu.ru/http://wiki.dataobjects.net/


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Partner Software SolutionsBuilt with our significant involvement

MESware MEScontrol.net is extremely configurable ManufacturingExecution System (MES) that adheres to the principles of leanmanufacturing in order to manage the production workflow on the plantfloor. It completely automates manufacturing processes by solving suchtasks as production planning, scheduling, execution, efficiencyoptimization and much more.

Izenda Reportslets ordinary business users create and customizereports without needing the help from technical experts.
http://www.mesware.be/http://www.izenda.com/http://www.x-tensive.com/http://www.izenda.com/http://www.mesware.be/


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MEScontrol.net Overview

What is MES?MES is Manufacturing Execution

System. Manufacturing company can use

it to measure and control its production

activities. Benefits of MES solutions are

increased traceability, productivity, and

quality.

MEScontrol.net serves as MES and is

being developed by MESware nv

a Belgian company specialized in MES.

We took a significant part in development

of this project: MEScontrol uses our

DataObject.Net as ORM technology;

moreover, a part of MEScontrol is

designed and implemented by our team.

Weve implemented a significant part of

its business and data tiers, and partially

its user interface.

Our partnership on this project is

continuing during last 3 years. Thefeedback from both sides is very positive.

MEScontol is

implemented on several plantsnow.

MEScontrol.net features: Complete formalization (definition) of manufacturing

process. All you need to know produce any manufactured

product: ingredients, packing materials, processes, equipment

settings, etc. is known by MEScontrol;

Real-time management feedback management gets

a clear view of the results and Key Performance Indicators

(KPIs) thanks to auto-generated graphs and reports;

Production process planning MEScontrol have built-in

scheduler, so loading of manufacture equipment can be planedin automatic and manual mode;

Automatic planning of orders received from external systems

(from companys ERP system for example);

Equipment control any equipment that could be controlled

by PC or PPC can be easily connected to MEScontrol. Most

frequently used equipment (label printers, RFID scanners) are

provided with built-in support.

Track and trace MEScontrol gathers actual production data

and allows to browse it with ease. Actually produced amounts

of products, equipment operation parameters, failures and

employees controlling it it knows everything.

Operator control panels display the operations scheduled

in work centers and allow to control their execution right on the

site. The operator may get the information on all the orders in

queue, e.g. bill of materials, equipment settings, work

instructions and procedures, as well as any production related

knowledge.
http://www.mesware.be/uk/solutions.htmhttp://www.mesware.be/http://www.mesware.be/uk/partners.htmhttp://www.mescontrol.ru/Clients/Default.aspxhttp://www.mescontrol.ru/Clients/Default.aspxhttp://www.x-tensive.com/http://www.mesware.be/http://www.mescontrol.ru/Clients/Default.aspxhttp://www.mesware.be/uk/partners.htmhttp://www.mesware.be/http://www.mesware.be/uk/solutions.htm


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Clients

We have more than 300 clients in 40 countries all over the world. Youcan find some testimonials on DataObjects.Net here

There are some well-known companies among our clients inparticular, Parature, Inc., NetIQ, Quantum Art

Our local customers (based in Ekaterinburg) includeUrals State Technical University and Data-Center

Our abroad clients have been visiting our trainings in Ekaterinburg.And vice versa, our developers have frequent business trips to Europeand USA.

Even some of our straight competitors use our products! For example,TechTalk GmbH has been published Genome-e with the aid of our HelpServer.
http://www.x-tensive.com/Products/DO39/Testimonials.aspxhttp://www.parature.com/http://www.netiq.com/http://www.quantumart.ru/http://www.ustu.ru/http://www.dc.ru/http://documentation.genom-e.com/Genome/Default.aspxhttp://www.x-tensive.com/http://web.techtalk.at/http://www.quantumart.ru/http://www.parature.com/http://www.netiq.com/http://web.techtalk.at/http://documentation.genom-e.com/Genome/Default.aspxhttp://www.dc.ru/http://www.ustu.ru/http://www.quantumart.ru/http://www.netiq.com/http://www.parature.com/http://www.x-tensive.com/Products/DO39/Testimonials.aspx


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Our Team

Today there are more than 20 developers in our team. Practically all of themgraduated from mathematical department ofUrals State University itprovides the most rated computer science and mathematical education inthe whole Urals.

Good background in computer science is, in fact, one of the strongestrequirements for all our employees. Almost all of them are Bachelors ofScience at least.

High level of technical English knowledge is also a must have skill for anyof us most of our clients are located outside of Russia; all the teammembers directly interacting with them have fluent spoken English.

Most of us have practical experience in wide range of technologies it isdefinitely much wider than a set of .NET and RDBMS-related ones.

As you see, were very technically oriented there are almost no non-

technical people there; our management team consists of IT professionals aswell. We think its a benefit, especially for agile development.

Were proud that during last 3 years only two developers have left our teamby their own will.

We have a good web and UI designer in our team you can see someexamples of his works here.
http://wiki.x-tensive.com/index.php?title=The_Teamhttp://www.usu.ru/http://wiki.x-tensive.com/index.php?title=About_Ushttp://www.novjo.com/http://www.x-tensive.com/http://www.novjo.com/http://wiki.x-tensive.com/index.php?title=About_Ushttp://www.usu.ru/http://wiki.x-tensive.com/index.php?title=The_Team


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Our Benefits

We use agile software development process: requirements specification isbased on user stories, unit testing is used to test everything, build serversprovide continuous integration and immediate post-commit test runs,frictionless deployment and documentation (wiki, XML comments) processes.

This approach significantly increases development speed and final reliabilityof the solution.

We not just perfectly know RDBMS: we wrote relatively well-knowncommercial object-relational mapping tool, that means we were dealing withall the RDBMS-related issues faced by our users. So were experts in thisarea.

Obviously, we can use DataObjects.Net better than anyone actually just thisfact can ensure a really quick startup.

We are capable of producing full documentation for a complex API even forvery large projects. Check out:

DataObjects.Net v3.9 API documentation (~10000 members aredocumented)

An example from preliminary DataObjects.Net v4.0 API documentation(>13000 members for now).

We provide excellent technical support there are more than 8000 messagesin our software support forum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_developmenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_storieshttp://wiki.dataobjects.net/index.php?title=Unit_testshttp://wiki.dataobjects.net/index.php?title=Build_Serverhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integrationhttp://wiki.dataobjects.net/index.php?title=Wikihttp://help.x-tensive.com/Default.aspxhttp://help.x-tensive.com/Default.aspxhttp://forum.x-tensive.com/http://www.x-tensive.com/http://forum.x-tensive.com/http://help.x-tensive.com/Default.aspxhttp://help.x-tensive.com/Default.aspxhttp://wiki.dataobjects.net/index.php?title=Wikihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integrationhttp://wiki.dataobjects.net/index.php?title=Build_Serverhttp://wiki.dataobjects.net/index.php?title=Unit_testshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_storieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development


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Thank you!

20032009 Xtensive LLC, [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]

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