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Softpro Systems Limited was incorporated on November 20 1991 under the Companies Act 1956 as Softpro Systems Private Limited and subsequently changed into a public limited Company on December 20th 1999 and a fresh certificate of incorporation consequent to the change of name was issued on December 31st 1999 by the Registrar of Companies Andhra Pradesh.Operational Record of the CompanySoftpro Systems was a dormant Company till 1994. In the year 1994 - 95 the Company set itself as an offshore development facility for the US associates M/s. Capricorn Systems Inc. Softpro Systems has established itself as a reputed organisation providing quality solutions in the form of projects as well as consultants to work on the overseas projects. It has established the systems and procedures to help in delivering the high quality solutions and services to the customers. During September 99 the organization went through a restructuringprocess necessitating the re orientation of its focus and business plans for the new millennium. This business plan is being prepared keeping in view the vision and ambition of the people behind the organization to make it into world class organization in the new millennium.ISO 9001 certificationSoftpro Systems Ltd. has achieved ISO9001 Certification [Q9001(ISO9001 : 1994) Standard] vide Certificate No. 1229 dated January 8th 1998. The certificate of registration is issued by KPMG Quality Registrar (A business unit of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP) for its quality system described under the American national standard institutes-American society for quality standards. The quality system is applicable to design development and maintenance of business application and software including client server web centric and object oriented application. The Company has also gone through successfully surveillance audit conducted by KPMG every six months since then.Quality Policy of the CompanyTo Provide quality - driven software solutions and services meeting customer''s requirements.Towards the achievement of the above SOFTPRO shall -Establish processes to continuously improve quality and productivityCreate a learning and professional environmentEmploy state-of-the-art technology tools and methodsThe business operations mainly focussed on three service areas.A. Software projects execution and development of software products and toolsB. Consultancy ServicesC. In Services TrainingThese services are intended to cover both overseas markets and domestic markets and appropriate efforts were initiated to build up the resources support systems and processes.Year wise Software Packages and Projects executed -1991-94 : No Activity1994-96* Development of a CAL package "HOW MANY" for National Institute of Mentally Handicapped at Hyderabad. * Enhancement and Maintenance of Container Tracking System on AS/400 for a US customer (ICC) at Oklahama.* Development of a package "Smart Profile" for a customer in Bangalore.* Development of REINS - a customized resource management system for CSI Atlanta.1996-97* Tax planning package prototype for Arthur Anderson TechnologySolutions (AATS) in Visual Basic.* IMW - a migration project from C to C++ for AATS.* International Compliance (IC) - development of OOM based product for AATS in VC++.* Development of a Project Information Database for ICRISAT at Hyderabad.* Raw materials and Inventory management system for LN Polyesters in Visual Basic and SQL Server.1997-98* MIS package CHARMS for CSI using Java VJ++ and SQL Server.* SCAN 2000 - a Y2K Impact Analysis package for RPG/400 and CL/400 on AS/400* Asset Management System (AMS) - a package on AS/400 for medium sized organisations.1998-99* ASBRP - IBM Mainframe to UNIX migration and Y2K remediation for a US customer. The progress* CHASRMS package development (continued)* SEPP - Development of Crop Research Database for ICRISAT in VB and SQL Server.* Maintenance and content support for GLOBALNOICE - a portal for Indian Software Engineers.* MATMAN - continued & completedThe ProgressThe progress achieved during the preceding four years in quality control efforts can be summarised in the following table :Year Human System/processes Hardware/Infrastructure Resources (as facilities of 1st April)995-96 2 Developing Quality 15 Work Stations Management System1996-97 21 Implementation of QMS * AS/400 for ISO Certifications * 16 Work stations * 4000 sq. ft. office space * Training facilities1997-98 50 * Implementation of * 30 more work station QMS * * 2000 sq. ft. additional spaces * ISO 9001 Certification1998-99 80 * Surveillance audit * Sun Solaris * Optimising the system * 12 more work stations & servers * Starting of Mumbai officeDevelopments of these infrastructural facilities and support systems have gone hand in hand in enhancing the organization''s capability to handle projects and other services.