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

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.