Pune to develop supersonic jets for US Defence

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If glitches in the Dell Computer get rectified from Bangalore and bookings on American Airlines are facilitated by call centres in Gurgaon, Pune will help in development of the Generation-Next supersonic fighter aircraft F-35 of the US Defence Department. For, sitting thousands of miles away from the Lockheed Martin plant in the US, city-based eQ Technologic engineers are monitoring its progress by collating data and analysing it on the web using the software eQube.

Trend charts and dashboards generated through eQube helped the Lockheed team working on F-35, says eQ Technologic CEO Dinesh Khaladkar. The software collated and leveraged information from an array of enterprise applications such as ERP, CRM and PLM used by organisations worldwide.

‘‘EQube gives managers ready information across applications on the web in real-time,’’ said Khaladkar, a mechanical engineer from College of Engineering, Pune’s 1985 batch.

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Set up in 2000, eQ Technologic tied up with global aerospace major Lockheed Martin for development of F-35s by using eQube. EQube was made after September 11 when US companies lost huge volumes of data across applications.

The software has many advantages — it is compliant with open standard, does not need data warehousing, is embedded and scalable to higher levels according to requirements of the end-user. The best part is, ‘‘It can be installed in a few weeks after our engineers study the data availability and analysis required,’’ said Khaladkar.

So eQube can help managers in sales, finance or even aerospace where huge data is involved. For example, the digital consumer electronics division of Samsung uses eQube for real-time analysis of sales figures on the web.

What’s more, eQ Technologic plans to pump in Rs 5 crore on refining eQube in the next two years. The company has contracts with Samsung, Motorola besides talking shop with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

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