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Marlabs Capabilities Overview @2016, Marlabs - Confidential [email protected] +1 (732) 694 100 www.marlabs.com Guidewire Services
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Marlabs Capabilities Overview

@2016, Marlabs - Confidential

[email protected] +1 (732) 694 100 www.marlabs.com

Guidewire Services

• Founded in 1996

• 2100+ employees

• Consistent year-on-year revenue growth

• 100+ blue-chip clients across multiple verticals

• IP driven global consulting and software services

• Headquarters in Piscataway, NJ – USA

• Global delivery headquarters in Bangalore, India

• CMMI Level 5 and ISO/IEC 27001: 2013 certified

Marlabs Snapshot

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Global Locations

Strategic Partnerships Awards and Recognition Verticals Serviced

Overview

35%

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Banking, Finance,Insurance

Media &Education

Transportation &Logistics

Healthcare & LifeSciences

Retail & Others

Global presence to drive speed and value

Key locations

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Marlabs Corporate HQ: One Corporate Place South, Piscataway NJ

• Global Data Center

• Network Operations Center

• Sales, Acct. Management & Operations Support

• Onshore Development Center

Marlabs North American Training Facility Broadhead Road, Bethlehem, PA

• Global Training Facility

• Multi-Discipline Center of Excellence

• Onshore Development Center

• DR Data Center

Global Development Center BWTC, Bangalore, India

• Global Development Center

• Multi Discipline Center of Excellence

• Asia-Pacific Data Center

• Network Operations Center

Global Development & Training Center Udayaravi Road, Mysore, India

• Global IV&V Center and CoE

• Asia-Pacific Training Facility

• Global Development Center

Global Development Center & CoE Infopark, Kochi, India

• Global Development Center

• Centers of Excellence

Partners in our success

Customers

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Media & Education Banking, Financial Services,

Insurance Healthcare & Life Sciences

Logistics & Hospitality Retail & others

Secure, scalable & state-of-the-art

Infrastructure

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• 20,000 Sq. Ft. of infrastructure area (option to expand)

• N+1 infrastructure topography

• Dual and diverse power feed

• Lit with multi-entrance fiber rings

• State-of-the-art backup system & power unit

• Redundant service providers for guaranteed network uptime

• Dedicated secure channel

• VLAN for ODC isolation with selective access using ODC gateway

• Restricted access monitored by card and CCTV

• Two factor authentication and biometric finger print scan

• Advance intrusion prevention capabilities

• ISO 27001 compliant information security practices

• Full disaster recovery for hosted applications

• FM200 fire suspension system for complete protection

• Multisite Network Operations Center (NOC) for monitoring and management

• Scalability and extending T1/T3 circuit to alternate DR sites

SSAE 16 Type II Compliant Data Center, Piscataway, NJ

Guaranteed Security Disaster Recovery

Full spectrum of solutions and services

Service Offerings

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Application Development and Maintenance | Information Security | IT Infrastructure Services | Testing | Packaged Implementation & Support | Product Engineering

Cloud | Mobility | DAM | DW-BI & Analytics| Microsoft |Java | Open Source | ERP | Salesforce | IoT

Services

Industry Verticals

Technology Solutions

BFSI Education Transport Healthcare

Energy Retail Media Government

The expertise driving our solutions and services

Centers of Excellence

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• Improve legacy and proprietary Integration with current solutions/software

• Positive impact on usability and architecture decisions among project teams

• Increase overall user adoption

• Implement the best practices for the development of solutions

• Promote cross-platform flexibility

• Rapid scale up for project requirements

Marlabs Centers of Excellence (CoE)

Primary objectives

Industrialized assets and methods

Innovation Architecture based on cost/benefit analysis

Skills and Resources Alliance ecosystem

Microsoft Java/ Open

Source

Digital Asset Management

(DAM)

Testing DW/BI & Analytics

Mobile

Infrastructure, Security & Cloud

UI/UX ERP/ CRM

Guidewire

Guidewire Practice Overview

© 2015, Marlabs - Confidential

Center Of Excellence - Objectives

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PolicyCenter

BillingCenter

ClaimCenter

SCRUM based

methodology

Platform: Data Model, UI, Business Rules, APIs

Requirements Solicitation

Data Migration & Conversion

Configuration Integration Testing

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Guidewire Practice Overview

Center Of Excellence - Objectives

OFFERINGS COMPONENTS TECHNOLOGI

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Data Migration & Conversion

Legacy database and Guidewire application DB analysis Gap analysis and mapping of database entities Creation of ETL methodologies and staging tables Converting legacy data for Guidewire application DB Data integration checks as per Guidewire application rules. Post conversion validation and reconciliation Report generation for all converted entities

ETL- Informatica, PL/SQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle

Configuration

Data model extension Customization of the Guidewire base product Implementation of security policies Product model configuration Creation of new business rules and processes Activity patterns and assignment Addition of roles, permissions and forms as needed Definition of workflows

GOSU, Java , J2EE, JavaScript, HTML

Integration

Integration with external systems like: contact manager, ISO, policy admin, authentication, check printing, reporting, general ledger, medical bill review, geocoding service, billing admin

Web services, plugins Messaging code Document and form templates

J2EE, Java, Web Services, HTML, XML

Testing

Guidewire unit test cases based on lines of business Creating test data for various lines of business Automating functional testing by creating GOSU based framework for testing Performance testing, user acceptance testing and system integration testing

GOSU, Java, Web Services, ClaimCenter

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Our Guidewire Services

Client Project Stakeholders

Customer Centric Blended Model

Seamless execution and engagement

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Client Executive Sponsor

Client Program Manager

Client Project Manager

Client SME’s

IT & Infrastructure

Marlabs Executive Sponsor

Marlabs Account Manager

Business Analyst/ Lead Developer

Technical Architect

IT & Infrastructure

Programmer/ Analysts

Quality Assurance

IT & Infrastructure

Client Team Marlabs On-Site/Off-Site Team Marlabs Off-Shore Team

• Strong Transition Mgmt.

• Peer to Peer Communication

• Defined Escalation Process Steering

• Business Alignment

• Work Prioritization

• Metrics Monitoring

Project Management

Requirements/ Deliverables

Task Monitoring & Control

Project Status

Issue Management

Work Packages

Technical Specs

Project Lead / Manager

Project Lead / Manager

Center Of Excellence - Objectives

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CORE SYSTEM Workflow, Rules, Product Model

EDGE FRAMEWORK

MOBILE & PORTAL APPS

Backend

APIs

App

Assessment

•Fitment with digital strategy

•Planning and estimation

Implementation

•Solution installation

•Full lifecycle approach

Knowledge transfer

•Enabling customer self sufficiency

•Through training and mentoring

Guidewire Mobility on the go: Mobile & Portals

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Regression Testing – Regression testing of user story or defect to ensure system integrity across staging/integration environments.

Conversion Testing – Execution of automated scripts to port and test converted data from the conversion DB to Guidewire DB and ensure data integrity of a policy in Guidewire system.

E2E Testing – Planning and executing end-to-end scenarios including data sets to test business flow on different test environments with tightly integrated up-streams and down-streams.

Security Testing – Validating roles & permissions spreadsheet aligned with access rights of a user/role/permission for screen/functionality, against the Guidewire system and testing of multiple end user access rights for each of the system functionalities.

Sprint Defect Testing – Testing user stories and associated defects along a sprint cycle.

Cross browser testing – Ensures uniform output on leading browsers like Firefox, Chrome, IE.

Cross device testing – Supporting testing on multiple mobile platforms and operating systems.

Repositories – Prebuilt test scenarios and defect repositories specific to Guidewire system.

Guidewire Upgrades – Supporting clients in testing upgrades from V6.0 to V7.0. B

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Full suite of Guidewire QA offerings

Requirements Planning

•Test Automation Strategy Document

•Test Automation Plan and Effort Estimate

•Test Automation Design Document

•Scripting Standards

Design & Develop

•Automated Test Scripts

•Function Libraries

•Traceability Matrix

•Status Reports

Execution

•Defects

•Test Summary Report

Review & Sign-Off

Stringent Coding Standards

Easy to maintain, Modular

Easy of use, controllable execution & configurable

Environment Variables and

constants

Configuration Files

Object Repository

Data Table

Recovery Scenarios

Clean up scripts

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Function Library

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Test Report

Error Log

Defect Reports

Exception handling

Statistics (gathered)

Test Data 1

Test Data 2

Test Data 3

Output Data Test Report 1

Output Data Test Report 2

Output Data Test Report 3

Automation Frameworks Functional Decomposition, Library Architecture,

Keyword-Driven, Data-Driven, Linear, Hybrid, BPT

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Robust yet flexible automation framework

Rate calc specific macros

Driver Script

Rate Calc Driver Guidewire Rating Module

Driver Script

Generic functions

Comparison function

Results log Exception log Premium difference Actual results Mismatch log

Rate Calc Specific Macros

Rate Results Guidewire Results

Results Viewer

Input data

Variables GUI objects

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Navigation and Extraction functions

Guidewire specific functions

Automation to power rapid rates testing

Marlabs Insurance - Case Studies

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Overview The client is a provider of insurance and reinsurance services in US across personal and commercial lines.

The client identified the Guidewire platform to ease/support their claims, policy and billing processes.

Marlabs started the engagement in 2008 as their ‘Preferred Business Partner’ to support testing needs for ongoing maintenance

releases, new Guidewire enhancement projects and Guidewire upgrades. Marlabs currently has about 30 resources supporting QA

activities for various projects.

Marlabs has operated as a one stop shop for all testing needs of the client across the Guidewire product and legacy systems.

Marlabs set up a testing center of excellence offshore for the client to cater to their multiple testing needs.

Line of Business Personal/Commercial Lines

Business Processes

Claims, Policy, Billing, Registration, Endorsements, Mid-term Transactions, Underwriting File (Content Management), Underwriting Systems, Submission, Clearance, Underwriting, Rating, Quoting, Binding, Delinquency, Payments, Accounts, FNOL, Financials

Testing Services Sprint/Defect Testing, Conversion Testing, System integration Testing, Manual/Automation Testing, Performance Testing, Regression Testing, E2E Testing

Technology Flat File, Mainframe, SQL/Oracle,

Execution only model Partial ownership model Trusted partnership

Delivery Model – Hybrid Onshore/offshore model, which resulted in low-cost testing

Engagement started with maintenance release testing

In 2010, took up more applications in Professional Liability Insurance space

Formed regression test repository across LOB to support maintenance releases

Engaged with test consulting for Insurance space

Introduced cost effective hybrid resourcing model

Started functional, automation and performance testing

Organized several best practices workshops

Global delivery model (onsite - offshore) established to support the client during onshore hours.

Moved to a managed services model Jumpstarted UAT engagement in few

LOBs QA support for Portal program Entry into reinsurance division

From a Vendor to Partner

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Testing CoE for a large insurer Marlabs – Case Study

Client Leading insurance group (the state's largest writer of Workers' Compensation and Personal Auto Insurance)

Need Implementing Guidewire (PolicyCenter & BillingCenter) as part of 5 year initiative.

Marlabs Solution Analyzed current data model and identified custom changes to the model based on user requirements. Analyzed the current user interface and enhanced it to meet business needs.

Designed and developed the interface to integrate BillingCenter and PolicyCenter as well as BillingCenter to other applications.

Created user stories for each of the business requirements Built/extended the design to accommodate changes to the base system Identified individual components of the user story and broke it down into child stories Designed entity models to represent the business components Designed and implemented business rules for various business entities. Example: Account, Policy etc. Implemented plug-ins provided in the base system based on the business requirement Designed and developed workflow process to initiate time-bound actions Developed unit test cases along with the development of each use case Validated functional implementation of each feature against requirements specified for that feature as

well as to validate the entire system for the end-to-end process. Thoroughly verified correctness of configuration and tested all interfaces for proper data communication

and processing Performed functional testing of reports and document management Completed Workers’ Comp and started Personal Auto. Worked closely with Guidewire. Integrated

Guidewire with in-house rating, customer web interface for quotes and policies, and with Peoplesoft for AP and AR. Policies maintained in the mainframe legacy system for some time.

Conducted daily discussions/scrum meetings to track daily developments and identify and resolve any road blocks.

Benefits Successfully rolled out different LOB’s into new platform.

Technology Platform

BillingCenter, PolicyCenter, Quickest Professional (QTP), Rally, HP’s Quality Center (QC), SharePoint

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Marlabs – Case Study Support for implementation of Guidewire (PolicyCenter & BillingCenter)

Client Group of property and casualty insurance companies

Need Implement new HP Exstream applications by converting old and existing documents that are currently generated through Documerg or other legacy applications.

Marlabs Solution Conducted requirements analysis phase to understand and gather information from all different types of focus groups and users. Analyzed existing workflows and tasks performed by users to design interactive documents for effective usability.

Created standards and consolidated specifications document templates based on the most common scenarios to reduce processing time and generate documents faster.

Created workflows for implementing new Exstream applications. Converted raw data into usable XML files and schema. These XML files are then consumed by HP

Exstream to generate different types of documents like PDF, TIFF, Postscript and live(DLF) Created new live interactive documents to replace the current Letter system using HP Exstream design

and production 8.0, HP Exstream Live 3.0. These live documents are capable of taking user input and upon submission delivering the documents to multiple output channels like Imaging/Archival, Production printers, Local print (if user needs to print locally), hand off documents to be attached to email and hand off information for creation of task flows and automated follow-ups.

This new system is a web application that allows the user to select any type of document, generate it and work on it and submit it for processing to multiple output channels. This is a one to one real time document processing.

Benefits Created applications that are easy to maintain and troubleshoot for the application owners team who oversee the maintenance after implementation.

Duly trained application owner team developers who will be supporting the applications after implementation.

Multiple document outputs - System generates document output types like PDF, TIFF, Postscript & DLF(Live document).

Technology Platform

HP Exstream, SQL, Oracle Database, Documerg, XML

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Marlabs – Case Study Implementation of New Exstream applications

Client A global specialty provider of insurance and reinsurance

Need Client had an existing data warehouse and associated BI and reporting system across multiple LOBs (Lines of Business)/ products and wanted help with enhancing existing reports, creation of new complex reports.

The primary goal of this project was to provide the underwriting business with improved operational reports that have been standardized as much as possible across all Professional Liability Lines of Business

Marlabs Solution Marlabs provided project development and support services for the entire Data Warehouse lifecycle i.e. Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Unit Testing, QA Support and UAT Support for the below business line reports.

1. Business Bound Reports – to capture bound policies details

2. Hit Ratio Reports – to capture the hit ratio w.r.t submissions, quotes, declines as well as aggregated GWS.

3. Pipeline Reports – to capture In-Progress and renewal accounts

4. Policy Issuance Reports – to track all date related fields for bound policies

5. Administrative Reports – to help managers to check outstanding issues on bound accounts

6. Renewal Analysis Reports – to capture the rate at which the business is able to retain expired policies

7. Prospect Reports – to provide details of any prospective client

Benefits Standardized reporting has raised efficiency of reporting across all Master Lines of Business as well as in aggregating reporting required for upstream Management Information Systems.

Standardized data definitions across the various Professional Liability lines of business will additionally increase comparability of underwriting reporting overall.

Technology Platform

SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS

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Marlabs – Case Study Aggregated reporting for upstream Management Information Systems

Client A global specialty provider of insurance and reinsurance

Need Client had an existing data warehouse and associated BI and reporting system across multiple LOB (Lines of Business)/ products and wanted help with enhancing existing reports, creation of new complex reports.

The primary goal of this project was to improve the Cube processing performance.

Marlabs Solution Marlabs supported the client in improving cube processing performance. The existing cube took around 10.5 hours to process . Consequently reports were being refreshed on a monthly basis whereas the business would have liked to have them on a daily basis. After performing optimization exercises the cube build time was reduced to 2-3 hours i.e. an improvement of more than 300%.

Cube partitions on measures/facts: Partitions on measures help efficiently process fact data and aggregations using multiple threads. By partitioning cube measures on the time and data source processing time was reduced.

Physical dimension tables: The existing cube structure was designed to process dimensions from a database view; with approximately 100 million records in the view. Cube dimension processing took approximately 5 hours 30mins. With physical preprocessed dimension tables (an ETL package to process the physical dimension) it took approx. 60 minutes.

Usage based optimization: Usage based optimization helped to build aggregations on partitions based on the history of queries sent to cubes.

Incremental processing: Processing only the most recent partition. Daily processing of the current/recent partitions and monthly processing of history partitions.

Benefits Faster and improved decision-making.

Technology

Platform

SQL Server DB, SSIS, SSRS, SSASlien

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Marlabs – Case Study Enhanced existing Reporting System for faster and improved decision-making.

Client Managed Care Provider

Need Streamline processing of workers’ compensation claims and increase productivity.

Marlabs Solution Implemented MCO Central™ solution for end to end claims management - injury reporting, medical bills

and payments processing, case management, and financial accounting.

Including both short term and long term case management, MCO Central™ helps coordinate treatment,

rehabilitation, and return to work.

The software tracks therapy and results as well as patient status.

MCO Central™ supports self -insured as well as insured employers.

Our client stays compliant through MCO Central™ functionality for regulatory filings and reports.

Seamless communication between the MCO and BWC is achieved through an EDI interface.

By including features such as provider rating and by storing treatment information, the solution helps

enhance timeliness and quality of treatment while lowering cost.

It also helps build internal benchmarks, track progress, and improve claims performance over time.

Benefits Reduction in data entry errors and decrease in the number of rejected bills.

Faster settlement of claims and bills resulting in improvement in the quality of service.

Significant increase in productivity and reduction in cost of treatment.

Speedier return to work.

Technology

Platform

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Windows 2000 Server, SourceGear Vault for source control, .NET

Framework, SQL Server, Crystal Reports

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Marlabs – Case Study End-to-End claims processing solution helps leading MCO achieve faster Return to Work

Client A leading US Insurance company

Need An integrated platform for the sourcing and delivery of legal services for litigated claims.

Marlabs Solution Built a comprehensive and workflow-enabled litigation management solution.

Using the system, plan information is itemized as per budget heads.

By storing litigation data over a period of time, solution provides an information repository for predictive trend analysis and reporting.

On receiving claims data, the system computes the ‘case management barometer’ for each firm

Enables the claims representative to activate the selected firm and add/modify ratings.

Integrated with the insurance company's case management system to enable a seamless end-to-end process.

Benefits Streamlines litigation management operations

Enables faster payments and improved service levels

Measures and raises law firm performance

Enhances process of selection of law firms

Brings down litigation cost - 20 % to 25%

Technology

Platform

.NET, SQL Server, IIS

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Marlabs – Case Study Integrating litigation management process and reducing litigation costs

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CMS G2 – Insurance/Securities Overview

Technology & Environment : J2EE, Struts, Hibernate, Tomcat, Top-link, JQuery, Oracle, IntelliJ, Windows\Linux

Client Leader in Compliance and Learning

Need Customer was looking for a partner to verify their product by Manual and Automation testing

Marlabs Solution Marlabs did the entire test automation of the ‘Business System’ and ‘Online Center’ applications.

Marlabs also deployed qualified domain experts for conducting the Functional testing and test

automation with Selenium and QTP functional testing tools to verify all the application features

against functional specifications.

Benefits Increased the quality, performance and accuracy of the product / software.

Strengthened testing process.

Increased the test script maintainability.

Reduced total cost of ownership.

Decreased the cost of software testing.

Ensured availability of the history of defects.

Increased product stability.

Enabled easy code maintainability and reusability of scripts through automation.

Reduced test cycle.

Enhance software quality.

Technology Platform Linux, PHP, Apache Tomcat, Flash, HTA, MySQL, Selenium

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Marlabs – Case Study Manual and Automation Testing Reduces Total Testing Effort by 83%

Client Leader in Compliance and Learning

Need Customer was looking for a long-term partner to work closely with the their team for providing development, testing and maintenance for their portals and product portfolio.

Marlabs Solution The Marlabs team works closely with customer’s to provide end to end support for a large number of products including their key Compliance portal.

Engagement activities include:.

• Requirements Analysis and estimation

• Design

• Coding (according to Industry Practices and customer’s Coding Standards)

• Unit & Integration Testing

• Bug fix support during QA and UAT phases

• Maintain Technical and Configuration Documentations.

Marlabs completed the entire test automation of the ‘Business System’ and ‘Online Center’ applications.

Marlabs also deployed qualified domain experts for conducting the Functional testing and test automation with Selenium and QTP functional testing tools to verify all the application features against functional specifications.

Benefits Reduced total cost of ownership.

Decreased the cost of software testing by Increasing the quality, performance and accuracy of the product / software, test script maintainability and strengthened testing process.

Manual and Automation Testing Reduces Total Testing Effort by 83%

Ensured availability of the history of defects.

Enabled easy code maintainability and reusability of scripts through automation.

Technology Platform

Linux, PHP, Apache Tomcat, Flash, HTA, MySQL, Selenium , Java/JEE, WebLogic , Struts framework, Oracle DB.

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Marlabs – Case Study Development, Maintenance and End to End Testing

Standing apart in the marketplace

Value Proposition

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Delivery Excellence

Domain Expertise

• Flexible, transparent, and mature engagement models

• Seamless solution integration

• Certification compliance

• Robust Governance

• Strong focus on emerging technologies

• CoEs for technology proficiency

• Best in class technology and security infrastructure

Customer Centricity

Investment In Talent

• US based, IP driven organization with a digital technology focus

• Flexible engagement models with global talent

• Proven record of successful on-site, off-shore and blended engagements

• Customized solutions and services

• High competence levels in all technologies

• Home grown algorithm for matching resources with customer’s unique need

• Global training centers: Continuous quality improvement programs

• High retention rates

Higher Customer

Satisfaction

Excelling Employees

Project Certainty

Highest ROI and Value

Contact Us

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USA New Jersey

Marlabs Inc. (Global Headquarters) One Corporate Place South, Floor 3, Piscataway NJ 08854 - 6116 Tel: +1 (732) 694 1000 Fax: +1 (732) 465 0100 Email: [email protected]

India Bangalore

Marlabs Software (P) Ltd. Bagmane World Technology Center, 14th Floor, Citrine Block - 4, Marathahalli Outer Ring Road, Mahadevapura, Bangalore – 560 048 Tel: +91 (80) 67229400/700 Email: [email protected]

Canada Marlabs Canada Incorporated 1235, Bay Street, Suite 400 Toronto Ontario M5R 3K4 Tel: +1 (416) 934 5005 Email: [email protected] Mysore

Marlabs Software (P) Ltd. # 462, A & B Block, Udayaravi Road, Kuvempunagar, Mysore - 570023 Tel: +91 (821) 4000200 Email: [email protected] Marlabs Software (P) Ltd. # 469, A & B Block, Udayaravi Road, Kuvempunagar, Mysore - 570023 Tel: +91 (821) 4191450 Email: [email protected]

Mexico Marlabs Technology Services Av. Patriotismo 229 Piso 8 Col. San Pedro de los Pinos Mexico, D. F. C. P. 03800 Tel: +1 (732) 694 1000 ext.6011 Email: [email protected] Kochi

Marlabs Software (P) Ltd. "Athulya", 2nd Floor, Infopark Kusumagiri P.O. Kakkanad Kochi - 682 030 Email: [email protected] Marlabs Software (P) Ltd. Trans Asian Corporate Park, XIV/396-C, Seaport Airport Road, Chittethukara, Kakkanad Kochi - 682 037 Ph: +91 (484) 6062885/886 Email: [email protected]

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