The Proof is in the Product
We'd love to strut our stuff here, take you deep into the corporate intranets we've created; show you the social media portals; stand next to our prize productions waving our lovely arms across them like Vanna White, as dramatic music soars.
But you know the biz. NDA is the name of the game. Most of our WCI work has been whisked away to an undisclosed location. So, we've given you a textual sketch of a few real but anonymous WCI projects. Take a look.
Client: Fortune 500 Multinational Product Manufacturer
Project: Custom development
What we did:
- Built department-based communities with custom portlets displaying aggregated data for executives—filters financial info and docs to assist strategic decision making
- Connected portal to documents from other team sites (SharePoint Console)
- Made a sophisticated template creation engine for displaying reports (Seibel), based on users' search criteria integrated with the portal's search service
- Developed customizable portlets to analyze usage statistics
- Developed crawler engine/portlets to harvest, aggregate, and display info
- Modified Portal UI source to optimize usage tracking
Client: Leading North American Title Insurance Firm
Project: Full portal implementation, custom development, legacy system integration
What we did:
- Built external site on Portal framework
- Planned/managed implementation project, including installing and configuring the AquaLogic portal products (ALUI 6.1, ALBPM 5.7, Publisher 6.4)
- Led a team of portlet and web service developers
- Developed custom portlets for ALBPM Inbox
- Designed/built single sign-on solution to authenticate from multiple domains
- Developed search application for displaying insurance policy info from legacy sources and underwriting databases
Client: Leading International Pharmaceutical Company
Project: Full portal implementation on Solaris, software integration
What we did:
- Installed, configured, tested AquaLogic portal components (Interaction 6.1, Collaboration 4.2, Publisher 6.3, LDAP AWS, SSO Integration, NTCWS) in a Solaris 9 (Weblogic 9.2) environment
- Consulted on integration with document management system (Documentum)
- Developed and delivered best practice documentation for portal security, taxonomy, and structure that adheres to client's extranet security requirements
Client: A Canadian Provincial Energy Board
Project: Portal implementation, software integration, custom development, portal training
What we did:
- Developed architecture and deployment strategy for the Plumtree 5.0.2 portal for the Agency's 1000+ employees
- Business requirements and project planning conducted to collect and incorporate business needs from four business units
- Integration with existing applications, directory services (Active Directory), email services (Exchange), and document systems (Content Server)
- Custom crawler for directory information from Hummingbird (RM/DM)
- Delivered training for Plumtree Admin, content management, portal management, C#, portlet development best practices
Client: Ivy League University
Project: Portal upgrade, custom development
What we did:
- Planned migration strategy and framework to convert 1200+ pages of corporate intranet pages to Plumtree 5.0.4
- Developed portlets including one that allows students to engage with faculty more effectively
- Documented best practices for portlet coding standards, user interface standards, and portal, to ensure that University's development team could evolve enterprise portal on their own.
- Developed and delivered portal best practice documentation for portlet coding, UI, and security, taxonomy, and structure
- Created internal social connection portlet suite
Imagine a heavy-laden barge edging its way downriver. Is it even moving? Turning it? Hah! Now, imagine high-powered jet skis zipping past, zigzagging to avoid the snags. That's agile development: collaborative, iterative, rapid, responsive.
Ruby on Rails (RoR) is the darling of the agile development community, for good reason. Our RoR team is ready to roll, leaving other teams in its wake. As with our WCI portfolio, NDAs make many projects play ostrich, but here are a few.
