Project One:
Intranet

The Challenge:
To design, develop, implement, release, and support the company’s intranet in less than 7 days. The target user groups were not familiar with using web technologies, except for very casual browsing. Overall business processes had not been defined, so there was no clear answer for how to layout the site and how to present the data. Sharing of data between departments had to be enabled to allow for both department-only material as well as for sharing to the entire company.

Our Solution:
Designed and built the company’s intranet from the ground up, utilizing NCompass 3.1 (Content Management System) to create a stable base structure while allowing the company’s individual departments to control the look/feel/maintenance of their specific pieces of the intranet. Developed all navigation and layout schemes as well as security and information flow throughout the site which allowed for the sharing of data for both inter and intra-department functions. Other tools used were MS Visio 2000 for documentation and site flow design, MS Visual Interdev for the development of the core .asp functionality, and MS Office for content posting.

Project Two:
Tour Director Extranet

The Challenge:
To design a system that would allow for communication and access to the home office from anywhere in the world for the company’s tour directors while on tour. They would need to access news and bulletins that were pertinent to the tour as well as have access to the suppliers that were used while on tour. This system would establish the enterprise architecture to be used to convert all AS400 applications to Windows 2000 applications.

Our Solution:
Designed and developed this 9 layered application to allow the company’s tour directors to have access to current and future tour information for tours they would be conducting. The largest challenge was to provide for when the tour directors were not in a location where they could connect to the net, so we had to also provide for a disconnected application that would allow the tour directors to not only view the information, but make changes to it as necessary, then, when connected again, that data would be synchronized with the live data on the main (online) servers. Security had to be implemented to ensure the integrity of the company’s guest and other proprietary data.