Business view: SimmondsStewart turned 4 and decided to make a few changes to the web presence. In particular, they wanted a new blog to enable useful commentry and conversation in the technology and early stage company sector, and a better way of managing their site content.
Technical view: Light design refresh, installation of WordPress, redeployment of website, addition of blog, transfer of content, testing and URL cutover.
Business view: Victoria Accommodation Services help arrange temporary accommodation for students newly arriving in Wellington. As they started to bring new buildings into operation, their administration system needed to cope with the different choices that were now available. We made adjustments to make make the system a lot more flexible.
Technical view: Dependency analysis, adjustment and testing of newly flexible inputs to a custom-built .NET admin system over an SQL Server database. Included adjustment to system-generated email trails.
Business view: Victoria University Press produces a wide range of books, of both general and specialist interest. We took their static HTML catalogue and made it much more usable. We also added a shopping cart and an ordering facility to handle both local and international orders — and an easy-to-use back-end administration system.
Technical view: Importation of VUP’s Excel-based catalogue to a SQL Server database, plus the inevitable data cleaning. Construction of business rules to handle complex freight charges. Integrated with redesigned front-end custom-built search, a shopping cart and a payment gateway, and addition of a back-end customised administration system based on our dbAdmin tool.
Business view: The New Zealand Law and Literature/Law and Visual Media Database aims to explore the nature of legal references in New Zealand fiction. Dr Grant Morris, Senior Lecturer in Law at Victoria University of Wellington, wanted a simple way to enter, maintain and present the information online to academics, students, lawyers, writers and members of the general public.
Technical view: Database and screens built with dbAdmin, our tool for generating presentation and administration screens for SQL Server databases. Work included assisting with data cleaning.
Business view: Victoria wanted students , both domestic and international, to be abe to calculate the cost of their studies as they choose courses. Students can also come back later and resume the calculator where they last left off.
Technical view: .NET application, integrated with the Course Catalogue. Calculator instance data held in SQL Server and made retrievable via email address.
Business view: Victoria’s online enrolment system was hard to use and poorly integrated with the institution’s other systems. Victoria wanted it to be faster and easier for students to use, more reliable, and to require less intervention by University administration staff.
Technical view: Redevelopment of online enrolment system for University including front-end build, integration with webservices provided by Oracle application server and integration with Oracle-based image/file services.
Business view: SimmondsStewart – a new, boutique legal firm with great expertise – came to us wanting a website that would give them market presence, would instantly communicate their professionalism, and be maintainable.
Technical view: Deployment of Adobe Contribute for simple content management, design collaboration with hairyLemon , and design integration.
Business view: Xero, an online accounting system, asked us to contribute development effort to getting improved bank integration created.
Technical view: API creation (based on Xero’s specification) for producing and validating financial transaction files across multiple banking systems. Handover for integration.
Business view: Vinacom came to us with huge wine expertise and a great concept. It required a robust failure-safe architecture and the ablity to scale rapidly once their pilot scheme became a nationwide rollout. Vinacom wanted a way to get useful wine information into the hands of supermarket shoppers – to in-store kiosks built by NV Interactive – and from us, a way to create, collect, synchronise, manage and send that information from one central point.
Technical view: Collaborative systems architecture with NV Interactive. Establishment of a centralised SQL Server database with admin screens built automatically using our custom-built tool. Provision for stock list aggregation, wine information creation and maintenance of synchronized (SQLite) databases on remote Adobe Flex Winefinder kiosks in supermarkets. Web services connect data synchronisation calls.