Featured Work
Asset Management RIA
Who: A $25 million robotics repair company, recently named Honda of America's 2007 Supplier of the Year.
What: With a massive inventory of customer repairable assets, this company was suffering from a legacy software solution that had evolved into 42 separate data silos, introducing significant financial, operational and strategic blind spots in the company's business.
Webapper: The customer discovered us as a result of our reputation for writing highly-structured, well-planned Web applications. We delivered a maintainable, high-performance, visually rich data processing and reporting application, using ColdFusion, Flex, and SQL Server (including Reporting Services), and in the process migrated 42 separate databases into a single data store that will power the company to its next level of growth.
Healthcare Cost Management RIA
Who: A 2-person firm with a multi-million dollar revenue stream from a software-as-a-service application.
What: The existing application was poorly structured, such that it could not easily incorporate new data input from a Web services provider, and also suffered from an ineffective user interface.
Webapper: The customer's previous developers knew of Webapper's capabilities and recommended us for the overhaul job. We completely redesigned the data model, created a "service layer" for consuming external data feeds, completely overhauled the customer's information architecture and the resulting user interface, and delivered an intuitive application for performing complicated price-calculation algorithms to drive profits and reduce costs for users. Tools: ColdFusion, Flex, SQL Server.
Pharmaceutical Company Content Management RIA
Who: A small pharmaceutical company, headquartered in Switzerland, with a satellite location in the U.S.
What: The customer was launching an entirely new brand, to compete with well-established products in its niche, and, to address the competitive pressures of the effort, they needed full control of the content in a new Website for the brand.
Webapper: The customer located Webapper through organic search engine results, and we leveraged our years of experience developing various sorts of content management systems (CMS) to build a simple but effective CMS, with a Flex-based administration tool. In the process, we used some programming "magic" to overcome Flex's well-known rich text editing limitations.
Server Monitoring & Troubleshooting RIA
Who: Us (as in "we eat our own dogfood"
).
What: We built one of the first commercial Flex 2-based applications in the world in 2006—our popular SeeFusion™ product. After 2 years, it was time to refresh the user interface, and launch a host of new and improved features.
Webapper: We kept the best of the user interface and data visualization features that we'd built 2 years earlier, and mixed in some really interesting new technology—specifically, Adobe's AIR platform for creating desktop-style, online/offline applications. The result was an even more responsive interface, with new capabilities for data visualization, reporting, saving and printing.
"Server Down" Engagement
Who: A major university in the eastern U.S.
What: The customer started experiencing sudden severe performance and stability problems with a critical application used for diagnosing learning deficits in children, which the university licensed to thousands of users.
Webapper: "The call" came in on a Friday evening, and Webapper's on-demand consulting services were ready and waiting. Within a few hours, we had installed our SeeFusion™ software, and quickly began pinpointing and fixing the worst bottlenecks, which were caused by an all-too-common pattern in database performance degradation. By Monday morning, when users began logging on to the system again, the performance and stability had improved dramatically to near-perfect levels.