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- Beer Hunter: Even More Fun as a Flex RIA
- Andrews Distributing is the nation's leading beverage brand builder. Andrews came to Pathfinder Development to enhance their website, DestinationBeer.com, with features that would not only serve to educate their customers, retailers and employees about the beer selections that Andrews offers, but also be fun to use. Pathfinder's approach is focused...
- Tags: Brand, Beverage, Rich Internet Application, Fun, Pathfinder Development, Andrews Distributing, Pathfinder, Food & Beverage, Branding, Manufacturing, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Pathfinder Helps Newspaper Group Develop Platform for Delivering Hyperlocal Content
- The Sun-Times News Group STNG was constrained by technology from fully leveraging the strength of their network to provide both hyper-local and regional content across multiple channels and properties. Existing solutions were inflexible, had cumbersome and time consuming publishing processes as well as poor usability. Systems were not extensible, making...
- Tags: Strength, Pathfinder Development, Networking
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Pathfinder Develops and Launches PlantCollections.org to Enable Research Into Complex Biological Relationships
- Currently, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN, 30% of plant species in the United States face extinction in the next 50 years. The data and information provided by PlantCollections.org will be crucial to supporting preservation efforts and promoting biodiversity. The Chicago Botanic Garden, in conjunction with...
- Tags: Pathfinder Development, Pathfinder, Ruby On Rails, AJAX, Internet, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Management
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Pathfinder Helps a Leading Manufacturer of Power Equipment to Unify Multiple Applications Into a Single Interface
- A leading manufacturer of power equipment engaged their services to unify multiple applications into a single interface. These applications were developed for configuring devices for substation automation. Their client's devices were extolled for their flexibility and reliability yet feared for their complexity. Pathfinder discovered ways to simplify the configuration task...
- Tags: Configuration, Manufacturer, Pathfinder Development, Pathfinder, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Pathfinder Helps Tame Healthcare Complexity
- A leader in medical software development and support application's two main user groups, the laboratory workers and the administrative supervisors, are diverse in requirements and goals. In the lab, technicians needed a repeatable and robust process for manufacturing blood products, such as creating a pool or performing a conversion. Additionally,...
- Tags: Health Care, Pathfinder Development, Scanners, Manufacturing, Software Development, Keyboards, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Software/Web Development
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Pathfinder Helps Jumpstart an Educational Reform Project in the Persian Gulf
- In an Arabic Gulf State, Pathfinder's client, a large Research and Data Analysis firm was engaged to collect data for a national education reform project. Their client knew that there would be additional challenges beyond traditional census/field data collection. There were many other things they could do to make the...
- Tags: Education, Client, Vision, Pathfinder Development, Government, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Pathfinder Designs Test Tracking Software for a Country's Standardized Testing Program
- In an Arabic Gulf State, Pathfinder and its client, a large Research and Data Analysis firm, are helping transform the educational system. Part of the vision for the new system was the implementation of a standardized testing program administered over a four-week period at several hundred schools. To manage the...
- Tags: Software, User Interface, Speaker, Pathfinder Development, Supply Chain, Scanners, Business Operations, Hardware, Peripherals
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Pathfinder Designs and Builds Rich Internet Application for Arabic Language Data Collection
- In an Arabic Gulf State, Pathfinder and its client, a large Research and Data Analysis firm, are helping transform the educational system. The mission of the Research Firm is to gather and synthesize information needed to make changes to the educational system. Their client needed a technology application to make...
- Tags: Research Company, Rich Internet Application, Pathfinder Development, Cloud Computing, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Pathfinder Helps Fortune 50 Investment Bank Improve Operational Efficiency
- The client, a Global 100 Investment Bank with over 22,000 employees on six continents, wanted to create a better-educated organization. Knowledge, it learned, needed to be shared across the entire organization worldwide in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its operations. The firm identified several specific problem areas:...
- Tags: Bank, Business Process, Knowledge, Investment, Pathfinder Development, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Business Intelligence, Change Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Business Operations, It Operations, Data Management, Tools & Techniques
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Ajax Roadmap: How to Transform Your Website Without Starting From Scratch
- Ajax can seem like an overused Web 2.0 buzzword at best and an expensive, difficult-to-implement technology at worst. But this paper will show how one can use Ajax to improve the bottom line and delight the customers without rebuilding the site from scratch. With all of the noise it has...
- Tags: Web Site, Pathfinder Development, AJAX, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0
- White papers 2008-04-21
- Evaluating Open Source Software for Your Business
- This paper looks at the strange world of open source IT decision making that can get in the way of good decisions. The exuberant IT manager sees open source like found money or a snow day; if it's free and good, why bother with the evaluation? Let's just use it....
- Tags: Software, Open-source Software, Pathfinder Development, Open Source
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Making EAZ Deals Easy: Enhancing the Online Shopping Experience and Increasing Customer Satisfaction
- EAZ Deals provides a wide range of computer electronics and is dedicated to customer satisfaction. The company wanted to create an engaging on-line shopping experience that is easy to use to drive sales and increase customer loyalty. EAZ deployed Leverage Web 2.0 to develop a rich internet application that expands...
- Tags: Customer Satisfaction, Experience, Pathfinder Development, EAZ Deals, Product Marketing, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Record Breaking Delivery for HiZ Productions
- HiZ Productions Inc. is a multifaceted music production company that focuses on generating music for the advertising and film industries. HiZ needed to showcase their work on the web, FAST. Their goal was to create a site that would support future client requests as well as showcase HiZ's production capabilities....
- Tags: Video, Pathfinder Development, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Mapping Rand McNally's Way to the Classroom
- Rand McNally, the most trusted name on the map, is an industry leader in the mapping, routing, geographic reference, and trip-planning tool marketplace. The company wanted to create a new technology service for educators that provided a complete, interactive "One stop resource" for teaching K-12 classrooms. Rand McNally used Pathfinder...
- Tags: Ingersoll-Rand, Pathfinder Development, Productivity, Games, Personal Technology
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Evidence Based Medicine - Life Saving; Cost Saving
- A leading health informatics and medical management services provider gathers clinical data. The system as originally developed was not designed to scale to the volume and variety of data nor complexity of fact models and rule sets that became necessary as the company evolved, and was putting severe strains on...
- Tags: Health Care, Cost Savings, Pathfinder Development, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Bringing the Chicago Sun-Times to Facebook
- Chicago Sun-Times News Group, one of the Nation's largest news outlets, serving over 120 communities. The Chicago Sun-Times, under tight deadlines and limited resources, needed to: increase audience reach; develop new ad revenue sources; and find new media outlets and channels. Design and development of the YourSeason Facebook application; targeting...
- Tags: Facebook, Chicago Sun-Times, Pathfinder Development
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Designing Innovation for the Healthcare Industry
- Haemonetics Software Solutions, a leader in medical software and support. The company wanted to provide phlebotomists with the ability to record the entire blood donation or apheresis processes, without continually breaking out of the process to walk to a cart mounted tablet PC. They deployed design of a software application...
- Tags: Innovation, Software, Health Care, Pathfinder Development, Tablets, Tools & Techniques, Notebooks, Leadership, Handhelds, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Management
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Pathfinder Helps Leading Online Brokerage optionsXpress Maximize Customer Adoption
- optionsXpress (NASDAQ: OXPS), is a top-ranked Chicago-based online brokerage providing individual investors with powerful tools for stock and options trading education, evaluation and execution. Integral to the company's success is its commitment to continually enhance the overall customer experience with a philosophy it calls 'Iterative innovation'. The company partnered with...
- Tags: Online Brokerage, Pathfinder Development, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Pathfinder Helps BEZ Unlock the Power of Their Product
- BEZ makes Strategic Performance Management products for NCR Teradata, IBM DB2 UDB and Oracle database and data warehouse applications. At the time, the latest release version of the product was extremely feature rich, but the user interface was perceived as confusing and difficult to use. As a result, many users...
- Tags: Product, Information Architecture, Pathfinder Development, Business Intelligence, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- User Task Flows: Bringing the User Into the Development Process
- Today's web applications support the editing and manipulation of data, allowing a much more robust dialogue to take place with between the software and the user. The basic concept of fetching static data from a hyperlink is expanded to include user actions such as add, delete, modify and clone, thereby...
- Tags: Data, Pathfinder Development, Cloud Computing, Web Technology
- White papers 2007-04-01
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