Alenia North America
Problem: Alenia North America and its subsidiary in Canada have over 300 employees and four corporate offices across the US and Canada. The company maintained five different public web sites and needed a corporate Intranet to improve communications amoung staff members. Different companies maintained the various sites and each had a different look and feel. Alenia wanted consistency between sites and the ability to add and change content at will. Additionally, customized functionality was needed to support a media portal and other features.
Alcohol Detections Systems
Problem: Alcohol Detection Systems (ADS) came to VMT as a startup company who engineered a breath alcohol ignition interlock device. This is a device that controls the ability to start a vehicle by analyzing a breath sample from the driver. There is a complex software component to the ignition interlock that captures events while starting the vehicle and testing the breath sample from the driver. States that convict people of driving under the influence (DUI) increasingly require the installation of an ignition interlock and reporting of the event information that is captured. ADS needed to develop software to manage the event information from installed interlocks and also provided inventory control and sales tracking for a nationwide distribution network.
Genealogical Publishing
Problem: Genealogical Publishing Company was an early adopter of e-commerce sales and marketing in the early history of the Internet. Their e-commerce site had been re-written several times on different platforms, including Cold Fusion and Microsoft ASP. The site had been custom written with little documentation and was primarily supported by only one developer. The company recognized the need to add functionality and more sophisticated search engine optimization tools (SEO) to increase Internet sales.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital Brady Urological Institute
Problem: Tissue Micro-Arrays (TMA) are slides containing 400 distinct patient specimens on a single slide. BUI needed to catalog slides, patients on each slide, how slides were stained, diagnosis for each specimen and scanned image of each specimen. Their in-house MS Access prototype quickly reached limitations, particularly with inability to handle multiple organ systems. There were also concerns about keeping their applications HIPAA compliant.
LJS & Associates, Inc.
Problem: LJS has 96% market-share in residential real-estate sign-post installation and removal in the Mid Atlantic area. They were using a DOS-based database system for order tracking and the system had many problems including that it could not handle email orders. LJS was also starting to expand nationally on it’s own and through a dealer/franchise network and needed an application that could handle all of that.
