Case Studies

When we recently redesigned our website, we decided we really needed to update the case studies that illustrate our track record...

And we're doing that right now.

In the meantime, here is a short list of them that you can ask us about. More information about each will be coming to these pages shortly

• Farriers United - Farriers United is a lean startup company that has focused on leveraging trusted relationships that farriers already have with their clients to increase the services they can offer and the farriers revenues. We partnered with Farriers United to design and build all of the software and web-based infrastructure to provide farriers with custom web sites, online stores, invoicing systems, and more.
• Island 500 - Island 500 is a lean start up company that provides something like a "Craig's List" to help folks in the Carribean Islands, Hawaii, and others buy, sell, and trade. The entrepreneur had lived and worked in the Carribean and recognized that there was nothing equivalent to Craig's List that was useful in that environment. He came up with the concept, had some false starts with others, and came to us to make the concept really work.
• North Carolina Home Educators - Some members of our Software Craftsteam™ brought a large non-profit organization run by volunteers and a small office staff to new levels of service and efficiency under the product brand name, "Sheltered Apps".
• Courtyard: Online Directory Software - Members of our Software Craftsteam™ developed this sharp looking and easy to use online family directory under the product brand name, "Sheltered Apps".
• Proventys Decision Support for Oncologists - Our development team has been working to provide an advanced decision support system which will be announced later this year. We have been working in a lean startup mode on this product beginning with a series of usability prototypes demonstrated and validated over a series of weeks which fed into a rapid and high feedback development of a product that will be in private use in the first half of 2010, leading to a series of progressive launches of products to a broader market.
• Proventys Usability Prototypes for Predictive Risk tests - Our team implemented working "web 2.0" prototype and early product to validate a high quality user experience to quickly analyze patient risk for adverse pharmaceutical reactions. The working prototypes fed into the requirements of a product that is currently going through FDA validation.
• Privia Health - We implemented the infrastructure for an innovative new approach to providing personal health care for Privia Health. The system developed included support of an online personal health care record that could be accessed and edited by patients, their healthcare professionals, and personal health assistants with seamless audit trails for every change made. The innovative approach to the user experience and patient centric focus using a 𔄢web 2.0” approach has impressed not only the users, but others who have seen it. The system also integrates with Salesforce.com and Mayo Clinic systems.
• RxDB - built an alpha version of a system for TheraSim to provide ready and accurate information about commercially available drugs and their interactions intended for use in both Therapeutic Simulation and other applications.
• Compound Profiling Data Portal - providing chemists and biologists in drug discovery at GlaxoSmithKline ready access to various data warehouses of information in meaningful ways to drastically reduce their research time.
• Cheminformatics - We worked on and developed a variety of application for chemists and biologists in drug discovery at GlaxoSmithKline and introduced Agile Software Development processes. Worked with Director of Worldwide Software Development, Cheminformatics, to boost output of his software organization from rare and unreliable to regular, well received, and on time releases.
• Repair Center online - currently a preliminary offering for a lean startup that is planning to revolutionize a segment of the repair service industry.
• RoleModel Studios - Produced an online presence and e-commerce site for lean start up focused on producing original Christian videos.
• Customer Charging - created a back-end office system for ChannelAdvisor to accurately charge and handle billing for their customers.
• Cowboy Data Entry - developed an innovative data entry program for Southern Stockyards so their computer averse cowboys with dirty hands and gloves could easily enter information about cattle being put up for auction.
• OneStep Inventory - this lean startup turned their innovative approach to home inventory to an online reality in a surprisingly short period of time.
• Docket Navigator - we built the infrastructure of a patent litigation research tool like no other. Docket Navigator tracks every significant order of every patent case in every district court of the U.S. every day. The result is an amazing database that allows Patent Litigators to search, sort, slice, and mine trial court records like they never thought possible.
• Privia Health - We implemented the infrastructure for an innovative new approach to providing personal health care for Privia Health. The system developed included support of an online personal health care record that could be accessed and edited by patients, their healthcare professionals, and personal health assistants with seamless audit trails for every change made. The innovative approach to the user experience and patient centric focus using a 𔄢web 2.0” approach has impressed not only the users, but others who have seen it. The system also integrates with Salesforce.com and Mayo Clinic systems.
• CipherOptics - a leading innovator of high-speed Gigabit performance network security solutions in 2002. They design, develop and manufacture data encryption products that offer high IPSec security at optical network speeds. Their Security Gateway product provides up to ten times the performance of comparably-priced security appliances. CipherOptics needed a desktop application that would enable customers to configure settings on many Security Gateways concurrently. The application ultimately had to pass muster with some of the most demanding customers in the world, including DoD. Among other things, the application was to allow customers to:
  • Change the configuration of many Security Gateways at the same time.
  • Upgrade the software running on each Gateway through an automated process.
  • View the status of each Gateway (unit is down, unit needs a reboot, etc).
  • Backup and restore configuration settings locally.
  The Java-based desktop application was a cutting-edge implementation of IBM’s Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) and the JFace extension, and used XML-RPC to communicate with and configure Security Gateways. DOM4J, a flexible XML framework for Java, was used to create the XML configuration documents that were sent to each Gateway, and the MinML XML parser was used to parse Gateway settings. The testing framework was written in Ruby, and the project team extended it to support scripting of SWT/JFace applications.

  The entire application was delivered in five iterations over five weeks. When asked about working with RoleModel, Dennis Toothman, CipherOptics CTO, said, "RoleModel's developers learned our complex domain quickly and made substantial contributions in a short time." To sum up, Toothman added, "RoleModel Software is a truly refreshing experience in custom software development."

• ACE Misfire Detective - In 2002, a local master automotive technician had a revolutionary idea on how to look into the combustion chamber of cars to detect their efficiency. We became the research and development partner to develop this patented approach and working software in use by master technicians all over the world.
• Organon Teknika (now BioMerieux) - in 1998, OTC approached RoleModel in October 1998 to help the company create the highly flexible software they needed, while maintaining FDA compliance. RoleModel worked with OTC to deliver a 100-percent-pure custom Java solution. Users interface with a Windows desktop application to configure and enter specimen data. Data is persisted in a Poet OODBMS. The entire platform can run on a workstation connected to the specimen repository. Construction of the user interface was extremely complex, because it had to be completely dynamic. New data elements can be added by users at any time and must be queryable immediately. This flexibility was essential to allow OTC to offer a single product that could meet an almost infinite number of possible customer configurations.
• Bonita Software, Inc. (Bonita) - was an innovator in the exploding wireless solutions market in 1998. They provided a framework that allows for the deployment of user and corporate workforce applications to mobile devices, such as the Palm, RIM Blackberry, next generation Motorola iDEN phones, and we even prototyped an in-car solution with BMW. The company's ToGo® Platform (initially implemented by RoleModel) enabled secure access to and execution of applications and information from the broadest set of wireless Internet devices regardless of network connectivity issues. Users could administer updates and deploy entirely new applications to the devices through the wireless network, with full interoperability among devices. Bonita had established a number of key partnerships with companies, including Sun Microsystems and Motorola, to advance their respective technologies.
• and more...

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