VNS: Building New Media Solutions for... WEB site decelopment  
Building New Media Solutions
for...WEB site Development
 
A hi-tech Fortune 100 company wanted to create a WEB site that allowed their field organization and potential clients to browse customer success stories using their products. Product successes had to be viewed by Market, Geography, Product, Systems; up to seven indexed parameters in all. New clients could add their success story to the hundreds of product success stories already available on-line, depicting the customer logo, written text and hot-links to other WEB sites as required. The WEB administrator had requirements for creating, updating and constantly changing the appearance of the WEB site as well. In addition to the system administrator utilities, the WEB site had to offer graphics appeal and the ability to change the images on a regular basis.
 
The client's WEB site provided Sales and prospective customers access to over 500 customer success stories in industry, transportation, government, medical, finance, and many other major market segments.
The VNS Solution  

VNS provided project management and technical assistance to the programming staff as well as the graphics design company involved in the project. A VNS team of experts consisting of a Project Manager, Technical Leader, and several Senior Programmers/Analysts, designed and developeded the detailed functional specifications and operational aspects of the new WEB site. Over 500 customer testimonials would be presented with the total number growing on a daily basis. 

Several system administrative tools were required to make maintenance and update of the information simple and easy to do. The utilities were to be provided as an off-line resource that would allow editing and creation of additional customer success stories possible. 

 
The VNS designed WEB site met all of the client's requirements: 
    High volume of network traffic 
    Large number of customer success stories; i.e. approximately 500 
    Accessible by both Sales and customers Front-end database access via multiple indices 
    Hyperlinks to other WEB sites 
    A large database for information storage Ability to regenerate a new WEB site within a couple of hours 
    Application designed for future conversion to CD-ROM  
VNS provided expertise that made the difference: 
    Project Management 
    Senior Programmers and Analysts 
    WEB Architects 
    Client Training, including Technical Documentation 
    Communications and Database expertise On-going Technical   and Development support 
Technical Specifications: 
    Developed application software for Alpha NT Server platform
    Programming in C, C++ 
    JAVA and PERL Scripting 
    Microsoft ACCESS Database  
Methodologies included: 
    Project Management for large Fortune 100 company 
    Orthogonal Database Design 
    Real-time systems and batch mode utilities design 
    ACCESS Database Design 
 
Last Updated 2/24/98
 
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