Diversey College Fanz Patent Freedom The Patent Board
Oppenheimer Funds Lehman Brothers Solinea Pfizer
ICC Core Performance
IBM
We helped IBM conceptualize, design and build an online extension of their famed global Executive Briefing Centers. The Virtual Briefing Center allows clients to keep abreast of IBM's product and solution offerings. In an era of shrinking travel budgets, clients can get on-demand access to in-depth multi-media briefings delivered directly by IBM's distinguished subject matter experts (SMEs) over the web and helps IBM build deeper and stronger client relationships.
Stringer Scheduling Application
We developed a cost effective web-based stringer scheduling application to automate their stringer scheduling process, enabling 75 statistical stringers across 120 games a day for 15 minor leagues. Using open source technologies, we designed and developed a custom, cost effective application that seamlessly integrated with their Avaya call center in a rapid timeframe to meet the start of the season.
Diversey
Diversey, a world leader in cleaning and hygiene solutions for business recently underwent a corporate rebranding exercise and commissioned OpenCrowd to develop a new design for their corporate website.
Pfizer
We conducted a development process proof of concept to determine the reduction in development time and resources by using a declarative XML standards based development and deployment platform based on the LAMP stack. We developed functionality of an existing J2EE application and compared project resources required with the original project. Our findings determined, for certain applications, the client could reduce development time by 60+% over J2EE development.
Patent Freedom
We developed a dynamic global community that allows members to subscribe to a peer network of IP executives in similarly situated operating companies to explore defensive strategies against non-practicing entities (NPEs). This community has a unique privacy model that provides participants the choice of hiding or revealing their identity. This site includes discussions, blogs, tagging, comments, document management and rating system functions in addition to being the world's largest source of consolidated NPE information.
The Patent Board
We specified and built the first generation of their intellectual property web-based research platform. The hybrid closed and open source solution allows users to conduct complex searches across millions of patent documents, analysis patent collections with proprietary algorithms, and a dashboard for tracking and analyzing their patent portfolio.
Lehman Brothers
We designed a bank-wide opportunity and fee model to capture and assess Equities research contribution to the firm's overall revenues to help the bank assess how their clients' demands for content delivery were changing. The model looked across trading, prime brokerage and asset servicing to understand the impact of the existing research product and the worksheets/templates focused on aspects of client use that would help the bank evolve their offering to sustain their market-leading rank.
PlumLife
PlumLife approached OpenCrowd with their product idea to build a unique set of organizational tools to aid in the many tasks/events one has to keep track of when managing an household. We developed a prototype to demonstrate the vision and are in the process of developing the service for release this summer.
College Fanz
We developed a social networking site targeting the ultimate college fan. This site is the brain-child of ESPN's original founder, Bill Rasmussen, and promotes the network effect of the web through such features as YouTube and flickr integration for video and photo multi-media management. It also has extensive Web 2.0 functionality such as blogging, tagging, discussions, wiki supported documents, RSS feeds and handlers as well as support for widgets.
ICC
Using state of the art Avaya 8710 communication manager and application enablement services OpenCrowd has developed a real time monitoring solution for one of the web's largest media streaming sites. This new broadcast monitoring application will drastically improve the quality of service of streaming media over VOIP and their response to disrupted events. This new solution is anticipated to have a ROI of less than six months.
Core Performance
We built out a customized community targeted at athletes looking to improve by using Core Performance's personalized online workout and nutrition programs. The challenge was to ensure that the site was compelling enough to draw the user in, and intuitive enough to allow the users to share their stories and engage in the community. We implemented a customized solution on the Jive Clearspace Community platform that enabled the users to easily have discussions, share documents, answer questions, create social groups and stay current through RSS feeds and notifications.
Oppenheimer Funds
We redesigned and built Oppenheimer Capital's entire web presence and content management system using Microsoft's new Share Point Server 2007. Unlike most intranet Share Point deployments, this is an external customer facing application that will streamline content authoring, workflow approval and publication.
Solinea
We helped Solinea is a web-based solar startup, demonstrate its vision through a prototype of providing automated solutions to streamline the end-to-end solar system implementation process, which includes an online community of industry experts connecting and advising each other as well as buyers.
