Case Studies

Every day, the small editorial staff of the B2B publisher Smart Brief is responsible for churning out more than 60 email newsletters. Such an endeavor requires diligence, patience, sound editorial judgment … and a really good text analytics tool. Smart Brief found that tool Lexalytics, which offered a rapid installation time for its products in addition to all of the text analytics essentials.

For nearly 10 years, CoreObjects Software,managed its meetings with follow-up conversations and emails summarizing what took place and identifying next steps. This approach had its limitations: agendas often were known only to the people who called the meetings, making it difficult for other participants to contribute, and it was difficult to track follow-up assignments, among other things. MeetingSense Software Corp. helped CoreObjects streamline its product development process and experience many other benefits as well.

Beyond helping Bowker solve its immediate need for a better search engine, Mark Logic also assisted the company with its long-term goals for a solid content repository that can grow with it.

Attenex provided SQ Global the opportunity to address efficiency, productivity, and quality control measures in just one product. SQ Global primarily used Attenex’s Document Mapper.

MWW Group turned to Socialtext to better manage projects, track news in real time, gather information updates, and ease communications for its own disparate workforce, as well with as clients around the world.

As the photo-sharing site MyPhotoAlbum began to grow--with its storage needs along with it--the company realized that its ISP was no longer able to keep up with the site's demand. The company decided to move to an in-house storage system from ONStor to increase scalability and to regain a sense of control.

One Economy is a multi-national nonprofit organization that brings broadband to the homes of low-income people and provides a multilingual web portal called The Beehive, which connects people with information and services ranging from education and health to employment. To date more than 9 million people have used the Beehive, 20% of whom accessed the content in Spanish, and over 200,000 low-income people have broadband at home through the work of One Economy.

In overhauling its content management system—and approach—Siteworx worked with NAFSA to develop a more modern design, a more intuitive navigation system, indexed search functionality, and professional networks for different specialties.

MetaPress helps SpringerLink provide a unified interface and one-stop shop for Springer’s massive and diverse content collection.

Ektron helps the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General update its website and implement a CMS in order to better facilitate the public-safety needs of the citizens of Pennsylvania.

FeedBurner helps SOHH.com gain insights into the uses (and users) of its content and help the site to better monetize its offerings in the process.

NewsGator Technologies helps Edelman tap the power of social media to enhance its public relations practice.

IBM provided California State University, Long Beach with 200 WebAdapt2Me licenses and server software that integrates it with the campus’s existing web delivery environment.

Latitude Consulting helps the Chrysler Group upgrade its Learning Management System and improve the way it administers dealer certification and training programs to provide better web access, scalability, flexibility, and control.

InQuira helps Mentor Graphics improve its already award-winning customer service by helping its customers help themselves.

Open Text helps Fluor Hanford integrate its paperwork into a digital workflow by implementing an enterprise content management system.

Traction and b-spirit.com help SITA foster collaboration and communication between about 100 of its team members and enable them to create a searchable knowledge base.

SealedMedia helps the German Sports University Cologne develop digital coursework by enabling it to easily digitally collaborate while protecting its valuable assets in the process.

RedDot Solutions helps streamline Web content management for NAIB's Aqua.org, which helped it reduce its IT needs and focus more on creating content and delivering a better user experience.

Every month, PlayStation 2’s online network draws millions of users from across a wide range of demographics, ages, and cultural backgrounds. Once in the system, users generate their own screen names, input titles for their games, and can communicate with fellow players via text messaging. All this text is potentially visible to the entire online community, creating the need for a way to monitor these lines of text and filter out anything vulgar or that wouldn’t be considered family-friendly. SCEA turned to Teragram for its complex, multi-language filtering needs.

IBM and Collaborative Learning Network provide the Nechako Lakes School District with a robust educational portal to help it provide adequate educational resources to all of its students, regardless of the size or financial resources of their local schools.

The New Yorker was interested in providing a complete archive of its magazine to its readers, and was intent on also providing a disc-based product. Through a truly collaborative process with Bondi Digital Publishing and Lizard Tech, The New Yorker produced a beautifully packaged eight-DVD collection that includes a search database, abstracts, issue-by-issue tables of contents, and the cover art for each issue.

The Red Cross' Manatee County Chapter worked with E Solutions to build a site that supports its humanitarian efforts--from providing essential information to volunteer recruiting and training.

ClearStory Systems helps SPE find a better way to manage its assets and to compress the time associated with review and approval cycles

Vivisimo helps University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System patrons effectively search more than 300 health and biomedical titles in ebook form.

Thomas Technology Solutions helps Northstar Travel Media streamline its production process and unify its systems.