Search, BI and Services

Large Yellow Page Publisher

Established a formal services oriented architecture (SOA) for large yellow pages group who needed to build an environment where functions could be re-used instead of having multiple groups re-developing the same function over and over. One service was used by 5 different user groups across North America. Another set of services were used to communicate order and advertising information from mainframe system and the Apple IPAD for sales person use. All services were developed using C# under .Net and WCF.

Large parts distributor

Developed shopping catalog pilot program using Endeca – software was purchased 5 years earlier, but ADS was first to show how faceted navigation search could be used effectively to help user find the part they were looking for in 400,000 part catalog.

Large health publisher

ADS developed resource centers for many focused health areas. The architecture allowed for rapid development by using standard and flexible media player functions and full blown content management system. Developed “services and suppliers” directories for 4 major health areas.

Large steel manufacturer

ADS developed and supported flexible and easy to use data entry and decision support systems that support the front-office (sales support, service) and back-office (fulfillment) needs of the business. Services were used to ensure that these systems are easy to maintain.

Spend management software company

Built analytical tools for reporting on progress of spend management programs. The applications were easy to use for discovery and deep data drill downs using SOLR for navigation, Mongo for big data processing and Fusion charts for charting. The combination of these tools creates an analytic user experience that if very different than many other more costly and hard to use OLAP tools.