This page provides a list of our more interesting former client engagements undertaken over the past decade of business.

A list of the most current clients can be found on our current client list page.

Alchemedia.com and CleverContent.com

Our Role: Producer for Corporate Web site and Image Curator for Artists Web site

Our producers worked on the team to build a corporate web site for Alchemedia.com. Alchemedia.com provides Clever Content!" products and services to safeguard online images from unauthorized use.

CleverContent.com is an image hub that connects content buyers with sellers. We acted as Image Curator for this site, in collaboration with Raise the Bar, to work with all the artisans to gather and select images.

BigWords asked us to design a system for acquiring a database of college textbooks, and a system for acquiring lists of required books for courses in various universities. These systems were designed to expand and improve the content offered on bigwords.com and also to enhance the textbook buying experience.

Between 1991 and 2001 we were responsible for the DiabetesWell web site, an online service to provide medical care to patients with diabetes. This included site architecture, content development, appearance and web site technology. This web site ran on Windows 2000 using Active Server Pages (ASP) and SQL Server 7.0. In addition, we developed technology that allowed DiabetesWell patients to transfer readings from glucose meters to DiabetesWell over the Internet. Patients can graph their readings online and track health online. We also developed a new patient portal for DiabetesWell that enabled online communication between patients and caregivers.

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For the robust FamilyWonder site, we developed infrastructure for acquiring a catalog database of movies, music and books, as well as links to commerce system and interactive tools for enhancing, correcting and managing database content. We also developed an interactive web-based application for editing and updating database content using Cold Fusion.

For FocusEngine, we are guiding product and business strategy. We are also helping with product implementation and developing FocusEngine's high-availability server infrastructure. Our product and business strategy contribution has involved helping FocusEngine determine its business model and product deployment strategy. Also important, we helped FocusEngine understand how to customize its front-ends for multiple customers with maximum efficiency. Finally, we managed a major upgrade to FocusEngine's high-availability server infrastructure at a top-tier co-location facility.

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In our engagement with HopeLink, we developed the HopeLink corporate web site. We developed this web site using Nav-Code, one a technology that allows us to reduce the effort required to develop a site. The platform for the HopeLink web site is the Apache Web server running on the Sun Solaris Operating System. All of our scripting for this web site was implemented in Java Server Pages (JSP) using WebLogic from BEA Systems and Jrun from Allaire Corporation. We also provided strategic consulting to HopeLink, advising them on Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions, security, patient record confidentiality and Virtual Private Networks (VPN).

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HotDispatch asked us to provide design and architecture advice for an Oracle database back-end system, including optimizing database architecture for maximum performance and server efficiency. We are also designing a replication system for improving reliability and recovery from failure, and providing advice for optimizing system security related to financial transactions.

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We developed a customer-configured desktop interface for Impresse's web-based enterprise printing server. This interface uses XML to allow customers to customize Impresse's product and integrate it into popular desktop applications. We have also developed a coordinated set of client-side and server-side controls that are key components of Impresse's web-based core product.

For Kleiner Perkins, we provided business evaluations for their potential investments in Vignette Corporation and Kana Corporation. Vignette is the leading provider of Content Management Systems (CMS) for organizations that publish content on the web. Kana Corporation is a leading provider of Internet-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions. For each company, we visited corporate headquarters and interviewed top management and key members of the technical staff. During these interviews, we assessed the products, underlying technology and best practices used to develop the products. We also evaluated the team members' skills and experience.

For McGraw-Hill Publishing, we provided strategy and troubleshooting advice during the final stages of this product development effort, and provided highly technical testing services, contacts and liaison with key technology vendors and software architecture improvements.

We designed and implemented Medsite's complete interface for searching Medline databases. Medline, published by the United States National Library of Medicine, is the world's most comprehensive source of life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information, with nearly eleven million records in its database.

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We developed a series of project management web sites that allow NearSpace to communicate project status to its own customers. We also worked with this client to develop NearSpace venue technology for wireless handheld devices, and to build the server used to develop, test and publish NearSpace venues.

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In 1998 we collaborated with our partners Raise the Bar to develop this web site for NEC's PowerVR gaming chip.  The site spoke provided information for multiple audiences -- gamers, game developers, OEMs and Press.

We developed a Flash-based demonstration application for NEC that described the different NEC Microcontrollers and provided PDF-based sales information to be delivered on CD-ROM to NEC salespeople.

We developed a series of CD-ROMs for Network Associates that provided HTML- and PDF-based sales materials to Network Associates customers and salespeople. The series included demonstrations of the Magic TSD, CyberCop, and Total Virus Defense products.

Peter Winer is a member of Niku's Technical Advisory Committee. This Committee is lead by the Chief Technical Officer of Niku and meets periodically to consider technical issues that are relevant to Niku's ongoing business. Over the history of the committee, technical issues have included platform selection, Java versions, security, network performance and application servers. The committee has also evaluated product and feature issues and issues related to Niku's competing products.

We successfully launched Mirapoint.com and completed numerous re-launches to coincide with major product announcements. While we continued to maintain the sites for a year, we helped the company transition to an internal resource. This customer support site includes a system for tracking customers, personalizing the web experience, providing electronic mail feedback forms, secure site log-ins, and backend databases to support the site. The HTML based CD-ROM demonstrated the company's Internet e-mail appliance server products.

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We provided due diligence consulting to Randall Publishing as they pursued acquisitions of two vertical market web site ventures in the trucking and oilfield services industry.

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For Reel.com, we developed information agents that acquired a multi-million record database of movies from six different Internet sources. These agents collected the records in an Oracle-based relational database. We developed a sophisticated task manager that was used to acquire the movie information across the Internet with maximum efficiency and bandwidth conservation. Our technology developed for Reel.com also included software to implement business rules for mining the acquired movie information, ensuring the least redundancy and highest quality of information.

We were hired by Simulsync to design their original system architecture to bridge an SS7 telephone-switching network with the Internet to add on-screen visual experiences to telephone calls.? We also went on to implement a working proof-of-concept demonstrating the Simulsync architecture and business.

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We evaluated the business of ADB-Matisse, a French and American software developer that was part of Sofinnova's investment portfolio. ADB developed an Internet-based Content Management System (CMS). Our primary focus in this business evaluation was to compare ADB's product to existing products in the market. We compared ADB's specific features to Vignette and Interwoven, the two main established players in the market at the time of our evaluation.

We assisted in developing secure customer authentication technology for the SoftBook Press Electronic Book system. We also developed a web-based interface and technology for managing customer accounts.

Sun hired the Raise the Bar team to create a sales-centric intranet and customer-centric external web site that communicates common solutions and product stories to Sun Microsystems field personnel and to customers. As producers on these sites, our team members managed the content flow and development process, including updating content for numerous product launches.

As the technical members of the Tapcast advisory board, we provided technology advice that helped create the strategy and direction of this early-stage startup. We recommended platforms and tools, specifically including web-based community applications. We also helped Tapcast define their feature set and workflow for their application and corporate web site.

We conducted a business evaluation of Channelinx on behalf of Veronis Suhler Associates and their wholly owned subsidiary, Hanley Wood. Channelinx is a technology provider of business-to-business e-commerce technology for the construction industry. Hanley Wood is a publisher of trade magazines for the construction industry.

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wiredKitchen.com

Our Role: Strategic Consulting to B2B Startup

We provided technology consulting to this early-stage startup venture. WiredKitchen is developing a business-to-business marketplace that serves buyers in restaurants, offering them access to supplies from multiple vendors. Our consulting included creating a functional specification for the WiredKitchen product, including information architecture, system architecture, platforms and applications. We also provided business evaluations of potential partners. Our engagement with WiredKitchen also included developing early versions of its corporate web site and brand identity.