NearSpace, Inc. provides mobile information services for the built environment by helping businesses deliver information about a building directly via wireless handheld devices.

Strategic Consulting

In May, 2000 we began the first phase of our engagement with NearSpace by providing business model and architecture advice for optimizing NearSpace s web offering. We also helped our client identify potential customers and partners and provided strategies for optimizing customer and partner adoption of the NearSpace system.

Customer Management Sites

After this first phase, we rapidly transitioned into implementation, focusing on helping NearSpace work with its customers and on developing core product technology.

We developed a series of project management web sites that allow NearSpace to communicate the latest status of important projects directly to its customers. These sites were implemented using Big Chief's own web management technology, which allowed our client to build multiple new sites quickly and efficiently as new customers were signed up. These sites run on a Windows 2000 server hosted at our facility, and scripting was implemented in Allaire Cold Fusion Server.

Product Technology Development

In addition to the project management sites, we worked with NearSpace and its customers to manage the process of developing and deploying NearSpace venues. We had our most extensive involvement with Key3Media, helping them develop NearSpace venues for their Customer Relationship Management (CRM) show and for Comdex Las Vegas.

We also helped NearSpace develop core technologies that are part of its product offerings by developing the server used to manage the process of developing, testing and publishing NearSpace venues. This server was developed using Allaire Cold Fusion Server and also contained customized interfaces to Java-based components developed by NearSpace.

We also developed the portions of NearSpace s browser-based client application for personal computers. This application uses HTML and Cold Fusion-based scripting to drive a Java applet that displays NearSpace venues in a Web browser.