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You can listen to us sing our own praises all day long, but as they say, "the proof is in the pudding." Learn more about the variety of projects and unique clients we've worked with by reading through our case studies.
Development of specifications for an initial phase of EWEB's McKenzie Agricultural Water Management System (MAWMS) project. Throughout the process of developing these specifications, we worked closely with project stakeholders to determine the goals and priorities of the project, as well as provide creative ideas about the features which the web application could provide. Working from requirements gathered in those conversations, as well as existing documents describing the high-level goals of the project, we proposed our vision of a web community that would support the target audience for the application, consisting of food producers and buyers in the McKenzie watershed. In order to effectively communicate with stakeholders and document project expectations, we developed three levels of specification. First, we created a Vision and Scope document, which provided a high-level overview of the software application and its main features. Next, we provided a detailed Requirements Specification, which describes use cases as well as functional and non-functional requirements of the project. Lastly, we created a Design Specification, which described the architecture and technical details of the web application. Over the past two years, we have been involved as a consultant for EWEB, helping to evaluate potential options in its ongoing pursuit of the project.
CengageNOW is a large-scale online learning management system, with over 1.1 million registered users and peak usage of nearly 100,000 unique logins per day. It is backed by the Covalent content delivery system, which provides an elegant integration between CengageNOW and other LMSs, allowing the use of Cengage content in any Covalent-enabled client LMS. Emberex is a premier technical vendor for Cengage Learning, providing technical management, software development, and both white- and black-box quality assurance services. In addition, we have provided valuable technical advice and consulting with respect to all facets of the CengageNOW project. We have been responsible for designing, architecting, and developing both new features and ongoing maintenance of the software platform. The platform itself is large and complex, consisting of several thousand Java classes as well as a variety of open source frameworks and supporting technologies. We have responded to a variety of challenges and successfully collaborated with third party development and quality assurance vendors. Throughout our involvement in the project, Cengage Learning has repeatedly expressed their appreciation of our ability to consistently deliver high-quality results in a professional manner.
InstantAction.com is an online gaming community providing an immersive 3D video game experience within a web browser. Emberex is solely responsible for the architecture, development and maintenance of the ecommerce component of the application. In addition to standard ecommerce functionality, the InstantAction Store involves the use of a virtual currency model, in which real currency is exchanged for ActionTokens, with which members are able to purchase games and other premium content in the InstantAction community. This introduces a level of complexity above and beyond that which is normally found in online commerce applications. During the development of the InstantAction store, Emberex has worked closely with the InstantAction platform development team as well as third party payment processors and payment gateways. In addition to the ecommerce component, we have been involved in the development and maintenance of several other areas within the InstantAction platform. Garage Games has indicated that Emberex is unique in our ability to maintain a positive and professional relationship as a technology vendor and to consistently exceed expectations with respect to functionality and timelines.
Emberex designed and developed an online survey data collection application, which is used in a variety of research projects. The application replaces a pen and paper solution with an online tool that manages all facets of user management, survey data collection, and reporting. The application is designed to allow dynamic generation of survey pages based upon definitions created in a markup language; thus, rather than creating an entirely new application for each research project, the tool may instead be reused in its entirety, but with a different set of survey definitions. Additional features include reporting of statistical data, data export, and dependency-based interactions between different surveys within a single research project. Also included are a complete set of user registration, authentication, and role management features. The project has been developed in PHP using exclusively open-source technologies.
Emberex has been involved in a variety of projects for Avant Assessment, including enhancements to their online assessment delivery platform, creation of a web application to collect relevant data about the capabilities and setup of client computers in order to evaluate their compatibility with the assessment delivery platform, and performance testing, analysis, and optimization services. Performance evaluation was done using open-source tools, and as a result of our efforts, Avant was able to significantly increase their ability to handle peak load on their system.
We know we can count on Emberex.
Dave Bong, CEO, Avant Assessment