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The Game Show Network (www.gsn.com) debuted the season premier of its seventh season of the television show High Stakes Poker on Saturday, February 26 2011. Achieve Internet was proud to have participated in the premier by developing a brand-new website to support the show. Game Show Network worked with a creative agency to design the site, and Achieve Internet implemented it. Some might call 5 days from comps to website an implementation. We called it a Bull Run!
This is the first Game Show Network TV show website to be built in Drupal. In addition to standard functionality, the site includes custom integration with a third-party system for playing and featuring Flash video.
The High Stakes Poker site is optimized so that when there are spikes in traffic, the site will handle the load gracefully, through the use of several complex caching techniques that are proven to improve performance.
Launched a fully functional site in an exceptionally tight timeframe that incorporates full TV episodes of Flash video, social networking capabilities, a blog feed and player biographies.
The affiliate marketing group of Univision Communications Inc. came to Achieve Internet with a capacity issue Tasked with promoting subscriptions in the Latino market for their cable provider client, the affiliate marketing group focuses on monthly newsletters and multi-channel giveaways.
Achieve built a mini website that displays the promotion, ensures that the rules are read and understood, collects basic and detailed demographic information and finally provides an interface to dissect and extract the valuable data collected.
Since the project's inception participation in the Univision promotions has increased 500% and readership of the newsletter has doubled.
Increased participation in Univision promotions and newsletter engagement by disseminating demographic information to ensure the desired content is sent to the proper audience.
Penton Media, Inc. is a 125-year-old business-to-business (b2b) media company that produces digital and print publications, and industry experts with the information they need to make decisions. Penton has deep and long-running experience in over a dozen industries with an online reach of over 90 million unique visitors a year.
One of Penton’s recent digital initiatives involved creating a Drupal-based comparison engine for eventual use on many different web properties. The engine allows site visitors to select items for comparison, then sort and filter them based on a variety of attributes. Penton’s comparison needs are more diverse then most, and their goal is to use the same engine to power up to 150 different web sites that compare a wide array of products and services.
In building the engine, Achieve created several modules, taking care not to hard-code logic related to the types of items the engine compares. Instead, configurations for what types of items to compare, which data point attributes to use, how many attributes to display in the initial comparison, and many other options, including configurable email notifications and messaging on the site, all happen via web-based administration. This makes the engine more flexible, and it enables non-technical administrators to quickly deploy a comparison site.
The engine is a piece of technology that allows Penton to execute the core of their business—adding value to business to business transactions by effectively managing and sharing information and making it accessible to end users.
NBC Universal is a leader in the entertainment world with hundreds of online properties that require constant attention. NBCU’s Telemundu division reached out to Achieve for help migrating their HolaMun2.com property over to a Drupal management system. HolaMun2.com is an English language site focused on Latino Pop Culture and directed towards the 13 to 18 year old demographic. Telemundo and NBCU wanted this site to have community engagement capabilities, advanced user permission settings, and sophisticated photo gallery functionality.
In order for Achieve to accomplish the photo gallery functionality the development team first had to tackle a number of other core Drupal modules that are complementary to the Photo Gallery module. User Experience for any site is of paramount focus for Achieve and this site was no different, especially given the highly elegant end result that Telemundu and NBCU desired.
By leveraging our expertise in core and contributed Drupal modules Achieve created a truly engaging site that increased performance and overall user experience.
Delivered a fully functionality website with search capabilities, social networking tools, and an engaging photo gallery tool that allows commenting and sharing for authorized users.
Guardion Health Sciences, a company focused on addressing the escalating demand for solutions to improve life-diminishing health problems facing the aging Baby Boomer generation, approached Achieve to develop an e-Commerce solution for its online billing system. With over 90,000 hours of Drupal development experience Guardion had confidence that Achieve was the premier Drupal partner for its enterprise billing solution.
Guardion needed to convert its recurring billing function from their existing Ubercart system that leveraged the Authorize.net payment gateway to a Customer Information Management (CIM) based billing solution. Achieve had to create a software solution that gave Guardion better control over its billing process.
In order to accomplish the desired functionality Achieve had to contribute new modules that allowed for the proper CIM integration. Achieve also added new administrative interfaces to facilitate the ability to better manage all billing processes from the back-end.
Achieve was able to provide Guardion increased control over its billing process. This responsive ability was done smoothly and created a seamless transition for existing customers. Guardion saw this as a key blocker to its success and Achieve was able to successfully navigate this challenge to help promote continued growth.
Converted the existing billing system and enhanced the platform to provide increased control to site administrators, thereby creating a more responsive and agile billing solution, and improving the billing process for new and existing customers.
Dexcom Inc. (NASDAQ: DXCM) is a medical device company that develops, manufactures and distributes continuous glucose monitoring systems for diabetes management. Dexcom wanted to accomplish a unique online store for patient re-orders, but could not afford to scrap their valuable current client data locked within their existing internal Oracle system, which was HIPPA compliant.
By utilizing Drupal web services Achieve was able to create a HIPAA compliant site while also establishing a secure method of access to critical client data. Through an array of custom built modules Achieve was able to keep all the client data, but the one bit of requested information, locked in Dexcom’s Oracle system behind a firewall at all times.
By leveraging Drupal’s extensible framework, a vast array of contributed modules and in some cases automating the workflow, Achieve was able to help Dexcom reduce their overall cost of sales (COS) and increase sales exponentially. All of this was accomplished by adapting to the current client data in Dexcom’s Oracle system, which helps minimize disruption to existing IT infrastructure.
The Dexcom site now provides a great User Experience by giving patients access to their insurance records, and their diabetes devices in one place so that diabetes patients are able to get their necessary glucose monitoring devices in a timely fashion with ease, in a HIPPA compliant fashion.
Amerigroup contacted Achieve to help support the launching and hosting of a new corporate website built on Drupal, and the project proved to be a great challenge to Achieve for a number of reasons.
Achieve had to utilize all of its expertise in Drupal development to deliver a project that allowed Amerigroup to launch their digital property with confidence, confidence that the site would perform up to Amerigroup’s standards and maintain regulatory compliance with HIPAA, HITECH and Sarbanes-Oxley.
Achieve developed a system where authorized content authors could make updates to the website and put those updates through an internal review process, subsequently deploying content updates to the live production environment once approved. Achieve delivered a hosting environment that was easily extensible to accommodate the future growth of Amerigroup’s systems. Behind these servers, our developers configured a MySQL cluster to handle all of the data storage needs of the sites.
Achieve Internet provided Amerigroup with a robust, flexible, and extensible infrastructure for handling both its immediate and near-future hosting needs. Additionally, our all star development team provided systems that allow Amerigroup to comply with the need to manage content deployment and provide a solid audit trail of changes made to the system, while adhering to all regulatory practices and standards.
Achieve provided an elegant solution to the myriad of compliance and regulatory challenges facing Amerigroup’s digital infrastructure. Achieve built an online property that was compliant in all facets from the servers, to the administrators, and that was delivered as an intuitive interface for the end-user.
Achieve has a rich history of collaboration with RightScale. The company provides efficient configuration, monitoring, automation, and governance of cloud computing infrastructure. So when RightScale needed two new digital properties they turned to Achieve for help. For the first project, RightScale required assistance with the migration of content from a previous site to a new multilingual site with languages in Japanese and Korean. The second site that Achieve developed for RightScale was a Conference Organizing Distribution (C.O.D.) site site which is used for building conferences and event sites online and is a way to increase revenue focused around the many online and offline conferences that RightScale hosts.
For each project, RightScale had Achieve focus heavily on User Experience, specifically on the back-end of the platform to facilitate administrative workflow.
In both instances Achieve created custom modules that simplified the process of updating content to the sites. Achieve was able to create a custom module, The Translation Management Dashboard, which established an easy-to-use interface for translators. For the second project Achieve had to focus on both the unique agenda display, which strayed from core Drupal components, and workflow facilitation.
The Translation Management Dashboard was able to streamline the process of converting content in English to the desired, Japanese or Korean languages for the new site.
For the C.O.D. site, Achieve created a module that replicated the unique agenda display that RightScale desired.
In both instances, Achieve streamlined the workflow for content editors by creating custom back-end interfaces that increased efficiency, which ultimately saved time, resources and money for RightScale.
Drupal.org bustles with activity, and since it’s the face Drupal presents to the world, speed, capacity, cutting-edge look-and-feel, and impressive functionality are all important. Drupal.org decided to upgrade their site in early 2010 and turned to Achieve to help with a key component of the site, the Apache Solr Search mechanism. Drupal.org needed a search function with more expansive options and filters then on their previous site.
Drupal.org depended on the Achieve Internet team, which had completed several successful enterprise Solr integrations, to lead the development and configuration of the search infrastructure for the new web site. By integrating the Lucene Java search library to store data, Solr provides fast, efficient, and highly customizable search solutions for Drupal-based Web sites.
For Drupal.org the search box in the top right allows users to perform a Solr search by Modules, Themes, Documentation, or Forums & Issues. Through Apache Solr integration, administrators can now gain control over which results are returned and how they are displayed.
By implementing Apache Solr Search, Drupal.org now has a much more extensive and greater functioning search mechanism. This has proven to be a great benefit to the Drupal community by giving more access to more modules to developers worldwide.
DivX, LLC, a subsidiary of Rovi Corporation, helps consumers enjoy a high-quality video experience on any device or platform, and because of this, the company needs its website operating at peak performance at all times in order to connect the consumer with the solutions that the company sells.
When DivX approached Achieve it had a website structure and code base that had been edited and altered by a number of different freelance developers. Unfortunately, the site would not operate as it was supposed to and DivX did not have a dependable internal development team to solve the issue. The company asked Achieve to come in and clean up the current state of the code base, resolve problems with the localization matrix, and implement Drupal best-practices to optimize the performance of the site.
These kinds of projects are not foreign to Achieve. We have compiled the smartest developers into one shop and they revel in solving the most complex issues. Achieve is routinely sought after to fix projects that are too complicated for other development firms. By utilizing our expertise and experience we were able to harness the globalization and localization functionality of Drupal in order to resolve the issues DivX was having. A necessary localization module integration was needed for the site to render the correct data and operate at its peak performance.
DivX’s software is its lifeblood, and its source of revenue, the software lives on their website which makes the need for an optimized digital property that much more critical. With the support of Achieve DivX was able to launch a re-vamped site that enhanced the consumer experience and ran at its peak. This was important to DivX due because an optimized digital property that is running at its peak results in higher conversion rates -- in DivX’s case -- more product downloads, which would increase revenue.
Achieve standardized all of the code on the DivX site and re-organized and re-modeled the localization matrix following strict best practice guidelines to deliver a more functional and optimized website.
Bella Picture’s wanted to undertake a complete digital property overhaul and they targeted their smaller site StudioBlue as their model for future sites. They needed to implement a number of key components including Ubercart, user registration, and payment scheduling, yet they lacked the depth of Drupal knowledge needed to successfully complete the task.
Achieve was able to develop a fully functional site with easy to use payment options and scheduling features by integrating Ubercart. Achieve streamlined the registration process and allowed the visitor to interact with the true power of Bella without the stress of commitment. Achieve also wrote a custom module to handle this complex ordering process between Drupal, Ubercart and the Authorize.net system to allow users to set up a payment plan online.
Achieve created a site for Bella that organized all their desired information into an easy to use architecture, which can be leveraged by Bella’s development team for future branded websites within Bella’s portfolio.
Removed the guesswork and hassle of in picking and paying for a wedding photographer by integrating Ubercart and creating a unique buying experience.
Hunter Industries is a worldwide distributor of residential and commercial irrigation systems with a global reach of over 80 countries and over 30,000 product SKUs. The goal was to incorporate all the product information in one easy to use location with the capacity to be translated in up to 24 different languages.
Achieve created an architecture and management system, by utilizing a customized Apache Solr search module, of an incredible amount of information in a way that does not overwhelm the end-user. Achieve also utilized the Globalization ability of Drupal by creating the Media Translation module to allow Hunter to group together related media files into a “translation set,” and then automatically show the correct file for that language site.
A 3 month Google Analytics review of the old site, 2011, to the new site, 2012, proved that Hunter’s initial goals were meet and they saw 103% increase in visits, 93% increase in unique visitors, 160% increase in page views, and a 34% decrease in bounce rate. This was all accomplished on a site that now has 8,550 new pages, 4,743 images and documents, and 487 documents for download, in 7 different languages.
Focused scope of information to eliminate decision paralysis among clients when purchasing Hunter Products at commercial retail stores.
As a leader in the consumer and business credit reporting industry, Experian collects credit data on over 3 million U.S businesses annually. The company is revolutionizing the way businesses interact with clients and customers based on their credit score. Experian wanted the ability to develop new digital properties at a more rapid pace, properties that interacted with their internal systems and databases. Unfortunately the company lacked the expertise to solve this challenge so they came to Achieve for help.
Experian wanted to create a customer environment where the user could update various pieces of their personal information and history, to better reflect their credit report. The second site Experian wanted was an interactive interface for businesses that would allow companies to track the credit worthiness of customers, and highlight potential risks associated with each account.
Achieve developed three sites to reach consumers and provide them the ability to change incorrect information to better help manage their credit scores. Through a series of communications and interactions between servers and users, the system would authenticate the user and give them the opportunity to update their personal information.
These new web properties gave Experian the ability to productize a business application, that provided meaningful and beneficial insight into potential client behavior that gave businesses greater confidence when making decisions.
Delivered a seamless integration of existing internal systems with new cutting-edge digital properties that further enhanced Experian’s value proposition to its customers.
Annex Brands, Inc., based in San Diego, California, is a franchisor of over 360 retail and commercial shipping and business service centers located across the U.S. and Canada. Annex came to Achieve due to our reputation as enterprise Drupal experts and our location in San Diego. Annex wanted a web development firm that would walk them through the project with a hands-on approach and instill confidence in their re-designed digital properties.
Achieve was able to use its extensive experience and expertise to take on and complete all the various tasks that Annex requested such as; performance optimization architecture and planning, development, and increasing user. We went through the code with a fine toothcomb cleaning up the code base, removing errors and improving usability and performance.
Achieve implemented web development best-practices into the Annex site so that moving forward the company would have fewer limitations and increased opportunity to grow its business given the challenges Achieve helped to resolve. These best practices made it easier for administrators with little technical knowledge to maintain an operational state of the site.
Improved site performance leveraging web development best-practices to increase the lifespan of the site as well as improve functionality and user experience.
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