Digital Ideas Accelerated
Digital Ideas Accelerated
$50,000+
$50 - $99 / hr
250 - 999
Founded
2001
Focus
Portfolio
Key clients:
AstraZeneca, Thomson Reuters, Foss Swim School, Fluke, Staywell, Questar, Trane, blackriver, WeVest, POPS! Diabetes Care, Jostens, Spok, Braun Intertec, NASA, InBox Dollars
GOAL: Promote cultural programming on a dynamic a digital platform that flexes with a growing organization’s needs.
EVOLVE STRATEGIC MISSION WITH A FLEXIBLE PLATFORM: Administrators using The Great Northern’s new responsive web application benefit from a CMS that supports a high degree of customization and control so its digital presence remains fresh and engaging throughout the year. The Great Northern has the polished and flexible platform that can reliably support its evolving mission
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: UX/UI, QA, Cloud, Frontend, Backend, Web Development, Strategic Consulting
GOAL: Streamline payment processing and serve a growing user base with a mdern digital platform.
SCALE PLATFORM AND IMPROVE PAYMENT PROCESSING: We built a custom responsive web application that combines content management, customer management, workflows, and a new payment system. The application securely increases engagement and improves the buying and lending experience for Homes for Heroes' real estate agents, lenders, home buyers, and home sellers.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Web, UX/UI, QA, PHP, Project Management
GOAL: Use software to track literacy development and facilitate research initiatives therein.
CAPTURE DATA TO IMPROVE LITERACY: We worked with U of M researchers to build an application that measures young children’s literacy levels and language skills more effectively, but also equips teachers with data that can inform more effective lesson plans and assessment strategies. The software makes the work of research more efficient, as it supports more rapid and less costly testing of hypotheses.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Backend, iOS, Bluetooth, Mobile
GOAL: Develop a mobile app that empowers people to manage their diabetes on their own terms
SIMPLIFY HIPAA-COMPLIANT DATA SHARING: Our solution syncs the user's smartphone to a glucose meter through a mobile app interface. User data is shared with healthcare professionals through a cloud-based, HIPAA-compliant network. Users may choose to share their data with family members to reinforce the management of healthy habits in a holistic way.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Mobile, Web, UX/UI, iOS
GOAL: Create a platform solution that improves health management, benefits awareness and enrollment by connecting insurance companies, providers and employers with members.
TARGETED CONTENT USERS NEED: The app allows employers, benefits companies and health plans the ability to deliver curated content users seek; with push notifications, banner ads, SMS or email. After a brief questionnaire, Kaviva automatically promotes well-being through gentle guidance, education and feedback.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Android, Backend, Database, iOS, Mobile, Software Testing, Java, Web
GOAL: Ease class registration, survey completion, and enable a deeper engagement with customers with a new digital platform.
TOOLS THAT REDUCE BARRIERS TO LEARNING: Our experts collaborated with FOSS to design and deliver a robust web experience that supports communications between customers and staff. iPad-based questionnaires provide outlets for parents to share comments and concerns in real time.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: backend, database, strategic consulting, UX/UI, iOS, AngularJS, .NET, SQL Server
GOAL: Build upon internal developers' capabilities to satisfy mpre users via mobile screens.
ENGAGE MOBILE USERS: Leading the technical strategy behind the InboxDollars mobile applications, our developers built and continue to refine application layout and design, security recommendations, SDK integrations, and their positioning on app stores.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Dedicated team, frontend, iOS, Android
GOAL: Create a customized HIPAA-compliant messaging system for providers and their teams.
COORDINATING CARE THROUGH INTEGRATED COMMUNICATIONS: We designed software that allows teams to customize their communication preferences so messages reach them on their preferred devices. Smartphones or tablets can be used to receive secure code alerts, view patient updates, check lab results, prioritized two-way administrator messaging and more.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Android, iOS, Microsoft .NET, Software Testing, UX/UI, Web
GOAL: Leverage technology to increase student-to-student collaboration and information retention in the classroom.
TECHNOLOGY INSPIRES COLLABORATIVE LEARNING: iNeuron, a collaborative app for iPads, offers expertly-designed, self-paced lessons in neuroscientific concepts via an interactive, learning-oriented game.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Mobile, iOS, Backend
GOAL: Give dentistry professionals access to a communication dashboard they can access from a smartphone or a computer.
RAPID ON-DEMAND CARE: OperaDDS allows users to send HIPAA-compliant messages to their team members. The platform includes several components. The online collaboration portal, Chorus, enables secure email communication, patient progress tracking and lab data review. Chorus ensures team cases and conversations are always efficient and always available.
SINGLE-TOUCH MESSAGING: The Pager functionality gives teams the ability to send single-touch messages. Members can customize their communication preferences and even select messages from preset options.
GOAL: Put the computing and predictive power of a financial planner into the hands of consumers
PERSONALIZING INVESTMENT GUIDANCE: We partnered with WeVest to build a responsive web app and proprietary algorithms that provide recommendations to save against short and long-term goals.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Backend, Database, Financial, LAMP, Marketing, Software Testing, Strategy, UX/UI, Web
GOAL: Create a tool to bring the data-driven and social elements of the cycling experience together
A PLATFORM TO ENHANCE EXPERIENCE: We worked with blackriver to design an app that helps users find, track and curate social cycling experiences. blackriver is as much a place to share photos and find cycling inspiration as it is a tool that facilitates connections between riders and the local shops they support.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Android, iOS, Microsoft .NET, Mobile, UX/UI, Web
GOAL: Build a centralized, cloud-based solution to help property managers catalogue and maintain their investments.
MANAGING WORK VISUALLY: We built an app and desktop tools allowing property managers to view a map of a given building and log Points of Interest, or problem areas, by touching the screen of their smartphone.
STREAMLINE COMMUNICATIONS: 1Spot is also designed to eliminate wasted time and simplify workflows. Using geolocation, site layouts and issues can be viewed at any given time.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Backend, Database, Microsoft .NET, Mobile, Software Testing, Web
GOAL: Increase digital relevancy with a white label SaaS solution.
A DIGITAL SOLUTION TO SUSTAIN PROFIT: We helped Venture Solutions modernize its business by developing a mobile compatible and web responsive software concept that gives end users access to financial planning features.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: UX/UI, Web
Goal: Integrate the streaming broadcast with online access for viewers seeking a complete shopping experience.
MULTI-SCREEN CONTENT ENGAGEMENT REALIZED: EVINE Live, wanted to facilitate multi-screen content consumption enabling viewers to watch, shop, chat about and share their purchases without jarring or distracting their customers. To do this we designed an interactive shopping portal that combined streaming and online media to create an integrated user experience.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Android, iOS, Software Testing, Strategy
GOAL: Engage new users on mobile devices with a better platform.
CAPTIVATING IN-APP ADVERTISING: We designed a new advertising platform, several websites and apps with predictive analytics capabilities, helping NativeX make an impact and crack the mobile advertising market.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Android, JAVA, Microsoft .NET, Mobile, Web
GOAL: Build a digital tool to optimize early childhood assessments and supports kindergarten readiness.
HARNESSING DATA TO SUPPORT STUDENT ABILITY: We developed a technology suite that improves student performance monitoring and helps educators and administrators can make more data-based decisions for classrooms and districts. Long term progress goals can be met and education practices can be better understood.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: LAMP, Mobile, Strategy, Testing, UX/UI, Web
GOAL: Building operators need to respond quickly to customer calls.
EVOLVING TO SATISFY TODAY’S CUSTOMERS: The Trane Tracer BAS Operator Suite mobile app we built transforms HVAC system management providing a platform for data-driven services for monitoring and high-performance buildings.
FULL-ACCESS REMOTE CONTROL: The Trane Tracer Building Automation System Operator Suite mobile app places the controls in the hands of building operators, allowing for quick and efficient adjustments, from monitoring equipment and temperatures to managing alarms.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Android, Java, iOS, Mobile
GOAL: Design software solutions so consumers can easily manage multiple finances.
CONCEPTUALIZE, ARCHITECT A WHITE LABEL, MULTI-TENANT SAAS SOLUTION: We designed software to give users the ability to see and interact with mortgage statements. This solution allows users the ability to pay statements on a month-by-month basis or set up a recurring payment schedule. Users can also manage multiple mortgages at once, view their current month and historic months along with viewing escrow and tax payments.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Strategy, UX, Web
GOAL: Create an app to organize childcare information and streamline parents’ ability to share it.
FULL-STACK MOBILE DEVELOPMENT: Little Peanut on the Go, available in Google Play and the Apple Store, allows parents to create profiles for each child including medication emergency contacts and necessary instructions. Parents can create packing lists and care schedules, then share those with caregivers as many times as they need. While parents are away, they can check the app to view status posts caregivers have left cataloging progress throughout the day.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Android, Backend, Database, iOS, Microsoft .NET Mobile, Software Testing, UX/UI, Web, Xamarin
GOAL: Simplifying school-to-home communications by transforming the smartphone into an updates and resource hub.
RELAYING SPECIFIC UPDATES OR CRITICAL FACTS: The Jostens SchoolWay™ app features real-time push notifications sent by administrators and a feed that gathers customized news for users. The statuses can be text-based but also support the distribution of multimedia content including photo galleries and documents.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Android, Marketing, Mobile, Software Testing, Strategy, UX/UI
GOAL: Help multi-disciplinary engineering firms realize the benefits of the MetaField software program.
IMPROVE PROCESS & QUALITY: Agile Frameworks saw an opportunity to use smartphones on job sites to help reduce time and errors.
REAL-TIME DATA INTEGRATION: The app needed to interface with a variety of client systems, including accounting, CRM and project management. MentorMate teamed with Agile’s internal development staff and provided supplementary resources. Components of the solution included experience mapping, mobile application design, mobile application development, mobile app infrastructure integration, platform applications and back-end web platform development.
GOAL: Integrate kitchen and bathroom management into holistic health regimens while keeping track of recipes and nutrition.
WELLNESS MANAGMENT: Escali saw an opportunity to combine the proactive awareness of a smart kitchen scale with the ability to track results on a smart body weight scale in an app.
TRACKING + ANALYSIS: The Escali SmartConnect™ Body Scale allows you to track weight and BMI (Body Mass Index) with the same simple app. It also sends weight measurements to the Escali SmartConnect™ app, which analyzes 35 nutrients from a selection of more than 8,000 food items. Users can create a food journal along with viewing measurements conversions to better proactively manage health.
GOAL: Help patients remember, track and understand their prescriptions.
TRACKING PATIENT PRESCRIPTION INFORMATION CAN BE COMPLICATED: Patients are often hospitalized because they fail to follow medication instructions properly. This care and cost can be prevented.
IMPROVING DOSAGE ACCURACY WITH MHEALTH: The MyMeds patient medication manager available for iOS and Android devices with added web functionality allows a user to make up to ten profiles for themselves and family with customized medication reminders. All records are stored on a HIPAA-compliant server.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Android, iOS, Mobile Software Testing
GOAL: Customer loyalty is critical to liquor and charcuterie distributor France 44. The challenge is mirroring an artfully crafted customer experience in a mobile app.
BUILDING AN APP AND BRAND LOYALTY: We created an app that allows customers to explore the wines, spirits and beers available at France 44, mark their favorites, write tasting notes and find recommendations based on personal tastes and preferred selections. Customers can create shopping and wish lists or organize their favorite drinks by style, mood or occasion.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Android, Backend, Database, iOS, Mobile, LAMP, UX/UI, Web
GOAL: MobCon US, a top mobile and strategy conference, needed a next-generation digital campaign and app to build community.
A MOBILE EXPERIENCE BUILT FOR INTERACTION: By selecting from a list of breakout sessions, users can create a personalized agenda and view the full list of available activities, sponsors, speaker bios and session description.
CONNECTING THROUGH NETWORKING: The app also includes a lead retrieval feature. Users can also connect their Twitter account and tweet directly from the app.
TECHNOLOGIES/SERVICES: Android, Java, Lamp, Mobile, Software Testing, Strategy, UX/UI
GOAL: Allow thermal engineers working for NASA and other technical staff to run numerical simulations without being confined to desktop applications.
IMPLEMENTING AN EFFICIENT PROCESS: To approve any changes to the design, the plan must be sent to the thermal engineer. Then the engineer must update the model and run simulations to evaluate impact on performance. They needed a more cohesive process.
TECH-SUPPORTED ANALYSIS: Features built into the app include rapid, web-based thermal system evaluation tools, high-resolution spacecraft modeling—from component to bus level and thermal optimization algorithms. Now users can produce and analyze meaningful results from anywhere with an Internet connection. Engineers can also use the tool to chart and compare the sensitivities of various output parameters.
The new website saw a 68% increase in page-visits compared to the site it replaced. With team members located on site and overseas, MentorMate was able to extend the workday and finish a six-month project in half the time.