Bossier-Parish Community College campus, Bossier City, LA.
Fynydd was asked to build a hybrid iOS, Android, and web-based learning app platform for enrolled and public students at Bossier Parish Community College (BPCC) in Bossier City, Louisiana. This was a full-stack platform that included a data tier, API service with management interface, client apps (App Store, Google Play Store), and responsive website.
The goal of the project was to research the efficacy of gamification strategies with regard to testing up and testing out of courses prior to enrollment. Secondarily it provided a great way for students to study and hone their knowledge during each semester.
The platform provided various curriculum through video courses, which each had check your knowledge quizzing as students progressed. Students could earn badges as they advanced through their learning journey and also challenge each other to quiz games for additional badges and bragging rights via a leader board.
Some of the features of the platform include:
Android
Angular
CSS3
HTML5
Ionic Framework
iOS
JavaScript
Sass/SCSS
Amazon Web Services
C#
Github
Microsoft .NET
Microsoft Windows
React
SQL Server
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Fynydd was asked to help Ore-Ida and Disney by building a high-performance Sitecore platform for their upcoming sweepstakes supporting the movie Frozen. The sweepstakes was built as part of the Heinz multi-tenant Sitecore platform, with a high priority on security, performance, and availability.
The platform allowed visitors to enter the sweepstakes with enforcement of specific business logic regarding how often they could enter and how many times per day. It leveraged a two-tier caching system for optimal performance, including additional optimizations on media and delivery.
Some of the features of the platform include:
Given the large brands behind the promotion, it garnered a large amount of traffic in a relatively short period of time and was a huge success.
The performance metrics include:
CSS3
HTML5
JavaScript
Microsoft .NET
Sass/SCSS
C#
Github
Microsoft .NET
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Windows
Sitecore
SQL Server
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COS has partnered with the Pentagon, the Department of Defense, and over 20 U.S. military bases to achieve increased knowledge, empathy, and improved bystander engagement over the last 30 years.
Campus Outreach Services offers unmatched sexual assault prevention training, substance use programs, mental health school assemblies, college transitions workshops, and customized series of other wellness topics. With compelling presenters and pragmatic resources, our impact lasts beyond an hour, a week, a year. We deliver pin-drop moments for lifetime change.
Campus Outreach Services partnered with Fynydd to create an analytics dashboard for their ThinkDrink learning platform. They needed to show efficacy across demographics and teams including longitudinal test results for their ThinkDrink program.
The platform enables subscribers to track course completion, filter, compare and share results, and see overall efficacy.
Some of the key features of the project include:
CSS3
HTML5
JavaScript
Sass/SCSS
Github
Moodle
MySQL
PHP
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The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) is a not-for-profit organization that develops laboratory standards worldwide. Our standards are recognized by laboratories, accreditors, and government agencies as the best way to improve medical laboratory testing.
CLSI partnered with Fynydd to create a web platform for marketing their organization, provide member and volunteer services, membership management, and a shop for their Standards documents.
The platform integrated with NetForum and other third party services to provide a single, complete access portal for staff, members, and volunteers.
The shop provided unique pricing, options, and user experiences for anonymous visitors, members, and customers in developing countries. Standards products provided digital samples and full specifications, as well as customized pricing based on the visitor.
A member portal provided everything a member needs to manage their profile, membership details, purchase history, downloadable products, event attendance, membership certification, nominations, volunteer history, and more. It also provided delegates with management tools for authorized employees in their account.
Other tools and features include public file management for volunteer communication and education, outbound links to services such as their eClipse platform and support system, a shopping cart reminder system, product import and publication tools, and so much more.
Some of the key features of the platform include:
CSS3
HTML5
JavaScript
Sass/SCSS
C#
Github
Microsoft .NET
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Windows
NetForum
SQL Server
Umbraco CMS
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The U.S. Department of Justice through the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) partnered with Fynydd to create a secure web portal for their Office of Science and Technology directorate.
The platform was built using the Microsoft SharePoint ITAR platform under the most strict security protocols. This platform is built and configured specifically for secure government use.
Access to this environment required rigorous background checks at the state and federal level for each Fynydd development team member. And the subset of SharePoint functionality offered by ITAR made building in the environment a challenge. In addition, some of our work required travel to meet with the OST team in Washington D.C.
Some of the key details of the project include:
CSS3
HTML5
JavaScript
Sass/SCSS
C#
Github
Microsoft .NET
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Windows
SQL Server
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Full-Stack Observability helps engineers plan, build, deploy, and run great software. Only New Relic has a unified data platform for all telemetry data—metrics, events, logs and traces—paired with analysis tools to find solutions fast. Move past the ‘what’ to uncover the ‘why’.
New Relic partnered with Fynydd to create a sales training platform. New Relic needed to train new sales personnel using the latest product information and real-world scenarios to ensure customers were given the best fit recommendations.
They had already approved a WordPress multi-tenant environment for these kinds of use cases so that's the content management system we used. Given the security track record of WordPress we normally don't recommend using it. Since the New Relic IT department was hosting at WPEngine and securing the platform, our concerns were not as serious as they would have been had the platform been on the public Internet.
With regard to security, we also had to integrate with their corporate Okta single sign-on (SSO) platform to restrict the LMS to authorized users in the sales department.
Some of the project highlights include:
CSS3
HTML5
JavaScript
Sass/SCSS
Amazon Web Services
Github
MySQL
PHP
WordPress
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Saint-Gobain North America Headquarters
Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures and distributes materials and services for the construction and industrial markets. These solutions are found everywhere in our living places and our daily life: in buildings, transportation, infrastructure and in many industrial applications. They provide comfort, performance and sustainability while meeting the challenges of the decarbonization of the world of construction and industry, the preservation of resources and rapid urbanization.
Saint-Gobain partnered with Fynydd to create a marketing website for their Living Laboratory campus location in Malvern, PA. The campus was built to showcase their newest, cutting edge building materials and processes. It also happens to be their North America Headquarters.
One of the many futuristic office spaces in their Living Laboratory
Saint-Gobain created a high-performance workplace that encourages employee productivity, collaboration, satisfaction and well-being. By installing more than 60 of their sustainable building materials, working together in a systems-based approach, they influenced occupant comfort and well-being.
The marketing website included a visitor signup flow and several interactive content units including photo gallery, infographics, news feed, social network updates, video library, and more.
Some highlights of the project include:
CSS3
HTML5
JavaScript
Sass/SCSS
Amazon Web Services
ASP.NET
C#
Github
Microsoft Windows
SQL Server
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Trinity Life Sciences has been providing large pharmaceutical companies with deep, comparative intelligence for many years and discovered that they all seemed to struggle with finding good vendors experienced with the pharmaceutical industry. Trinity wanted to help them and the smaller emerging pharmaceutical companies solve the problem.
Trinity decided to partner with Fynydd to build an online subscription service where pharmaceutical company employees could review the vendors they use, rate products and services, and see how vendors and services compare within their organization, and across the globe. Likewise, vendors needed to be able to create and manage a profile for their companies, including their products and services.
We collaborated with Trinity to define the needs of their potential subscribers, vendors, and staff. Then we worked on defining the user experience for the key users of the platform. After defining the user experience, we worked on the technical strategy. Based on the platforms and services that Trinity used internally, as well as the needs of the new platform, we decided to implement a custom ASP.NET MVC application with a SQL Server database.
We integrated Salesforce.com to keep a master copy of the data set, allowing subscribers to authenticate using that platform. Vendors authenticate directly with the system. And we built the client side with a responsive framework including SCSS and infinite scroll search results. All of this was hosted in our secure Amazon AWS environment.
Some of the key features of the platform include:
CSS3
HTML5
JavaScript
Sass/SCSS
Amazon Web Services
C#
Github
Microsoft .NET
Microsoft Windows
Salesforce
SQL Server
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The International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) strives to create a healthier and more balanced planet. The ICPA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance chiropractic by establishing evidence-informed practice, supporting excellence in professional skills and delivering educational resources to the public. What began as a dream from founder Dr. Larry Webster in 1986 to better train chiropractors in family care has grown into a global mission to support the health and well-being of families worldwide.
ICPA was growing and needed a new business/client management system for their global chiropractic membership and decided to partner with Fynydd. Their back office was decentralized, using tools like Microsoft Access, which made it difficult for staff to collaborate in workflows. Consequently, many of their processes were performed manually, which was a poor use of membership funding.
Organization members could not view any details about their membership, seminar registrations, subscriptions, payments, etc., which added to their growing customer service. Web forms relied on the user to supply the correct information for what they were requesting, which resulted in a lot of bad information being stored, which had to be cleaned up manually in many cases.
We started by working with ICPA to understand their business pain points. We then collaborated on defining workflows, so we knew what each type of user should experience through different funnels. We then defined the information architecture, and spent time building a complex import tool which would transform data from various sources into this new structure. It was challenging, but allowed us to import over 30,000 contacts dating back to the 1990s; about 3gb of data. It was like they hadn't missed a beat!
The platform we chose was Umbraco CMS, which would become a multi-site web host as ICPA consolidated their other online presences into the new system. Within Umbraco we built a responsive HTML5 framework that looked great on tablets and phones. Next up was Stripe integration, which was used to process payments (including automatic renewals), and which is completely PCI-compliant. And Constant Contact was integrated for their newsletter subscriptions.
In all, this business management system is much more accessible, even outside of the office and on mobile devices. Employees have much more time to focus on tasks that matter instead of mundane, repetitive tasks. And the new system easily handles membership and certification management, seminar registration, blog, product sales, help center, and more.
Some of the key features of the platform include:
CSS3
HTML5
JavaScript
Sass/SCSS
Amazon Web Services
C#
Constant Contact
Github
Microsoft .NET
Microsoft Windows
SQL Server
Stripe
Umbraco CMS
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The Endo Pharmaceuticals sales department needed to improve the previous year's compliance training per regulatory requirements.
The previous platform was a step in the right direction, but had some hiccups regarding availability and consequently, a timely pass rate. Reporting on the activity and results, especially during the training period, was minimal, so executives had no way to know how the training was proceeding, in case they needed to intercede early and make adjustments, or report back successes.
It was clear from their challenges that there were some real opportunities to improve the entire training process. So Endo chose Fynydd to be their technical partner. We started by addresses availability. It became clear that the primary bottleneck was with the video hosting as it was on-premises. We worked with Endo to establish a private, secure, video content delivery network (CDN) at vimeo.
The next focus was on reporting. We gathered all the requirements and created a strategy for presenting regional analytics that gave stakeholders exactly what they needed to see.
To make it all happen, we chose Umbraco CMS to speed the product to market and provide the underpinning for membership, authentication, and of course, content management. The result was stunning. Over 2,500 people were trained in 2 weeks. There was 100% availability, and most importantly a 100% pass rate. And there were less than 10 support calls.
Some of the services we provided include:
Some of the key features of the platform include:
CSS3
HTML5
JavaScript
Sass/SCSS
Amazon Web Services
C#
Github
Microsoft .NET
Microsoft Windows
SQL Server
Umbraco CMS
Vimeo
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