Single Sign-On Solution for HealthStream

HealthStream, Inc. provides innovative learning solutions that support the mission-critical training and business objectives of healthcare organizations. The company’s Information Technology team is charged with managing the firm’s flagship product, HealthStream Learning Center, a multi-tenant, Internet-based application having 2,000,000 healthcare professionals currently contracted.

Microsoft eScience

Microsoft Research is the research and development division within Microsoft, and is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering. Microsoft Research is segmented into many research areas, one of which is the eScience division, a computational sciences branch committed to providing computational support to the natural sciences. eScience hired Wintellect to re-write the existing Windows Forms application in both Silverlight and WPF, and to correspondingly re-create the user interface design, using as much of a single code base as possible.

2010 Winter Olympic Health Monitoring System

During the Vancouver Olympics in February 2010, Microsoft Corporation and NBC provided live Silverlight video streaming for the Vancouver Olympics. This effort involved a dedicated data center (“Olympic Origins servers”) combined with Internet Information Server (IIS) smooth streaming servers to provide up to 30 concurrent live video streams. The system generated over 12 petabytes of data, and at peak loads streamed 374 gigabits of video per second and handled 2.4 million pages per second. With 82 million mobile page views, 1.9 million mobile video streams, and 5,000 hours of live and on-demand video, the Olympics streaming video system was a wonderful demonstration of Microsoft technology and media platforms. Wintellect supported this effort by creating the health monitoring tools to monitor and ensure the reliability of the overall system.

Integrating SharePoint and Silverlight Web Parts for PriceWaterhouseCoopers

PriceWaterhouseCoopers engaged Microsoft to help them build a proof-of-concept (POC) application related to enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the goal being to provide it to businesses in order to perform due diligence risk assessments of potential partners. In order to create a rich, competitive, and interactive application, the project would utilize Microsoft’s Silverlight technology to deliver interactive dashboards and onscreen reports, within an integrated Sharepoint environment. Microsoft brought in Wintellect to create the Silverlight-based web parts that integrated with SharePoint, providing charts, tables and other drilldown capabilities for a great user experience.

Project Looking Glass

Microsoft’s Looking Glass product is a Social Network Analytics and Marketing tool that is the result of a two-year effort by the Developer and Platform Evangelist (DPE) team. The tool was originally planned for an open source Codeplex release and has since morphed into a targeted retail product release for Fortune 500 customers. The original project was a prototype and therefore was not architected to a production-ready level. Microsoft needed to re-work and enhance the UI design of the tool as well as re-migrate the code fully to Silverlight 4, and architect the backend code using the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern to support unit testing, modularity, scalability, and robustness within the application.

Hooters Goes from Flash to Silverlight

Hooters of America, Inc. is the Atlanta-based operator and franchiser of over 450 Hooters locations in 43 U.S. states and 26 countries. Of these locations, 122 are owned by the privately held corporation. The first Hooters opened October 4, 1983, in Clearwater, Florida, and has been a success ever since, with the company recently ranked 45th in Restaurants and Institutions magazine’s top 400 restaurant chain concepts in America based on 2008 sales. The casual beach-theme establishments feature “oldies” jukebox music, sports on television, and a menu that includes seafood, sandwiches, salads and spicy chicken wings. The company is currently approaching one billion dollars in revenue. Hooters is proud of the quality of their digital media content, which includes the following online properties:

 

• Hooters.com
• HootersMagazine.com
• HootersCalendar.com
• Hooters Swimsuit Pageant 2010

K-NFB Blio E-Reader

K–NFB Reading Technology, a joint venture between Kurzweil Technologies and the National Federation of the Blind, has propelled reading technology forward for the last 30 years with the invention of omnifont OCR, flatbed scanners, text-to-speech technology, and reading machines for the blind. Now K-NFB is redefining the boundaries of the printed word via Blio – a new generation in eReading software. This free application works across platforms and presents books as they are intended: in full color and as laid out by the publisher.

 

The goal for the Blio project was to create a smart, intelligent e-reader that provides the same layout, fonts, and full-color images that you enjoy in the print version of your favorite titles. Blio also provides the ability to read aloud to the user, highlighting each word as it goes, so you can follow along. This and much more was accomplished by a combined Wintellect and K-NFB team using Microsoft’s latest client technologies.

K-NFB Blio E-Reader for Windows Phone

K–NFB Reading Technology, a joint venture between Kurzweil Technologies and the National Federation of the Blind, has propelled reading technology forward for the last 30 years with the invention of omnifont OCR, flatbed scanners, text-to-speech technology, and reading machines for the blind. Now K-NFB is redefining the boundaries of the printed word via Blio – a new generation in eReading software. This free application works across platforms and presents books as they are intended: in full color and as laid out by the publisher.

 

The goal for the Blio Windows Phone 7 project was to provide a mobile version of a smart, intelligent e-reader that provides the same layout, fonts, and full-color images that you enjoy in the print version of your favorite titles. Blio also provides the ability to read aloud to the user, highlighting each word as it goes, so you can follow along. This and much more was accomplished by a combined Wintellect and K-NFB team using Microsoft’s latest client technologies.

 

Check out a brief demo of the Blio WP7 application here.

Oracle to Microsoft SQL Server and Sharepoint Migration

CCH Small Firm Services (SFS) is part of the global information company, Wolters Kluwer. CCH SFS provides accounting firms with applications to support managing their business and preparing and processing business tax returns with the United States Treasury and IRS. CCH prepares and processes approximately 33% of the business returns in the US, some of which are tens of thousands of pages long. The company had been using Oracle to generate reports regarding returns for their customers. In almost all cases, those reports were taking over 24 hours to process and return to customers. The IT Group from CCH SFS, with Microsoft and Wintellect conducted a two day Architecture Design Session in 2010 to migrate from Oracle to the Microsoft stack for a new Electronic Filing Center Reporting system. The core elements included SQL Server 2008, SharePoint, and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). This migration was performed over the course of one quarter and the resulting system is now able to process tens thousands of messages per minute and produce reports in near real-time.

Slate Application for RoomsToGo

RoomsToGo opened its first set of doors in 1991. Since then, they’ve grown into America’s #1 independent furniture company with the nation’s largest furniture inventory. By offering stylish furniture at everyday low prices, original room packages, superior service and fast delivery, today RoomsToGo is America’s favorite place to buy furniture. RoomsToGo was seeking to improve its customer experience, and make their sales associates more efficient, by developing a mobile Silverlight touch-screen application on a slate or tablet device.

Check out links to the online case study published by Microsoft here and here.