Windsor Software
Project descriptions from our portfolio of successful client projects in the Corporate Sector
Market Channel Development	US Department of Labor (America's Learning eXchange, www.alx.org)
America's Learning Exchange was looking for a way to reach out to the nation's 1,200 community colleges to facilitate transfer of course catalog data to the ALX database and keep it current with minimal effort. While most colleges wanted their course information accessible on this national website, most did not have the time or resources to get the job done. Based on market research, recommendations were prepared to work with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software vendors to persuade them to build a course offering extraction and conversion capability into their software. Successful presentations and negotiations led to vendor agreement to develop and fund this capability. All aspects of project implementation were managed effectively, including relationships among multiple representatives of the Department of Labor, ERP vendor, and six college beta sites across the country. Development of written promotional materials was coordinated and presentations were conducted at professional and vendor user conferences.
Virtual Learning Portal	US Department of Labor (America's Learning eXchange, www.alx.org)
Working closely with a steering committee of CEOs from six statewide virtual universities, a website and a database of online courses and programs were designed and implemented. Data transfer protocols were developed with individual universities and with the database manager for the U.S. Department of Labor's America's Learning eXchange (ALX). The project ended with transfer of the website and database to the American Council for Virtual Education (formerly the Lexington Group of Virtual Universities). www.acve.org.
Building Materials Portal Development	Japanese Housing Authority - Visual Gold
Development of a web site and database that offered a complete set of building materials to the Japanese market. Complete with Shopping Cart and Favorites functionality, this site had hundreds of thousands of products listed, all with photos. Users were allowed to pick and save their favorite products and search the wide array of product offerings. This site was completely done in Kanji and is now used as a production web site in Japan, hosted in the U.S.
Education Technology Webcast Site Development	America's Kids Connect www.amkids.org
Website and program development for America's Kids Connect, a national foundation for advocating effective use of technology in K-12 education. Business partners have seen that they can make positive educational differences through their products and services. Consultation occurred from conception through production of the first webcasted hour-long event, which was simulcasted over satellite TV. Youth from participating schools submitted contest responses through the website where contest winners were selected and technology prizes were awarded. Over 700,000 website viewers participated in this event and over $3.5 million in prizes were awarded. Continual web development has been maintained and the next event will be produced in 2003. Website design, testing, and operations were the main focus during this project.
Online Marketplace for Customized Training	Internet System for Education & Employment Knowledge www.iseek.org
Needs assessment and usability testing were designed and conducted for a state-of-Minnesota website designed to give training managers and other seekers of customized training access to qualified public and private providers from across the state. www.iseek.org/sv/ Training managers from major companies were introduced to the website and interviewed regarding its usefulness to them and the usability of the site design. The final report contained more than thirty suggestions for improvement.
Business Development & Performance Improvement	International Assessment www.assessment.com
International Assessment's Motivational Appraisal of Personal Performance (MAPP) is a powerful instrument for organizational performance improvement and for individual career development. Employees doing work they are motivated to pursue are productive and likely to be retained and promoted, thus reducing the high costs of turnover. Consultation provided newly identified prospective clients and refined the business case. Specific marketing and sales strategies were developed. Face-to-face meetings were orchestrated and sales proposals crafted.
New Product Business Development	3M Company www.3m.com
3M needed help defining the technical and business requirements to commercialize value-added software technology they had developed. This technology--that simplified the registration of new customers for Internet Service Providers (ISPs)--needed to be brought to market. This capability added value as vertical market augmentation to their existing CD-ROM production business. This project entailed creating the business infrastructure and processes needed to handle increasing customer demand and growth.