United States Third Army - Advance and keep on advancing...

With a long, storied history of victory ranging from World War 2 to today's conflicts, the Third Army is a linchpin in the coordination, command and logistical support of a wide range of military operations. But when trying to overcome a mammoth online challenge of building a new, highly interactive yet easy-to-manage website and content coordination infrastructure, they pulled in a secret weapon: Eyesore Outsourced Development.

The need:

• An entirely new content management system capable of handling huge amounts of digital assets
• Custom graphic design
• A new framework to overcome an outdated server platform

And a final order from command staff: get it all done in two weeks!

So in the spirit of General Patton's famous World War 2 speech to the Third ("Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like @#$#$ through a goose...") Eyesore Outsourced Development got to work...

• All new customized graphic design look and feel
• A new .NET Framework compatible with their server system
• An image-intensive data organization system specced and learned within 24 hours
• Over 12,000 pieces of content organized and uploaded
• Completion time: All elements planned, developed, tested and launched in little over two weeks (hey - you try getting the U.S. Army to move faster...)

Harrison Design Associates - Looking good

When you're a major architectural firm creating multimillion dollar commercial and residential projects, it can be a brand-destroyer to have a website portfolio that looks and functions like it was built for a $1.95.

Harrison Design Associates was trying to send a message to the marketplace about superior skill and sophistication while living with:

• A clunky, out-of-date online content system
• Limited functionality
• Hand coding and other primitive content management tools

So Eyesore Outsourced Development did a complete, budget-friendly renovation:

• A new, simple-to-use, multi-functional portfolio management and presentation system
• A single, integrated content management system to control both the overall website content and the portfolio content
• New functionality that lets Harrison creative private, password-protected viewing areas for clients who want to review works in progress.

The result? A sleek, user-friendly site that makes visitors say "Ohhhhh yeaaahhhh..."

Hartmann Studios Rentals - No Worries

An offshoot of the incredibly successful Hartmann Studios (a nationally respected event management and experiential marketing firm), Hartmann Studios Rentals offers thousands of items for running outstanding, memorable events. But their online catalogue was proving to be a memorable headache!

How to keep it easy to organize, easy to manage, easy to update and - most of all - easy for customers to browse and complete their rental deals?

Hartmann is in the business of letting visionary pros produce memorable results. That's why they trusted the experts at Eyesore Outsourced Development. The final product? Spectacular.

• A content and image cataloging system that's easy for the Hartmann team to maintain.
• Functionality that lets customers browse by various categories.
• The ability to build "shopping lists" and archives of products to be rented.
• And for customers needing to rent repeatedly? A system to create accounts with archived lists of products available for future reference

Big Company, Big Needs, Big Results

Take one of the country's best known event management and marketing companies that runs large, elaborate productions for demanding clients. Add in a challenge to present thousands of images of its work in a catalogue intended to "WOW!" new customers. Add on the challenges of coordinating data between two offices (East Coast, West Coast) and presenting the company with the sophistication demanded by its large Fortune 500 customers.

The result was one big "How-do-we-get-it-to-work?" stew.

Eyesore Outsource Development accepted the challenge to bring together a functional user-friendly system after another development firm proved itself lacking the skills needed to produce a creative solution. The client was hungry for results and had no time to spare.

And they got all that wanted - with power to spare. Eyesore delivered a content management system and media repository that:

• Has full scalability - the 50,000 or more images currently in the system can be increased up to 250,000
• Both offices (and their customers) can access specific images and user accounts
• Is easy to use by anyone in the company

Oh, and Eyesore got it all done on time and on budget.

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