Our Clients
At Grassroots Technologies, Inc., we are proud of the services we have provided our clients. To find out what we can do for you, visit our contact page.
Some of our recent clients include:
Scholastic, Inc.
As Scholastic, Inc. reorganized its focus on professional education, Grassroots worked side by side with an emerging business unit to define and construct a rich eLearning program. This included the definition and buildout of all front and back end systems to provide for an advanced experience for Teachers to better their own performance. Our work with Scholastic continues as we build the Enterprise Edition of their flagship suite of student learning applications, and create a back end system to manage customers.
Systems involved the strategic integration of the following products and technologies:
- Flash
- FOP
- MySQL
- Spring
- Zinc
- Maven
- Google Web Toolkit
- Install Anywhere
- Ant
- ATG Dynamo
- Oracle
- Playstream Rich Media Sourcing
- iPlanet Webserver
Consumers Union (Consumer Reports Online)
Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, is an independent, nonprofit testing and information organization serving general consumer interest. CU is a comprehensive source for unbiased advice about products and services, personal finance, health and nutrition, and other consumer concerns. Since 1936, CU's mission has been to test products, inform the public, and protect consumers. When CU needed to build a new content-management system to handle their massive library of product reviews, they came to Grassroots Technologies.
Our CU endeavor involved the following products and technologies:
- Percussion Rhythmyx
- Spring
- Hibernate
- Perl
Forbes.com
From the early stages of business strategy analysis and requirements gathering, through development, testing and launch of the reengineered site, Grassroots Technologies served as technical lead in the full rearchitecture of Forbes.com's legacy systems.
The implementation effort involved integrating the following products:
- ATG Dynamo
- Interwoven Teamsite
- Verity Search
- Real Media Open Ad Stream
- Apache Foundation
Forbes, Inc. - Forbes Investors Advisory Institute
Grassroots worked with Forbes Corporate to gather requirements, define and subsequently buildout the architecture of varied institute sites. Major aspects included coordination with external subscription house for credit card processing and subscription processing, managing profiles and controlling content delivery.
Technical areas of interest include:
- ATG Dynamo
- Oracle 8i
- Apache Webserver
- Solaris
The combination of GRT Staff along with Forbes, Inc. personnel allowed for the completion of the project under careful cost control.
* Specific references are available on request *