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Forbes Inc.

One of the company’s first major clients, Grassroots advised Forbes, Inc and leads of the Forbes family on a variety of technology topics.

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 re-architecture 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 Investors Advisory Institute

Grassroots worked with Forbes Corporate to gather requirements, define and subsequently build out the architecture of varied institute sites. Major aspects included coordination with external subscription houses for credit card processing and subscription processing, managing profiles, and controlling content delivery.

The combination of GRT Staff along with Forbes, Inc. personnel allowed for the completion of the project under careful cost control.

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Technical areas of interest include:

  • ATG Dynamo

  • Oracle 8i

  • Apache Webserver

  • Solaris