MediaPulse Enterprise Workflow Management

Star Ford served as the lead architect for the company's flagship product. MediaPulse is a multi-tier, scalable, and customizable enterprise system that manages the assets, scheduling, billing, and work flow for major broadcast studios such as Paramount, Disney, Fox, and Warner Brothers.

www.xytechsystems.com

Tools Used

C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server

Honda Interactive Kiosk

Star Ford developed a touchless interactive kiosk application that lets people design their own ads for the Honda Civic. Users interact through the Microsoft XBox Kinect to choose the background, and the car's color and orientation. Then they pose for a picture, which gets incorporated into the ad.

Delivers On Time

With only a 3-week development window, we were able to pull together expertise on the Kinect, advanced graphics, sound effects, a database and email into a comprehensive application.

Tools Used

C#/WPF, Axisbase

Carbonostics Food Analysis Tool

Star Ford developed the Carbonostics analysis engine, a tool used by the food industry to measure the impact of product choices on carbon emissions, cost, and nutrition.

www.carbonostics.com ( Video )

Features

• data integration
• math analysis
• graphics

• databases
• e-commerce + accounting
• clean web interface

Benefits of Divergent Labs

Usually a company expects software developers to just do the software - but in this case it was a major advantage to find someone capable of learning the science as well. Star was able to understand the domain knowledge and communicate with environmental scientists in their terms to work out the life cycle carbon models. By having one person able to do analytical modeling, database design, software architecture, e-commerce, and programming, it cut down the time and expense considerably over a larger team approach. The resulting product is intuitive. While most carbon life cycle analysis tools can only be used by specially trained engineers, this one uses a visual, intuitive approach. Star was able to work through the complexity and present a clean interface that empowers rather than confuses the user.

Tools Used

C#, ASP.NET, Developer Express graphs and reports, Axisbase database, Excel spreadsheet integration

Frequency 528 Fundraising Network

We designed and delivered a turn-key system to run fundraisers on a massive scale. The system not only provides a user experience through the website, but also management and accounting functions to permit a small staff to issue discount cards and run fundraisers for a fraction of the cost of traditional fundraising methods.

Delivering More Than a Website

Appearances were only one of the concerns behind building this system. We approached it from an accounting perspective as well, and made sure that the design automated the flow of data among the three separate user groups: Network members, Network businesses, and Community fundraisers.

Tools Used

C#, Microsoft MVC3 with Razor, MySQL




(The company is no longer operating.)

Silver Creations from the Southwest

Star Ford developed this integrated web database, which allows a jewelry manufacturer to manage their inventory and sales, while allowing on-line catalog search and ordering.

Tools Used

C#, ASP.NET, Axisbase


(The company is no longer operating.)

Slideword Puzzle Game

Slideword is a crossword + anagram game with sliding words. It has an intelligent crossword builder as part of the game, so users can create their own puzzles without experience as a cruciverbalist. The concept, design, and development was done by Star Ford.

Tools Used

Silverlight (original version), C#, WCF, Axisbase. 2020 Rewrite is in Blazor/WebAssembly.

www.slideword.com

The AHA Guide to American Hospitals

The Guide on CD is the American Hospital Association's listing of all American hospitals, with hundreds of data points for each one. Star Ford developed the guide software, which permits users to do advanced searches, reports, and statistical queries, with no user training. Architecture, design and development by Star Ford.
AHA Guide on www.ahadataviewer.com

Tools Used

C#, Visual Basic, Microsoft Access, Excel, Developer Express

ButtonPals Social Network

ButtonPals is a mobile app with a server back-end, that performs real-time notification of the location of users who have chosen to be pals. It integrates a game-like feature of dressing up animal avatars on the mobile device, with a scalable cloud-hosted database.

Tools Used

C#, Microsoft MVC3, SQL Server, Microsoft Azure, Cocoa/Objective C, Java

www.buttonpals.mobi

NotifyPlex.com

Star Ford designed and developed NotifyPlex.com, a many-to-many messaging utility for use cases such as government transparency. It includes email send and receive, bounce processing, SMS sending, a public API, and dynamic entry forms allowing data schemas to be entered separately for each sender. This scales to millions of users.

www.notifyplex.com

Aldo Leopold Celebration

An easy to navigate, multipage website celebrating the life of the Southwest visionary Aldo Leopold. Includes news, event planning, calendar, and non-profit fundraising through foundation membership sales.