The Problem:
Edigitize has been an Internet pioneer in the decorated apparel industry since 2002. At a time when artwork preparation services for embroidery was primarily an offline, mail delivery process, Edigitize sought to create a e-commerce platform that would facilitate the entire customer registration, ordering, and delivery process for embroidery artwork files.

Reaching out to a primarily non-technical customer base, it was essential that the entire customer experience be extremely simple and intuitive. Edigitize customers needed a way to submit artwork and instructions and to receive back a quote, subsequently be able to approve the quote, pay for the order, track production, and ultimately download a finished product.

The Solution:
BrickWire consulted with Edigitize and industry experts to determine the workflow that needed to be captured and automated. Subsequently, BrickWire created a blueprint for the system that accounted for all of the known business requirements. The feature-rich e-commerce platform facilitates communication, order tracking, and fulfillment between internal staff members, external vendors, and customers.

The Technology:
BrickWire was able to utilize a proprietary PHP/MySQL framework built in-house as a foundation to rapidly develop the web software application. BrickWire manages a cloud server with VMWare ESXi as the host and multiple virtual private servers including Debian and Windows allowing Edigitize to scale hardware resources as needed.

The Problem:
TulsaConnect needed a complete re-design of their marketing website to more accurately reflect the professional nature of their services. Also, they wanted to begin marketing several new services through the website that they had been offering for many years, which were never incorporated into the old website. After the new website was introduced they wished to knit together functionality from various customer-facing applications (billing, support, customer service) into a single web application which integrated seamlessly with their new brand.

The Solution:
We worked closely with TulsaConnect to design the website in photoshop. After getting approval of the initial design, we coded the XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP for the site according to the highest web standards to ensure the best user experience across all major operating systems and web browsers.

The look and feel of the TulsaConnect website was also carried into their TControl interface, which allows their customers to manage various aspects of their account online. BrickWire built a web interface to interact with the Platypus billing system on many levels. Clients of TulsaConnect are now able to manage their email accounts, domains, hosting services, invoices, payments, and support tickets through a web interface that ties seamlessly into their marketing website from a stylistic perspective.

The Technology:
This marketing website is a static XHTML / CSS website built with just enough JavaScript and Jquery to keep things interesting. The backend system runs on Windows, IIS, PHP and MSSQL behind the scenes.  As previously mentioned the new web application utilizes PHP and Web Services to integrate with the Platypus billing system APIs. The system also integrates with a third party provisioning system that automates IP addressing, DNS management, power management, DSL circuitry and other various aspects of the data center environment.

The Problem:
ConnectPoint had developed a product and knew they had a market but had no software to manage this new business. After 6 weeks BrickWire and ConnectPoint were able to move from a totally manual ordering process to having a mixed technology environment with Microsoft IIS and SQL Server, Apache running on Debian Linux, and an iPhone/iPad application all working together to deliver products to customers.

The Solution:
ConnectPoint uses a centralized API/client architecture utilizing three different software stacks to provide centralized storage with the flexibility for an array of types of clients. BrickWire designed and developed the API and web application parts of the architecture with ConnectPoint internally responsible the iOS client. This architecture has allowed easy integration between the ConnectPoint iOS client and the .Net backend. Back office operations like quality assurance, user management, role based security, and order tracking are handled by the custom web application.

The Technology:
Debian / Apache / PHP
C# .NET Web Services
SQL Server
iOS

The Problem:
The founders behind MyEZSchedule had spent an extensive amount of time researching Supermarkets, Convenience Stores, and other retail outlets and came up with a plan to introduce an innovative web-based solution for time and attendance. They needed a software firm who could develop a highly sophisticated, yet exceptionally easy-to-use web application to tackle challenges related to budgeting, scheduling, and attendance by way of interfacing with biometric time clocks.

The Solution:
BrickWire consulted with MyEZSchedule to determine the business requirements for each module of the application. After spending many weeks capturing ideas, drawing pretty pictures, and wading through complex formulas BrickWire and MyEZSchedule forged a partnership and took on the challenge. The result is a valuable Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) product that MyEZSchedule is able to lease out on a monthly basis to various retail shops needing a results oriented time and attendance system.

The Technology:
BrickWire was able to utilize a proprietary PHP/MySQL framework built in-house as a foundation to rapidly develop the web software application. BrickWire manages a cloud server with VMWare ESXi as the host and multiple virtual private servers including Debian and Fedora allowing MyEZSchedule to scale hardware resources as needed to meet a growing customer demand. The software also interfaces with with a biometric time-clock aggregation service through XML based APIs provided by a third party.

The Problem:
Englobal’s business is government contract fulfillment. They manage pipelines for the US government in places all over the world. Englobal needed an easier way to manage their people and products. They also needed to consolidate process, getting their staff on the same page.

The Solution:
BrickWire has developed a modular, custom asp.net website for Englobal. Working with BrickWire, Englobal has developed several different pieces of software, each tailored to their specifications, to solve their unique problems. A long-term client, Englobal has developed a spare-parts inventory, field service repair ticketing system. We’ve streamlined their purchasing with a purchase order tracking system and eliminated paper and made jobs easier with automated travel requests report creation.

The Technology:
ASP.Net
C#
SQL Server

The Problem:
Already an established company, Drysdales was looking for someone who had experience with large scale systems to help them clean up and streamline their custom e-commerce system. We provided maintenance and helped dramatically speed up their shopping cart along with adding functionality for international orders.

This highly popular website was bogging down due to the massive volume of website traffic during the busy holiday season. With a dedicated mysql server and two dedicated apache web servers sitting behind a coyote load balancer the hardware was hardly to blame for the slew of customer complaints, phone calls, and abandoned orders.

The Solution:
Within just a few days we were able to reverse-engineer the website, identify the performance bottlenecks, re-design certain critical SQL queries, and tune the mysql database. This optimization effort reduced page load times from 2 minutes to a few seconds, causing their order volume to sky-rocket during the busy holiday season.

The Technology:
2 Fedora Apache Web Servers
1 Fedora MySQL Database Server
1 Coyote Load Balancer
1 Cisco Router
PHP / MySQL
CSS / XHTML / JS

The Problem:
MyChristianTeaching.com had a desire to create a digital download mall for Christian teaching materials. They aimed to provide an outlet where consumers could easily navigate by vendor or by topic through a myriad of digital media content including teaching series, electronic books, and audio books. Also, they needed a way to allow consumers to freely sample the product, after which they could purchase, and immediately download the content to their computer, electronic reader, or mobile device.

The Solution:
An expert in e-commerce solutions and digital media delivery systems, BrickWire conducted research to determine whether to select an off-the-shelf solution or to build a custom solution from the ground up. Working together with MyChristianTeaching.com to establish a specific set of requirements, BrickWire was able to implement a hybrid solution that utilized an off-the-shelf e-commerce virtual mall platform from Interspire as a baseline which offered considerable cost savings. Then BrickWire provided heavy customization to the platform to integrate the MyChristianTeaching.com brand and to accommodate some of the unique requirements that give MyChristianTeaching.com a strong competitive advantage. BrickWire continues to work in partnership with MyChristianTeaching.com by providing website hosting, maintenance and support on an ongoing basis.

The Technology:
This project utilizes an e-commerce framework called Interspire which utilizes XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript for the User Interface and runs on Debian, Apache, PHP & MySQL behind the scenes. Various Jquery plugins were also incorporated to enrich the customer experience while browsing for content.