Okay, time to get some IP off my chest and let “the resistance” conquer my “lizard brain”. Build something you need and others will need it too, right? I must lose thousands to the tax man because I’m too lazy to keep a log book of all my business trips. So, the juniors at New Media Labs have built an iPhone application that logs your business trips to a web site (http://triplogger.info) via a web service. At the end of the...
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Categories: Custom Development, New Media Labs
Creating the Adora CRM with Global Vision
Categories: Agile Development, Content Management Systems, Custom Development, New Media Labs, Silverlight
Adora is a marketing CMS platform that is currently being developed by Global Vision and is being built to replace their highly successful current offering, Eureka. The driving force behind Adora is communication, not just marketing, through all effective communications channels. Using Adora, marketers will be able to communicate effectively with consumers and be able to maintain a complete picture of consumer relationships to their...
Read MoreAurecon – Emergency Response and Incident Management Application
Categories: Custom Development, Mapping, New Media Labs, Rich Internet Applications, SCRUM, Silverlight, Software Architecture, Software Development
Aurecon is a new, innovative, global group created by the recent coming together of 3 world-class companies - Africon, Connel Wagner and Ninham Shand. They focus on providing professional technical services across a broad spectrum of proficiencies from engineering to information technology. Aurecon is developing a whole suite of new Incident Management/Emergency Response Software for clients in areas such as Emergency Services, Disaster...
Read MoreNML builds content management system and new website for Nedgroup Investments
Categories: Content Management Systems, Custom Development, MVC, New Media Labs, SCRUM
New Media Labs was chosen to do the development for Nedgroup Investments’ new content management system (CMS) and public-facing website. Nedgroup wanted a fresh and simple yet informative site, with an intelligent CMS system to replicate and support their business model i.e. fund information, news articles, media etc. Nedgroup Site Home Page We chose to use the ASP.Net MVC 1.0 Framework because it satisfied most of our...
Read MoreNew Media Labs to build Online Auction System
Categories: Agile Development, Custom Development, New Media Labs, SCRUM, Software Architecture, Software Development
New Media Labs has commenced development of an Online Auction system for an existing client. Originally an eBay mashup was considered but the business case to build an in house auction system was stronger than the case for a mashup. The notification systems, rules engine and content management system to load the auction items is going to make this a fun development exercise. Repeat orders from existing clients, proving once again that NML...
Read MoreSignoff of the largest Silverlight implementation in Africa.
Categories: Agile Development, Content Management Systems, Custom Development, New Media Labs, Niche Social Networks, Rich Internet Applications
New Media Labs has received signoff of development and testing of custom Niche Social Network for a leading international private bank. The development was completed in four, three week SCRUM sprints with a development team of four. Given the scale of this project, and the technical complexity of tieing into the banking backend this was an amazing achievement. Microsoft is now working in collaboration with New Media Labs to generate a case...
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