08/05/2011

Financial Planning Portal Tools

Ratchet partnered with a Minneapolis-based financial planning company to launch a cutting-edge advisor discovery application. We lead the Discovery and Definition process from the “idea stage” into development and sucessful deployment with a very aggressive timeline. This customer-facing portal streamlined the sales process and created significant operational efficiencies. The application includes a complex matching algorithm to bring customers together with the right advisor, every time. This advisor site platform decreased costs by eliminating the need for a fully centralized site support team, by putting the power of personalized content into the hands of advisors to drive lead-generation and conversions. Since launching, we've partnered with the Marketing and IT team to develop mobile and social tools including LinkedIn integration.

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  • Mobile Experiences
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  • SQL
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  • Web Services
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  • Agile
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  • Highwinds
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  • .NET
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07/26/2011

Tablespoon.com

Tablespoon is an online recipe content discovery application for a Minneapolis-based consumer packaged goods company. We were engaged to integrate multiple 3rd party solutions –  including Sitecore CMS, Community Server, Outbrain, Baynote and WordPress – and partnered with several creative agencies along with their internal Marketing and IT teams to bring the concept to a digital reality.

The application features heavy personalization, recommendations, social integration via Facebook Connect and user-driven content such as ratings, comments, sharing and blogs. Since launching, the site has undergone a perpetual data-driven evolution, including new designs, methods of navigation, and a mobile experience.

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  • CMS
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  • WordPress
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  • MySQL
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  • XML
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  • Web Services
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  • Agile
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  • .NET
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  • Sitecore
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04/01/2010

Ratchet takes the Bronze in Overnight Website Challenge

The existing Bloomington Chorale (BC) site needed a web do-over. After a brief discussion with BC to understand their needs, the Ratchet team of 10, partnering w/ ideapark’s designer, dove in and exemplified agility laying out a plan to revive their web presence and brand in 24 hours. To name a few highlights, we delivered a newly branded site including a CMS, lead generation, a media gallery and media player bringing the sounds of BC online. Watch how the night unfolds.

 

The Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge is an annual event that connects web professionals with nonprofits to leverage web technology to accomplish their missions.  Nonprofit reps don’t meet their development team until event day when they have a mere 24 hours to get aligned, get creative and get working.

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  • Overnight Challenge
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  • Agile

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  • Bloomingtonchorale.com