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TimeOutdoors encourages and enables your time outdoors, whatever that might mean to you. From trekking and cycling to adventure races and paddleboarding, they are creating a broad and diverse community of people who want to embrace an active lifestyle outdoors. The goal of timeoutdoors.com rebuild was to increase engagement with adventurers and offer them a variety of interesting activities and events, significantly improving user experience with personalization and overall performance increase.

Additionally, extend capabilities for business partners as well as improve their experience. Kentico Xperience 13 enables the use of the latest technologies for the development of websites and web solutions. Developers can leverage the newest tooling and APIs introduced by the .NET technology for building ASP.NET Core MVC sites and custom libraries. E-Commerce features allow us to easily build shopping cart, orders management, invoices and payments.

Marketing automation in Kentico Xperience 13 makes creation and management of the automation processes intuitive, easy, and reduces the time needed to execute initiatives. Content personalization allowed us to supply the most relevant offers to the users based on their interests and preferences. ASP.NET Core by default provides much better site speed and performance, but adding caching on multiple levels of caching and CDN for delivering of media makes it lightning fast.

As a result, we got a site that helps business partners and editors easily publish and manage their events, adventures, and clubs on the public live site. Also, users can find information about what they are interested in and register for activities outdoors. After the release of the new version increase in site visitors by around 17%, sales by 12%, and decreased bounce rate by 21%. The overall performance grew by 15-18% depending on the device and Google's ranking is constantly growing.

DasParts is a vendor of premier auto parts and accessories for multiple car brands, including Volkswagen, Audi, Aston Martin, Buick, Land Rover, Mini, Mercedes, Lexus, etc.

Our goal was to build an e-commerce website that would provide excellent experience both to customers and company staff. We tried to automate as many processes as possible to reduce order processing time.

Together with our partner, Mawazo Marketing, we were able to build a very intuitive and user-friendly website and automate a good chunk of manual routine. For the customer side we implemented functionality that suggests a list of suitable parts for their vehicles. Possibility to sell their car that in result will be recycled and some parts will be reused. For staff we added a report that helps to track which parts must be ordered from the manufacturer and how much. Inventory management site is quite easy, staff just need to scan the barcode and they will be able to add warehouse location or image. Content management is implemented via Kentico CMS.

Staalduinen Floral Limited has grown into one of the largest flower distributors in Canada. 

The client's main business sells fresh flowers and floral supplies to flower shops, floral designers, and retail florists. All information about sold items is stored in the client's ERP. To make an order, a potential customer had to contact the company staff and get their details saved in the ERP, which caused a lot of inconveniences for customers and overloaded the Staalduinen staff. The main goal of the new app is to give customers more freedom in their choice of available products, facilitate the order process, display the current status of existing orders, manage profile/address information etc., and reduce workload for Staalduinen employees.

With the help of our partner Mawazo Marketing, who implemented marketing stategy, outstanding graphic design and well thought user experience we've built awesome web application, where multiple business processes have been digitalized and automated, all products information (like name, images etc.) except real time information is syncronized to Kentico on nigtly basis. Endpoints to get price and quantity available returns.

Kinli is a medical treatment. It is based on the world’s best, evidence-based, and proven weight management principles and Dr. Zizzo’s personal expertise and experience.

Kinli helps people make their life healthier. We were asked to develop a website and a mobile application that would assist in improving the daily habits of their users and allow them to gain appropriate knowledge on staying/getting fit.

To make food tracking easier we added functionality that scans barcodes and populates information about products. For the health tracking platform, we implemented charts that can show members' progress, and analyze calorie intake and exercise. As providers and members have appointments and nowadays it is mostly online, we integrated the system with Zoom and prepared a report about meeting attendance. Mobile applications totally repeat functionality that was implemented for member sides on the platform.

 As a result, we've created an attractive and user-friendly platform that encourages people to keep an eye on their health. It helped our clients increase the number of program members due to improved efficiency and automation of processes. Also, the number of manual actions were significantly reduced.

Lavelio is a startup which focuses on Social Media Analysis using Artificial Intelligence

Give Fashion, Beauty and Jewellery industries the possibility for a self-service online platform, better understand the preferences of their consumers, and satisfy demand.

Probably one of the biggest challenges on this project was tied budget, so we had to design the technical solution and plan the project cost effectively as much as possible to keep it profitable for us as well as fulfill all the client's needs. We had to build a multi-tenant (SaaS) solution so Lavelio could engage with more and more clients without spending money on extra software development and infrastructure (to some degree).

We used .NET Core boilerplate for the backend in order to cut off low level functionality such as authentication, email sending, user management, etc. Also the Lavelio team provided a UI template based on the Reach framework to minimize efforts needed for the user interface development. That allowed us to save effort and money. BO team built a multi-tenant solution with a database split per tennant, role based admin where Lavelio team can manage their customers creating tenants and admin users, connect SM data, etc. and a possibility for the customers' admin to manage access to their portal on one hand. On the other hand we built an amazing, simple and intuitive Portal with the Dashboard and reports for the SM feed analysis for the end users.

The client is a world-leading construction and building services company that completes in excess of $6 billion worth of contracts annually, in every market sector and across the globe.

The goal for this project was quite ambitious - a revolution of the Building industry human resources engagement with the digital transformation allowing companies to hire employees and subcontractors easier and faster while keeping resources quality at a high level.

On the one hand, this project technically was not too challenging. On the other hand, it was quite intensive from the features set standpoint: multi-tenancy with a split database, invoices and payments, subscriptions management and recurring billing, dashboards and reporting.

With the help of ASP.Zero frameworks our team was able to focus much more on the business needs rather than the development of low-level boilerplate infrastructure. Reach ASP.NET Zero features set covers most of the basic business needs and significantly speeds up the development process and delivery timelines meanwhile allowing all the necessary customization. ProRank is a marketplace for builders and subcontractors: the developer posts the project invites subcontractors and rates their job afterward. That allows subcontractors to build out their reputation on the platform to get more jobs. The platform has been built keeping in mind the needs of both building companies and subcontractors providing them with an outstanding user experience and ease of use.

Project description

The client needed to create a powerful, but simplified mortgage experience. Powered by React, the experience uses filters, facets, and real-time calculations to help users find the right mortgage product – one keystroke at a time.

Our goal and at the same time challenge was to create a mortgage experience tool unlike anything on the market and integrate it with the already existing mobile app.

The result is an efficient, user-centered experience, with results that change in real-time as the user enters more information.

Hence, improved user's experience with an outstanding intuitive interface and handy features that allow users to find the option for a loan or mortgage with a smart side-by-side comparison.

Project description

The main idea of the project is to design a way for new students to experience the College’s picturesque coastal campus from the safety and convenience of their own desktop, tablet, or mobile device.

The challenge was to make 360º photography interactive and to put hotspots inside the panorama.

The solution was to develop a web-based service that gives a way to explore various campus buildings in addition to learning about academic and student life. Concept of implementation of interactive panorama images is to wrap a spherical panoramic image around a 3D sphere using three.js JavaScript 3D library.

Project goal

This project was pursuing an increase in user acquisition by implementing a complete redesign and improvement of the customer journey as well as improvement of site performance by shifting to the Kentico MVC platform. Business wanted to make the site look modern and target any possible devices providing their users with an outstanding experience. Additionally, being content-heavy, the old site demonstrated a lack of performance.

Most of the challenges were related to the fact that content editors got used to Kentico Portal Engine and were looking for the features they've got used to with the previous platform. In most cases, those were some web parts and widgets.

Project goal

A.S.P. helps cities' governments to secure kids crossing the roads near schools, parks and other children places. Purpose of the application is automation of crossing guards activities tracking during their duty, like check in automatically whenever guard reaches the place of his duty, or check out whenever they leave it. Before we build a new app version client has complaints about incorrect location tracking and app crashes. The app was build in a way that supporting was too difficult for developers and developers can't deliver new updates in time ranges that client was looking for. Also, the design of the old app was not user-friendly and some functions weren't intuitive for guards. We had to build stable, extendable and maintainable app with a fresh UI/UX and add version for IOS users.

Probably the main challange was user location tracking as most of the logic is based on it. ASP Security Services management should know were their staff are during the shift. Another challange was to implement background data refreshing, so user have to see the latest data without manual screen refreshing. Also not an easy one was to match user interface with designs for all Platforms (IOS, Android) and for different screen sizes.

Our main goal was to build a service that will help to simplify business processes and management of loads and delivering information to drivers. The client wanted to automate the cargo tracking process. Also they wanted to inform their drivers about new loads in real-time Most of the challenges were related to data synchronization and delivering new loads in real-time.

Before we built a service client managers were tracking new loads in their inboxes and if they found a load that can make a profit they had to call the driver manually. That process was time-consuming and not accurate.

E-commerce site built on Kentico CMS for courses and webinars purchasing, online test and certification allows potential students to register online, browse catalog of courses and/or webinars, select the products of interest and add them to a cart, checkout and pay online. In case of webinar purchase user will be suggested to pass a test and gain a certificate online. Extra security has been implemented in order to prevent webinars sharing, which was impossible with the old system.
With this application client automated purchases, payments and webinar tests and certification, as well as introduced appropriate level of digital product protection.
Features: e-commerce product catalog and checkout, online payments, custom modules, webinar sharing protection, classes schedule calendar, content management, courses rating and users feedback, scheduled tasks

School Portal - recently added section that introduces LMS into main site: enables management of learning program, classes and schedule, student assignments, their grades, electronic document signature, etc.
School Portal is built with .NET Core Web API, Entity Framework, MS SQL and ReactJS (Typescript).

Here you can see live site: totaltechschool.com

Fit Factory is a full-service health club that provides luxury studio experiences at an affordable price.

Business goal was to ensure that the website provides a clear representation of their brand. Additionally, client wanted to simplify the consumer journey and make it easy to navigate.

In order to achieve goal business set for the project we've done complete redesign of web site with a strong focus on user experience making it really easy to navigate any information user might be interested in.

Aside of end user experiense, we improved the way content editors and marketers interact with the site.

Additionally extensive integration with client's internal systems has been implemented.

As a result Fit Factory Clubs got above 1,000 additional memberships sold through the site in a couple of month after this massive rework.

Here you can find live fitfactoryclubs.com

Philladelphia Commercial web site was build for Shaw Industries Group, Inc., one of the world's largest carpet manufacturers with more than $6 billion in annual revenue and approximately 22,000 employees worldwide. It is headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, and is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.

The main intention of the project was to update look and fill of the site and improvement of overall site performance by shifting to Kentico MVC platform. Business wanted to make site look modern and target any possible screen factor providing their users with awesome experience despite the device they are using. Additionally, being content heavy, old site demonstrated lack in performance.

Most of the challenges were related to the fact that a lot of features available in Portal Engine are not present in Kentico MVC and implementation of them. In most cases those were some web parts and widgets those client got used to.

Kentico MVC provides much better control over page's HTML output allowing to build much cleaner and lighter markup meanwhile does not set any limitations for UI developers allowing them to build literally whatever they need. As long as Kentico MVC is built on newer and modern framework (compering to previous versions) it shows much better performance out of the box providing really fast public pages as well as administration section.

Despite the fact Kentico MVC misses widgets and web parts it gives developers mechanism to build their custom widgets with no limits allowing to implement any required functionality.

With site release we were able to increase number of new users for 17%, users in general for 11%, sessions - 18%, doubled page views and decrease bounce rate from 42% to 1.03%. 

Here you can find live site philadelphiacommercial.com

The purpose of the project was to refresh the site look and make it modern as well as add responsiveness to target mobile users, fix existing issues as well as improve user and editors experience and site performance.

Established in 1977, Digitron Semiconductors is a broad-line, high mix/low volume supplier of high-reliability discrete products to military, aerospace, industrial, and commercial markets. 

One of the biggest challenges of the project was implementing dynamic product families that would allow client to manage fields, their appearance on the site with appropriate units and abbreviations, manage filter options and finally add and configure new product types. All of the above required us to invent a simple in use mechanism that would allow client to change the appearance of product related pages without code interaction, but configured through Kentico admin UI. Being data heavy application site performance was another challenge we had to solve. And last but not least was quite tricky search that would search not products only, but related products according to certain algorithms.

For the dynamic product types we've built Kentico Custom Module to provide product type editing capabilities: here site editors are able to create or edit product types, add or remove fields, specify what fields are used for filtering on a public page, specify field units, fields' visibility and order in the products listing grid. On another side of things we had to implement dynamic page templates that would present data according to products' custom module  configuration, build filters and product listing grid on the fly. From performance stand point we had to apply best optimization practice in terms of content optimization and Kentico configuration as well as caching. Regarding search we've customized indexing algorithms and add custom content in order to link related parts and ensure relevance level. 

See live site at  digitroncorp.com

The Harold Grinspoon Foundation (HGF) creates opportunities to connect with Judaism and the Jewish community at key life moments. In addition to flagship programs that are active across North America and around the world, the HGF invests in Jewish life at home in Western Massachusetts.

Business has set up multiple goals for this project: Update the website look and feel, add interesting and interactive functional features in order to attract more potential users - children 8-12 years old. Improve site performance to allow up to 50K of users and up to 5K simultaneous user sessions during load peak periods. Integrate the application with external ERP platform Microsoft Dynamics NAV and custom API built on top of it. Improve editors/admins experience with management of content and data entities in Kentico admin through custom modules. Another goal from the business was accessibility improvements.

Key challenge was to develop a high performing website with quick response time during load peak time. Another quite interesting challenge was to make the page look and act differently depending on site mode: parent vs. child mode, that could be switched on any page in site header. Also the site awards users with different badges for different types of activity based on quite complex logic.

Using Kentico MVC approach with Web Farm setup allowed us to build a website with a good performance meeting client's performance benchmark, meanwhile full control over the HTML output provides SEO benefits, clean and light markup, faster page load and improved overall site interaction. In addition caching features bring benefits to site performance allowing us to cache whatever we could cache on multiple layers of the system. Also we really like to use custom modules, as they allow us to build whatever data structure we need and provides clean, intuitive and consistent with the entire Admin section user interface.
 

See live site at pjourway.org