u1.net has worked with a variety of companies both large and small. Below are examples by industry of the types of clients we have worked with and the service we have provided.
Financial Services
JPMorgan
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is a leader in providing, corporations and individuals with a long list of financial, trading and investment services throughout the world. As of December 31, 2000 J.P. Morgan formally merged with Chase to form J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
For nearly six years, u1.net has enjoyed an excellent relationship with J.P. Morgan (now J.P. Morgan Chase & Co). During this time, u1.net has provided exceptional systems infrastructure support to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. u1.net, in alliance with Verizon, a member of the Pinnacle Alliance Group that provides IT management services to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., has provided a team of consultants to deliver their expertise in the field of systems administration.
The u1.net team has provided services in Solaris Administration, Web Server Administration, DEC/Encina/TXSeries Administration,database administration, project managementas well as IBM's MQSeries administration.
BHC / Fiserv
BHC Pro
This was the first project for the RSD process. U1.net (then Universal) drove the BHC Pro project and reported directly to the VP of development. U1.net managed internal staff as well as BHC employees. BHC Pro provides an interface to BHC Broker / Dealers so that the can access their products and all back office reports over the Internet. The data resides on the BHC Tandem systems. BHC had an existing communication module used to access the Tandem systems for trading purposes. The BHC Pro project analyzed this interface, recommended enhancements and built an interface to web enable the data. In addition to the data itself, a complex security module was required to manage entitlements mapping between the users and the various types of information available online.
The successful application of the Discovery process proved extremely valuable. It provided documentation about the business processes, people and systems in the organization. The Discovery documentation was used as a foundation for various projects with in BHC. Within the BHC Pro project, the Discovery documentation provided a tool to introduce new participants to the project.
College Savings Bank
u1.net provides website support for College Savings Bank including hosting
and email. As College Savings Bank grew so did their infrastructure and
security needs. U1.net was there every step of the way to provide the
insight toward a secure, stable and reliable infrastructure so CSB can
concentrate on their business without any worries.
Logistics and Distribution
Fortune 100 Company
U1 has developed several web sites for this Fortune 100 company. The first website was their informational home site. This site gives customers the ability to view product and service catalogs, register online, view specific on-line presentations, and streaming video. Additional web sites we have built for this company provide a wide variety of e-commerce solutions to specific customers. Along with the typical e-commerce functionality, a few of the special features from these sites include: personalized parts lists, recommended maintenance procedures, buying history patterns, and a complete end to end solution for vendor, supplier and the customer. We are currently making changes and enhancements to two highly successful e-commerce websites. One of these sites targets service shops that need specialized tools to maintain and fix particular aircraft engines. The other targets small commercial aircraft engine shops that need specific parts. These customers can order parts directly or ask for a quote. What makes this site unique is the integration into the companies Ordering Management System. Orders are sent by the web to their custom ordering system and filled by a sales representative. Order status, order history, and inventory updates are sent to the website on scheduled intervals. This seamless interface provides important information to be immediately available to the customer through the web thus increasing customer satisfaction, productivity, and sales. The platforms for this development and hosting ranged from Netscape Enterprise Server, Microsoft NT, Unix, Linix, and Apache. We have used Java, ASP and VBScript in the majority of the development. All look and feel and navigation was developed within u1.net graphics department. Database access ranged from Oracle, XML, and direct access to the companies back-end systems.
Manufacturing
ASLegal
All State Legal provides complete law office systems while providing a
comprehensive offering of design services, graphic communications products,
legal specialties, and general office supplies.
U1.net has enabled ASL to bring these offerings to their customers through the web in a more personalized and efficient manner. The website was built with ASP on Windows 2000 using Oracle for all product, order and data storage. Several specialized Batch processing applications provide AS Legal with integrated control with their internal MIS data. The application has the ability to clients can manage their own users, control who can purchase what through access privileges and an integrated approval process, orders can be tracked and reordered, items can be personalized, such as business cards, gift cards, and corp. kits, and access to a huge database of office supplies
Fortune 100 Company
U1 has developed several web sites for this Fortune 100 company. The first website was their informational home site. This site gives customers the ability to view product and service catalogs, register online, view specific on-line presentations, and streaming video. Additional web sites we have built for this company provide a wide variety of e-commerce solutions to specific customers. Along with the typical e-commerce functionality, a few of the special features from these sites include: personalized parts lists, recommended maintenance procedures, buying history patterns, and a complete end to end solution for vendor, supplier and the customer. We are currently making changes and enhancements to two highly successful e-commerce websites. One of these sites targets service shops that need specialized tools to maintain and fix particular aircraft engines. The other targets small commercial aircraft engine shops that need specific parts. These customers can order parts directly or ask for a quote. What makes this site unique is the integration into the companies Ordering Management System. Orders are sent by the web to their custom ordering system and filled by a sales representative. Order status, order history, and inventory updates are sent to the website on scheduled intervals. This seamless interface provides important information to be immediately available to the customer through the web thus increasing customer satisfaction, productivity, and sales. The platforms for this development and hosting ranged from Netscape Enterprise Server, Microsoft NT, Unix, Linix, and Apache. We have used Java, ASP and VBScript in the majority of the development. All look and feel and navigation was developed within u1.net graphics department. Database access ranged from Oracle, XML, and direct access to the companies back-end systems.
Printing and Publishing
Sunset Stationers
Sunset Stationers is an on-line supplier of print services. There business
relies on integrated supply and quick time to market of their products and
services.
U1.net built their on-line system using ASP on Windows 2000 with Oracle access for data management.
Colloquy
The COLLOQUY Group comprises a collection of resources devoted to the global
loyalty marketing industry. The flagship resources are COLLOQUY, a quarterly
publication that has served the loyalty marketing industry since 1990, and
colloquy.com, the most comprehensive loyalty Web site in the world. Together
they provide a worldwide audience of 16,000+ subscribers with news,
editorial, educational and research services that blanket the loyalty
marketing industry.
U1.net provided the full scale Software Project for developing the website and its management tools. The application was built with ASP on Windows NT with database access through Oracle. Windows Index Server is utilized for site and content specific searching.
The application was built to allow the editors and colloquy team to provide articles and information to their subscribed customers with ease and reliability. The back-end functionality allows for articles to be "staged" for team reviews, approval and rolled out to the live site. Information is sent to specialized customers with personalized emails through the u1.net Bulk-Mail System, Zip Time. Colloquy uses this application to send over 1 million emails each year. Treacking and reporting on the success of these campaigns are also part of the system.
Professional Services
Tunnell
Tunnell Consulting supports the technical community with insight into
pharmaceutical and Six Sigma methodology for Supply Chain organizations.
Tunnell has many off-site consultants that require secure access to
important company information.
U1.net provided an Extranet Application for the Tunnell employees and their contactors to help gather, distribute, and report information that was critical to their business.
The Extranet is built on Windows .net architecture on a Windows 2000 environment with data access through SQL Server. U1.net provides security, hosting and system maintenance on this entire environment.
The Extranet Application consists of specialized areas that are accessed through strict user privileges maintained by the site admin. All site admin capabilities are integrated on the site. Functional areas include: Access Control, Knowledge Management, Asset Management, Human Resource Portal, Time and Expense Portal, and secure Financial Reports and Summaries
Telecommunications
AT&T
AT&T is among the premier voice, video and data communications companies in the world, serving businesses, consumers, and government. The company runs the largest, most sophisticated communications network in the U.S., backed by the research and development capabilities of AT&T Labs. A leading supplier of data, Internet and managed services for the public and private sectors, AT&T offers outsourcing and consulting to large businesses and government. The company is a market leader in local, long distance and Internet services, as well as transaction-based services like prepaid cards, collect calling and directory assistance. With approximately $37 billion of revenue, AT&T has about 40 million residential customers and 4 million business customers, who depend on AT&T for high-quality communications. AT&T has garnered several awards for outstanding performance and customer service.
u1.net performed the Transformation and Loading Module development for AT&T's Information Repository Data Warehouse project which provides reporting information on Alarm Events and Work Orders based on certain identified dimensions. The design defined a Staging Server for the module which allows the Production Data Warehouse Server to be accessed uninterrupted during the transformation process.
The general flow of the Transformation and Loading module starts with the extraction of source files to a Staging Database using loader scripts. The Transformation Program is then executed in the Staging DataBase which reads the staging tables and inserts the transformed data to the Target Staging Tables in the Staging Database using PL/SQL scripts. The Loading Program then reads the Target Staging Tables and loads the data into the appropriate tables in the Production Data Warehouse Database using PL/SQL scripts.
RAD
RADirect is a value-added online distributor specializing in data
communications and telecommunications access equipment, security & business
continuity solutions. Products includes Fiber Multiplexers and Modems,
Migration of legacy services to IP, Voice Transmission Solutions, xDSL Last
Mile, Load Balancing solutions, IP SAN switches, CSU/DSUs, Routers,
Firewall/VPNs and more.
U1.net provided a full Software Development Project that brought these products to the Internet. The website was built with ASP on Windows 2000. Interfaces include Worldship UPS shipping system, and internal access to oracle for orders and inventory management to other systems. The Project consisted of the following Functional Areas: Full Site Management, Catalog Management through Saqqara, User Management, Back-end functionality to process orders, quotes, returns, promotions, shipping, and resellers.
Verizon
A Fortune 20 company, Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) is one of the world's leading providers of communications services, with approximately $68 billion in annual revenues. Verizon companies are the largest providers of wireline and wireless communications in the United States. Verizon is also the largest directory publisher in the world, as measured by directory titles and circulation. Verizon's international presence includes wireline and wireless communications operations and investments, primarily in the Americas and Europe.
u1.net has provided Verizon with system and database administration. In addition, u1.net designed, developed and managed the roll out of a enterprise-wide, multi-platform performance trending web-based system. The system forecasted cpu, disk, network and memory utilization and predicted when bottlenecks would be reached. We also provided management of their resources and projects at the JP Morgan Chase account.