GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Maximize Performance
- Rapidly implement massively scalable systems
- Work with systems mathematically optimized for peak performance
- Meet "Cloud First" and "Light Technology" requirements
Streamline Administration
- Implement highly efficient and cost-effective best practices
- Rely on detailed, broad, current, and easy-to-follow documentation
- Gain efficiencies and cost containment via modular development
CASE STUDY: A MAJOR SYSTEM AND A POWERFUL ALGORITHM FOR SCHOOL CHOICE
THE CHALLENGE:
Provide technology to enhance the school choice program for a large metropolitan school district.
WHAT WE DID:
We conducted hundreds of hours of discovery with the school system’s subject matter experts to identify the current business processes used by the school system’s many offices. We then suggested elegant and effective approaches to improve their processes. We created hundreds of wireframes and screenshot mockups to illustrate the proposed system’s functionality and to spark discussions.
Based on a review of the appropriate economics and mathematics literature, we crafted an algorithm based on the Gale Shapely matching process, which is used for medical residency matching, and incorporated several refinements from academia and several enhancements of our own. The system was designed to accommodate many school selection method variations through an intuitive interface that offers powerful Boolean logic capabilities.
We then created the software that manages this process — two Web applications comprising hundreds of interfaces, that accommodate thousands of internal school system users and millions of parents, many of whom will wait until the last minute and use the system simultaneously.
THE RESULT:
The streamlined automated processes significantly reduces operating costs, while the enhanced algorithms enable a faster, more accurate matching process.
CASE STUDY: FEDERATED SEARCH FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
THE CHALLENGE:
The U.S. Small Business Administration needed to conduct searches across a wide range of differently configured databases maintained by various Federal agencies.
WHAT WE DID:
WebINTENSIVE created an application to perform federated searches across millions of records and normalized the data.
THE RESULTS:
The federated search software was used to find answers to user questions in a prototype expert system we developed for the SBA and several other Federal agencies.
