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Audacious Inquiry offers a core web application and website development capability to clients in a range of industries. We believe that the development of an engaging website cannot be undertaken in isolation. We have creative and design staff that understands the technologies used for web development and the possibilities they present. Our development staff also understands design concepts and is used to working with designers and creative teams to implement cutting-edge designs. While we have strong capabilities in Microsoft platforms, we are generally technology agnostic, and will propose an architecture that best suits the business needs of each client.
In November 2009, American Public University System, a leading and accredited higher-education institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees online, unveiled its new face on the Internet. With a competitive and rapidly evolving landscape in the online education sector, increasing complexity of APUS's business, evolving sophistication of web users, and expansion of available web communication and interaction tools, APUS faced the challenge of delivering a completely new face that reflects the sophistication, mission, and aspiration of the enterprise.
AI has relaunched the website of Powermax Gobal – a smart grid technology provider based in India with offices in U.S. Powermax’s mission is to transform energy delivery to customers in the developing market to improve efficiency and save cost.
www.powermaxglobal.com
AI has relaunched the website of CRISP, the collaborative health information exchange planning group comprised of Erickson Retirement Communities, Johns Hopkins Medicine, MedStar Health, and the University of Maryland Medical System. As HIE activities move forward in Maryland, the website will serve as an informational resource for consumers and healthcare institutions alike. The site was developed using the DotNetNuke open source content management framework.
Brown Advisory, a growing investment management firm with offices in Baltimore, Washington, New York, Boston and London, chose AI to develop a new website that better reflected a firm of substantial size and geographic reach; it also sought a site that would be easier to administer and maintain. AI made innovative use of the DotNetNuke content management framework in executing the project. The new site was deployed in March 2009.
Audacious Inquiry developed a system for managing the quarterly performance goals of a client’s employees. This system allows the company to manage quarterly bonuses based on a combination of employees’ performances against their own goals for the quarter and the company’s performance against its stated quarterly goals.
The marketing team at Erickson Retirement Communities (ERC) was looking to create a more interactive experience for prospective residents interested in knowing more about life on an Erickson campus. It wished to develop a calendar for publishing events taking place on Erickson campuses on a public website. The ERC marketing team chose Audacious Inquiry to develop this web application.
In 2008, a large healthcare client engaged Audacious Inquiry to develop a personal health record, sometimes also known as a health record bank (HRB), to better empower consumers to actively participate in their own healthcare. Audacious Inquiry led the project from discovery, through design, to deployment.
Early in 2007, an organization employing over 10,000 people approached Audacious Inquiry to assess an executive-level business intelligence initiative. The organization’s chief information officer believed that leadership at all levels of the enterprise could be empowered to make better decisions if they were delivered timely, mission-critical data in a simple online dashboard.
Audacious Inquiry developed a service that makes patients’ recent medications available to emergency departments during hospital visits. Currently, it is being piloted in a handful of ambulatory care settings in Maryland.
AI has launched the new website of the Adeona Foundation, a New York City-based non-profit organization that provides support for the city's neediest children.
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Web Applications News & Blog
In November 2009, American Public University System, a leading and accredited higher-education institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees online, unveiled its new face on the Internet. With a competitive and rapidly evolving landscape in the online education sector, increasing complexity of APUS's business, evolving sophistication of web users, and expansion of available web communication and interaction tools, APUS faced the challenge of delivering a completely new face that reflects the sophistication, mission, and aspiration of the enterprise.
On Wednesday, July 8th, American Public University System, an accredited higher-education institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees online, hosted hundreds of prospective students in a cutting-edge virtual environment.
An article in this morning's Wall Street Journal points out that many services firms, from consultancies to ad agencies to law firms, are resorting to performance-based compensation models as a way of differentiating themselves in the currently brutal business environment.
AI has relaunched the website of CRISP, the collaborative health information exchange planning group comprised of Erickson Retirement Communities, Johns Hopkins Medicine, MedStar Health, and the University of Maryland Medical System. As HIE activities move forward in Maryland, the website will serve as an informational resource for consumers and healthcare institutions alike. The site was developed using the DotNetNuke open source content management framework. Over the last several weeks, with the increased prominence of health IT generally and CRISP specifically -- for instance, CRISP leaders David Horrocks and Mark Kelemen were recently interviewed on Baltimore's WYPR public radio -- traffic to the CRISP website has risen dramatically.
Maryland's Department of Information Technology has recommended that Audacious Inquiry receive a Master Contract award through its Consulting & Technical Services (CATS) II contracting vehicle.
Traditional SEO (search engine optimization) campaigns have focused on building links. However, the ways in which businesses will need to execute link strategies are evolving daily due to social media, blogs, and even search engine algorithm changes.
The Federal Government furthers its use of Web 2.0 including blogs, social networks and virtual worlds.
"CMMI" stands for Capability Maturity Model Integration. Simply put, CMMI is a numeric scale used to “rate” the maturity of a software development process or team. CMMI maturity levels are increasingly used by government agencies and Fortune 500 companies to evaluate the potential for organizations to deliver quality solutions on-time and within budget.
Generally, section 508 (29 U.S.C. ‘749d)
requires that Federal agencies' electronic and information technology
is accessible to people with disabilities. As government agencies move more and more toward online and web-based tools, IT government contractors will be required to understand and adhere to these requirements. Section 1194.22 of the Act specifically refers to “Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications.”
Social networking is gaining traction in the government space. Two AI team members attended a panel on this subject yesterday morning hosted by the American Council for Technology.
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