Customer: Commonwealth of Virginia, George Mason University
(Fairfield Technologies, prime contractor)
Goal: Provide full-scope e-business and e-marketing support for Commonwealth of Virginia organizations and stakeholders
Application: Provided e-business and e-marketing services to a variety of GMU-based programs servicing companies and stakeholders in northern Virginia, throughout the US, and internationally. The Mason Enterprise Center (MEC) provides business owners throughout the region with access to faculty, students, alumni, researchers, information sources, inventions, and other resources required to help them expand their businesses, improve their organizations, and strengthen the regional economy.
Challenges:
- Provision of complete data center, application design, development, maintenance and support services
- Project performance scope across multiple technical and business NAICS codes
- Management of multiple tasks across multiple organizations and multiple program areas
- Stringent budget constraints
FTI’s Approach:
- Using an agile prototyping and development approach, conceptualize, design, develop, maintain, and enhance public-facing website for the Mason Enterprise Center, a university-based economic development enterprise that focuses the energy, skills and intellectual capital of George Mason University on enterprise creation and expansion.
- Provide e-marketing services supporting MEC regional economic conferences
- Design, develop, maintain and enhance public website for the International Business Accelerator, an organization that provides assistance to both US and international small business companies for developing international markets.
- Website design, development, and maintenance services for the Virginia SBDC Network, an organization of 29 local SBDCs across Virginia providing professional business counseling, training and information resources to help grow and strengthen Virginia businesses. Produced website, newsletter, and event-specific targeted email and response services.
- Improve website and information accessibility by providing website and e-marketing content translation into Spanish, Vietnamese, and Korean.
- Provide secure, flexible web hosting services
Products Used: Microsoft IIS application server, Microsoft Access relational DBMS, ASP, HTML, DHTML, Java, Javascript, and Adobe Photoshop
Benefits: Provide long term, best value information technology support to very visible programs within a Government and University environment at an affordable price
Delivery: On time, within budget. CMMI Level 3 project.