GreyColt.com showcases WRSG’s diversity in website development. The Grey Colt, located in downtown Hudson, Ohio, is a women's specialty store with head-to-toe dressing for every clothing need, a 47 year old tradition on the historic Main Street, and most importantly a friendly neighborhood shopping experience. The Grey Colt has a strong reputation for unique items, helpful staff, and charming gift-wrap contained within a homey atmosphere.  

The client desired a very personal site to convey the essence of the store through a web interface. Creating a sense of community, this site includes multiple blogs, permitting the store owner and employees to add their own personal touch to the site. Visitors are given the option to join a mailing list are able to correspond with the store owner to convey desired apparel and accessories. Resting on WRSG’s dynamic framework, it allows the client to maintain content. Coming soon will be the ability to conduct e-commerce as integrated online transaction processing will be activated within the near future.

Taken directly from the website; “Curtin and Associates’, LLP, focus is in the area of tort and business litigation with special emphasis dedicated to the area of Special Investigative Unit projects.” The law firm operates out of Akron, Ohio with substantial jury trial experience, exceptional client relations, and continuous community involvement on behalf of all practicing attorneys.

WRSG utilized technological expertise paired with the firm’s desire for a professional, yet personal website to construct CurtinLawFirm.com. The dynamic framework permits Curtin & Associates the option of independently managing content information, which is extremely important in the ever-changing world of law. Updates can be made to the site within minutes and are automatically released to the viewing population.

Rennsteig Werkzeuge, located in Viernau, Germany is a worldwide leader in the development and manufacturing of specialty tools utilized in all forms of cable processing. In January of 2006, the company stood up a US-based subsidiary, Rennsteig Tools Incorporated. Management of the new subsidiary approached WRSG to create a website that displayed Rennsteig’s renowned tools and cable processing information for their ‘new’ domestic market.

Rennsteig.US is an informative and fully searchable website. Content management and updates can be made by Rennsteig or WRSG [authorized] employees and are instantaneously viewable by site visitors, unlike many static sites on the web today. WRSG continually provides email and hosting services (guaranteed 24x7x365 support, back-up, monitoring and security) for the US division.

Hudson Heritage Association (HHA) was founded in 1962 to preserve the Western Reserve Community of Hudson and its historic character. For the past four decades, HHA has promoted civic awareness of Hudson's rich history and fosters a responsible approach to preserving its unique architecture and Green.

The Hudson Heritage website is a place where members of the Hudson community can go to learn about the history of the town and apply for membership with the association. As an informative site, HHA members maintain content and are able to depend on WRSG personnel for additional support.

“Taking advantage of the most responsive marketing tool – word of mouth!” What better way to encourage someone to try something new than to get one of their friends to encourage it? OpenReferral is a management application developed to eliminate the hassle of tracking customer referrals. The process works like this, a current customer is asked if they would like to refer friends and receive a discount or free item (whichever the company would prefer). When x number of friends redeem their coupons the system automatically tracks the ‘referees’ back to the person that referred them. In doing so, the new customer is then asked if they’d like to refer x number of friends to receive a discount or free item. Each referee turns into a new referrer (promoter) and the cycle continues. All coupons are tracked via a bar code system, eliminating unnecessary paper trails and tabulations for employees. The cycle repeats endlessly and the company only gives the discount or free item if a coupon is redeemed – greatly reducing unnecessary spending on other, less responsive, advertising!

DefeatDeceit is a Political Action Committee that was stood up in opposition to Issue 38 in the November 2006 Hudson elections. WRSG was contacted to provide an informational site where Hudson residents could go to stay abreast of the latest developments concerning the issue. The dynamic framework allowed immediate updates to be released to the public, which is extremely important in the quick changing arena of politics. Citizens were able to sign up as volunteers via the site as well as pledge contributions.

The CDC Automated Disaster and Emergency Planning Tool - Knowledgebase is an online knowledgebase developed to help the CDC establish a clearinghouse for disaster management information and best practices.  The information is derived from a paper process which has been developed and refined by the CDC over several years of responding to humanitarian disasters.  All data is stored in a full-text indexed databases for easy searching on topics of pertinance to the end-user.  The knowledgebase provides a structured storage mechanism which is end-user managed providing users the ability enter constructive annotations and allowing subject matter experts editing capabilities where appropriate.  Thus, it is a growing and community-driven database of knowledge pertinant to disaster management and emergency planning.  The interface was developed by WRSG with sponsorship provided by the Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine (CDHAM).

Organizations seeking to reduce costs in conducting scientific and market research can now efficiently attain that goal. OpenSurvey is a service provided through a collaborative technology development effort between Western Reserve Systems Group (WRSG) and the Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine (CDHAM). Utilizing a simple form-based interface, which can be accessed globally through a secure Internet interface, OpenSurvey users are able to design custom surveys and easily distribute these surveys to a handheld format on the Pocket PC platform. The surveyor simply takes the handheld device into the field to gather respondents’ information. After all responses are collected, the surveyor can export the results and upload the data to a secure online database.  Once uploaded, summary data analysis is immediately available and globally accessible for authorized subject matter experts to review online. This streamlined process greatly reduces error, as information goes from the point of collection directly to the database without the need to re-key or run separate data analysis.

WRSG has re-written the entire Bowtie Customer Bonus Program online interface.  The new Extranet-based application was redeveloped utilizing Microsoft .NET and ASP.NET technologies.  The security and database mechanisms have been redeveloped to support DuPonts technology standards.  The new interface combines both end-user and administrative functionality such that, based on login credentials, each user will view the customized interface intended for them.  WRSG will continue to enhance this interface with additional functionality over the next year as the program and online usage develop further.

The Handheld Database and Survey Application Development involves providing a portable platform for medical research to perform patient histories (CDHAM.org). This platform must be flexible enough to maintain several survey criteria along with patient information in a database format. It is currently utilized in remote locations on the PocketPC platform and replicates data with a primary secure SQL server through satellite communications systems. This data is immediately accessible to home based supervisory and medical personnel via secure Internet interface for analysis, diagnosis and recommended treatment. It will be implemented along with several other telemedicine devices to provide full medical services to regions previously inaccessible to such medical technology expertise.

This site is a fully functional e-commerce website for a Central Ohio cheese manufacturer. For a low-end investment, this company has gained access to a world market with business objectives to turn a three month high-output "Holiday Gift Season" into a twelve-month-a-year high-output business. This site is intended to represent how a smaller business can step through phases of Internet development and integration with current business practices affordably, upgrading based on business needs utilizing WRSG's integrated Internet package offering.

WRSG continues to work coordination with DuPont and CSC to implement a business portal for the DuPont Performance Coatings Division. Specifically, WRSG is migrating redeveloped business web implementations of customer marketing programs to the portal.  All applications being integrated with the portal provide dynamic data from live data sources via XML interfaces. We are interfacing with the portal through BowStreet and InterWoven portal and content management solutions.

The concept behind Hudson Shops is to provide a central location where Hudson residents can go to access the web pages of all Hudson stores. It eliminates the hassle of trying to find each individual store’s page by providing each with a single page to display sales, products or any aspect of business they desire. For stores belonging to larger businesses, (i.e. The Gap, Cold Stone, etc.) they may also wish to provide a link to their company’s main page. This project is still in the very early development stages, so keep an eye out for it down the road!

The eXtended Document Management Resource providing online storage, retrieval and sharing of electronic documents utilizing virtually any connected device. MyXDocs.com provides a new method of electronic document management to a wide array of electronic devices.

WRSG has completed the redevelopment of Rykon's plating industry website to more professionally present itself on the Internet. As well as a redesign, Rykon is implementing new sections of its website to allow for on-line RFQ's and client fulfillment services. Furthermore, a section will be added allowing CAD drawings of parts to be uploaded through a secure interface and used for accurate pricing and job processing. The link above is to the newly redeveloped website at http://www.rykon.net/.  Additional functionality will continue to be added to Rykokn's newly implemented technology.

OpenEducate.NET is a new teacher Internet gateway for managing classroom information. It provides a location for teachers to present classroom schedules, list homework requirements, allow students to submit assignments [via the Internet], and stay in touch with parents. Students are given a login id and password to their own individual ‘space’. Here, they can store notes, homework assignments and additional material to review for tests. In the instance of a student’s absence, he or she would simply have to check the teacher’s portal to view that day’s assignments. This is intended for use in middle and high schools in an attempt to modernize school system’s processes for learning.

Located in Hudson, Ohio, Karin’s Sweeet Shoppe features over 70 flavors of homemade ice cream including Italian gelato, as well as low carb and no sugar added ice cream varieties for health conscious customers. WRSG was approached to develop a site to advertise Karin’s product lines to the local community.