Project: Intranet for the Renessans Strakhovaniye / Renaissance Insurance Company.

Customer
Renessans Strakhovaniye a leading company in Russia’s modern insurance market.
Renessans Strakhovaniye has an A++ rating, the highest possible, from Expert RA, a national rating agency assuring its financial stability and solvency.
Renessans Strakhovaniye is licensed for all types of insurance and offers clients a full range of products backed by more than 10 years of experience in the Russian market.

Task
The initial idea was to develop a modern corporate portal, which transformed into the development of full a corporate intranet, in accordance with the design concept proposed by the Design Bureau Artem Gorbunov and with the full support of Renessans Strakhovaniye’s HR unit.

Solution
The intranet is integrated with multiple in-house information systems, including personnel, documents, information guides, and implements the majority of the functions specific to corporate portals.

Major competitive advantages from the new intranet include

• a new, integrated telephone directory combined with the other information that helped the company streamline the data on the administrative structure and various units of Gruppa Renessans Strakhovaniye / Renaissance Insurance Group LLC;
• simplifying and assisting new employees in learning the company;
• organizing and improving accessibility of corporate information, including current internal projects, competitions, career opportunities, etc.; and
• facilitating efficient communications between management and staff.

Technologies
A separate portal platform (portlets, integration elements, etc.) was developed for the project based on ASP.NET/MS SQL. The portal platform provides better usability and target functionality than the standard implementation of MS Sharepoint.

Project: Implementation of the “Web-Praktika: Sale of Policies” (“Autodealer”) system in the company “Zurich. Retail”

Client: MediaPro, Inc., a US-based company

Description:
A web-based portal application designed to help optimize, manage, and measure (evaluate) coaching and mentoring initiatives.

Technologies: ASP.NET 2.0, AJAX 1.0, MS SQL Server 2005
 

Task:
Develop a PDA tool for information transmission between field engineers and the home office.

Solution:
The tool saved engineers’ time while surveying in the field, as well as increasing their flexibility and efficiency.

Main functionality:
The user navigates using a menu button and job complete button.
• The menu button displays the names of the screens.
• The job complete button saves the data for attachment to an email.

The home office fills in various sections on a scrollable form (WIN32 Form) that saves in XML format and is sent by email to the engineer.

The engineer receives an email with the XML form attached; when clicked both the attachment and the program open displaying the job information.

The engineer adds information, saves it and sends it back as an email attachment.

Technologies: .Net 2.0, Compact Framework 2.0, c# 2.0, email by pocket outlook api, xml
 

Client: Lincoln Insurance Agency, Inc.

Description:
Recognizing a competitive need, Lincoln Insurance Agency hired NTR to perform a complete SEO analysis prior to a redesign and enhancement of their website.

Based on the analyst’s recommendations NTR designed an updated look, strong SEO and better functionality that

• collects user details (name, age, marital status, driving experience, car make, car model, etc.);
• analyzes the information;
• provides online insurance quote estimate; and
• enables the user to purchase the policy online.

Client: VFluence, Inc.

Description: The system saves and catalogues the primary data from Internet public opinion research.
A user enters words of interest into an Excel table and the system automatically adds synonyms, typical search queries and key words. The user then enters new words or deletes unnecessary ones and the system initiates a new search. Information is saved in databases; the system moderates it finding similar or identical resources based on URL and key word moderation algorithms. Server agents work with the following search engines and web-services: Google AdWords, Wordtracker and KeywordDiscovery.

Technologies:
Client part: Excel Smart Documents, .Net;
Server part: Postgres database, PL/SQL, Java, web services
 

Description: A software suite that collects and analyzes information on all horse races run in the US and Canada. Betting information is tracked and saved in a real-time, multi-threaded mode for each race; tactical, statistical, and analytic data for every race is uploaded and processed daily. Clients use custom algorithms via the analyzer program to crunch the massive amount of data to evaluate the current functional state of any horse. Status: Active development

Client: World Compliance Inc.

Description: Corporate website and information system are in active development state.

Client: Clear Estimates, Inc.

Description: The program automates estimating and proposals for projects to renovate and reconstruct various types of buildings, offices and rooms. A special feature of the program is the detailed ergonomics of the user interface. The wide functionality of the program includes CRM function, project change management, and program parameters setting. Status: Packaged product, new version in development

Client: DogBreath Software Inc. — a leading developer of software for endodontists in the US.

Description: TDO is a sophisticated software comprised of several modules that seamlessly integrate the following into an easy-to-install, user-friendly program:

• financial and clinical data;
• digital and scanned radiographs; and
• photographic and video images.

Additional features:

• All the clinical x-rays, still and video images, patient chart and diagnostic data, referral communications, emails and phone calls received/sent, are saved and accessed intuitively from TDO.
• It facilitates comminication with
  • patients through the case presentation and education modules;
  • referring doctors through the custom reports and letter modules;
  • endodontic colleagues through TDO chat and discussion groups;
  • insurance companies through emails; and
  • internally through the interoffice email.
• A state-of-the-art library of digital images needed to educate the patient.

You can read more about the medical software we developed on our medical IT website www.ntrmedical.com.