Design and Architecture
Rock Creek Software provided technology assessment and consultation to start-up company DecisionLink as they prepared to develop their flagship application, Comparative Intelligence. By conducting an analysis of similar applications in the industry, rock Creek Software provided DecisionLink with a detailed path for architecting and implementing their software from beginning to end.
Customer Interface
The customer-facing application was designed in Flex using a MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework for more rapid and structured development. The platform allowed for easy integration of third-party libraries for handling payments, charting, and web service communication.
Databse and Web Services
Given the vast amount of data that would need to be stored and analyzed in their decision engine, it is imperative that their database schema be efficient and extensible. Rock Creek Software provided support for designing the entity relationships as well as efficient methods for populating and organizing the data.
Analysis Engine
The brains behind the Comparative Intel applicaion lay in DecisionLink's proprietary analysis engine. Rock Creek Software worked with DecisionLink to develop a robust server-side system that can be easily extended to add new functionality and data sources without affecting the integrity of the customer facing elements.
About Comparative Intelligence
Comparative Intelligence takes the concepts of content, context, and correlation into an application that does the work for you. Comparative Intelligence tells you where companies have issues based on a comparative analysis of each company in context to their closest peers. By determining the issues at each of the 120,000 North American companies in our database, you now have a entry point of value. This is appropriate for evaluating a solution you are bringing to market, researching the companies you want to sell, or determining your strategy and go-to-market plans.
About DecisionLink
DecisionLink was created with a single purpose in mind, bring the understanding of value to a company's financial supply chain. If you can build products based on the value it brings to a customer and arm your customer facing resources with this messaging, you will become a strategic advisor to your customers not a vendor.
