WaveAccess

How to help a major clinical research company to increase their sales? The answer is – organize an effective search of their products

2012-02-09T04:17:00.000-08:00

Waveaccess in close collaboration with Thomson Reuters Company has developed a web site for Covance - one of the largest pharmaceutical companies worldwide. This web site has been created in order to organize an effective search technique for the Covance manufactured products.

Covance experienced a great deal of inconvenience search facilities on the website without any explicit representation of biopathways for the respective products’ interaction. There was no feedback channel or any demand reports on a full range of products.

WaveAccess has processed in a special way all the maps and meta information provided by Thomson Reuters in order to use it in Adobe Omniture। The website has been made on top of Adobe Omniture engine, and it allows to run lead funnel analysis from the point of entry to the website, through maps search and search for specific elements on these maps and on to online-shopping.

The developed website functionality offers a convenient full-text search, ranging search results by priority and number of mentions. It is easy to choose among all the products with help of biochemical processes visualisation tool. As of now, whenever site visitors are interested in some product, they can set the desired search parameters and proceed to the map that visually illustrates biopathways with all the detailed information about the majority of products available. And if one of Covance products is related to one of these actors, they can go to online shop and purchase it. All the maps have detailed pathway description and pathway references. Moreover, if it’s impossible to find a specific product (assay or antibody) you can request the development of this product by filling in an online form.

This web site has met all Covance expectations. The system allows Covance marketing department to estimate the buyer’s demand for certain products and helps researchers to make the find the desired products much easier than before.

To see the results, please visit http://www.covance.com/products/biomarkers/pathways4/

About Covance: Covance – is one of the largest international companies that provides a full range of services in the field of drug development. Information on Covance’s products and services, recent press releases, and SEC filings can be obtained through its website at http://www.covance.com

About WaveAccess company: WaveAccess is a software development company founded in 2000 with headquarters in the USA and offices in Russia and the Ukraine. Company develops custom software products for Internet Enterprise, Medical and Microsoft Dynamics CRM markets. The majority of WaveAccess clients come from the US and Europe. For more information, please visit http://www.wave-access.com

New FEI Awards website by WaveAccess

2011-12-05T04:17:00.000-08:00

WaveAccess experts have developed a website for the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI). This beautiful and simple for visitors website is devoted to the annual FEI Awards ceremony.

The main goal of WaveAccess in this project was to expose a global awards scheme for the whole equestrian world. In order to increase the visitors activity it was necessary to make a nomination process more transparent and easy.

WaveAccess specialists have chosen ExpressionEngine CMS as most appropriate website managing system for the set tasks. In order to extend the standard functionality we have added several specific modules to it. To aggregate feeds from the leading social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube we have used vendor provided APIs.

We came with a completely fresh and improved design and at the same time enhanced its functional capabilities. WaveAccess designers put a splash movie onto the main page, social media sites’ feeds, winners’ gallery and other additional features, that make the website more personal, lively and visually appealing. The work of FEI employees, who select nominees has been considerably simplified: due to thought through, logically organized list of nominators with extended search options and email notifications – FEI workers can now efficiently get the necessary data and process it to choose winners.

As a result, by allowing the key elements to bring the needed appeal and with the usability heavily improved and of course due to FEI self promotion, the website has received a considerable interest to the award. ‘This site has been a fantastic success, gaining support and nominations from all over the world<…>The functionality and the design were exactly what we were wanting, and within budget.’ said Richard Johnson, Director of Corporate Communications.

About FEI: the FEI is the international governing body of equestrian (horse) sports. The FEI headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland. The FEI Awards were launched in 2009 to put a spotlight on the men, women, young people and organizations that are making an outstanding contribution to the progress and excellence of equestrian sport – in or out of the arena. For more information about FEI, please visit http://www.fei.org

About WaveAccess company: WaveAccess is a software development company founded in 2000 with headquarters in the USA and offices in Russia and the Ukraine. Company develops custom software products for Internet Enterprise, Medical and Microsoft Dynamics CRM markets. The majority of WaveAccess clients come from the US and Europe. For more information, please visit http://www.wave-access.com

Breakthrough in CUDA data compression

2011-04-22T08:18:00.000-07:00

The goal of our adventurous endeavour run against conventional and approved conduct that compression algorithms can not make any substantial use of powerful vector processing capacity of CUDA-enabled GPUs was to explore the performance speedup that can be achieved by utilizing the multi-core Compute Unified Device Architecture.

Among the available data compressors we chose bzip2, which in its turn uses the Burrows–Wheeler transform (which again has been used for memory reduction in human genome indexing), move-to-front transform and Huffman coding, and adapted BWT to CUDA to exploit the advantages of GPGPU computing.

For comparison testing we have only performed Burrows–Wheeler transform over 2 pixel-based images and 2 PDF files of different size on one CPU core and on GPU and so far have not approached the Huffman encoding which in fact doesn't offer any chances of parallelization for GPU-computations due to sequential nature and requirement for synchronization between blocks since they are dependent on each previous block's output. Therefore, theoretically, a significant increase in performance is subject to making full use of both GPU and CPU main assets in terms of their computational faculty.
As is evident from the execution time figures below, there is a noticeable 2x to 4x speedup.

The results:

BMP, 540 Kb
Full bzip2 compression on CPU - 218 ms
BW Transform on CPU - 171 ms
Full bzip2 compression on GPU - 93 ms [ minus 53% ]
BW Transform on GPU - 46 ms [ minus 73% ]

BMP, 1112 Kb
Full bzip2 compression on CPU - 467 ms
BW Transform on CPU - 343 ms
Full bzip2 compression on GPU - 249 ms [ minus 46% ]
BW Transform on GPU - 140 ms [ minus 59% ]

PDF, 1919 Kb
Full bzip2 compression on CPU - 1513 ms
BW Transform on CPU - 731 ms
Full bzip2 compression on GPU - 1107 ms [ minus 26% ]
BW Transform on GPU - 311 ms [ minus 57% ]

PDF, 3425 Kb
Full bzip2 compression on CPU - 2168 ms
BW Transform on CPU - 793 ms
Full bzip2 compression on GPU - 1856 ms [ minus 14% ]
BW Transform on GPU - 481 ms [ minus 39% ]

Hardware:

Intel i7 860 2,8 GHz, 4 Gb RAM with nVidia GeForce GTX 260.

Current bzip2 application processes one bzip2-block per time. We use one CPU core versus GPU.

At the present time we are developing parallel bzip2 for complete comparison of full-power CPU and GPU.

Moving into Windows Azure

2010-12-13T03:25:00.000-08:00

Windows Azure is a computing environment that allows to take advantage from dynamic scalability, extensibility and high availability of cloud-based infrastructure runtime.

What do we do?
We specialize in .NET framework technology and have implemented several projects that utilized Windows Azure platform. With the acquired expertise we assist our customers in the following areas:

Prepare websites and databases to make sure that they effectively correspond to the requirements for Azure deployment to facilitate the highest degree of adoption of advantages of the cloud-based computing platform.

Create .NET applications with business logics that requires high computing resources for multiple clients. In case the application is initially built with support for Azure deployment, we can utilize all its capacity to create a scalable project.

Migrate existing ASP.NET applications to the cloud platform and enable them to use SQL Azure as a persistent backend storage.

If you already have an application and your hosting servers do not cope with the high load, then Azure migration can improve the service level and increase the simultaneous client-user operation load.

We also test the applications after deployment to make sure that the migrated solution utilizes all the Azure-inherent potential and maintain the Azure-hosted applications or whole infrastructures in Windows Azure cloud platform.

For what kind of applications do we provide Azure development for?

1. For applications with constantly increasing computing and database resources load.
2. For applications with peak demands prior to demo or new version release.

What are your benefits?

By migrating your current infrastructure into Azure Cloud your company will be able to cut maintenance and upgrade expenses and limitations as well as consolidate dispersed data sources within one cloud platform.

SalesCentric Relationship Charts v4.6 released

2010-10-14T09:03:00.000-07:00

It is high time to announce the release of the new version of SalesCentric Relationship Charts. Eventually, any kind of xRM relations can be visualised and due to the latest “Auto Build” functionality CRM users can now:

• build whole organisation charts with all the subsidiaries and sub-accounts with just a few mouse clicks,
• update CRM and share the data with colleagues and partners,
• see customer or partner relationships,
• connect accounts, contacts or any other Microsoft CRM records in a drag-and-drop- and WYSIWYG-manner.
This makes a powerful, highly effective and accurate business intelligence tool accessible to any CRM user.

For more information on Relationship Charts, please call us on +44 (0) 203 286 8842 (UK), +1 949 682 3997 (US) or email at info@salescentric.com or visit www.salescentric.com.

Singlepoint system is launched at the Russian BPM market

2010-09-16T06:49:00.000-07:00

We're glad to inform you that we have launched a new powerful integrated suite of web-based applications for Document Control and Business Process Management Singlepoint at the Russian market. Workflow in Singlepoint is driven and designed to capture, manage and report on any repeatable business processes. With Singlepoint users will now just have one place to come to see all the tasks relative to managing documents, issues such as customer complaints and non-conformances, change requests and programs.

Official Singlepoint page in English and in Russian.

Software optimization, please

2010-07-22T09:48:00.000-07:00

Suffer from inherent complexity of software with a long life span? Oversaturation with reusable components and code pieces as a result of incremental and progressive development process? Your software system is too difficult to comprehend? The kind of complexity that is driven by the fact that the system has evolved over long time and has accumulated accuracy deterioration? Self-inflicted complexity?

Clustering, multi-core capabilities utilization or any other kind of solution that dissemblingly exploits increased hardware power do not solve the problem in its essence but only compensate for a short term, while the disciplined methodologies, lucid analytical approaches, good software engineering habits and extensibility through flexibility instead of complexity modus cogitandi do.

We tackle not only complex problems but also complex software. We will assist you in speed, robustness and maintenance optimization. We will help you redesign bulky software systems with contorted and sloppy architecture to a punctilious and effective systems.

We also perform prototype optimization, tune up database performance, refactor system architecture, identify and eliminate bottlenecks, CPU and peripheral access acceleration.

trixbox & CRM integration - updated

2010-07-19T04:19:00.000-07:00

Our trixbox & CRM integrations has got a new feature - it can pop up caller's CRM form for a direct call to the extension, as well as for the call that is transferred from the queue to the extension. Perhaps, other clients had faced this problem when deploying the integration solution, while we have already solved this.

trixbox PBX and Microsoft CRM integration

SalesCentric Relationship Charts and Custom Views are back on track!

2010-07-12T23:25:00.000-07:00

Dear partners, CRM-integrators and vendors worldwide.

After a period of difficulties SalesCentric Relationship Charts product is back on track and picking up speed. It has been acquired by WaveAccess - the company that originally developed Relationship Charts and Custom Views for SalesCentric and assisted SalesCentric in providing support services.

What is SalesCentric Relationship Charts Product about?
Relationship Charts is used to visualize relationships between all objects in MS CRM. And indeed, it can be used for almost anything – e.g. it will help sales people identify the key decision-makers. Moreover Relationship Charts will bring value to CRM users from any industry, as an example – this construction industry case.

What is in these products for you?
We continue to offer Relationship Charts and Custom Views to increase your MS CRM value proposition with a tool to visually present and build complex relationships in MS CRM. Not only does this tool facilitate the CRM usage, but it also adds better visibility to the CRM data that is so important for top management that makes decision on buying CRM itself. Custom Views allows you to build multi-filtered views with edit in line capability in WYSIWYG designer.

We also provide trainings and support sessions to those who use Relationship Charts and Custom Views.

Do you have your suggestions on how to improve SalesCentric Relationship Charts?
Would you also be interested in Relationship Charts as a CRM customization modeler?
Why can you build Entity Relationship Diagrams in MS SQL Server, but cannot do it in MS CRM? Would it be a great functionality to develop? If so – take a look at the initial product mockup and let's discuss the product concept in more details.

For more information on Relationship Charts, Custom Views or any of our services please call us on +44 (0) 203 286 8842 (UK), +1 949 682 3997 (US) or email at info@salescentric.com, visit www.salescentric.com and talk to us via live chat.

WaveAccess celebrates Company's 10th Anniversary

2010-07-01T09:27:00.000-07:00

We are delighted to announce that we celebrate our annual Company day the 5th of July. We've done a lot these years. Greetings, comments, signs of respect and bug reports are warmly welcomed.

The Team

Data compression application for Bada released

2010-06-24T05:02:00.001-07:00

We have released our product for Bada platform - WaveCompressor. It's a file archiver application that supports zip and bzip2 and offers a good compression ratio.

In the future versions we will use our experience in compression algorithms and provide support for 7zip and rar as well.

The application is distributed free of charge via Samsung Apps.

Leave your comments here, please.

Bada Developer Challenge announced

2010-05-18T06:46:00.000-07:00

Bada Developer Challenge has been announced and the registration is now open.

17th of May - 31st of July: challenge registration.

1st of June - 31st of July: simulator phase submissions.

Official Bada Challenge page

We are MS Gold Certified Partner

2010-04-28T03:44:00.000-07:00

We are pleased to announce that yesterday we attained Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner program.

DotNetNuke solutions

2010-04-19T04:14:00.000-07:00

Recent trends are towards increased amount of orders for bespoke solutions based on DotNetNuke CMS. WaveAccess team of developers acquired experience in development and conversion from static ASP.NET website to this portal solution. Due to a wide range of available modules, the development process of a standard functionality takes much less time than using just plain ASP.NET. A wealth of experience in this technology allows us to deliver robust high-complexity portal solutions on an urgent basis.

Samsung bada group on LinkedIn

2010-04-09T05:33:00.000-07:00

We formed bada groups on LinkedIn to promote the applications development for this new platform and to build a network of professionals interested in bada. So, please feel welcomed, get on and network there.

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2935107&trk=anet_ug_hm

We've got Samsung Wave!!!

2010-04-08T00:34:00.001-07:00

Samsung gave us as part of their partner developer program their first BADA smartphone (Wave S8500) to perform applications development.
We ain't going to make yet another review of this handset - there're plenty of them on internet, instead - we shall take our time and challenge the asserted ocean-like potential of this platform (and Bada's sophisticated approach to C++). It seems likely that Samsung keep their word and turn out to be really open and friendly to developers. There's most definitely potential in BADA if this tendency will be given free reign.
So now we have access to all the necessary technical resources, tools, and information for developing with BADA.

Stay in touch.

Into the clouds with Azure

2010-04-02T10:54:00.000-07:00

Methinks, it's a bit ado about nothing special - Azure is just a hosting platform as a matter of fact. But nonetheless we have just went live with a .NET solution which we deployed into the Azure cloud. Silverlight was used to call WCF web services hosted within ASP.NET. WCF and Web services were used to retrieve data from MS Dynamics NAV and Dynamics AX.

We've received Samsung BADA SDK

2010-04-02T04:13:00.000-07:00

...And we are ready for a BADA developer challenge - ...with our powerful file archiver for BADA platform that supports the most popular compression formats.

.NET library for bzip2 and cuda

2010-03-26T05:40:00.000-07:00

And we are having a good time implementing a .NET compression library for bzip2. No sci-fi, but the speed increased by a factor of 4. Not so bad yet.

Data compression with CUDA

2010-03-22T02:41:00.000-07:00

Long time, no see. At the moment amused by implementing a 7-zip port to CUDA... Is there anybody out there who has already tried to do this? Any ideas, suggestions, commiserations?

to be revealed soon...

eService & ChatOnline CRM Accelerator

2010-03-04T08:42:00.000-08:00

eService & ChatOnline CRM Accelerator is a functional extension for Microsoft Dynamics CRM system that provides live chat capabilities to eService portal engine and allows portal visitors and portal operators to communicate with each other in real-time mode. Besides that our accelerator allows portal users to submit requests, create cases and lets the leads be automatically created and saved into the CRM system.

ChatOnline can be used as an effective ecommerce instrument for your website and for immediate customer support services and live assistance, thus increasing not only the sales potential of your website, but also customer satisfaction and loyalty. Our ChatOnline tool also adds interactivity to your website and helps you solve the problem of shopping cart abandonment caused by the unavailability of timely customer support.

eService & ChatOnline CRM Accelerator is available free of charge and the release contains all the necessary documentation, step-by-step installation instructions and videos.

http://www.wave-access.com/Public_en/portal.aspx

eService & ChatOnline CRM Accelerator is only one of a range of our solutions that we developed for Microsoft Dynamics CRM partners and users.

Several other Dynamics CRM solutions that will bootstrap and boost the effectiveness of your business are:

OnlineShop - a web store module, integrated both with your Microsoft CRM and your website. All the information about products, orders, invoices and customer accounts is stored in the CRM. It is equipped with Shopping Cart, Order Wizard and Catalog supports payments with credit cards and with PayPal accounts.

OnlineHelp - a live chat and screen sharing tool embedded into Microsoft CRM that allows end-users receive support directly within the CRM system and if necessary remote assistance via screen sharing.

trixbox+MS CRM integration - a solution that gives CRM users an ability to make calls directly from CRM system, automatically forward external calls to the appropriate CRM users, record all the phone conversations, and pop-up a form with the necessary information about the caller.

For additional information, please refer to our website:

http://www.wave-access.com/Public_en/products.aspx

Mobile applications development

2010-03-01T09:19:00.001-08:00

It's been quite a time since we launched our own mobile applications development together with Loud Cloud. By the present moment we have acquired quite strong expertise in mobile development and offer development services for iPhone/Symbian/Android/Windows Mobile and implement the full range of mobile solutions.

For more information, please refer to http://wave-access.com/Public_en/skills/mobiles.aspx

WaveAccess Customer Workspace

2010-02-19T05:51:00.000-08:00

We have added a customer workspace to our website. The primary idea is to allow our existing and potential customers share ideas, submit various requests and have any project (from brain-dumps and scratches to full-fledged specifications) estimated and even get IT consultation.

http://www.wave-access.com/customer/Login.aspx

see you there

WaveAccess eService & ChatOnline CRM Accelerator

2010-02-17T09:04:00.000-08:00

We released eService & ChatOnline CRM Accelerator - a smooth eService-based web-portal integration of live chat functionality with MS CRM system. It allows portal visitors to interact with MS CRM by submitting requests and creating cases in the CRM system and to get real-time assistance and support via live chat. This effective e-commerce tool increases customer satisfaction and boosts sales.

eService & ChatOnline CRM Accelerator is available for free and can be obtained here:

http://www.wave-access.com/Public_en/portal.aspx

OnlineHelp functionality revamped!

2010-02-10T10:20:00.000-08:00

Now the screen sharing tool within OnlineHelp supports the following features:

+ Support for all the screen resolutions.

+ User limitations do not affect the screen sharing tool.

+ No software or plug-ins are required to access the screen sharing functionality.

+ Optional password can be set to secure the connection.

+ Improved user interface.

http://wave-access.com/Public_en/online_help.aspx