Client

IBM

Period

1999

Client Bio

IBM is the world’s largest information technology company, as well as the world’s largest business and technology services provider and the world’s largest IT financier.

Objective

Deploy an Intranet application for IBM’s 100,000-plus technologists. Thirst designed and developed a dynamically published website which integrated IBM’s proprietary Profile Server, the IBM company directory server, Blue Pages, and data served from Lotus Domino Notes.

Noteworthy

Deploy an Intranet application for IBM’s 100,000-plus technologists. Thirst designed and developed a dynamically published website which integrated IBM’s proprietary Profile Server, the IBM company directory server, Blue Pages, and data served from Lotus Domino Notes.
Noteworthy | Thirst developed a set of custom Java servlets which accept user queries, issued searches against relevant IBM systems and then created dynamic pages for IBM employee’s searching for technical resources within IBM.

Vendor

Thirst

Client

American Express

Period

2000

Client Bio

American Express Company is a diversified worldwide travel, network, and financial services provider founded in 1850. It is a leader in charge and credit cards, Travelers Cheques, travel, financial planning, investment products, insurance and international banking.

Objective

Design and build a collaborative publishing system for the American Express Intranet.

Noteworthy

Thirst implemented a personalized clipping service for executive management in which managers received a digest of daily news events gathered from sources ranging from print publications to online wire services.

Using this system, all participating managers have access to a personalized intranet homepage which they turn to for their digest of news and events. End users can easily subscribe or unsubscribe to content categories and perform searches on stored archives. New features such as collaborative filtering allow end users to follow what fellow managers are reading. Sophisticated templates and publishing controls allow for easy and effective content administration of the site resulting in both time and cost savings.

Vendor

Thirst

Client

MIT – Sloan School of Business

Period

1998

Client Bio

The MIT Sloan School of Management, is one of the world’s leading business schools – conducting cutting-edge research and providing management education to top students from more than 60 countries.

Objective

Thirst worked with The MIT Sloan School of Management to develop and implement a strategy to migrate all of Sloan’s student, alumni, faculty and staff data to a dynamically published Internet system.

Noteworthy

Thirst used Allaire ColdFusion, Oracle’s 8.05 database, and Netscape Enterprise Server to deliver a searchable directory, accessible and manageable through a standard web browser. Continuing development will unify Sloan’s management of the IT resources by deploying an LDAP server, connected to the Oracle Database.

Vendor

Thirst

Client

The Associated Press

Period

1999

Client Bio

Founded in 1848, The Associated Press is the backbone of the world’s information system serving thousands of daily newspaper, radio, television and online customers with coverage in all media and news in all formats. It is the largest and oldest news organization in the world, serving as a source of news, photos, graphics, audio and video for more than one billion people a day.

Objective

Provide the Associated Press with a lead analyst responsible for application design of the AP’s billing and centralized account’s receivable systems.

Noteworthy

The resulting system contained over 100 tables and includes several 1MM+ row tables. Both ERWIN and SDesigner were used for data modeling. The systems service over 5000 customers and generate over $25,000,000 in revenue per month. These applications run against an Oracle database using Developer/2000 for data entry forms and make heavy use of PL/SQL packages.

Vendor

Thirst