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Consultations for Start Ups
You have a million dollar idea. You’ve found a need in the marketplace and found the perfect solution to meet that need. The problem is that your solution is in your head, and you don’t have the background to make it real on your own. That’s where we can help. We are entrepreneurs at heart and in life. Many of us have been down the start-up path and understand how energizing and personal ideas can be. The first steps you need to take to make that idea a reality are crucial. Research, planning and design are time consuming and if you aren’t familiar with the technology, they can be overwhelming. Our team of tech professionals can lay the groundwork for your success by architecting a solution for you using the best tools, the most powerful technologies, and planning for the growth that comes with success.
The Dream Design Consultation
A Dream Design Consultation begins with meeting your team and listening to your vision of a successful idea. We take that information and with you, we move beyond a Proof of Concept and flesh out the details of functionality, scope and sophistication. We do the research, the planning, and technology design that accomplishes the goals you set for your idea. At the end of the engagement, you leave with an actionable design in hand: a road map to building your idea into a reality.
Why Choose Us
Innovation is our drug of choice. We are passionate about ideas and enjoy the challenge of crafting solutions that solve problems for people. Every stakeholder at TNR Global has experienced the excitement of being at the helm of a start up, and we feel we are uniquely qualified to assist in the incubation of start ups and the stewardship of new ideas. We’re a little soft for start ups, because we see so much of ourselves in fellow start up folks.
What a Dream Design Consultation Looks Like
A Dream Design typically kicks off with a 3-5 hour face to face meeting with the stakeholders of your team. We’ll already have a general idea of what you want to accomplish when we start, and we’ll have some idea about your existing technology, but at kick off, we do a complete audit of your systems, and drill down on the many facets and details of what right looks like for your idea. With you, we sketch out an architecture and design in broad strokes to include functionality, sophistication, relevancy and look. After our initial meeting, we return to our offices and craft a more granular plan.
A Dream Design Consultation is tailored to your needs depending upon the depth and breadth of your project idea. Usually, a Dream Design Consultation lasts about two weeks and consists of 10-20 hours of design work. At the end of the engagement, you will have a formal structure and methodology. You will have an actionable project plan with defined requirements outlined into a functional specification that is ready to be taken to the next level of realization. Contact us to discuss your dream design consultation.
Mobile Search
Mobile computing is the future of all computing, and search will be an integral piece of any mobile platform. According to Google, 1 in 7 of all searches are done on mobile devices, and that number is on the rise as the cell and tablet market continues its explosive growth. Innovative companies need to position themselves accordingly, and having a mobile search platform will set companies apart from late adopters.
We can design a mobile search solution for the enterprise, intranet, or mobile app. We partner with top UX designers who can assist in the design of a front end solution that users will love. Because no software solution will work unless end users adopt the application and leverage the powerful technology behind it. Contact us for a your mobile application development.
Google Search Appliance
Google Search Appliance (GSA) is Google’s answer to search for the enterprise. Literally an “out-of-the-box” solution, the GSA is a piece of rack mounted hardware designed for easy installation and deployment. The Google Search Appliance (GSA) provides fast, relevant search for your intranet or website. The Google Search Appliance lives on-premise and provides your organization with a high relevancy customizable, scalable search solution.
TNR Global can provide an appliance solution comparable to GSA with similar or superior capabilities. Contact us to assess your needs and schedule a deployment with a packaged appliance solution.
LAMP – Open Source
TNR Global creates scalable web-based solutions built upon the LAMP open source suite of technologies: Linux Operating System, Apache Web Server, MySQL, Databases, PHP, Perl, Python programming languages.
Customer Case Studies
Publishing Companies / Online Directories / News Sites
Creative Media Group (CMG) partnered with TNR Global to implement the most comprehensive industrial web search engine based on the FAST ESP solution and to provide search for ThomasNet.com, the world’s largest industrial directory. The system searches both web content and company databases; it receives over 2 million queries and 20 million page views per month. By implementing FAST ESP, ThomasNet.com, a hundred year old publishing company, advanced from printing voluminous (and expensive) paper catalogues to the foremost online advertising and information portal for manufacturers and distributors.
Higher Education Institutions – Digital Library, Nanomanufacturing Network, UMass Amherst
The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, chose TNR Global for Web/Database Development of Internano, a Digital Library and Clearinghouse for the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing. The implementation required creating a custom module to integrate Lemur search into a Joomla! Open Source content management system.
Cloud Solution for Broadcasting Workflow Software Company – Myers Information Systems
Myers Information System contacted TNR Global for assistance with moving their systems into the cloud to
improve their technical agility as well as to improve security, redundancy and to promote these improvements to potential customers. TNR created a reference system and the documentation to allow Myers to deploy their own systems based on that reference by using Open Stack and Rackspace Cloud. As a result they can rapidly launch a new system for a client with all the tools they need in place and they have enhanced disaster recovery capability. This allows Myers to be agile in a more secure environment, and leave them better equipped to respond to their rapidly expanding market in broadcasting “TNR Global did an outstanding job and we were impressed with their professionalism, industry knowledge and fee structure. We would certainly recommend them to anyone who was seeking to improve their enterprise search and/or cloud computing solutions.” –Crist Myers, President & CEO, Myers Information Systems.
Fast Enterprise Search Implementation – Allegis Group
Allegis Group is a multi-billion dollar company providing staffing and recruiting services throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. TNR Global participated in the upgrade of FAST FDS 3.2 to FAST ESP 5.0 to power search for their TeamTrak applicant database.
IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Search Implementation – Arbor Networks, Inc.
Arbor Networks, a leading network security provider, contracted TNR Global to provide support for the company’s corporate site, and to implement the site search based on IBM OmniFind Yahoo! edition.
Enterprise Search Component – Joomla!
The Enterprise Search Component for Joomla!, is a standard Joomla component that can be installed into the Joomla! Open Source content management system. The component and a matching search module provide the Joomla! site with advanced search capabilities and functionality.
Not-for-Profit Projects – Local Community Support
Fostering the Arts and Culture Project of Greater Franklin County, Massachusetts Cultural Council
TNR Global created a portal site for Mass Art and Culture, based on the Joomla! open source content management system. The portal includes an index of artist profiles in Greater Franklin County, a calendar of events, and a forum based on Simple Machines Forum software. Fostering the Arts and Culture of Franklin County Is a group of unique partners working to grow the creative economy in Franklin County, Massachusetts by influencing spending, growing employment, creating a regional identity, and generating interest and excitement in the cultual community of Franklin County.
Greenfield Local Culture Council
The Greenfield Local Cultural Council members aim is to enhance arts and cultural events in Greenfield. The Council’s goal is to support a range of activities that broaden participation and attendance from every facet of the community.
Creative Economy Summit 2012
The Creative Economy Summit is a meeting organized by the Fostering the Arts and Culture project. This summit is designed to bring the community idea together to create synergy to propel our cultural growth and community.
Affiliations
MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge
MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge is a volunteer, non-profit organization based at MIT whose mission is to promote and strengthen the process of starting and growing innovative and technology-oriented companies
Hidden-Tech
Hidden-Tech is a network of technology companies in the Pioneer Valley. TNR Global provides support for the Hidden-Tech web site backend, Directory DB, and mailing lists.
Franklin County Chamber of Commerce
FCCC provides the Franklin County business community with services including health insurance, networking opportunities, lobbying representation, and assistance with town and tourism events.
Non Profit Affiliations
Fostering the Arts and Culture of Franklin County
Is a group of unique partners working to grow the creative economy in Franklin County, Massachusetts by influencing spending, growing employment, creating a regional identity, and generating interest and excitement in the cultual community of Franklin County.
Greenfield Local Culture Council
The Greenfield Local Cultural Council members aim is to enhance arts and cultural events in Greenfield. The Council’s goal is to support a range of activities that broaden participation and attendance from every facet of the community.
Creative Economy Summit 2012
The Creative Economy Summit is a meeting organized by the Fostering the Arts and Culture project. This summit is designed to bring the community idea together to create synergy to propel our cultural growth and community.
Industries We Work With
TNR Global works with data and content intensive websites for companies and organizations in the following industries: News Sites, Publishing, Web Directories, Information Portals, Web Catalogs, Education, Manufacturing and Distribution, Customer Service, and Life Sciences.
We offer enterprise search consulting and integration services for:
- Vertical search engines, web-based directories, information portals
- News sites, large blogs, content intensive websites
- Software as a Service (SaaS) application developers and startups
- Current Lucene Solr users and application developers
- Current Linux based FAST ESP users and integrators
- Management Information Systems (MIS) administrators
- Corporate data administrators, HR Departments
- Web-based customer support centers
Publishing, Online Directories, News Sites, Information Portals
TNR Global helps you move from print to web, or to improve your online directory search. See example of our work with a large publishing company. We use powerful technology that supports faceted search, relevancy tuning, and natural language processing to deliver smart, relevant results.
Education
We help colleges and universities implement enterprise search to manage academic content, online course content, journals, multi-college consortiums and research centers, as well as coordinate student information. See
example of our work with a large state university.
Web Support Functions
With enterprise search, we help improve web based customer support and reduce costs. Customers can find the support answers they need quickly, without the assistance of a customer service representative.
HR Departments and Recruiting Companies
We design search systems for managing resumes and human resources information. See example of our work with a large recruiting company.
Manufacturing and Distribution
With enterprise search, we help manufacturers and distributors access product information, manuals and corporate knowledge resources to bring answers to your staff across diciplines and across borders.
Life Sciences
Our experienced Systems Administrators can put the massively scaleable computing and storage resources of the Amazon cloud to work for small laboratories and start-up companies.
Internet System Integrators
We also work with system integration companies to develop enterprise search portals and related web applications for their clients.
If you are interested in discussing partnership opportunities, please e-mail partners@tnrglobal.com.