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The Project
iNetNow is a true internet startup. Armed with a dream, funding, and a prototype, iNetNow leaped
into the emerging market of personalized online services by providing the first online personal
assistant to consumers. Consumers can use a telephone to call iNetNow’s trained surfers to perform
research, provide directions, shop, and answer any question asked by a caller. To complete iNetNow’s
suite of products and services, iNetNow needed to rapidly design, build, and deploy a personal portal
for use by its paying customers. Breakthrough Technologies was challenged to come up with the design,
look and feel, back-end architecture, select strategic partners, and turnkey the project from concept to
a hosted reality in under 3 months.
Partnered at the hip, Breakthrough worked with iNetNow to create and deploy iNetNow.com. The resulting
portal platform pulls news, stocks, and sports from content providers, empowers the user with a personalized
calendar, address book, and to-do list, provides access to call history, account, and billing services,
integrates with a customized synchronization engine for data transfer with Outlook and a Palm Pilot, and
incorporates online registration and signup services for new customers.
The prototype to secure funding was developed in 10 days. The corporate web site with registration was
developed in 6 weeks, and the first release of iNetNow’s Companion Page was launched 10 weeks from project
initiation. iNetNow’s upcoming release will provide full integration with their new billing and customer
support systems.
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Windows 2000 Advanced Server, IIS 5.0, SQL Server 7.0, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual Interdev, Visual Sourcesafe
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| Our Technology: |
Session Management Component, Slingshot Portal Platform, XML Caching Engine
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| Partners: |
FrogFire Digital, Management Information Consultants
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| Content Providers: |
iSyndicate, Screaming Media, S&P Comstock
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