City Council Candidate Site Goes Live
January 30, 2012
City Council Presidential hopeful candidate Mike Bollinger came to ADC looking for a professional site where he could share information about his campaign, philosophies, life and experience.
The site features a flashy homepage banner, which showcases beautiful pictures of the city of Eau Claire. The site also features a short three-question survey that Mike is hoping many visitors will fill out so he can gain some insight and feedback from the public.
The site also features a blog that will include articles written by Mike about a number of issues. A countdown to election day serves as a reminder that all citizens of the city of Eau Claire should get out and vote.
Learn about Mike and his philosophies by visiting his new site at electmikebollinger.com.
Rusk County, Wis. Website Gets Redesigned
January 3, 2012
Rusk County, Wis. recently went live with a newly redesigned website by ADC4WEB.
Rusk County's new site features an updated and user friendly layout featuring a rotating banner showcasing photos of Rusk County. A search option is located on every page to ensure users can easily find the information they are looking for. Users are also able to easily print any page of the website, or save that page's content as a pdf.
County employees have access to a content management system to ensure information about their department and any events or meetings are always up to date. The site also features an employees-only section, which is safe-guarded by a username and password. In this area employees can access employee forms and information and can also make maintenance requests.
Take a minute to check out their new site at http://ruskcounty.org!
ADC to Present at Chippewa Valley Code Camp
November 2, 2011
Levi Felling, Marc Harter, Myles Steinhauser and Greg Ellingboe of ADC's Software Engineering Team will be attending the Chippewa Valley Code Camp on Sat. Nov. 12 at CVTC's Gateway Campus Eau Claire, Wisc. Marc and Myles will be presenting on the following topics:
Introduction to NodeJS
Presented By: Marc Harter
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
NodeJS is a Server Side JavaScript (SSJS) implementation built off the Google Chrome V8 JavaScript engine. It is grown considerably in popularity since its initial public release last year. Why? Is it just a fad? What does it offer different from other server side languages and frameworks? What makes it stand out? In this talk, we will be discussing the answers to those questions as we look at design philosophy behind NodeJS. We will also look into its implementation and some demo applications. The goal is for you to come away with a clear understanding of what NodeJS is, what problems it tries to solve, and how it could be used in your application stack.
Zabbix: Infrastructure & Application Monitoring Made Easy
Presented By: Myles A. K. Steinhauser
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:30 PM
You've spent hours coding your application and making it stable, but how do you know when your servers go down? Even more, what happens when your application goes down? Learn how to know when your customers do and find trends and patterns into what's going on in your Stack.
ADC President Jim Ward Interviewed at Eau Claire Chamber Expo
October 18, 2011
Text courtesy of WQOW News 18. (View Video)
Eau Claire (WQOW) - As lawmakers focus on jobs in Madison, an event in Eau Claire puts the spotlight on local businesses.
The Eau Claire Area Chamber of Commerce held its annual Business Expo on Tuesday. More than 150 businesses set up shop, a record for the event. Of those, about 40 were there for the first time.
As a relatively new business to the Eau Claire area, The By Design Group wants to get its name out into the community.
"Interior design, corporate and residential window treatments, we have a graphic artist and we do business branding, logo design and creation," says Valerie Coushman, The By Design Group.
To help, this group of local professionals decided to participate in the Chamber's annual Business Expo.
"We're really big on working with local businesses and working with the Chamber and we thought it was important to come here and meet more people, more potential clients, potential vendors," says Coushman.
Applied Data Consultants has been in the area for the past 15 years, but this is the company's first year at the Business Expo.
"Our biggest goal is that networking piece, talk to other business owners," says Jim Ward, Applied Data Consultants President. "There's so much you can learn I think by finding out who's doing what and how they're doing it, how they're getting through the recession, what marketing techniques they might have and a lot of collaboration."
Besides connecting with clients and other businesses, the event is a way to promote local business as a way to grow the economy.
"We'd love to see everybody do as much business locally as they can, who knows who's going to bump into somebody that says 'you and I can partner on some things.," says Bob McCoy, Eau Claire Area Chamber of Commerce President.
"There's companies here that do a great job, you're probably going to save money," says Ward. "Anyone that can do something local, you're probably going to get the services or products a little bit cheaper, so it's sort of a win-win."
The business expo also featured a number of seminars such as ways to help companies cut costs and improve sales.
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Web Mapping Sites Now Live
August 25, 2011
Washburn and Eau Claire Counties, both in Wisconsin, chose ADC's online mapping tool, WebGUIDE Xtreme (WGX) to serve their data to the web.
Washburn has been a WebGUIDE client since 2006 and is the third site that uses the Novus tax and assessment program that has been upgraded to WGX. WGX is fully integrated with the online Novus application to allow the users to access the Novus database directly through a link from WGX.
Eau Claire County has been working at integrating the City of Eau Claire tax and assessment data with the County data and serving it up online to provide the users one-stop shopping. In the past, the tax data has not been available for the City parcels.
Eau Claire County hopes to integrate further with the City as well as provide the option for users to pay their property taxes online with a direct link from WGX.
View Washburn's new WGX site at http://washburncowi.wgxtreme.com/ and Eau Claire's WGX site at http://eauclairecowi.wgxtreme.com/
ADC Participates in Broadband Forum
August 11, 2011
Text courtesy of WQOW News 18
Eau Claire (WQOW) - Business and government leaders hope to connect when it comes to high-speed internet.
Wired Wisconsin estimates 26 percent of rural residents in the state don't have access to broadband internet. Some areas that already have it don't have adequate broadband. On Thursday, a forum was held in Eau Claire to discuss the future of broadband.
As a software and data service company, Applied Data Consultants relies heavily on the internet.
"We host a lot of those applications, a lot of them for local government we host in an attempt to keep the cost down, so we try to do a lot of our own hosting, but that of course relies on some pretty high-speed broadband internet," says Jim Ward, Applied Data Consultants President.
However, broadband internet isn't available in all parts of the state. Ward says that can slow down business.
"You lose a little bit of the efficiency this type of technology affords you in that they don't have to run all the way back to the warehouse, find out what they need," says Ward.
Thad Nation, with Wired Wisconsin, says expanding broadband to the entire state could help attract jobs.
"Whether it's for orders, whether it's for linking their employees, whether it's for getting their suppliers this has become as important to a business as electricity or a telephone, sometimes even more important," says Thad Nation, Wired Wisconsin Executive Director.
Expanding broadband to all parts of the state will require work by both the private and public sectors. Forums, like Thursday's, are a way to get that dialogue going.
"I heard one statistic that says you have to have 200 customers per mile to make it profitable," says Sen. Terry Moulton (R) 23rd Senate District. "Well that's just not feasible in some of the rural areas so maybe something like a tax incentive to provide a business the opportunity to invest in that area."
And growing broadband in an area is something Ward is familiar with.
"There was only one option when we started transitioning to internet-based software and it was costly, it certainly stymied growth a little bit," says Ward. "The state helped with some tax credits, they helped us connect up to another ISP in the area so we had two options and certainly within the last two years a third option and even a fourth has been available."
Nation says not only is broadband important in attracting businesses to the state, but employees are also looking for jobs in areas were broadband is widely available to use at home.
According to the FCC, it would cost $350 billion do expand broadband coverage to the entire United States.
Outagamie County, Wis. WGX Site is Live
July 12, 2011
Outagamie County has gone live with the latest version of our web mapping application, WGXtreme (WGX).
Unlike other WGX sites, Outagamie is hosting all of the data in-house while ADC hosts the WGX application. All of the map services will be built by the County. With the County hosting the data onsite, they are able to maintain an update schedule that suits their needs.
To view Outagamie's WGX site, see outagamiecowi.wgxtreme.com.
Monroe County, Wis. Chooses ADC for Web Mapping Site
July 12, 2011
Monroe County is the latest county to proceed with implementing the WGX online mapping program.
Monroe has been a long-standing client of ADC and we are looking forward to providing them with a mapping site that will exceed the expectations of their users.
ADC Redesigns Website for Expanding Cleaning Service Company
July 7, 2011
ADC recently redesigned a website for Fresh N Kleen, Inc., a professional cleaning service that provides a variety of cleaning services throughout Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.
The client contacted ADC for a redesign in hopes of gaining more business throughouttheir newly expanded service area. ADC's graphic artist revamped the site with new graphics and a fresh look.
The new site features a job board where users can view open positions and also apply for jobs online. The site also includes a staff photo gallery so that clients can learn more about the company.
Learn more about Fresh N Kleen by visiting their site at www.freshnkleen.com.
