Our Portfolio
Reliable World Class Solutions
From design to deployment, Open Sky transforms difficult tasks into real-world solutions. Our portfolio includes small and large-scale projects requiring dynamic user interfaces with rich functionality for demanding customers - including large corporations, venture groups, government, non-profit, and small to mid-sized businesses.
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Featured Projects
Human Anatomy Learning Center
| Name: | MedTutor |
| Client: | MedTutor.com |
| Location: | Haittiesburg, MS |
| Type: | Web-Based Medical Training Systems |
| Website: | www.medtutor.com |
Open Sky offers full product lifecycle managment for this innovative web-based training system. MedTutor.com offers a new and unique approach to teaching and learning human anatomy. MedTutor's portfolio of resources are custom designed for students, higher education faculty, physicians, and health community advisors. The product line features textbooks coupled with interactive web-based exams, quizes, puzzles, flashcards, and interactive audio & video.
Technology: HTML, XHTML, AJAX, jQuery, Java, MySQL, Linux, Javascript, Python, Apache, Tomcat, Jasper Reports
Secure Electronic Document Delivery
| Name: | RegEx |
| Client: | Registered Express Corporation |
| Location: | Las Vegas, NV |
| Type: | Web-Based Document Management System |
| Website: | www.registeredexpress.com |
Open Sky offers full product lifecycle management for this innovative web-based system. Registered Express™ is the simple, fast, inexpensive and precise solution for secure electronic delivery of your documents, valued work products and digital assets. This simple, web-based service for delivering documents securely with verification ensures each of your transactions is fully documented for later review, retrieval, and verification - for up to seven years.
Technology: HTML, XHTML, AJAX, jQuery, Java, PGSQL, Linux, Javascript, Python, Apache, Tomcat, Jasper Reports, SMS Text Services
Proposal Submission System
| Name: | PST |
| Client: | National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
| Location: | Socorro, NM
Green Bank, WV
Charlottesville, VA
Santiago, Chile |
| Type: | Government-Sponsored Scientific Research |
| Website: | www.nrao.edu |
The NRAO designs, builds and operates the world's most sophisticated and advanced radio telescopes. If you've ever seen the movie "Contact", you have seen their offices and one of their telescopes, the VLA in New Mexico. Open Sky provides turn-key provisioning for the web-based Proposal Submission System for astronomers worldwide to request observing time at one of their world-class scientific facilities. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.
Technology: HTML, XHTML, Java, PGSQL, Linux, Javascript, Python, Apache, Tomcat, Jasper Reports
Coordinate Metrology Application
| Name: | CMM Parser |
| Client: | BorgWarner, Inc. |
| Location: | Sallisaw, OK |
| Type: | Labview Automation |
| Website: | www.borgwarner.com |
BorgWarner is the recognized leader in advanced products and technologies that satisfy customer needs in powertrain components and systems solutions. Open Sky worked with their advanced technology engineering team on quality testing systems featuring Labview control VI's connected to coordinate measurement machines and associated back-end databases for archive and reporting.
Technology: Labview, C/C++ Interfaces, Advanced File Management Systems
Medical Records & Patient Tracker
| Name: | Audiology Patient Tracker |
| Client: | Private Client |
| Location: | Phoenix, AZ |
| Type: | Desktop Application |
This project provided a laptop-based, multi-user desktop application designed to capture results and generate reports for routine hearing tests. A unique Java WebStart framework was deployed to enable Open Sky to easily upgrade and service the application remotely via the Internet.
Technology: Java Swing, jMatter, Java, Java WebStart, JNLP, JFree, iText, & PostgreSQL
Web-Based Business Management System
| Name: | Tracework ® |
| Client: | Private Client |
| Location: | Austin, Texas |
| Type: | Web-Based CRM, ERP & Accounting |
| Website: | www.tracework.com |
Open Sky designed and developed this enterprise web application for small to mid-sized businesses. This large scale SaaS project includes 15 modules, 350 page views, and over 2.25 million lines of source code. The application include custom accounting modules that integrate with the CRM and ERP modules. And the back-end API interfaces with over-the-counter accounting solutions. Tracework services a large number of customers in over 30 states. Open Sky provides on-going support, training and development for tracework.
Technology: HTML, XHTML, Java, J2EE, JDBC, XML, XMLC, Javascript, Python, Apache, Tomcat, Jfree, Jasper
Technician Management & Dispatch System
| Name: | STMS |
| Client: | Demand Side Environmental |
| Location: | San Diego, CA |
| Type: | Energy Conservation |
This energy management firm requested a hybrid client-server application for use by technicians and dispatchers in the managemenet of routine job orders. Open Sky developed a secure, web-based, database driven application comprised of modules for customer relationship management, job order tracking, scheduling and reporting.
Technology: HTML, XHTML, AJAX, Java, PGSQL, jMatter, WebStart, JNLP, Linux, Javascript, Python, Apache, Tomcat, Jasper Reports
H.264 & MPEG4 Video Compression Engine
| Name: | VeyeTech Engine |
| Client: | Viewstart, AS |
| Location: | Trondheim, Norway |
| Type: | Software Start-Up Venture |
This unique and complex software engineering project involved the creation and optimization of an intelligent, hybrid H.264/MPEG4 video compression algorithm (engine) suitable for integration within commercial stand-alone applications, third-party plug-in's, and high performance web service environments. The compression engine leverages unique aspects of the video stream and how those aspects are perceived by the brain resulting in as good or better quality at up to 20% lower bit rates than traditional video compression codecs.
Technology: H.264, MPEG4, C/C++, Flash Video, SWF, FFmpeg API, Flex API
Open Source, Web-Based VPN Appliance
| Name: | Turn-Key VPN |
| Client: | IT Genomics Canada |
| Location: | Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada |
| Type: | Educational System |
For this project Open Sky leveraged existing open source software components and integrated them into a turn-key hardware appliance for use by educational institutions in Canada. This uniquely branded solutions allowed remote users to access client-server applications through an SSL tunnel via one simple Linux-based appliance. By leveraging existing Open Source components Open Sky was able to save the client well in excess of $25K in annual third-party licensing fees while simultaneously providing a higher level of functionality than commercial counterparts.
Technology: SSL Explorer, OpenVPN, PHP, Python, Linux, Java, Apache
Commission Management System
| Name: | CMS |
| Client: | Private Client |
| Location: | New York, NY |
| Type: | Web-Based Management System |
Open Sky offers full product lifecycle management for this innovative web-based system designed for managing broker commissions on real-estate related transactions. This secure system offers agents and managers real-time access to their prospects, deals, and associated commissions - including full reporting, auditing, and payment tracking. The system features high-availability, high-security, load balancing, and integrated customer service.
Technology: HTML, XHTML, AJAX, jQuery, Java, MySQL, Linux, Javascript, Python, Apache, Tomcat, Jasper Reports
Other Projects
Database Reporting
| Name: | ESHATrak |
| Client: | ESHA Research, Inc. |
| Location: | Salem, OR |
| Type: | Web-Based Nutrition Analysis |
Web-Based Content Management System
| Name: | TPLnet |
| Client: | The Trust For Public Land |
| Location: | San Francisco, CA |
| Type: | Non-Profit Land Conservancy |
| Website: | www.tpl.org |
Industrial Research & Laboratory Automation
| Name: | Production Test Bench |
| Client: | Private Client |
| Location: | Denver, CO |
| Type: | Labview System |
Web Services Architecture
| Name: | JAX-WS Design |
| Client: | Private Client |
| Location: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Type: | Business Application |
High Performance Financial Platform
| Name: | Currency Trader |
| Client: | Private Client |
| Location: | Seattle, WA |
| Type: | FIX Engine |
Datacenter Support Services
| Name: | FSS |
| Client: | Private Client |
| Location: | Lincoln, NE |
| Type: | Datacenter File Transfer System |
Distributed Device Management System
| Name: | Meter Management System |
| Client: | Private Client |
| Location: | Minneapolis, MN |
| Type: | Distributed C++ Client Server Application |
Open Source Migration
| Name: | Forklift |
| Client: | Private Client |
| Location: | Green Bay, WI |
| Type: | Windows to Linux Systems Migration |
On-line Photography Studio System
| Name: | WB Studio |
| Client: | Private Client |
| Location: | Middlefield, CT |
| Type: | e-Commerce System |
Web Site & Web Application Design Specification
| Name: | Interactive Portal |
| Client: | Private Client |
| Location: | Charlottesville, VA |
| Type: | Non-Profit |
Server Farm Virtual Hosting Setup
| Name: | Virtual Hosting |
| Client: | Private Client |
| Location: | Miami, FL |
| Type: | Mobile Marketing Services |
Dynamic Web-Based Reporting System
| Name: | Dock Dashboard |
| Client: | Supply Chain Solutions |
| Location: | Monroe, LA |
| Type: | Freight & Shipping Systems |
| Website: | www.scswi.net |
Electronics Monitoring System
| Name: | MMTS |
| Client: | Private Client |
| Location: | Dallas, TX |
| Type: | Data Acquisition System & Web-Based Reporting Tool |
Image Capture & Image Processing Test Bench
| Name: | CameraLink |
| Client: | Satake, USA |
| Location: | Houston, TX |
| Type: | Labview System |
Web-Based Finance Simulation
| Name: | Finance Simulator |
| Client: | Private Client |
| Location: | Los Angeles, CA |
| Type: | Banking & Finance |
Web-Based Energy Efficiency Calculator
| Name: | EM Calculator |
| Client: | Private Client |
| Location: | Cleveland, OH |
| Type: | Energy Conservation |
