Information is crucial to the functioning of any organization.  For our clients, that mission-critical information can be Congressional voting records, hard-won data on subsidies to dirty industries, client case records, or tracking outcomes of field work.  An effective data solution makes the difference between successful program work, and long evenings spent cursing at a spreadsheet that's been asked to do too much.

Our consultants and developers bring years of experience meeting organizations' data gathering and processing needs.  Community IT Innovators (CITI) can help you automate processes such as:

• Case or client management
  
• Application and reporting processes for fellowships, grants and other awards
• Data gathering for program evaluations or field research 

Our years of experience have helped us develop code bases that speed development of large data-gathering tools, saving you time and money. We can also spot potential pitfalls in user processes, data ambiguity, or access.

Philosophy

We want you to realize the greatest return on your investment.  Before embarking on any custom development work, we work with our Business IT consultants to see if there is an off-the shelf solution that would meet your needs at minimum cost.  Once we've undertaken a custom development process, we focus on the human elements - process, workflow, and usability - to make data entry and reporting easy and accurate.

All code that we develop for you belongs to you - there are no licensing fees or ongoing obligations to Community IT Innovators.

Methodology

Based on the client and project needs, we will develop your application using either a traditional (waterfall) or agile project management methodology.  In all cases, peer review and formal testing phases are used to hone usability, functionality, reliability and accessibility.  We can build and test to accessibility standards such as Section 508 and W3C, as required.

We provide training, documentation, and access to ongoing support for the tools we build.

Specific Services

Our custom solutions will be specific to your organization.  In addition to the examples of custom work provided above, we can help you with a variety of data or application integration projects.

Technologies Used

Our solutions frequently include:

• Cold Fusion
• Php
• Drupal
• Javascript
• JQuery
• MySQL
• MS SQL 
• Acrobat forms

Our developers have created integrations with:

• Authorize.net
• Cartweaver shopping cart
• CiviCRM
• Clearspring widgets
• Constant Contact
• Democracy in Action
• Filemaker Pro
• Fusetalk forums
• Google maps
• IBO
• iMIS
• Lyris
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Excel
• Paypal
• Quickbooks
• SalesForce
• Twitter
• Vertical Response
• And many others...