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Standing still isn’t an option
TechEd
At Intergen, August is all about the ever-
popular TechEd - Microsoft’s annual forum
for developers. Intergen brings a splash of
yellow to the event each year, as a supporting
sponsor, sponsor of the Hands on Labs and
as an exhibitor, with staff members not so
incognito in their yellow attire. To find out
more or to register for 2008, watch
www.microsoft.co.nz/teched07
for updates.
EPiServer founder visits
New Zealand
Michael Runhem, Swedish founder of
EPiServer, Europe’s leading content
management product, is coming to
New Zealand in late August. Intergen will
be hosting events for existing customers
and those who would like to know more
about EPiServer. To register your interest,
email waynef@intergen.co.nz
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DEVELOPMENT
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT >>
NEW TECHNOLOGY >>
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Intergen is very proud to have experienced continued
growth. We now have 160 staff between our four
offices in New Zealand and one in Australia, but
what’s behind the growth is more important.
This planned growth is necessary in order for us to proactively keep up with demand
and continue to offer our clients the depth of expertise and skill that they have come
to expect of us.
Clients are increasingly demanding our core services but, as expectations of technology
increase, the breadth of services we offer has expanded to reflect and meet these demands.
With the broadening of Microsoft’s solution set, we are expanding the solutions we offer.
We have recently added capability in the business-oriented Microsoft solutions such as
Dynamics CRM and Dynamics NAV. We are also adding
more consulting capability to meet the demands that
Microsoft SharePoint is generating in areas such as
Document Management, Content Management,
Workflow, Business Intelligence and Enterprise Search.
The skills required to implement Microsoft Solutions
are becoming increasingly specialised, while the
demand for them is becoming increasingly
widespread. Having achieved the scale we have is
a very important factor in our ability to continue
to rapidly add new capability and services around the expanding solution set. We are
also investing heavily in future technologies such as Silverlight.
We have been very busy with Microsoft Dynamics CRM implementations this year,
including a very large project for an organisation with more than 400 users. We have
recently achieved Microsoft Gold Certification in the CRM competency and have more
than 15 staff with Microsoft CRM implementation experience.
In the last issue of SMARTS we introduced a significant product development we are
investing in. ActionThis has now been established as a separate company with two
members of the Intergen leadership team leading the business. Ed Robinson is Chief
Executive Officer and Derek Watson is Chief Technology Officer. They are joined by
Tim Howell, Chief Marketing Officer, formerly of Quest Software.
ActionThis is an exciting new productivity tool that leverages the Software plus Services
model (S+S), combining the familiarity of Outlook with a hosted service that helps people
and organisations to work more effectively together to ‘get stuff done and go home early’.
Learn more at www.actionthis.com.
Intergen will be both a reseller of the ActionThis product and
also a significant supplier of development and other services.
Our involvement with the development of ActionThis has
allowed many of the team to develop real experience with
Web 2.0 techniques that will flow through and benefit
our clients. We are very much looking forward to
continuing to assist an international software company
in taking New Zealand innovation to the world.
Intergen directors Paddy Payne, Wayne Forgesson,
Tony Stewart and Chris Auld.
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& INTEGRATION >>
tony.stewart@intergen.co.nz
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2. It has been a little over two years since Intergen introduced EPiServer to the
Australasian marketplaces, yet it seems just like yesterday. Any risks associated
with a foray into the Southern Hemisphere by a Swedish based organisation
were soon put to the sword. As we predicted, EPiServer is an ideal solution for
Australasian organisations and we have proved that with a number of successful
EPiServer implementations, including: Turners & Growers, Rembrandt Suits, IAG,
AMP, Tertiary Education Commission, AMI, Ngai Tahu, Department of
Conservation, Northland Regional Council, Whakatane District
Council, Hutt City Council, Association of Surfing Professionals
and Ministry of Research Science and Technology.
In addition to these local successes, the EPiServer product
continues to go from strength to strength, having recently
exceeded 2000 installed solutions around the world. The soon
to be released EPiServer CMS version will include a number
of key improvements including an upgrade to .NET 3.
This significant release will enable organisations to gain benefits
from several key features, including the Windows Workflow
Foundation. This will make it possible for developers to add
custom workflows in Visual Studio. EPiServer CMS will ship
with four custom workflows: Sequential Workflow, Parallel
Workflow, Translation Workflow and Request Feedback.
These will be able to be used as is or be modified.
Intergen is planning a local release of EPiServer CMS, so keep
an eye out for this event.
We have also launched an online local user community for EPiServer customers
in New Zealand and Australia to enable knowledge and information sharing.
For more information on the latest EPiServer news and offerings, email Wayne
Forgesson at waynef@intergen.co.nz
EDGY EPiSERVER SITE WORKS FOR MODERN APPRENTICESHIPS
The Modern Apprenticeships programme enables young New Zealanders to gain
nationally recognised industry qualifications while they work. It’s about putting
the talent of a new generation to work, and over 9400 modern apprentices are
currently in training in over 32 industries, ranging from building to engineering.
For many, the first step has been through information spotted on
www.modernapprenticeships.co.nz, created under the umbrella of the Tertiary
Education Commission.
The existing Modern Apprenticeships website was out of date
and it was difficult to update content. There was no multi-lingual
capacity to suit its audience, 16 to 24 year olds and potential
employers, and it lacked imagery that would give it a motivational
edge. It needed a voice that would create action and it needed
to be user friendly and engaging.
TEC engaged Intergen to implement EPiServer as a consistent
platform that would not only meet this challenge but also provide
a platform to improve the timeliness and format of their own
TEC website in due course.
TEC’s Web Team Leader, Kate Clode, highlights the reasons for
deciding on EPiServer:
“EPiServer was able to give us more freedom to manage content
when and where we liked on the site. The ability to forward
publish content has become a major time saving tool and, likewise,
expired content is now taken care of efficiently. Our publishers
are more hands on, with all the control they need, compared to the technical
challenges that faced them before when they wanted to manipulate content. To
sum up how far we’ve come, I feel we’ve gained 100% control.”
The end result is funky, youthful and appealing, and the site was turned around
in a matter of weeks – on time and on budget.
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Andrew Watson
What do you do?
I’m the new guy in Business Development
in Wellington. I joined in May after eight
years at Microsoft, where I was also an
Account Manager.
How do you make a difference?
I help to ensure that my clients’ satisfaction
with Intergen remains high and that we
continue to be more and more valued
by them.
What do you love about your job?
Everything about my job is client-focused,
so it is always very ‘real’. It is great working
with all the different people within
Intergen as we work to satisfy our clients.
A bit about yourself
I am a proud Wellingtonian and live in
Khandallah. I am very active with junior
football and cricket as an administrator
and coach. I am also a keen player…
tennis, squash, football and skiing. The
football team I play for is the Fabulous
Turtles (www.soccer.net.nz). We have been
going strong for 26 years, and counting!
I am married to Fiona and our two
teenaged sons are James and Michael.
EPiServer update EPiServer in action
Phillip Newport, the 300th Modern Apprentice

3. As those of you who are familiar with the Intergen
way might know, we’re not ones for sitting back
and watching the days go by.
It’s been another action-packed year so far, and hard to believe that we’re two
thirds of the way through it already. Before the year has gone completely, we
thought we should share with you some of the Intergen activities that have been
keeping us busy over the last couple of months. It goes without saying that there’s
always plenty happening on the work front, but we thought we’d let you in on
some of the extra-curricular fun and games that have been taking place – along
with some interesting developments on the work front, too. Never a dull moment…
Back in May we took the GOVIS conference by storm. There was no mistaking
the Intergen mob in their bright yellow cammo pants and bandannas. In fact,
the cammo pants have taken off here at Intergen and have become the official
costume for our excursions out into the world. In May our HR team also hit
universities around the country (dressed in cammos, of course) to attract upcoming
graduates to apply for the 2008 Intergen graduate programme. The yellow
crusaders made such a splash that they even made it to the pages of the
Dominion Post and the New Zealand Herald. All the signs are looking positive
for a strong graduate intake next year. And August is the month for TechEd,
where every year Intergen is out in force in all its yellow glory.
The word on everyone’s lips at Intergen at the moment is Silverlight. See page
7 for more details.
You may be aware that the Wellington office moved premises at the beginning
of this year– literally right across the road from our old offices. We’ve settled in
nicely and had a ‘crossing the road’ house warming party to celebrate the
successful transition. Lots of yellow, but no chickens…
Intergen’s Twilight series for 2007 has been an extremely busy and popular one,
with several venue changes required due to numbers. Topics this year have
included Usability, Mobile Business Solutions, Web 2.0, Search Engine Marketing,
Agile Methodology, Business Intelligence, CRM and ECM. To find out more about
upcoming Twilights, visit www.intergen.co.nz/twilights
If you want to know more about what is topical in the Intergen
realms, or on the technology front in general, we’ve started up
an Intergen blog in order to share our thoughts and create
dialogue and debate around some salient subjects that are
particularly relevant to us here at Intergen, and to the ICT
sector at large. Visit www.intergen.co.nz/blog to see what
we’ve been talking about lately.
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Intergen out and about
Intergen graduate
recruitment in action
A Twilight seminar
Wellington’s office warming party

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More householders than ever are eligible for a rates rebate as a result of the
Government increasing the rates rebate threshold from $7,400 to $20,000
on 1 July 2006.
Rates Rebates applications go
through the roof
The Rates Rebates system (RRS) consists of a
number of application and system interfaces that
communicate with a central transactional database
to enable the completion of the business processes
governing rates rebates claims.
The core business logic of the system is exposed by a web services layer to provide
a business level abstraction of these processes and to enable Councils themselves
to integrate directly from their existing rebates systems.
All user interfaces are web-based applications built upon ASP.NET 2.0, and adhere
to the Government Web Guidelines for accessibility. The user experience is highly
customised around the completion of the Council rebate claim and DIA claims
management process, making the interface simple and intuitive to use for a
diverse user audience completing a complex workflow. An implementation of the
model view presenter (MVP) design pattern provides a separation of concerns
between the user interface and the business domain.
The connection with the web services layer is through an ASMX web service
facade that uses the Web Service Contract First (WSCF) code generation tool.
WSCF provides a robust approach for defining and sharing schema between client
and service, and accelerates the development of web services where contract has
been defined ahead of a concrete implementation, as was done in the case of
the RRS. Controlling access to these web services is a Security Token Service (STS)
that signs, issues and verifies tokens that the systems integrating with the services
present when calling a particular business operation.
All code is written in C# 2.0, with the greatest volume of code existing within a
class library that encapsulates a model of the business domain. The web services
layer in turn orchestrates these business objects to perform the major functions
Under the hood: DIA Rates R
Treasury forecasted a 40% increase in
applications for the $500 rates rebate
from local Councils. The realisation hit
home that the existing paper-based
application system using Microsoft
Access would not be equal to the task.
The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA)
began looking for a partner to
implement a Council-facing electronic
management system that could deliver
on many fronts – efficiency in data capture and processing, data integrity,
detailed reporting and analysis, and also prove to be simple and intuitive for
over 73 councils with varying degrees of exposure to IT systems.
Building a workflow system that would draw approval from many different
councils with varying levels of IT readiness (many with their own rates rebate
systems, others still paper-based) meant that it needed to be highly usable. This
proved to be the case, being robust, reliable and flexible. Councils and territorial
authorities are fully informed and have a process that can cope with extreme
peak volumes with no increase in staffing requirements.
The feedback from council staff around the country
has been positive. After six weeks in operation
60,000 applications totalling $17 million were
processed. The system is continuing to keep pace,
with councils receiving reimbursement within a
week, compared to several weeks in the past.
There is now complete visibility throughout,
validation is easier, and this new information
process ensures better forecasting, clearer analysis
and means less potential for fraudulent claims.

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Lee Herd
What do you do?
I am a senior developer, team lead and
counsellor in the Intergen Development
and Integration Team.
How do you make a difference?
I bring an outrageous sense of humour
to work. To me having fun is the most
important aspect of the work place, having
fun while taking pride in your work and
getting the job done.
What do you love about your job?
The people. We have a good bunch of
people at Intergen and they put up with
my theatrics. Of course I enjoy the problem
solving and the team leadership aspects
as well, but at the end of the day it is the
fun I have with my peers that keeps me
coming back.
A bit about yourself
I graduated from Victoria University in
1994 and have worked in IT ever since,
including stints in Sydney, Texas and
London. I married my lovely wife Kirsten
in Rome two years ago and we had Tessa
last October. I enjoy travelling, sport, the
odd game of poker and putting hammer
to nail. Plans for the future include
reducing my golf handicap, continuing to
be a valuable member of the Intergen
team and trying to add more than just
Hush Little Baby to my guitar repertoire.
of the system. Since the administration application is internally accessible only
to a small group of users and there is no desire to expose these functions in any
other way, it is built directly over the business domain rather than operating
through a web services interface.
All data is stored in a SQL Server 2005 relational database that is highly normalised
to cope with the volume of transactions that occur in the system. Interaction with
this database is through a data gateway pattern that leverages the Microsoft
Enterprise Library Data Access block, and audits the key business actions that
take place. Status summary information is derived from this database in real-time
for users managing the rebate claims process, but a completely separate data
mart provides the source of most reporting information. This data mart is built
using an ETL process in SQL Integration Services that de-normalises the data and
presents it in a structure that users may more readily understand for reporting
purposes. SQL Reporting Services is used to build canned operational reports that
users may view at any time, and power users may build ad-hoc reports over the
data mart using the SQL Report Builder tool.
The Rates Rebates System also communicates with the Finance system through
an integration agent that ships data via an internal FTP drop location. The EDI
files exported from the Finance system are reconciled with the financial model
that sits at the heart of the rebates system, and in turn new rebate claims that
are to be paid are pushed to the Finance system.
The Enterprise Library application blocks were leveraged throughout the solution
to provide robust exception handling, logging and data caching.
The project was delivered by the team using an agile development methodology
over three iterations, and, despite a reasonable amount of technical and logistical
complexity, was delivered on time and on budget in the very tight timeframe that
was required.
derek.watson@intergen.co.nz
ebate system
COUNCIL
WEBSITE
STAFF
WEBSITE
ADMIN
APP
REPORTING
PORTAL
WEB SERVICES INTERFACE
BUSINESS LOGIC
FINANCE
INTEGRATION AGENT
SQL REPORTING
SERVICES
DATA GATEWAY
ENTERPRISE
LIBRARY
DIA USERSCOUNCIL USERS
OLTP
DATABASE
DATA
MART
ETL
FTP DROP
LOCATION
COUNCIL RATING
SYSTEMS
INTEGRATION
LOGICAL SOLUTION ARCHITECTURE

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There is now a blueprint for the promotion of good management
practices in Local Government through an online resource.
LGMA New South Wales launches
the Good Practice Toolkit …
At its many levels, Government touches the
lives of us all in a variety of ways on a daily
basis. To most of us, the most visible and
active face of Government is our Local Council.
They provide a wide variety of services that
we have come to take for granted - from the
provision and upkeep of our local parks
through to the regular collection of rubbish,
and, in some areas, the provision of essential
services such as water and sewerage. For
many of us, these things happen
without us even thinking about them.
Your local Council, on the other
hand, faces the daily challenge
of planning and managing that
wide variety of services. Delivery is
people-driven and involves highly
visible community-based services.
Services which are on a daily basis
subject to regular, ongoing scrutiny. It
should therefore be no surprise that Councils
rate quality and customer-centric service
delivery highly and are constantly striving
to improve. However, Council services need
to be delivered within the context of tight
budgets and a complex web of legislation
and regulation.
The business of Council is a complex management challenge.
As an organisation established for the benefit of local government managers with
a goal of improving management practices, the Local Government Managers
Association (LGMA) NSW has undertaken and sponsored many initiatives to support
its members in their daily activities. With some 700 members in over 138 Councils
throughout NSW, LGMA faces the significant and ongoing challenge of reaching its
members and delivering relevant support to a varied and widely distributed community.
For some time, Local Government organisations have
recognised that the similarities in their business are far greater
than their differences. Sure, each has its local community and
culture which influences how it operates and sets its priorities.
But at the end of the day, in most respects, their
core business is very similar. It should be no surprise,
then, that Councils have a history of collaboration and
LGMA has played its part in facilitating that cooperation.
Not content with meeting the challenge through traditional
forums such as conferences and working groups alone, LGMA
was attracted to an online solution originally conceived and deployed
in New Zealand by the Society of Local Government Managers.
The internet offered a means to beat the tyranny of distance and to deliver a
solution that provided relevant and accessible real-time advice and guidance to
members. With the assistance of Business Analytics and Intergen, LGMA embarked
on a project to design, build and deploy an online toolkit to promote and support
good practices for its members. Positive results from Councils confirmed early on that
the uptake from Councils would be high and defined which business processes would
benefit most from such a tool.
An extensive collaborative design process was the next step in the exercise. Regular
feedback to the participating Councils and the broader community of Councils served
to both inform and refine the design and in November 2006 the site went live with
the first module, ‘Procurement’.
The solution is offered to Councils on a subscriber basis and is accessed directly by
Council staff from within their local intranets. A phased development and roll-out
was planned for the content of modules and by the end of June a further two modules,
‘Development Assessment’ and ‘Asset Management’, were deployed, with two further
modules, ‘Work Force Planning’ and ‘Information Management’, scheduled for the
second half of 2007. More modules will follow. There are now 80 subscribing councils.
Modules are designed for use by staff at the coal face. They provide an overview of
the major activities involved and support the drill down as required into progressively
lower levels of detail, covering work steps, interdependencies, legislative requirements,
anticipated timeframes, and providing sample outputs and hot tips from practitioners.
The future for the toolkit is one of ongoing evolution and refinement for the benefit
of subscribing members but also in the ongoing uptake from within New South Wales
and LGMA sister organisations in other states. The bar for what is good practice will
be continually lifted and, with that in mind, the toolkit has been designed with
flexibility and adaptability.
We’re off to a good start but the hard work doesn’t stop here.
If you’d like to know more about LG Good Practice Toolkit, visit the public area of
the site at www.lgtoolkit.com.au, or contact Martin Johnston in Intergen’s Sydney
office at +61 414 489000, email martinj@intergen.com.au

7. They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,
but I thought I’d bring just a little bit of Vegas back
to share with my team and clients. I attended the
MIX07 conference in Las Vegas, NV, in early May.
The key announcement for Microsoft for this event was their new
Silverlight platform. Silverlight is a cross-platform browser plug-in for
delivering rich interactive applications. It allows aspects of the new
Microsoft graphic presentation platform, Windows Presentation
Foundation, to be exposed to web users on both Windows and
Macintosh systems.
At Intergen we see this as an exciting opportunity to deliver
rich end user experiences through web applications.
Silverlight will allow us to deliver rich graphics, audio and even
video enhancing, not only for consumers but also business
focused applications. It is fast, easy to use and install and allows
seamless integration of graphics and effects into any existing
web application.
Intergen Hosting has over two years’ experience in streaming rich media
content and we are excited about leveraging our hosting capability to deliver
Silverlight content.
Over the months of May and June, Intergen ran a competition for our team to
build cool things with Silverlight. We’re speaking about some of the exciting
things we built and challenges we faced at sessions in Auckland and Queenstown
soon. If you’d like to know more about Silverlight, please email me at
chris.auld@intergen.co.nz
Leading the way for developers working on flexible business solutions, Intergen
recently completed two technical samples and a covering white paper for Microsoft’s
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), one of the four new technologies in .NET
3.0. These samples are published by Microsoft on their global site as training
materials for organisations around the world.
This technology allows IT systems that define their core business-logic
using workflow to be changed and migrated seamlessly using real-
world terms and clear process visualisations.
The first of our samples offers an integrated website solution
for a work approval process. Workflow drives this process
by structuring tasks for employees such as the worker seeking
approval and the manager that can provide the approval.
It allows these to be processed in sequence and as options
based on the results of previous workflow activity.
The second sample delves into a more complex business
environment with multiple workflow systems. A business rule-
oriented insurance policy and claim workflow system drives tasks
out to a people-oriented call centre management workflow system.
With Workflow included in SharePoint 2007 and the upcoming version of Biztalk,
it will integrate seamlessly with a large portion of the Microsoft business platform.
Having worked with Windows Workflow Foundation since well before it was
publicly announced, and as a key Microsoft partner in providing Workflow training,
Intergen is ideally suited to assisting our clients with their first ventures into this
exciting technology.
For more information please contact Intergen’s Workflow expert, Seth Veale.
seth.veale@intergen.co.nz
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Seth Veale
What do you do?
I am a developer in the Dunedin office.
I work on most of the technologies we use
from .Net 1.1 through to 3.0 and provide
rudimentary requirements and plans for
projects that are refined and realised with
the rest of the team.
How do you make a difference?
I identify problems, potential solutions
and alternative approaches in a form
that can be assessed and utilised by
our development process. Inside this
process, I aim to create well designed
implementations and provide a touch
of technical leadership.
What do you love about your job?
The people, the location, the challenges.
A bit about me
I came to Intergen having started my
full-time career with Kognition after
graduating from Otago's computer
science course.
I might call myself an independent,
irreverent idealist with an often conflicting
affinity for systems and form.
My personal interests are sports, games
and entertaining media.
Intergen contributes
to Windows Workflow
Foundation
The latest from Microsoft’s
bag of tricks – Silverlight

8. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT INTERGEN:
Auckland: 09 966 3070
Wellington: 04 472 2021
Christchurch: 03 964 0017
Dunedin 03 479 4099
Sydney: 02 9904 0443
info@intergen.co.nz
www.intergen.co.nz
www.intergen.com.au
Hutt Valley takes the high ground
Eamon and Olmec have seen the birth of their latest creation with
www.huttvalleynz.com finally superseding its Hutt City predecessor and taking
in the tourist needs of the entire Hutt Valley. The new website is architected
around persona-based needs and presents a plethora of sites and activities for
tourists and locals alike as a direct complement and extension of the Positively
Wellington Tourism website. Based on our EPiServer CMS platform, the website
is a huge leap forward for Hutt City Council as well as their customers!
Usability-centred redesign for jobs.govt
We are proud to reveal that the State Services Commission jobs.govt redesign
launched in July. Not only has Sue revitalised the look and feel, but also solved
some recurring usability issues for job seekers visiting the website. Key elements
of the new design are the vivid photographs of real government employees that
are featured on the home page and in career profiles. Their genuine faces and
career stories humanise the website and add warmth and appeal to the job
search experience. By the time you read this, Prime Minister Helen Clark will
have launched the new site in person in late July! Check it out at www.jobs.govt.nz.
Taking it to the people - it’s
a user-centred world!
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It’s all go in the Interactive team with new faces bringing the head count up to
eight, spread from Auckland to Christchurch. Our national series of Web 2.0 and
User Experience Twilight seminars have finally drawn to a close with Eamon and
Trent Mankelow from Optimal Usability delivering the last one in Wellington.
Thank you to all who have attended this series of seminars; it’s been a fabulous
opportunity to meet you all in a non-project driven space and discuss the bigger
picture challenges and opportunities facing your businesses going forward. This
has been extremely encouraging and has probably given us as much food for
thought as we gave you!
Ramping it up for Roost
We’ve been working with Dunedin-based Roost to completely re-architect, re-
design and re-engineer their website at www.roost.co.nz. Roost wanted to position
themselves above a myriad of other competitors in the mortgage broking market
and cut through the clutter with a bold online statement and brand. The new
brand has effortlessly secured their position as one of New Zealand’s top two
providers. Now based on the MoST CMS product, the new site is a dramatic leap
forward too, blending their gutsy and fresh communication style with the online
demands of a rapidly growing customer base. We’re confident the Roost site sets
a new benchmark in the mortgage and insurance brokerage space in New Zealand,
reflecting the passionate essence of their brand and giving them real advantage
in meeting the increasing expectations of demanding customers like you ...or us!
Microsoft pushes into the design space
Microsoft has at long last realised its foray into the design tools space with the
release of their Expressions Studio suite, which enables creatives to effectively
operate in the space created by the development of the new presentation
technologies, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and its subset, Silverlight.
We welcome this competition in the Adobe dominated market (since the acquisition
of Macromedia) and hope these new tools gain acceptance. Whilst it’s still early
days, Dave and Sjef are already integrating the technologies into several projects
with encouraging results. More on that in the next issue!
New additions to the Wellington
Interactive line-up are Aaron Sinclair,
Dave Keyes and Sjef van Gaalen
To find out how Intergen’s User-Centred
Design approach can benefit your web
or application project, contact our
Creative Director Eamon O’Rourke at
eamono@intergen.co.nz
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