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| AN EXTRAORDINARY TRANSFORMATION: AGENCY'S WEBSITE LEAPS FROM "BROCHUREWARE" TO USER-FRIENDLY DATABASE-DRIVEN WEBSITE, BACKED BY POWERFUL CUSTOM SOFTWARE |
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| U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's "brochureware" website had been online since 1999. The content wasn't organized in an intuitive way, and the inflexible site couldn't handle the company's need for significant additional functionality, including integration with the organization's existing database. |
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| In addition, USADA's new website would require a secure area for athletes to enter their "whereabouts" information. As part of their process, this agency conducts out-of-competition testing on all U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes. To facilitate this testing, USADA must know where athletes can be located 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. |
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| Creating a solid foundation: A scalable, easy-to-use website |
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| Visionbox completely re-architected the site and used Microsoft .NET technologies to build a solid, scalable foundation for the new site. The new site features focused content for the athletes, intuitive navigation, appealing imagery, and strong online branding. |
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| The new design is appealing to athletes and includes focused and organized content. Using custom, online forms in the secure area, athletes easily enter their whereabouts information at any time, day or night. |
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| Given the sensitive and timely nature of the data athletes enter, a primary goal was to ensure the integrity and security of the information. visionbox followed rigorous quality control and testing procedures to achieve this goal. |
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| Next, to meet USADA's evolving business needs, visionbox created a secure area for certified independent contractors hired to test U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes, who may be located anywhere in the world at any given time. |
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| Robust, custom software meets evolving business need |
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| As USADA's business needs continued to grow, the agency once again turned to visionbox to help them meet their challenges. visionbox's partnership with USADA helped the team stay in sync with the agency and fulfill its mandate with the United States Olympic Committee: track the whereabouts for U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes, conduct drug tests, and record test results. |
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| After many exhaustive stakeholder meetings, the USADA and visionbox team determined the best way to meet USADA's ever-growing data and security challenges. |
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| The result is Simon™: a robust, proprietary application that, on one hand, allows athletes to easily and securely input their information and, on the other hand, provides USADA (and its certified independent contractors) with consistent, reliable, real-time access to the athletes' information. |
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| visionbox designed and developed Simon and created the integration programming to fuse this large backend product with a newly redesigned front-end website. In their ongoing relationship, visionbox and USADA continue to seek opportunities to meet the organization's evolving business needs. |
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| Read more about Simon. |
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