Bokan Tech

Case Studies - AmCham China

Overview

The American Chamber of Commerce in the People's Republic of China (AmCham-China) is a non-profit organization which represents US companies and individuals doing business in China. AmCham-China's membership comprises more than 2,600 individuals from over 1,100 companies. It has more than 40 industry- and issue-specific forums and committees, offers unique services such as the Business Visa Program, holds a wide range of networking and informational events, and meets with US and Chinese officials to discuss challenges and opportunities facing US firms doing business in China.

AmCham-China has a website and associated Content Management System running for over 4 years. They are now out-dated from a design perspective and AmCham-China finds they are not smoothly integrated with membership and events data systems.

Bokan is helping AmCham-China redesign its website and business information management system. And more than just designing, Bokan provides full scope of services. Bokan works with AmCham-China on issue investigation, requirement design, website design, hardware architecture design and IT system consulting. To AmCham-China, this is a turnkey solution.

Bokan's Responsibility

Issue Investigation, Analysis and Report

Requirement Design

Website Layout and Artwork Design

Web and Application System Development

Online Payment System Integration

Quality Assurance & Testing

Data Porting and Site Launch

IT Help Desk Service

Website Operation Center Build-out

Consulting Service

Technology Highlights

PHP, AJAX and Flash

MySQL Database

Online Payment System

Case Studies - HowStuffWorks

Overview

HSW International, a Nasdaq company, develops and operates Internet businesses focused on providing consumers in the world's emerging digital economies with locally relevant, high quality information.

Bokan is helping HSWI launch its bowenwang.com.cn in China by providing a turnkey solution from UI Design, Web development, SEO, Video Subtitle solution, Localization, QA to IT Help Desk and Office Buildout, etc.

Bokan's Responsibilities

User Interface (UI): design & implementation

Flash Design & Localization

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Web Development

Video Subtitling Solution: from video to transcript, translation, subtitling, and to publishing.

Translation Memory Management: design & impl

Quality Assurance & Tesing

IT Help Desk

IT Office Buildout

Consulting Service

Technology Highlights

PHP, AJAX, Flash, Java, J2EE

Automatic transcript extraction and subtitling

SEO targeting baidu.com and google.cn

Case Studies - Digital Radio Express

Overview

Digital Radio Express, a California-based company, invented a revolutionary technology named FMeXtra, which can instantly enable traditional radio stations with digital broadcasting capability. Now DRE intends to channel this unique capability to digital signage system. When coupled with FMeXtra receivers, digital signage can get advertisement content updates remotely with zero network installation.

Bokan's Responsibility

Requirement discovery and development.

System design, from UI to DB.

Develop, test and deploy.

Technology Highlights

J2EE-based web-application

SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) business model

Open-source frameworks, Struts 2.0, Spring and Hibernate

Case Studies - 403 Labs

Overview

A startup based in Chicago, IL

Tracker:

Java application / applet scanning intranet/extranet for credit card info

Tasks:

fixing bugs in memory leaking

performance tuning

XML data encryption

code obfuscation

report generation with XML/XSL/Schema

installer creation

Case Studies - Lontra

Overview

Lontra: an IT service portfolio management solution provider

Based in San Francisco, CA

Backend: Spring (webMVC) + Hibernate (annotation), xfire, Tomcat, & Oracle v10

Frontend: AJAX (Yahoo toolkit, SmartClient)

Design: UML (Enterprise Architect v7.0)

Project Management: Accept 360^o, Jira, Confluence, Subversion

Case Studies - Surrge.com

Overview

Surrge.com: referral-based music e-Commerce site owned by JWB2 Inc., Boston, MA

JWB2 has only a CTO, a part-time developer and a less-used outsourcing web design firm.

Testimonial:

From my previous experiences managing a large in-house development staff, I can easily say that my experience with Bokan has turned me into a firm believer in the true value of outsourced development. Our projects have moved through the development process from design to completion with surprising efficiency while producing deliverables of the highest quality at a fraction of the cost. We couldn't be happier.
Justin Bingham Executive VP & CTO, JWB2, Inc

Bokan's responsibility

JWB2 provides requirement & wireframe design, and Bokan delivers a live site.

Architect, design, implementation, web design, testing, & bugfixing

Platform

J2EE (Struts 2.0 + Spring + Hibernate), Tomcat / JBOSS, MySQL

Embedded flash widget

with playback, playlist, music referral & purchase functions

Micro-payment

Javien, Google Checkout, Paypal, credit / debit card, banking account, etc.

MP3 processing

Clipping, downgrade, storage (Amazon S3), playback, upload & download

Web & Graphic Design

JavaScript, AJAX, Xhtml, CSS, Flash ActionScript, JSP, PHP. Perl, etc

Testing

Unit, system, performance, stress & manual testing, testing tools

Interacting with 3rd parties

DigitalInfluenceGroup (DIG for wireframes), Javien (Micro-payment), etc.

Best Practices

Prototype first to test capabilities and communication

Code, along with unit tests, reviewed by both sides.

Distributed code repository in both US and China

In-house solution for code base synchronization

Engineering Process

Code review, nightly build, automatic testing and deployment, Internal test report

Communication

Twice-a-week development meeting over Skype,

Other communication tools: emails, IM/MSN, Google group

Weekly status report