MVI Solutions News

April 2008

Newbaby.com Connects Moms and Technology

Newbaby.com approached MVI in the fall of 2007 as an existing web presence with the need to upgrade to the latest technology available. The objective was to develop a website primarily for video consumption meanwhile allowing mothers to connect through an online community which we call “Mom’s Corner”. MVI worked side by side with early motherhood experts to develop a user friendly, functionally sound, product that is most beneficial to its target audience. One of our foremost elements of newbaby.com is the ability to create a “wallet” of videos that members and non-members can email to friends, create an MRSS feed or create a widget capable of being transferred to multiple locations around the net. Some of the website’s features include expert videos, articles and an interactive web cam for real-time video upload. The website also offers community interaction features with all the latest user tools which include: member profiles, blogs, photo galleries and news in an online environment which allows mothers to connect via web technology. The extensive feature list cannot be summarized but only experienced here at www.newbaby.com.

March 2008

MHOA releases WOCN-Connect

MHOA, Miller & Huffman Outcome Architects, are nationally recognized experts in home health outcomes and disease management. Their contribution to the healthcare industry is cutting-edge; helping providers and vendors to ready themselves for pay for performance and consumer-driven healthcare. In late 2007 MHOA contracted MVI to develop their revolutionary WOCN-Connect web application. WOCN-Connect drives staff compliance to use the right wound product, on the right wound, at the right time every day, patient-by-patient. The application allows subscribers to document and submit wound care notes and photos. These notes are then reviewed by a Certified Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurse (WOCN) who submits wound treatment recommendations for the photo. In addition to wound care treatment guidance, WOCN-Connect provides subscribers with valuable data-driven, real-time outcome reports. MVI provided the skills and expertise to make the WOCN-Connect application intuitive and easy-to-use. Learn more at www.wocn-connect.com.

February 2008

MASA delivers sporting goods and equipment via the web

MASA, Mid-America Sports Advantage, sells sporting goods and equipments to consumers, recreational facilities, schools, churches and to many other places. In business for 25 years, MASA came to MVI in 2007 looking to upgrade their existing website. During the next several months, MVI worked closely with MASA's staff to deliver a feature-rich, high-end web application. This website, launched in late 2007, has many of the features that are seen in other major online retailers. From product comparisons, to related products, to a dynamic wish, this site was engineered to provide their customers with elevated customer experience. MVI continues to work with MASA to enhance and already great product. Check them out at www.sportsadvantage.com.

January 2008

MVI moves to Fedora Core 8 for dedicated servers

For years MVI has been using a customized base version of Redhat Linux 9 as their operating system for their dedicated servers. With the evolution of server hardware since the release of Redhat 9, newer hardware became harder and harder to find drivers for. There was a need for a new base system which could support new functionality and new hardware. That's when MVI started looking at Fedora Core 8 as its next possible operating system. After quite a bit a testing and customization, MVI is proud to announce that from now on, all of its new dedicated servers will be using a customized version of Fedora Core 8. This will allow our dedicated server customers to be able to take advantage of the latest, state-of-the-art hardware and software available for Linux-based platforms out on the market.

December 2007

Healthocrates- Accurate Medical Information- Wiki Style

Healthocrates approached MVI in mid 2007. They had a problem and needed a solution. It started with a man that had a rare medical condition and couldn’t find the treatment he needed. He eventually found it by communicating with someone on a message board. Our customer realized the need for such a service, but realized there should be one site that everyone could go to. We realized the ‘user submitted’ format of wiki type sites could keep information up to the minute. We put an extra submission step in the submission process to ensure the information was accurate and of good quality. Healthocrates boasts video content placed into our articles as well, a feature not currently available on Wikipedia. Today the number of Healthocrates users continues to grow exponentially, making it one of the most actively used sites in the MVI family.

October 2007

Sharing Your Talent With The World

Tube Your Talent realized there are a lot of talented people in the world and those talented people wanted to share their abilities. Therefore, they contacted MVI to create a web site that allows people to sign up as members for free. Once signed up they have the ability to not only upload videos of themselves, but also images they've created and documents of their poems or songs. Now anyone can share their talents with the world. Show the world your talent at www.tubeyourtalent.com.

September 2007

MVI Announces Infinite Acuity

As MVI's breadth of services has grown, a new segment of the market was identified. Those businesses who need not just software projects built, but also consistent guidance for all things related to technology. Infinite Acuity is MVI's answer to those businesses that are looking for a technology partner who can offer a variety of services relating to the technology field. Set to launch in the first quarter of 2008, Infinite Acuity will offer the following services: Consulting, Project Management, Systems Administration, Support, Software Development and Testing. Each of these services will be designed to work seamlessly within our customers organizations. MVI's extensive experience in the industry along with a long history with great companies will provide the foundation for Infinite Acuity's customer base. We at MVI are excited about this new venture and are looking forward to Infinite Acuity expanding on our great business.

June 2007

MVI Implements Clustering Solution

One of MVI's biggest hosting customers (Simpedia Networks - www.ecampusrecruiter.com) recently realized the need for a more advanced solution for their multi-server application. Originally when their site was launched (www.ecampusrecruiter.com) it was hosted on MVI's top-notch, redundant, shared hosting environment. However, their business and throughput needs grew so fast that they were soon on their own dedicated server. In a short span of time, they even outgrew their dedicated server and started requiring multiple servers which forced them to split their application amongst different domain names. Ever growing, Simpedia recently consulted with MVI to have a clustering implementation engineered and put into place. MVI is currently in the process of implementing this clustering solution and is set to have it ready by the end of the summer. With technologies such as load-balancing equipment, centralized storage systems and replicated database, this hosting implementation is the most complex that MVI has ever attempted to put together. MVI hopes that their new found experience and skill in this area will attract other customers looking for similar configurations.

May 2007

Noah's Ark Animal Workshop

www.noahsarkworkshop.com Noah's Ark Animal Workshop has been with MVI since they began in 2004. MVI has worked closely with the team at Noah's Ark to bring functionality to their rapidly growing business. Since they started, MVI has created a vast set of features from replicated sites, to club memberships, to content management. MVI fills many roles as it relates to the operation of the Noah's Ark. We not only operate as programmers, but also as system's administrators and consultants. Noah's Ark Animal Workshop is built on a platform consisting of PHP and MySQL. It contains a full-fledged contact organizer, shopping cart, content management system, genealogy tree structure as well as many other custom modules that were built specifically for Noah's Ark.

MVI expands Hosting Facility to handle the continued growth expected during 2007.

MVI's growth in the number of Web sites, dedicated servers and Internet traffic has grown exponentially during the last several years. The graph of this growth indicates MVI will increase bandwidth use, 40-50% growth during 2007. This predicted growth requires MVI to increase bandwidth and server capacity. MVI has begun this new expansion and we are anticipating completion in late January. MVI's expansion plan includes upgrading server technology, augment site storage capacity, increase available bandwidth and modernize storage back up capabilities.MVI hosts all web sites and web applications at one of the finest and most secure Tier 1 hosting facilities in the USA.

The Network Access Point in Miami, Florida provides superior connectivity because this facility is located on the backbone of the Internet, with multiple optical lines reaching to the other 5 Network Access Points in the United States. The NAP in Miami is the main access point to the Internet by the international optical lines coming from South America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. We are extremely proud to provide our customers with the finest web hosting available. MVI’s state of the art hosting capabilities have allowed us to provide our customers with the best uptime average in the industry.

As this work continues our staff will advise when and if any interruption of service will occur. All service interruptions, will last less then 4 hours and occur during the early morning hours on a weekend.

Thank you for your patience and for being a loyal customer.

Staff of MVI

December 2006

Full Spectrum CRM Featured in Business Week Magazine. Business Week magazine has selected Full Spectrum CRM as the featured CRM system for it’s January 2007 issue. The article will review Full Spectrum competitive advantages within the industry. The newest CRM system released by MVI utilizes new mobile capabilities and upgraded features from software that they have developed over the past 7 years.

October 2006

MVI announces Full Spectrum CRM. Full Spectrum CRM will start to deliver the new CRM system. The system features new sales, leads, ticket system, accounting, calendar and complete help desk. This system will compete against Sales Force and other competitors with price and feature advantages.

September 2006

MVI Develops Dashboard System for Subway MVI completed and delivered a digital dashboard to Subway corporation. The dashboard will display store results in real time that will allow store owners to view store operation form another location. This system will be made available to the 25,000 stores in 2007.

July 2006

Goldman Sachs needed a special tool from MVI - one that would save their company a lot of time by visiting web pages on Ebay.com in a number of languages and gathering data. Previously, someone had spent hours gathering this data by visiting each page and recording the results. Our custom product now performs this task in less than 5 minutes! And, it offers an Excel-friendly report with some custom exception statistics immediately after running. This product was so helpful that they sought a modified version of the product to gather additional data which, because we design our custom software with forward-thinking techniques, was up and running within hours and at a fraction of the cost!

April 2006

MVI Signs Contract with Mattress Marshals An industry wide issue in the mattress and bedding world concerning inefficiency and delay in manual order processing has existed for many years. With the introduction of an online order management system, Mattress Marshals has now set it self apart from its competitors. Customers, Clients and even Technicians can now eliminate the tedious paper order form process and begin to relish in the more streamlined and effective all digital environments. Orders are now created, filled out and processed online. Groups can exchange images and view notes taken by all involved parties. With the implementation of this current system, Mattress Marshals has become and innovator and leader in the mattress and bedding industry.

March 2006

MVI has created a feature-rich POS (point-of-sale) system for the world's largest fast-food chain. Relying on traditional Windows development, the POS software not only serves as a means to ring up customer sales, but provides an entire store operations management system. From advanced reporting, to sales transmission, the POS software provides a store owner with the capabilities to control the daily operations of their store without needing to be on top of all of the activities. The POS sale system can be adapted to serve several markets such as retail.

February 2006

MVI has developed a system that allows tele-radiologists the capability of creating reports on studies, from the comforts of their home. Our program allows for studies that are fed to the user via JAVA and XML to be reviewed and reported against. These reports assist in patient diagnosis and allow doctors the freedom to review their patients conditions from any web-enabled location. Empowered with these capabilities, the radiologist can provide timely reports on the patient thus expediting their care. Additionally, our program has advanced reporting capabilities for system management as well as billing.

April 2005

MVI Solutions developed an electronic registry that allows visitors to sign up as customers within the site and maintain a list of emergency contacts. Members are able to add, edit and delete any data they have entered, including emergency contact information and child information.
The administrator can manage members (searching by key fields such as member number or name), set up company incentives and run various reports.

Emergency personnel can come to the site in the case of an emergency and search/find members by member ID and be able to navigate to the appropriate list of emergency contacts for the selected member. The web display provides direct navigation to each member's emergency contacts (Primary/Co/Child Members) within a membership.

December 2003

MVI has developed a multi-level marketing application that allows its owners to create a tier-down, direct sales business model. This program allows its members to enroll with the site, and be part of a genealogy tree which they can manage directly through the site. Automatic commission calculations, newsletters and invoicing reports are also features of this highly-advanced business tool. Members and administrators have the capability to control their respective sections, with members being able to communicate with their downline, organizing scheduled events and setting pricing levels. A self-sufficient program, the MLM application allowed this client to take their business to a national audience without having to adjust their administrative staffing requirements.

June 2003

When Integrity Leads needed Sales Leads Management software for their business they turned to the best. Through a series of conferences and a comprehensive analysis, MVI learned the details of Integrity Leads' business to give them the best possible sales leads manager for their money. What resulted was a superior piece of software that gives Integrity Leads supreme control over the management of their sales leads.

The Integrity Leads' Sales Leads Management software is based on MVI's own Contact Manager.

The administration section of the site is where our software really excels. From the administrator control panel a user can easily upload CSV lead lists and change the sales lead status. The administrator can also do bulk emailing to their sales leads and also has the ability to create Excel sheets with their sales leads information in it. MVI's customized Sales Leads Manager with advanced administrative features gave Integrity Leads the edge they need to succeed.

April 2003

MVI Develops Educational Software
Several months ago, MVI was contacted by an organization with a unique purpose. This organization, known as Hi Tek Learning System, was a government funded program which offered education to under privileged children. Their primary focus was in providing basics of aviation to children who otherwise wouldn’t normally be exposed to that type of training.

MVI was brought in because the need for a scalable, robust web-based application seemed more necessary than ever before. Hi Tek was expanding into multiple states. With that growth, the management of the information flow became key. MVI spent the next several months designing a complete management suite that would allow Hi Tek the flexibility to expand and manage their organization at a level which they previously could not.

Included in this system are:
• Trouble ticket system
• Calendar of events
• Automated student attendance
• Site management
• Complete automated user generation
• Student management
• Goal management
• And many more…

MVI’s purpose and goals for this application were to allow for the many user levels to operate independently in an efficient manner without needing much education. We feel that this type of application could cross over into any education-based organization. The ability to manage not only students and their information, but the administrative staff provides a level of functionality not often seen in commercial applications.

March 2003

Latin Pop Sensation Donato Poveda chooses MVI’S for Full Content Management and E-Commerce Website. The name Donato Poveda might not be familiar to everyone in the United States, but he is one of the biggest stars in Latin America. He was famous in the duo Donato y Estefano, and shortly after launching his solo career he was nominated for Best Latin Pop Album at this year's Grammy Awards.

Poveda is a talented artist who works hard at his craft and has a busy schedule. Of course, this leaves him little time for (or interest in) learning how to program a website. That's why when he was looking to get a website done, he needed one that allowed him to easily change his site content anytime he needed to, but of course he didn't want to have to learn HTML or website programming. After he learned about MVI's Content Management System, he decided it was right for him.

The process of completing the site was straightforward. Poveda met with MVI and decided on a basic design theme. After viewing a few samples, he chose one he liked. That's pretty much all he had to do! MVI's programmers then built a system that allowed Poveda to change his content whenever he needed to.

The Content Management System, built in PHP and MySQL, allows Poveda to login to his site at any time. He can add or delete pages, change the navigation of his site, or change the content of any page. He can change fonts, make certain items italicized or bold - any highlighting effect you can think of.

He uses the Content Management System primarily to make sure his website has the latest information about his tour schedule, to post news about himself and his music, and to list song lyrics and other information of interest to fans. By keeping his content fresh, he attracts more repeat visits to his site from his fans. As befitting an international nature of his audience star, the site provides content in both English and Spanish.

If you go to Poveda's site and spend a little time reading about him, there's a good chance you'll want to go out and buy his music. But why go out when you can order his music right from the site? Just click on the Store link and you'll go to the e-commerce shopping cart section of his site. Like the rest of the site, the e-commerce portion can be fully managed by Poveda. He can add or delete products, change pricing, or update descriptions whenever he wants.

The most striking features of the system are its completeness and ease of use. Literally any page of the site can be changed using the management system, and running the site is about as easy as using Microsoft Word.

If you want to learn about a great musical talent, go to donatopoveda.com and see for yourself. And if you want to learn about a great Content Management and e-commerce system, call 877.633.9536 and learn from one of MVI's specialists just how easy it is.

February 2003

MVI Completes Web Training Program for Miami Dolphins
The NFL powerhouse Miami Dolphins are merciless to their opponents on the football filed, but when it comes to giving back to the community, they're all heart. The organization uses its powerful image in South Florida to support a variety of good causes.

Recently the Dolphins teamed up with MVI to put out a web-based application to help young people improve their scores on the FCAT, an achievement test given to all Florida students to measure their progress at various stages of their education.

MVI started with its powerful PHP web-based training application designed for businesses, and modified it to create a more youth-friendly look and feel. The session starts off with an entertaining video featuring TD, the Dolphins team mascot. The students are then led into a series of questions that resemble the kind they would actually receive on the test. Upon completing the test successfully, the student receives a certificate of achievement.

The educational software was designed with maximum flexibility to allow for individualized student-teacher interaction. For example, teachers can set the difficulty level of the questions as appropriate for the student. In addition, the instructor can adjust the relative proportions of verbal versus mathematic questions depending on where each individual student needs more practice.

Since the application is on the Internet, the student can take the practice tests at any time and at any location. The program automatically scores the test and keeps the results online for the teacher to review at any time.

One unique twist to this program is that the system comes to the instructor with hundreds of prepared math and verbal questions in it; the subject of the questions is usually information about the Dolphins team and players. Since this content is of more interest to many students than typical textbook questions, they are more enthusiastic about using the software and practicing their skills. Of course, if desired, the instructor can add additional questions to the ones that come with the application.

MVI's web training software wasn't originally designed for kids - but with a little imagination on the part of the Dolphins and a little work on the part of MVI's programmers, the flexible system was quickly adopted into a tool that makes a difference.

November 2002

Hollywood Greyhound Track hires MVI to manage it's website operations. The new site will feature live racing cams and links to off-track betting. The site features a content management feature, allowing the owners to manage the content of their site any time via a web browser, without needing to know HTML.

July 2002

MVI adds a sales lead management feature to its popular CRM software - companies now have the ability to track a customer from the time they are a prospect throughout their customer life.

April 2002

MVI announces that it will be upgrading all of its Linux hosting customers from Sun servers to IBM hardware. IBM's embrace of embrace of Linux as a future growth strategy makes it a superior choice for MVI's customers. The move creates a 100% IBM and Cisco environment for our hosting operations, providing an advantage over companies using more generic systems.

December 2001

MVI begins work on EASE software for Simpedia Networks. The software will allow college career center offices to manage their entire operations online, and easily connect students with employers.
November 2001

MVI expands into small-midsize CRM market with the launch of its TicketSystem product. The system allows companies to increase their productivity by easily tracking work requests and the dissemination of important information, and allows on-line accounting via integration with Quick Books and other popular accounting software.

July 2001

MVI Contracted with Subway Inc. to build an online and CD training program as their Technology Partner.

May 2001

MVI signed a contract to build a spider to collect data from 35 newspapers classified sections.

February 2001

MVI creates smart-planner.com opening the newest state-of-the-art corporate digital information system.

January 2001

Site4listing.com opens with the capabilities to allow web sites to post changes to their web site with minimal training

December 2000

MVI unveils Ecampusrecruiter.com, a state-of-the-art employment site.

MVI Releases Newest CRM December 2000
Mediavue announces then newest CRM Web enabled application is being released and sold under the name of CMS. This system was developed to handle support, tickets, customer information, financial information, invoicing, billing, memorized monthly transactions, calendar functions, communication tool and business efficiency system.

October 2000

Time Publishing chooses MVI to provide hosting solution for This Old House Magazine.

August 2000

Plantcare.com featured in Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. Plantcare.com, largest Internet database of house plants, launched.