With any online campaign, project or application, you need to right tools to manage, update and control your online activities. Here's some of the tools we use...
Gruden offers a comprehensive range of content, campaign, newsletter, asset & digital management Systems & tools for any type of project. The following are a number of common management systems and platforms we use for the delivery of our projects.
Adobe® AIR™ offers an exciting new way to engage customers with innovative, branded desktop applications, without requiring changes to existing technology, people, or processes.
Adobe® AIR™ lets us use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems. AIR™ is useful for not only business applications, but branded marketing objectives that boost productivity, extend your market reach, enhance customer satisfaction, improve customer retention, lower costs, and increase profits.
To learn more about Adobe® AIR™, get in touch with us or visit the Adobe® website for more information on AIR™.
Adobe® LiveCycle® ES (Enterprise Suite) software is an integrated J2EE server solution that blends electronic forms, process management, document security, and document generation to help create and deliver rich & engaging applications that reduce paperwork, accelerate decision-making, and help ensure regulatory compliance.
In today's hyper-competitive global marketplace, businesses are looking to strengthen their brands, differentiate themselves from competitors, and build stronger loyalty and customer satisfaction - With Adobe® LiveCycle® ES this and more is now possible.
Adobe® LiveCycle® ES automates the creation and generation of all forms of correspondence, from high-volume, batch-processed statements and bills, to ad hoc communications and personalized promotional offers.
To learn more about Adobe® LiveCycle® ES, get in touch with us or visit the Adobe® website for more information on LiveCycle® ES.
Flex® allows us to design & build highly interactive, expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and operating systems. It provides an intuitive set of new controls that are not typically available in other technologies - it essentially delivers a more engaging experience for users.
With Flex®, the ability to deliver rich engaging experiences is now possible for business, marketing and branding of your online applications or campaigns.
Businesses can benefit through a higher completion rate for form based applications & sign up processes, rich real-time data visualization dashboards, as well as providing a reduction in the development & ongoing maintenance costs of your web applications.
To learn more about Adobe® Flex®, get in touch with us or visit the Adobe® website for more information on Flex®.
Our flagship CMS is the ShadoCMS Content Management System. ShadoCMS is a stable and versatile CMS and web application framework for Intranet, Extranet and Internet applications that allow you to get up and running quickly and easily.
Developed by Straker Interactive as an Enterprise level Content Management Solution, ShadoCMS provides complete site control incorporating full content management, site architecture, user administration and workflow controls, advanced reporting functionality and an array of additional modules.
The CMS has been developed using the powerful ColdFusion MX technology, which fully utilises the J2EE platform. Being platform & database independent, with and open API, Shado MX allows organisations to tightly integrate with their existing systems.
Tightly integrated into the ShadoCMS is their Flex 2 framework called ZoomFlex, which is used for developing Adobe Flex 2 applications. It simplifies the building of Adobe Flex 2 applications, significantly decreasing development time as well as providing best practice architecture for Flex 2 rich internet application development.
ShadoCMS has been chosen by over 60 companies worldwide and includes local organisations such as, Blacktown Council, Tourism of Queensland, University of Auckland, Fisher & Paykel, Southern Cross Healthcare, and Roy Morgan Research Australia to name a few.
Gruden is the Premiere Partner of ShadoCMS and ZoomFlex in Australia & New Zealand, so please contact us if you have any enquiries about it's capabilities, feature set or how it can enhance and benefit your organisation. Alternately, send us an email at shado@gruden.com to receive an information pack on its complete feature set and case studies of clients who have chosen ShadoCMS & ZoomFlex.
FarCry CMS is a fully flexible and scalable enterprise-class CMS. It is also a fully extensible application framework, and a commercially supported services model. FarCry is an enterprise level CMS built entirely within Adobe ColdFusionMX. FarCry has been employed across hundreds of website development projects across the globe spanning enterprise, corporate, government and small business level organisations.
The use of ColdFusionMX provides significant benefits, not least the integration of the Verity K2 search engine, plus its ability to run on a wide number of web and application server platforms, giving extensive flexibility. In use at 75 of the Fortune 100 companies and at more than 10,000 other companies worldwide, as well as nearly all major branches and agencies of the U.S. Federal government, ColdFusionMX is one of the most widely adopted web technologies. ColdFusionMX allows building and deployment of powerful web applications faster than any other web technology available on the market today.
The FarCry CMS is an open source solution and has no associated license fees. The FarCry CMS and its related core code libraries are distributed under the "Common Public License Version 1.0". To learn more about Farcry get in touch with us or visit the Farcry Website for more information.
Sitecore's Web Content Management System and portal software solutions enable companies to deliver compelling web experiences. Sitecore's award-winning CMS software makes it easy for businesses to create and keep up-to-date, dynamic, full featured Web sites of all types. Sitecore's industry leading flexibility and scalability allows companies to better leverage their content to improve customer experience and drive business growth.
Sitecore is unabashedly Microsoft .NET committed, and leverages design and functionality concepts from the Microsoft Office 2007 user interface, which gives our clients a product easier to build, integrate and use. Our client's solutions can include Web 2.0 functionality such as content tagging, advanced multimedia delivery and integrated social networking features, which makes your website so powerful yet easy to manage that you can concentrate on what's important- connecting with and serving your customers.
To learn more about Sitecore get in touch with us or visit the Sitecore Website for more information on Sitecore CMS.
Gruden designs, develops, implements and manages many software applications for our clients - each running their own special mix of software which can be custom built or developed on out-of-the-box solutions.
Over the years we have fine-tuned our development methodology to successfully deliver many web & client based applications. Ranging from start up ventures, to building upon existing legacy applications, for mission critical government departments & agencies.
Our developers are proficient in many programming languages and continually adopt new technologies to enhance the user experience, functionality and ultimately ensure the application performs to its optimum potential for both business and users alike.
Our Business Analysts ensure that the software application is planned, structured and fully scoped prior to development commencing. This coupled with having our core functions fully work-flowed and wire-framed ensures that each project will adhere to timelines and budget.
Gruden's solutions can cover an array of possible outcomes including:
If you require a new or have an existing application that requires an update or needs to be built, get in contact with us to see what is possible in today's technological landscape.
As the mobile market continues to grow year on year, Gruden offer's a tightly integrated campaign management tool to tie in with your other advertising or marketing concepts.
Whether you are looking for mobile applications, games, competitions or any other type of mobile delivery, come and have chat to us. We've been working in the mobile space since 2000 when we worked with Sony Ericsson to develop the Text Message Championships – delivering a fully integrated campaign.
The following provides an overview of the types of mobile services we offer:
Depending on the services that you require, our management systems offer the required tools to allow you to successfully deliver, track and report on your marketing campaigns.
Our developers are able to develop mobile applications for pretty much any handset available today. Whether this be on the new Flash Lite platform - to delivery rich and engaging mobile experiences, or via the more traditional methods, our platform distributes it to the appropriate handsets in Australia or overseas.
Email & Newsletter management applications are becoming a "must have" for many companies in today's competitive environment. Delivering personalised communication via email has a number of benefits over traditional marketing methods namely; speed, cost and ease of use.
Deliverance has been developed over the years to provide our clients with a robust and powerful email and newsletter marketing tool. It's known for its simplicity, its powerful features, and competitive pricing structures.
Deliverance can increase your company's exposure, open new markets, and reduce overall marketing costs. It provides organisations with an opportunity to send promotions, press releases and monthly newsletters to clients and potential customers in a visually pleasing and accessible format.
Benefits of Deliverance:
Gruden has excellent relationships with a number of software distributors within Australia and New Zealand. Should you require any box software such as any Adobe applications, operating systems, Microsoft Office, Outlook, Exchange, Virus protection & intrusion etc – get in contact with us to see our great prices and how much $$ we can save you!
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