Overview
Sequoyah Technologies was founded August of 1999. We have focused, from the beginning, on providing our customers the best possible services by ensuring that we say what we do and then do what we say.
The original founders were Kurt Green and Hank Haines. In 1999 a lot of work was being done on creating a web presence for companies. With their extensive experience in enterprise systems and large database implementations, the founders believed that Sequoyah Technologies could help companies not only create a web presence, but help them move the back-office data forward to the web securely and reliably.
Case Studies
PointServe, Inc. (1999-2000) in Austin was the first large project of our company. This was a company founded by two NASA scientists that had developed a 'traveling salesman' solution that helped mobile service providers reduce costs and increase revenue by picking better routes for their vehicles. Our job in the process was to get a pilot project up and running while their development team released their 2.0 product. The project did provide that bridge and helped secure the company 55 million dollars of investment.
Prepaid Legal Service (1999-2001) in Ada, Ok. is a multi-level marketing company and we were instrumental in developing their web strategy and releasing their first web products for their associates. This project was our first VERY large scale application and we learned a tremendous amount during this time about how to scale web applications horizontally to increase bandwidth without increasing complexity. The project rolled out a number of products for them: a micro site for each associate that allowed them to manage all of the associates below them; a bulk-emailer that was used to send millions of emails a day; a templating engine that allowed associates to customize their micro-sites. We worked with Pre-paid over a two year period helping them roll out these and other projects. They currently have a staff of 20+ IT professionals and do millions of dollars of business through the Internet.
Farfield Communities (2002) in Little Rock, Ar. is a timeshare company that needed to streamline the system they used to capture sales at time-share conferences. We helped them look through this process and even went so far as to design a cart that held a laptop, printer and forms so that salesman could be organized as they met with customers. The software developed handled new condo sales, customer data collection and approval work-flow.
ABC Financial Services (2003) in Little Rock, Ar. handles health club billing services. This company had a set of systems that they had developed in house to perform customer billing through invoices, credit cards and ACH processing. The company was looking for a way to streamline the collection of contracts at the health club and allow for a drastic reduction of costs in the collection of the billing data. We developed a “Quickbooks for Health Clubs” for them that allows health clubs to run their operations free of charge by signing up for ABC Financial Services' product. The product is unique in that when a new customer signs up for a service at the health club, the information is transferred back to ABC and integrated with their AS/400 billing system without anyone handling it. In addition, any status changes for the customer are transferred back down to the health club so that the club owner knows whether the customer is paid, late on payments, etc. Sequoyah developed the system that ran at the health club and an integration server that ran at ABC to handle the integration to and from their billing system which ran on an AS/400 system.
Alivecity (2002-now) is part of Sequoyah and is a content management system that allows customers from the Internet to create and manage a web site. This is a core product that was used for Century Direct and Vetsource (see below).
Century Direct (2002-now) in Oklahoma City is a product of Century Fitness. This product, at its core, is a centralized e-Commerce catalog that allows many different sites to display it and change it as if it was a local catalog. As an example, any martial arts school can sign up for a Century Direct site and they will receive a working site with relevant content and 1500 Century Fitness martial arts products on their site. The products can then be maintained by excluding products or categories, changing prices or even by creating new products by bundling Century products together. The products can be discounted and even attached to services so that as a school's customers sign up for services, they are presented with products to purchase. When products are ordered, they are fulfilled by Century Fitness and dropped shipped to the web customer without the school having to be involved. So the school is able to keep the profit and get rid of the hassle of eCommerce.
Vetsource (2005 – now) in Portland, Or. is a product just like Century Direct except it handles prescription drugs and is made for the Vet industry. The VetSource product allows a single company, in this case Strategic Pharmaceutical Solutions, Inc.(SPS) to purchase product directly from the Pharma companies and then integrate those products directly into Vet web sites. SPS purchased this line of business from Sequoyah in October of 2007 and can be found at
www.vetsource.net.
Williams Communications (2004) in Tulsa needed a way of broadcasting internal meetings to employees across the world. We developed a product that would allow a video feed and a presentation to be pushed to every employee's desktop during company wide meetings. Although I believe this product has since been replaced with newer technology, it was used by the CEO of the company and other high level executives for company wide meetings for some time.
InternetYellowPages.com (2006 – now) in Tulsa has a number of products that were developed or enhanced by us.
- NtheBook (www.nthebook.com) is a product to handle personal Internet repretation.
- Business Profiles (profiles.internetyellowpages.com) is a product that allows a business to put a indexable and distributed profile online.
- InternetYellowPage (www.internetyellowpages.com) is a product that provided business listings and advertising.
- NationalHallOfRecords (www.nhor.org) is a product that allows family members to create tributes for deceased family.