Making Minority Attorneys Visible for Support Organization
The client provides support for minority and woman attorneys and informs organizations seeking outside counsel of the resources they provide. The organization holds an Annual Conference, at which organizations can meet with members and attend seminars.
The client wanted to publish information about its members on the Internet and allow visitors to find individual members with a simple but powerful search function using various criteria. The Web site needed to utilize an existing database of member information and make this information available to the public well in advance of the Annual Conference.
Catapult defined and implemented an Internet member search function using the client’s existing architecture, including Microsoft Internet Information Server and Microsoft SQL Server. The key elements of the Internet Member Search solution are:
SQL Server Member Database. Existing member data were exported from a Microsoft Access database to SQL Server.
Member Search. A comprehensive search procedure was built, enabling search functionality for Law Firms, Organizations, or Conference Participants in the Annual Conference. Each search has its own specialized criteria.
Benefits of the Internet Member Search solution include:
Fast searches. Searches return results in less than one second
Decreased demand on staff. The new system reduces the requests for information by telephone, mail and email that the organization’s staff handles, allowing more time for other mission-critical duties and increasing productivity |
Client Profile
The client is an advocacy program for minority and female attorneys. It informs organizations that seek outside counsel of the availability of minority and woman attorneys and holds an Annual Conference for this purpose.
Business Challenge
The client needed to make member information readily available to organizations well in advance of its Annual Conference without having to incur the cost of implementing new technologies that its IT department could not support.
How Catapult Helped
Catapult defined and implemented an Internet member search function using the client’s existing architecture, including Microsoft Internet Information Server and Microsoft SQL Server.
Results
Search functionality allows interested parties quick and easy access to member information
Use of existing technology reduced implementation time and reduced client’s project costs
Stable and easily accessible Web site reduces staff time spent providing member information, thus increasing productivity
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