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February 2008
Intellicare chooses Synaptic to design and implement their Lotus Domino-based Workforce Management System which includes a sophisticated vacation accrual and time off tracking system.
January 2008
Come see us at Lotusphere 2008. Synaptic Senior Developer Don Mottolo will be demonstrating Domino 8 Composite Applications. Synaptic developed a proof-of-concept Notes 8 composite application for company executives.  They spend their day working primarily in Lotus Notes email, but access sales data - reluctantly using a green screen to JD Edwards / DB2.   Our solution clears their desktops, allowing them to work in one combined workspace, plus adds dynamic charting via a web component.  
January 2007
Come and meet Synaptic Senior Developer Don Mottolo at Lotusphere 2007. Don will be leading the session "Straight from the Trenches: The Developer Tip Exchange"
December 2006
Synaptic completed another banner year with over 10 new clients added to our base along with 2 new partnerships. This year was also our 10th anniversary year. We are proud that many of our clients have been with us for almost that long - proving that our approach to understanding our clients' business as well as their technology is a long-term winning strategy!
July 2005
Tomax Technologies chooses Synaptic to install and configure multiple Red Hat Linux machines into a Domino server cluster.  The company will be hosting interactive Domino solutions for their end client from their Salt Lake City facility.
June 2005
Beacon Capital Partners chooses Synaptic to develop a customized Call Log application to interface Lotus Notes databases with RIM Blackberry handheld devices.
April 2005
Polar Beverages chooses Synaptic to design and develop a Promotional Messages application using Lotus Domino R6.5. This application provides the marketing staff at Polar Beverages a vehicle for creating and distributing special product promotions to their distributors, via email, web pages, and/or faxes.  This application integrates promotion creation workflow, for account managers to create new promotions in the system, with approval, revision editing, and distribution mechanisms for the marketing department.
March 2005
Hinckley, Allen and Snyder chooses Synaptic to install and configure a Lotus Domino network in order to perform litigation review on thousands of Lotus email messages and gigabytes of information in customized Lotus Notes applications.  Synaptic developed a custom searching and tagging system to facilitate the legal review of these documents.  Thousands of file attachments also needed to go through an optical character recognition (OCR) process to become part of the search index.

This application is the first litigation review program developed specifically for Lotus Notes and Domino databases.

February 2005
Beacon Capital Partners chooses Synaptic to administer their Lotus Domino R6 network and help expand their infrastructure to area offices in Los Angeles, New York and London.  Beacon is a real estate investment firm headquartered in Boston. 
January 2005

Facing History and Ourselves chooses Synaptic to convert an existing website to an IBM/Lotus Domino dynamic application.   Their Race and Membership website contains course materials and interactive web content that examines racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development of the Holocaust and other examples of collective violence, students make the essential connection between history and the moral choices they confront in their own lives.  The Race and Membership online module explores many of the questions raised in their resource book: Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement.

December 2004
Fresenius Medical Care chooses Synaptic to design, develop and deploy a Insurance Card Scanning application using Lotus Domino R6.5. This application will interface with card scanners to securely create images of health insurance cards and feed them into a Lotus Notes database.  Fresenius Medical Care is a vertically integrated company that operates the nation’s largest network of dialysis clinics and is a leading manufacturer of dialysis products.
March 2004
Harvard University School of Public Health chooses Synaptic to convert their entire messaging infrastructure into a Domino-based network.  For an organization with medical researchers spread out all across the globe, a reliable, world-class messaging system is essential for their communications.  
February 2004
MicroTrain Technologies of Chicago chooses Synaptic to design and teach three courses based on Lotus QuickPlace (Lotus Team Workplace) technology for MPC Products Corporation.  MPC is a manufacturer of high performance electromechanical motion control systems primarily for aerospace applications.   Lotus QuickPlace allows MPC’s engineers a fast, efficient platform for sharing and distributing information within their many project teams.
January 2004
Facing History and Ourselves chooses Synaptic to convert an existing website to an IBM/Lotus Domino dynamic application.   Their Memory, History & Memorials website contains a rich collection of text, articles, images and web links that bring to life the role that monuments play in promoting historical memory.   Unfortunately, it was difficult to update and maintain content on the site.   The solution was to convert it into a database-driven website with a simple user interface for adding and updating the content.
October 2003
Sennheiser USA chooses Synaptic to streamline their internal business processes using Domino for collaborative applications.   Forms are now routed properly from department to department automatically, reducing the amount of basic form distribution work, which allows employees to contribute to more productive tasks.  Sennheiser produces top-quality sound recording products and are particularly well known for their microphones and headphones.
September 2003
EuroRSCG chooses Synaptic’s security service to find and remove threats to their Domino-based network.  Synaptic’s expertise in the ExtraComm SecurTrac product as well as application development plays a key role in hardening their network infrastructure.
July 2003
Facing History and Ourselves chooses Synaptic to develop a web-based distance learning system for their instructor-led workshops.  Up until now, Facing History and Ourselves has presented these workshops in a classroom, face-to-face setting all over the U.S., as well as internationally.  To extend their reach and impact, it was a logical move to use web technology to present these workshops, allowing them to reach more people.   The Online Workshop is a self-service application that consists of a general template containing the workshop instructional materials, resources, and discussion areas.    Facing History instructors use the template as the starting point for their workshop, selecting existing chapters and lessons, adding their own custom materials and writings, inviting attendees and providing them login information.
June 2003
Computer Sciences Corporation and the Volpe National Transportation Center choose Synaptic to provide application development expertise for a new project for the Federal Aviation Administration.  Using the strengths of IBM/Lotus Domino, Java, and XML this web-based system will provide federal aviation inspectors with a portable repository of reference and regulatory documentation that is tailored to deliver the exact information needed for each of the different FAA inspector job roles.  With the vast volumes of government regulations contained in a multitude of document sources, web sites, and databases, this application mines the content so that it can be accessed immediately and efficiently by inspectors.
March 2003
Synaptic Communications has completed two major Lotus Domino version 6.x upgrades on both the Windows and IBM iSeries (AS/400) platforms.
February 2003
LeodasSolymar chooses Synaptic Communications to develop  customizations to ACT! for Notes in order to create a competitive advantage in the retained executive search industry.
May 2002

Synaptic Communications and Extracomm Technologies demonstrated services and solutions for Lotus Domino at The VIEW magazine's ADMIN2002 conference in Boston. Attendees saw demonstrations of ExtraFax and SecurTrac products from Extracomm, plus Synaptic's new Security Check For Lotus Domino security auditing service.

March 2002

Synaptic now offers a new service to our clients: the Security Check For Lotus Domino security auditing service. Our security experts partner with your organization's IT department to provide the highest level of protection possible without having your own dedicated, internal security team.

November 2001

The Learning Network chooses Synaptic to update and develop several Domino databases in their network. The Learning Network is an online consumer network of the world's best learning and information resources, personalized to help parents, teachers, and students of all ages take control of their learning and make it part of their everyday lives.

October 2001

The Analysis Group/Economics retains Synaptic for Lotus Domino infrastructure and application development work. Synaptic will be migrating multiple Domino R5 servers to a single Domino clustered environment as well as developing an intranet portal site.

August 2001

BioValve Technologies, Inc. chooses Synaptic to design and develop their intranet and email network. This fast-growing biotechnology company will be using Domino R5 to manage purchase orders, lab test results and partner communications.

July 2001

The Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers chooses Synaptic to design and develop an extranet to facilitate communications between minority applicants and graduate degree programs. Founded in 1990, the IRT recruits outstanding African-American, Latino and Native-American students to pursue master's and doctoral degrees in the arts and sciences, humanities, and social sciences. By doing so, they hope to increase the number of underrepresented faculty at educational levels from secondary schools through universities. Synaptic will develop this application pro-bono.

Cramer Productions chooses Synaptic to design and develop the Cramer Tracker, an extranet application which facilitates communications between Cramer's project teams and their customers.

June 2001

New Tilt and Synaptic form a partnership to provide best practices solutions. New Tilt provides award-winning experience design services to complement our senior-level technical staff and capabilities.

April 2001

Amtrol launches its new website at www.amtrol.com. The site features Amtrol's award-winning catalog of hot water heaters and water system solutions and offers different user experiences to the company's diverse constituents. It includes secure extranets for use by Amtrol business partners and administrators.

February 2001

Keith Haber joins Synaptic's marketing department. Keith will focus on partner relationships and publicity. It's no coincidence; Keith and Andrew are indeed brothers.

January 2001

The Planned Giving Group of New England chooses Synaptic to improve the look and feel and the organization of its web site. PGGNE is an association of over 400 charitable gift planning professionals representing the New England states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

December 2000

Fresenius Medical Care chooses Synaptic to design, develop and deploy a Physicians Directory and Security system. These applications will be based on the Lotus Domino R5 utilizing LDAP directory services. Fresenius Medical Care is a vertically integrated company that operates the nation’s largest network of dialysis clinics and is a leading manufacturer of dialysis products.

November 2000

Britemoon is named the industry's Outstanding Web Site of 2000 by the Web Marketing Association (WMA), an organization devoted to recognizing excellence in corporate Web sites worldwide.

October 2000

Amtrol, Inc. -- an international leader in water heaters and well tanks -- chooses Synaptic to redesign and greatly expand the functionality of their internet site. The Amtrol Web Site will have a business to business (B to B) secured area, as well as a public presence for use by homeowners and contractors.

Chris Campbell joins Synaptic's sales department.

September 2000

Britemoon is named a finalist in the MIMC Awards 2000.

Zentropy Partners chooses Synaptic to create a web-based Project Tracking System. ZP employees can now easily track potential, active and past projects. Generated reports show graphical representations of each project's status.

Although traffic in general and hits from major search engines have increased dramatically since June, Synaptic applies another round of internet search engine methods to draw more new visitors to IT FACTORY's web site.

Maxine Hill -- a Notes R5 Principal CLP with over 12 years of industry experience -- joins Synaptic.

August 2000

Donovan Group, an advertising/design/PR/interactive agency, chooses Synaptic to design and develop their extranet and intranet capabilities to further improve the quality and speed with which they serve their clients.

Synaptic augments State Street's Procurement Management System so that internal employees can now easily locate vendors with which the company has already done business. Employees can rate the vendors; ratings are averaged and presented on the web site to aid other employees in vendor selection.

Britemoon and Synaptic launch Britemoon 2.0, a unique and powerful self-service email marketing application for the web. See the press release.

July 2000

Synaptic creates a web-based Project Tracking System for State Street's large IT department to track hundreds of internal projects. Project managers can create monthly status reports, automatically update projects with the latest budget information, and present senior management with graphical reports using Crystal Reports.

June 2000

Synaptic performs web search engine analysis for IT FACTORY.

May 2000

Britemoon, Inc. chooses Synaptic to create a powerful and innovative self-service email marketing application for the web.

Don Mottolo joins Synaptic as a New Media Developer/Consultant. Don has been in the computer industry for ten years with experience in eCommerce and web site development using Java, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. He is also certified as a Domino R5 CLP Application Developer.

April 2000

Ginsey Industries, Inc. chooses Synaptic to create a Product Catalog extranet with the ability for Ginsey to create a CD of that Product Catalog on demand.

March 2000

Interliant chooses Synaptic Communications to develop an important part of their intranet.

IT Factory chooses Synaptic to develop their web-based publicity campaign; the infrastructure will support a series of contests to promote the ITF.Community.

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