Case Studies

Macadamian has helped hundreds of companies across a number of industries create successful, award winning software products. Through our software project management, development and design services, we’ve transformed client ideas into market-ready products.

Healthcare

Varian: Apple iPad iOS Mobile Electronic Medical Record application prototype

To explore whether oncologists would benefit from a mobile Electronic Medical Record application, Varian turned to Macadamian's User Experienceand Design teams to develop a prototype

Elsevier: Positions itself as the number one provider of Clinical Decision Support with the help of Macadamian.

By engaging Macadamian’s user research and interaction design services, Elsevier updated and expanded a popular CDS system.

Telus Health: Macadamian helps Telus Health improve the usability of its hospital orders management software

The Macadamian team reached out to doctors and nurses to conduct usability tests on a prototype version of the software.

Cardinal Health: Assess the user interface for a bedside touch screen patient information software application

Cardinal Health engaged Macadamian to assess the user interface for a bedside touch screen patient information software application

MedConnex: MedConnex develops an innovative EMR solution for an attractive and underserved target market

Both SaaS and client-server systems have limitations. Some out of the box thinking resulted in a new hybrid system that gave Medconnex customers the best of both worlds.

Covidien: Port a leading Hospital Information System for US hospitals to a new platform

In a crunch timeframe, Macadamian software experts were brought in to port a leading HIS system to Windows Vista

March Healthcare: Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring Platform

Macadamian's usability team helped March Healthcare develop the interface for a telehealth device

Braebon Medical: Create the data capture and analysis software for Braebon's sleep monitoring product

In order to better concentrate on the hardware design and embedded software of its MediPalm sleep monitoring device, Braebon Medical Corporation engaged Macadamian to develop its software application.

Imasight: Deliver a compelling user experience for disruptive digital x-ray technology

ImaSight had heard how Macadamian Usability's user research and user-centered design could help raise the odds that users would love the product.

DNA Genotek: Macadamian helps bring bottom line results for DNA Genotek

Macadamian helped DNA Genotek redesign its Oragene DNA collection device.

Ioanalytics Corporation: Mass Spectrometer & Temperature Control Device

To extend their market, Ionalytics engaged Macadamian to make its Selectra filter device compatible with the MDS Sciex line of mass spectrometers.

Xmark: Improve A Pediatric Protection System That Keeps Sick Children Safe

Before the next release of their pediatric protection software, Xmark asked Macadamian to conduct a full expert evaluation of its UI

Oncology EHR: Macadamian helps create a mobile Electronic Medical Record application prototype for the Apple iPad

Macadamian helps publicly traded oncology and x-ray systems company create a mobile Electronic Medical Record application prototype for the Apple iPad.

Consumer Software

Winzip: Working with Macadamian’s software development experts, WinZip successfully introduced WinZip Mac Edition – a powerful Mac OS X version.

Working with Macadamian’s software development experts, WinZip successfully introduced WinZip Mac Edition – a powerful Mac OS X version.

Cisco Systems: Macadamian helps Cisco reach new user base and develops Flipshare Mobile for Android and Blackberry

The FlipShare Mobile application allows users to access and stream their content while on the go, as well as upload video taken from their smartphone and share it with friends.

Bittorrent: BitTorrent Expands Product Reach with the help of Macadamian

Macadamian helps BitTorrent offer popular uTorrent file sharing client to Mac OS X users.

Ecobee: Touch screen thermostat usability sets new bar with the help of Macadamian

Macadamian helps green innovator create the first full-color, touch screen home thermostat.

Kobo: Macadamian offers mobile UI engineering expertise for Kobo eReader

Kobo’s goal was to release an e-book reader with a highly intuitive user experience that would stand out from its competitors.

Corel: Help Corel be first to market on the latest version of Windows

There is enormous buzz to be gained by being the first to market on a new platform, and it's not without technical challenges.. Here's how we overcame them to help Corel share the stage with Microsoft

USGA: Macadamian makes the rules of golf more portable with a mobile app for Android and Blackberry

Macadamian makes the rules of golf more portable with a mobile app for Android and Blackberry

LASIK MD: LASIK MD Develops Intuitive, Best-in-Class Website with Macadamian

Before launching its new website, LASIK MD, Canada’s only national provider of laser vision correction turned to Macadamian for usability advice.

BI and Analytics

IBM: Web Services-enable Cognos Business Intelligence Platform

IBM engaged Macadamian to build the Web Services SDK for its Next Generation Business Intelligence Software

AFS Technologies: Create a SaaS Business Intelligence Product

Our core value of transparency was what convinced AFS Technologies to trust us with creating their flagship SaaS product.

Enterprise Software

Microsoft: Create an abstraction layer to run .NET on BSD

Macadamian helped Microsoft and Corel build an abstraction layer that let users run the core .NET framework on FreeBSD

Hewlett Packard: Quicklook 3

To help differentiate HP notebooks from the competition, we helped create an application that let users instantly view their Outlook email, contacts, tasks, and calendar without booting Windows.

Adobe: Improve performance of leading Enterprise Document software and add Section 508-compliant accessibility features

This company needed a team that could improve the enterprise software's performance and add Section 508-compliance in an application based on ATL and C++ templates.

Ariba: Connect BPM Strategic Sourcing With Adobe PDF LiveCycle

Macadamian helped Ariba connect its Enterprise Software business process management (BPM) software with a new and undocumented enterprise software API

EMC Documentum: Information Architecture Records Management System

the Documentum team was struggling to balance the sophistication of the feature set with the need for a clean, simple and easy to use interface.

Entrust: Development of a secure web services API

To rapidly prototype, and then develop the front-end interface to meet a lead customer's deadlines, Entrust needed a team of developers with expertise in web services and Java.

Datacert: Findings from Macadamian user interviews and usability tests are the foundation of a new technology platform for enterprise legal management.

Findings from Macadamian user interviews and usability tests are the foundation of a new technology platform for enterprise legal management.

Quest Software: Port application management software to Java and the web

Quest wanted to create a Java version of DM Administrator, but recognized that its development team did not have the necessary experience with the Java language to create what they wanted.

Check Point: Plug Enterprise Rights Management Server Into Microsoft Sharepoint Server

Only two companies have ever tried what you're doing. The other one gave up. When Microsoft Technical Support tells you that, you know you are working on something special.

Borland: Port the Kylix IDE from Windows to Linux

Macadamian helped Borland and Codeweavers port Kylix to Linux in record time using the Wine porting layer

Enterprise Communications

Juniper Networks: Macadamian Leverages Junos SDK to Develop Innovative VoIP Recorder for Juniper Networks Partners

Macadamian rapidly develops a new call recording application for VoIP providers

Avaya: User Interface Design for VOIP phone

Macadamian created a model for Avaya's Telephony User Interface (TUI) that could be applied to different telephone sets while maintaining a common user experience.

Genband: Create a SIP Multimedia Videoconferencing and VoIP Client

With release deadlines looming, Genband realized that the Java client for its telephony application had become overly complex to maintain and no longer provided the instant performance required.

Mitel: Mentor an IP telephony development team

Mitel wanted to take advantage of the Microsoft COM (Component Object Model) architecture in their Voice-over-IP-Telephony call control engine.

Finance

Bank of Nova Scotia: Develop an RRSP calculator desktop application

The Bank of Nova Scotia wanted to help customers with their retirement investment decisions by giving personal banking representatives a tool to instantly calculate the investment required.

Bank of Montreal: Develop a Web-based help desk application

Emfisys, the IT division of Bank of Montreal, wanted to tailor their issue tracking system to make it more responsive to the needs of the Help Desk support team.