Black Slate’s Consulting Services Support Your Industry From Front to Back!

Understanding the Healthcare & MedTech industry is one thing. Understanding the technology you currently use and the updates you should consider is another.

Understanding the Legal Services industry is one thing. Understanding the technology you currently use and the updates you should consider is another.

Black Slate was asked to resolve critical bugs and add important new features to tax preparation and an advanced loan software application.

A leading national home improvement retail chain needed an Inventory Controller application that works on a standard Android tablet.

A multi-billion dollar energy and agricultural company required a new Grower Experience Portal (GEP) so that farmers and co-ops could monitor their commodities contracts.

Leading renewable energy companies was in need of an upgrade to their custom-assembled forecasting platform that predicts future maintenance in order to reduce downtime and costs while optimizing the energy grid layout.

Understanding the nonprofit organizations industry is one thing. Understanding the technology you currently use and the updates you should consider is another.

Innovative electrical design and manufacturing company’s lighting toolkit concept turned into reality, letting customers operate, troubleshoot, and schedule landscape lighting operations through the phone. Black Slate’s mobile development team was chosen to partner with them on this exciting next step in their product development and bring it to reality.

A U.S. Department of Energy contractor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), asked Black Slate to build an application that can analyze factory efficiency and calculate the time it would take for improvements to pay for themselves. As a result, advanced manufacturing operations across the country can use this application to calculate pump, heating, fan, steam, and other efficiencies from a single, open-source tool.

The customer’s products were falling behind due to technology enhancements that their competition added to their products. To keep up with their competitors, the client needed to update their management system. They were using an outdated GUI (Graphical User Interface) that did not offer their customers the user experience and functionality they desired.

A leading financial services company and mortgage lender, with year-over-year growth exceeding 400%, needed to ensure their expanding IT department and development teams were using Agile as efficiently as possible with the day-to-day demands of hyper expansion. To make sure their “We Care” philosophy extended to their employees, they requested Black Slate’s Agile expertise in identifying a short-term roadmap with specific actions to make their Agile Transformation as efficient and productive as possible.

A respected Minnesota-based Federal Government Health Services contractor required .NET and Angular assistance developing proprietary, cutting-edge call center software that would provide health consultation to our veterans. Working remotely alongside the client’s team, Black Slate consultants took on leadership positions for the teams, providing guidance, expertise, and project management.

Throughout its growth, an organization will experience a surplus of data. Over time, performance will decrease due to a combination of a legacy system and excess data growth. This issue hit one of the world’s largest relief and development organizations–one that manages billions in operational funds for providing emergency relief, education, health care, economic development, and justice for those in need globally. The organization operates as a federation of interdependent national offices with three different levels of central control. Black Slate’s job was to help fix the performance issues, solve other problems related to the surplus of data, and optimize the system.

One place that is always in need of technology, now more than ever, is our schools. Our customer, a technology and educational information service leader required an integrated and comprehensive fee management system that allowed parents, students, and districts to pay fees through the web seamlessly while linking multiple applications previously developed by another outside resource.

A Minnesota-based multi-million dollar feed company servicing producers throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, Michigan, Missouri, and Illinois, wanted to create a modern-day decision-making tool for cattle feeding that would set the standards for the market. The solution included a web application and mobile app for bunk management, ration management, and accounting. The new application is fast and allows feedlots to get answers in real-time.

In collaboration with an IT corporation and a Minnesota State company, Black Slate worked on a large-scale internal web application renovation that included a migration from a legacy mainframe system written in COBOL to a Java-based solution. By using a vast array of technologies, Black Slate’s team accomplished the goals set by the client, leaving them exceptionally pleased with the result. 

Improving productivity is a goal on every company’s to-do list. Black Slate’s team was hired to assist an educational technology collaborative in developing an application that would allow parents to enter student and school choice information online. At the same time, it would also let school administrators track, review, add to, correct, route, and approve student enrollment applications all electronically.

Helping those that genuinely need their help, this State Government Agency ensures that seniors, people with disabilities, children, and others meet their basic needs and have the opportunity to reach their full potential. After determining the requirements for the project, they turned to Black Slate to outline a set of deliverables and a process that would quickly identify barriers impeding productivity.

The client’s primary application environment was Cold Fusion until they had an off-shore vendor deliver a project in .NET. After realizing the work needed to be replaced and expanded for various reasons, the company turned to Black Slate to help build a reliable foundation in .NET and AngularJS that would help them merge existing and future applications. In addition, the client wanted their developers mentored in .NET and AngularJS as the project progressed so they could continue on their own once completed.

Our government agencies require accurate data to comply with extensive reporting requirements. The issue was that the legacy system was not keeping up with needs, and data was not being used to its full potential. Turning to Black Slate to update its legacy data collection system, the team tasked with the project made the reporting process more comfortable and accurate, including a significant update to their dedicated website for job seekers and prospective employers.

A national high-end fitness company requested a user-friendly website that matched the quality of its fitness centers. Specifically, the new site needed to make it easy for prospective members to shop and purchase club memberships via the web. In co-development, Black Slate partnered with the client’s IT department and completed a robust new site capable of meeting all the challenges outlined and continues to engage Black Slate for new IT projects.

National energy and agriculture corporation engaged Black Slate to modernize its technology stack, implement agile, and help make technology decisions for business growth. Our expert Black Slate consultants worked with the client to create new applications and set up a continuous integration and automated deployment framework. 

A large financial organization that issues credit cards engaged Black Slate to help improve the mobile application experience for their customers.  With the help of Black Slate consultants, the client was able to significantly enhance the mobile user experience for over 1.5 million cardholders. Customers can securely view statements, make payments, and change account data, reducing call center volume while increasing customer satisfaction.

A leading mortgage services firm that originates, finances, and services residential mortgages looked to Black Slate to lead a high visibility project. This mortgage services firm turned to Black Slate to move previously hosted and maintained application (SaaS) in-house due to growing expenses and lack of control. This included the development of consumer and B2B portals. In the process, Black Slate moved the application to the cloud for greater security and availability and became a strategic partner. 

Major insurance and financial services company hired Black Slate to help them integrate, update, and operate new systems after an international acquisition. Working with our client’s various development teams, Black Slate spent the past year on multiple independent projects. One of these projects was a credit card insurance repayment system.

Black Slate consultants helped a top global tax & audit consulting firm move from Excel spreadsheets to a proprietary system for storing and updating customer data. The enhanced web application allows the client to operate more efficiently in their competitive market, retaining current customers and attracting new ones with a data-centric design.

A high-precision manufacturing equipment provider engaged Black Slate to help to modernize the human-machine interface for the laser fabrication equipment they sell. The goal was to make using these machines more intuitive and faster than the slow and outdated technologies of the old UI. Black Slate expert consultants first produced a proof of concept that the client could show to their parent company. After the minimum viable product received a warm reception, Black Slate helped implement an entire modern UI using React inside an Electron wrapper for cross-platform availability.