Case Studies: E-Commerce

Saturn Systems was contracted to design and develop a web solution to provide fundraising services to non-profit organizations and their event participants. The purpose of the system was to allow online registration for charitable events, and offer a user-friendly, yet versatile means for fundraisers to create a personalized web site for collecting and reporting ongoing donations. To do this effectively, the system had to allow for quick and easy fundraiser registration and dynamic personalized web site, while preserving consistent organization branding. Integration with existing payment transaction software and an online and desktop fundraising tracking application were also key requirements. The resulting system was built and deployed successfully and has been instrumental in raising tens of millions of dollars for charity purposes.

This case study provides a good example of a small project that made a big difference for a customer. A brick and mortar lighting business branching into e-commerce had a cumbersome process of receiving and appropriately processing thousands of images of vendor products for display on their web site. Each image could arrive in a variety of formats and had to be cleanly processed into various resolutions and placed in appropriate folders. Recognizing the project as fairly straightforward, Saturn Systems assigned it to the intern staff in order to keep costs low. The resulting application was one that anyone on the customer staff could now run without needing great technical skills. The owner’s comments on completion were, “Everybody is happy with your product, we love your work!”