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A New CSW Solutions Blog
Tuesday, May 04, 2010

We are launching a new blog for our company. The blog will have interesting articles for business owners, developers and IT personnel. Check it out!
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We are now a Microsoft Certified Silverlight Expert
Thursday, November 12, 2009

CSW Solutions has been now listed as an offical Microsoft Silverlight Partner. Our company can be found on the "Find an Expert" directory on the Microsoft's website.
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Chicago Small Business Expo
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Small business owner? Come and visit our booth at the Annual Chicago Small Business Expo on July 17th, 2009. For more information about the show...
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The Big Easy 3.0 is back
Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Microsoft is bringing back the Big Easy 3.0 promotion. The promotion allows CSW customers to recieve money back in the form of partner subsidy funds.
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CSW Solutions is now a Microsoft Certifed Partner
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

CSW Solutions is proud to announce that we are now a Microsoft® Certified Partner.

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Sheila Kelley - S Factor Pole Dance Workout

S Factor

S Factor is a company leading the niche fitness industry through the teaching and promotion of the S Factor Pole Dance Workout for women, providing group and individual classes, instructional DVDs, apparel and more. CSW worked with a team of designers that created the perfect website for easy and efficient use by their clientele. Our job was to give life to the student center as well as the class sign-up process. It was a huge challenge because we had to work not only for the client themselves, but side by side with a varied team made up of the current IT staff and the marketing team.

S Factor- Laughing

Website Development - Challenges

The Student Center is the most important part of the website and it utilizes certain features we created specifically to fit together to convey simplicity, facilitate ease of use and to enhance accessibility. We integrated with Authorize.NET for the payment application but also in order to save students’ payment profiles. This was to ensure a high level of security and to enable S Factor to be able to guarantee the safety of the sensitive information of its users.

While the Student Center is the most important part of the website, the sign-up process is the heart of the student center. We developed a unique solution. By working with Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX we were able to deliver a very sophisticated sign-up processes linked to the interactive calendar of classes.

S Factor - Student Center

Delivering the Solution

We used our own components to work the integration with Authorize.NET so that part of the solution was actually very easy to implement. S Factor - Class History

S Factor - Class History

The sign-up process starts with selecting the location to see which classes are scheduled. You'll see a calendar with three possible views (month - default, week and day views). Then just by hovering the mouse above the classes the information will pop up for the class, including the price and relevant teacher photo. Just click the Register button to select the class and proceed to the payment options. It’s that simple!

S Factor - Calendar

Updating the profile information is an easy process: just by re-entering the information all the synchronization for payment with Authorize.NET is performed “under the hood”.

S Factor - Profile Info

We also made the integration with the current back-end system so class waiting lists, payment transactions, referral program and class management were handled without a single change. Utilizing sophisticated technology like ASP .NET and third-party controls we were able to deliver yet another excellent, transparent integration. CSW utilized the knowledge of its senior programmers and extensive experience to make technology work for S factor by streamlining the sign-up and scheduling process for its clients. Now, clients can sail through a stress- and hassle-free registration and enrollment experience providing S factor with a contented client base, efficient management of class size and a streamlined database of new clients.

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