We are proud to deliver and manage innovative software applications that drive Southeast Michigan businesses.  Here's a small sampling of our work along with comments from our valued customers:

Supply Chain Portal

Chris Gallup, CFO of Ideation, an Ann Arbor-based catalog and marketing company, contacted us in search a better services to the company's network of over 500 independent retailers and more than 100 product vendors nationally. Chris explained that outdated, hard-to-integrate applications made it difficult and expensive to fulfill orders for Ideation's wide array of unique catalog items.

In less than 6 months, our development team replaced Ideation's legacy order fulfillment application with a custom Rackspace®hosted solution built with Python, Django, PostgreSQL, and Jasper Reports. The new solution includes an ordering portal for retail store owners, a web-based administrative management interface, and a range of analytics and reports available to Ideation managers.

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"Information Works has provided us with outstanding service. They are always friendly and courteous and very easy to work with to help us solve the IT problems we have presented. Recently, they helped us develop a new order entry application to replace the old and outdated application we were using. They were able to provide us with a solution that meets our current needs as well as our budget. I would recommend them to anyone who is looking for a reliable and trustworthy application vendor.”

Chris Gallup, Chief Financial Officer – Ideation Inc., Ann Arbor

Service Equipment E-Catalog
Cheryl Baron, President/CEO of The Word Baron in Farmington Hills, produces automotive service equipment catalogs in both print and electronic formats. With the need to turn around simultaneous print and web versions within very tight deadlines, Cheryl asked us to develop a solution to meet a unique mix of content management requirements.

Working with the Word Baron's creative staff and the Drupal web content management platform, we developed a web-based process enabling the simultaneous publishing of the service equipment catalog in print and web formats, giving Cheryl's client a unique competitive advantage.

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“We have used Information Works as our application development company for over 20 years. Their experience and expertise with application software has created seamless projects for my customers. Attention to details is indeed one of their strengths. Our success has convinced me that we’ve partnered with the right company.”

Cheryl Baron, President – The Word Baron, Farmington Hills

myloaninfo.com ®
McDonald Computer Corporation, located in Southfield, is the longest operating privately owned mortgage service software company in the United States.  In 2008, McDonald announced the release of a completely redesigned myloaninfo.com, a hosted service that integrates into the websites of McDonald's client loan institutions and provides a full range of mortgage customer service capabilities.  The multi-tenant architecture of myloaninfo.com enables rapid implementation of new client programs through the application's administrative interface.

McDonald Computer Corporation engaged us to complete all aspects of software development for myloaninfo.com, including the design of the PostgreSQL database, coding of Python/Django modules, and integration with a legacy COBOL back-end systems.  In addition to development, we also assisted with the government certification of McDonald's data systems. 

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"Information Works has my highest recommendation for assisting us in the development of our software. They have the solutions and ideas that we could not find with any other developer.  When it comes to software development, Information Works is a five star performer."

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