Helping Nonprofits to Assist Others Through the Use of Custom ASP.NET Components andDatabase Report Designer
There is great satisfaction in giving back to the community and Brisinger Group, a provider of software and Web site solutions,has found a way to harness their developers’ talents to assist nonprofit organizations. Together with ComponentOne, they are
now able to offer nonprofit organizations solutions to their Web site and internet tool needs.
Business Needs
Brisinger Group needed to produce quality Rich Internet Applications for various nonprofits thatoffered a significant reduction in the cost of development and maintenance time. The goal was toprovide their clients with superior solutions at an affordable price. Brisinger Group’s solutions areprimarily DotNetNuke Portal solutions that range from small e‐commerce sites to large scale
volunteer/employee management systems.
Brisinger Group, Inc. was working on a volunteer/employee management portal for a nonprofit
agency that captured individual and group statistics on the amount of hours spent on projects. They
estimated the development time would be close to 1200 hours. With a limited budget fordevelopment, the Brisinger Group, Inc. needed to find a way to lower the development time, thus
lowering cost, while still providing a quality solution and offering an even better user experience.
In addition, Brisinger Group’s reporting development time was draining their resources. They wereconstantly updating reports and/or creating new reports, coded by hand, due to ever changing
reporting needs.

Cost and Time Savings
with ComponentOne
Development Time 30%
User Interface 50%
Reporting 70%
Overall Support 50%
Source: Robert Collins, President,
Brisinger Group

Solution
Brisinger Group was hand coding all of their AJAX, custom components and reports. They realized their need for a solution thatprovided both high quality and performance based UI components along with a quality reporting solution. After evaluating
several options, Brisinger Group discovered ComponentOne Report Designer and from there expanded into the use of theComponentOne’s ASP.NET controls included in ComponentOne Studio Enterprise.
ComponentOne Studio Enterprise components gave Brisinger Group access to 100s of enterprise‐ready components including
grids, charts, reports, schedules, menus, toolbars, editors, and more. This component suite provided Brisinger Group everything
they needed to offer a high quality RIA experience via scalable and performance optimized sites, at a development cost savingsof 30%. “We have used just about every ASP.NET and WinForms control included in ComponentOne Studio Enterprise. The ones
that we use most often and would have spent a small fortune to develop ourselves would be the C1Splitter, C1Tab, C1Schedule,
C1Menus, and the advanced grids,” said Robert Collins, President at Brisinger Group.
“ComponentOne is the only solution that provided both high quality and performance optimized UI components along with aworld‐class reporting solution,” stated Robert Collins. “Specifically, we were looking for advanced controls that were already
AJAX enabled out of the box and still performed when it came to high traffic situations. ComponentOne offered us just that. We
also needed a high quality reporting solution that allows organizations to create and maintain reports without the guidance ofour developers. Again, ComponentOne offered us that exactly.”
Benefits
Brisinger Group was able to reduce the average time to develop a volunteer/employee management site from 1200 hours to900 hours by using ComponentOne controls. “It is obvious ComponentOne rigorously tests and robustly builds their controls
with many scenarios in mind. Prior to using ComponentOne’s controls, we encountered bugs and controls that did not address
our needs,” said Collins. “Rather than building our own controls that are very targeted, we now use ComponentOne controlsthat have been tested for many situations and thus they do not have the issues we have seen from our home grown controls.
We have seen our support costs reduce by 50% since using ComponentOne’s controls.”

“The components are AJAX enabled plus responsive and the reporting system is amazing. It is like the large reporting tools inpower, but much simpler to use and with licensing that doesn’t break the bank,” said Collins. “We evaluated other offerings,
but chose ComponentOne because of the time savings discovered with ComponentOne’s reporting tool and comprehensivecomponent suite.”With the ComponentOne Report Designer, Brisinger Group was able to relinquish control of the reporting task to the nonprofit
directly, allowing them to quickly and easily create the exact reports they needed. “This was all done without giving up anyquality; rather our solutions are far nicer than ever before,” said Collins. “The reporting system is such a notable difference as
far as components and software solution offerings; our clients have never been happier with what we offer.”“Given ComponentOne offers extremely beautifully themed controls, we have not had to spend time developing a sleek UI. We
know that ComponentOne controls look great out of the box and if we do have to re‐theme, they offer a well documented setof classes we can use and tools that help us quickly make these changes,” said Collins.

“My recommendation is to get ComponentOne Studio Enterprise and ComponentOne Report
Designer before you even start your first line of code or architectural document,”‐Robert Collins, President

Client Feedback“The solution we were able to develop with ComponentOne products supports up to thousands of total users with hundreds ofconcurrent users. The solutions serve not only the nonprofit organizations but their end users, volunteers, employees andclients. With the ComponentOne subscription model, every time they release a new version we are able to take ourapplications even further and our clients sing praises,” said Collins.
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