Morton Salt Pro

About the company

Morton Salt, Inc., a Chicago-based company continuing a Morton Salt business dating back to 1848, is North America's authority on salt and a leading producer of salt for grocery, water softening, ice control, agricultural, and industrial uses. Morton introduced the nation to the Morton Umbrella Girl and the now-famous slogan, "When It Rains It Pours" in 1914. Since that time, Morton Salt products have graced the shelves of more homes throughout the country than any other brand of salt.

Challenge

Morton Salt, Inc. approached digi117 to create a mobile application to help snow professionals manage selection and usage of Morton’s complete line of professional ice melting products. The primary goal of the application was to utilize scientific research to identify the optimal Morton ice melter and application rate for specific environmental conditions and surface area. The app would essentially help snow professionals save time by (by recommending products that work faster in given conditions) and save money (by reducing melter over-application).

Result

Based on our client’s requests, digi117’s team of professional developers created the Morton Salt Pro application that takes input on external temperature conditions and surface area to identify the most suitable ice melting product and application rate for the snow professionals’ job. The application allows users to store and track site information and also provides application guidance for “non-optimal” melters in the event the snow professional does not have the app recommended melter available. The application makes it easier for snow professionals to plan for snow events, and helps ensure consumer safety by highlighting application rates and products that most effectively keep sidewalks, driveways and steps clear of ice and snow.

App Features:

- Customizable work site catalog
- Site detail histories including location and area
- Calculator to identify ice melter & quantity required
- Air/ surface temperature logging
- Work site surface area logging
- Product recommendation capability
- Morton Salt ice melting product library

Morton Salt Pro is compatible with iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android devices. It’s a free application available for download on the Apple App Store and Android Market. There is also a desktop calculator tool available at www.mortonmelters.com for stationary use.

Forest Preserve District of Cook County

About the company

The Forest Preserve District of Cook County is the United States’ largest and oldest forest preserve system. Established in 1914, the District’s attractions, programming and services are very diverse and engaging. With Brookfield Zoo, Chicago Botanic Garden, 10 golf courses, four driving ranges, three aquatic centers, 10 sledding hills, five snowmobiling areas, 263 picnic groves, forty lakes and ponds, and 300 miles of paved and unpaved trails for visitors to enjoy, the District is the premier provider of safe, enjoyable, and affordable family fun in northeastern Illinois.

Challenge

Digi117 was approached on behalf of the client in order to utilize our industry leading mobile development team and unique creative strategies to build a versatile mobile application for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. This application would be used to provide users with real-time access to a wide range of location-based services while enjoying The Forest Preserve District of Cook County’s many attractions and public areas.

Result

Digi117’s team of professional developers guided this project from its initial conceptual stage to its final execution. The end result of this work was the creation of The Forest Preserve District of Cook County’s application, in both iOS and BlackBerry compatible variations. The application’s central functionalities include providing users with information about Cook County Forest Preserve District’s many facilities, assets, and events. For user convenience, accessing the application’s vast array of contents is done by navigating and reviewing dynamic, location-based maps, and categorized informational sections.

Though a general search function is included, information can be found via several other inquiry methods as well. These include conducting searches by region, activity, or event, or by selecting any one of the many push-pin icons present on the application’s interactive maps. Data for each location is presented on a separate screen and includes a short description, as well as contact information for the given event or location, driving directions, and photos. Activity and Region search functions allow users to locate specified areas of interest, such as “Hiking”, “Golfing”, “Fishing”, “Nature center”, etc.

Forest Preserve District of Cook County application is compatible with iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Blackberry devices. It is available for download on the Apple App Store and BlackBerry App World.

World Academy Online

About the company

ComboApp is a mobile content publishing and marketing group. From acquiring content to publishing and successful marketing solutions, ComboApp is committed to providing app solutions for emerging mobile technologies and enthusiastic about future expansion within this burgeoning industry. The company has brought over 300 mobile apps to market for every major smart-phone platform including iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry. ComboApp also actively promotes applications for the Mac App Store, Apple's innovative new laptop/desktop app marketplace.

Challenge

As a digital publishing group, ComboApp aims to differentiate itself from conventional publishing companies both in its operations as well as its approach to publishing as a whole. Starting with authored content, we set goal for ourselves: To create complete Learning Systems in the form of mobile applications had the capability to succeed at delivering practical educational solutions across every major mobile platform. These applications were created to assist people in studying professional fields ranging from business to finance. In order to carry out this ambitious and immensely challenging project - “World Academy Online” - ComboApp employed digi117’s professional team. Digi117’s task was to execute a wide range of full-cycle mobile strategies and solutions to connect customers with their education in new and innovative ways.

Result

Digi117’s dedicated efforts helped develop the World Academy Online brand from two independent educational systems created specifically for the mobile marketplace – ComboBook™ and Learning To-Go™.

ComboBook™ represents a revolutionary new system for self-education. This system creates a user-directed, interactive educational system from any content without requiring preexisting flashcards, tests or other study aides. It functions by converting stagnant text into dynamic and interactive education. The basic principle is as follows: students read a section of the text and before proceeding to the next section, they are asked a series of questions that could include various types of tests. These tests include: putting words in the right order, filling in the blanks within a short paragraph, finishing a statement with the proper variation or true/false questions. This learning system utilizes innovative new methods to analyze any authored content and use it as a base to generate spontaneous study tools, ultimately transforming content into and engaging and interactive experience that is suitable for self-educational purposes.

ComboBook Applications Feature:

Outline functionality.
In-app content search.
Page flip animation.
Adaptive test generation capability.
Comprehensive text analysis capability.
Text formatting functionality.

Learning To-Go™ is a single-source learning solution. This is a mobile educational system designed to encourage and enable independent study of original, authored material. Learning To-Go titles are both informative and affordable, providing users with a well-integrated, flexible learning experience which they can utilize on the go from anywhere and at any time. There are three primary categories in these innovative learning systems:

Text- In the form of articles with graphs, tables, formulas, pictures etc.
Flash Cards - Available for every chapter to help learn and test the material
Tests - For every chapter there is a set of questions to test students' retention of material

Combining text, flashcards, and self-tests, each Learning To-Go title creates a completely user-controlled educational experience. The system tracks students’ retention of material and reports back to them with a visual progress chart. Upon completion users will also have a solid understanding of the many important market influences and economic conditions that affect modern business and finance environments. More importantly, they will have gained real-world knowledge to identify and implement the strategies they have learned in order to achieve success in their own careers.

Learning To-Go Applications Feature:

Full course text divided by chapter.
Interactive flashcards for subject review.
Comprehensive chapter level tests.
Explanation of right and wrong answers.
Comprehensive chapter level tests.
A bookmark.
A glossary.
Offline access to material, no internet connection required.

The applications included into these learning systems are compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch and are available for download on the Apple App Store.

Trick Your Ride

About the Company

XL Mobile Applications is an innovative new mobile applications development studio. The organization is focused on creating a diverse array of products for modern consumers that are as practical as they are creative and engaging.

Challenge

The customer contacted digi117 knowing its reputation as a company that provides its clients with full-cycle solutions and strategies aimed to develop high-quality mobile applications and more generally break clients through into the mobile limelight. By employing digi117’s services XL Mobile Applications hoped to achieve two goals. First, to develop a mass-market application that would allow users to customize photos of their cars turning them into real objects of art, and second, to establish themselves as contenders within the mobile arena.

Result

Digi117’s team of professionals took on the challenge and created an entertaining mobile application Trick Your Ride. It is intended for car enthusiasts who wish to playfully overhaul or remodel photos of their vehicles. With this application users are free and welcome to edit car pictures by choosing from over 100 accessories such as wheels, spoilers, exhaust pipes, decals, vents, and many others. The application also allows users to add exotic backgrounds to throw behind their rides taken either straight from the user’s own mobile photo library, or from one or 10 included exotic in-app environments.

To make the creative process even more pleasant Trick Your Ride even provides users with a Music option that includes five custom music tracks they can set and enjoy while constructing their dream machine. Also it is possible to use a song from customer’s own iTunes music library.

Keeping a social angle, Trick Your Ride also allows users to both save the results of their creativity to their image gallery, or upload them directly to Facebook to share with friends.

In regards to this project, digi117 managed to execute the client’s exact wishes and develop an application that is both funny and entertaining, all while establishing the client themselves within the mobile market place.

Trick Your Ride is compatible with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, and is available for download on the Apple App Store.

Enneagram Personality Full Test

About the company

INTERSOG is an international company with an extensive expertise in mobile application development targeted towards a wide range of existing platforms and markets. The company entered the mobile development industry in early 2007 and quickly asserted itself as a leading application developer in this highly competitive environment. INTERSOG currently focuses a majority of its development efforts on applications for iOS devices but also creates projects for Android platforms and provides development services for Windows and Blackberry platforms as well. INTERSOG specializes in complete product life cycles that utilize a partnership approach to client engagements and focuses on emerging technologies for a full range of cutting-edge IT development services and turnkey solutions.

Challenge

The Enneagram Personality Full Test (known as the RHETI) has been independently scientifically validated to accurately identify the unique psychological makeup of an individual’s personality. Over 300,000 Enneagram Personality Full Tests have already been sold around the world in Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. INTERSOG aimed to develop a mobile application that would allow persons interested to take that immensely popular test by means of their mobile devices. In order to make this project a reality INTERSOG turned to its subsidiary digi117, a company most skilled in providing full-cycle strategic marketing and development solutions for creating unique mobile applications and breaking brands, products, and businesses through into the mobile limelight.

Result

Digi117 staff’s efforts culminated in development of the Enneagram Personality Full Test. This application recognizes 9 distinct personality types, the mix of which varies in each individual. In most cases, the Enneagram Personality Full Test reveals the user’s dominant personality type. Furthermore it indicates the relative strengths of the other eight personality types present in their psychological makeup. Results include personality type descriptions, structural patterns, as well as relationship and growth suggestions for each type.

Easily completed in about 40 minutes, the Enneagram Personality Full Test is a convenient tool for individuals as well as businesses and professionals, helping them to increase their insight into themselves or their clients. People around the world have found it exceptionally insightful and useful. Moreover, it is an especially valuable tool for HR professionals, since it allows the user to identify personality traits in existing employees in order to work with them more effectively.

The Enneagram Personality Full Test is compatible with iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android devices. It is available for download on both the Apple App Store as well as the Android Market.

3D Coloring Book for Kids

About the company

Challenge

ComboApp takes pride in being a company that provides a diverse array of mobile applications for different target groups, catering to both adult and child users alike. On this note, one of ComboApp’s continuously expanding mobile projects is the development of a series of kids’ applications that provide both entertainment and hold educational value. This collection of applications – the 3D Coloring Book for Kids collection – would allow children to color an array of differently themed images on their mobile devices, developing their artistic abilities in a dynamic, fun and easily accessible way. Unlike regular coloring apps, ComboApp was driven to create an artistic app that would allow its users the freedom to roam through a 3D canvas and freely color in classic pre-designed figures. Unlike traditional coloring apps that simply mimicked the experience of coloring in pages in a book, ComboApp’s “3D” series would open up a whole virtual world for children to explore and give color to.

To turn this concept into a reality, ComboApp turned to its subsidiary - digi117. This company had a wealth of experience in successfully bringing complex mobile application concepts to fruition.

Result

Digi117’s team of professional developers set about building the framework that would become the basis of ComboApp’s 3D Coloring Book for Kids series. Their efforts culminated in the creation and subsequent successful release of the original 3D Coloring Book for Kids application. As of today the series includes 9 applications, each of which are compatible with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. This application franchise includes:

3D Coloring Book for Kids: Seasons
3D Coloring Book for Kids: Pets
3D Coloring Book for Kids: The Gift
3D Coloring Book for Kids: Fantasy Girls
3D Coloring Book for Kids: World
3D Coloring Book for Kids: Winter
3D Coloring Book for Kids: Christmas
Paint Me 3D: Airplanes
Coloring Mix 3D (includes Winter, Fantasy Girls, Pets and Airplanes themes)

The 3D Coloring Book series found success on the App Store because it offered users something that they hadn’t experienced before. Young artists were given the freedom to explore art and personal expression more deeply than was available in other more typical coloring apps. The series’ pre-drawn 3D outlines of everything from house, girls, pets, and other themes ensure that even the most inexperienced of children can effectively create fluid and beautiful illustrations. As little artists color in various portions of Coloring Book’s canvas, changing hues and shading effects are automatically added to create a realistic three dimensional appearance.

With a remarkably diverse and useful set of features, the 3D Coloring Book series was able to maximize the freedom with which users could color in the virtual objects of their choice. Apps even give users the ability to insert a variety of animations to their newly drawn illustrations.

All above mentioned applications are compatible with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, and are available for download on the Apple App Store.

Hippie Hippo

About the company

Challenge

Paying tribute to those customers who use their mobile devices not only for everyday communication and business matters, but for an entertainment as well, INTERSOG decided to develop a funny and engaging mobile game that would be interesting to people of all ages. With such a goal in mind INTERSOG turned to its subsidiary digi117 – a company with extensive experience in developing unique and attractive mobile applications from scratch – to create a mobile game that was as visually breathtaking as it was engaging and rewarding to play.

Result

Digi117’s team of professional developers took on the challenge of creating Hippie Hippo, guiding the project from its initial conceptual stage to its final execution, producing a vividly rendered arcade style action-strategy game for iOS that could compete at the highest levels of the Apple App Store’s gaming market. Hippie Hippo is an addicting arcade adventure that blends together vibrantly rendered cartoon imagery with fast paced action, and strategically minded gameplay into one entertaining package. Players are thrown into the shoes – or more accurately skates – of Hippie the Hippo as he charges through the arctic pushing every foe off of the ice into the frigid ocean without accidentally skating or being bumped into the water himself. For ease of play, users are provided with descriptions of each level and quick ‘level repeat’ options as well. Frustrated gamers can even unlock levels they can’t beat by simply buying a level pass via in-app purchase.

General game features include:

60 unique and diverse levels
Short level descriptions
Dynamic graphics
Powerful realistic physics engine
Game Score statistics and histories
Opportunity to buy the 1-level passes via in-app purchase.
Original game soundtrack

Hippie Hippo is compatible with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, and is available for download on the Apple App Store.

Strategy

As a full service mobile agency, digi117 will ensure your overall digital strategy is consistent, achievable and aligned with your business goals.

Promotional Campaigns

Successful mobile campaigns are the product of planning and execution. digi117 will assist you with the definition of your mobile campaign whether the goal is maximum downloads, geo-targeted coupon delivery, generating Facebook interaction or maximizing in-app purchases.

Promotional Campaigns include:

Marketing Buzz: Integration/Promotion with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs cross promotions
Viral Marketing: 3D Video, QR Code, NFC
Analytics and Consulting
Mobile Marketing: App Development, Social Gaming, Co-Branding, cross promotions

Custom Mobile Application Development

digi117 has delivered over 500 mobile applications spanning categories from games to productivity apps.

Mobile Application Promotion

With millions of mobile apps available in every conceivable category, breaking through the clutter and noise with your app can be a challenge. digi117 are experts in ensuring your app is easily discovered and makes it to the highest ranking possible in the app store to ensure maximum downloads. We deliver custom app promotion solutions that includes:

Analytics and Consulting
Pre-Launch
Sales/Downloads Generation
Social Media
Media Outreach
Advertising Campaigns
Promotion Design

Community Management

The digi117 team understands the critical importance to manage and integrate all relevant social media channels as a basic requirement for any successful mobile campaign efforts, game launches, or promotional activities in general.

Our campaigns focus on maximizing interaction with your target audience through Social Media channels including Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and various blogs, among others.

Branded Game Development

digi117 provides senior consultants to help you define an approach to the gaming component of your using the following framework:

Achievement – the game engages users through a variety of game mechanics that support keeping score, earning points, earning branded game attributes for themselves and for their social community
Level System –games allow teams and individuals to compete against one another and get ranked to compete within categories such as region, league, community
Social – digi117 always finds a way to include social interaction whether it is teams made up of friends added from Social Media sites such as Facebook, Google+, or other integration points to allow users to notify and interact with their social media contacts

Social Gaming Infrastructure

Through the development of the Zeniz Gaming Network, your gaming solution can now utilize the infrastructure that allows for millions of players to access your game and play simultaneously, while connecting to their social media community. It also allows us to manage the user base and deliver targeted marketing, enhanced gaming functionality and detailed analytics.

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digi117 represents a new breed of digital strategy agency. We are more nimble and technology savvy. We adapt and execute faster. We rely on our experience and leading edge insights to define our approach. We are dedicated to provide our clients with successful campaigns in this tumultuous and transformative era.

We focus on YOU, our customer, and measure our success by the outcomes we deliver, not just the output. The cornerstone of our value is the depth, versatility and commitment of each and every member of the digi117 team. You’ll not find more dedication. You’ll not find more passion.

But you might find you had a lot of fun. Come play with us.

Zeniz is a company dedicated to creating best-in-breed social mobile games. Casino by Zeniz is the company's first major game launch on iPad and iPhone and shortly Android devices. The company expects to expand its portfolio of games in the near future, capitalising on the premise that Zeniz games are always mobile, always social and always have a twist! The company has been created by Digi117 in a joint venture between The United States Playing Card Company a subsidiary of Jarden Corporation.

INTERSOG is a global provider of mobile app and custom web solutions with over 5 years in the mobile apps development space. INTERSOG assists clients in defining their mobile app roadmap supporting the strategic analysis, competitive landscape research, current reusable assets, and primary business drivers. From marketing and promotion to operational efficiencies, INTERSOG delivers mobility solutions that bring unprecedented value in connectivity, availability, platform coverage and user analytics.

DAS is a world class graphics art and gaming studio producing a wide array of graphics, art and video production. DAS takes our client's ideas and transforms them into compelling digital images. Whether animating a game, mobile advertising or designing promotional displays, DAS will always surprise and delight you with their creative brand images and logos. View a sampling of the portfolio of our graphic team here.

ComboApp is a Marketing & PR Agency dedicated towards providing custom app promotion solutions for mobile and web-based application developers. Operating across every major mobile platform the agency provides scalable marketing services that increase products' visibility within the marketplace, throughout social networks, and across web-based media outlets. ComboApp brings together creative talents and market analysis experts to conceptualize and execute everything from mobile-centric press and consumer outreach campaigns to advertising services and app monetization solutions.