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Booz·Allen & Hamilton (http://www.bah.com) is one of the world's largest management and technology consulting firms. They provide strategy, systems, operations, and technology services to clients on six continents. These clients include most of the largest industrial and service corporations in the world, the departments and agencies of the US federal government, and major institutions and government bodies across the globe. Founded in 1914, Booz·Allen & Hamilton is a private corporation with corporate headquarters in McLean, Virginia. In Fiscal Year 1998, their sales exceeded $1.4 billion, and their staff grew to more than 8,500 members located in over 90 offices around the world. Booz·Allen & Hamilton uses Cold Fusion’s CFML language to provide solutions for some of its diverse clients in its enormous customer base. The firm has deployed Cold Fusion solutions on NT platforms along with MS SQL and Web servers, and has built Cold Fusion solutions for the purpose of administration, reporting, paper mailing, emailing, tracking and data entry. Cold Fusion’s flexible architecture also provides a friendly platform for other software companies to expand the CFML language and interface their applications with Cold Fusion. A project for one of Booz·Allen & Hamilton’s customers provides an example of how Cold Fusion’s flexible architecture and expandable language provides a solution. One of the customer’s requirements
of this project was to have a Cold Fusion application send a fax that contained
dynamic data compiled from databases and entry forms. Cold Fusion
did not come out of the box with the ability to fax, so Booz·Allen
& Hamilton developers referred to the
It was in the Allaire developers’ forum that they discovered a custom tag called CF_FAX. This tag was developed by ProtoNet (http://www.protonet.com), an Allaire Technology Partner, who also develops ProtoFax®, a fax server specifically designed to do Web-based faxing. ProtoNet developed the CF_FAX tag as a native Cold Fusion function, that further expands the CFML language and provides tight integration between Cold Fusion and ProtoFax. Within minutes of installing ProtoFax and the CF_FAX custom tag, Booz·Allen & Hamilton developers were sending faxes from Cold Fusion -- faxes containing data from entry forms and databases. And ProtoNet’s support staff was even able to provide Booz·Allen & Hamilton with some advanced implementation techniques. Kristen Barbour, a Booz·Allen & Hamilton Senior Consultant and Project Manager recalls, “[ProtoNet’s] support is exceptionally helpful and patient.” Cold Fusion and ProtoFax
demonstrate how powerful and flexible products can work together to satisfy
the customer’s requirements.
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