TandemSeven

PLYMOUTH, MA., January 14, 2010—TandemSeven, a consulting firm that designs, architects and builds world-class business applications and portals, today announced Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a long-time TandemSeven client, has been named in Nielsen Norman Group's Intranet Design Annual for the World’s Ten Best Intranets of 2010.

HHMI partnered with TandemSeven to design and develop the MyHHMI intranet portal. TandemSeven’s team helped HHMI move from a static and outdated site to a modern, clean, dynamic and personalized enterprise portal.

"Providing sensitive information to a wide variety of users, the HHMI intranet uses personalization to restrict access to information and allows customization so the site can reflect users’ own priorities. Shared calendars and project pages make the site an excellent collaborative tool, where employees can share resources, documents, and information necessary to complete day-to-day work," said usability expert Jakob Nielsen, principal of Nielsen Norman Group.

The achievement marks the second time in three years one of TandemSeven's clients has been honored by Nielsen Norman Group. "This accomplishment is a testament to TandemSeven's foundation of design and technology working in tandem to achieve superior user experiences," said Stephen Wyman, TandemSeven's Vice President of Technology. "Having an integrated design and technology team helped keep the designs grounded. Designing not only with end users in mind, but also the technologies that supported the implementation of the designs, was critical to our success.”

To learn more about TandemSeven's work at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, read the case study. For more information about our portal expertise and services, call 508-746-6116.

About TandemSeven
TandemSeven designs, architects and builds world-class business applications and portals. The company specializes in creating usable, intuitive interfaces for complex global applications. Areas of expertise include Portals and Applications; Web and Ecommerce; Connected Devices; and Cloud Applications. TandemSeven’s clients include 1-800-Flowers.com, Bloomberg L.P., Campbell Soup Company, Citi, LeapFrog Enterprises, Orbitz Worldwide and Siemens. Headquartered in the greater Boston area, TandemSeven has delivery capabilities in Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Toronto.

About Nielsen Norman Group
Nielsen Norman Group (http://www.nngroup.com) is a user-experience research firm that advises companies on how to succeed through human-centered design of products and services. NN/g principals Jakob Nielsen, Don Norman and Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini are world-renowned user-experience pioneers who advocated human-centered design and usability long before it became popular to do so. Besides authoring books and evangelizing at NN/g events about user experience, they and others on the NN/g team offer high-level strategic consultation on the usability of websites, consumer products, software designs and anything else that needs to be easy-to-use. Media contact: Darcy Provo, darcy@nngroup.com, 415-871-1831.