Major League Baseball/Office of the Commissioner
Industry Meetings Portal
Client Overview
It may be the national pastime, but Major League Baseball
(MLB) is a big business. MLB runs the game of professional
baseball and oversees 30 franchises in 28 cities. The
league sets official rules, regulates team ownership, and
collects licensing fees for merchandise.
Client Objective
Major League Baseball holds industry meetings twice a
year at an off-site location for all teams, sports media and
management executives to educate and grow the business
of baseball. The meetings require tremendous planning
and effort from a logistics perspective. Major League
Baseball asked Glyphic to present a portal based system
to handle all aspects of registration, housing, transportation,
workshop facilitation, session registration and breakout
session registration.
Glyphic Solution
Glyphic designed and developed a series of custom portlets
displayed on the Industry Meeting Portal to address
Major League Baseballā??s needs.
The Industry Meetings Portal is comprised of five main portlets:
- Industry Meetings Agenda
- Industry Meetings My Sessions
- Industry Meetings Attendee List
- Industry Meetings Email Notification
- Industry Meetings Self Care
Industry Meetings Agenda
This portlet allows the Industry Meeting Administrators to
add/edit/delete MLB events that have been added to the
agenda. The Administrator can load a proposed schedule
and then refine as the agenda is finalized enabling MLB to revise
and propose any number of schedules and events.
The portlet also enables time blocks to be added and deleted under each event. Each session is given a session number which is displayed along with the session title in the Industry Meetings My Sessions portlet. When an administrator selects any event, all the time blocks under that event are displayed in the selection menu using AJAX technology.
Tools/Technologies
WebSphere Portal Server 6.0, WebSphere Application Server
6.0, Rational Application Developer 7.0, DB 2, iSeries,
JSTL , AJAX, Servlets, JSP.
Industry Meetings My Sessions
This portlet allows MLB to list each registrant or users to
view their individual schedule, sessions registered, times
the sessions start and materials for each session. This
portlet also allows users to view what sessions they have
already signed up for and make changes to their personal
registration of sessions. The breakout sessions are sorted
by their timeslot and session numbers. The attendees can
download and print out there materials for each session at
this time.
Tools/Technologies
WebSphere Portal Server 6.0, WebSphere Application Server
6.0, Rational Application Developer 7.0, DB 2, iSeries,
JSTL , AJAX, Servlets, JSP.
Industry Meetings Attendee List
This application was created to display the list of attendees
who have registered for the Industry Meetings event.
This application enables MLB to understand who is attending
which events and sessions. The list can be printed out
and exported into an Excel sheet for further analysis allowing
the Office of the Commissioner to understand where
the teams and media feel further attention is needed and
recognize potential trends in the marketplace. The list of
users who register for the Industry Meetings groups are
categorized as Industry Meetings Attendees after their
registration request has been approved. Industry Meetings
group and all the users under it is also stored in the LDA P
to allow the application to retrieve all the Industry Meeting
attendees from the LDA P and displays some of their
attributes like Last Name, First Name, Club Name, Title.
Tools/Technologies
WebSphere Portal Server 6.0, WebSphere Application Server
6.0, Rational Application Developer 7.0, Tivoli Directory
Server, JSTL , PUMA SPI, Servlets, JSP.
Industry Meetings Events Email Notification
This portlet was created to handle session changes and
cancelations. In cases where sessions or venues change,
the Industry Meetings administrators need to inform the
registered attendees who have signed up for that particular
session about the time/venue change. Glyphic designed
this application to send an email to attendees of an event.
This portlet was developed to optimize attendeesā?? time
while at the meetings and reduce frustration of trying to
locate the correct meeting room. Glyphic utilized
AJAX to get the list of all sessions for a particular event.
Individual or multiple sessions can be selected to get the
email ids of the attendees of those sessions. Email can be
sent using Outlook Express.
Tools/Technologies
WebSphere Portal Server 6.0, WebSphere Application Server
6.0, Rational Application Developer 7.0, DB 2, iSeries, JSTL ,
AJAX, Servlets, JSP.
Industry Meetings Self Care
This application allows users to change their password and
last name. Glyphic customized this application so that the
other user attributes like job title, organization, mobile
number etc can be changed using this portlet as well. The
original selfcare.war was deployed to the Industry Meetings
Portal where Glyphic modified the JSPS using Rational Application
Developer 7.0. Glyphic then redeployed the .war files
after the changes were made.
Tools/Technologies
WebSphere Portal Server 6.0, WebSphere Application Server
6.0, Rational Application Developer 7.0, JSTL PUMA SPI, JSP.
Testimonial
"Glyphic are consummate professionals. They expect perfection
from themselves and their employees. They are fiercely
loyal to their customers and always put the clients best
interests first. Devra, and her staff, have been a pleasure to
work with." — Major League Baseball
One of the keys to our success is the trusted advisor relationships we build with our clients. Our customers have come to rely on Glyphic to:
> Provide strategic road maps for their specific environment. A Road Map is compiled with
information Glyphic has garnered by closely
working in their environment with their
technical staff.
> Provide focused briefings and technical data to various levels in the organization while avoiding inundating clients in a sea of irrelevant information and data.
> Educate clients on the latest vendor information and market trends involving their systems.
> Help decipher the vendor maze.
> Provide expertise for faster, more successful absorption of software.
Glyphic works through and cleans up the details that all too often have the propensity to fall through the cracks; in short, Glyphic provides highly personalized service that is second to none.
> Provide focused briefings and technical data to various levels in the organization while avoiding inundating clients in a sea of irrelevant information and data.
> Educate clients on the latest vendor information and market trends involving their systems.
> Help decipher the vendor maze.
> Provide expertise for faster, more successful absorption of software.
Glyphic works through and cleans up the details that all too often have the propensity to fall through the cracks; in short, Glyphic provides highly personalized service that is second to none.
