In 2004 the Local Search Association (then called the Yellow Pages Association) asked SageKey to build a complex ASP.Net web-based application with the same functionality as their existing desktop application. Both the timeframe and budget for the project were tight.

SageKey put a three-person team on the project and delivered on time and on budget. The application was presented at a national convention a week later to rave reviews.

The web application was built using asp.Net with a SQL Server backend and gives users access to terabytes worth of current and historical Yellow Pages data and files.

Over the years the application has had a lot more functionality added and has gone through several revisions and versions. It now far surpasses the original application in every way.

IRIS ONLINE is a paid subscription service provided by the Local Search Association and access to most of the site requires a password. The entry to the site can be viewed at irisonline.localsearchassociation.org

In 2006 the Local Search Association (then called the Yellow Pages Association) asked SageKey for help in designing a web based application that would merge three separate desktop applications.

Working closely with LSA developers and staff, SageKey Software and the Local Search Association came up with CO-OP ONLINE. The completed project accomplished several objectives.

• A centralized location where CMRs could search for and find information on co-op programs available to their clients.
• A central and easy to maintain place where LSA staff could add and edit co-op program information.
• A repository for authorized images that can be used in Yellow Pages co-op advertising.
• The ability to generate the bi-annual co-op advertisers handbook from the live data.

CO-OP ONLINE is a paid subscription service provided by the Local Search Association and access to most of the site requires a password. The entry to the site can be viewed at cooponline.localsearchassociation.org

SageKey was hired in 2006 by the Local search Association (formerly Yellow Pages Association) to develop a system that could rapidly index Yellow Pages directories. The requirements were steep as accuracy and performance were extremely important in determining the products eventual feasibility.

With each publisher, and in many cases each directory within a publisher, having different colors, layouts and quirks, the system had to be very powerful, yet flexible enough to handle the nuances of font, color and layout changing from directory to directory. There was little tolerance for error and the system had to handle up to four thousand Yellow Pages directories per year.

Sagekey delivered a set of applications that automates over 95% of the process, provides real time monitoring and reporting and completely integrates with several of LSA’s existing applications. The system was a major success and has been expanded several times since the initial release in order to incorporate new types of directories.

The applications are still in use today and provide data to several of the Local Search Associations key business areas.

SageKey was hired in 2010 by the Local search Association (formerly Yellow Pages Association) to expand the existing Yellow Pages Indexing system into a more robust system that could handle an increased workload, higher throughput and expanded reporting.

Over the course of the next year, the project’s scope continued to expand right up to the release. In the end, SageKey delivered a multifaceted product consisting of two websites, four windows applications and a dozen windows services.

All of these applications work together to provide a straight forward and easy to use reporting website that allows the end user to make sense of extremely complex data.

In 2007 the Local Search Association (then called the Yellow Pages Association) again teamed with SageKey to bring its vision of giving its member clients and CMRs the ability to design their own in-house tools around IRIS ONLINE headings data.

SageKey desgined a multi-level web service that interfaces not only with LSA subscribers but a cerntal repository of Yellow Pages directories. This allows clients to request any one of over fifteen million headings, which can then be show to their clients. This system replaces an old and very time and resouce intensive practice of an employee phsically tearing a page from a Yellow Pages directory so it could then be sent to a client. This is why LSA Web Services are commonly refered to as "The Tear Pages Service".

LSA Web Services are a paid subscription service provided by the Local Search Association and access to the site requires a password. The entry to the page can be viewed at wservices.localsearchassociation.org

The Local Search Association is the central distrubutor of directory information for its members. In order to facilitate this across more than 8,500 published directories, each directory must have its own unique directory code. In the past, this would involve either calling the association directly, or filling out a paper form and faxing it to them for processing.

When the LSA approached SageKey about automating the process, we were more than happy to help!

Working with LSA programmers and staff SageKey developed a helpful and easy to use online form, simplifying the process for everyone involved. The website then emailed the standardized, completed form to LSA staff where it could be verified and entered into the LSA IRIS system. Codes were also embedded into the emailed form that would allow either LSA staff, or the company that created the request, to return to the site and make any changes or continue filling out missing information.