We Are Nerd Marines!

For close to a decade, Elephant Ventures has been assisting our non-technical agency partners by providing strong, practical foundations behind their award-winning, visionary productions.

Elephant Ventures understands that most design driven enterprises will, at some point, need to leverage a technology partner to deliver the sophisticated customer interactions that drive modern businesses. Together with our agency creative staff, we strike a balance between the capabilities of technology and the impact of design -- bringing brilliant solutions to life.

We augment internal agency teams, corporate enterprises, and end-client technologists to get the job done. Our track record includes projects that involve technical complexity around legacy system integration, bleeding edge implementations and performance optimization. We help our partners battle tight budgets, moving-target scopes or impossible timeframes, and have helped agencies both large and small deliver fully on their creative vision and to meet client expectations.

Social media. Collaboration. Co-creation. These are the platforms that are transforming your markets today. The empowered consumer is more demanding and is quick to abandon existing brand relationships in pursuit of experiences that serve (and exceed) their needs. The Elephant Ventures User Experience practice focuses on building products and services that inform, enable and delight your customers. Our goal-driven, user-centered approach puts the customer at the center of interaction design, and creates truly remarkable experiences that drive loyalty and stimulate positive perception around your brands.

We are not a company of developers. We are a team of engineers.

Elephant Ventures can help you enhance or accelerate your software development capabilities. We have worked with virtually every mission-critical technology being used today, both new and legacy, including cutting-edge capabilities in UX, Web, Social and Mobile. Our staff is made up of engineers who can quickly understand the inner workings of the most complex systems and requirements and can rapidly build out robust functionality for you. We also have the extensive analytic and algorithmic experience that power Big Data initiatives. We can help you with data projects ranging from the absurdly complex to the broadly mundane.

If you are having technology performance related issues, we have a unique track record in helping our customers successfully tune their infrastructure to improve overall performance. Results in the 1000X-10,000X improvement are not uncommon for our engineers to achieve. We can help with code refactoring, database tuning, server configuration optimizations, network infrastructure assessments and configuration tuning for maximum throughput.

Languages:
• PHP / LAMP
• Python
• Objective C / iOS
• Cocoa
• Java
• Flex
• Flash
• Ruby
• Javascript
• C# .NET
• HTML5
• Webkit Animations

Platforms:
• Drupal
• Joomla
• Orchard CMS
• OpenCMS
• CodeIgniter
• Symfony
• .NET
• Ektron
• Interwoven

Servers:
• Linux/Unix/FreeBSD
• IIS Web Server
• Apache
• Nginx

Databases:
• MySQL
• MS SQL
• Oracle
• Postgres
• NoSQL
• Mongodb

Solid Foundations. Exceptional Results.

Behind every great product or service is great technology. And behind every great implementation is the strategy that defines it. EV has partnered with some of the world’s greatest companies to identify and build solutions that establish technology foundations for the long-term. Elephant Ventures’ portfolio includes enterprise clients in a number of verticals including major financial institutions, healthcare and pharmaceutical companies, luxury retail, and advertising agencies from all major holding companies as well as local NYC based independent creative and digital agencies.

Based on our proven Discovery methodology, our strategy team partners with you to understand your goals; identify solutions; prioritize initiatives; and develop realistic and effective project roadmaps and business cases. Our view into the capabilities of today’s complex technology world allow us to bring a highly informed and trusted perspective to the conversation -- providing the knowledge and depth that are critical to building modern products and services.

Bringing the Big Picture to Life

Elephant Ventures recognizes that our clients are often challenged with addressing their technology and product initiatives in broader business context, and ensuring that projects are well-aligned with a range of complex needs. Our Strategy Consulting practice focuses on deep client engagement and deep exploration to orient projects around business needs and goals. Our discovery and design methodologies are tailored to engage key project stakeholders; to build collaborative relationships; to deliver creative thinking; and to provide excellence in thought leadership. The end result is a partnership-driven, contextual framework that provides continuity through the development process, and results in efficient, predictable projects with deliverables that exceed expectations.