From its establishment, Gizra has been a pioneer in the Drupal CMS field where it is responsible for developing key modules for Drupal 7 and Drupal 8, including Organic Groups, Message Stack, Entity Reference, and RESTful.
A website isn’t simply a product - it’s the application of a solution, and to get to that application requires a strategy. Gizra employs a lean, yet comprehensive, discovery process that puts the client’s needs first and quickly determines the appropriate tools for the job.
We are a technology company, but people are at the center of our universe. We definitely get excited about the tools that we use, but they all serve a singular purpose: to engage a user in an experience with your content.
Drupal is not the only open source tool in our toolbox. We are also creative users of and active participants in the communities for projects such as Symfony, AngularJS, Jekyll, and Elm.
Gizra Alpha, a subsidiary company, applies the tools and methodologies developed by Gizra to creating new products and companies, in partnership with domain experts who identified a specific market need.
Gizra has partnered with many types of companies and organizations, from startups to worldwide government bodies. Our expertise has provided specific knowledge in education, staffing & recruitment, and web security.
Our technical expertise as pioneers and core contributors in the code that makes the most complex content management tasks happen, matched with The Gizra Way provides us with a great advantage when approaching and implementing complex CMS projects. We partner with our clients to develop a solution that answers their needs: to manage, edit, manipulate, and display a large amount of content on their site; to interact with their users; to access-level permissions and complicated workflows.
We begin working with you before the scope is even defined. The uncertainty and inherent risk is immediately addressed by first timeboxing at the project-wide level. Web-based product ideas can be demonstrated within 3-4 months of development and with 1-3 developers which is easily translated into a budget range. With this anchor, you can move forward confidently with your project.
One organization needed a way to demonstrate that they could compile existing data, process it with known algorithms, and produce logical, readable maps.
Gizra helped Harvard University get thousands of websites under one set of controls, saving the university millions of dollars.
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The European Commission selected Gizra to create a project management tool to manage billions of Euros invested in developing world projects. Gizra helps define the tool and is responsible for design, implementation, and deployment. The challenge was to provide a simple and clean interface to vast amounts of data in a large multilingual organization.
The National Library of Israel commissioned Gizra to create a virtual exhibition for Madrid’s Casa del Lector museum. Visitors were given tablets to navigate the exhibition content via an interactive map-like interface, and could tap a node and instantaneously highlight its connections within the network of content. A second tap took the user to the node content which contained various options to interact with material. This sleek design and innovative approach was a refreshing alternative to usual museum tours.
When the iCenter looked to redesign their website, they had an aggressive timetable in order to launch before their biennial international conference. By applying The Gizra Way with clear and constant communication through online task tracking and regular face-to-face (video conferenced) scrum meetings, the project was completed within the time frame and the anticipated budget, without the need to divert precious human resources away from other important projects.
Gizra developed and implemented the new responsive design for The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Admissions Department. Faced with the need to convey its well-established brand, and speak to a multitude of potential applicants, the University sought Gizra for a solution. Together, we transformed the existing traditional site into a user-friendly, but content-rich, fully-accessible interface, geared to the demanding needs of its user community.
Gizra presents a new approach in live online auction trade - exposing and positioning traditional Judaica objects and manuscripts, in this case, in an online platform especially developed to simplify the procedure of public auctions. Bidding is made easy and accessible at any time online, simplifying the process for both the seller and purchaser, thereby increasing the number of transactions.
OpenScholar is a full-featured solution for university systems, powering thousands of Harvard University websites. Its strength is in its ability to allow departments, faculty, students, and projects to spin up websites with the click of a button, and with enforceable standards, look and feel, and sensible defaults for their use case.