Our Portfolio
This portfolio has always been on the top of our list of things to do and like most busy companies these things always get left until last! Until now that is. And so, here is a sample of the work we have undertaken covering the 3 areas that we specialise in:
When a client asks us to build them a website the first thing we ask them is what would you like your website to achieve. In our experience we know that a website can mean different things to different people at different times and that is just a part of the expertise that we offer:
Web
We build ecommerce, video/sound, brochure and content management sites. Some examples have been included below.
- E-commerce
- Website: www.largeprintbookshop.co.uk
- Video/Sound
- Website: www.calebpackham.com
- Brochure-style
- Website: www.londonplasticsurgeryclinic.co.uk
- Website: www.newcosmeticsurgery.co.uk
- Content Management
- Website: www.markham-marsden.com
Desktop
Many of our projects are behind company secure areas, such as Intranet-based work and password-protected web areas. Here are 2 case-studies of such projects, including client testimonials:
- Case Study 1: Shubiz Limited
- Shubiz required an application that is used by all employees of the company in the UK and China. The application primarily is used for ordering stocks - both factory shipments and customer shipments, storing styling information, pricing structures, and has extensive reporting and invoicing functionality.
- The application is a Windows-based application and utilises much of the Windows functionality and menu structure that is familiar to all. It is linked to a central database, with a client interface on everybody's desktop computer. The application also has extensive security built in, allowing administrators to control various areas of the application.
- "Shubiz Ordering Management System. This application is responsible for ordering, styling, reporting and financial information for the Shubiz group of companies. Shubiz have the application deployed on all employee’s computers all linking to a central database."Paul Lennard, Shubiz Ltd
- Case Study 2: Artemis Investment Management Limited (www.artemis-online.com)
- Artemis is a leading UK fund manager. The marketing department for Artemis required a workflow tool to log, monitor and track projects and archive previous projects. The application needed a sound database architecture and to operate seamlessly across 2 offices in different UK regions - London and Edinburgh. Currently Artemis manages over 3500 jobs in their database!
- The software covers 4 areas - DTP, Online, Marketing and Events for the department. In all areas, data can be exported to excel, reports can be produced or duplex printing of project or event summaries.
- "The bespoke application , Delos, is deployed in Edinburgh and London and is key to tracking projects emanating from the Marketing Department, and integral to ensuring Compliance sign-off is achieved on all collateral across multiple locations and providing the basis of document archiving and retrieval. Delos has become the department’s major work flow tool for keeping records in order."Pauline Bush, Artemis Investment Management Limited
Intranets
We build applications that enable working departments and often the whole company to enhance their working practices, making them more efficient and saving on time-consuming laborious tasks. The following case study shows numerous examples of how this has saved time and money for Marakon Associates (www.marakon.com).
- Employee timesheets application
- Originally Marakon sent out weekly outlook forms for employees to fill in their timesheets. Karma Technologies built an Intranet based series of forms that enable all employees to fill in their timesheets and free up valuable HR resource. Additionally, we built a desktop reporting tool to accompany this so HR could report on sick leave, annual holiday etc at the push of a button and also look at regional patterns between their worldwide offices.
- Alumni application
- Marakon required a networking application to keep alumni in contact with each other. An external, public facing interface was built (accessed from http://alumni.marakon.com) for the alumni to update their own information (personal data, employment data, interests and publications). This data is passed periodically through a secure link to Marakon's internal databases and used by HR to report on and keep in touch with the alumni community.
- Recruitment application.
- Marakon required an application to manage their employee recruitment. An external public-facing interface allowed applicants to add a covering letter, submit their CV (of any format) and submitted across the firewall into Marakon's internal databases. HR could then manage the job applications through reporting, viewing CV’s on the company Intranet and monitor responses to their offline advertisements.
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