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Our Clients The following are just a small sample of our clients and projects: MONGOOSE PUBLISHING
In addition to these changes came the introduction of custom-built online adminstration tools, which allow Mongoose Publishing to directly control the content of their own site. This facility has made the site far more responsive and helps ensure that the information displayed is as current as possible. Since the intial redevelopment the website has been repeatedly revised and improved. Recent enhancements have included the introduction of "subsites" for specific product lines, the ability to pre-order forthcoming titles and the addition of an extremely popular forum. The result of all this work has been a dramatic increase in web traffic. The current site provides not only advertising space but a thriving on-line store, and the ideal medium through which to maintain a dialogue with their readership. COMEDY BOOKINGS For the last 5 years Powder Blue has developed a web based bespoke ticketing and box office system for one of the UK's leading independent comedy clubs. This software is now being implemented in other venues around the UK with stunning success. The software is NOT just a simple shopping basket but allows the venue to create a branded site tailored towards increased ticket sales and reducing calls to the box office. The Facts - Online ticket sales increase revenue and reduce costs. The public expect to be able to buy tickets online 24x7. Tactical email marketing sells unpopular shows. Online sales need to be integrated with the box office The Figures - Over 80% of Glee Club ticket sales are done online. Over 50% of Glee Club ticket sales take place out of office hours. The Solution - 24 Hour online ticket sales with integrated box office. Database-driven and fully branded site with editable web pages. Online promotions set up in minutes. Targeted email marketing and subscription service. All listings automatically published on Chortle. AIRPORT TRANSFER SERVICES
ATS approached Powder Blue in April 2002 to develop a web based application to replace their existing one which was slow and difficult to operate. At that time ATS serviced only 4 airports and moved a maximum of 500 people on any one day. The scope of the application was to cover:
Powder Blue have been involved in all parts of the software lifecycle from the initial analysis through to the post implementation support and enhancements. The application has proven to be integral to their current success and future plans. DESCENT INTERNATIONAL This extremely successful company offers exclusive alpine chalet holidays with a total commitment to uncompromised quality. Powder Blue has created, maintained and hosted Descent International's websites since their incorporation in 1997.
Working closely with design agency The Dirty Cat Company, Powder Blue were able to combine the skills necessary to create a site that reflected the company’s look and feel without compromising the speed and functionality of the site. Powder Blue built a bespoke content management system that would allow all elements of the site to be maintained including, Unlimited Menus, Web Pages and Languages. Fully dynamic pricing means that Descent have full control over prices and the ability to choose what information is displayed to the public down to an individual Chalet and week. Continued development of the site has continued with recent additions including a personalised email creation tool and a fully self managed gallery for press and agents to download high resolution pictures for print. GLEE CLUB The Glee Club have purpose built venues in both Birmingham and Cardiff city centres each of which seat over 400 people. In 1999 Powder Blue were approached to write a dynamic web site for Birmingham to promote their comedy evenings. It was not long before the site was enhanced to take bookings with online credit card payment. Powder Blue had been made aware of their future long term plans to open more clubs around the UK and had taken this into consideration in the initial design, such that when Cardiff was opened it was added to the site without any additional development effort. The public booking process proved to be so successful that they decided to take all telephone sales using the web site with a purpose built sales portal for their staff. The portal has been further enhanced to provide management reports and produce targeted mail shots to their clients. Today over 60% of bookings are taken online via the public web site and the sales portal has introduced a standard business process for the Glee Club to take and manage bookings. HUMAN CAPITAL RECRUITMENT
The administration area allows HCR to enter new jobs with specific search criteria such as salary range and role type. The job title and description that is entered is indexed and used to return results on a free format text search engine built into the site. Once a job has been applied for on-line an email is sent to the appropriate HCR employee assigned to that job. Applicants can also register themselves with HCR without having to apply to a specific job. PROJECT PARTNERS Project Partners are a recruitment firm in the UK who specialise in supplying business technologists to the Financial Markets. Their clients are primarily drawn from Capital Markets, Asset Management, Energy Trading and Retail Banking. Powder Blue where initially asked to design and develop several static sites for this client. On successful completion of these sites they asked Powder Blue to develop a client service portal for one of their divisions called Reflect. This portal was to contain contractor rate trends, market analysis and a rate request service. All the information contained within the portal is maintained by Reflect with nominal technical support from Powder Blue. This portal is now a key service that Reflect offer to their client base and are looking to extend it into other areas. BASEPOINT Basepoint PLC offers office and workshop units to let on affordable 2 weekly easy in-easy out terms with 11 centres throughout the south east. Due to their ever increasing offerings and an impressive expansion program a need for a completely dynamic web site was an obvious choice. Powder Blue was found by Basepoint via a magazine article reviewing one of our customers sites. Frustration caused by their lack of editable content in their existing site started a detailed analysis of all Basepoints present and future demands. Future possibilities have been analysed and an appropriate data model is already in place to allow for future enhancements to be achieved when the need arises. Phase 1 was completed in the summer of 2003, with a fully editable site to replace their existing static web site, this includes dynamic menu structure, easy page additions and the first use of the custom data model to ensure that information is usable from the centres information pages in the Future. Phase 2 is due to include a user permission area to allow for specifying user roles and edit permissions through the site including specific centre control. The first practical application of this will be to assign documents such as contracts to specific people and / or centres for download. Future plans include an extranet for staff, suppliers and tenants to communicate with each other and to supply them with Basepoint specific information creating a community of Basepoint customers.
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