Here are some examples of projects that we have done for our clients.
An exciting project in the renewable energy industry, we were tasked to build a customer interaction portal and, via our partner Generate Digital, manage the delivery of the main public website: www.ownergy.co.uk and associated microsites: www.fitariffs.co.uk and www.rhincentive.co.uk
The portal enabled customers to locate and register their property with Ownergy and after answering a short questionnaire were able to pay for an Energy Selector Report (ESR) which examined their geographical location, their type of property, their energy use and other relevant information to indicate which renewable energy source(s) would be suitable for their property under the terms of the UK government's Feed In Tariffs and Renewable Heat Incentive. Our client demanded full control over the whole report building process, from drawing solar roof areas on satellite images of their customers' properties, through configuring rules for identifying wind turbine suitability, to generating the fully customisable PDF report.
We have recently delivered the new Faber Music Store based on Mediachase's ECF platform. This online shop is driven by the custom database detailed below and includes a wide range of customisations to tailor the shop to our client's requirements. This platform also acts as the core for all of Faber Music's ePartner stores.
One of the leading independent British publishers of classical, contemporary, educational and media music required a complete system to manage their catalogue of copyright lines and published products replacing their existing paper and spreadsheet one. A bespoke, multi-user, web-based application was built using ASP.NET against an SQL database to meet this need. The system features full search and reporting functionality with interfaces to an external FTP system. A well designed and clearly laid out front end provides a first rate user experience that is further enhanced by the use of technologies such as AJAX. The system is regularly expanded to satisfy more of Faber's business needs and is now underpinning some of the company's major activities.
“Faber Music has worked closely with Peter Fearn on a freelance consultancy basis since January 2007, on a range of challenging IS-development projects. These include: - Online Licensing System - Central Internal Database of Copyright Information - Sheet Music Engravings Archive - Publications Database and Editorial Project Management System In addition to his outstanding programming abilities, Peter's knowledge and understanding the Music Publishing industry and its associated processes has been an invaluable asset to Faber. We are about to embark on two major digitally-oriented projects for 2009 in which Peter's skills will be utilised in order to help us to achieve our strategic targets.”
Air Cargo News is the leader in air cargo publishing and first choice for most advertisers in the air cargo business. Air Cargo Media offers quality products to the air cargo business in publishing, online and events.
We delivered a custom content management system (CMS) to enable Air Cargo New to manage their news, jobs and events pages. We also delivered newsletter generation functionality by integrating with a third party mailing list API to send content built by our system. The CMS also gives the client the ability to create custom forms on their website and download the data from these forms, some of which have been integrated with PayPal to take payment.
Full development, including content and catalogue management, stock control with associated web service and integration with payment service provider built using ASP.NET (C#) and SQL Server. We have a continuing relationship with this client, delivering improvements and enhancements to enable their business to grow.
Media Ingenuity are an innovative company that delivers customers to consumer businesses via constantly evolving digital marketing techniques. We built a bespoke web application in ASP.NET(C#) that is used to manage the capture and distribution of leads. Information about the source and destination of each lead is recorded in an MS SQL database. We also created a reporting suite which produced real-time data on incoming leads and their associated digital channels. Media Ingenuity were then able to analyse the effectiveness of those digital chanels and react immediately to changing market conditions and maximise the profit to be gained from the incoming streams. Several branded websites were also developed to capture lead data., including totallymoney.com.
“Fraser worked closely with Media Ingenuity over a three year period. The technology that Fraser designed and built have become fundamental to our business. The brief was to build from the bottom up a distribution and management platform that would be very adaptable and scalable. Fraser was always very careful to understand the current and future needs of a rapidly evolving business.
His approach is very consultative and flexible. His extensive knowledge of the various technologies available meant that time and time again he selected the best path for us, keeping ahead of the growth of the business which has been very rapid. The system that Fraser developed for us is market leading. It is robust, flexible and well documented making it easy for our development team to pick up and run with it. It now supports the main functions of a valuable technology business.
Fraser has been excellent to work with and I would thoroughly recommend him to any small to medium size business. The benefits of working directly with him versus a ‘cheaper’ offshore solution are beyond doubt. “
Hub is a well established boutique fashion clothing store in North London. We delivered a customised implementation of our ecommerce template site with full control of the content in the hands of the business owners.
The most exciting feature of this site from a technical standpoint is the implementation of Microsoft's Deep Zoom functionality. The management tools we delivered as part of the shop provide a very simple interface for uploading large images, which are then converted into a format suitable for displaying to the customer using a javascript only viewer, thus avoiding the need to install Silverlight or Flash.
A CMS based portal website for both the UK and US television shows. Built using ASP.NET (C#) against SQL Server 2005. The full site architecture excluding design and forum was successfully delivered and continues to be enhanced when required. Most recently a childcare and related business directory was added to provide a new revenue stream for the client.
As a sub-contractor to digital agency Halpern Cowan we delivered all the back end systems for this project including a 'find my nearest' directory service.
A custom built CMS drives a flash front end via XML/XSLT. A non-flash version is rendered for users who do not have the plug-in installed. The site uses extensive AJAX techniques to enhance the user experience perhaps best demonstrated by the 'make a note' functionality.
As a sub-contractor to digital agency Halpern Cowan we delivered all the back end systems for this project.