Portfolio

shop.vodafone.co.uk Vodafone's UK online store for consumers is managed and maintained by Dataselect Ltd, based in Marlow. Bluefuse Systems provide technical services to Dataselect covering back-end database development all the way through to front-end interactive/visual technical implementations. This is a long-term client for Bluefuse Systems, having now been working on the project since May 2006 which included a ground-up rebuild of the entire system in November 2006.

The Vodafone eCommerce site is one of the most visited websites in the UK and reliably handles 1.85 million unique visits per month. This has been achieved by optimising both the front-end and back-end code to ensure that it operates smoothly under considerable load. The site is under constant development with promotional/sales changes made on an on-going basis and releases of strategic developments every 2-4 weeks.

The site is built in Coldfusion MX 7.1 with Flash/Ajax/Query front-end elements and a SQL Server database. The development methodology is Fusebox 5.5 and the codebase is managed with Subversion.

Project duration: 2006 - Present

www.haymarketbusinesssubs.com Haymarket Business Publications had several e-commerce pages, with limited functionality, dispersed among approximately 30 websites. They wished to consolidate this and develop a more coordinated e-commerce presence that would capitalise on their brand and their popular range of business publications.

Our role was to provide technical lead for the development of a new B2B e-commerce site with the ultimate aim of increasing new online corporate subscriptions and to increase retention rates of existing subscribers.

The site was developed over 9 months and some of key aspects of the project included a system for cross-website logging-in, sophisticated content management which included the ability to cross-link related publications on the site and for establishing trial subscriptions and multi-purchase promotions.

Project duration: 2004/2005

www.tmnz.co.nz TMNZ is a tax pooling website, run by a company based in Auckland. This website is a complex B2B business application that enables corporations and tax accountants to manage their provisional tax under/over payments via a tax pool. It includes a large number of online calculators, administration facilities, financial tools and reporting mechanisms.

We've been the main developers of this website since its conception and have continued to develop it over the last 5 years. It has some extremely complex client-based tools which have been coded from the ground up using javascript/jQuery and Ajax which run alongside more conventional Coldfusion-based tools.

New functions are added to the site on a regular basis both for end-users of the system and the back-office systems. The latter are used on a daily basis by the TMNZ staff in order to manage the business through the web interfaces provided.

Project duration: 2003 - Present

www.icmci.com ICMCI, the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes, required a global online database for Chartered Management Consultants (CMCs) around the world. There are 36 country institute members of ICMCI. These institutes represent over 10,000 CMCs.

The website includes advanced search capabilities enabling visitors to locate CMCs on the basis of skills, experience and articles written. Consultants have a full profile with eleven segments plus photo and contact information. Contact information includes a link to the subscriber's own web page. Each member is responsible for keeping their own pages current through simple on-line account management, which also allows them to be notified when their pages are viewed by others. The database is also fully manageable by the ICMCI management, and sub-administrators located within each national institute.

Project duration: 2002 - Present

Europa Underwriting are an independently owned insurance underwriting agency, specialising in the provision of general insurance products to insurance intermediaries. All of Europa's products and systems have been developed to offer the insurance intermediary with the quickest and most convenient solution for their client.

Project duration: 2005 - Present