Solutions
: Case Studies
Smarter Solutions
These are some of the projects that Electrum has completed recently. This is not an exhaustive list, but highlights some of the harder problems we've had to solve, and the solutions of which we're most proud. All of the projects listed below have lead to a significant amount of repeat business with the same client.
MessageLabs' Website
Electrum recently re-developed the Messagelabs
web site with a variety of real-time virus
statistics and visualisations. These are fed
live data from Messagelabs' global network of
email control towers.
MessageLabs' PartnerNet
During the past year, MessageLabs has built a
PartnerNet web site, based on Electrum's
PartnerNet software, so that it can distribute
information and documentation to it's partners
through an Internet portal.
Star Intranet
Star is a rapidly expanding company with over 200
employees spread across multiple UK locations.
Star required new business systems to support
their operational needs with the key
requirements being:
- the delivery of accurate and up to date business information
- integration with existing business systems and processes
- provide tools to enable easy update of the Intranet by non-technical staff
MessageLabs Virus Control Center
Electrum played a vital role in the worldwide
deployment of MessageLabs' virus control infrastructure.
Resold through top-tier ISPs like UUNet, this system
virus scans all incoming and outgoing e-mail from a
company and blocks virus infected e-mail.
Star NetTools
The NetTools suite won 1999 Internet Product of the Year
at the Networking Industry Awards and was short-listed
for the Computing Awards for Excellence.
MDC
We've developed a .NET-based dairy farm
benchmarking database for the Milk Development
Council (MDC). Dairy farmers can compare their
farm's performance with 25,000 other farms in the
UK.
Web-based Farm Management Application
The Scottish Agricultural College (SAC)
realized that the Internet would provide an
ideal means of communicating with their
widely spread audience - Scotland's farmers.
They asked Electrum to re-design and
re-implement a 10-year old Farm Management
System so that it could be used on-line.
This has not only made the system far more
responsive (farmers used to submit data and
receive results by post), but it has also
made the system fully automatic, removing
the need for the SAC to manually enter each
farmer's data.
W Green
W.Green, the Scottish law publishing company of Sweet &
Maxwell, has specialised in high-quality legal
publishing for well over a century, publishing an
unrivalled collection of books, periodicals and
encyclopedias on Scots law as well as digital products.
They looked to Electrum to provide a database-driven
e-commerce site to sell their products.
Scottish Police Information System
When the Scottish Police College were asked to take
over the maintenance and updating of the two main
reference manuals used by the Police, they realised
that paper was not an appropriate medium for
distributing 3000-page manuals, especially since
half of the 6000 pages are changed each year.
Electrum developed an automatic process whereby all
6000 pages were automatically converted into
electronic form, complete with tables-of-contents,
links, etc. The material can now be viewed using a
standard web browser, and can be distributed on a
CD-ROM. Having been installed at police forces
throughout Scotland, the system allows front-line
officers to access information simply by typing in a
search query.