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Secure Extranet for Schools - DfES Accredited

A commercial project for the education sector, the goal was to make learning materials on schools’ websites accessible by pupils and staff from any location.

Developed in partnership with All Hallows High School in Preston,  the system is integrated with the National Curriculum and designed for “complete ease of use”. It is incredibly versatile and can be used by teachers, pupils and parents with little or no technical training. The system allows all parties the chance to view, modify or even create web pages regardless of their location or skill level.

Created from the “ground up”, the system was coded in the ASP.NET environment and is built with Microsoft’s MS-SQL database technology.

The software achieved accreditation from the Dept. for Education and Skills (DfES) after successfully passing rigorous technical specification and system content testing. In addition, the company was also required to meet stringent financial status requirements.

Since 2005 the system has been implemented at 40 schools and is constantly updated and improved.

Schools extranet features:

  • Multi-level passwords allow varying access and edit rights depending on individual or group user rights.
  • New content, pictures, links or even pages can be uploaded easily for immediate online use. Homework, newsletters and documents can all be submitted with the system.
  • MS Word style page editor makes editing easy for all ability levels.
  • Staff can share departmental documents on the extranet.

Virtual Private network technology is currently being developed with Belle Vue Boys School, Bradford. This will facilitate remote access for individual school intranets and eliminate the need for LEA security barriers.

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Sonnauto

Sonnauto (www.sonnauto.co.uk) are an online retailer of used and new cars.

Backbone IT Group were approached by Sonnauto who required programming integration services, website management and ongoing technical support.

A redesign of their main website database was undertaken which integrated their system with the technical requirements of Money Supermarket; a third party provider of data to online car retailers such as Auto Trader and Sonnauto.

Liaising with Money Supermarket, an XML information transfer system was developed to make Sonnauto’s database structure third-party compliant.

Completion of the project has seen large increases in the number of visitors Sonnauto’s website converts into customers, and the system now accounts for approximately 80% of all processed car sales.

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Groundwork Green Business Park

Groundwork’s Green Business Parks is a not-for-profit organisation that arranges environmental improvements for business premises and processes.

In 2005 Groundwork approached Backbone IT Group to develop a solution for their www.greenbusinessparks.co.uk website. Funded in part by the UK Government, the aim of the website was to foster a inter-park community and provide a forum on green business park issues. In addition, the website would bring together the six business parks in North West England falling under Groundwork’s remit.

The Green Business Park project involved:

  • Upper level websites pages available for all users and editable by site admins
  • Open forum with unique login for all visitors
  • Individual park pages and forums only available to members via login
  • Members able to edit pages within their park section when permission granted by site admins
  • Facility for mass emailing of all users via park membership

 

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