GBdirect's Consulting Services
GBdirect software consultancy currently specialises in the following areas:
- Internet strategy, E-commerce strategy and Electronic Business strategy
- Web site visibility and usability — on which we are acknowledged experts
- The deployment and commercial exploitation of open source software — including migration from Microsoft office solutions
- Skills auditing, the evaluation of IT training requirements and the formulation of IT training strategy.
- Internet Marketing
- Advice and research on the deployment of specific Internet technologies, e.g.:
- Large web site maintenance
- Web services (including XML, SOAP, etc.)
- Thin client desktop computing, including X-terminals
- Proxy services
- Internet Security and Web Security
- Financial transactions on the Web and Internet
- Authentication and encryption
- Firewalling, Internet Routing, Switching, Address Resolution (DNS/BIND, etc)
- Email and messaging services (SMS, GPS, Web Fax, etc)
- News services
- Software for managing web or online communities and discussion lists
- Search engines
- Wireless networking
- Mobile computing
Some concrete examples include:
- Maintenance of The Register, one of the world's leading IT news sites with more than one million page requests daily.
- Design, build and deployment of Canline Spares, a business-to-business website with sales of approximately £1M within nine months of release.
- Design, build and deployment of Euro Info Center Online, a business-to-business exchange matching potential suppliers and purchasers in Yorkshire with their opposite numbers in Europe. The system uses Microsoft Active Server Pages, Windows NT® and SQL Server®.
- Design, build and deployment of Keystore, a ground-breaking leading-edge tool for online storage and retrieval of invoices, proof-of-delivery (POD) documents and any other indexed images businesses need to store. This is run as an application service (ASP) site. Blistering performance is the driving ambition of this site.
- Development of XML and SOAP based services for an insurance industry business-to-business bidding and tendering exchange.
- Lead consultants in the production of OpenForum Europe's Open Source Migration Guide, in conjunction with NCC (The National Computer Centre).
- Development of a complete back-office solution based on Microsoft Access® for a marine insurer.
- Development of an XML-based document management system based on CVS and Open-Source tools.
- Roll-out of a corporate email system based on Open Source software and Microsoft Exchange®.