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Northdoor website and CMS launched 1 Jul
After months of hard work, we are very happy that Northdoor's new website and its supporting CMS are up and running. The clean and professional visual design is supported by standards-compliant coding, integration with Salesforce.com and RSS.
The CMS is pretty clever too, supporting unlimited hierarchical pages, granular administrator permissions, full versioning and rollback, image management, microsites and all sorts of other modern time-saving devices.
We look forward to seeing how the new system will help the site grow, and hope Northdoor's users will reap the benefits of all the team's hard work.
“The project ... went like clockwork. Associative Trails did an excellent job and were very responsive to any issues and requests as they arose.”
Jon Milward, General Manager, Northdoor
All systems go for Northdoor 24 Feb
We are delighted to have just been given the green light to start work on specifying and delivering a bespoke CMS for Northdoor. Creativity have produced some cracking designs, and we look forward to doing the client justice with a slick CMS and some web standards magic.
New Exchange integration capabilities 21 Sep
One of the new features introduced in the latest version of Adobe Coldfusion product is integration with Microsoft Exchange. This week, we took the plunge with this new capability and within a few hours had hooked up a client's intranet-based CRM system with their Exchange server.
This means that tasks assigned to staff in the CRM system automatically appear in the person's Outlook task lists. They can then tick the task as completed in Outlook, and the CRM system is automatically updated. We're hoping that allowing people to use existing task management tools will improve the penetration of the CRM application, and look forward to doing more work with this excellent new functionality.
New CRM system rolled out 11 May
We're pleased to announce that the final installation of the Sheppard Robson CRM application went well and the system is now up and running on the client's intranet.
The application scrutinises some of the ideas we have used in previous developments and strips them down to produce a very simple yet powerful interface that is seamlessly integrated with the client's existing systems. We're looking forward to seeing how the initial stages of real-world usage progress. Fingers crossed!
“Associative Trails designed and installed a system that both met and exceeded our brief...I would highly recommend them.”
Harriett Hindmarsh, Director, Sheppard Robson
Major new CMS launched 4 Dec
After months of hard work, the new Content Management System (CMS) for the Arup website has launched.
We have rebuilt the entire system from the ground up, making the most of recent advances in server technology and web standards. The new system gives Arup a strong foundation to move the site forward and has dramatically reduced the site's bandwidth requirements.
“I love the new system. You are a star!”
Cheryl Pulford, Senior Communications Officer, Arup
Dusting off the fat felt-tipped pens 7 Aug
We are proud to be working with the leading architects Sheppard Robson on ideas for a bespoke application to improve their client relationship management. It is always exciting to be collaborating with professionals in the creative industries, and we look forward to a fruitful relationship.
“The website is up and running and looking great. The feedback from staff members has been fantastic.”
Emma Howell, Marketing Manager, Total Systems plc