Products & Services

HBI Consulting has a very diverse portfolio of products and services. These systems can be customised to suit your needs.

Content Management Systems

Our Content Management Systems (CMS) are always customised for the client's actual needs. Our CMS allow non-technical staff to develop and update their websites using a simple web-browser such as Internet Explorer. Some of the features and capabilities include:

  • Site Builder -- Allows you to create Navigation elements and web pages from anywhere at any time.
  • CMS Management Roles -- Publishers and Editors.
  • HTML Editor allows you to format text as you would do when using Microsoft Word.
  • Automatic image resizing -- simply upload the images which are automatically resized to fit your web pages.
  • User registration and login for restricted access
  • Many, many more modules and customised applications -- see below!

Portfolio:

Online Golf League websites

  • Players upload scores
  • Leaderboard positions adjusted automatically
  • "Exceptional" score detection
  • Players upload images to populate galleries
  • Administration interface allows non-technical users to manage all aspects of the competion.

Portfolio:

Squash court booking system

Please click here to visit our dedicated website for the squash court booking system

Complete online and on-site court booking system for Squash Clubs. This system could also be used for Tennis Courts.

  • New! Pre-payment system...
  • Online interface allows members to book courts from home or office
  • On-site touch screen interface allows members to book on the club premises
  • Administration interface includes
    • member management
    • block bookings for tournaments, team fixtures, and social events
    • cancellations report
    • website creator

Portfolio:

News / Subscription Websites

  • Non-technical editors and staff writers login to administration system to publish news.
  • News stories can be published with multiple images, and PDF (or other) file attachments.
  • Online susbcription and payment interface.
  • Registered users login to read news.

Potfolio:

Property / Estate Agents websites

  • Property listings
  • Registration for new property email alerts
  • Multiple offices
  • Residential, commercial and rentals
  • Print-friendly pages
  • Automatic datafeeds to property portals
  • Administration interface includes automatic resizing of images.

Portfolio:

Image galleries and dynamic image manipulation

Many of our projects have involved server-side image manipulation.

Non-technical users can upload an image of any size which is automatically resized and optimised on our server to be shown in various web-friendly sizes (thumbnails, small images, large images).

This system is ideal for web shops (product images) and news websites.

Portfolio:

Online Interactive Charts

We have built several websites featuring interactive charts (these websites are only accessible to paying subscribers). The basic features are as follows.

  • The users (subscribers) select parameters such as "start date" and "end date", and click submit.
  • As a result, a new chart image is dynamically generated.
  • Bar Charts
  • Multiple Line Charts
  • Pie Chart
  • The administrator simply adds data to an Excel spreadsheet and uploads it to the server to keep the charts up to date.

Portfolio:

Email marketing and broadcasting

  • Personalised salutations, links, etc...
  • Plain-text or HTML
  • Email tracking and campaign statistics
  • Integration with online registration
  • Referal programmes ("viral-marketing campaigns")

Portfolio:

  • Several campaigns in conjunction with Fox Parrack Hirsch for clients such as Cognos, Fluke Networks, Getty, Mercury, Omego, and Sybase.

Online Surveys and Opinion Polls

  • Surveys can be integrated with Email marketing and broadcasting campains.
  • Real-time reports -- get results as soon as the user completes the survey.
  • Individual Reports -- with consideration to best practices for privacy.
  • Aggregate Reports -- answers can be shown in relative percentages.

Portfolio:

  • Fox Parrack Hirsch
  • London Civic Forum
  • CRU SteelWEEK
  • Virgin Atlantic (Golf League Opion Poll)

Project Management / Outsourcing to Bangalore

We have provided UK project management for several large application developments with HBI Software in Bangalore.

Recruitment Agency Websites

  • Adminstration interface allows non-technical staff to manage vacancy listing online.
  • Online registration for applicants.
  • Applicants can submit CV's as Word files.

Portfolio:

Website design and development

We usually recommend a template-based approach so that the websites are easy to build and modify in the future. We use the following techiques:

  • Include files for template items such as headers, navigation, footers, banner ads, etc...
  • Dreamweaver template technology.
  • Custom development of website navigation systems to suit graphic design requirements.

Photography services

  • Studio lighting
  • Product images
  • Portrait photography

Website and Database Hosting

  • Windows 2000 Server with SQL Server 2000
  • Windows 2003 Server with SQL Server 2005
  • RAID1
  • Daily backups