We've been busy developing a brand new website for the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, and were very happy to see it go live in late 2006. The new site adds key features such as online membership applications (including credit card payment via WorldPay), an efficient search engine to help you find composers and songwriters working in particular genres or geographic locations and a member's section where members can upload and edit their own webpage. 

The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters came to us in 2005 with a data consolidation project. BAC & S are a membership organisation who look after the interests of British composers and songwriters worldwide. They had been using some 20 different standalone access databases to manage their day to day work, and wanted a more integrated solution. We recommended a solution based around Loopo Framework Objects, and BAC&S MMS was born.

The Royal College of Obstretricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) is a membership organisation with some 35,000 contacts. RCOG came to us in 2004 with two problems: Their Informix membership management system (MMS) was inflexible and long overdue for replacement, but an 18 month long project to develop its successor had stalled due to supplier problems. Loopo was able to turn this potentially disastrous situation around and deliver a working application within 6 months of taking on the project. We choose RCOG's project as the first chance to unveil Loopo Framework Objects, our in-house technology for building feature rich, flexible desktop and web-enabled applications.

Warren Evans is one of London's leading retailers of handmade beds. Loopo has been providing CRM solutions to Warren Evans since summer 2000. In 2005 we were asked to develop a major update to the existing CRM/Sales system. The decision was reached to implement a web-based system, to allow a quick and efficient rollout to sales staff across 3 showrooms.

 

We took this opportunity to build on our Loopo Framework Objects System, adding a web front end which has the same level of modularity and ease of configuration. A number of enhancements were implemented, such as in-place postcode searching and auto-generation of reports and invoices in PDF format. We also implemented a sophisticated interface using AJAX, a technology that allows web pages to be updated without having to refresh the whole page. This has substantially increased usability and speed of operation for a web-based application.