The last few years has seen us spend much time developing an Online Staff Rota System, primarily for licensing to the University of East Anglia’s (UEA) Student Union Bars and Clubs. More and more features have been added to the scheduling system, and we are now happily at the point where we are ready to roll the system out to new customers outside of UEA. The public web site for the rota, Keep Me On Time, is now up and running. To Quote from our case study: We have developed a product, Keep Me On Time (KMOT), an online scheduling solution that is specifically designed to make the management of casual workforces a simple matter. It empowers your employees to manage their own work interactions with you, from signing up for available shifts, swapping shifts and the process of completing timesheets and exporting this data to a finance department. Full paper trails of employee actions and use are available and a reporting suite enables you to view working hours and cost projections quickly and easily. You can generate and agree all your staff payment and timesheet information online. Export the data when you want it, eliminate paper forms and waiting for staff to complete their information. Get in touch with us via the kmot contact page to get a free trial today.

Theatre Trips Kent has now been launched. The site offers coach travel and tickets to great London shows.  The initial version had bookings via telephone or in the Theatre Trips Kent office, the second release, within the next month, will allow for bookings online. The site is built in Dot Net Nuke 6.1.2 with a custom content slider control and calendar event booking system.

We're currently working on a new project http://www.bicyclelinks.org.uk/. Its going to be a great use of the basic not net nuke 6 portal.  Watch this space for more info

  We're pleased to announce that Beta 1 of our showcase for LICA has gone live at http://www.photolinedrawing.com LICA is an online application for converting images and photos into line drawings, quickly, easily, better and in a more cost effective solution than any other product. Lica is currently in beta so instead of just 2 free credits we are giving away 20 with each new free account! Let us know how Lica is doing with your images and you will get given more free credits to keep testing and experimenting with the system. Find out more at: http://www.photolinedrawing.com/Help/AboutLineDrawings.aspx  

Best Ale Trails (http://www.bestaletrails.co.uk/) has gone live.   Currently with avalibility to map between pubs accross the whole of Norfolk.   Our interactive mapping system lets you draw and boundary or approximate route on the map and then shows you all the pubs in that area • To begin, place your starting marker on the map by right clicking where you want it to be • Add more points to your boundary or line • Complete an area by clicking on your first point and your boundary is displayed • Or, create a line by clicking on your last point, and the automatic boundary will be created for you • You can even create a route by entering your start and end postcodes • Make walking pub trails by selecting the walking option • Find the most visited pubs in your area and which pubs are rated the highest • Login to rate the best pubs and keep a record of the pubs you have visited • Find and plan routes to pubs within East Anglia. • Share your pub ale trail route with friends and rate your experiences to help others.

Data Acquisition With continual growth in the quantity of data being stored by organisations, there is an ever growing demand to centralise the structure of these data repositories. Shore Tech Systems have expertise in harvesting data from crawling both the public World Wide Web and internally within a business. With ever increasing network and processing speeds now is the obvious time to find out how gathering data could open up new benefits to you. Web Services Connecting your future business IT requirements together with defined Web Services will provide you with the flexibility and assurances far above the expected. Seamless integration within your organisation and externally will allow you to drive forward to deliver new systems with ease. With the worry of connectivity removed from the equation you can focus on what is really important to your future. Data Mining Identifying patterns within your data allows for a transformation into usable business information and knowledge. With the power of knowledge an organisation can determine the current positives and also the negatives, allowing for thorough scrutinisation and discovery of new ways to move forward. As more data becomes available to mine the accuracy of the information exposed can only increase. Web Applications A web application is more than just a web site. The two terms are often used interchangeably but the demand for web applications with new functionality continues to push the boundaries of Web 2.0 to new limits. Exploited properly, Web Applications will create an effective, and more importantly, unique, application and open a worldwide gateway into your business. Distributed processing When business procedures or complex algorithms would take too long to process with a conventional infrastructure design, a distributed system may allow for the performance increase that is needed. The overall run time can be significantly reduced by dividing a complete problem domain into discrete tasks that are able to run in parallel. Mobile Platforms Mobile devices are a natural extension to your current business platform. By empowering employees and customers with the ability to access your services from mobile devices you widen your business reach. Many mobile software applications are enhanced through the use of Location Based Services and SMS gateways to allow for a ubiquitous experience with existing technology and exploiting the user’s surroundings.

Shore Tech Systems provided Start-rite Ltd with a web application to centralise the management and administration of a key business system. The new administration system provides a consolidation of usage statistics from the existing business system along with email notifications and a reporting service. The system allows for management of the hosting of the business system physical servers and allows for monitoring of system the outlined resources all from the same central web application: System usage monitoring System Performance monitoring Web based event logging Email notifications Web Service administration Web based SQL Server administration Web based IIS management Creating / Deleting / Stopping / Starting Application pools and Web Sites For more information see: http://www.shoretechsystems.co.uk/CaseStudies/StartRite/Default.aspx