Case Studies

Bespoke Application Developments

Glasgows Event Management System

Glasgows is one of the UKs largest in-house suppliers of conference & event services. Based in Preston, they organise and run a number of high profile events.

In March 2006, Pale Purple were recommended, via an existing customer, to Glasgows.

Glasgows required the capability for delegates to register for events, securely, online. They also wished to replace their aging thick-client internal application which caused extensive management and maintenance issues.

Glasgows were able to provide some development capability in house, mainly limited to HTML, CSS but lacked experience at developing large PHP based applications. They had already worked on a requirements specification with appropriate mock screenshots, and had a first draft at a database structure which they felt would encapsulate the necessary data across all events.

Working in association with Glasgows, Pale Purple produced an initial prototype and then progressed into producing the actual application. Working on a flexible, hours-spent basis, combined with regular meetings and communication, the application went live in October 2007.

Glasgows decided on the flexible development approach as it allowed for them to change requirements as the project progressed, with minor overhead.

The Lloyd Fraser Group

The Lloyd Fraser group is a third party logistics provider, who deliver supply chain solutions that reduce costs, improve control, and speed the movement of products, providing information about distribution, logistics and warehousing.

Pale Purple were approached by Lloyd Fraser to produce a transport tracking application for use with returned goods - something that fell outside the capability of their existing application.

Working through a number of fixed price phases, Pale Purple produced and host a web application with granular access control, that maps onto their business.

The application went live in early 2007 (see here for more).