Our Satisfied Customers

 

 To help structure the information on this page, projects have been subdivided into the following categories:

   1. The customers

   2. Web applications }
   3. Database applications including case studies.
   4. Other projects

The Customers

Centor Publishing, London.

Contacts: Tor Davies (+44) (0) 208 287 3312
Proprietor
"Ian is one of a rare breed of IT professionals who takes time to understand your business and the way in which it is run before he builds the system. Rather than build a system to your exact requirements he questions the way you do things to suggest better ways. This quality is easy to underestimate but can have a significant impact on a business.

He has also proved invaluable in adding to our own ideas about ways to improve the way we run our business. It has been refreshing to work with an IT developer who is honest and realistic about the work we have requested and instead of just accepting what we have asked for he has pointed out better and cheaper ways of doing it, which saved us money in the process. Refreshingly he has no interest in keeping the black art, black!"

Organisation of Chartered Physiotherapists in Private Practice (OCPPP), Towcester.

Contact: Julia Costello (+44) (0) 1327 354441
Office Manager
"Working with Ian Hayes of Summit is encouragingly different. His approach is to develop a thorough understanding of the business aims and strategies and then produce solutions - this has enabled us to move forward extremely rapidly both operationally and strategically as new options have been opened up to us.

With a true understanding of the problem his solutions have proved to be both innovative and powerful. A number of his programme enhancements have saved the organisation more than the original cost within weeks."

Kilroy PHH Ltd, Wimbledon

Contact: Sarah Kilroy (+44) (0) 797 3775132

Target Learning Consultancy, Blackburn

Contact: Haldane Hamer (+44) (0) 870 010 7144

CollardManson Accessories Boutique, Sheffield.

Contact: Zara Collard-Manson (+44) (0) 114 273 7755

Orbit Cycles, Sheffield

Contact:

Doug Scriven (+44) (0) 7971 280223

InTrain, Wigan

Contact: Lynne Topping (+44) (0) 1257 471192
"... your support has been super.  You have always been there to answer my numerous questions and it still amazes me how you have grasped the whole NVQ system and understand what I talk about!  The updates we have requested and additional work done has always been what we wanted and works and any glitches have been fixed straight away."

Hertsmere Leisure, Watford

Contact:

Ian Jackson (+44) (0) 208 386 4044

Training Manager
" It really has taken the stress out of managing training here at Hertsmere Leisure.

 I have to admit that we forgot to tell Summit about some of the information we only need from the system periodically, but its design is such that Ian Hayes and his team have been able to create addition functionality as we have gone along. They have helped and supported us at every step along the way.

My staff find it easy to use, it's reliable and we all have great confidence in it."

Sheffield City Flying School, Sheffield.

Wendys Carpets and Curtains, Sheffield

Contact: Andy Caulton (+44) (0) 1709 377231

Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (AACP), Peterborough

Contact: John Longbottom (+44) (0) 1480 394715

ntoTele.com (the NTO for Telecommunications), Milton Keynes

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Web Applications

Client: Centor Publishing Case Study

Development of their web site from its beginnings as a straight forward e-commerce site with information content management facilities up to the current system which incorporates full operational business support for their order processing, customer subscription management, marketing activities and magazine distribution. Their web site can be viewed at www.sportex.net

Client: Target Learning Consultancy Case Study

Target provide an operational management service for a training company to ensure that their courses are fully booked and their fees are invoiced promptly. Target's web site is a pure operational business application providing for the completion of courses registers by the tutors and a wide range of reports to drive their invoicing and management activities.

Client: CollardManson Accessories Boutique

CollardManson's  web site is a straightforward e-commerce site that provides their customers with the ability to view and purchase a wide variety of designer accessories and jewellery. The site includes a fully flexible content management facility to enable designer details and product details to be entered and maintained. Their web site can be viewed at www.collardmanson.com

Client: OCPPP

Developed their web site which provides their members with access to various member benefits. The site includes comprehensive content management facilities and data integration with their in-house membership system. Their web site can be viewed at www.physiofirst.org.uk

Client: InTrain

Developed their web site from scratch. The site includes comprehensive content management facilities empowering them to maintain all of the text that appears on the pages of their site. Their web site can be viewed at www.intrain.co.uk

Client: University Knowledge Ltd

Designed and built a web-based application to support the requirements for an intellectual property register within the University. This was then extended into a complete end-to-end commercial product incorporating content management, search and enquiry and customer relationship management elements. This web site is currently under restricted pilot and is not publicly available.

Client: SPRITO 

Development of an Online Record of Achievement (NORA) web-site which allows NVQ Assessors and Verifiers to assess evidence on-line as part of a candidate's NVQ qualification or Modern Apprenticeship (MA) / National Traineeship (NT) programme.

Development of a web-based search engine for their NVQ Approved Centre database which enables members of the public to locate their nearest centre. SPRITO is currently being redefined and re-launched so the web site is not available.

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Database Applications

Client: IIB

Developed an administration system that enables them to manage their entire candidate recruitment, booking and invoicing for their residential business schools.

Client: InTrain

Developed their NVQ candidate tracking system to maintain information about each of the candidates' units and portfolios as they progressed through the various stages of assessment and approval.

Client: OCPPP Case Study

Developed a replacement membership system which includes data integration with their web site.

Client: Loughborough University

Developed the membership tracking and instructor booking system for the Fitness Suite and Powerbase centres within the University. 

Client: Gearshift Cycles

Developed a marketing analysis application that extracts data from their Sage order processing system and provides an interactive enquiry and reporting tool to determine an enormous range of possible management information. 

Client: Hertsmere Leisure

Developed Hertsmere Leisure’s in-house personnel training administration system comprising planning and scheduling with budgetary and cost tracking.

Client: Sutton Staff Agency

This was a ‘green field’ site where the customer did not even have PCs in the office. We analysed their business needs, designed and developed a complete business support system which covered the business flow from enquiry to invoice.

Client: SPRITO 

Development of their Labour Market Initiative database - to allow collection and reporting of employment in the Sport, Recreation and Allied Occupation sector. This included the capability to automatically update the master with remotely collected data.

A demonstration version of our database applications is available by clicking here.

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Other Projects

Client: Community Justice NTO Case Study

Four projects to create a CD viewer to publish vocational standards and S/NVQ qualifications. Two of the projects were to provide the publication in the Welsh language (which was subcontracted to a translation agency, I hasten to add).
A demonstration of this viewer is available by clicking here.

Further projects for CJNTO (who are now 'Skills for Justice' since the NTO structure was completely revised) have involved converting their on-line learning materials into a similar, but much more interactive format providing a variety of tasks and self assessment features.

Client: SPRITO 

A user friendly CD viewer for SPRITO's NVQ and Occupational Standards documentation. Published on CD-ROM and including a full text search feature and extensively cross-referenced material. Demonstration available.

 Client: ntoTele.com

A user friendly CD viewer for the Telecommunication's Call Handling vocational standards and S/NVQ qualifications

 

If you would like to know further details about any of these projects, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

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