Against an impressive field, Radford based developers Tineke Ltd have won the tender to develop the eChampions website, a key part of a new exciting East Midlands based eBusiness community project.
Variously referred to as “A private Facebook for eBusinesses”, and a “self-help-group for SME website owners”, eChampions will feature a leading edge web portal developed by Tineke Ltd to enable events, learning, networking to support businesses participating in this eBusiness improvement programme.
Joomla & open source chosen
For the technically well informed, the winning tender from Tineke was based on an adaptation of ‘Joomla’, an emerging open-source development platform, and part of the move towards lower-cost adaptable web technology solutions that employ powerful yet easily reusable modules of web code.
“We’re glad to now have a preferred development partner decided. We have spent 3 months looking at what will genuinely help member businesses be better informed and help them to improve their businesses online, and have built in some cool features which we think are amongst the first of their type in the UK.” Dorte Knights Branch, eChampions Project Officer.
eMaturity & bottom-line benefits
The system, the first phase of which will go live in late January 2010 will in addition to the usual forum and info sharing opportunities, will also allow members to watch and participate in live learning events. However the real innovations centre on systems that will allow the businesses to directly compare their performance of their websites with other businesses, commonly referred to as Benchmarking it’s believed to be amongst the first in the UK to attempt this for the eBusinesses.
Discover more about eChampions
Events to launch this FREE programme are running in November and December in Nottingham and Leicester. You can also learn more at www.eChampions.co.uk or phone Dorte Knights-Branch at AxisCentre, Castle College Nottingham 0115 9256666.
