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16/09/2008:Zaubergarten website goes live
This is the first German web shop we have set up with our own shop software. Zaubergarten is a shop in Regensburg high street selling designer clothes for children and designer maternity wear. We think this is a good product to sell online and hope the web shop will increase Zaubergarten's overall turnover!
http://www.zaubergartenshop.de

12/09/2008:e.content.maps integrated for Oberes Maintal - Coburger Land
Oberes Maintal - Coburger Land has signed up for a project by Frankentourismus to introduce a new map software developed specially for tourism websites. We pass the details of the accommodations, restaurants, sights and events through an XML interface and this software displays them in a map system powered by Microsoft Virtual Earth.
http://www.oberesmaintal-coburgerland.com

11/09/2008:Locale Update
In the last few months we have taken 2 new installations of the Locale business part extranets live for our client Locale:
http://www.onebrighton.net/
http://www.balticquarter.com/

01/09/2008:Our first apprentice
We are very proud that our German part of the business has been allowed to have an apprentice. The apprenticeship for Christopher Jakob is for 3 years in which he will make monthly trips to the UK. At the end of his apprenticeship he will have to take a final government exam to become an "IT Systeme Kaufmann" (it systems trader). We wish Chris all the best for his apprenticeship!
http://www.sapnagroup.net/team_en_103.html

28/08/2008:Brewing Awards website goes live
This is a project for one of our oldest clients. Earlier this year we have finished the redesign of the BFBI main website which we have been looking after since 2000. Both designs were done by our designer Elias Fecher and both websites are fitted with our CMS (Content Management System) which allows the client to change all the content of the website themselves.
http://www.brewingawards.org

18/08/2008:Japanese version of the Sheffield Haworth website goes live
We have set up the Verbatim Europe website in currently 17 different languages including Russian characters - but this was the first time we have actually done a project with Japanese characters. It is an independent copy of the main Sheffield Haworth website aiming at the Japanese market.
http://www.sheffieldhaworth.jp

11/08/2008:sapnagroup wins two pitches
After over a year from the first contact we won the business for the technical and creative redesign of the web shop for The Fish Society. We will also host the website and work on the search engine optimisation (SEO). Planned live date is November 2008. Through our partner agency MM&M in Koblenz we also won the business to create a new multi-lingual website for FLOTT.
http://www.thefishsociety.co.uk
http://www.flott.de

01/08/2008:MVV energy stock exchange game is launched
A project we are very proud of has finally been completed. For MVV we have developed a Flash game with video integration which can be played over the internet and which is supposed to help customers to understand one of MVV products as well as to give the sales team a good reason to follow up with potential clients.

29/07/2008:Lunz intranet project completed
We have redesigned the existing Lunz intranet and added some new functions.

28/07/2008:blau7 website goes live
A friend of sapnagroup MD Jonny Hubner has created images of Bamberg's apple woman - a famous Bamberg door knob - in bright colour combinations. They claim their pictures are Bamberg's positive energy!
http://www.blau7.de

22/07/2008:Tinies online operations manual goes live
As part of their internal software used by all franchise partners we have digitalised the Tinies operations manual. Any changes are made by Tinies in our admin and franchisees can either access the manual online or download pages, chapters or the full manual as PDF.

18/07/2008:News from our SEO team
For Lunz we finished the first SEO for a German client. With the help of Jonny Hübner, our Goa based SEO team managed to achieve top rankings. Link building is now continued by a German student. For our SEO client Convex we achieved a page 1 ranking for "conveyancing" on google.co.uk and with IT Auctions we signed up a big new client for our SEO team.

14/07/2008:SUCK PayPal integration
Beside some other small changes we integrated PayPal payment to the SUCK UK website.
http://www.suck.uk.com

04/07/2008:BOC universities system goes live
BOC gives special conditions to universities when they shop in their web shop which we have created for them. Through a web service we check each visitors IP address against a database of UK university IPs and show a special home page for university visitors.
http://www.bocsafetyproducts.co.uk

27/06/2008:Trellis website goes live
After long phase of the client filling the CMS (Content Management System) with products we have finally taken the Trellis Jewellery website live. Our system gives the client full control over her website and the products displayed. And Trellis has made use of it by adding hundreds of products in different categories.
http://www.trellisjewellery.com

23/06/2008:Lime Street Recruitment reskin goes live
Lime Street Recruitment is part of the Empresaria Group for whom we offer website support and maintenance through our agency partner Locale. For this project we have created a new web design and re-skinned the existing website.
http://www.limestreet.co.uk

16/06/2008:Tinies Westminster Holiday Playscheme system goes live
Our client Tinies runs the Westminster Playground Scheme. This website gives parents additional information, option to register and change their details.
http://www.tinies.com/whp

09/06/2008:News from our server admin team
While retaining all our existing clients we have signed up 2 new dedicated server clients in the last few months: SUCK UK (a product design web shop) and IT Auctions. We also do a server upgrade (hardware and upgrade to PHP5) for the server of our client Locale.

09/06/2008:Verbatim SEO version goes live
With the help of Verbatim's SEO consultancy Neutralize we optimised our CMS and code to make it easier for search engines to spider the Verbatim website. The main challenge was to make Google recognise the language versions as websites from the respective countries. We achieved this by setting up a language selector page and setting up each language version with the relevant country domain.
http://www.verbatim-europe.com

27/05/2008:Capitol Design Flash CMS goes live
The website has been live for quite a while - now we have enhanced the CMS (Content Management System) to not only power the HTML version of the website but also the Flash version. We also allow the client to be able to upload a movie per property.
http://www.capitol-design.com

26/05/2008:Tinies re-design goes live
A design we are very proud of went live today! Created by sapnagroup web designer Elias Fecher and implemented with a lot of love for detail by our programmer Madura Kamat helped by our client Justin Jeffries. In our view this is a prime example of a modern web design with clear navigation and a lot of effects to make the web site easier to use.
http://www.tinies.com

19/05/2008:BFBI reskin goes live
As one of our oldest clients BFBI has been with us since 2000. This is the third design we have created for them in those years. We are proud to have such loyal customers!
http://www.bfbi.org.uk

12/05/2008:Phase 1 for IT Auctions goes live
After 4 months of hard work and burning a lot of midnight oil we managed to successfully finish phase 1 of our currently biggest project. Phase 1 was redoing the complete admin of itauctions.co.uk - a fully fledged auction system incl. financial reports, integration with Sage and a dedicated server. Phase 2 will start straight away and include a full creative and technical redesign of the front-end.
http://www.itauctions.co.uk

06/05/2008:Zimbabwe charity website goes live
This is a small project we did not charge for, supporting a fund raiser from Jonny Hubner's home town who tries to collect money for his nephew running a catholic mission in Zimbabwe.
http://www.bamberg-hilft-in-simbabwe.de

05/05/2008:Lawyer website goes live
This is a small website for our legal advisor in Germany. A CMS (Content Management System) allows her to update the contents of her website herself at any time and without technical knowledge.
http://www.ra-boehnlein.de

01/05/2008:Europe sapnagroup team grows
After years of steep growth of our Indian team, the European team has also grown recently: Martin Schörner, a German project manager, joined full time at the beginning of the year, our web designer Elias Fecher also joined full time from May and from September Christopher Jakob will started his 3 year apprenticeship.

28/04/2008:Giftlab web shop goes live
After having launch the BOC b2b web shop only recently we have now launched a proper b2c web shop. The design was done by our web designer Elias Fecher and the web shop has been created as a bespoke development with our own shop code.
http://www.giftlab.co.uk

25/04/2008:Arkadin Brand Centre goes live
Using our online status report and an online image library has worked very well for our agency partner with their client Verbatim. We have now adjusted the system to also have these 2 tools for their new client Arkadin.

21/04/2008:Clear Health website goes live
A small project which we really enjoyed a lot! The client agreed to our initial design ideas by Elias Fecher and worked hard on copy and photos. We all love the result!
http://www.clearhealth.co.uk

16/04/2008:Online payment gateway for Greycoat
For our Locale client Greycoat Placements we enhanced their website with the HSBC online payment facility which allows their clients paying invoices online.
http://www.greycoatplacements.co.uk

14/04/2008:BOC Safety Products web shop goes live
We created this web shop for our agency partner Malice Design. They also did the printed catalogue for BOC. This solely b2b web shop offers over 1,000 safety products, client logins with different prices and an order form. BOC can update the products and prices in CSV files and then upload them to the website.
http://www.bocsafetyproducts.co.uk

07/04/2008:buddi geo-fencing goes live
We have successfully implemented a new feature for our client buddi: "geo fencing". On a Google Map the user can add dots and connect them to create an area. If the wearer of the buddi leaves this area an alarm will be given to the user via SMS.
http://www.buddi.co.uk

03/04/2008:Antiquitäten Heiss online marketing
After having redesigned the Heiss Aniques website a year ago we are now working with the client to market it. A newsletter module allows our client to easily send newsletters to clients and leads based on a branded email template. We have also upgraded the website to allow search engine optimisation and held a workshop on how to optimise the copy and meta tags for the relevant key phrases.
http://www.heiss-antik.de

31/03/2008:Atlas Copco Gas and Process Division website goes live
For this project we only built the CMS (Content Management System) for our agency partner Threeview. The design was based on the Atlas Copco group guidelines and filled with life by our agency partner Threeview in Munich who created and maintain all the content for their client.
http://www.atlas-energas.de

20/03/2008:c4t projects completed
We completed 2 more small projects for our agency partner c4t: an email newsletter manager which allows them to produce newsletters for the HP brand Lightscribe based on a standard template and a static website for their client MCM.
http://www.m-cm.co.uk/

10/03/2008:Fish Brothers intranet goes live
Fish Brothers is one of our oldest clients. After having done 3 different websites for them they have now asked us to also do an intranet for them. It includes an employee forum, a download section, a calendar, items for sale, internal jobs and internal information.

03/03/2008:Julia Hollander website goes live
A small project for the author of "When The Bough Breaks" - a memoir of the birth and infancy of her severly disabled daughter. The website is set up as a blog.
http://www.motherstory.co.uk

18/02/2008:Definiens reskin goes live
We applied the new design created by our partner agency Threeview to the Definiens CMS based website which we created initially in 2006/2007.
http://www.definiens.com

11/02/2008:New Vmail System goes live
We have redone Verbatim's existing mailing manager with new features and better integration with their website and image library. Our partner agency Orckid has also created new templates for exciting new mail shots.

04/02/2008:Trip to Europe
Nilesh Nayak and Shiv Ajgaonkar from our Indian programming team will travel to the UK on Thurday, 7th of February. The main reason is a big project in Birmingham we are currently working on. They will present the latest status and discuss face to face with the client the next steps towards completion of phase 1 in April. Nilesh, the head of our programming team will also meet clients in London and later on in Germany.

28/01/2008:Websites for our agency partner c4t go live
Within the last week we took 3 websites for our agency partner c4t live. All of them are fitted with our standard CMS (Content Management System) which allows c4t and their clients to update all content on the site. All designs were done by c4t.
http://www.njsequestrian.co.uk
http://www.seanjackman.com
http://www.leightonlandscaping.com

27/01/2008:Bamberg trip by London client
Justin Jeffries from our client Tinies / My Family Care left back to London after 4 days in Bamberg. On the agenda were meetings with our web designer Elias Fecher and our partner agency Kopfwerk who created the new corporate identity for My Family Care. Beside business meetings there was still time to do some sight seeing and sample German food and beer.

21/01/2008:Dragonfly Jewellery website goes live
Today the Dragonfly Jewellery website went live. It has been designed by our designer Adam Hewett and is fitted with a CMS (Content Management System) which allows the client to update the product catalogue. As a next step we will add on online webshop with PayPal integration.
http://www.dragonewellery.com

07/01/2008:Angelusdoron website goes live
A small but first project for our new partner Thomas Petmecky (tpd visuelle kommunikation) has gone live today. The website is fitted with our CMS (Content Management System) to allow the client to change any content on the website without any technical knowledge.
http://www.angelusdoron.de

06/01/2008:My Family Care re-branding goes live
Together with our partner agency Kopfwerk in Bamberg we handled the re-branding of My Family Care. Last part of the project was the reskin of the websites. A team of 3 programmers and our web designer Elias Fecher together with the client worked very hard in the last 2 months to take this live on time today. A lot of emphasis was on details (mouse-overs, effects) and we are very proud of the new design and the way it has been implemented into the website.
http://www.myfamilycare.co.uk
http://www.emergencychildcare.co.uk
http://www.emergencyhomecare.co.uk
http://www.outofschoolcare.co.uk

28/12/2007:New accommodation database for OM-CL goes live
The tourist board Oberes Maintal - Coburger Land has given the job for the new printed accommodation catalogue to our partner agency Kopfwerk in Bamberg. They created it based on the website accommodation database for which we created a XML export for this purpose. As the format had changed we also changed the web admin and front-end on the website.
http://www.oberesmaintal-coburgerland.com

12/12/2007:Hill & Dean website goes live
A small but nice project for a travel PR agency. Our designer Elias Fecher has created the design and the website has been put together as static website (without CMS).
http://www.hillanddean.com

02/12/2007:Trip to Goa
Today Jonny Hubner arrives back in London after spending 10 days in our Goan production offices. Beside the day to day work there was time to catch up with senior staff on strategic issues. Highlight of the trip was the annual company party include some amazing karaoke performances by members of the sapnagroup team. All team members were awarded sapnagroup branded travel bags.

20/11/2007:sapnagroup SEO team celebrates first birthday...
…and after this one year we can proudly announce that we are now doing SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and SEM (Search Engine Marketing) for 12 websites and that the team has grown 6. Congratulations to Shekhar and his team! Keep the good the work up!

19/11/2007:The Redstrike Website goes live!
This small project for our partner agency Orckid includes our CMS (Content Management System) with different templates which allows the client to update all content on the website.
http://www.red-strike.com

06/11/2007:Website for the Queen's Club 3rd team goes live!
Ben Black from our client myfamilycare asked us if we could create an intranet for his tennis team to make it easier to plan squads for matches and exchange team gossip. Together with the team's captain Steve Raphael we got a fun and sophisticated system together in the last few months. Good luck for the new season!

05/11/2007:MDA Awards website goes live!
A small project for our agency partner c4t – the MDA awards website. It features some static pages giving information about the award and a form which submissions are collected and made accessible to the client in web-based admin. The next step is to set up the main MDA website with the new design already used for this awards website.
http://www.mdaawards.org

01/11/2007:My Family Care system goes live!
After our client My Family Care had bought BUPA Childcare our task was to rebuild their existing Access database as web application so it can be used by all the remote staff. The new system went live today with all the relevant data imported from the old system.

18/10/2007:Chelsea & Westminster Health Charity website goes live!
Another small project for our agency partner Locale. We set up our CMS (Content Management System) and integrated it with the designs provided by the client's agency. It allows the administrator changing all content on the website.
http://www.chelwestcharity.org.uk

15/10/2007:Sheffield Haworth website goes live!
This project has been for our partner agency Locale. The design and Flash were done by our designer Pero Köhler. The website was built with our CMS (Content Management System) to allow the client updating all content.
http://www.sheffieldhaworth.com

12/10/2007:Koeba Mailing Manager
As an enhancement to the Königsbacher website we have added our Mailing Manager module. It allows the client to created branded newsletters, manage mailing lists and email out newsletters. This was another project for our partner agency MM&M in Koblenz, Germany.

05/10/2007:Think Pink / blue2 website goes live!
Definitely one of our most favourite projects in the last few months! A good design from London agency Davies and Zieja, good input from the client and good products helped us too put this fantastic web shop together. It’s based fully on our own web shop code. All the best and good sales for Tim Hislop and his team! The next sapnagroup web shops are already in the making – so watch this space!

05/10/2007:Katrin Product Sheets System
One of our biggest projects this summer! A system allowing Katrin to enter all their product details and images in multiple languages. Our system produces a password protected, multi-lingual website on which the user can select the language, the product categories and the download a PDF product sheet dynamically generated by our script for each product. A special function allows the administrator to create an offline version which can be burned on a CD. This was a project for our partner agency MM&M in Koblenz, Germany.

17/09/2007:Verbatim video podcast
For Verbatim we have produced a video podcast about their stand at IFA 2007 for our partner agency Orckid in Staines. Working together with our partner German agency Kopfwerk we have filmed 2 days and then produced the podcast in English and German.

15/09/2007:VDS website goes live!
This is our first project for our partner agency Michal & Spielhagen in Bamberg. The new website for the association of special needs teachers in Bavaria (VDS) doesn’t only give them a professional new look but also allows them to update all content themselves through our content management system (CMS). As special feature users can book events online and search the archive of their quarterly magazine and download articles. Payment authorization happens through a link to their members database.

22/08/2007:More Empresaria reskins
Over the last months, we completed some more website reskins for companies of the Empresaria Group for our agency partner Locale. The Greycoat Acadamy website also includes an eCommerce module to buy training modules online.
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10/08/2007:New Fish Brothers website goes live
Fish Brothers, a group of car dealerships, is one of our oldest clients. This is already the 3rd version of the website which we have done for Fish Brothers since 2000. The design and Flash is from Adam Hewett. We are very proud to say that this is one of our best web designs. The website is also powered by our CMS (Content Management System) which allows the Group Marketing Manager and the dealership principals to update all content of the website; each person having restricted rights to update only their part of the website.
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07/08/2007:Nova website goes live
Nova manufactures dental instruments and is part of our client, The Whites Group. We have earlier done websites for their four subsidiary companies. The Nova website boasts of a product catalogue which the client can update through a CMS (Content Management System). The user can submit an estimate request for products by virtue of a shopping basket. The system is capable of having content in multiple languages.
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06/08/2007:Main buddi product launched
After the launch of petbuddi, we have now added the main product – the buddi – to the website. Our online system allows buying the buddi and a contract. Using our web based system, the location of a particular buddi at any time is shown on a graphical map. It also gives an interface for the call centre and automatically passes on emergency messages from the buddi to the call centre. We also manage the servers and work on the search engine optimisation (SEO) for buddi.
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31/07/2007:black+blum web shop goes live!
We have added a shopping basket to the existing black+blum Flash website. As payment gateway we implemented PayPal. The back office of the webshop is a bespoke development as because of the 2 warehouses and agents all around the world there were some unique requirements.
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12/07/2007:Oberes Maintal - Coburger Land website goes live!
For this project for our agency partner Kopfwerk the Google Maps application and the accommodation search which also syncs with frankentourismus.de are the most interactive tools. The Google Maps application allows displaying accommodations, restaurants, sights and bicycle tours on Google Maps. The data in the online accommodation database will now also be used by Kopfwerk for the printed version of the accommodation directory.
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12/07/2007:All Saint Sisters of the Poor website goes live!
A pretty unusual client for us - the All Saint Sister of the Poor, an Anglican oder in Oxford! Nevertheless we are happy to have created a website for them to communicate online what they are and what they believe in. Our CMS (Content Management System) allows them to update all content on their website.
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05/07/2007:New Schrannehalle CMS goes live!
This is the first project for our new agency partner in Munich pro.jektBlau. The client wanted an open source CMS (Content Management System). Therefore we installed Typo3 rather than our own CMS system. We thank pro.jektBlau for the trust and hope to do more projects together in the future!
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03/07/2007:outofschoolcare.co.uk goes live
After emergencychildcare.co.uk and emergencyhomecare.co.uk, outofschoolcare.co.uk this is now the third product launched by our client Emercency Care Ltd. The website allows parents to find holiday clubs and book online.
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28/06/2007:petbuddi website goes live
We are very proud to have taken live the petbuddi website. The product of our client is world's first GSM location finder for dogs. Our website allows customers to buy the product and look-ups, find their dog on the Internet, through their mobile phone or through a call centre. The website is integrated with an Esendex system which does the locating of the buddi, Protx for the online payment and multimap.
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28/06/2007:emergencychildcare.co.uk wins the Daily Telegraph Trailblazer Business Challenge…
… and with it a cash prize of £50,000 as a "winning product or service that fits within the life assistance market". Beside the cash a lot of publicity will be assured! One more reason to make us proud today!

21/06/2007:Definies website goes live
The Definiens website is our first major project with our new agency partner Threeview in Munich. Earlier this year we have already done the Definiens Newsletter CMS before now redoing the whole back-end of their website. The new CMS allows them to update their huge website without any technical knowledge. We have also added the "Definiens ID" which allows users to register and gain access to protected documents.
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09/06/2007:Lightscribe market research
Together with the agency Michal & Spielhagen we planned and did a market research project for HP's brand Lightscribe. This project was done for our agency partner c4t.

01/06/2007:Verbatim Europe website redesign goes live
To finish off the global Verbatim rebrand project our agency partner Orckid has redesigned the website. We are proud to have taken live the 4th version of this website in the 6 years Verbatim has been our client! The website is still fitted with our multi-lingual CMS which allows Verbatim to update the content of the whole site in currently 16 languages.
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31/05/2007:High Line Yachting website goes live
After nearly 2 years we are very happy to have finally completed this small project! The High Line Yachting website has 2 templates and is fitted with a CMS which allows the client to keep content and offers up to date without any additional costs. The website has been designed and managed by Vicky Payne.
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18/05/2007:Tinies Agency System
Over the last 12 months we have rebuilt the existing Window application for the Tinies agency system as online software. To make the transition easier the new system looks and works exactly as the old one. A few of the advantages of the online approach are: cost saving, easier central updates and fixes, central backups, direct connection with the Tinies website. At the moment Shiv Ajgaonkar from our programming office is visiting all the Tinies branches in the UK to import the data from the old into our new sytem.

01/05/2007:Capitol Design Website goes live
Our new client is a property developer and interior designer for exclusive properties in Chelsea, Kensignton and Belgravia. The aspiration for the website was for it to reflect the quality of their properties. It was developed in Flash by our designer Adam Hewett with an alternative HTML version and a CMS (Content Management System) for the client to update the information which will reflect on the Flash and HTML version.
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25/04/2007:Mansion House website goes live!
We have completed the website for another recruitment company within the Empresaria Group. This project was part of our work for the Empresaria Group companies through our agency partner Locale.
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17/04/2007:PetPlan Trust website goes live
This is another project for our agency partner Locale. We did the design and CMS (Content Management System) which allows the client to edit all the content on the site.
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16/04/2007:Sidiko website goes live
This is the first project for our new agency partner artfarm in Wiesbaden, Germany. To accommodate for the design provided by artfarm we had to do some modification to our CMS (Content Management System) – but both artfarm and Sidiko are happy with the outcome and that they will be able to change the content on all pages as well as create new pages.
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02/04/2007:HEC website goes live
For our agency partner Locale we have created a website for another company within the Empresaria Group. We create the design and fitted our CMS (Content Management System) which allow the client editing all the content on the site.
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28/03/2007:Peugeot Parts goes live
For our client since 2000, Fish Brothers Car Dealerships, we have developed this website which allows users to get quotes for Peugeot parts and to pay online after receiving the quote via email. There is also a merchandise and accessories online shop. For this project we have integrated the HSBC online payment. If successful our system allows to expand the concept for other makes.
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27/03/2007:Barabara Wood website goes live
We sorted Barbara Wood, a psychologist, with a new corporate ID, flyer and website. A small project - but we all feel it looks great!
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23/03/2007:sapangroup takes over Verbatim web server
Verbatim Europe has entrusted us with the management of their web server. As all our dedicated servers we have set this one up with a mirror server and sophisticated backup and security systems.
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20/03/2007:Tinies mailing manager goes live
The challenge with this project was to combine our mailing manager software with the Tinies Nannies & Parents database to allow all registered users to change their mailing list profile when logged into their account. The new system also allows sending out more targeted newsletters rather than only newsletters to the whole list as before.
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15/03/2007:L&O website goes live
For our agency partner Malice Design we fitted the website for London & Oriental with a CMS (Content Management System). This allows the client to update the content in all sections of the website themselves.
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28/02/2007:SMA redesign goes live!
For our agency partner Hugo Pickering we handled this as a pro bono project. The design was done by our designer Stefan Krusche and then fitted with the sapnagroup CMS (Content Management System).

26/02/2007:Rosiwal website goes live again!
For our German chartered accountants we updated their existing website and moved it to their new webs server.

19/02/2007:Booking calendar for Casterbridge
For our client Casterbridge we have added a booking calendar to their intranet which allows the nursery staff to check out available courses and submit bookings. Our software also automatically creates the certificates.

19/02/2007:New Königsbachger home page
Our agency partner MM&M in Koblenz created a new look for the Königsbacher Brewery website which we implemented with our CMS (Content Management System). At the same time we also added a prize draw module.

12/02/2007:WH Estates goes live!
Another company of Whites Group has been fitted by us with a website. It works with the Whites Group CMS (Content Management System) and has been kept in the same style as other Whites Group companies. This project was handled through our agency partner Orckid.

08/02/2007:Verbatim Where to Buy goes live
We enhanced the existing Where to Buy section with Map24 so that users can now search for stores selling Verbatim products by typing in their postcode or address. There search results give distance to the stores in the area and shows them on the map. This has gone live with UK only but is set up to work for all European countries. This has been a project for our partner agency Orckid.
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29/01/2007:ECC update
A lot has happened on emergencychildcare.co.uk as two of our programmers are working on this project on a full time basis. Besides numerous smaller changes and enhancements, the following three achievements deserve a special mention: IBM has now been integrated into the system which means that all UK IBM employees can book emergency nursery spaces and nannies with a company contribution. We have also taken emergencyhomecare.co.uk live and our designer Adam Hewett has refreshed the design.
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15/01/2007:LQ Community
For our agency partner Orckid, we added a "Community Area" to the Leaders' Quest website which allows participants, alumni and other people involved with quests, to post their profile and contact each other. It has been developed in Flash with all the data coming from our CMS.
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04/01/2007:LUUP newsletter
Our first completed job for our agency partner Malice Design is an email newsletter template for LUUP. We hope for a fruitful and long term partnership!

22/12/2006:FB Contracts goes live!
For one of our oldest clients, Fish Brothers in Swindon, we have created a website for their new car / van leasing business FB Contracts. The website contains a huge database of cars and vans which can be leased. The database can be updated by the client. The design was done by the sapnagroup designer Adam Hewett.
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18/12/2006:Locale goes live
Locale is a project for our 2 agency partners Hugo Pickering and Guy Windsor-Lewis. It is an extranet for business parks and gives users local, regional and national information. We have set up the system in a way that allows the editor to add information on a local, regional and national level and depending on where the business park is based the relevant information is displayed. For this project we integrated a range of external information into the Locale portal.
www.locale.co.uk

16/12/2006:SUCK UK shop changes
For our new client SUCK UK we have made some changes to their existing PHP online shop. Check it out!
www.suck.uk.com

17/11/2006:Childcare Voucher integration for ECC.
For our client emergencychildcare.co.uk we integrated childcare vouchers as payment method for their services. Parents who book nursery spaces can now not only pay with their company’s contribution and credit card but also with Care4 and Sodesho Pass childcare vouchers. Payment happens instantly through web services to the childcare voucher providers and as far as we understand we are the first company who has done this.
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10/11/2006:Casterbridge Nursery websites
Our CMS doesn't only allow Casterbridge to maintain the corporate website but also an unlimited number of websites for their nurseries. For each of them they can create an own header and footer. The nursery websites use generic content from the corporate website but the CMS also allows nursery managers to add content specifically for their nursery. Here are some samples:
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10/11/2006:The reskin for McCall went live today.
McCall is part of the Empresaria Group which we service through our partner Hugo Pickering.
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01/11/2006:sapnagroup brand finally goes live
Nearly one year after the idea was born to not only work as one entity but also to brand each other as one entity, "sapnagroup" goes live. It incorporates the European sales company e-i-s limited, the Indian production company Sapnatech and the UK designer Adam Hewett. "sapna" means "dream" and stands for the dream we had when we started 5 years ago with 3 people. Now the teams in the UK, Germany and India count over 20 people! And it stands for our dream to create an organisation in which everybody wins: clients, staff, partners and owners.
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30/10/2006:Soo San website goes live
Marjan Zabiollah has done the design for Soo San - we have provided the CMS (Content Management System) which allows the client to update copy and products on the site.
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25/09/2006:Empresaria website goes live!
This is a project we have done for our partner Hugo Pickering. The design has been done by our designer Adam Hewett. Beside our standard CMS (Content Management System) this website also includes integration of external content for investor information and an updatable Flash world map.
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21/09/2006:Artists Web grows!
Another artist has joined the sapnagroup artist web: Kerstin Amend-Pohlig based in Coburg, Germany. She has done the design for the CY Magazine website and is currently working on a piece of art for our MD Jonny Hubner. Have a look at her work!
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25/08/2006:AZUR Acquisitions website goes live!
Looking to buy a property in Provence? Then you are right at this new website we have taken live today. The design was provided by the client - we have turned it into an updatable website with our CMS (Content Management System).
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17/08/2006:Lunz website goes live!
For Lunz we have re-designed their website and fitted it with a CMS (Content Management System) which allows the client to update all areas of their website including team, special offers, testimonials, partners.
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11/08/2006:Neuwied websites go live!
For our partner agency MMM in Koblenz we fitted two temporary websites with our CMS (Content Management System): one for the shopping night and the other one for a model competition.
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01/08/2006:Our first filming project
As movies become more and more popular on the web we teamed up with Pia Dahlem who is a movie producer. Today starts our first filming job: an interview with a BP director which will then be integrated into a Flash movie by our designer Adam Hewett.

26/07/2006:Casterbridge website goes live!
For our new client Casterbridge - a nursery chain - we did the full package: creating logo, corporate identity, stationery, intranet and website. All design work has been done by our designer Adam Hewett. A special feature on the website is the interactive Flash map which was done by Pero Köhler. Next module to go live in August is a CMS (Content Management System) which allows Casterbridge to create websites for each of their nurseries based on a template.
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20/07/2006:CY Club website goes live!
This is a website supporting the new kids magazine CY Club. Kids can read articles, register, take part in competitions and polls and collect star points. A sophisticated CMS (Content Management System) makes sure the online editor can update any part of the website without any technical knowledge. This is the first project with our partner agency WLP.
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11/07/2006:Telos Partners redesign goes live!
This is already the 3rd version of the Telos Partners website we have done together with our partner agency Orckid since 2001. The new CMS (Content Management System) allows the client to extend their website to multiple languages.
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04/07/2006:Verbatim Marketing Exchange goes live!
This provides the Verbatim Europe team with even more tools to manage their marketing efficiently. It includes an annual advertising overview, phorums and a translations management system. It was planned and developed together with our partner agency Orckid.

22/06/2006:Other updates...
Beside the bigger projects which got their own news there have been quite a range of smaller project going live in the last few months: online brewery tour booking for Cains, Portsmouth Shoulder Unit website, Raindance Irrigation website, Millington website, streaming videos in the Spink Property website, English version of germany2006.com, sales database for Castrol
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21/06/2006:Empresaria Server
Our fourth dedicates server went live today making it a constant growth for our server team. All our dedicated servers are set up with a mirror servers and sophisticated backup systems.

15/06/2006:Trip to the UK
Savita, one of senior programmers, flew back home to Goa today after a 10 day tour of our UK based clients. Beside the meetings there was also time for sight seeing and an afternoon of tennis at Queens. Thanks to Tinies and Orckid who co-sponsored this trip.

11/06/2006: howtobuyacar.co.uk goes live!
If you are looking to buy a car we can only recommend checking out this website. It offers report helping you to save hundreds of pounds!
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09/06/2006:Endeavour Ventures website goes live!
Beside the website we have built a sophisticated backend which allows EndVen to do most of their administrative work including a CRM system and a customer login where customers get all information about their investments.

26/05/2006:Rent collector software goes live!
For one of our clients we have re-done an existing Windows software online. The front-end stayed exactly the same so that no re-training was required for the staff using it. A number of new functions were added and because it's online support & maintenance will be much easier than with an desktop software.
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