Introduction
Flying Start is recognised as one of the leaders in online community, networking and mentoring for students and graduates in the United Kingdom. Flying Start is now the preferred community portal for over ten thousand students and powers one of the most dynamic and customisable Web 2.0 based networking environments available today.
Business Requirements
Flying Start required an end-to-end business solution to meet their needs of a highly configurable online communication system. They needed to be able to provide students and graduates a place where they could exchange ideas in real-time, communicate with mentors, search for appropriate resources and gain ready access to pertinent information in their subject fields. They also needed a back-end management system where Flying Start Administrators could customise the interface, send targeted group messages and monitor system activity in real-time.
Domain: www.flyingstart-ncge.com
Plaroma's Business Solution
- Plaroma provided Flying Start with a complete business solution, including application development, hosting and systems maintenance.
- A product engine was developed which provides the framework for each of the applications 'plugins'.
- On top of the framework, each area of the system is implemented as a 'plugin' so that new functionality can be added to the core engine
- Plaroma made extensive use of Web 2.0 and AJAX so that the system provides a more intuitive, desktop-friendly application
- A complete back-end Administration system was built which allows Flying Start total system configuration. They are able to choose the system skin, user access rights, gather real-time data on system usage, configure 'plugins' and their visibility
Technologies
- PHP
- AJAX
- JavaScript
- MySQL
- Web 2.0
- Apache web server
Benefits
Flying Start are now able to offer students and graduates a true next-generation community network. They can actively monitor system usage and their business has recorded significant gains since the introduction of this Web 2.0 product.
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