MediaLab Group ...are one of the UK's leading direct marketing and media agencies, providing a complete range of fully integrated direct marketing services, targeted direct marketing promotions, data and fulfilment solutions, marketing campaign planning and direct media planning.

MediaLab Group are one of our oldest customers with whom we have now completed a trio of high profile, time critical, charity sector campaigns for Breakthrough Breast Cancer, the RSPCA and the Prince's Trust Institute. SystemCore's work focussed on the technical aspects of data capture and campaign tracking, cross client / cross browser coding, and staging server broadcast tests for each campaign.

 

 

September 2012

saSafari - Personalised Tours in Southern Africa

saSafari goes live!

saSafari.com ...the leading company for the creation of personalised itineraries in Southern Africa are now live with their new webiste. The site features multiple languages, French and English (using WPML), with a WordPress backend, original graphic design, Google Maps API integration, extensive galleries and a live Skype mini switchboard feature.

 

January 2012

It's Our List - Online Wedding Gift List Service

Another new ECS ecommerce site goes live!

It's Our List ...the leading independent online wedding gift list and engagement gift list service. It's Our List offer the ultimate wedding gift list and wedding presents service.

With a super clean design by SystemCore, a great logo by designer Kitch and module development with our ECS partners Holbi, we are delighted to see It's Our List open its doors for business. We wish you well!

 

July 2011

 

WordCamp 2011. The UK’s largest WordPress conference

SystemCore were happy to attend the 2011 WordCamp, based this year at Portsmourth University. WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress, and attracts bloggers, designers, developers, code gurus, social media fans, startups, corporates, communications professionals and marketeers.

WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other.

Over 25 million people have chosen WordPress to power their websites, including global brands and organisations. Surrounded by a great development community, WordPress leads the way in Open Source, GPL software development.

It’s always good to put names to faces and our thanks go to the key organiser of this year’s event, Tony Scott, Mike Little a founding member of WordPress itself, and to the key contributors including Kimb Jones, John Read, Dave Coveney, Martin Beeby, John Adams, Paul Gibbs of BuddyPress and many others.

 

Microsoft chooses WordPress!

Notable at this year’s event was the attendance of Microsoft, with news that they have migrated literally millions of users over to WordPress from their old proprietary blogging platform. Telling news that WordPress, and the Open source movement in general, is in the ascendant.

Next year SystemCore plan to present a technical workshop on WordPress development for enterprise and the potential use of WordPress as a business applications development platform.

 

 

May 2011

SystemCore Mobile Apps - fun with Nokia’s Symbian^3 OS

Armed with a new E7 smartphone, it was time to spin up a couple of Symbian apps using the Ovi fast App Wizard.

Avaialble now is a handy duo of SystemCore applications...

"Live Hosting Status RSS" will update customers with system status updates on all our web hosting platforms - for both shared architecture and dedicated servers.

"SystemCoreUK Latest" is a simple app to push our latest Tweets to your Symbian device. Both apps will soon be avialable free via the Ovi store with "Live Hosting Status RSS" coming soon for the iOS and Android operating systems.

 

 

May 2011

Stylechapel - for those who worship beautiful things

A new ECS ecommerce site goes live!

"Stylechapel showcases unique jewellery, creative fashion accessories and original products from new, emerging or just simply fabulous designers. Whether youÂ’'re after unusual gifts for yourself, for your friends or for your home, they offer the innovative and the individual".

With a great design from Kick Creative, and module development with our ECS partner Holbi, we are delighted to see Stylechapel open its doors for business. We wish you well!

 

March 2011

TFM&A and the Global Marketing Alliance...

SystemCore were again happy to attend this year’s TFM&A (Technology for Marketing and Advertising) show at Earls Court, London. The show features key providers in the fields of direct, email and social marketing, SEO, SEM, CRM and CMS. Our visit was punctuated with regular and welcome stops at the GMA Lounge. The Global Marketing Alliance whom we proudly support and host, had sponsored a sit down and networking area on stand C12. This dead handy touch down and meeting area for GMA members was provided by Matt Edgar, (head of the GMA and Direct Marketing International). Thanks Matt - hope you had a good show.

 

February 2011

WordPress - data driven CMS for Northern Design Collective...

SystemCore were happy to launch a new website for design and marketing agency, Northern Design Collective.

The new site includes data driven content management based on the WordPress 3 platform, remote RSS aggregation, and Twitter and Flickr social networking feeds.

Northern Design Collective is an independent design and marketing agency, providing copywriting and ad design, campaign management, product launch, brand development and identity work. We were delighted to team with designers Kick Creative, and the directors of NDC itself in producing the new website.

 

January 2011

MailPro - a hit for GTV Sports UK ...

SystemCore are happy to provide email broadcast marketing and campaign tracking for GTV Sports as a managed service.

Since 1991 GTV Sports have been one of the leading distributors of Activewear in the UK and are devoted to the distribution of leisurewear and associated products to the print, embroidery and retail trades. Having been in the sportswear industry for over 30 years, offering leading quality branded T-Shirts, Sweatshirts, Fleece Jackets, Childrens T-Shirts, Childrens Sweatshirts and Schoolwear, GTV now offer over 1,200 different product lines.

 

August 2010

Live and loaded - SystemCore MailProV3 is now available...

Representing a significant extension to our email broadcasting software, the new MailProV3 application adds a raft of new features for corporate class email campaign management. MailProV3 additions and enhancements include: custom online surveys; split campaign open and response testing; list segmentation management; dynamic 'subscriber specific' content insertion; Google Analytics integration; 'in-browser' email client testing; sophisticated trigger behaviors, WYSIWYG template editing and comprehensive campaign tracking and statistics.

For more details and upgrade information contact us at: frontdesk@systemcore.co.uk.

More information will be coming soon on our Campaign Management amd MailPro SaaS pages.

 

 

June 2010

SystemCore delivers professional networking for the GMA

A unique, international brand, the Global Marketing Alliance (GMA) is connecting the market with a world of benefits, enabling conversation among multi-national, like-minded business associates and providing top-level editorial coverage of news they can use and best-in-the-world commentary.

Membership of The Global Marketing Alliance allows privileged access to a senior marketing community.

 

 

May 2010

SystemCore delivers 'gorgeous' plasma and a new website for MediaLab

A unique blend of original animation, data driven content and fresh design is delivered for London marketing agency MediaLab Group Ltd.

MediaLab are a fully integrated direct marketing agency based in LondonÂ’s West End, offering clients a comprehensive range of targeted direct marketing data and fulfilment solutions. Our brief was to completely overhaul MediaLab's online presence with something that was clean, modern, functional and memorable.

 

 

January 2010

SystemCore delivers The Global Gateway to Marketing News

As part of our continuing work with Direct Marketing International, 2010 sees the relaunch of DMI-NEWS.COM.
The Global Gateway to Marketing News Powered by DMI Magazine is the international source for breaking marketing news. The site features time senistive global aggregated marketing RSS feeds, in addtion to stories directly from the News Desk of DMI Magazine.

 

 

September 2009

SystemCore-Webhosting - for our most popular hosting packages

SystemCore-Webhosting.co.uk is a new simple stand alone site for our popular small business web hosting packages. A focused site and easy checkout allows our customers to buy a Linux or Windows web host package, register a domain name and add email accounts quickly and simply.

All hosting packages have free set up and are designed to meet the scalable needs of start-ups and small to medium sized businesses. We also provide business class emailboxes with webmail, and corporate class Hosted Microsoft Exchange email accounts.

Visit: www.systemcore-webhosting.co.uk.

 

August 2009

SystemCore supports the British Science Association

SystemCore are proudly supporting the British Science Festival this year with campaign management assistance, promotional HTML email design, broadcasting, tracking and measurement. The ‘Honesty Lab’ email campaign will reach over 50,000 people in the UK, and with luck will add significant and valuable data to the study.

We would particularly like to thank wrm-media global data brokers and Matt Edgar, publisher of the Direct Marketing International magazine, for all their help.

About the British Science Festival...

The British Science Festival is one of Europe’s largest science festivals, taking place each September. The Festival is in a different location in the UK each year, bringing visitors the latest in science, technology and engineering. The week long, jam-packed programme has loads of events for everyone. Each year thousands of people join in for talks, plays, debates, hands-on activities and more. This year the Festival is hosted by the University of Surrey in Guildford from 5-10 September with events taking place across Surrey.

More details can be found at: http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/web/BritishScienceFestival/index.htm

About the Honesty Lab...

Contribute to the first ever international study to investigate public perceptions of dishonesty. The Honesty Lab will gather views to help answer the following questions:

• Is there a common standard of honesty in society?
• If there is not a common standard, are there any areas where people agree?
• If there is a grey area, what factors explain the difference in views?
• Can people distinguish between what is dishonest, dishonourable and immoral behaviour?

Honesty Lab is a collaboration between the British Science Association and Brunel University Law School and sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council.

The British Science Association and ESRC support the Science: [So what? So everything] campaign.

The research is being led by social scientists Dr Stefan Fafinski and Dr Emily Finch at Brunel Law School.

The results of the Honesty Lab will be available at the British Science Festival in September.

 

For More details (and to Take the Test yourself) please visit:

http://www.honestylab.com/

 

 

June 2009

Ecommerce Supermarket launches at Business StartUp EXCEL London

SystemCore, together with our partner company Datalink UK, enjoyed a successful two days at the London EXCEL centre launching our joint venture ecommerce solution: EcommerceSupermarket.

EcommerceSupermarket ticks all the boxes for companies that need a professional online shop right now, with no fuss, simple online configuration, safe credit card checkout, transparent monthly rental charges, search engine optimisation (SEO), Sage integration, scalability and no long term contract.

More details can be found at: www.ecommercesupermarket.co.uk

The show was opened by the BBC Dragon’s Den entrepreneur Richard Farley, and attendance was good; our stand was very busy from the kick off. Manning the stand and presenting on the day, were ECS Directors: Rob Cain, Al Cain and Vadym Gurevych together with Alex Gritsenko, Nikki Gay and Sophie Peyton. Thanks to all for a great exhibition. There was a real buzz around the stand and our new service created much interest from new and growing companies looking for a simple, reliable and extensible ecommerce service.

Rob, Al and Vadym were also available during the show to offer one on one advice to new companies with specific smart marketing and e-marketing queries. The consulting booths were a great idea and we hope to have helped out some entrepreneurs along the way.

More details about the show and forthcoming events can be found at:
http://www.bstartup.com/businesses/business-details.asp?company=637

 

May 2009

A question of aspect: Switchable on demand .h264 MP4 video

SystemCore have produced a further web video solution for our moving image partners Focal Point Television. Focal Point produce high profile television programmes, documentaries, TV Ads, music videos and 3D graphics for many household names. Using Flowplayer, we have implemented a switchable aspect ratio, multi-instance player for their TV and 3D graphics examples pages.

Our implementation of Flowplayer had to address two common issues regarding online video:

1. Videos of course, can differ in aspect ratio; we needed a player behavior that would spawn a suitable ratio playback window, either 4:3 or widescreen - and a simple configuration setting to trigger the appropriate type. Flowplayer, augmented with our own cross-browser JavaScript function call allows for the switch.


2. The often overlooked issue in playback (without mounting video on a configured Flash or Red5 streaming server), is that of buffering or 'progressive download'. A normally rendered MP4 file will need to be downloaded in its entirety before playback, but encoding for 'fast-start' or 'progressive download' (a process we have got used to seeing on YouTube for example), allows for almost immediate playback while the rest of the video file continues to download in the background.

And the MP4 .h264 codec, as now supported by good old Flash, also allows for good quality video at modest file sizes in a player and plugin that are universally supported.

 

April 2009

SystemCore delivers integrated epublishing solution for DMI Magazine

This month saw the launch of DMIONLINE, the second of a trilogy of data driven sites for the Direct Marketing International Magazine, featuring deep content articles archives, site membership, innovative word cloud navigation and a powerful Editorial and contributor content management system. Visit the site here.

 

March 2009

SystemCore SEO Method exceeds targets in private client SEO

A recent SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and SEM (Search Engine Marketing) campaign for a confidential client achieved high global Google rankings for key phrase promotion, including a Google global postion one and Google global top five positions. The campaign focused on structural changes, content revisions, sector anlaysis and a responsible linking strategy.

 

January 2009

SystemCore delivers an ecommerce solution for the DMI Magazine

This month saw the launch of DMI Online Sales, an ecommerce site for the Direct Marketing International Magazine, featuring subscriptions purchases and additional product sales for the Direct Marketing Association. Visit the site here.

 

September 2008

SystemCore enhances WordPress hosting packages

For the ever powerful and popular WordPress CMS and blogging application, we now have 3 flavours of WordPress hosting to suit all requirments and budgets. More inforamtion and pricing details will appear on our hostng page very soon:

3 flavours of powerful WordPress hosting:

August 2008

SystemCore Launches New WebMail

For users of SystemCore Standard or Advanced mailboxes SystemCore announce the launch our new enhanced Webmail service. New webmail adds significant extra functionality to our customers' webmail delivering great benefits to everyday usability.

New features at a glance:

• New Sent mail folder - emails that you have sent via webmail will now be saved and organised!
• Online Calendar - just like Outlook or Entourage, you can now store appointments in an online calendar within the application
• Ability to create and manage you own online folders
• Security - if you need extra strength security, you can select strong encryption for your webmail interface and emails
• New IMAP support
• Multiple interfaces to support all platforms and browsers

 

Ask us about email services...

We can provide POP3/SMTP Business class email or Microsoft Exchange 2003 mailboxes. Hit the enquiry button below... Enquire...

 

May 2008

Direct Marketing International Magazine chooses MailProV2

DMI magazine, the only global business title for direct and interactive marketers use MailProV2 for their international mid monthly News Updates.
MailProV2 subscriber control also handles all DMI's online registrations.

 

March 2008

SystemCore articles featured by The Institute of Direct Marketing

Two SystemCore articles written originally for Direct Marketing International, are now included in the knowledge base of the IDM website. A link for IDM members can be found here.

 

March 2008 - The Knowledge Centre - Tech Times

SystemCore develop www.theknowledgecentre.co.uk. Part technical blog and part developer's resource, The Knowledge Centre will be a new source for technical discussion and essential links for coders. Also avialable at www.thetechtimes.co.uk.

 

February 2008 - TV Video Services

SystemCore provide further online services for production company Focal Point Television, with additions to their successful customer Video Vaults service.

 

February 2008 - TFMA 2008

SystemCore were again happy to attend this year's TFMA (Technology for Marketing and Advertising) show at Earls Court, London. The show features key providers in the fields of email marketing, SEO, SEM, CRM, and CMS including the attendance of Google this year with a series of Google University SEM Master Classes.

 

TFMA & DMI - Direct Marketing International

A sponsor of this year's show, Direct Marketing International Magazine (DMI), are also one of SystemCore's customers with whom we are preparing a re-launch of their DMI Online and DMI News websites in 2008.

 

January 2008 - MaiPro Epromotion and SaaS (Software as a Service)

SystemCore MailPro broadcasts the flagship edition of First Data's Middle East Executive Financial Briefing.

November 2007 - SystemCore produce specialist flash animations for Penna Recruitment Commiunications.

Once again we are delighted to have worked with Penna PLC to produce animated recruitment marketing solutions for their high profile clients.

September 2007 - SystemCore provide epromotion for First Data International, the world's largest provider of merchant processing services.

As a service for business relationship consutlancy Organizare, SystemCore have successfully coded, broadcast and measured First Data's September Quarterly Briefing using our new MailProV2 application. The project featured multiple language broadcasts (English, German & Greek) with multiple platform and email client support (Outlook | Lotus Notes | Entourage | MacMail | Blackberry | PC | MacOSX)

August 2007 - SystemCore epromotion techniques praised by 'Tech Blog'

Thanks to Imarstech for describing our emarketing at DMI Online as a 'Turn of Genius'.
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August 2007 - D.A.V.E. Advanced Webstats Analysis package now LIVE with online DEMO

D.A.V.E. is a powerful webware tool for monitoring, analyzing and performing statistics of the traffic to any website.
Click here for more details and to try our new online demo....

August 2007 - SystemCore MailPro V2 released!

Powerful, enterprise level, all-in-one email marketing just got better - provided as an end to end service for our customers, via customer's own online accounts or as installed software, MailPro V2 is now live... Click here for more details.

July 2007 - SystemCore add NHS GP surgeries to their client list...

SystemCore develop a patient facing website for the Border Pratice NHS GP surgery including SSL online security. Our next project with the practice will be the development of a surgery intranet to improve workflow and reduce paperwork.

April 2007 - SystemCore engage with Public Sector in Health Consultancy...

In a programme of ongoing work for the health sector, SystemCore deliver functional and interface database enhancements for the Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust. Our thanks to the Head of Vocational development for a great testimonial....

February 2007 - As seen on the BBC - SystemCore Sponsors a Trabant Team in the Plymouth-Dakar Rally...

Following sponsorship of a long haul 'Trabant' run, all the way to Banjul in The Gambia, our logo got a free airing the BBC website. The impressive drive in 'Trudi' was undertaken by Andrew Fuller and Simon Banwell - whom we thank for this photo. The car and team made it! Bloody well done we say.

January 2007 - SystemCore launch new website...

SystemCore launch our updated website featuring our very own 'KISS' Content Management framework based on php, java script, css, and Ajax.

Dec 2006 - SystemCore short listed for online awards...

For the second year in a row a SystemCore viral online game is shot listed for the Recruitment Industry Marketing Awards. Our 'Elfrunner' game was developed for Argos for their Xmas 2006 Recruitment campaign.

November 2006 - SystemCore breaks into TV...

SystemCore provide secure online streaming video vault for Focal Point Television utilising our new high bandwidth 10mbps un-throttled dedicated servers.

September 2006 -SystemCore upgrade dedicated servers for lightning fast websites...

Our new dedicated Linux servers offer unrivalled connectivity - plugged directly to the backbone of the internet, every server now enjoys a fully redundant Tier 1 connection mitigating any slow-down or service interruption for our customers. High bandwidth UK Data centres for lightning fast websites with 10mbps high speed data. We now also provide strong 256 bit SSL encryption from GeoTrust, supporting high turnover ecommerce sites.