Content Management Systems (CMS) and E-Forms by Web-Labs Limited, UK


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Welcome to Web-Labs

Is your web site there to look pretty or to perform a useful function? Web Labs believe strongly it is the latter and that a web site should meet the client’s objectives and also provide a return on investment. We specialise in the development of Content Management Systems, whether you need a large Enterprise Content Management System (ECMS), a Self Build Content Management System or a bespoke solution we have the skills and solutions to provide you with a functional web site that you can easily maintain with non technical staff.

What are you expecting from your web site?
How can we meet these objectives whether they are: -

Marketing your products/services
Providing more information to your customers/stakeholders/ratepayers
Providing a 24 x 7 on-line service
Improving your organisations image as part of a comprehensive multi media campaign

We bring some strategic thinking to the project as we are developers we understand that functionality, download speeds, ease of navigation all contribute to your 'customers' perception of your web site. We design your web site so that it is both functional and intuitive and yet complies with all the standards that you specify including all the accessibility standards e.g. W3C WA1-A, WA3-A and the system complies with Government Interoperability Framework, e-GIF.

We also have developed an Electronic Forms System (e-Forms) (web forms) (net forms) to enable our customers to collect information on-line and or carry out on-line surveys and consultations. We would expect to also integrate our CMS and/or e-Forms systems with your legacy systems so that they are web enabled and provide a better service to your ‘customers’ whilst saving time and cost.

As our development staff are in the UK we are able to listen and rapidly respond to our clients needs, as well as our bespoke developments this has resulted in our developing many other systems and proven applications software modules that can be economically redeployed these include:

SMS Text Messaging
Recruitment Administration and Publishing
Resource Booking
Shopping Basket
Events Booking
Community Portal Building
Self Service
Advanced Search Engine
Automatic categorisation and Taxonomy

News
	Safe2eat launch 12th August 2007 As part of a Hampshire wide initiative Winchester City Council chose to launch its “scores on the doors” system for food safety known as “safe2eat” at the Farmers Market. This will mean that the hygiene rating of all food businesses will be made public on the City Council’s website at www.winchester.gov.uk/safe2eat
	CCN Launches New Web Site The County Councils Network (CCN) is a Special Interest Group within the Local Government Association (LGA), with all 37 English Shire Counties in membership.
	Environment Advisory Service (EAS) Launches New Site The Local Government Association has established an Environment Advisory Service web portal, to support environment officer networks and accelerate learning and good practice across all local authorities.
	Web Labs are continuing to grow and are seeking experienced Software Developers and Salespersons Software Developers- with 3 years experience of ASP,VB6.SQL/ASP.NET Salespersons- Web Labs are seeking experienced sales people with experience of Content Management Systems or Document Management Systems.
	TOWN COUNCIL LAUNCHES NEW WEB SITE Leighton-Linslade Town Council has recently redesigned its web site and is confident that residents will find the new look site both informative and easier to use.
	Web-Labs @ Content Management Europe Web-Labs will be appearing at the Content Management Europe Exhibition. We are situated on stand 446. We will be demonstrating a number of our software products.
	New Announcement EDRMS – DocumentMaster Web enabled - Online Electronic Document Records and Management System
	Winchester City Council launches new-look website Winchester City Council has launched its new-look website to provide comprehensive and accessible information to the public.
	Software Catalogue 2006 Our latest Software Catalogue for IT, E-Government and Web Site Officers.
	IT in the Community Award 2005 Web-labs client, Preston City Council, won a prestigious award at the 'computing awards for excellence 2005'
	Content Management Europe 2005 Web-labs will be ehibiting at Europe’s definitive content management event from the 29th November to the 1st December 2005
	councillorsuk.co.uk The CouncillorsUK service was created in response to the ODPM'S priority outcomes statement in which Local Authorities are required to provide a provide a web presence to Councillors and elected officers. The CouncillorsUK service enables the Local Authority to provide each Councillor with their own web site that they can build and maintain themselves without any technical knowledge. The web sites are hosted by Web labs on the web portal www.councillorsUK.co.uk and this is underpinned with our Content Management System.
	London Borough of Southwark 4,500 seat Intranet using Web Labs Content Management System.
	City Belts and Bearings Are a leading distributor of Belts, Pumps, Bearings and associated supplies and services in London and the Home Counties. They have chosen Web Labs Content Management System with our Cataloguing, and Shopping Basket Software to provide an on-line service so their customers can buy services and supplies on-line.
	Driving Standards Agency The Driving Standards Agency (Department of Transport) having successfully completed their 3,500 seat Intranet with Web Labs Content Management System and e-Forms chose Content Master our Enterprise Content Management System again to underpin the Central Government's most popular web site for the 'Mock' Theory Test. The anticipated traffic for this web site is 3m visitors/month. The Driving Standards Agency have also deployed the Web Labs advanced Search Engine with automatic categorisation (to IPSV taxonomy) to speed the content input and provide consistent and accurate categorisation.

Products
	Content Master Content Management System An enterprise level Content Management System (ECMS) that is totally scalable and is used by Public and Private organisation of all sizes. The ECMS is very competitively priced enabling all organisations to embrace e-commerce and e-government. The Content Management System is used by several Central and Local Government organisations to assist in achieving their e-government agenda as outlined by the ODPM, to increase their BVPI scores and lower cost according to the Gershon Report. All web sites built with the content management system comply with e-GIF and WA3 accessibility standards. The latest release of our Content Management System includes an automatic accessibility checker that operates when content is entered and before publishing. This ensures that all content meets the Bobby or WA3 accessibility standards throughout the 'life' of the system. The automatic categorisation system to classify content to any recognised or private taxonomy system can be an additional feature. Some customers of our Content Management System include: Department of Transport www.dsa.gov.uk Local Government Association www.lga.gov.uk Reading Borough Council www.reading.gov.uk London Borough of Southwark www.southwark.gov.uk Lancashire Ambulance Services www.lancashireambulance.com Preston City Council www.preston.gov.uk Lancaster City Council www.lancaster.gov.uk Newcastle Borough Council www.newcastle-staffs.gov.uk Mendip District Council www.mendip.gov.uk Castle Point Borough Council www.castlepoint.gov.uk Rushcliffe District Council www.rushcliffe.gov.uk Teesdale District Council www.teesdale.gov.uk Winchester City Council www.winchester.gov.uk
	Forms Master Intelligent Web-Forms The FormsMaster e-Forms system is being used by many organisations to collect data on-line, carry out on-line surveys/consultations and complete many application forms on line. Clients for our e-Forms include: forms.healthcarecommission.org.uk Healthcare Commission NHS based in London www.bhha.nhs.uk Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Strategic Health Authority NHS, based in Hertfordshire www.eera.gov.uk East of England Regional Assembly based in Bury St Edmunds-Suffolk www.somerset.gov.uk Somerset County Council- Taunton www.popall.co.uk Poppleston Allen Solicitors based in Nottingham www.lambeth.gov.uk London Borough of Lambeth www.southwark.gov.uk London Borough of Southwark www.lga.gov.uk The Local Government Association www.preston.gov.uk Preston City Council www.reading.gov.uk Reading Borough Council www.newcastle-staffs.gov.uk Newcastle Borough Council www.winchester.gov.uk Winchester City Council www.rushcliffe.gov.uk Rushcliffe Borough Council www.castlepoint.gov.uk Castle Point Borough Council - Essex www.mendip.gov.uk Mendip District Council - Somerset www.teesdale.gov.uk Teesdale District Council - Durham The use of e-Forms (web forms) has improved the BPVI scores of our Local Government customers whilst being integrated with their legacy systems have helped to lower cost according to the Gershon Report. All e-Forms built with Forms Master comply with e-GIF and WA3 accessibility standards. The comprehensive e-consultations carried out by the Healthcare Commission and the East of England Regional Assembly with our e-forms system have been well received and made the process more efficient.
	Community Master Content Management System for web portal development To provide access by all groups to increased information about the community is a pivotal component of Central Government's vision of providing Britain with a modern image and the ability to compete in a global economy. To accommodate this Web-Labs have designed a 'Content Management System' especially to enable 'Communities' to design and build their own web site in minutes and to be totally sustainable by community leaders with no IT skills and at very low cost. The utilisation of our automatic categorisation to classify content will make the process even more 'fool proof' and ideal for the part time voluntary worker tasked with entering content. The complying with the ODPM's priority Outcomes could not be simpler the system provides the web presence for Parish Councils, Town Councils, Voluntary Groups, Clubs, Surgeries, Societies and Councillors and the Content Management System ensures the project is sustainable with remote authoring and low cost. All the web sites developed by the Content management system comply with e-GIF and accessibility standards W3C Modules designed to support the Content Management System include: Council meetings/agendas/calendars Local Events Vacancies/ Job Recruitment Resource Booking of Rooms and Courts History e-Cards Donations Production of Accounts News Business Directories Councillors / Elected Members
	Licence Master Web based licensing system that complies with the 2005 licensing Act and will process every type of licence. Licence Master is a software solution for Local Authorities to efficiently process and manage every type of license, from taxi's to sex shops. Looking to the future, LicenceMaster will manage the huge administrative task and responsibility that will come to the Local Authorities with Liquor Licensing. LicenceMaster engages Local Authority beyond E-Gov targets for 2005. The system is being used by: Castle Point Borough Council Rushcliffe Borough Council Mendip District Council London Borough of Southwark Gateshead Council The system has been integrated with CIVICAS licensing system. The system is compliant with the PARSOL system created by the LAWS initiative and assist with meeting the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM'S) priority outcomes.
	SearchMaster Advanced Search Engine with automatic categorisation / automatic classification system. Many organisations have large 'information stores' (located on web sites, intranets, document management systems etc.) however, this information is generally not used efficiently i.e. it is not a 'Knowledge Management Repository'. To enable your information stores to be 'cross referenced' and to become a 'Knowledge Management Repository' it is necessary to implement: 1. Automatic Classification 2. Advanced Intuitive Searching SearchMaster provides these capabilities to organisations wishing to benefit from a powerful but easy to use 'search engine' that will consistently and automatically categorise all of their digital assets wherever they are held, this saving of time and cost this will assist local government and central government clients to comply with the demands of the Gershon report. SearchMaster will 'spider' external sources of information and return content according to specific categories / classifications enabling a knowledge base to be created and easily maintained. The system when automatically classifying content will provide a 'suggested list' of classifications that can be manually edited if the 'operator' chooses to add or delete a specific category /classification. The Driving Standards Agency are using the SearchMaster system to automatically categorise all their digital assets according to the IPSV taxonomy. Winchester City Council will support their Content Management System by using SearchMaster system to provide an advanced conceptual search engine on their web site and to auto categorise content according to the LGCL taxonomy and to comply with the Hampshire County Councils common categorisation system.
	IntegrationMaster Integrating, Systems, People and Business
	Resource Master Web Labs ResourceMaster is an enterprise level resource management tool for effective, flexible and powerful management of resources within your organisation. It enables end users to quickly manage and book resources within an easy to use web browser environment, saving time and money and reducing wastage of resources due to double bookings and forgotten appointments.
	RecruitMaster Online publishing and Recruitment System Web-Labs is a leading supplier of Content Management, e-Forms and Workflow Systems. Using our experience and in collaboration with several of our clients we have developed a complete web based Recruitment System ,RecruitMaster, The Staff recruitment system encourages collaborative working between the HR and Department Heads to manage the whole recruitment process, from producing the original job specification, job advertisement, publishing the job in the press and web site. The management of the responses, interviews, costing and analysing the process of staff recruitment.
	TrackMaster The GPS system to protect your staff and/or track your vehicles. The TrackMaster system is a web based system that tracks in 'real time' the location of 'moving assets' e.g. vehicles or vulnerable people. The tracking of vehicles and people can be monitored against a predefined plan or route and exceptions 'alarmed' The position of the assets are shown on a map in 'real time' and the status indicated. The system can cost as little as 99p per day per asset tracked and is therefore very cost effective.
	Asset Manager Digital Asset Management System The system uses web-based technologies to store, manage and retrieve large volumes of digital assets whether images, video, documents etc. These assets can be processed, categorized, found, used, and reused effectively.