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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

 

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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....

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.