Consultancy
Tri Polus has significant experience of advising clients on organizational change inspired and required by digital technology.  Our approach to developing creative and technical solutions always involves developing a 360-degree view of the organisation, its markets, and its culture. This approach - when undertaken formally and structured as a consultative investigation with appropriate deliverables - is a service that we offer to both new and existing clients. Previous successful analytical consultancies have included assessment of IT capabilities and strategy, reports on organisational tolerance to IT system change, comparative and gap analyses of content management systems and a major five year plan for migration of supply chain management to a fully-automated digital system.

Corporate Identity
Designing an e-Business solution requires the development or progression of a corporate identity for digital channels.  Our designers are faced with a number of situations when the design stage of a project commences, including:

Where the identity is already in place our designers will combine the defined style of a company/product with the objectives of the digital solution to form an online brand with its own style guide.

Where the corporate identity is lacking or non-existent, our designers will work with the client to define the brand — including logo development, colour schemes, typeface etc. A detailed style guide/corporate identity manual will additionally be delivered to the client.

Alternatively, we may receive a level of brand definition from our clients' marketing departments. We can work in conjunction with marketing/brand specialists to deliver successful digital solution designs for companies.

Design
Effective design results in a positive visitor experience, increasing the chance of that visitor becoming a customer, and the first time customer becoming a regular customer.

When designing a digital solution, our designers ask themselves two questions:

The answer must be 'yes' in both cases.

To do this, we work with a team of specialist designers and interface developers with vast experience of designing award winning solutions using a variety of Flash, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript and XSL/XML technology.

Our designers are integral to the success of the entire e-Business project, and they will be involved at all stages. They will work with the client to research and understand the market place, end-user requirements and key messages to form the creative brief, as well as ensuring that integration with technology is seamless in terms of usability. Our designers are intuitive, proactive and deliver award-winning e-Business solutions.

Build
We work with a technical team with excellent programming skills for the development of digital applications and integration with client business systems and data. Using a variety of VB, COM, ASP/JSP (for non-Microsoft clients), we build applications to fulfill a specific business requirement.

Examples of our previous software applications include an entry-level content management solution allowing small to medium enterprises to make simple text and image changes without using technical resource, an online insurance quote engine capable of returning large numbers of quotes simultaneously and an e-commerce application serving one of the most successful e- and t-commerce retailers in the UK that can handle more than 300 concurrent orders per second.

Integration with traditional business systems is key if an e-Business solution is to successfully achieve client business objectives. Data and systems Integration is achieved by our technical team using a variety of SQL, MSMQ, IBM MQ, MS Biztalk and XML.

Site management
We firmly believe that there is value in hosting the solutions we build. Clients' benefit from this continued relationship as ongoing site changes and enhancements are quick to implement, and problems are easily fixed as the technical knowledge behind the site development is readily available. There is also the benefit of a single point of contact for most web site problems, rather than one to the hosting company, one to the web designers etc. Our hosting facility is housed within Telecity Docklands. This provides a secure location with 24x7 security, full fire protection and multiple power supplies insuring state of the art business continuity.

Bandwidth is supplied by Cable & Wireless, a tier 1 ISP and a full member of the London Internet Exchange (LINX). This means that our facility is close to the very fabric of the Internet.

As well as 24x7 physical security, the facility is also protected by Firewalls, while the servers themselves are kept up to date with any patches or fixes which are tested in our development environment prior to deployment to any live services.

Managed services are monitored on a 24x7 basis by bespoke scripts tailored to the individual needs of each client.

For more information on our e-Business services, contact us.