Introducing Artificia ....
Artificia is a consultancy and development company, specialising
in web database systems, Omnis development and the application of
artificial intelligence to business challenges. We offer:
- Omnis
contract development
- Database-driven web sites (from on-line reporting
to complex database systems with multiple interfaces)
- Content Management System (CMS) websites - including
Plone.
- Website design
- Search engine promotion and web
marketing services
**NEW** Free and low-cost website hosting
We are now able to offer free and low-cost website hosting as a
reseller:
http://artificia.runhosting.com/
"We want to be able to update our own website"
With web sites playing an increasingly important and central role,
organisations are wanting websites that they can update and control
the content on themselves. Often the people doing the updating are
not programmers, although sometimes they are. A content management
system puts anyone in control of and able to contribute to their
website.
For non-programmers, a CMS makes it possible to control website
content. For programmers and IT professionals, a CMS provides a
design framework, makes updating fast and efficient and enables
them to share content management with less technical colleagues.
For corporate customers, a CMS provides an easy way to publish
news and press releases, as well as an ideal way to keep product
and service information fresh and updated. Artificia can provide
a CMS website with a workflow system that gives users different
access rights, including a range of publish, review/approval and
retract capabilities.
This year, Artificia has delivered two content management systems
- one to a theatre company and another to a school and college of
further education. (Case studies follow below.)
News : Artificia launches Hardware-Arena.com
 Hardware-Arena
is a shopping directory that brings together the hottest deals in
hardware for computer, gaming (PlayStation, X-Box, Wii etc) as well as
digital photography, USB and remote control devices.
Artificia built this system using Joomla as the main
content management system, with Virtuemart as the shopping
cart/directory and CJ Catalog Builder as the seemless link with
Commission Junction. Thus the site advertises a large catalog of
products for sale by other retailers and makes it's money by acting as
an associate marketer, via Commission Junction.
Similar sites could be created to target any market!
Contact us for details and a quote. This system is effectively a money
tree! Just plant by launching the site, water with regular additions to
the product catalog and watch the commission revenue blossom!
You can visit the site at: http://hardware-arena.com
News : Artificia delivers CMS website for School
 Tolworth
Girls School and Centre for Continuing Education contracted with
Artificia to produce a website capable of delivering a range of
content and media to present the work and activities of their school.
They needed to be able to upload content such as pictures, vidoes,
sound files, text, files and manage the site themselves. The users
that would do this included office staff, IT staff, teachers and
pupils.
Using Plone, Artificia was able to deliver a website controlled
by a Content Management System, along with on and off-site training
and support for a range of staff and potential content managers.
The site has been embraced well and is already show casing pupil's
work in a ground breaking way that is catching the attention of
other schools and colleges.
You can visit the site at: http://www.tolgirls-tcce.kingston.sch.uk
Artificia produced userguides/tutorials for the Content Management
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News : Artificia creates website for musician/songwriter,
Victor Chetcuti
Artificia created a website for Victor Chetcuti, with downloadable
music clips from his two albums. Victor wanted a site where people
could hear his music, buy his albums, learn a little about him and
get in touch for live bookings - wherever he tours in the world.
This site is an example of clean, functional but aesthetically pleasing
design that conveys the spirit of the site owner and his product.
You can visit the site at: http://www.victorstunes.com/
News : Artificia produces CMS website for
Theatre Company
 Henfield
Theatre Company wanted a new website - one that they could update
themselves without knowing any html. Artificia used Plone technology
to create them a website with a Content Management System that they
now use to publish their own content.
You can visit the site at: http://www.henfieldtheatrecompany.com/
Artificia produced userguides/tutorials for the Content Management
System: <1> <2>
News : Artificia creates online logistics system
 Artificia
built a web-based Stock Order Portal that enabled Flight Logistics
clients to place and track orders of stock items and arrange for
shipping of stock out of storage and out to their own customers.
The system was built using Omnis Studio Webclient ultra-thin technology
and interfaced with an existing Omnis database.
Artificia can build web based database systems or applications
that provide web and browser based interfaces to a wide range of
existing databases.
You can visit the site at: https://my.flightlg.com/
News : Artificia builds automated invoicing system for Wilson
Logistics
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Wilson Logistics needed a networked software application
that would run on desktop machines, accessing a central database
and connecting with the databases that managed their logistics
business.
Prior to the software produced by Artificia, billing and
invoicing was a highly complex operation that involved a large
department of administrators. The succesful calculation of
invoices was dependant on historical knowledge in the heads
of those administrators.
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Artificia built an application which encapsulated the contractual
agreements between Wilson Logistics and their clients, thus
codifying the billing and enabling automated calculation of
invoices based on highly complex and varied billing arrangements.
The application drastically reduced the man power involved
in the billing process.
Oh...and the software looked gorgeous too! Artificia prides
itself on producing attractive and intuitive software that
is both easy and pleasant to work with.
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Wilson Logistics is now
part of TNT
News : Artificia creates site for Widden Close Quarter Horses
 29/07/04
: Artificia has created a brochure web site for Widden
Close Quarter Horses. Widden Close Quarter Horses is set in
the beautiful New Forest on the south coast of England. Owned by
Christina Cassady, Widden Quarter Horses breeds and sells quality
quarter horses.
You can visit the site at: http://www.widdenclose.co.uk
News : Artificia launches fan site for Sony's Hardware : Online
Arena game
 24/06/03
: Artificia launch a fan site they have designed to promote the
PS2/Playstation game, Hardware
: Online Arena. The site presents screenshots from the game,
reviews, links and information about broadband gaming for PS2 as
well as a discussion forum.
You can visit the site at:
http://www.hwarena.com
News : RescuePet Developers
 Artificia
are the creators and developers of the RescuePet Internet Database
system.
RescuePet is a non-profit organisation, that provides a central
system where UK rescue shelters can enter details of animals in
need of good homes. The public can then visit the site and
search the database for the animal that best suits them.
Operational costs are raised through corporate sponsorship and affiliate
marketing, however, the RescuePet Internet database is a free service
for both shelters and public visitors. The RescuePet system
consists of two interfaces, one for the rescue shelters to use to
upload details and photos of animals in their care and one for the
public to use to search that database.
You can visit the RescuePet website now at:
http://www.rescuepet.org.uk/
News : Omnis Technical Newsletter
Dr. Caroline Wilkins (Managing Director, Artificia) is an author
for the Omnis Technical news. In a series of 22 articles,
she presented tutorials on Omnis Web Client, ultra-thin/html interface,
web design and search engine promotion.
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