Blue Systems offers cutting edge financial market software that makes professional-grade content affordable for corporate and retail investors. Interesting was approached in 2007 to develop a website that showcases the product portfolio and that makes it simple to subscribe to their offer.

Blue Systems and Interesting worked together to outline the site structure that would best serve Blue System’s requirements, to enable the site to adapt to changing marketing needs Interesting implemented a full content management system. For the subscription process Interesting customized the system with a user friendly product management solution that allows Blue Systems to add, remove or change product options at all times. The result is a custom tailored yet expandable and fully automated e-commerce process that lets the customer choose from 90+ global exchanges and a wide range of product options such as newswires. Interesting also integrated the handling of a large set of compliance agreements that the industry traditionally processes on paper in form of electronic counterparts that fulfill all regulations.

The Blue Systems site was developed in iterations to ensure early results for Blue Systems. The site itself and the content management system were launched in January 2008, the e-commerce component was added in June 2008 and both can be found at http://www.bluesystems.info. Currently, Blue Systems and Interesting are planning further developments including use of the mobile internet.

GreeningRedlands is a fundraising promotion site for three development projects at Redlands school, the projects are designed to improve the children's school environment. WaldenWood Group, Redlands design and marketing agency, brought Interesting in to build their vision of a virtual real estate site.

Interesting implemented an easy to use site with two aerial photographs of Redland's campuses that are divided into grids of virtual blocks. Visitors may donate to the project by 'purchasing' one or multiple blocks and are able to leave a personal message.

The GreeningRedlands site was launched in May 2008 and has been met with great success. The site can be viewed at http://www.greeningredlands.com.au.

Real Insurance (a trading name of The Hollard Insurance Company) is a direct insurance brand offering Motor, Home and Contents and Life insurance products Australia-wide. In order to improve the user experience on www.realinsurance.com.au Real Insurance approached Interesting to implement a creative design for the website.

Interesting provided Real Insurance with a customisable site that uses .NET master pages to implement the site design and layout. Major site elements such as navigation and user logins were developed as .NET User Controls to allow Real Insurance to easily reuse them in their private site.

The site was developed and tested across all major platforms and browsers and was deployed in August of 2006. Interesting has continued to provide Real Insurance with ongoing internet development support, including the website implementation of a corporate rebrand, the rebranded website was re-launched in July 2007. The Real Insurance website can be viewed at http://www.realinsurance.com.au.

Southern Star, Australia's largest independent television production and distribution group, currently use a touch screen application to assist their sales staff at conferences. Southern Star required the functionality and design of the application to be streamlined and brought into line with their corporate branding.

After reviewing the system Interesting recommended that the touch screen application be redeveloped using Microsoft’s new Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), which enabled the application to natively handle the video format’s used by Southern Star and to integrate with their other conference resources such as Microsoft PowerPoint.

The touch screen application was delivered on time to Southern Star and they successfully used it for their conference in Paris.

Saleh Enterprises Pty Ltd & Vancard Pty Ltd required the Paddington Arms and Four In Hand hotel websites to be redeveloped. Their aim was to produce a consistent user experience across both sites and provide the hotel managers with an effective content management system to keep the content relevant.

With their track record of implementing Kentico driven content managed sites, Interesting was a perfect fit for the requirements and was contracted to redesign the hotel websites and implement the content management system. The result was a crisp new look for the hotels and a system that enables the managers to update all content, restaurant menus and galleries easily and consistently across both sites.

The Paddington Arms site was deployed in August 2007, http://www.paddingtonarms.com.au, this was followed in September 2007 by the Four In Hand website, http://www.fourinhand.com.au.

Resi is a long established, multi-award winning mortgage specialist operating a franchise network. Resi wanted to upgrade the look, feel and functionality of their website to improve the service and information available to current and prospective customers. Interesting was brought in to redesign and redevelop the Resi website.

Interesting and Resi worked together to outline the functionality that would best serve Resi in moving forward on the internet. To enable Resi to adapt their site to changing needs and marketing strategies, Interesting implemented a full content management system. Interesting also worked with the Resi IT parties to integrate with the back-office systems; enabling lead management automation and ensuring the public web site mirrors the back-office franchise and mortgage rate information.

The Resi site was successfully launched in July 2007 and can be found at http://www.resi.com.au

Hollard Insurance Pty Ltd is an Australian licensed insurer providing insurance solutions through its retail, broker and insurance distribution solutions. Hollard Insurance was looking to reinvigorate their corporate website and after successful collaboration with Interesting on the Real Insurance and Real Life websites Hollard Insurance approached Interesting to redesign and rebuild the corporate site.

After reviewing Hollard Insurance’s Australian and International corporate brand, Interesting redesigned the corporate website to reflect Hollard Insurance’s changing business requirements. To allow Hollard Insurance to keep their site up to date Interesting developed an XML based content management system (CMS) which enables Hollard Insurance to maintain the sites content.

The Hollard Insurance corporate site was successfully re-launched in February 2007 and can be found at http://www.hollard.com.au.

To support the Real Life Insurance product line Real Insurance (a trading name of The Hollard Insurance Company) commissioned Interesting to develop a website to advertise and promote the product line.

Using the existing website infrastructure and the user controls developed by Interesting for the Real Insurance website, Interesting rapidly developed the new site for Real Insurance. To accommodate differing product release dates Interesting developed the site so that it could be released in stages with minimal effort from the Real Insurance I.T and zero down time.

Real Insurance released the Real Life Insurance website in January 2007; stage two of the website can be accessed via http://www.reallifeinsurance.com.au.

An information portal was needed for the newly redesigned NRL site, redeveloped by a partnership between The Farm and C4 Communication. The portal needed to display a high quantity of information, updating as live scores and statistics were passed through to the NRL servers in a limited area on the website.

To enable this Interesting, were tasked to create two flash consoles. The first console displays a summary of information about each match as well as providing access to photos and videos for the match. The second console provides multimedia information about the match as well as access to larger action photos. Both consoles retrieve their information from XML feeds provided by the NRL system.

The consoles are live at http://www.nrl.com and have helped NRL.com draw more internet traffic than its rival sports sites. In 2007 Interesting was contracted by C4 to redevelop the live scoring console of the new season.

Following the success of the NRL console in 2006, C4 was contracted by Bigpond Sports to provide live online match coverage of the 2006/2007 Ashes series and the 2007 cricket world cup.

Wanting to build on the success of the NRL console C4 engaged Interesting to produce three flash interfaces to provide the match coverage. The first of these was a full scorecard, featured below, which includes the Bigpond Sports video coverage of the series, a real time scorecard and a schedule of upcoming games. The second was a mini scoreboard used in the Bigpond sports site to launch the main flash scorecard, with a summary of the match in progress. The third was an island banner that could be used on other sites to push people to the scorecard.

The flash console features client-side caching to reduce server load on the xml feeds and is available through the Bigpond Sport website http://www.bigpondsport.com.

The popularity of the NRL and cricket consoles enabled C4 to expand the concept into the AFL for the 2007 season with the Mark & Goal of the year and Army Award consoles.

Continuing a successful working relationship C4 contracted Interesting to produce the flash interfaces. The Mark & Goal of the year interface allow users to watch video clips of the top three goals and marks from the previous round and to vote for their favorite. The army award shows three clips from the previous round of the best ‘on field act’ and allows users to vote for their favorite.

The flash consoles are currently available through the AFL website http://www.afl.com.au.

The independent UK record company Dubplate needed to upgrade their business model to enable them to sell merchandise, vinyls, CD’s and DVD’s online. Dubplate also decided to move into the market of track mp3 sales and downloadable ring tones.

Interesting was contracted to evaluate Dubplate’s current system, to determine if it could be upgraded to incorporate the new requirements and functionality. After completing the evaluation it was determined that the existing system was not capable of meeting the requirements. Dubplate then contracted Interesting to develop a new system that was capable of handling Dubplate’s business needs.

The system meets all of Dubplate’s current requirements while remaining flexible, allowing for future changes to Dubplate’s business needs. The site went live in August 2006 and can be found at http://www.dubplate.net

Phonelink is a telecommunications company who were looking to raise their online presence to help increase their market base and assist in their current expansion plans. Phone-link was looking for a crisp clean site that was easy to use and tied in with their corporate branding.

Following Phonelink’s online requirements Interesting conducted research into the telecommunications market. This was used to create three design briefs for Phone-link. These briefs showed Phonelink what was possible and made the correct choice of design and functionality easy.

Interesting developed a content managed system which enables Phonelink to maintain their products, services and specials. The site was launched early July 2006 and can be found at http://www.phonelink.com.au

Timothy Neate Men’s Wear is the major brand of Alienoctopus Pty Ltd. The Timothy Neate line has enjoyed significant growth in the Australian and international market including a distribution contract with Coles Myer ltd.

To take advantage of their increasing exposure, Alienoctopus contracted Interesting to rapidly develop a clean, crisp website utilizing Timothy Neate’s own designs that provided details about Alienoctopus and Timothy Neate.

After the successful implementation of the new site in April 2006, Alienoctopus engaged Interesting to develop a new website for TV Boy, a new brand from Timothy Neate. The TV Boy site was launched in August 2006. The Timothy Neate and TV Boy websites can be found online at http://www.alienoctopus.com.au.

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To support the popular TV series "How to start your own country" a cybernation was developed for the BBC. The cybernation was required to reiterate the content of the show and also allow people to become citizens and show their support for the emerging country, Lovely.

Interesting partnered with Picture to provide BBC’s partner Leafstorm, with a dynamic site that integrated with the BBC's infrastructure. The site was required to evolve during each of the six episodes to reflect the country’s ongoing development. Included in the functionality of the site was a community message board and an online voting system.

The cybernation was a huge success with over fifty one thousand citizens signing up to support the country and the message boards quickly growing to become the second most popular boards on the BBC system.

Mushroom Records UK were looking for an online solution to reduce costs and delivery times of their worldwide marketing material to affiliated record companies around the world.

Interesting and UK company Toffeeapple developed an extranet system that fulfilled Mushroom Records' UK needs. The system was developed using ASP, JavaScript and Access. The system was made available to affiliates around the world via a secure portal, enabling Mushroom to distribute audio and video clips, as well as images and information about bands, albums and singles in a fraction of the previous lead times.

The system has been well received by the affiliates and has succeeded in reducing costs and delivery times. One of Mushroom Records' UK partners, Rawkus Records, was so impressed by the system that they commissioned a customised version for themselves.

The project's aim was to provide Silverstring, a company that sells and supports IBM hardware, with a system to help them track and develop their customer support operation.

To allow this Interesting developed a CRM site that allows Silverstring’s customers to raise and track support cases with Silverstring. Driven by ASP, the site keeps past cases easily accessible, creating a knowledge base that allows Silverstring consultants to be more effective when dealing with support issues. The support site empowers companies with the ability to update their own personnel and equipment ensuring that the support site is always up-to-date.

Silverstring have found the site to be very effective and with it's new streamlined processes their support section is growing into the most profitable department in the company.

Pophouse creates a quarterly report called The Bottom Line Report. The Bottom Line Report is an innovative commentary that outlines and catalogues new business initiatives, technologies and work practices from around the world. Pophouse required an online solution to enable their target audience to easily access and purchase their reports.

Interesting was contracted by The Farm, Pophouse’s IT partner, to create an eCommerce subscription system. The system allows consumers to purchase annual subscriptions, the current report or archived reports.

The site was launched 31st March 2006.

Boral’s Business Support Services (BSS) provide Boral with an excellent development resource. Due to the large number of ongoing projects Boral’s BSS needed to source external development for the Online Price Validation Tool.

Interesting provided Boral with onsite development for the Online Price Validation Tool, allowing the staff at BSS to focus on delivering other projects. Interesting worked within the existing Boral BSS infrastructure and liaised with BSS technical leads and the client to ensure that the project was completed smoothly.

The Online Price Validation Tool was completed a week ahead of schedule and was integrated with the existing Boral BSS applications.

The UK company Match Day Media had a concept to place plasma screens in all English premiership and championship football stadiums. These screens would be used as an advertising platform and also display up-to-date results for the current match and the rest of the premiership league.

UK I.T company Splendid created the creative basis of the system and then contracted Interesting to develop the IT infrastructure and system that would allow XML feeds from the Press Association to be monitored, parsed and supplied to all of the stadiums.

The system was successfully developed and is currently running in fifteen premiership and championship football stadiums in the UK.

In line with its vision of "Caring for you" Canberra Hospital were looking for a solution to increase the efficiency of its Rehabilitation Section. To enable this they contracted Interesting to develop an intranet system which would streamline accessing patient information and monitoring their progress.

In order to achieve this Interesting developed a systetm that retrieved patient data from the Canberra Hospital mainframe. The system then stored and manipulated Rehabilitation specific information including clinical details, diagnosis, treatment plans, referrals, treatment teams and adverse reactions. To be effective, the system was developed with ease of use in mind, allowing Doctors and Nurses to use the system with minimal training and support.

This system was developed and delivered and is currently being used in Canberra Hospital by the Rehabilitation Section.

The UK based company The Punter ltd wanted to expand its operations to enter into the lucrative online peer to peer gambling market. Interesting was contracted by the UK I.T company toffeeapple to develop a completely secure online e-commerce system from scratch and provide The Punter with a solid platform to enter the market.

Punter V Punter was designed to be easy for the average punter to use. It enabled them to simply select the sport or event that they wanted to bet on and present them with the selection of odds on offer. The punter could also enter their own odds which could then be taken by other users. Punter V Punter allowed for all types of bet outcomes and result variations, such as dead heats, no results and the always annoying Rule 4. Punter V Punter was developed using ASP, Visual Basic and SQL server and kept a detailed account summary for each user including current and historic betting information.

Punter V Punter was successfully implemented and released, with the client viewing it as the best peer to peer gambling site available at the time of release.