Low Cost Group projects
- Client:
Low Cost Group
- Industry:
Travel
- Description:
The Low Cost Group was formed in 2004 and has grown quickly to become one of the UK's leading online travel companies.
It has 3 major trading businesses: a consumer facing travel business; a high quality supplier of hotel accommodation to travel agents; and a holiday transfer business.
Altitude have worked with Low Cost primarily delivering a group-wide data warehouse and management information system and other marketing websites.
Projects we have delivered:
- Project:
Data warehouse & MI reporting
- Year:
2008 to-date
- Technologies:
SQL Server, Crystal Reports, VBScript, MS Excel, MS Access
- Description:
With their package holiday business growing fast, it became necessary to implement effective management reporting.
Using the main booking engine as the primary data source, we created a new data warehouse. The challenge was to create a data warehouse that would have enough granularity for the reporting yet not making it so complicated that business analysts found it difficult to work with. Using SQL Server stored procedures we created data routines to transform the raw data into the simplified data warehouse.
For reporting Altitude developed a series of Crystal reports and automation routines to distribute the reports to interested parties on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
In addition, Altitude have created a series of reports utilising the power of Excel pivot tables which link directly to the data warehouse.
The reporting requirement continue to expand with the introduction of new markets and other data sources, such as the Google Adword reporting.
To support the reporting infrastructure, Altitude have also created a backoffice application in Access to allow staff to configure reporting parameters.
- Project:
Low Cost Holidays Big Search
- Year:
2010
- Technologies:
ASP.NET MVC (C#), CSS, SQL Server, JQuery
- Site:
- description:
Altitude were commissioned early in 2010 to develop the 'Big Search' competition microsite for Low Cost. The site was designed to allow members of the public to submit their video entries with the aim of winning the competition to become 'the face of Low Cost'. The site integrated heavily with YouTube, where all the videos were hosted, and was designed to deal with the YouTube restrictions.
The site was updated on two further occasions, when the competition was closed and when the winner was announced.
- Project:
Secret Squirrel Trips blogging site
- Year:
2010
- Technologies:
Wordpress
- Site:
- Description:
Following on from the 'Big Search' website, Altitude were commissioned to create a blogging site for the competition winner. It needed to be distinctive, yet professional.
Utilising Wordpress, Altitude created the website with links into Twitter and Facebook.
Latest news
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15th January 2012
The College website launch
We are proud to announce today the launch of a new Umbraco website we have built for The College website project. Altitude’s brief was to create a marketing website presenting Company news through a blogging system and showcasing the work The College has achieved for their clients through Case Studies. For more information: The College website project.
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16th December 2011
Altitude sign up a new Client.
In September 2011, Altitude were contracted to assist Stonehage’s implementation of automated internal systems. This phase was to install and configure Opalis and assist with the setup and configuration of AutoRek. A good working relationship between Stonehage, API Software and Altitude lead to a successful integration of software and implementation of this phase in December 2011. For more information: Stonehage project.
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6th December 2011
JBJS Author Profile project OrthoDox/OrthoBase upgrade
Authors papers are published by JBJS, but JBJS and authors wanted to promote author information for these publications. So we have built “Author Profile” functionality to allow authors to keep their profiles up-to-date and to be promoted using a new Author Profile page. For more information: JBJS website project.
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14th November 2011
FuelChip website launch
Today sees the the launch of a new Umbraco website that we built for FuelChip. This site details the products and services that FuelChip offer their clients. For more information: FuelChip website project.
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12th July 2011
JBJS BJR project OrthoDox/OrthoBase upgrade
JBJS have a new Journal, “Bone & Joint Research”. A new 'open access' journal for orthopaedics and musculoskeletal sciences research communication. Submissions are open, including clinical and translational laboratory studies as well as studies from the device and pharmaceutical industries. For more information: Stonehage project.