Background - the problem


Many of the services offered by BT are able to be ordered by way of a catalogue service, defence customers are able to find products and services they need by looking in the catalogue and placing an order by way of a telephone ordering service. The catalogue however, was distributed to some 1600 users on CD on a monthly basis. This was both time consuming and inefficient.

This had two effects, one was to have a slow service and one where the customers in this case the MoD need speed of reaction to minimise risk to on-going operations. The second was that BT wanted to become more agile in its approach to delivering faster service and pass on any business benefits back to the customer - a solution was required therefore to update the CD to become a faster and more user friendly to all parties concerned.

Today - the solution


Stelis was asked to look at the catalogue service to create web-based content in order that all services could be viewed on-line. This was a simple enough task but one that required a different approach to just supplying a website. Stelis's Catalogue Generator© was used in order that the user could not just produce web pages aligned to each of the services but using Stelis's recently acquired RAD technologies framework (xhia©) can use the "drag and drop" word to web technology to add web content with the click of a mouse button.

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"We were delighted with the results. The new look web-based DFTS catalogue was launched on 8th January 2007. The redesigned catalogue is now structured to make information easy to locate and understand, and makes ordering DFTS services easier than ever before"

Richard Semark - Marketing Manager, BT DFTS