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Ovingham Middle School Helping Hand

BACK Consulting have went back to school to lend a hand in designing Ovingham Middle Schools website. After a call for help Barry and Minkeun answered the call by supplying some technical skills and a bit of advice on how to make it work. The site has been filled with content and has since gone live to the joy of ICT Manager Steven Harding:

"I'm glad for the time taken by BACK to get things rolling. I get swamped with IT issues every day and find it difficult to take time out and complete a project such as this. Min's animation is fantastic and we hope the site will be both an informational tool and a profile raising platform."

BACK wishes Steven all the best for getting this website off the ground and building it for the future.

Mark visits Berwick for the NECC Networking Session

Tuesday evening saw Mark representing BACK Consulting Ltd in Berwick for the first ever NECC networking session in the area. The session was held in the Berwick Work Space which was a magnificent new state of the art building. To read the full story click here

Affiliates Opportunity for Low Cost Offshore Transcription Services

BACK Consulting Limited are delighted to announce the launch of their affiliates programme for low cost offshore transcriptions services, initially for the legal services and law firm markets across the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States of America, Australasia and English speaking Pacific Rim and former Commonwealth countries. To read the full story click here.

BACK Wins Major Irish Government Contract

IrelandBACK Consulting its Irish Partner Anne Neary Consultants have come together to win a major Irish government tender. Working hard to meet the needs of the client the bid was put together in order to assess and mitigate any risks faced by the client. This is especially pertinent given the recent economic climate. The team will be travelling to many offices all over Ireland and investigating both business and IT risks to compile a report and an action plan if needed. BACK continues to provide the highest levels of service to its clients and this deal is testimony to the ongoing business being sent in our direction.

Tuan goes on his travels

Tuan is off on his travels back to his home country of Vietnam. He is going to look at new technologies and develop his already advanced technical skills. Not only that but Tuan is also going to look at other operations to see if they can supply additional capacity to our software development department. click here for the full story.

Andrew drives his way to the trophy

Ireland Andrew has won an award for the longest drive at the Golf Lounge in Davenhams first anniversary of their Glasgow office. It was a close fought battle but Andrew came out as champion with a winning drive of 289.9 yards. To find out more about this story click here

 

Mark Graduates

Monday 14th July was also a special day for consultant Mark Ashley who graduated from Northumbria University with a First class. Mark also won the Nissan award for Outstanding Local Talent. To find out more about the day click here to view the story.

BACK to University

Monday 14th July was the day BACK went to University. They give an award for the best overseas student which was jointly awarded. It was a memorable day for all involved. To find out more about the day click here to view the story.

Mark Ashley Joins

BACK Consulting would like to welcome Mark Ashley to the team. He will be working on business development and project management and will be working closely with a number of our existing clients within the coming months. To find out more about Mark please click here to view his profile.

MVC Design Patterns

MVC design pattern is well established and spreading through the VS community. A bit like OOP on steriods but requiring the architect to be a lot more diligent in the seperation of files and objects.

MVC stands for Model View Controller and splits your code into three distinct areas.... For the full blog story please click here

MySQL Snapped Up By Sun

The M in LAMP has been bought by Sun for $1 billion. MySQL in the database engine powering most of the current online data driven websites and is highly popular because of its open source status. Sites such as Facebook and Google rely on MySQL to provide scalable and reliable systems. Usually a great technology which is consumed by big business is seen as a bad sign by the open-source community but not in this case. For the full blog story please click here

Your Servers Enjoying A Virtual World

The subject of virtualisation is strong in the minds of many businesses around the world as they try and eke more out of the existing software. Microsoft was forced to release Virtual Server for free and issue refunds for those who had paid for it in the face of the free VMWare players popularity. There are many companies who offer virtualisation services but be careful which one you use. As with any new technology there will always be those who are out to take advantage of the initial bewilderment and lack of knowledge in the wider community. For the full blog story please click here

Vista Business Upgrade Problems?

According to reports in the press it looks likes Microsofts key operating system Vista is becoming much maligned in the business world. This week the US giant GM has stated that it will probably skip a firm wide Vista upgrade and wait for Windows 7 to come along. This is due to the multiple problems found during trial runs. For the full blog story please click here

LINQ

As an up-to-date IT company, BACK Consulting has always had an eye on the continuing developments of Microsoft .NET technology. Members of the company have already done some experiments with the newest development environment: Visual Studio 2008. This comes with .NET 3.5 and an extremely new powerful data driven utility called LINQ (Language-Integrated Query). The pricipal of LINQ is to add "general purpose query facilities to the .NET Framework that apply to all sources of information, not just relational or XML data. For the full story please click here

Search Engine Optimisation

Search Engine Optimisation was a hot topic back in the day when businesses were starting to find a real use for the web. Nowadays it is taken for granted but it shouldn't be! With more and more people becoming wise to the ways of pushing your brand in an online world you need to make your site stay ahead of the crowd. BACK Consulting have long specialised in this field with many large corporate clients happily relying on our expertise. For the full blog story please click here

Legal Support Services Making You Smile

BACK Consulting has been providing legal research services for law firms around the globe which allows the client to focus on the work they do best. No lawyer wants to be sifting through thousands of pieces of paper or checking every precedent for a ruling so why not pass the mundane tasks off-shore and free up your time to focus on providing an excellent service to your client. We've covered work such as:

Our clients are delighted with the services on offer and once used they keep coming back for more. Find out more by looking here.

Business Plan Competition Awards 2008

Another night of glitz and glamour as the annual Northumbria University Business Plan Competition Awards 2008 took place. Roger Candy and Graham Baty work tirelessly as part of the enterprise campus department of the university which strives to support student and graduate enterprises trying to find thier way in the world of business. For the full story please click here

VietSoc Kicks Opposition Into Touch

Society Vietnam UK cup is the biggest annual football tournament event of the year for all Vietnamese Societies to compete in. The tournament has been organised for 6 years with around 16-25 football teams from cities all around the UK. This year it’s taken place in Nottingham, the home Robin Hood. The Newcastle Vietnamese Society team is proudly sponsored by BACK Consulting and has trained hard and with determination to rise to the challenge. For the full story please click here

Changing Faces of Business Process Automation: A Real Life Study

by Barry Kemp

I have had a long history in the field of business process modeling and automation. I've been lucky enough to work at establishments that have let me continue to be involved in this area whilst combining this with real benefits for the employer. I did my MSc part-time and luckily for me I was putting my dissertation project to real use by creating one of the first online access systems for debt recovery created in PHP and MySQL. For the full article please click here

Tuan Testing Tip Top Technology

BACK Consulting's leading Solutions Design Architect has been looking into some of the latest cutting edge technology to help our clients produce the software that addresses their needs. BACK has always been at the forefront of web based technology and the latest beta version of Subsonic (http://www.subsonicproject.com/) is being trialled to see if it gives any additional benefit to the Data Access Layer (DAL) of the programs. To read the full story please click here

Dublin Solicitors Bar Association 2008

IrelandWould you like to print your own money?

Well, not exactly. Sadly, that practice was outlawed across most of the world some time ago, however, you can come pretty close. To read the full story please click here

Legal Market Looking To Remote Digital Dictation

digidictHere at BACK Consulting we always like to stay ahead of the curve. We are sitting and wondering what is going to happen to the global economies in which we act as the current credit phenomenon continues to take hold. As we operate in many countries around the world we can begin to notice emerging patterns in all the good law firms.

One area in which law firms have striven to acheive a modicum of efficiency is in digital dictation. In many countries.... for the full story click here

Think Hard About Outsourcing

Advice from BACK Consulting that has been learnt by actually doing real projects. To see what we have to say please click here.

BACK Consulting Opens Blog

Blog!BACK Consulting is proud to launch it's new blog site, BACK Consulting Times. This gives a fresh look at issues and concerns regarding the life and times of the exciting BACK team. To go to the blog site please click here.

Efficient Forms Excels at Outsourcing

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World Leaders in automated forms technology, Efficient Forms LLC from Colorado are delighted to announce the appointment of BACK Consulting Limited of the UK as their outsourcing partner for Phase One of "CollegeZapps" a brand new innovative online College Application service going live in the USA in Q4 2007. For the full story please click here.