Online Payments

BOCC's successful online payments system, used by local councils, commercial organisations and professional bodies alike, has been extended to allow it to interface with hundreds of thousands of packaged and bespoke web-enabled systems.

The new module, miscellaneous payments, can be called from third party applications allowing payments to be integrated into a single common system. The payments system can update the remote application directly, send confirmation emails and provide links back into the original page. This can provide a seamless experience for people making payments.

The payments system offers:

• ergonomic interface
• online live authorisation
• user help
• payment reporting and tracking
• optional bespoke service modules, e.g. council tax, sundry debtors

Systems, databases and hosting by BOCC.

January 2005

The Royal Society e-GAP

BOCC developed a grant applications and processing (e-GAP) system for the Royal Society in 2003. The last major scheme, Wolfson Research Merit Award, has now been enabled.

This system covers all aspects of application, approval, assessment, award offer, holder maintenance, management and reporting. BOCC undertook the specification, database design and implementation, data replication system, assisted with set-up of internal servers, testing, training and subsequent support.

BOCC have also developed an on-line electronic publications systems for The Royal Society.

January 2005

Web Services Syndication

BOCC have created a new web services connector to allow secure, authenticated syndication of consumer product recalls and safety warnings to the electronic trading standards national (e-TSN) portal website.

Arising out of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's (ODPM's) national strategy for local e-government, the 22 National Projects pull together the knowledge and experience of councils, central government, the private sector and others to define and deliver key priority services and building blocks to help councils deliver their own local e-government programmes.

The e-TSN project, one of the 22, aims to enable the sharing of electronic data among Trading Standards services in a usable format for business planning and enforcement purposes.

Development and hosting by BOCC.

January 2005

Dedicated Hosting

More organisations are moving to dedicated hosting services provided by BOCC.

Cost options are available for:

• Guaranteed bandwidths
• Backups
• Disaster recovery hosting facility
• Automated server checks such as heartbeat, ping, database, application, specific process, DNS, SMTP and POP3
• Manual server checks and security patching
• Domain name management
• Secure certificate management

Clients such as Macmillan Cancer Relief have benefited from BOCC's high level of support and in-house technical knowledge.

January 2005