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Contract Win - Ski Club
Contract Win - Ski Club.
About this update from Crimson Tide Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n Crimson Tide PLC\n28 January 2008\n\n\n\n Crimson Tide plc\n (the 'Company')\n\n\n Contract Win\n\n\nAIM-listed Crimson Tide plc is pleased to announce a new contract with the Ski\nClub of Great Britain ('Ski Club') to deliver an advanced Windows Mobile\napplication to improve its efficiency and provide substantial savings in time\nand money. Crimson Tide will provide a handheld application designed to replace\npaper-based systems used by the Ski Club's worldwide network of representatives\nto supply ski reports and other essential information to its central database.\n\nThe Ski Club of Great Britain is a non profit making organisation, based in the\nUK which was set up to provide ski related benefits to UK based skiers\ntravelling to resorts all over the world. The organisation has been in existence\nsince 1903 and has 31,000 active members today. Ski Club run a network of\nrepresentatives which are based in 37 major ski resorts across the world. The\nReps are based in seven countries; these are France, Austria, Italy, Switzerland\nand Andorra in Europe and Canada and the USA in North America.\n\nWith limited web access in many of its ski resorts in which the Ski Club is\nrepresented, representatives have traditionally had to rely on post, fax or\ninternet cafes to send daily and weekly reports. Once received at HQ, the forms\nhad to be manually entered into the database by a dedicated member of staff.\n\nBarrie Whipp, Chairman of Crimson Tide, commented: 'Whilst this process\nessentially worked, the Ski Club recognised that a more automated system would\nbe faster and more efficient, and therefore bring cost savings. We are providing\na Windows Mobile application based on the Motorola MC35 device. The system\nincorporates a number of process-based on-screen forms designed to capture\ninformation and display simple database queries such as members details.\n\n'Its speed and simplicity means that weekly reports are a thing of the past, as\nthe system will generate these automatically from the daily input. Automating\nthe data entry process will also generate substantial cost savings as\ninformation need only be captured once.\n\n'In addition the system will be used to sign up new members, book skiing trips\nand be able to securely capture direct debit and credit card information. New\nmembers will be able to have their applic...