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Shelves full of files, stacks of invoices waiting to be processed and a diary full of catch-up meetings are set to become things of the past – the future of managing your business, according to software development firm Liquid Bronze, is online.

Liquid Bronze, based at Manchester Science Park, have developed Workhub, a new extranet system which aims to provide businesses and their customers with a secure means of managing documents, tracking jobs and staying in touch in real time.

“In the past medium sized companies tended to use a mix of faxes, emails and shared spreadsheets to manage everything but this isn’t an ideal way of keeping on top of work flow and the need to respond quickly to customer queries,” explained Andrew Threlfall, Liquid Bronze Director.

“Workhub aims to resolve that by providing an online system to manage all aspects of work flow, from job assignment through to tracking progress and completion, as well as acting as a web portal for line managers, staff and customers to communicate quickly and easily.”

Liquid Bronze in conjunction with Leeds based media solution consultancy Xsolve, partners on the project, officially launched Workhub on the market this summer, and have already signed a number of clients up to the system.

“Workhub is primarily aimed at the middle ground of companies, who want to demonstrate they have a quality assurance, work flow system in place but perhaps don’t have the resources to invest in the expensive technology used by larger corporations,” explained Andrew.

“As developers, for us Workhub is all about opening up new technology to businesses of all sizes and from all sectors in a way that benefits both the company and their clients, making life easier for everyone,” he concluded.

Scalable and secure, Workhub operates on a permission only basis, is accessible online from anywhere in the world and is fully backed up by a secure hosting system
For more information on Workhub please visit www.getworkhub.com

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Caption: Pictured are (back) Ian Moss, Business Software Consultant, and Andrew Threlfall, Director, Liquid Bronze

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Liquid Bronze use an agile development methodology to ensure that costs are capped, and that clients can gradually build up their systems in a managed way.

We work with:

• Fast growing SMEs who need software to manage system and processes as they grow
• Companies with multiple sites or offices
• Businesses with staff or engineers on-the-road or home-workers who need to access to business or client information
• Organisations with a large amount of paperwork and spreadsheets
• Businesses going for ISO9001 qualifications
• Websites that need client logins or integration with back-office systems or e-commerce

Lovely pizza was consumed, ONITZHEAD, Homecut and Rev Juggla performed and Freedoma’s founder, Caleb Storkey, introduced the site to the event attendees.

Freedoma has been gaining good feedback and press already over its unique style and delivery of its business listings and ability to allow you to interact via adding reviews and rate businesses, and find out what your friends thought of businesses.  You can read an interview with Caleb at PR media.

Liquid Bronze developed Freedoma.com as a bespoke internet system for Caleb.  We utilised Ruby On Rails and MySQL and an adapted agile methodology for devliering the project, and look foward to continued delivery in the coming months on what has been a fun, ambitious and interesting project to work on so far.

Freedoma.com news article

Innovation magazine featured Liquid Bronze’s client Freedoma.com in their March issue.

“A new website, developed by Liquid Bronze, is helping Manchester businesses find out what their customers really think of their company”.

“Freedoma is taking the idea of a business directory to the next level, not only can users get all the business contact information they need but they can also see what other poeple think of the company and which firms are recommended”.

See what the buzz is all about at Freedoma.com

“FlyTheCoop exists to have a sustainable and creative active community of individuals, entrepreneurs and small businesses in the city centre, working together and sharing space for the purposes of collaboration, innovation and profit for the benefit of themselves, their communities and their industries.

This co-working co-operative will represent a range of creative and technical industries in the City, creating new possibilities for collaboration and partnerships.”

It looks likesetting up the first working space is progressing in Manchester.

Freedoma.com is a business listings site that allows consumers to rate, and review businesses, as well as allowing business owners to interact with their customers via the site.

Over the coming month the site will concentrating in Manchester, before moving onto the rest of the UK.

The site has been developed by Ian and Andrew of Liquid Bronze in Ruby On Rails for local entrepreneur Caleb Storkey.