Key clients/projects

Oxford Open Architecture
 With a policy to ‘not reinvent the wheel’, Oxil identified a requirement to provide customers with starting blocks for product development. We want customers to pay for the unique parts of their system, not the bits that everybody needs (security, user administration, document management, searching). With that in mind Oxil developed the OXFORD.OPEN.ARCHITECTURE (OOA), a generic Information Management System, underpinning most of its projects. The robust system is employed in several mission-critical commercial applications, and licensed to clients on an open source basis.

Oxford City Council
 In 2009, Oxil was awarded a three year contract to host our home city Council website. Further, the company achieved the technical takeover within four months, delivering a major website redesign and a corporate intranet takeover on-time and on-budget.

Books2Anywhere, GoodbooksNZ and Echo Library
 Books2Anywhere, GoodbooksNZ, and Echo Library are online book retailers and wholesalers, with a strong Internet presence, demanding e-commerce and online banking services. With a database of 1 million book titles, the businesses required rapid searching, updating and cataloguing of stock to meet demand. Oxil responded by developing its unique catalogue search facility, which radically reduced search times, making customers’ buying and browsing experiences much smoother. Oxil has worked with the retailers for a number of years provided full hosting, ongoing enterprise support, regular updates and improvements to their web presence.

HM Dept. for Children, Schools and Families
 In 2005-2009, Oxil hosted the DCSF Early Support Programme portal, a major website offering information and services for families and carers of children with learning difficulties. The site, achieving 1 million+ hits per month, demanded robust clustered hardware and network infrastructure. The site served healthcare professionals and parents, offering a range of tailored services based upon access, roles and permissions.

Royal College of Nursing
 The Royal College of Nursing is regularly commissioned by central government to provide audits and research to support quality improvement. In 2002, Oxil was commissioned to provide the RCN’s first online audit. Because the outcomes of such audits can lead to changes in clinical practice, it was essential that the audits were scientifically robust, minimizing data entry errors. The audit needed to be completed by medical practitioners, who have many competing demands on their time. Oxil’s response was to create “intelligent forms” which adapted the questions according to information already provided in the online interview, and therefore did not waste practitioners’ time with irrelevant questions. The result was scientifically robust data that supported a change in clinical practice, and was popular with practitioners.