Cited this year as the second largest growth business in Merseyside (450% growth in the 12 months to November 2007), Blue Orchid specialise in the delivery of funded training working with the Government Office North West, LSC and the European Union to deliver strategic services to Merseyside business start ups and SME’s.

Customisation of networked third party software and database to handle contact management and registration of program candidates for multiple government and EU sponsored training programs.

Fine grained Placement management, contract management and prospecting.

Full operational support including Time sheets, Invoicing, expenses and back office.

Network based Google Server blade to handle indexed text searches of over 3000 candidate CV documents in various formats, fully integrated into the user interface, including form auto complete functionalities.

Management reporting of program level data, fully integrated into the networked interface, as well as web based access for remote and mobile managers.

Bulk Email systems and SMS Text messageing to candidates mobiles as interview reminders and get in touch prompts.

• Data Mining of legacy databases and begin phase-out of legacy systems.
• New Interface software to manage and report legacy Data.
• Creation of business process models for software creation and development.
• Phase-in of new business management software, and bespoke customisation of proprietary software.
• Creation and writing of Web and PC based user interfaces for the various business units.
• Creation of Web Services to extend the capabilities of the business management software.