Such is the demand for tickets at Lord's the MCC has decided to try to give as many people as possible the chance to see a game at Lord's.  To that end they operate a sophisticated combination of postal and Internet ballots.  Later on during the cricket season tickets will be sold over the counter, via the telephone and on the Internet.  This unusual and complex mixture of sales channels has led the Club, under the Project Management of Stephen Wilder (Partner of GPW Consultancy) to develop an in-house bespoke ticketing system, using the latest state of the art database and development tools from Microsoft and the "One Touch" philosophy devised by GPW Consultancy.  The "Net" effect was a comprehensive bespoke ticketing system installed on time and on budget and lot of happy customers.  Place your orders now, it is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at www.lords.org

For a more comprehensive report on our "One Touch" approach and the benefits we have delivered to our clients in the sports world and retail industry please give us a call or send us an email.

Microsoft Seal of Approval
Hot on the heals of SAP we are pleased to announce that Stephen Wilder is now qualified as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer endorsing his claims to speak bits and bytes and debits and credits with equal and professional ease.
 
SAP Seal of Approval
We are pleased to announce that we have our first SAP R/3 certified consultant, Gillian Wilder. Adding this to her already extensive experience makes a formidable combination of technical, business and project management skills.
 
Client News
Rachel Riley is now online, on time and on budget. We have just launched an e-commerce web site for Rachel Riley, a fashion model turned successful business woman. The site offers for sale high quality, "unique lifestyle", fashionable, French made clothing for babies, children and ladies. The site not only offers the customer the chance to view and buy all the items in the catalogue, they can see and join in the "Life of Riley" at her home in the Loire Valley in France. The many reviews in glossy magazines atest to the success of her approach to life.
 
For Rachel the system also offers her a comprehensive sales order processing system for the back office - all web based, which she can operate from her shop in London or her Chateau/atelier in France.
 
Customers from all over the world heard about the site and were queuing up to view it days before it opened!
 
Woking Athletic Club (one of our sponsored web sites) regularly beats the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) by publishing full results from its Young Athletes meeting within a few hours of the competition, the IAAF take 24 hours to publish their results!
 
Another of our client sites, Lord's The Home of Cricket recently clocked up 2.5 million page impressions in just one day to become one of the busiest web sites in the UK. Cricket followers from around the world are flooding to this, the Official web site for the England and Wales Cricket Board, Marylebone Cricket Club and the Cricket World Cup 1999. The live scoreboards, the live audio commentaries from the BBC's Test Match Special commentary team and the latest news stories direct from Lord's are so popular we have had to plug the site directly in to the UK's Internet backbone. By the end of the competition the site served in excess of 100 million page impressions in just 6 weeks.
 
Fun and Games
For those of you who have a few moments to spare(!) take a brief detour to our mind games, puzzles and amusements.