IR Web Modules functionality:

“There are two types of content in the IR Web Modules product. Firstly, the content companies provide themselves, which they need to be able to edit and publish. Second is the data that comes from LSE systems, such as regulatory news, historical share prices, financial performance and other data that is available in the LSE data warehouse. The LSE already has business processes in place to collate and verify company data and add this to their data warehouse, so the IR Web Modules product reuses this infrastructure.”

“IR Web Modules includes functionality built on top of the content management system which powers the LSE’s existing public facing web site; this allow the product to reuse the back-end CMS functionality, storage facility, workflow, versioning and so on.”

“Another consideration was the security model; there are a large number of customer companies and we needed to ensure that users who log in to add content can only access the site they are responsible for, so IR Web Modules includes a security model which determines what level of access a user has and what content they can manage.”

“A major development challenge was allowing companies to brand their IR Web Modules site in line with their existing corporate web site, this was achieved through a CSS based customisation GUI which allows users to control the look and feel of the site.”

Delivery Process:

“The LSE has a well-defined process for releasing new web-based products – Priocept does the product development off site on our own infrastructure where we can do functional and business testing and our client can constantly view a version of the application in development and as we add new features the client can test them; then when the product is finished, we deliver it into the LSE’s IT team as a packaged solution ready for final integration testing.”