Open Brolly

10 Years of Information Management for Locations, Property, People and Places

November 26th, 2009

We’re delighted to announce that our iPhone application framework has been approved by Apple,

This opens the door for a range of new iPhone applications to be created for our clients, including MovieMaps, production guide / directory access on the move and applications for tourism destinations.

The application seamlessly integrates with MovieSite and TouristSite, but can display information from any database.

It is location aware – for example showing locations within a few kilometers of the phone user.

For further information, please contact david.sim@openbrolly.com.

October 30th, 2009

MovieSite and TouristSite systems are now generating over 1 million requests for information per day, peaking at over 20 requests every second!

October 9th, 2009

iphoneOpen Brolly has been accepted onto Apple’s iPhone Developer Program. Our first iPhone / iPod Touch application is expected to be released on the App Store in the next few weeks.

Open Brolly will use its core expertise to take clients’ database information and make it available through attractive and functional applications on the iPhone. We’re also introducing feedback and collaborative mechanisms – for example, allowing application users to contribute to the information displayed in future versions of an application.

Our new system, for translating information to and from the iPhone and existing databases, is called BusinessBox. Applications are expected to include provision of visitor information in a tourism destination, crew and facilities for the film and television sector and specialist databases in other niche sectors. For more information, contact david.sim@openbrolly.com.

October 9th, 2009

As you may be aware, a major road traffic accident caused damage to our Forres datacentre’s connection to the Internet.

We have invested in backup capacity and were able to switch to this immediately. We continue to run on this, and there is no disruption to services. We are running below the capacity of the backup line and therefore there should not be any performance issues.

Demon, the service provider, has not yet provided an estimate for restoration of the main connection so we will continue to run using backup capacity until further notice.

In related news, an upgrade is planned for the main fibre optic connection. While we are currently operating below capacity, we will ensure that we are ahead of the curve of future growth.