Captives Global

Social Communication

In April 2010, Captives Global delivered a stealth beta release for a social communication platform for the Middle East market. The project is set to redefine the way public uses Internet in the Middle East.

Captives Global executed end to end development of the platform leveraging ASP.Net 3.5 web services. The project demanded a huge learning curve, having to acquire expertise in developing globalised multi-locale web applications. Captives Global built multi language user interfaces providing a seamless unified user experience for communities all across the globe.

Rich Internet Application

kfczingerhotmoments.com A promotional campaign that ran in Australia from June to November 2009 for KFC, V8 Supercars and Bigpond Australia. Captives Global developed the high performance data architecture and built the web application using ASP.net 3.5 and SQL Server 2008 to search validate and accept 28 Million unique voucher code registrations. The application used a federated table design with traversal search logic to ensure 3 to 5 second results including validations. The application was hosted on Rackspace Cloud.

Smart Client Widget

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince A desktop widget was built for Bigpond Australia as part of the movie’s pre-release campaign. The widget featured a count down display as well as automatic wallpaper and media downloads.

ZebTab Desktop Widget was an aggregated social media gadget for zebtab.com which delivers and alerts users with sports, entertainment and news content direct to the desktop. The content was delivered in the form of images, text, video and podcasts giving a rich multimedia experience. Users could add or remove channels to reflect their interests ensuring relevant contents were delivered.
Captives Global provided maintenance programming and technical support for the desktop widget as well as underlying web application and feed engines.
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Digital Content Applications

In collaboration with Racefan Australia and Sprintcar World Australia, we are developing a content aggregation and re-distribution platform targeting motorsports teams and motor racing industry in Australia. Major users of the platform would include PR divisions of Australian Carting Association, V8 Supercars as well as racing teams including Orrcon Racing, Ford Racing and Jack Daniels Racing. The application is built using ASP.net 3.5, WCF and Silverlight with its architecture along the SaaS model to allow seamless subleasing and white labelling. The modules were built to enable the key tenants of Digital Publishing as given below.

Aggregation A set of light weight and high performance user interface elements supports simultaneous content uploads and tagging.

Digital Asset Management A robust back office module allows seamless classification, tagging and transformation tasks to be performed before the content is made available to the consumers of the publishing module.

Publishing Built-in content studio that utilises the DAM features whilst allowing to create and publish content across the breadth of web and social media.

Enterprise Resource Planning

Ultragistics ERP A multilingual web based ERP suite for Oil and Natural Gas Engineering and Civil Construction markets in the Middle East, developed as a joint venture between Captives Global and a Saudi Arabian Company. Phase I consisting of Project Management and Support Desk Modules were deployed in December 2009 and passed User Acceptance Testing in January 2010. We are now developing Phase II consisting of Materials and Logistics Management to be deployed in October 2010.

Accessibility Support

VoxEnable™ from Citnexus allows users to control their Windows PC and software applications via speech using Nuances Dragon Naturally Speaking Software. Captives Global is developing the latest version of VoxEnable™ with speech enabled access to most popular social media applications like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Orkut, Myspace and similar.

Mobile Web SMS/MMS Application

Cell2Sold A mobile web and SMS-MMS marketing startup, initially targeting very niche markets and then to include other industry verticals dependant adverts. Cell2Sold helps the target customers to quickly and effectively deliver critical sales information and follow ups via stream-lined mobile web based workflows.

Financial Applications

We developed two personal financial applications for an Australian startup mortgagesaver.com.au. Both applications are now being sold throughout Australia. Both applications were developed from ground up where Captives Global undertook full product lifecycle management from product design and development to technical support.

Mortgage Saver enables its users to accurately calculate the impact and effect that a broad range of scenarios will have on the term of your mortgage and loans.

Credit Card Saver is a comprehensive management system that helps users to track their spending habits and helps them to make changes to improve their personal finances.

Social Media Applications

Biosnip.com is a social media proof of concept web application around the idea of instant photo sharing. It comprised common social media elements such as instant photo sharing from mobile and web, messaging, feeds, blogs, forum, chat and mobile web /SMS user interfaces.