Our Services - Web And Multimedia Consultancy
OBS Group is an experienced provider of consultancy services, ranging from advice on how to choose a website provider or multimedia provider to evaluation of an existing website. The service we supply is highly bespoke and our experience in designing and developing websites and multimedia pieces means we are able to meet all needs.
In order to demonstrate our capabilities in this area here are a few examples where we have helped our clients save time and money.
Helping you choose a provider to develop your website
Choosing the best provider to develop your new website can be an extremely daunting process, with many potential pitfalls along the way. OBS Group is an experienced website development company. What better way to cut through all the jargon and get to the bottom of which provider best meets your needs than employing our consultancy expertise in this area (Clearly we would not expect to be invited to tender in a situation such as this!).
We have successfully helped many clients choose providers for website development services by sitting in on the providers’ presentations. We can then help our clients to understand what the providers are offering (or not offering) in more detail and also facilitate comparisons between their services.
It can be surprising how different the solutions, timescales and projected costs can be from even just a few companies all pitching for the same project.
If you would like more information on choosing the right provider or wish to discuss your particular needs in this area please click the link.
Helping you prepare a functional specification for a new website development
When sourcing a provider to develop your new website one of the best ways to ensure you are comparing like with like is to request proposals based on a functional specification document. For smaller website projects this functional specification is usually straight forward, however for larger projects, where your options are more varied, preparing a good functional specification is slightly more complex.
The best functional specifications are those that leave little open to interpretation and thus misunderstanding. To achieve this, much of the decision-making about your requirements has to be done in advance of creating the specification, which can lead to a problem. How can you specify a particular piece of functionality when you don’t know what options are open to you in terms of functional requirement. What you need is the assistance of website development experts to help in the creation of the functional specification.
OBS Group has a wealth of experience in assisting companies with the creation of
functional specifications for their website projects. We work closely with you to develop a specification that is both accurate and understandable.
If you would like more information on functional specification creation or wish to discuss your particular needs in this area please click the link.
Helping you determine whether your site needs re-hosting, upgrading or redeveloping
What was once a perfectly well-behaved website with high availability and no page errors can suddenly act erratically when forced to serve high numbers of simultaneous users. As you market your website more and more effectively, this scenario becomes more likely and it can be extremely damaging to your marketing effort when users who have taken the time to visit your site find that it is either unavailable or presents them with error messages.
There are a number of solutions available to you. You could consider improving your hosting situation by boosting the hardware your site has its disposal or perhaps there is something more fundamental with the way your site has been created that is only now presenting itself under such high traffic situations. It is important to discover the reason, as getting it wrong could mean spending money in the wrong area, which would do nothing to improve the situation.
OBS Group has consulted on issues such as this and has evaluated whether a site is under-performing due to insufficient hardware capabilities or due to inefficient code writing and has been able to suggest an appropriate course of action.
If you would like more information on site performance or wish to discuss your particular needs in this area please click the link.
Helping you evaluate your website to see if it is meeting its business objectives
When you are closely involved with a website it is sometimes possible to lose sight of whether it really is projecting the right company image and whether it is meeting its objectives as effectively as it could. You only have to browse through a few internet sites and see the diverse range of design styles and layouts to realise that everyone has a different idea about the best way to present things.
We have helped companies examine the effectiveness of their existing website presence and suggested ways in which their current site could be improved to better meet their business objectives and thus be more successful.
If you would like more information on evaluating your site or wish to discuss your particular needs in this area please click the link.
These are just four examples of the consultancy we have offered in the past. If you have a specific consultancy need that is not covered here please click the link to contact us. We will soon be able to tell you if we can help, and provide suitable references should they be required.