Blueberry Consultants Ltd

Blueberry developed a web-based software tool for global consultancy MCA which helps their clients work out budget requirements for all types of marketing campaigns.

The Budget Builder enables clients to assess budget requirements by exploring different combinations of advertising spend over a 12-month period.

Using our own BBWT web application framework we delivered a tool which:

1. Allows user to look at the budget for a fiscal year and compare different scenarios for any number of campaigns.
2. Uses a simple ‘wizard’ that guides the user step-by-step through the process of setting up a budget, including selecting media type, duration, frequency etc.
3. Includes a client styliser which allows the tool to be customised for each client.
4. Can be accessed from multiple browsers and mobile devices.

Budget Builder has provided MCA with a valuable, automated tool that they can offer to their clients to help them easily assess budgets and consider different advertising campaign strategies. Since its launch, they’ve been very pleased that it has attracted the attention of organisations such as Visa International, The Co-operative supermarket chain and Premier Foods.

The Nutritional Epidemiology Group at the University of Leeds successfully secured a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) grant to investigate the use of mobile phone technology to help people lose weight. The Group contacted Blueberry as it required proven software expertise in mobile technology and database systems to help instigate the study plan.

Blueberry created the ‘My Meal Mate’ Android mobile phone application which provides users with:

• A database of 35,000 common food items, which allows the user to record what was eaten throughout the day in a food diary.
• “Photo mode” where the user can use the phone camera to take a photo of a meal as a reminder for completing the food diary.
• “Favourites” feature to store common meals to make data entry easier.
• Exercise entry to log calories used during the users’ daily exercise. Target weight loss settings, with limits to prevent unhealthy rates of weight loss.
• Progress tracking and graphing.
• Upload of diary entries to a reporting website.
  
  In addition to providing software expertise, Blueberry also played a strong technical consultancy role within the Nutritional Epidemiology Group - in particular with selecting the most appropriate phones for the project; generating custom reports and producing a specialised reporting website.

When global dairy company Arla Foods opened a new £150 million dairy in Aylesbury, England, they needed a Yard Management System which could keep track of the flow of vehicles throughout the yard on a 24/7, 365-day basis.

With 150 vehicles unloading raw milk every day, it was essential that Arla’s managers had a system which could help them manage the yard operations as efficiently as possible.

Using our own BBWT web application framework, which helped accelerate development and keep costs down, Blueberry built a sophisticated, flexible system that:

1. Enables Arla’s managers to control all of the movements around the yard easily and effectively.
2. Includes a yard map which provides a graphical view of the location of all vehicles, bay assignments and a ‘drag and drop’ function that tells the drivers where to move a vehicle to.
3. Utilises mobile devices which drivers receive on check-in to receive instructions from the yard controllers.
4. Helps the yard controllers manage driver and trailer resources to ensure the site does not exceed noise restrictions.

The DIMEC Pharmacy app has addressed a need by patients to obtain their prescription medication quickly, cheaply and more conveniently than is currently possible.

The app integrates with the NHS Electronic Prescription Service and is easy to understand and use, secure and reliable.

The DIMEC Pharmacy app:

1. Works seamlessly across all devices.
2. Seamlessly integrates with the NHS Electronic Prescription.
3. Holds a comprehensive database of medicines.
4. Has a modern and clean design which easily guides users through the registration and ordering process.
5. Is available to download free from the App Store.

Since its launch, the app has already attracted an overwhelming number of users and received stellar reviews from customers, industry professionals and local media.