Enigin Digital

Happy New Year from an Enigin Developer

Happy New Year everyone! We did it, we got through it… the Christmas break is over and it’s back to work at the Enigin office on Monday.

I always have mixed feelings about returning to work after a break. I love my work but once I stop, I find it difficult to get back into things after having so much time off. It’s been a good holiday and i’ve spent a lot of time with friends, family and gigging. Our last gig of the year was in a posh restaurant and we went down a storm!

It’s going to be a great year. My first task next week is to work with Business Development Manager Calvin on the new Enigin Knowledge Base due for launch shortly. Our Knowledge Base is going to change the way which our Distributors receive support from us and contain many articles, FAQs and video tutorials to help them run their independent Energy Saving business.

I wish all of our Enigin Distributors the very best for 2010. Get out there and make it happen!

2009 has been a great year for Enigin

I think everyone agrees that 2009 was a great year for Enigin PLC and Enigin Distributors, especially the development department! Nikolai and myself joined Enigin in June this year and here’s a selection of the projects which we’ve completed and launched:

• Eniscope 4.0 Software
• Eniscope Public Display
• Numerous New Distributor Websites
• Enigin .com redesign
• Enigin .co.uk redesign
• Blog site for Ian Wrigley
• News Authoring System
• Energy Saving Blog
• Enigin .TV video site
• The Energy Saving Association website
• Telesales System
• Emailer System
• My Enigin Blog!

I’m sure there’s more, but that’s all I can remember at the moment without trawling through my project lists!

I have a feeling that 2010 will be an even more productive year!

Enigin Eniscope 4.0 Software

The last major Enigin project of 2009 has just drawn to a close and we are very proud to announce the release of our new onboard Eniscope software.

Eniscope 4.0 features a completely redesigned real-time viewing interface and makes your energy usage even easier to visualise in an easy to understand way.

To read more about the version 4.0 software, head over to our Enigin corporate website on the following link:

http://www.enigin.com/features/eniscope-4

Here at Enigin, we thrive on customer feedback so if you’ve got any questions or suggestions then we’d love to here from you!

Enigin Love Web Apps: The Apps we use

Not only do Enigin build web applications to support our Distributors, I/we also use a number of third-party web apps to help us collaborate as a team. Here they are!

• Basecamp - We use this simple project management application from developers 37Signals to collaborate on projects.
• Tada List - Another 37s app to manage a simple task list
• Beanstalk - A source-control (SVN) hosted solution to allow the Enigin developers to work together on our code base
• Google Reader - I use this simple app to read all the latest industry news from the websites I subscribe to.
• Campaign Monitor - This app is great for sending email campaigns. It’s very easy to use and has the ability to provide extensive reporting on the number of recipients opening your campaign
• WordPress - We use WordPress to power our corporate and staff blogs
• Google Apps - I personally use Google Apps for handling Email, Word Processing, Spreadsheets and online Calendar

Using online software has the following benefits:

• Access for everyone - Your team can access your business software from any Internet-enabled computer in the world! Great for home-based teleworkers
• Your Data is Safe - All your data is backed up on remote servers and the responsibility of the software providers
• No Upgrading - All upgrades to your software are handled by the creators. So no more holding your breath when performing software updates!

The web is the perfect platform for business software applications. So, if your business is still relying on OS-based software, then it’s time to try something new! Enigin have!

The Enigin Knowledge Base: It’s getting close now!

I’ve been spending this week working on our new knowledge base which will be launching in January 2010. The knowledge base will be a self-service system to allow our Distributors to find answers to common questions about our products and other useful information about how to promote and build your business.

We built the Enigin Knowledge Base on top of our Content Management System, Igloo. This gave us the flexibility to structure the new site to our requirements in a relatively short timeframe. In addition, it allows our team to manage new articles and content themselves.

This week our Business Development Team will be adding content to the ‘base including some tasty new screencast tutorials recorded by Calvin and myself. Video over the Internet is the perfect medium for learning and we are hoping that these new screencasts will be extremely useful for our Enigin Distributors.

Watch out for more news about the launch of our Knowledge Base in 2010!

Enigin Provides Online Software for Energy Professionals

Here at Enigin, we build innovative online software tools for our Energy Professionals to use to promote and manage their businesses. Our suite of applications is Internet-based, enabling them to access their vital business information from any computer around the world.

Nucleus - This bespoke CRM system is the centre of your business activities. Nucleus allows you to manage all your contacts and sales activity, allowing you to report on which of your sales people are performing the best. It also allows you to keep a record of all communication with a particular customer and to directly email groups of customers based on search conditions. Nucleus is also the control center for Enigin Eniscope setup and deployment.

ECOS - Our Enigin Customer Ordering System enables our distributors to order energy-saving products from us at wholesale prices and contains a wealth of product information to help them decide on the best products for their customers

Telesales - Our Telesales application enables a team of telephone sales personnel to process a database of prospects efficiently and effectively. The system has in-depth analytics allows a manager to view call statistics and success rates per person.

Emailer - The Emailer application is used to send out bulk mailings to prospects and includes statistics regarding Open/Click rates.

Igloo - Igloo is the Content Management System which powers our Distributor websites. It enables our distributors to manage their own websites without installing any software on their PC’s.

Knowledge Base - The Enigin Knowledge Base is the first port of call for our Distributors to find answers to 90% of their support queries. Due for launch in January 2010

Internal Tools - We also have many internal software tools to enable us to provide a high level of support to our distributors.

As you can imagine, our small team of developers certainly have a great deal of work on their plate, but we love it and are constantly looking to build new innovative tools.

If you would like to find our more about our software tools then please request a Business Information Pack from our Business Opportunity website, one of our Business Managers will be happy to answer your questions.