In 2009 we were commissioned by Simplyhealth to produce a Web Portal for corporate customers and respective employees. The platform was required to be flexible and easy to maintain allowing current and future plans to be featured. We built a custom component for Joomla in order to display product data in a tabulated form. A particular requirement in this project was to allow customization and product adjustments at corporate customer level.

As a secondary project we later enhanced the platform to facilitate backend integration with their existing back office system.

The main challenges we overcame in this project were:

• To ensure that the “Path to Purchase” was consistent with the lead site
• To ensure that the backend data entry was intuitive and comprehensive
• To ensure that the customer facing data was presented consistently regardless of content
• To facilitate dual branding for corporate customer accounts

We continue to work closely with our client on this project to support the platform and provide enhancements where requested.

Simplyhealth (formerly known as HSA, BCWA, HealthSure, LHF and Totally Active) has been helping people access healthcare for nearly 140 years and has more than 1.3 million customers, helping 2.3 million people and 11,000 businesses. Simplyhealth offers easier access to many health services from dentistry and optical to alternative medicines and private healthcare. As a healthcare provider, we use our extensive range of health plans to help individuals, families and companies. These include cash plans, dental plans, private medical insurance and self funded health plans, which provide cover towards check-ups, treatment and emergencies, helping people budget for the costs of expected and unexpected healthcare. Our specialist Simplyhealth store also helps people get the most out of life through mobility aids and supports for daily living.

For more information about Simplyhealth please visit www.simplyhealth.co.uk