A creative technology company

A digital delivery agency providing technical expertise for creative agencies & clients

WEB

Content Management Platforms

Web Application Development

eCommerce

Unit Testing

Analytics & Data

Secure Hosting

MOBILEHTML5 Framework

Mobile Applications

Ionic / Angular / React

Phonegap / Cordova

iOS Development

QATest case writing

Functional Testing

Penetration Testing

Load Testing

User Testing

We build integrated digital platforms

Bluegrass in a nutshell

Industry accreditations and certifications

Over 18 years of experience in digital project delivery

Over 500 digital projects – web and mobile

We deliver high quality, standards-based work

A strong focus on enterprise WCMS platforms

Solid internal processes to support our delivery methods

Where we’ve done work

New York, USA

United Kingdom

France

Germany

Russia

Lagos, Nigeria

Johannesburg, SA

Cape Town, SASydney, Australia

What we’re good at

Planning & UX Creative Design Web Development Mobile & Tablet

Apps

Managed Hosting

Content

Management

Systems

Maintenance

& Support

Testing

Services

WEBASP.NET MVC; C# ; PHP; HTML5 ; CSS3; SASS; JavaScript;

JQuery; ES6; ReactJS; GreenSock; Node.js; Grunt.js; AngularJS

(1+2); Gulp; Babel; Nunjucks; Redux; npm; Typescript

DATABASES

Sitecore (Certified); EPiServer

(Certified); Umbraco (Certified);

WordPress; Drupal

DEVOPSJenkins CI; Stackify

Application support

MOBILEIonic, Cordova (Phonegap),

React Native; Swift; Xamarin

CMS PLATFORMS

MS SQL Server; MySQL

Server; MongoDB (NoSQL)

TESTINGTest Scripts; Functional; Load;

Regression; Performance

UX & PMAxure; Invision; MS Project;

Redmine; Basecamp; Jira

HOSTINGAWS; Azure;

Rackspace; Claranet

Technical expertise

The delivery team

ENGINEERS

BUSINESS ANALYST

3

QA TESTING

PROJECT MANAGERS

DIRECTORS

6

3

7

UX + DESIGN 3

2

15

6

Passionate team players

36

Discover

Discover Design

Develop Test

Start Finish

Start FinishIteration Iteration

WATERFALL

AGILE(Scrum)

Sprint #1

Discover Design

Develop Test

Discover Design

Develop Test

Sprint #2 Sprint #3

Plan Design Build Test Deploy & Support

Our processes

Who we work with

We proudly partner with creative agencies to discreetly deliver on technical execution.

We produce large scale web and content management platforms for big brands directly.

Brands we work with

Agencies we work with

Allan Gray

OVERVIEW

UX, Design and Implementation of Allan

Gray’s new corporate website powered by

EPiServer8 CMS platform.

TECH POINTS

• HTML 5 / CSS3 / SASS responsive build

• EPiServer 8 CMS & EPiServer Find integration

• Localisation for multi-country content

• API integration for fund price feeds

• SharePoint integration (documents)

www.alangray.co.za

Our latest work

HSBC

OVERVIEW

We partnered with global agency Heath Wallace to

deliver of the new HSBC Hong Kong website.

TECH POINTS

• HTML Prototyping

• HTML 5 / CSS3 / SASS responsive templates

• Sitecore 7.5 CMS integration

• Financial calculators integration

www.hsbc.com.hk

Petrofac

Overview

We were tasked with refreshing the website

design, incorporating the new CI and

implementing a modern CMS platform.

Tech points

• Umbraco V7

• Sass (CSS pre-processors)

• .NET 4.5

• Enhanced user experience and journey

www.petrofac.com

iris Worldwide

Overview

Delivery of the new website for global

integrated agency iris Worldwide

Tech points

• HTML 5 / CSS3 / SASS responsive build

• Umbraco CMS Implementation

• Twitter and Facebook integration

• Modular based content to share across

site sections

SilverSaints

SilverSaints is London’s leading handyman

service. We delivered a new website with

integrated instant booking with their backoffice

systems. The website was built on Umbraco.

OVERVIEW

TECH POINTS

• UX & Design

• Umbraco CMS integration

• Online booking and ecommerce

• ServiceCEO integration

www.silversaints.com

Fives Futbol

OVERVIEW

Responsive web platform for five-a-side football brand on

Umbraco 7 CMS.

TECH POINTS

• Gamification features with personalised dashboards,

• Fixtures, teams and player ratings algorithms

• Venue and league management

• Online court bookings with eCommerce integration

• Full reporting modules for finance, league and court

management

www.fivesfutbol.co.za

Mini

OVERVIEW

We worked closely with iris Worldwide to rebuild the

corporate website for Mini on the Umbraco platform.

TECH POINTS

• HTML5 / CSS3 / SASS Templates

• Umbraco platform integration

• JavaScript tax calculator and model chooser with

integrated with XML/CMS

• Google analytics

http://corporate.mini.co.uk

JP Morgan

OVERVIEW

We worked with AnalogFolk to develop a flexible responsive

microsite for JP Morgan Investment Managers.

TECH POINTS

• HTML 5 / CSS3 responsive website

• Multi-language versions

• Highcharts.js and SVG Animations for charting animations

• Reskinned quarterly

• Custom analytics tracking

www.jpmorgan.com/pb/emeaperspectivesautumn2014

Sun Hunting

Travel start-up which delivers a weather

based travel and flight booking website

Overview

• Responsive designed website using

AngularJS

• Integrations with various 3rd party APIs

such as Google Geolocation; Google

maps; Wunderground weather; Expedia

hotel bookings; SkyScanner flight and

car hire bookings; Rome2Rio flight

duration

• Filter based features based on Getaway

type, flight time, location and dates

Tech points

Johnny Appleseed Cider

We worked with a local NY agency to produce the

launch campaign for Johnny Appleseed cider brand

into the US market.

Overview

• Umbraco CMS platform

• AngularJS framework

• Geotagging elements to determine location

based content

Tech points

Webtickets

Android and iOS mobile application for Africa’s

premium online ticketing platform

OVERVIEW

TECH POINTS

• Built on a fast, open source hybrid mobile stack

using AngularJS and Ionic frameworks

• Apache Cordova to access native device

functions to deliver iOS and Android Apps

• Registration and login authentication

• Integration with backend systems (REST API)

www.webtickets.co.za

SNAPnSAVE

OVERVIEW

Start-up app offering free, cash back shopping for South Africa.

TECH POINTS

• Browse and book discount offers

• Redeem cash in-store

• Built on a fast, open source hybrid stack using AngularJS &

Ionic

• Apache Cordova (Phonegap) for native device functionality

• Manual and social network integration for user authentication

• Use of WiCode in-store

• iOS and Android

www.snapnsave.co.za

Virgin Interactive CI

Partnered with Jupiter Drawing Room to deliver new

interactive CI for Virgin Global, an online Corporate Identity

manual and interactive mood board

Overview

• JQuery roll over previews

• Export dynamically-created PDF’s

• Drag & drop content reorder

• Drupal CMS Implementation

Tech points

What our clients say

I cannot say enough good things about

Bluegrass. They are, simply put excellent.

More rabbits have been pulled from

more hats than I care to mention by

Nick, Mark and the their team. They

have delivered time and time again. And

if that wasn’t enough, they are down-

to-earth, lovely and solutions focused

people.

I trust Bluegrass Digital. They have

helped us out a number of times with

build work and every time they adhere

to our strict build standards, deliver on

time and are very competitive on price.

We have found them one of the easiest

partners to work with and hope to

continue working with them.

Matt Ross

Creative Director, KingJames

Matt Webb

European Group Chief Technical Officer,

JWT and HeathWallace Global

What our clients say

"We needed to build and integrate our

product across multiple platforms.

Bluegrass played an instrumental role in

delivering the mobile solutions for our

service. Their expertise, strategy and

execution ensured a

great end product."

“Bluegrass has been a valued digital

partner, supporting us through the creation

of our interactive new website. We have

experienced unrivalled customer service

and high quality deliverables from the

team. We are very excited to launch our

engaging new platform in 2015.”

Mark BradshawCEO, SNAPnSAVE

Aaron ZipperMarketing Manager, Fives Futbol

What our clients say

“Bluegrass designed and developed our

Immunology eDetail for Veeva CRM and

iRep. The result is a powerful, secure,

scalable mobile application.

This has provided our reps with access to

an interactive sales presentation tool, with

the ability to run offline and capture date

in real-time"

“I had the pleasure of working with

Bluegrass Digital on behalf of Kalahari.com.

They did more than meet our very high

expectations. Their interpretation of the

brief and theme resulted in a creative and

engaging user interface and app, which

was a huge success at the expo. I already

have and will continue to recommend

Bluegrass.”

Emre TuzerProject Lead, Immunology, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of J&J

Inge LokMarketing Executive, Kalahari.com

Why choose Bluegrass?

We develop partnerships for the long term

We have the experience, knowledge and processes to deliver excellence

We have a genuine passion for what we do

We focus on producing quality results for your business

We become an extension of your business

Contacts

+27 (0)21 671 1966

Cape Town+27 (0)10 003 0250

Johannesburg

+44 (0)20 3326 1580

London+234 (0)81 7959 0546

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