Case Study: Business

The National Street Gazetteer (NSG) For England & Wales

Intelligent-Addressing act as custodians of the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) and the National Street Gazetteer (NGS) for England and Wales. They collate street, land and property information from over 500 local authorities, equating to over 28 million records supplied over 700 complex file submissions each and every month.

Building a Busines to Business (B2B) Solution

In 2005 Sparticle Limited were commissioned by Intelligent Addressing to develop a Business To Business (B2B) web application for the NSG database and proprietary in-house data collection, validation and publishing system.

Integrating IT Systems

Despite an aggressive delivery schedule Sparticle Limited delivered the enterprise level B2B solution on-time and on-budget. The solution involved integration with existing production database systems and processes on every level of the clients IT infrastructure. Sparticle Limited brought together appropriate database, scripting, applications, web site technologies and server configurations to deliver a modular architecture designed with maintainable and extensibility at it's core.
Most importantly the system has proven to be extremely reliable, which is essential when you consider how important the information it handles is.

"The system is great - our business clients in local government and the utility sector love the simplicity of the interface, it has made their jobs and hence our jobs much easier and more productive... Many of the manual tasks we used to face have now been automated freeing up a lot of time."

Nick Turner, Business Development Manager, Intelligent Addressing - 2008

The system is now used by every Local Highway Authority in England and Wales. Furthermore statutory undertakers including public utility providers, telecomms companies, local councils, authorised companies and the emergency services regularly use the system to securely download vital information. In fact many aspects of everyone's daily life uses, in some way, the information that passes through the system.

Based on the success of the NSG project Sparticle Limited have delivered two other key web applications to Intelligent-addressing and continue to provide training, support and IT consulting to Intelligent-Addressing:

• Technical requirements gathering and designing the solution
• Design and build the Business to Business (B2B) web application
• Design and build the supporting application databases
• Integrate data validation and migration processes
• UNIX Server configuration and support
• Create and support the backup and fail-over processes
• Ongoing provision of support and consulting
• Further product development and maintenance
• Technical support and training