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First4Farming - UK Agricultural Industry Portal

First4Farming (F4F) was founded with the goal of helping U.K. Agriculture become more competitive by providing a platform for farmers and agricultural businesses of all sizes to conduct business electronically. Frontend was a member of the Progress Software led consortium chosen to develop this platform.

http://www.first4farming.co.uk

The First4Farming platform includes a portal for U.K. Agriculture, corporate websites, B2B and B2C commerce sites for F4F Member companies, an XML based document exchange (eHub) with adaptor based back-office system integration and WebSupplier an online document exchange product for smaller companies without an integrated back-office system.

Frontend designed and developed the First4Farming (F4F), U.K. Agricultural Industry Portal and a number of standard website and ecommerce products that expand the reach and functionality of the First4Farming platform.

Screen shot of the First for Farming homepage

To date Frontend have designed and developed standard F4F products that include:

  • Corporate Websites
  • B2B & B2C eCommerce Sites
  • Online Order Processing and Online Document Management (for Quotations, Orders, Confirmations, Despatch Notes and Invoices)
  • Supplier and Distributor Extranets

These products have been developed with packaged functionality that allows for their fast, easy deployment and rebranding by F4F staff.

Frontend have customised and deployed these products for F4F Partner Companies such as:

This multi-site, multi-product platform is built on ATG Dynamo (Java Application Server Suite) and includes advanced personalisation and web based content management. It also integrates directly with F4F Partner Company Back Office Systems through the F4F eHUB to allow the secure and guaranteed exchange of business documents (Quotations, Orders, Confirmations, Despatch Notes and Invoices) in XML.

Frontend provides the following services to First4Farming and F4F partner companies:

  • Requirements Gathering
  • Information Architecture
  • Interaction Design
  • Interface Design
  • Software Development
  • Usability
  • Training
  • Technical Support

Today First4Farming has over 70 member companies and accounts for over 60% by volume of U.K. Agricultural suppliers.

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