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Case Studies

Since 1999, Secure Web Services has helped household names get to grips with the intricacies of e-business.

Swotbooks.com

Swotbooks is an online book retailer focusing on cheap academic titles. On finding its IT costs spiralling out of control due to separate hosting and development companies, the board decided it needed to find a company that could host and maintain its secure online site in a more cost-effective manner.

SWS was able to provide a seamless migration from a Windows NT / IBM Websphere solution to a high availability/load balanced solution built on Linux / Apache and PHP. This enabled Swotbooks to dramatically reduce its IT spend and become the first online book retailer to turn a profit within the next year.

"They have responded ably and speedily to the needs of the business," said chief executive Paul English, earlier this year. "I am grateful to the team at SWS for the way in which they have supported us so positively over the last year. Their appointment remains one of the single most significant events in the history of Swotbooks."

TOAST

TOAST, a leading mail order fashion company, benefits from an agreement with SWS to host and manage its secure online site by paying a small percentage of its online sales. This solution works well for companies that wish to sell online for the first time and are unaware of the potential sales it can produce.