iBASE Technologies Limited

iBASE aims to help clients to achieve business empowerment, i.e., to develop the technologies that would both directly and indirectly give the teams of people within lines of business the capabilities they need to succeed at overcoming the business challenges they are facing. To make it simple: users in front of their devices would have as much power and flexibility as the IT department is able and willing to offer them under effective governance. In the way to succeed, we work with our clients to make collaborative process improvement with respect to their different needs and conditions.

HKR International Limited (the Group) is a pioneer in green township management, with a mission to fulfill the dreams of those who desire an innovative and quality living environment. The major development of the Group is the famous Discovery Bay located in the northeast region of the Lantau Island. It is a unique model of modern township with all community facilities of a residential development, such as recreational facilities, Residents' Club, Golf Club, Marina Club, schools, internal and external transportation services and landscaped area.

ICMS effectively helps stakeholders to know more about the group of which the businesses are greatly diversified. A lot of elements have been added to their ICMS to enrich the extent of contents of the web site, for example, iPix 360Virtual Tours Preview, automatically updating stock price quotation, etc. This is a successful example showing how iBASE empowered our clients to cost-effectively implement ideas that have not been implemented before or used to require a lot of workforce.

The American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong is one of the largest American Chambers outside the United States, the largest international chamber in Hong Kong and the most dynamic and influential international business organization in the Asia-Pacific region. Promoting US – China trade and Hong Kong as a premier international business centre has been its “business” for over 35 years.

Through the help of ICMS, AmCham is able to provide their members with an informative and user-friendly platform to search for places, news and jobs in Hong Kong which may be new and unfamiliar to them. The successful implementation of e-shop in AmCham’s ICMS definitely adds more value to the web site. iBASE has been responsible for designing and maintaining the ICMS of the AmCham web site to run normally.

Centaline Property Agency Limited, founded in 1978, is now a leading local estate agency company in Hong Kong. It has over 2,600 staff working in over 180 different branches, the total value of properties transacted through the company amounts to several tens of billion HK dollars per annum. Apart from providing agency services in the leasing and sale and purchase of properties, it also employs estate surveyors to provide professional valuation services to clients. Centaline has subsidiary companies in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou dealing with mainland properties.

ICMS developed from iBASE is deployed extensively which allows users to search properties in Hong Kong and Macau and get information about newly released properties. Staff can also register training courses offered by the company online. Since properties market is changing everyday, the prompt update of the data, video clips, news and other information on the web site is of paramount importance. Through ICMS, the information can always be kept updated at a most cost-effective and quickest way, as there is no need to pass the required update information to IT technicians for them in order to do the updating.

Having over 50 years of experience working in the PR industries and over 2000 employees in worldwide, Edelman understands that the modern practice of public relations is about creating, managing and enhancing relationships between an organization and its key stakeholders to drive successful organizational outcomes using communications disciplines. They invest in researches to provide their consultants with scientific tools with which they can build meaningful campaigns with predictable outcomes for their clients.

In order to allow staff and stakeholders to read through the fruitful researches, Edelman APAC deployed ICMS from iBASE which allows files in different formats including PDF and MP3 files to be uploaded and downloaded easily. Blog is also an important function in the Edelman’s web so to let staff get more insights and stimulate their thinking. Knowledge interflows within own company and between the company and the stakeholders are greatly enhanced through ICMS.

Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP ("K&L Gates") comprises over 1,500 lawyers who practice in offices located in worldwide. K&L Gates has deployed the ICMS from iBASE to manage their corporate web site and their extranet. Through the extranet, communication and collaboration with clients can be done through web-based client-specific sites, legal reference extranets, collaboration sites and litigation support repositories. Extranet use reaps efficiencies and improves communication with outside counsel. K&L Gates Extranets link electronic tools that their clients value, resulting in an integrated solution that is easy to use and administer.

Modern Classic is established in 1986 and a leading wedding photo shooting company in Hong Kong. Besides concentrating on its core competence on wedding photo shooting, Modern Classic also provides other subsidiary services like shooting different types of photos, make-up classes and costumes rental services. As a photo shooting company, showing the customers the quality of sample photos effectively and efficiently through the web is crucial in order to make it stand out from a pool of keen competitors.

To manage the massive amount of information, ICMS is designed in a way that helps Modern Classic to categories sample photos with different themes and background effectively. Most sample photos can be reached easily without much loading time so to let potential customers to receive largest amount of information within shortest amount of time. Images are also incorporated into main menu with animating effects and other subsidiary pages like profiles and tips for organizing weddings to make the web attractive.

ShopCite is the world’s first "Multilingual" comparison and shopping search engine for digital products which is available on both the Internet and the Mobile Internet. It provides a quick and easy way for shoppers to find the best deals in Hong Kong. Users can simply choose the required categories and criterion so to limit the search to give their desired products and read their ratings.

This is a successful example of business empowerment by iBASE. iBASE communicates with clients to know their idea of setting up a comparison platform, a executable model is then set up which enables related digital products retailers to update their newest selling price themselves from time to time. Corporation from several companies to provide shoppers with convenience thus became possible. iBASE now is responsible for the maintenance of ShopCite.

Whoms.net is a web-based application Property Operating System (“POS”) of IdeaLab Workshop Limited (“IdeaLab”) developed and maintained in Hong Kong. It will be used by real estate professionals and property related practitioners in a well organized and standardized manner in Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland China.

IdeasLab’s POS is only accessible by registered real estate members. It allows members to integrate their own information related to property and estates into the web in which they can process and amend their jobs whenever internet is available. The system enhances business-to-business transactions and communication of information.

Besides dealing with buyers and sellers, information sharing within the same company workgroup can be facilitated by POS by sending broadcasting messages through the internal communication channels.

IdeaLab developed another portal site (http://www.whoms.net/) for the public internet users by using ICMS, in which public users are able to search information and property listings provided by IdeaLab and POS registered members.

iBASE helps our clients to visualize and execute their ideas and plans even no one think it is possible at the beginning. We strive to provide our customers with products that suit them the best and ultimately maximize their profits.