Fertilising Africa with Argus Media
The Africa Fertilizer Directory is project to unite the fertiliser industry on the African continent
Argus are an independent media organisation with over 700 full time staff. They are headquartered in London and have offices in each of the world's principal commodity centres. Their main activities comprise publishing market reports containing price assessments, market commentary and news, and business intelligence reports that analyse market and industry trends.
The Brief
Requirements for the website included:
Increase industry collaboration
Allow organisations in the African fertiliser industry to find out about other companies who may be of interest. Managed content and users
These organisations needed to be able update their own company information through designated user accounts on the website. Custom workflows
Provide Argus administrators a way of seeing which organisations have been left dormant (no updates in a year) so that they can follow up to see if the company is still active. Data migration
Import an existing database of contacts as a starting point so the website has information at launch time. User content approval process
Have a user approval process to ensure new companies and contacts can be added. Increase industry engagement
Provide a gamification element in the form of profile completeness for company profiles to encourage companies to reach the 100% mark.
Solutions provided
- We worked with Argus team leaders to work through the user stories and requirements
- We created a phased delivery of the requirements so stakeholders could get early feedback on the functionality
- We created a Drupal website that had a custom responsive theme which allows the website to work on all devices
- We crafted a workflow in the Drupal Content Management System for ease of use for end users and administrators
- We added geolocation and mapping functions allow people to see companies nearby
- We created a structured categorisation of content by business and service types to allow various way to filter company listings
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Argus Media now has a simple to update, powerful platform which serves the Africa fertiliser market to aid inter-company networking. The platform was created to allow future improvement based on stakeholder feedback.
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