A CASE STUDY

Almarfa Medical

Building Success For Commercial Healthcare Supplier

Industry: Healthcare & Insurance

Time Scale: 2004 - Ongoing

THE CLIENT

Almarfa Medical is a high performance, energetic healthcare supplier with Superior and Sustained Customer Support. It is dedicated to introduce and deliver the latest featured medical devices with cutting–edge technologies, a device that can solve problems and add values for the whole clinical outcome, utilizing their strong financial status and solid business expertise through their excellent staff to skim-off specially-targeted market niches in the healthcare.

THE BRIEF

Almarfa Medical is one of our esteemed faithful clients since 2004. Ever since then, EBOX® has been a go-to-agency for all their digital needs, delivering successful websites projects every time, on time and on budget. Almarfa has been a constant client over all these years, despite occasional ups and downs faced on the website.

UX/UI Design |
Web Design & Development |
CMS|
Videography |
Mobile Design & Development |
Hosting |
Mainrainince & Support |

2004

2014

2017

2020

Support

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2004

Website Re-Design & Development and Videography

Our Journey Begins!

To kick off our discovery meeting, we went through some exercises with the Almarfa team to better understand the main visitors of its website and the information they were looking for on the site. The main objective of the site was to reflect a certain company image that overseas, local and business partners as well as healthcare staff and industries could confidently rely on. Read more

WEBSITE RE-DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

DESIGN

Two pages, the homepage and a subpage, were designed and presented to the client. The designs were updated several times before approval from the client.

DEVELOPMENT

The website was built on the ASP framework, with HTML, DHTML, Java, Javascript and SQL. A dynamic section was created for “Affiliations”. A fully searchable database for all products was used to develop the e-catalogue, in which the product pages were to display all products within their categories in an easy-to-navigate manner, plus other information such as descriptions, technical data, prices, and photographs. The products tables were searchable on any field.

LAUNCHING

EBOX® was proud to announce the successful launch of our first website of Almarfa Medical. This site marked the first milestone in our journey with Almarfa.

There were issues in the newly launched site but actions were taken to resolve them at the earliest. The domain was pointed from www.almarfa.ae to the site www.almarfa.com.sa.

DOCUMENTATION

Documentation was written that covered the configuration of Microsoft Outlook to send and receive emails in Windows 2000 and XP, along with sending and receiving emails with webmail.

CREATION OF VIDEO

A video was created to give an overview of the company and the services it provides, composed of narration, music, static images and video clips. Animations created with Adobe Flash were also included in the video.

2014

Website Re-design & Re-Development

We Are Back!

To kick off our discovery meeting in our meeting room with the CEO for our third project, a Requirement Specification Document was written to better understand Almarfa Medical’s requirements for the new site and what information their visitors were looking for on the site. Knowing that its audience was mainly interested in finding key information about the products Almarfa distributes, we decided to take a simple yet highly effective approach to our UX strategy in order to support the ease of use and information gathering.

DEVELOPMENT

The latest website was enhanced with a full e-catalog of all products provided by Almarfa, and a list of achievements and latest projects of Al Marfa. Website back-end CMS is also equipped with new version DNN 7.0 CMS (Content Management System), which helped organize content in a more thoughtful way – the CMS platform is very user-friendly with ASP.NET 4.0 framework, making web updates quite simple.

QA TEST

A detailed QA Test was performed on the website in general, its back-end and front-end to ensure that there were no glitches and errors throughout the site before it was launched.

LAUNCHING

Once again, EBOX® was proud to announce that the newly developed site was successfully launched on the EBOX® server, thus marking the third milestone of our journey. As this website was only in English language, it was launched earlier than the assigned deadline since there were very few comments from the client.

DOCUMENTATION

A detailed Administrator User Manual was written to allow the administrator to update the site built on the user-friendly DNN CMS.

2017

Mobile Version

We Meet Again!

Our fourth stop in our journey with Almarfa was a mobile version website. An RSD was written to capture requirements for the mobile site, which covered design specifications, default requirements, functional requirements and the mobile structure.Read more

2020

Website Re-design & Re-Development

A new update

Taking into consideration the need to frequently update the system, a new website was created. Instead of using DNN, we decided that WordPress CMS would be much more suitable for website management. It would allow the website to be much easier to maintain & the manager would effortlessly alter any information.

DEVELOPMENT

The website was developed using PHP code and still contained product information. A new temple was applied and tailored to the theme of Al-Marfa & designed to be formal yet simple. This responsive website was made to work on both desktop & mobile applications. By using MySQL, it was made to be searchable and easy to navigate.

LAUNCHING

After setting up the WordPress plugins, we are now thrilled to reveal Al-marfa’s latest website that was launched on the Linux sever.

Ongoing Support

Self-managing the ongoing responsibilities of a corporate web site like Almarfa Medical is a daunting task, especially for businesses without a dedicated web team.

THE RESULT

Final Experience!

Thanks to clearly outlined goals through our discovery meeting and a clear and concise UX strategy, the new website is incredibly user friendly, informative, and responsive regardless of the browsing device.

We EBOX® are deeply grateful for their generosity with which they have greatly aided our organization immeasurably and are hoping to continue to use our services for a long time to come. Based on earlier experience with us, Almarfa Medical has always approached EBOX® Solutions despite receiving offers from various other vendors.

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WHAT THE CLIENT SAYS

I am very impressed with the high caliber EBOX® staff and their dedication in providing value-added products. Their creativity has produced a well-respected website for Al-Marfa Medical, witnessed by the professional medical communities in Saudi as well as abroad.
I am very proud to have this distinguished local company and highly recommend it to others.

Mr. Jamal Abahussein

Chairman

Almarfa Medical

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A CASE STUDY

Almarfa Medical

Industry: Healthcare & Insurance

Time Scale: 2004 - Ongoing

THE CLIENT

THE BRIEF

THE SOLUTIONS

2004

2014

2017

2020

Support

Let’s get started

2004

Website Re-Design & Development and Videography

Our Journey Begins!

WEBSITE RE-DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

DESIGN

DEVELOPMENT

LAUNCHING

DOCUMENTATION

CREATION OF VIDEO

2014

Website Re-design & Re-Development

We Are Back!

DEVELOPMENT

DEVELOPMENT

QA TEST

LAUNCHING

DOCUMENTATION

2017

Mobile Version

We Meet Again!

2020

Website Re-design & Re-Development

A new update

DEVELOPMENT

LAUNCHING

Ongoing Support

THE RESULT

Final Experience!

WHAT THE CLIENT SAYS

Mr. Jamal Abahussein

Chairman

Almarfa Medical

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