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However, for sublime handling skills, great defence and a brace of tries the award went to Featherstone Rovers’ Number 6, Andy Kain.

Although relatively simple, the form required the development of a number of bespoke rules to ensure that all required fields were completed and to hide/show form elements depending upon previous answers. 2and7 Limited also developed specialised workflows to undertake a number of post processing tasks once the forms were submitted and notifying the census leaders of the existence of new forms.

The final part of the equation will be collating the form results into a single Microsoft Excel 2010 spreadsheet for subsequent analysis as well as feeding the data into a back end Microsoft SQL Server database to provide the potential for a longitudinal study.

2and7 Limited are experts at the delivery of electronic data collection, records management and document management systems for all sizes of business.  Specialising in medical research and healthcare, our systems are scaleable to cope with any size of business using a mixture of hosted, on site and cloud hosted systems.

In addition to the 2011 agreement, 2and7 Limited are now capitalising upon the excellent exposure they achieved last year by adding advertisements within the Featherstone Rovers Official Match Day Magazine to target their main customer demographic as well as match day sponsorship.

Managing Director of 2and7 Limited, Ged Connolly-Thompson, said: “We are proud to be a part of the on-going development and success of Featherstone Rovers RLFC. In addition to our sponsorship packages, we are also working with the club to develop a number of innovative products and services which will be launched in due course.”

Paul Taylor Commercial Manager of Featherstone Rover said “2and7 Limited had great exposure last season being associated with Daryl and we are really pleased that not only have they renewed the deal but have made a commitment to further support the club. The agreement will allow Featherstone Rovers to utilise 2and7 Limited’s expertise to develop a number of exciting services that will mean we can interact more efficiently with our loyal supporters. We are looking forward to working closely with 2and7 Limited in 2012 and strengthening the partnership we already enjoy.”

Daryl Powell said ” I am delighted that a quality company like 2and7 Limited have decided to again sponsor both myself and the club for the coming season, we have a great working relationship with Ged and his company which I am sure will enhance both the Rovers and the 2and7 brands over the next year and beyond.”

2and7 Limited are providers of information systems and consultancy services. Specialising in complex medical and research data collection and analysis systems, they also provide services for small and medium enterprises including smartphone app development, web site development and hosting.

For more information please see our web site at http://2and7.co.uk

Common themes are already emerging including the following high level functionality:

• The ability to display news from the club web site;
• Access to special offers and discount vouchers for subscribers to the app;
• The ability to view latest fixtures and results information;
• The ability to view highlights and full coverage of games via 2and7 Limited’s LoveRugby.TV service;

More information is available via this presentation with example costs upon request.

This is just one of the ways in which 2and7 Limited have worked with Featherstone Rovers RLFC to promote their brand and services.  Originally a player position sponsor for the club, 2and7 Limited then extended this to include sponsorship of Featherstone Rovers Head Coach and Assistant England Coach, Daryl Powell.  The support of the club has been tremendous and we are delighted to be associated with a real nailbiter that will be shown live on Sky Sports.

Ged Connolly-Thompson, MD of 2and7 Limited, said “after witnessing first hand the power and determination that the boys showed when clinching the title at Widnes at the weekend we jumped at the opportunity to sponsor the Man of the Match.  The consistency which the team have shown and teamwork they display every week is something which every organisation should try to emulate.”

In addition to sponsorhip, 2and7 Limited are also collaborating with Featherstone Rovers on a variety of topics, looking to bring their knowledge of information systems and information delivery to take forward lots of shared projects – some of which you may hear about in further posts.

The first and second place playoff takes place at Big Fellas Stadium, Featherstone on Thuesday, September 15th and though shown on Sky Sports, we encourage all fans to make every effort to get behind the team and support them in the flesh.  One thing that came through at the weekend was the bond between team and supporters – by being present and encouraging the team you can play your part in the continuing success of the club who have only lost three regular Championship matches in the last two years and who are currently on a nineteen match winning streak.

Once development costs have been paid, the system costs £15.75 per user per month to run and makes use of Microsoft’s cloud based services to guarantee availability of the system.  The results XML forms will then be transformed and combined into a Microsoft Excel 2010 workbook for analysis, though we can also offer hosted Microsoft SharePoint solutions that shred data directly into a SQL Server database.

The system is currently under testing and should be available to the survey group within the coming weeks.

More information can be found within this official press release.