The Shepherd Centre Technology Stack

Cloud based storage systems by AWS.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that includes a mixture of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings.

Microsoft Exchange Online is a hosted email for business.

ASP.net is an open source framework for building web applications and services with .NET and C#.

Backbone.js is a JavaScript framework with a RESTful JSON interface and is based on the model–view–presenter application design paradigm.

Bootstrap is a free and open-source front-end framework for designing websites and web applications. It contains HTML and CSS-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation and other interface components, as well as optional JavaScript extensions.

Font Awesome makes it easy to add vector icons and social logos to their website.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.

JavaScript is the programming language of HTML and the Web.

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. It is free, open-source software using the permissive MIT License. Web analysis indicates that it is the most widely deployed JavaScript library by a large margin.

jQuery UI is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library.

Autopilot is marketing automation and customer journey software that helps companies acquire, nurture, and grow leads into high-paying customers.

Contact Form 7 is a tool to manage multiple contact forms.

Campaign Monitor is the leading provider of professional-grade email marketing and automation software for growing businesses.

Facebook Pixel helps organizations measure customer actions, build audiences and unlock optimisation tools. Facebook pixel is a snippet of JavaScript code that allows you to track visitor activity on your website.

Google Analytics allows users to measure sales & conversions, plus gain fresh insights into how visitors use sites, & how they arrived on site.

Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google, to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another.

New Relic One is an entity-centric observability platform that collects and contextualizes all operational data—from any source—and simplifies instrumentation, data ingestion, exploration, correlation, and machine learning-powered analysis to support observability for every organization.

Cloudflare mitigates threats from website scraping to application level attacks e.g. SQL Injection and DDOS Protection without any additional hardware.

FirstWave Cloud is a fully virtualised solution allowing telcos to deliver advanced cloud security solutions.

reCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA-like system designed by Google to establish that a computer user is human.

Cloudflare Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a geographically distributed group of servers that ensure fast delivery of Internet content, including HTML pages, JavaScript files, stylesheets, and images.

GNU Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files. Make gets its knowledge of how to build program from a file called the makefile, which lists each of the non-source files and how to compute it from other files.

Vimeo PRO is a business video hosting platform.

WordPress is a website and blog creation and publishing platform with tools for aesthetic designing, visitor tracking, content storage and upload.

WPForms is the WordPress forms plugin with drag & drop online form builder that allows users to create powerful WordPress forms.

Yoast offers plugins to improve SEO and optimize web sites and blogs.

YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos. The video service can be accessed on PCs, laptops, tablets and via mobile phones.

Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added.

Microsoft Azure provides tools and services to help the reach and scale to a global audience with cloud gaming services.

FormSite is a service that enables non-technical users to build quality web forms and surveys with no HTML or coding experience.

Mailgun is an email automation service offering a complete cloud-based email service for sending, receiving & tracking email sent through user websites & apps.

Microsoft Outlook is an personal information manager from microsoft which helps users communicate, manage schedules & find what they need quickly & easily.

SendGrid cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. SendGrid provides reliable email delivery, scalability and real-time analytics along with flexible API's that make custom integration a breeze.

The Receptionist is the most versatile, effective and easy-to-use visitor management system available from offices with just a few employees to others over 3,000. The app is used by hundreds of businesses around the globe.

Microsoft Office is a suite of desktop productivity applications and client and server software designed for data analysis, presentations and numeric manipulations.

New Relic is used to monitor customer's entire system, including applications, servers, browsers, and network. An ecosystem of plugins let clients monitor customers entire stack.

PayPal is a global eCommerce platform for buyers & sellers. PayPal allows payments & money transfers to be made securely via email, phone, text message or Skype.

Stripe is an online payment processing tool for internet businesses. Stripe handles everything, including storing cards, subscriptions, and direct payouts to their bank account. Meticulously designed APIs and functionality help users create the best possible product for their users.

Stripe Connect provides a powerful API and other tools needed to accept payments, as well as onboard, verify, and pay sellers and service providers. Users can tailor integration in various ways.

WooCommerce is an eCommerce plugin for Wordpress