BILD is offering here a unique Sports Service for all olympic fans. HexBase is hooked on a wire, where thousands of News Reports and results are read right into the database.
The News are coming in in a sequence of couple of minutes, the user can search after sport art and time.
The data is kept in the database during and after the Olympic Games, so it is very easy to get a complete history of one athlete or a sport event.
In this HexBase solution, TV Today, a major TV magazine in Germany, is offering a unique service to all Web surfers: It is possible to search after sport arts and events through all days of the Olympic Games 96 in Atlanta.
There are over 30 selection boxes for different sport arts. Using this solution, you can be sure, you do not miss even one event of the Olympics. The data from 34 TV channels that are shown in Germany, are contained in the database.
10.000 DM in cash prizes are to be won every week online in the new "BINGO" game, which is a product of the German newspaper "BILD". With a circulation of 5 million copies a day, "BILD" is the largest daily newspaper in Europe.
Ultimate performance was needed to provide the capacity for the secure and fast handling of hundreds of thousands of players. Several traditional database solutions were considered, - and none of them made the race. "HexMac has been the only company that could satisfy the needs of "BILD"", says Mikko Linnamäki, Managing Director from HexMac International. "BINGO" is based on the high performance database HexBase®, a database that is optimized for Web purposes.
Mikko Linnamäki explains why "BILD" chose the HexBase® solution: "Connecting traditional databases to the Web is like driving with a bus on a racetrack. The speed of HexBase is like flying a Space Shuttle". The power needed to administer up to a million players could be solely provided by the HexBase database solution.
Gula Tidningen is the leading newspaper for classified ads in Sweden. It is published twice a week, and has each time over 25.000 classifieds in 22 main categories like "data", "music instruments" and "sound and video". There are over 200 sub categories to choose from. HexBase presents here the new development for Web Accounting: The HexBase "TeleCharge®".
The accounting with TeleCharge is very simple: HexBase generates User IDs and Passwords, which are valid 24 hours or 50 searches in the database.
The users need to call a "900" number to receive the codes from a voice computer connected to the HexBase system. The call will be charged from the user with his regular telephone bill!
How would you like to make money with HexBase TeleCharge®?
TV TODAY, a major TV magazine from Gruner & Jahr in Germany, is presenting an AD SYSTEM, where the ads are inserted in HexBase® using a Web browser. When inserting an ad, the customer gets an ad number and a password, which he can use for administrating his ad. It is also possible to use the anonymous mode, where the customer gets a "post box" in the database, where the answers are sent to.
With the password the user can see how many times his ad has been called, and whether he has any answers to his ad, when he has used the anonymous mode.
The editorial department has full control of the ads, can change the database structure just by using a Web browser, give ads free for public, delete ads, change categories a.s.o.
FOCUS Magazine, the large news magazine in Germany sets new milestones for magazine publishing on the Web. The complete proposal is over 1000 pages large, updated weekly and consists of many "More Value" objects. One of these is a database for searching the cheapest flight from any german speaking airport to anywhere in the world. There are over 370.000 different flight routes from 120 airlines in HexBase, which evaluates and searches the cheapest routes among all airlines.
There are 2 different ways to search, either by typing the country, city or airport in a textfield, the database then returns the appropriate airports to be selected. Then you select the day, month and year and the airport where you want to start from, and then HexBase serves you the flights with pricing and special information.
The other way to search is the geographical search, where you first select the continent, then HexBase gives you all countries in the continent in a scrollbar as an answer. After selecting the country, you get all the airports and can do the final search. Check out the SPEED of HexBase, it finds the right flights for you in less than one second!
STERN, one of the largest news magazines in Germany, has built up a HexBase solution, which lets you search your favourite TV programs among 32 TV channels. You just make a multiple-level selection of the channels and the timeframe you would like to search. HexBase then makes a search and returns a list of your selected programs.
The unique feature of this solution is, that you can subscribe the program information you have selected free of charge and HexBase then sends the required TV program information per email direct to you. The program is sent weekly. This feature is a show-up of the flexibility of HexBase. The whole solution was constructed in 4 weeks, the TV data is delivered from a Berlin company.
Båtbörsen, the largest AD Newspaper for boats and boat accessories in Sweden, decided to publish the whole publication in the Internet.
The content of the paper issue, with a circulation of about 250.000 weekly, can now be reached through the World Wide Web using HexBase. All ads and even all images from the printed publication are published here.
The speciality in this solution is a new feature called Dynamic Form Processing, this means that the contents of the PopUps and all other search fields are created from the Database. This saves time for the System Administrators, when next issue is published, because the content of the PopUps is filled only with the real, existing values.
This solution shows, how powerful HexBase Web Publishing Database is in the most demanding Web publishing environments.
FOCUS Magazine is here continuing its more-value services with a HexBase-Database serving the user with information of companies offering social services in Germany for all target groups. This solution is now offering a very userfriendly way to search, you can submit queries to the HexBase engine just by clicking inline image maps. As usual, NO CGI scripts are used!
First you select the state and get a map of all regions of the state as an answer, then you select the service you are looking for, and click a region on the map. After this HexBase turns to FRAMES mode, so if you are using Netscape 2.0, the screen will be divided into 4 FRAMES, and by clicking the company link, the information is sent from the database to the downmost frame. This way, you never have to leave the page when browsing the answers!
Axel Springer Verlag is publishing a new family magazine since march 1996. This magazine, Familie & Co., is now also present in the Internet and producing interactive services with HexBase.
There are threaded discussions about music, movies, cooking, animals, holidays, games and other themes.
Everybody can share tips and opinions to others, read tips from the editorial staff, and even play a quiz game, where your knowledge about different themes is tested.
Bongo is a service from First Digital, a German Web service company. This Ad solution is directly aimed to serve the need of university students. HexBase gives the editorial department advanced admin features for managing the ad flow.
No matter whether you want to share a drive to the university or share an appartment with others, Bongo offers you the right search options.
Other categories are Job Opportunities, Market Place and Meeting People.
Aftonbladet, Sweden, REAL ESTATE ADS
The second largest evening paper in Sweden, circulation over 500.000,00 daily. The Real Estate ads from the saturday special, "Nytt Hem" are published in the Internet using a special solution made with HexBase. The ads come from a Microsoft Access database and are taken over as DBF files by HexBase. This HexBase is running on Sun OS.
Customers can here create multiple-level queries, such as searching for available listings by number of rooms in a house, location and price class. There is a scroll bar, where you can select the part of the City of Stockholm, where you would be interested to live in. There are thousand and thousands of houses of different kinds, flats a.s.o. in the database.
In this HexBase solution you can rank credit cards, you can find out which card is the best for you. Focus magazine has tested and ranked 82 credit cards after different criteria, annual fees, interest rates a.s.o.
Here you define the criteria that is important for you, and HexBase calculates and presents the most suitable 9 cards for you. By clicking the answers, you can get all information of the specific credit card.
Motorbörsen is the largest Car Market Ad Newspaper in Sweden. With a circulation of about 450.000 every week, it has established as the standard.
After 6 months of unsuccesful tries to publish the data to the Web with the traditional database solution, Motorbörsen decided to buy a HexBase solution.
After two weeks of development, the new system is running perfectly.
Now, using HexBase, all ads from the paper are published on the Internet. All images from the ads are also published. Using HexBase DFP, Dynamic Form Processing, you can be sure to find the object you selected.
The data, about 20.000 ads every week, is imported to HexBase System using the advanced import scripts of HexBase.
The two Media companies, MediaHouse and IDG Interactive decided to make a competition for the best HomePage in Sweden. HexBase was decided to be used as platform, due to its flexible formatting and query features.
Anybody in Sweden can take part of the competition by filling a form in their Web browser, filling in all the details of their Web Site, email adress, domain adress, art director a.s.o. This information is saved in the database and is searchable by category or full text. HexBase returns a list of all details and links.
The largest full interactive car market is presented by Aftonbladet, which has won all swedish prizes in the Internet publishing.
Here the Web users can submit their car ads just by filling out a form and sending the ad to the HexBAse database. The editorial department has an easy job for the administration of the ad material.
HexBase gives them a set of administration tools for releasing new ads, deleting ads and getting statistics broken down to categories. The user can administrate his ad deletion date, or delete his ad after the car is sold.
In this second HexBase solution, aftonbladet gives the Internet Surfers the opportunity to sell their computer related stuff. The input of the adss is done by customers using Netscape or other Web browser as a client. After the customer has typed in the ad, he receives a password and a unique ad number. With these keywords, the customer can admin his own ads, delete the ad after his stuff was sold, or continue having the in the Database. He can also check, how many times his ad has been called by other users.
In this HexBase solution, it is also possible to publish ads as an anonymous person. When calling the ad details, the customer gets a dialog, that tells to send a message to the ad owner. The ad owner can then with his admin feature pick up the messages from the database.
For the newspaper, there are a lot of admin functions: e.g. the new ads are not published in the Internet, before the editoriel staff has approved them. It is even possible to add new database categories just using a Web browser!
This game is made together with the swedish Telecom, called TELIA and Aftonbladet, which brings the experience in the online gaming. The users can put their best soccer team together using the players of all swedish national league players.
All players from all teams are listed in the database, including images and all detail information about the players.
After the next round, the players are evaluated and points are given to goals, assists and saving goals.
You can try this by typing the coach number 123456 to see the result.
How about finding a pen friend from the net? Aftonbladet is opening a service for teenagers, which want to find new friends from other net surfers.
The users fill a form, submit the information to the HexBase database, and when someone is filling a search form, giving information about him- or herself, HexBase compares the information with the information in the database and brings the right potential PenPals as an answer.
This solution is very popular in Sweden, and is bringing new readers for the newspaper from the younger generation.
DreamTeam is a nationwide ice hockey game in Sweden. The participans make 2 suggestions of player combinations, which they think will make the most points in the next round of the swedish national league.
The bets are made against money by official representatives like kiosks or stores. After the games are played, the scores and points are calculated. The hundred best coaches are presented in the newspaper.
There are over 240.000 participants in DreamTeam every week. This HexBase solution makes it possible for the "coaches" to see how they are ranked in the game. All you have to do is type in your coach number, and HexBase will give you the ranking. Just to get an overview, give the coach number 300000 in the search field.