G4S
G4S GIS is a subscription-based online knowledge portal providing geopolitical intelligence on current threats and hazards worldwide. GIS provides subscribers with ongoing updates on security incidents with analysis as well as travel risk advisories and country overviews in order to track and monitor risk through a unique, graphical and quantitative security risk rating methodology.
G4S GIS were looking for help building a database driven site which had many backend features, editors around the world could update danger areas and news. Subscribers would receive email warnings alerting them to danger areas they had subscribed to. This information was displayed using Google Maps to show danger areas and past events.
Subscribers could log in to trial this service and since launch, it has grown exponetially to become the leading site for risk management around the globe.