Orion Computer Consultants Ltd

about us

Orion Computer Consultants Ltd has been trading since 1989, initially providing computer software and consultancy services to clients which included BBC News, EMI, ICL, Gloucestershire and Leicestershire Police Constabularies and the UK Government.

Since 1996, the company has specialised in producing quality websites for its clients in Europe, Asia and North America. The company also provides internet consultancy and training services.

Our clients have access to content management software written in-house which allows them to make changes to their websites easily and instantly, without any knowledge of website design or programming. We have experience in producing multilingual websites, and can arrange to have your website text translated.

In addition to its commercial services, Orion has become involved in arts sponsorship - particularly of classical music - and also provides help to The Dog Rose Trust, a forward-thinking Shropshire-based charity which advocates the principal of universal design, and which uses new technology to help the visually impaired.

Orion's classical music websites Cadenza and Music & Vision won first and second places, respectively, in Chamber Music America's February 2000 survey of the world's fifty best classical music websites. When the same magazine revisited the online classical music scene in 2003, both Orion sites were still featured. Music & Vision magazine celebrated ten years of free-to-read daily publication in January 2009, and in 2010 it became a subscription publication.

Orion's managing director, Keith Bramich, read engineering at Cambridge University, followed by ten years with the Thorn EMI Research Labs at Hayes in Middlesex, during which time he specialised in computer programming, computer graphics, database and media work. His internet programming experience includes extensive use of Perl and PHP in websites, and the construction of databases using ASP, SQL and ODBC.

Commercial clients include the Worcestershire-based conservatory furniture firm Holloways with its garden antiques division hollowaysgardenantiques.co.uk, the premier EU business information portal EUbusiness.com, The Conservatory Studio, Birmingham, Diffusion Systems Ltd, The Foot and Ankle Clinic, The Foot Surgery Atlas and early oak furniture in Gloucestershire, UK from William H Stokes.

Some of the classical music organisations and individuals we represent online are: Adrian Vernon Fish, Alice McVeigh, The Beethoven Piano Society of Europe, Blackfriars Sinfonia, The Hertfordshire-based Bushey Symphony Orchestra, Cecilia McDowall, The Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, George Vass, Gerard Schurmann, Graham Williams, the Iberian and Latin American Music Society, Ioana Osoianu, John McCabe, John Poole, Keiko Takano, The Mornington Sinfonia, Nova music, Paul Sarcich, The Presteigne Festival, Thanet Festival Choir and Virginia Firnberg.

Other clients from the arts world and beyond include the author Robin Bryans, The James Caird Society (following in the footsteps of Sir Ernest Shackleton), The Neptune Association, Christ Church with St Laurence Brondesbury and The Dog Rose Press.