Application development
We specialise in the development of web-based enterprise applications.
We offer unparalleled speed from initial design to complete implementation - see the How we do it section to find out more about how we're able to deliver very large systems in far less time, and with far less risk, than you would expect.
Our development toolset and methodology mean that we can work more closely with the right business experts to understand and interpret their detailed requirements. Close and ongoing involvement of key users greatly reduces the risk of management and development time being wasted and ensures that improvements to business processes and technical aspects of the delivered solution become a part of the development process.
We are happy working to a conventional specification, but generally use our iterative development process as a means to drive out business requirements - when managed in a set of time-boxed phases this can be a cost-effective and very rapid means to develop a complex application in the minimum of elapsed time.
We have developed applications for a wide range of business purposes including the following:
- Asset registers
- Risk reporting and assessment
- Investment programming
- Statistical cost analysis & cost model generation
- Automated work costing
- Equipment reliability management
- Management reporting systems
- HR assessment
- Corporate directory
Alongside our bespoke development capabilities we also offer a number of specialised packages dealing with specific business needs: chief among these is Investment Manager, an application enabling asset investment optimisation for utilities and other organisations. This application (developed jointly with asset investment specialists ICS Consulting) is used by the majority of the UK's major water companies, optimising many billions of pounds of asset expenditure every year.