We want to help your business refocus on the things that matter most and use technology to take care of as much of the rest as possible, when you get it right it will make your life easier and your business more profitable.
We provide businesses with different solutions, depending on which types of problems they need solving. Typically this falls into one of two camps:
- For Software Companies, or development teams, we can help you conquer legacy code, deliver new features and squash bugs, improve your workflows and get the best out of your existing code and your team.
- For Other Businesses we can assist in digital transformation: getting technology to work for you to save you time and money.
Latest Posts
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In Defence of Legacy Code
If there’s one thing that Developers love to hate, the biggest enemy of their creativity, the worst drain on their time, it’s “Legacy Code”. It’s a strange term really, when you think about it. Usually we think about a legacy as being a positive thing left behind after a particular person is gone. Whether that’s tangible or financial, like a bequest, or the legacy of a famous or influential person who has left an impression on the world - leaving it a different place to how they found it. In software terms, however, the term “legacy” almost always comes with a negative connotation.
A lot of developers, at the mere smell of legacy code will shout to redevelop from scratch, to seek out the latest new shiny and rebuild the product from the ground up. There can be benefits to that, for sure, but it isn’t the only way. I’m mostly a fence sitter on this one, but if pushed I’d probably fall on the Maintain Legacy side of the fence. I don’t think it’s a black and white decision, though.
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Automating Production
It’s possible in a few companies to get by with very little technology, but for the rest there are decisions to be made, equipment to be bought and processes to be laid down. If you’re an expert in anything other than technology, you might not be able to solve those problems easily.
As an example of a problem we helped to solve, there was a small factory that had a couple of ecommerce websites, selling directly to consumers and making on demand. They had a production management system and a team taking telephone orders.
Each process had a separate evolution, created by different teams to solve different problems, except over time they had been brought together in a perfect example of the spaghetti approach.
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Another way I can help you get organised
Towards the back end of last year, I was offered the opportunity to qualify as an Evernote Certified Consultant, which enables me to work with Evernote users (particularly business users) with a stamp of approval from Evernote.
Evernote is a great tool that I will rave about to anyone that will listen, client or not. It’s a great way to help individuals or business get organised and can make retrieving information much quicker.
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Almost paper free (part 2)
It’s funny the way life is sometimes, isn’t it? You may remember that alongside projects for clients I’m also attempting to reduce the huge piles of paper threatening to swallow my office. It’s been a couple of months since I first let you know about my plans, so I thought it was about time I updated you.
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