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You probably do create software in your organisation even if you think that you do not. How do you adequately govern your software? We can help you make sure your organisation is not exposed to liability or risk by auditing the software creation process you have and building a better set of processes to ensure you know what goes in to the software you create, what the risks are, where it goes, and how it is licenced.

So you acquired an app. You just have to check platform dependencies, licensing, documentation, safety, look for code smells and quality and security issues update all and republish — Easy, right?

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Research and Development (R&D) tax relief is a government-backed incentive scheme designed to encourage UK businesses to invest in innovative projects in science and technology. The tax relief allows companies to reduce their corporation tax bill or claim cash back on qualifying R&D activities. There are pitfalls in claiming R&D tax relief for commercially developed software which can have serious implications for a business, but the benefits of the relief on the funding provided for the innovative work make it worth spending the time to claim. It has been estimated by HMRC that just under 5% of R&D tax relief claims are fraudulent, and because of this, some significant changes are planned or in consultation for the period beyond April 2023.

We provide specialist consulting services to enable product turnaround strategies, startup roadmaps, product creation process healthchecks and more.

Need a CTO to go?

We provide interim management at CTO level.

Do you need compelling apps that are easily discoverable in the App Store and Google Play? we build apps for iOS and Android keep them updated with new features to meet your demanding requirements.

Region restricted eDiscovery platform in Amazon Web Services (AWS)

This client had need of a very particular set of skills. Skills that have been acquired over a very long career. Skills that would otherwise make a solution like this a nightmare. What we did was to help build out an eDiscovery platform in AWS capable of processing huge amounts of electronic information from email and office documents and images and audio. The eDiscovery platform itself is commercial software which relies on a quite complex deployment of Windows Server, SQL Server, Office Online Server, Elastic Search and its own proprietary agent style processing system. Working with the vendor we were able to build it out in our clients AWS environment and provide a solution equivalent in performance to the vendor's own SaaS product offering but restricted to meet very tight geographic restrictions for access to the data. The solution has extremely tight security and yet delivers flexibility for Internet based legal review of collected information for production in legal proceedings. It is designed and documented to comply with the clients ISO-27001 requirements.

Mobile app platform

We provided professional services at CTO level and created a high performance software development team for Piota to build, manage and support an app platform we built using open source tools and frameworks that we love to work with, which supports many tens of thousands of end user mobile devices for hundreds of organisations. Piota mobile apps are completely free to download from the App Store and Google Play. These apps are designed to help schools streamline communication, cut costs, save time and aid pupil learning. Hundreds of schools, colleges and education related organisations use these apps to improve communications, engagement and feedback. Piota healthcare apps, based on the same platform, help healthcare organisations engage with their audience of employees, patients, carers and others. Piota was recently acquired.

App creation using macOS for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)

macOS must be used to build apps for iOS And iPadOS. Build tools for Android require third party package managers and CI/CD tools which often require Java to be able to function and all these dependencies need to be managed carefully to avoid pitfalls due to macOS security constraints. We provide professional services for all aspects of software creation and publication to the App Store and Google Play.

Product Management and Vision

We provided Leadership support and Interim Product Management consulting services at management level for a NASDAQ quoted client to create a new product vision for eDiscovery software in a market in the middle of a transformation and a product innovation process based on Agile, with light touch but effective oversight and governance. To establish the vision we carefully chose and hired people to join the client pm team who fast showed their ability to become a high performance team.

Police mobile apps for engagement

Surrey Police had over 500 neighbourhood officers using our award winning apps after the completion of the rollout across all eleven boroughs in August 2012. Apps were available for download by members of the public from the App Store and from Google Play. Tayside Police rolled out our apps to their community officers force wide. The apps had tens of thousands of downloads. Note that sadly these apps are no longer available.