We help organisations to bridge the gap between business and technology by provide
practical and impartial advice at all stages in a project life cycle, from the
conceptual phase through to completion.
The process of taking a new business concept from
whiteboard "cloud" to realistic business and technology models can be both
exciting and frustrating. We have a clearly defined process for helping clients
to answer some key questions. Working through these questions methodically,
providing creative freedom for the stakeholders, we help to ensure that
"go/no-go" decisions can be made with confidence. We support this creative
process with the development of demonstrators and prototypes to help make ideas
tangible at an early stage.
Most problems occur because of the inherent complexity
of software-based systems, which is often under-estimated, or because the
business problem which is being solved is insufficiently understood. In
practice, defining the "problem" in the first place, and then ensuring that its
solution is correctly implemented, is seldom straightforward or easy.
We apply sound engineering principles which provide
customers with the best possible assurance that they will obtain exactly what
they need in a timely fashion. Once services are live and operational,
competitive pressure dictates that they are continuously improved and enhanced
over time. We help organisations to take an objective view on how the existing
service could be improved or enhanced.
Services that involves transactions, especially secure
transactions, need to be tested thoroughly for obvious reasons. We know how to
plan and execute this kind of testing in an economic and effective manner. Our
approach, which means that organisations can launch services with confidence,
has been successfully employed to launch new credit cards, new consumer devices
and international enterprise infrastructure.
We have a suite of software (and robots!) developed over
many years for testing smart cards and for certifying smart card devices for
large-scale services. With our partners we offer a specialist service for
testing the interoperability of contactless electronic passports.