05Business systems · built to order
Data, integration and automation.
Systems that talk to each other, work that moves by itself, and numbers you can trust.
Data platforms, business intelligence, analytics and decision systems, integration platforms, APIs and business process automation, built to order so information entered once flows everywhere it is needed.
Most companies do not lack systems. They lack the connections between them. The same order is typed into three screens, a report takes a week because the data has to be gathered by hand, and two dashboards give two answers to one question.
This family is the plumbing and the instruments: moving data between systems, automating the steps people repeat, and turning what the systems hold into numbers a decision can rest on. It is also the foundation any serious use of AI stands on.
05.1BI
Business intelligence.
The usual state of reporting is a person. Someone exports from four systems on the first of the month, stitches the files together and emails a spreadsheet, and when that person is on holiday the company flies blind.
What we build
- Business dashboards
- Data visualisation
- KPI monitoring
- Reporting
- Operational analytics
- Predictive analytics
- AI-powered business intelligence
05.2Data platforms
Enterprise data platforms.
Each business system is built to run its own process, not to be asked questions across the company. Query them directly and you slow them down and get five formats of the same fact.
What we build
- Data warehouses
- Data lakes
- Data lakehouses
- ETL and ELT pipelines
- Data engineering
- Master data management
- Data governance
- Enterprise search
05.3Analytics & decision systems
Data analytics and decision systems.
A dashboard tells you sales fell. It does not tell you why, whether it will continue or what to do about it. Many companies stop at the dashboard and call it being data-driven.
What we build
- Advanced analytics
- Operational analytics
- Customer analytics
- Sales analytics
- Financial analytics
- Predictive analytics
- Forecasting
- Decision support systems
05.4iPaaS
Integration platform as a service.
Systems connected one pair at a time become a tangle. Ten systems can need forty-five separate links, each written differently by someone who has since left, and when one system is upgraded nobody knows what will break.
What we build
- Application integration
- API integration
- Data synchronisation
- Workflow automation
- System-to-system integration
- Enterprise integration
- Custom connectors
05.5API & systems integration
API and systems integration.
A system with no interface is an island. Its data can be reached only through its own screens, which means a person copying and pasting, or a fragile script reading the screen on their behalf.
What we build
- API development
- Third-party integrations
- Legacy system integration
- Database integration
- SaaS integration
- Enterprise system integration
- Custom middleware
05.6BPA
Business process automation.
A large share of office work is moving information from one place to another: reading a form and typing it into a system, forwarding a request for approval, chasing the person who has not replied, copying figures from an email into a spreadsheet.
What we build
- Workflow automation
- Approval automation
- Document automation
- Data entry automation
- Cross-department automation
- AI-powered process automation
- Custom business automation
Buy, extend or build. We say which, before we quote.
05.7Questions
Before you ask.
Questions
Where should we start: integration, a data platform or dashboards?
With the question the business cannot answer or the step it repeats most. If people are retyping data, start with integration. If nobody trusts the numbers, start with the data model behind them. Dashboards built before that are only a prettier view of the disagreement.
Do we have to move everything to the cloud?
No. A data platform can run on your own servers, in a private cloud or in a public cloud account you own. The right answer depends on your data, your rules and your costs, and we will say which we would choose and why.
Our data is messy. Is that a problem?
It is the normal starting point, and cleaning it is part of the work. We measure the mess first: duplicates, gaps and conflicts, so the plan is based on what is there.
Guides
Plain-language guides on the problems this work solves.
- CRM, ERP, HRMS, CDP, PIM, WMS and the rest: thirty business systems explained in plain wordsBusiness systems · 8 min
- Custom software or off-the-shelf: how to decide whether to build, buy or extendBuild or buy · 3 min
- Custom CRM or off-the-shelf CRM: which does your sales team need?CRM · 3 min
- When does a company need a custom ERP?ERP · 3 min
- All 16 guides on this →
Rather talk it through? Tell us the problem in a few lines and a person will answer it.
Ask us →The other five families
- Customers and revenueCRM · CPQ · Marketing automation · CDP · DMP · Help desk
- Operations, supply and financeERP · SCM · WMS · OMS · POS · Accounting
- People and workHRMS / HCM · ATS · Project & work management · PSA · ITSM
- Content, assets and product informationCMS · DAM · PIM
- AI, custom software and transformationEnterprise AI · Custom enterprise software · AI consulting · Digital transformation
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