Services from liquid piranha
We offer development, support, project management and business/systems analysis services to businesses in a range of vertical industries, and of a wide variety of sizes. Some of the tasks we specialise in and have performed for clients include:
Professional Development Consultancy - BCS Professional Development Accreditation recognizes best practice in employer IT training and development. It is a prestigious independent seal of quality for organizations that demonstrates the competency of their IT staff through external benchmarking and validation by BCS. Achieving accreditation demonstrates an employer's commitment to supporting the professional development of its staff and improving employee motivation and retention. It can also provide a powerful differentiator when tendering against competitors, can be used to gain Investor In People and ISO9000 status, and provides your staff with fast-track routes to full and Chartered membership of the BCS. We're able, in conjunction with the British Computer Society, to provide consultancy leading to accreditation, as well as career development software and training which can help to smooth the route to accreditation.- Custom application development - sometimes, off-the-shelf just doesn't cut it. Whether you want to integrate signups on two different websites into a single database to more efficiently communicate with your customers, optimise your spending on gas to save tens of thousands of pounds a day, or offer API access to your systems to selected partners to streamline your operations, we can bring our experience and expertise to the table.
- Database development and tuning - the best software in the world sometimes runs badly because the database which underpins it fails to perform as it should. Often, this can be fixed with a bit of time and effort and very little expense - too often, we hear of clients who have thrown money at bigger hardware only to find that the problem recurs almost immediately. We have experience of database development and tuning for companies from startups to some of the world's biggest investment banks, in some cases yielding enormous performance gains hundreds (rather than hundreds of thousands) of dollars.
- Systems integration - all our developers have a wealth of experience of making systems talk to each other. Whether you have two systems in house or two hundred, we can get them exchanging data... yielding not just space and performance improvements, but efficiency gains and better business intelligence.
- Support - everyone goes on holiday or gets ill. Whether you're a one-man band planning a holiday and want someone to watch over your e-commerce website while you're away, or a manager of a multinational conglomerate who's wondering who's going to look after your network while your staff are at a conference, we can provide qualified and experienced professionals to give you the cover you need.
- Business Analysis - we're proud to have on-staff consultants who have experience of Business Process Re-Engineering in a variety of companies, having previously worked for IBM's Global Services consulting arm. If your business is struggling to achieve its potential because your systems are a cumbersome hindrance, one of our consultants can advise on how we can make technology work for you, rather than the other way round.
- Systems Analysis - you know your business. You know what it needs to do, and you know what you need to do to make it work. But sometimes, your systems just don't support you. If you've invested in new technology, are about to, or are wondering why your IT infrastructure seems so divorced from your business, we can help. We won't tell you how to run your business - you'll tell us that. Instead, we'll listen and then figure out why your IT systems don't help, and what can be done to align them more closely with your real needs.
- Project management - project management is a discipline in its own right, and one that too often is overlooked. If you're about to embark on a project which seems overwhelming because you don't have the manpower to effectively control its lifecycle, or if you're in the middle of one and find that deadlines keep slipping, ends don't get tied up and somehow things just don't click together the way they should, perhaps you should think about getting in touch.