Digital & App Innovation
Custom code vs low code
Investing in custom software solutions can initially seem cost-effective, however, custom software development can be a wise investment that pays for itself. With custom software, there are no additional costs as your business expands. Additionally, there is an option to own the software IP after development which eliminates vendor lock-in issues.
At Ingentive, we serve as a strategic partner uniquely placed at the intersection of pro code and low code. Our unbiased approach allows us to offer expert advice to businesses pursuing digital innovation. You can trust us to guide you through the best options for your business, whether it involves pro code or low code solutions.
Custom software development services
Are you facing challenges with legacy applications that off-the-shelf software can’t address? Have you considered the advantages of a bespoke software development solution specifically designed to meet your unique needs?
Custom software development provides your business with enhanced flexibility and features for digital innovation. It allows you to have complete control over the development process and ensures seamless integration with your existing business software.
We build custom software that seamlessly integrates with your existing systems and data flows. Our solutions are tailored to enhance your digital innovation and streamline processes, avoiding the limitations of pre-built systems that may not meet your business needs.
Ideation Workshop
Our workshops ensure all stakeholders can share their perspectives on the custom software project. We create user stories to guide design and development. Our Ideation Workshop always takes place before the development process commences.
Analysis
Our team takes details from user stories and conducts a thorough technical analysis for the custom software development. We may ask Business Analysts for additional clarity or to address any concerns during this stage.
Systems Health Check
We evaluate the client’s current system, ensuring the new technology is efficient and future-proof. A Systems Health Check includes an audit to identify deficiencies and provide recommendations for your existing custom software solutions.
Design
We propose a high-level blueprint of how the custom software development change will be implemented. During this phase we keep in mind our ‘clean code’ principles, ensuring that our changes are scalable, maintainable, and will not cause a decline in other areas of the system.
Implementation
During the implementation stage we make modifications to the custom software solution. We create and run our own unit tests and integration tests to make sure that all the requirements of the user story have been implemented.
System Deployment
Once a user story (or a batch of user stories) has passed all checks, the custom software is deployed to a UAT environment for validation by real users. This is often accompanied by a system demonstration to gather quick feedback from end-users.
Digital innovation for legacy systems
Legacy systems are outdated technologies still in use despite newer alternatives. They pose challenges due to lack of development and support, leading to limited functionality and security risks. Many businesses continue using them to avoid the disruption of migrating to new systems.
Are you facing issues with legacy systems?
Ingentive can rebuild and migrate your systems for a smooth, minimally disruptive transition. Our client-driven approach ensures updates meet your needs. We handle custom software development, coding, and customisation, reducing risk and minimising costs and impact.
Common Problems
Our clients often face challenges with unstable systems. Older systems are often unable to integrate with newer systems or technologies, leaving organisations with insufficient processes.
Are you struggling to access data? Does your system lack knowledge of the business? Are you worried about security risks? Legacy systems often lack business insights and hinder performance, initiatives, and processes. With digital transformation on the rise, modernising these outdated systems is crucial to overcome obstacles and enable new services and applications.
How Can We Help
Should you rip out the system and start over? It may sound appealing, but it’s risky and costly.
We believe digital innovation isn’t a one-size-fits-all process. Various approaches are needed, depending on system architecture, technology, and functionality.
There may be a need to rehost, re-platform or replace, which will determine the approach taken, each carrying different risks, effects, costs, and considerations.
Choosing the right custom software solution for your business requires careful consideration and input from your leadership team to build a comprehensive roadmap.
Why Ingentive?
We are a safe pair of hands to guide you on your journey of updating your systems. We work closely with you to understand your challenges, needs and goals.
The advantages of custom software development at Ingentive offer more than just technical benefits. Our developer’s expertise ensure high customisation that aligns with your unique business objectives. Our comprehensive approach makes custom coding a strategic investment that supports your long-term vision.
Microsoft Dataverse
As an organisation, you recognise data as the cornerstone of your operations. Microsoft Dataverse is a powerful data platform that enables you to store, manage, and securely share your critical data assets.
Our expertise goes beyond recognising Dataverse’s power; we unlock its full value for our clients. Using Dataverse as your central hub for tables, forms and apps, we enable seamless collaboration and development without complex coding. We are your strategic partner in maximising this versatile tool’s benefits.
With Dataverse’s built-in security and seamless integration with Microsoft Power Platform, you get a comprehensive solution for data management, app development, and automation. This combination helps our clients thrive in a data-driven world.
Guided Setup
Ingentive specialises in customising Microsoft Dataverse to match your specific data structures, forms and app configurations, ensuring it aligns seamlessly with your organisation’s unique requirements.
Customised Solutions
We create custom Dataverse solutions tailored to your business processes, removing the need for complex coding. We design and build bespoke tables, forms, and apps to streamline operations and boost efficiency.
Integration with Power Platform
Ingentive seamlessly integrates Dataverse with the Microsoft Power Platform, enhancing app development and unlocking powerful data insights. This creates a unified, dynamic environment for your digital evolution.
Optimised Data Management
We leverage our expertise to help you maximise your data’s potential within Dataverse. We provide comprehensive solutions for optimising data storage, enhancing organisation, and enabling efficient data use. Our tailored strategies ensure you harness the full value of your data assets, driving informed decision-making and streamlined operations.
Microsoft’s Power Platform is a streamlined, intuitive, low-code platform that helps lower barriers to build better solutions. With cross-platform integration and new AI-driven efficiencies it allows us to help you automate, build and develop solutions for your business that can bring about real change in how your organisation works.
Software development for our clients
Over the last few years, we have been working with a variety of organisations, crafting bespoke software to meet their unique business needs.
AXA XL
The Challenge
The key challenge of this project was based on system email communications. The sending out of email concerning newly added documents to an account was extremely complex (looping through all users, do they have access to account & at what level, etc) the existing process was slow and often fell over, with no way of knowing where in the process (which users had been sent an email about new documents) it had stopped.
Our Solution
Our Ingentive team streamlined the sending of emails when a new document was added to an account, so that process did not fall over, as well as introducing the much-needed logging and being able to restart the job, knowing where to pick up from so that duplicate emails where not sent.
The Impact:
- Previously, the job would run on weekdays for 8 hours, on Sundays for 12 hours and would often fall over.
- Now, on weekdays the job would take 1 hour, on Sunday the job takes about 4 hours. Should the job fall over, our support team is notified, they can restart the job where it left off. Therefore, AXA XL have gained operational efficiencies, (the job takes a quarter of the time, the job is logged & monitored and can be reran from where it had failed).
AXA XL’s business and external clients were extremely pleased with the result.
