bespoke business software
, working with our clients to develop windows and web applications to meet the requirements of their businesses.
We’re experts at translating business processes into usable software that really delivers. We don’t have salespeople. Our project manager works face-to-face with clients, so there’s a practical discussion about what you need right from the start.
We build on our existing modules for common business needs, then draw on our proven software architecture to customize and create bespoke elements.
We’re database experts and are confident working with complex requirements and business logic problems.
We are an approachable and pragmatic team, with management experience inside both large organisations and SMEs. We are valued for the highly professional, practical relationships we develop with clients.
Paul is our MD and also the technical lead on most client projects. He brings together strong business, analytical and software skills; a people-person with deep technical knowledge.
Mary’s professional background is in business consulting, process design and training provision. She worked with the elite consultancy firm BCG for some of the world’s largest organisations, as well as business start-ups and the public sector.
Mary contributes a practical focus on product quality and user support. She is the main client contact for most projects.
Andy is a programmer with 15+ years of professional software design and development experience, focused on bespoke business systems. He’s very results focused – our can-do guy.
we’re here to help you through it.
“We knew that we needed to automate our processes but had heard horror stories so were delighted with Cloud Street’s approach. Their hands on and practical approach to the issues that they faced in executing this project gave us confidence every step of the way.”
We are an approachable and pragmatic team, and we’re very good at working with business people to understand how their operations work and what they need from a software application. We are valued for the highly professional, practical relationships we develop with clients.
We work with you to bring out the detail of what you want the application to do, and understand the ‘business rules’ that are to be used. We listen to what you want, ask lots of questions, advise you on the possibilities and talk through implications of various options. We write down the requirements, draft a data model, and review everything with you until it is correct. By this point, we’ll have a good overall idea of how we would build the application.
“Cloud Street took our brief beyond the original spec and provided us with suggestions that were invaluable and helped us greatly with our business logic.”
Regent Belt Company
“Cloud Street were very responsive to all our ongoing continuous improvement needs.”
We’ll help you plan this and be there for you on the day. We provide free support for all our products for 3 months post-launch.
Applications we’ve built are in daily use in businesses
You don’t need to be a technical expert to commission a piece of software
Microsoft SQL Server provides high levels of performance, availability, and security. It is a mainstream product that is well supported for both development and maintenance. It allows us to design flexible, innovative applications, and it’s a friendly platform for our programmers to work on.
to ensure that our team have the best possible programming environment, and can provide the best possible support and deployment experience for our clients.
We’re happy to advise on hardware and software infrastructure requirements for any project we undertake. Microsoft offer a free version of SQL Server, which is suitable for most mid-size business applications and used by many of our clients.
Beyond the hype, it’s a real opportunity for many businesses to access a hosted application solution for the first time, to save money compared to traditional server hosting, or to allow their requirements to scale up over time without time-consuming and costly upgrades.
“Cloud Street were very responsive … the system was specified and delivered swiftly and professionally”
By hosting your application ‘in the cloud’, it can be made accessible over the internet, from anywhere, without you having to worry about managing servers and data-centres. It’s typically lower cost than owning your own dedicated server, so can save you money versus your current set-up, and it can be a low-cost way to start a remote-access service. It’s also very scalable – very easy to add or remove capacity as your business grows and changes.
We don’t own data centre or cloud servers, so can give you unbiased advice about what would work for your business. We’re happy to work with your network support team (in-house or outsourced) to set up the infrastructure required, or can recommend hosting suppliers and help get you started.
If you are currently using a Microsoft Access database application and your business is outgrowing your existing system, it might be time to think about
. We are very familiar with Access, and often work with clients who are migrating from Access or Excel-based systems to a more comprehensive software solution
An integrated development environment for web, windows and mobile development – it helps our developers to be productive and structured in what they do. Visual Studio comes as part of our Microsoft Developer Network subscription, which also gives us development access to all the latest Microsoft software.
We use a fantastic suite of tools from Red Gate to support our work in SQL Server. These tools provide source control for our SQL code, code synchronisation and data comparison. They also help us to be slick in deploying database updates to live client systems.
