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Turn your big idea into world class product and service experience

Whether launching a new product, modernising your technology stack or backing up your tech team, we are your trusted digital-innovation partner.

Mobile First, Responsive & Single Page Web Applications

We believe that a user experience must be delivered seamlessly across devices. Mobile First and Responsive Design are our primary approches when undertaking a new web project. When more interactive and fast UI is needed, we usually recommand the Single Page Application model (SPA).

  • Mobile Fisrt and Responsive Design: one code base and your web application will display properly on smartphones, tablets and desktops.
  • Both Mobile Fist and Responsive Design reduces the maintenance cost.
  • When you cannot afford a native mobile app, a mobile first website will do just fine in most cases.
  • A SPA avoids multiple pages loading: only data is transmitted back and forth
  • A SPA is an ideal choice for most SAAS and enterprise business applications

Hybrid & Native Mobile Apps

Increasingly, more studies show that dedicated mobile applications are the point of entry of choice for accessing content and services. Mobile apps, either hybrid or native, are a must for any serious business. Native mobile apps are the best you can get in terms of user experience. However, the Hybrid apps (those built using web standards like HTML, CSS and JavaScript) are getting more sophisticated and can match native apps in many cases.

  • Mobile apps create a direct marketing channel and improve customer engagement.
  • Native apps give you the best user experience, but you have to maintain different code bases: costly to build and maintain.
  • Hybrid apps give you good enough user experience with the advantage of ‘build once’ and publish to all app stores.
  • Some tools like xamarin allow you to develop native apps while sharing an average of 90% of the code across platforms..

API Design

APIs are at the center of the digital revolution. API allows you to build a common core that can be used on multiple platforms (web, mobile, third party applications...etc). It improves developer's productivity by hiding complexity. We have expertise in designing, implementing, documenting, scaling and securing APIs.

  • APIs facilitate the communication between internal teams and speed up the time to market
  • Consumers of the API can be internal end users as well as suppliers and partners
  • Consider laverging the third parties, consumers of your API, to promote Innovation and increase revenue and growth

Testing Automation

At businessfirst we have developed expertise around 3 types of testing: UI, integration and performance testing. We take testing seriously: Our automated integration tests run as part of our continuous integration (CI). Alongside peformance testing tools we use application performance monitoring tools (APM) to gather key metrics and improve the design to meet increased demand for responsiveness and scalability

  • Rigourous testing ensures flawless user experience. Automation makes this objective feasible with reasonable cost and deadlines
  • Automated tests are not prone to human error and exhaustion
  • Automation includes tests results extraction and sharing
  • Performance testing reveals the speed, the scalability, and the stability of the system

BI and Data Visualisation

The importance of data-backed decision making is undeniable. Businesses Intelligence (BI) is the process of gathering and analyzing business data. No BI effort will be complete without visualization tools. We have expertise around multiples BI solutions adapted to different budgets.

  • Consider using data-driven insights as part of your growth strategy
  • Unlock value from business data you already store in various backends and services
  • Just as a picture is worth a thousand words, data visualization tools help you look at your business data from different perspectives

Cloud & Devops

We laverage the devops and the cloud to accelerate the way an idea moves from development to deployment. We are vendor-agnostic and can adapt to your choosen provider.
Modern cloud enables us to leap over organizational barriers and infrastructure dysfunctions to deliver cost effective products and solutions.

  • In modern clouds, infrastructure as code (IaC) enables speed,consistency and efficieny in infrastructure and runtime provisioning
  • The cloud eliminates the typical IT requests that take months to complete
  • With lower costs and greater flexibility, whilst ensuring security and business continuity, modern cloud improve your business agility
  • We can migrate your tech stack to modern Cloud-Native and provide training to your team

Our approach

While software development is at the heart of what we do at businessfirst we add value in many ways.

At businessfirst we have a well-tested and proven product development and project management approach. Our practices and processes have their roots in agile methodologies and lean principles. Over the years we have practiced different approaches and learned what worked and what didn’t. Applying the right methodology is critical to the overall project’s success. While great software development is at the heart of it, we add value in multiple ways. We bring another perspective and help the customer in strategy and design thinking to unlock value of their product and service.

Discover

We immerse ourselves in the problem at hand to enable us to identify opportunities for us to work together.
We need to know the budget, functionalities, technology preferences and deadlines among other details. Understanding your product or service vision is critical for us as It serves as a springboard for our first concept proposal.

Plan

With the outcome of the Discover phase, we elaborate a clear roadmap and set transparent expectations to make sure we are completely aligned. We first produce what we call a rough estimate. Based on the client's feedback on the rough estimate we then produce a detailed estimate in which we break down features into specific tasks.

Develop

Through a rapid, iterative process, we create and present to you the first working prototype. As we evolve the product, you can both see and continuously monitor our progress.

Test

Test driven development is at the core of our development practices. It enables us to deliver well tested and easy to maintain products. We have different types of testing, ranging from the fine grained component level, to user acceptance testing.

Continuously Deliver

We put emphasis on automated continuous deployment. Not only does it speed up the time to market but also allows you to get early feedback from your users or customers. Users will often uncover insights and optimization opportunities that aren't obvious, before launching the product.

Support

We provide different types of support. From training support to post-release and long term production support you can rest assured that you you have a reliable partner through the life cycle of your product.

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About us

businessfirst.tech was started as the trading name of multi-disciplinary software practitioners and architects with many decades of combined experience, working for both start-ups and some of the world’s largest institutions.
At our core we are pragmatists who put your business first and deliver the optimal technology solutions to solve your complex challenges.
We help companies realize competitive, useful and beautifully designed digital products and service experiences.