Detailed examples

• Company Acquisitions
• Business Intelligence Management Information
• Customer Relationship Management
• System Integration Process Streamlining
• Technology Review

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• Corporate strategy
• Business Mentoring and supplier liaison
• Information distribution
• Security
• Oil and Gas - Designing Rod Pumps
• Migrating Legacy Software
• Internet and personal data Security
• Helping a Stately Home improve efficiency
• System Integration
• Barcode Scanning and Inventory Control
• Technology Mentoring
• Training and developing staff
• Preventing unnecessary technician visits
• eCommerce problems
• Software Quality Management
• Website Technology Review

Business Consultancy

• www.docrafts.co.uk
  Multi award winning with over 300,000 users! Take a look
  We helped develop the strategy that took this company from a small wholesaler to the dominant force in the crafts industry. This resulted in a multi million pound premium sale of the business! more...
  
• Aerotech Proecision Manufacturing
  Business advice and sounding board for IT and technology issues. Negotiation with suppliers on technology sourcing.
• UK Atomic Energy Authority
  Advising on the purchase of a US competitor for their oil field products. Technical ability assessments and techology auditing.
  Securing technology assets, including confirmation of software quality and ownership.
• Automobile Association
  Software quality management, developing and monitoring software test, build and regression protocols.

Technology Consultancy

• www.docrafts.co.uk
  Multi award winning website with over 300,000 users! Take a look
  Huge site with masses of content, very active arts and crafts community, extremely complex content management software, sophisticated automation. eCommerce (B2C and B2B), linking into the company's order processing system in real time, using XML and web services. more...
  
• Automobile Association
  The AA was in the process of building the award winning AAHELP call handling system, they needed a supplier who could hit the ground running. We both understand and can use the technologies we talk about, we can merge technologies to get the best fit for the clients situation.
• www.saltwaterpr.com
  PR agency for the marine industry. Content managed, Newsletter distribution, CRM, with a large amount of back office automation.
• www.saltwatercoms.com
  Content managed software for a marine industry specialist PR agency.
• www.arthouse-galleries.com
  Content management, Customer relationship management and businesses streamlining for this leading art gallery.
• www.equityreleasecentral.co.uk
  We developed the complex algorithms to help automate policy selection for this content managed system.
• www.software-engineering.net
  Blogging, content management, web services, XML services for an engineering website.
• www.condotasks.com
  Helping property management boards manage and schedule the maintenance tasks for their property.
• Go Inque
  Over 50,000 users!
  Very large site with masses of content, very active arts and crafts community, very complex software, lots of automation.
• Scrapbeach
  White label shopping site for the crafts industry. Each retailer has their own front door.
  eCommerce, linking into the companies order processing system in real time using XML and Web services.
• Inque Boutique
  B2B site allowing retailer to order products online, links into company order processing system in real time.
• Nicolecrafts
  Busy arts and crafts community.
• Agricultural trading network
  Agricultural portal allowing intertrading as well as an extranet for suppliers.
• Events management
  Plainng and events management software for specialist businesses and stately homes!

Training and Mentoring

• Automobile Association
  The AA was in the process of building the award winning AAHELP call handling system, they needed a supplier who could hit the ground running. We both understand and can use the technologies we talk about, we can merge technologies to get the best fit for the clients situation.
• QA training
  The UK's leading technology training provider. We helped them deliver their course content in a way that a basic trainer cannot. Using our years of experience using the very technologies we talk about we can both give an insight that a pure trainer cannot as well as helping delegates solve real world problems, rather than just classroom problems.
• Deverill
  Deverill could provide basic IT and platform training. However they wanted a partner who could deliver technology implementation skills training.
  Aptek developed the training programs (strategy, materials and content) and then delivered the courses to the end users. The benefit to the client being that real technologists delivered the courses, not just trainers.
• Saltwater Communications
  Saltwater Public Relations
  Mentoring and advising on many IT issues. Training staff how to do tasks for themselves that would otherwise become delayed if outsourced.
  Business advice and sounding board when dealing with suppliers.