Enterprise Platform Development & Integration
The last twenty per cent the platform does not do.
Enterprise platforms handle most of what you need and then stop exactly where your business is specific. That gap is where projects get expensive — usually because the gap gets filled in ways that break at the next upgrade.
What people come to us with
The situation before the solution
Customisations break on every upgrade
The platform was extended by editing it rather than building alongside it, so each release turns into a repair project and upgrades get postponed.
The platform does not know what the rest of the business knows
Stock lives in one system, customers in another, and staff bridge the gap by copying between tabs.
Outgrowing the platform, or paying for the wrong one
You are either constrained by it or paying enterprise licensing for a fraction of the functionality, and nobody has scoped what moving would actually involve.
Nobody can say what has been customised
Years of changes by different hands, undocumented, so every estimate carries a large unknown.
Capabilities
What the work covers
Upgrade-safe extension
Building in the extension points the platform provides rather than modifying its core, so your work survives the vendor's releases.
Integration with your other systems
Connecting the platform to your ERP, finance or internal tools so a figure is entered once and read everywhere.
Platform and data migration
Moving between platforms with the content, customers and history intact, planned around a cutover that can be reversed.
Customisation audit
Establishing what has actually been changed, what still earns its keep, and what can be retired — usually the cheapest work we do.
Theme and front-end work
Bringing the customer-facing layer in line with your brand without forking the platform underneath it.
How we approach it
The order we do things in, and why
- 01
Audit what is really there
Configuration, customisation and abandoned experiments, separated. You cannot plan platform work against an unknown baseline.
- 02
Decide: configure, extend, or replace
Each has a very different cost. We make the recommendation explicit and show the reasoning, including when the honest answer is to keep what you have.
- 03
Build in the seams
Extension points, APIs and hooks the vendor supports, so the next upgrade is routine rather than a project.
- 04
Rehearse any migration
Dry runs against a copy of production until the result is boring, with a rollback that has been tested rather than assumed.
- 05
Document and hand back
So your team, or any other firm, can take it forward without re-discovering the system.
Technologies
What we typically build this with
Questions
Things people ask first
Tell us what you run and we will give you a direct answer about whether it is a good fit for us. We work as engineers against documented APIs and supported extension points, so the question is usually what the platform exposes rather than which badge anyone holds.
That is the explicit design goal — building against supported extension points rather than modifying core. Where a requirement genuinely cannot be met that way, we will flag the upgrade cost before building it, not after.
Yes, and the planning matters more than the move. Content, customer records, order history, URLs and search rankings all need deliberate handling, which is why we rehearse the migration before the real one.
You do, directly with the vendor. We work inside your account rather than resell to you, so there is no dependency on us for your licensing.
Start a project
Have a problem that looks like this?
Tell us what it costs you today.
Two fields to start. We will come back with an approach and an honest view of what it takes — not an instant quote.