Development

We are the UK's leading specialists in developing large, content driven sites for corporate and public sector clients including award winning sites for the UK Government.

The Axis12 team has extensive experience of developing large, content driven sites for enterprise and public sector clients, including award-winning sites for the UK Government.

We work closely with you, understanding your requirements, enabling you to be aware of technological advances that can help you, and keeping you fully informed of progress throughout the project to ensure that what we deliver meets the business requirements, even if you require change during the project.

We deliver fast and provide excellent value for money. We can advise you of existing modules of functionality that fit your needs, saving time and money. Where a requirement is truly innovative, we have the technical expertise to develop systems from the ground up that can withstand the rigours of high traffic and large volumes of content.

The bad old way of delivering enterprise web site

Many COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) systems impose punitive licensing costs, and force you to buy a system with features you do not want or need. We don’t work that way.

Custom development projects take longer and cost more. They can impose significant support and maintenance overheads. We don’t work this way either. Most web development companies have one way of managing client projects. Either they use structured methodologies like PRINCE2 which may not work for a client trading in a fast moving market environment, or they use less structured processes which do not provide the stability, rigour and quality of reporting that stakeholders may need.

The Axis12 way of delivering enterprise web sites

We deliver systems for clients using proven Open Source technologies centred around the Drupal content management system that provide large libraries of modules to deliver functionality quickly and reliably. We also provide the facility for your systems to plug into pre-existing Axis12 services that deliver robust, scalable core functions quickly and cost effectively.

We have the project management expertise to work with you in the way you want – we don’t impose processes that do not work well for you. Our team have literally decades of experience managing web technology projects. They are certified PRINCE2 and SCRUM specialists.

Our experience confirms that we would always suggest using Agile approaches to web projects (see our white paper on the subject), but we do appreciate that this may not fit your established processes, so we can adjust to fit.

Quality

We impose appropriate and comprehensive quality standards to everything we develop. Different clients have different business drivers, and we tailor the way we manage quality for you based on the priorities you explain to us. A campaign site for example, may have a very short leadtime to a fixed deadline for launch and may be aimed at a very narrow market segment. A public sector site may have less restrictive timescales, but may have to comply with a very wide range of usability, accessibility and technical standards. Whatever you need, we will ensure that we meet your quality requirements

Reliability

We have extensive experience of building and supporting high traffic websites where maximum availability and high performance are mission critical to clients. We are recognised in the Open Source community as having proven technical expertise in designing and implementing hardware and software environments to support very large enterprise sites.

We pride ourselves on building and maintaining excellent collaborative relationships with clients where we go the extra mile to ensure they feel we are much more than just suppliers working at arms length.

Value for money

You will find companies that quote lower costs than us. But we believe that in terms of value for money, we will not be beaten. Our entire business is structured to ensure that we keep costs down wherever possible, while ensuring that the quality of work we do and the level of service we deliver to you is never compromised.

We develop great sites for both established organisations and small enterprises. For a no obligation discussion on how we can help you, contact us today.