Software Accelerator Program

Maximise your organisations efficiency and profitability by ensuring you have the right software in place to meet your business needs.

Taking a holistic view of your organisation, challenges and aspirations, and armed with a completely impartial view of the software offerings available, we will help you embrace the digital age and build flexible, adaptive foundations for the years ahead.

Software Accelerator Program

This first step in the process is to arrange a discovery exercise with us. The discovery process consists of a number of sessions to understand your business requirements.

Strategic
A session with the businesses strategic stakeholders to understand the wider commercial and business requirements
Tactical
Sessions focused with the functional leads for each area of the business (finance, operations, sales and marketing etc) to understand the key business processes and the software currently in place and their day-to-day requirements
Observations
In situ observations with your team members, understanding the “as is” processes
Technical
We will develop an understanding of the technical facets or dependencies which are currently in place.

We’ll provide an impartial assessment, identify your gaps and create a recommendations and requirements report written in digestible plain English.

Our report will outline the suggested software applications to fulfil the business requirements. Our recommendations may include utilising off the shelf packages, bespoke developments and any required system integrations.

Subsequently, you can implement the recommendations yourselves or continue to work with us to manage the procurement and implementation process.

Examples of our work

We have helped many companies increase efficiency and profitability with business changing changing software solutions.

Job Management and Workflow Software

New Product Development
WebAPI
.NetCore, MVC Framework, AngularJS, MS SQL

Job Management and Workflow Software for an Solutions Partner

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Sales Pipeline Management - SalesRadar.io

New Product Development
Market Leading Solution
MVC C# ASP.NET, MS SQL
Angular

Creation of sales pipeline management SaaS product that enables SME's to effectivly track and monitor sales leads as well as find new business.

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Cloud Pricing

New Product Development
User Experience Design
Angular
C# MVC, SQL Server

Cloud Pricing is an easy to use and effective quotes system for accountants developed on the principles of bestselling author Mark Wickersham’s philosophy of Value Based Pricing.

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Recruitment Management & Assessment Software

Bespoke Software
Responsive User Interface
User Experience Design
MVC C# ASP.NET, MS SQL

From a labour intensive paper based recruitment process to a cloud based system which was easily accessible to potential candidates.

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Lifestyle Triage, Referral and Health Trainer Software

Business Innovation
User Experience Design
MVC C# ASP.NET, MS SQL
Bespoke Software

IO Studios delivered business changing software to deliver an an innovative and disruptive model

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Fines Management Software

New Product Development
User Experience Design
Business Process Analysis
MVC C# ASP.NET, MS SQL

We conducted a thorough business analysis across all their clients to develop an innovative solution which drives operational efficiency and considerably enhances the customer experience.

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Vehicle Financing System

Web API
MVC C# ASP.Net, MS SQL
Angular JS
3rd Party Integration

The system we created is fully integrated with CAP vehicle data so all new makes, models and prices are automatically populated on a weekly basis. Our system calculates vehicle rates for use on their own website as well as automatically populating a third party site every day via FTP.

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Driver Licence Checking

New Product Development
DVLA Integration
MVC C# ASP.NET, MS SQL

The system is a directly licenced DVLA authorised license checking service which enables the solution to quickly perform driver checks against current DVLA data and automatically recheck them based on their risk criteria.

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Health & Safety Software

Microsoft C#, VB.Net, SQL Server
Microsoft Cordova, iOS, Android

Creation of health and safety bespoke software and mobile apps

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Management Reporting Tool

User Experience Design
Legacy Data Integration
MVC C# ASP.NET, MS SQL
Knockout JS

Data is exchanged from the legacy system into our web based reporting tool. Data can be manipulated across multiple business units, groups and cost-codes allowing for a comprehensive granular drill down of data.

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Bespoke Sales Order System

Bespoke Software
ERP System Integration
User Experience Design
MVC C# ASP.NET, MS SQL

A tool to revolutionise the sales process, increase productivity and enhance the opportunity for upsales in the field.

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Fortress Interlocks Website

Content Management System
Responsive Mobile Design

A fully bespoke website and content management system was developed to accommodate the complex requirements and multi-language versions of the website.

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Frequently asked questions

Below is a list of queries that we often get asked when initially speaking to clients. If you don’t find the question that is relevant to you then please contact us and we would be happy to answer.

Will we be stuck with you moving forward?

No, our clients are under no obligation to stay with us, our projects are designed so that they can be picked up by another competent Microsoft technologies developer or development house. Our experience shows that our clients enter into a true partnership with us, ensuring that our relationships are continuous.

How will you keep me informed throughout the project

We guarantee to be transparent and honest in our approach, this means we’ll keep you fully informed if we identify risk to the project, this could be a change in requirement, missing information, creep or slippage.

Once your project is underway you’ll be set up with access to our online project management software which will allow you to keep track of progress and access the project prototype and documentation. Messaging and questions are sent through it, providing one central place where all communication about the project is held. During the development the product team will be in regular communication and at the end of every sprint cycle or development phase you will be invite for a presentation of the work produced.

How much of my time and my teams time will you need?

Transformative projects are a true partnership between our businesses. You should be prepared to invest the amount of time it takes to deliver the result your business requires.

If you are embarking on a project across multiple departments and functions of your business you will need to ensure the relevant stakeholders have visibility of the project from the on-set and brief them on your expectations.

You’ll need to appoint a project sponsor from your organisation, this is the person responsible for leading the project and ultimately has the final say on your requirement.

"Finding a supplier you can trust to consistently deliver on time, in budget & with a smile - is priceless!"

"IO Studios were incredibly thorough in their approach and came up with ideas and solutions I would have never thought of."

"IO Studios produced a fantastic piece of software for us as well as maintaining great support of the system"

"I approached IO Studios to create some software and the whole project from proposal to completion was done in 6 weeks. An amazing turnaround. Not only that, it then took them just 3 more weeks to create a phase two which I only gave them just as the main project was completed. The team are incredibly responsive and they understood exactly what I was looking to achieve."

"IO always deliver great service, which is on budget & time.They're a great source for expert advice"