Meet Chris
Chris Ride has an extensive entrepreneurial and consulting background in technology and IT. Chris is uncompromising about using technology to serve people and radically improve process and productivity.
AGILE TRANSFORMATION
Exponential change is happening all around us. Industries are being disrupted and reformed in ever shorter cycles. The explosion of big data, new business models created around IoT and Artificial Intelligence, coupled with on-demand processing power, cloud and microservices are all unlocking previously unthinkable possibilities.
Predictive analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are enabling organisations to reimagine and rewire the way they create value and engage with markets. Together with our ecosystem partner and subsidiary, Cognition Studio, Certus is at the forefront of helping enterprises meet the new opportunities born of the cognitive era.
Working with Certus you can leverage our Agile Development Process, allowing you quickly take Web and Application design from
To embrace the possibilities that cognitive computing, microservices and cloud represent, requires looking at your business challenges through a different lens. Reflecting this, Certus and Cognition are building a partner ecosystem to provide a full range of business transformation services. Depending on your requirements we can work with you to introduce design thinking approaches and methods, undertake cognitive consulting and provide advanced analytics capability to help you drive the transformation of your organisation.
BUSINESS APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT
Our consulting team is expert at creating high performing websites and web-based applications that exceed user needs and expectations. An engaging, functionally rich, secure web platform that’s always available will improve business competitiveness, employee satisfaction and customer engagement.
From User Experience (UX) consulting at the beginning of an engagement, through development, back-end integration, testing, deployment and ongoing monitoring and management, we offer a complete end-to-end service for enterprise development projects.
A highly usable, responsive, scalable and secure web presence requires broad skills and capabilities to blend design, business and technology components in a single unified, complete end-to-end process.
TOUCHSTONE
Mitigate the risk of application design.
Traditional approaches to application design can be an expensive and time consuming process, and still offer an uncertain outcome. Touchstone enables Certus’ clients to validate that applications under development successfully address both business and user needs and deliver return on investment. To achieve this, Touchstone employs a process that rapidly builds a fully functional prototype that unlike simple wire-framing or click-through UX design approaches includes transformation, manipulation and display of data.
By combining and Agile Bi-Modal application design, Touchstone enables your organisation to take advantage of rapid software prototyping to conceive, collaborate and construct new applications without disrupting existing IT systems.
Touchstone takes the risk out of application development, allowing customers to concentrate on developing immersive digital experiences that will delight their customers.
CONTAINERISATION
When approaching application development, it is essential to match the chosen development methodology to your wider business strategy, the specific project outcomes and the unique operational environment within which it will be deployed.
Containerisation offers an alternative to Virtualization and is the key to making applications capable of running anywhere, on any machine. Leveraging Containerisation also means that your applications will be leaner and require far fewer resources. This can be achieved as you can run numerous containers at once without taking up a lot of space, ultimately allowing you to run far more containers on a host than you could with a traditional virtualisation approach.
However, in application development there is no one size fits all and not every application will benefit from a containerised development methodology. Certus can help you assess if things like performance, network latency, security, or memory usage will be positively affected by a containerised approach vs. having that application developed to run on a virtual machine, or bare metal.
Our consultants can help you navigate the development process, ensuring that you leverage the best technologies, platform, methodologies and skillsets to get the best possible outcome for your project.
BIMODAL PLATFORM
The challenge that most IT organisations face, is keeping pace with today’s agile approach to business. The pace of change is quickening, and unrelenting, with organisations looking to develop, prototype and deploy new offerings, services and solutions to market faster than ever before. How do you balance the need for agility with quality and security?
Certus can help you speed up your project delivery cycles, offering you access to the building blocks of a Bimodal approach and allowing you to achieve the speed of a start-up, with the power of an enterprise.
Leverage our consultants, technologies and methodologies to deliver faster and better outcomes. Starting with user experience design to ideate, complemented with rapid prototyping to visualize and test, then delivered through bespoke development integration via a loosely couple application model that leverages a suite of microservices.
Don’t be constrained by resource limitations, legacy technology or internal process. Certus offer you access to a full solutions-stack, specifically designed to help you realise the benefits of Bimodal application development including:
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