Software Development

We can offer both, or a combination of both.  The important thing is that we work in a way that best fits your business.  We often find a combination of onsite and office based working enables a balance to be struck between physical team integration and keeping control on things like travel costs.  We do find regular stand-ups with customers via Skype work very well for development projects. The use of Cloud base technologies including Visual Studio Team Services and Office 365 allows a client to view the development progress. This gives the client the continuous ability to see progress and the state of the project.

Within all the teams within Silversands we instil a culture of continuous technological development.   On a monthly basis we hold an internal knowledge transfer day where individuals present their findings and experiences from recent engagements, industry events and focused R&D to their peers.  Outside of these specific days our teams extensively utilise Yammer to share knowledge, thoughts and views on various technologies or trends.  This practise is a core part of the development team as with all other teams within Silversands.  We are continually researching and investigating the latest tools and techniques and sharing this knowledge throughout the team. It is important to note that when you engage with a Silversands Developer you get the experience of the entire Silversands team. Silversands has experience across multiple Microsoft Products.

We do.  We have our own in house web design team that bring your ideas and concepts to reality, whilst also introducing the latest concepts and thinking from industry.  With any web and / or mobile solution we work with you on the design concepts to ensure the user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) meets your requirements and expectations.

At Silversands we purposely try not to specialise in one industry vertical.  We pride ourselves being able to work across many types of industries and sharing knowledge and experiences across the verticals.  However, over the years we have gained deep specialist skills in areas such as Marine -Vessel Vetting and Financial – Staff Loans

We have been developing Software solutions since the early 1990’s.  Over those years we have seen may different languages and tools come and go.  It is important to note that we are still working with customers from those early days!

Yes, what professional Software Development company wouldn’t? As part of our internal development guidelines we require all code to be ‘checked in’ to a source control system at a minimum daily.  This ensures that all code is backed up to a single location.  It also means that developers can share code between them.  We are currently using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) as our tools of choice.  These bring great advantages for not only source control but also controlling and managing development projects.

Across our development team we have a very wide skill set. We do work primarily with Microsoft Technologies and we try and utilise the most modern tools were possible, quite simply because we find them more productive, which in turn saves customers money.

The following are commonly used tools and technologies: C#.NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET, MVC, JavaScript, HTLM, Angular js, AJAX, JQUERY, JSOM, CSOM, REST, SQL, SQL SSIS, SQL SSRS, Xamarin, Powershell, SharePoint, Office 365, Azure and the list goes on.  If you have a specific language or technology you want us to use, then please just ask if we have the skills. We usually do!

As we have been providing a development service for many years we still have solutions based on legacy languages, tools and designs that we continue to support.  We are still managing classic solutions consisting of a client frontend in VB, a middle COM layer and a SQL backend database.  We are also often asked by customers to support their own solutions where perhaps the legacy skills are no longer in their business

No.  We maintain our own in development team that is based primarily in our Poole office.  This ensures that we can vouch for the quality of the products being delivered.