SPIKA - Software Solutions & Consulting

These are some of the areas in which we believe we exceed offerings from our competitors:

Complete project management.
We take on full project management responsibility and, in Prince2 fashion, we let the client manage by exception. We don't think that the client should have to spend their time worrying about or chasing progress.
No rug.
We don't hide issues, delays or risks from the client. Instead we invite the client to follow the progress through our "weekly builds" and we content manage and publish all documents, risk logs, bug lists, minutes etc for all parties to access.
The right resources.
We only use people who have the right background and experience for each particular project, and never charge out inexperienced staff at senior rates.
Cost effective.
By outsourcing most administrative functions and making use of the latest technologies for file sharing and video conferencing we are able to minimize the cost of overhead.
Fixed Prices are fixed.
The price quoted is the full and final price for a complete delivery. We will not expect additional payments for unforeseen risks or because we need to add more resources as a result of running late. It is our view that we should have foreseen the risk or issue in the definition phase and we will therefore absorb any additional cost. We believe this is truly unique!
Freedom of ownership.
We never try to lock a client in through licensing, ownership of IP/artworks, source code or costly support contracts. Instead we offer complete ownership of all parts developed as part of the project to the client.
Choice of Technology.
Although we have extensive experience in delivering solutions for enterprise environments, using high-profile products like Oracle, WebLogic, Vignette, MS SQL Server etc - we normally favour industry standard open source alternatives where applicable. The majority of our projects run equally well on MySQL, Tomcat and Apache in an Linux environment keeping licensing costs to a minimum.
Built for tomorrow.
All our solutions are based on best practice open architectures with dynamic database driven content and settings. This means that our products can easily be extended to grow with our client's future business needs, without the need for further heavy IT investments.