Launch employee apps and improve your workforce’s performance through technology
Digital transformation
We take the techniques and simplicity of the technology people use in their personal life, and apply those to the systems they use within an organisation.
The result? Easy to use, habit forming and behaviour changing services for your workforce.
Get away from embarrassing, legacy tech platforms
It’s all too easy to focus on the customer facing tech in your business, and neglect the customer facing people. We’re experienced in getting the apps, tools and services your staff need to support their performance.
Reduce your dependence on general use tools
Excel, WhatsApp, email and SharePoint are flexible, but often used and stretched in ways that don’t serve your organisation in the ways you need. We help you get more insight from your data making it more visible to everyone in the business. We improve staff performance and engagement.
Stop repetitive manual tasks and processes
It sounds simple, but it’s easy to end up copying and pasting information from place to place, completing checklists on pieces of paper and ending up with an inefficient workforce of task workers, not knowledge workers.
The outcomes
Digital transformation
The culmination of all of our services; designing, launching and refining technology, apps and processes within your organisation. By iterating on this, we help you digitally transform how your people work without it being an overburdening and resistant process.
Our simple, easy to use, ready to go employee apps can solve the complex problems across your organisation. We’ve worked with large and small organisations to design and find the best techniques to keep staff engaged whilst boosting sales, improving compliance and driving knowledge.
Oplift apps are as easy to use as those your staff already have in their personal lives.
Employee apps
At work, staff are now demanding apps with the ease of use and simplicity of the apps they use in their personal lives. Our heritage of creating consumer apps means we can deliver this to the systems used within organisations. We’ve created iPad-focused till systems, secure GDPR-compliant scanning apps and mobile reporting tools.
We can extend and integrate with our platform, Oplift, giving you content management, user roles and robust building blocks out of the box.
Internal staff tools
Intranets, change request portals, and knowledge repositories - these are typically built with data collection in mind, and lack a focus on the experience of the users and quality of the data being collected.
We take boring forms and make them engaging, guiding your workforce through the process and ensuring everything is collected correctly and thoughtfully.
Modernising systems
We appreciate many organisations have complex legacy systems that are too large or expensive to replace - for these we integrate and create custom experiences on top of them. This means you get the benefits of a great employee and customer experience without having to reinvest in the whole system.
Big data & APIs
Organisations run on data, but all too often this is CSVs and Excel files being emailed around for updates. We’re experienced in taking complex data formats and making them available instantly and on-demand to your workforce.
We can create data lakes to give you unlimited access to data whenever you need it. This gives unimaginable flexibility and insights, which can integrate with your existing systems, be made available to your partner organisations and accessed through business intelligence tools.
Working together
Experts through experience.
We’re experienced creating and launching technology into organisations, across multiple sectors and areas of business.
People focused.
Our heritage in creating consumer apps and tools available to the public means everything we build is focused on the people that will use it - you and your employees.
Challengers.
We’ve been described by our customers as an extension of their team - we work with you and promise to challenge and ask why and how you do things. We know you’re the domain knowledge holders in your business, but we’ll ask the naive questions to improve the experience across your workforce.
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How we do it
Service design
This is our people-centred design process to find the issues and opportunities within your organisation, map out your employee journeys and design solutions to be delivered.
Rapid prototyping
Before investing in an idea or concept, it makes sense to pilot and prototype this with your target users and staff. We can create visual and interactive prototypes to test, tweak and refine before creating the complete solution.
UI / UX design
The apps and technology used by your workforce need to be thoughtfully designed - a process often overlooked in enterprise software.
User research
All of our team are people focused, and we research how to make habit forming and usable systems. We perform guided and non-guided user observations of prototypes and existing systems to learn from your employees.
Game development
Gamification and interactive apps are a great way to make learning and every day tasks fun for your staff. We create cross-platform immersive experiences using Unity.
Web development
Our team creates web apps and sites using the latest standards to ensure they work well where and when your staff need them. We’re experienced in single page web apps, JavaScript, React and Saas.
Android development
Using Kotlin we produce native Android employee apps for use within your business.
iOS development
We create fully native Swift iOS and iPadOS apps for use by your employees on personal and/or corporate devices.
Server development
The behind-the-scenes but vital part of any product or service. Our audited and secure server components are written in Go, Node, MongoDB, PHP and server-less tech to keep them running lightning fast.
Support
With our in-house customer success and release management team we’re on hand to support you and your workforce through your digital transformation.
Managed services
We manage and host our services as required - so you don’t worry about the uptime, security or maintenance of your employee platforms. We mostly host using Amazon’s Web Services.
Integrations
We connect our apps to your existing systems, whether that’s employee feeds, scheduling software or your legacy platforms, we can create one or two way connections to share data and processes.
Agile delivery
Story points, post-its and sprints - everyone talks about them but they often conflict with real world delivery and corporate roadmaps. We’ve found the sweet spot of flexibility, predictability and productivity to be agile and deliver!
Product design
We treat every project as a product - with the end users being your workforce. This approach leads to roadmaps, user-led design and a scalable solution.
Branding & illustration
Internal branding and illustrations bring your employee apps and technology to life, giving purpose to your workforce and further engaging them.
Innovation labs
With design sprints and the opportunity to dive into your organisation, we can collaborate with you to highlight, fix and roadmap new solutions for your business.
Speak to one of our experts now
Get in touch with an expert to talk about service design, employee apps or digital transformation work across your organisation.