Contessa Solutions & Consultants Ltd.

Custom software and the growing IT services around it

Contessa Solutions & Consultants Ltd. describes itself as a modern software company run by professional engineers who design, develop and put in place customised software. Its engineers also connect new systems with third-party software, train users to look after what has been delivered, and provide periodic upgrades so that the software keeps pace with industry and technology changes. The company says it works to produce software that is easy to manage at a fair price, and that it has served customers across all sectors, in both the private and public spheres.

Banking, finance and the public sector

The industries it names are banking and finance and the public and quasi-public sector. It also says that, through consultancy, it wants to engage with local enterprises, covering gap analysis and recommendations, building infrastructure and closing skill gaps within a company.

Cybersecurity and digital forensics

A second strand is security. The company describes process controls and solutions meant to reduce cybersecurity risk for local organisations, with on-site, dedicated security work and company-wide implementation for clients that want protection from threats and breaches. For small and medium businesses it describes cloud-based security offered on subscription, and it says it plans to build its own systems of that kind. Digital forensics is the other half: it says it helps clients track security incidents and breaches and reduce weaknesses in the measures already taken.

Training with laboratories

Contessa also trains people. It reports that it hosted a two-month programme with a university partner on big data, blockchain, the internet of things, machine learning and robotics, with working laboratories so that participants could practise rather than only study theory. Its roadmap, set out from 2022, describes cooperating with internationally recognised training institutes and local universities to give both newcomers and working professionals more opportunities, using laboratories built for the purpose.

Microsoft products and a digital content platform

The company says it is a Microsoft partner that sells and distributes the vendor's products, services and support, listing Microsoft 365, Azure, Dynamics 365, Windows Server, SharePoint, email and email security solutions, Exchange Server, Office, Project, Visio, SQL Server and Microsoft Defender. It has also entered infotainment, having built and launched a digital platform that gives users a wide range of educational, social awareness, creative, cognitive exercise and gaming content.