Binary Forge Solutions Ltd

From South Yorkshire, Binary Forge Solutions Ltd builds enterprise software, joins up business systems and helps organisations automate routine steps as they modernise. It also runs central management systems for large networks of connected devices, and it works across a range of sectors and business sizes.

Enterprise software and cloud web applications

The company builds cloud-hosted web applications and bespoke systems, working mainly in Java, Python and JavaScript. The team works across full-featured web applications and the integration workflows that link separate systems.

Remote management of connected devices

Its IoT work provides central systems that let users control and manage their devices from anywhere. Networks of secure embedded devices that the company has deployed, hosted and supported span many hundreds of kilometres and reach close to half a million devices in total.

Systems integration and management information

Integration projects connect systems that previously worked apart, so that data can move between them and managers receive richer management information for decisions. For one client it brought two existing systems together in this way.

Process automation with measurable savings

Automation takes over repeated steps in a process. In one example the company cites, automating a single process saved a customer a week in every process cycle. In another, it reduced a customer's cloud hosting costs by 67%.

Digital transformation consultancy

The consultancy helps a client define a digital transformation strategy, decide which processes to automate and plan a move to the cloud. The company frames transformation as maximising business improvement and competitive advantage through the careful use of technology, which can range from replacing a paper form to reshaping a whole operation.

Technical due diligence and funding support

Technical due diligence assesses a technology before a business acquires it or adopts it. The company also helps clients find and apply for funding schemes, ranging from match-funded grants offered through local enterprise partnerships to national schemes backed by the government, to part-fund transformation work.

Early team buy-in and clear goals

Its clients range across sectors and sizes of business. Its guidance for transformation projects is to engage the team early, keep the focus on clear goals, test progress against them regularly and mark each win, however small.