Software Solutions

Tailor-made Software

We have built a trusted reputation for delivering well-designed, purpose-built solutions that fit, giving clients certainty in rapidly shifting business and technological environments.

Solution Delivery

How does it work?

Embarking on a tailor-made software development project can be intimidating, but we are here to support and guide you every step of the way. We have decades of experience building bespoke solutions across multiple industries.

FAQs

  • We typically start by scheduling an initial meeting with the client to understand their needs and business objectives. This workshop allows us to establish the scope and foundation for the project.

  • After the initial scoping workshop, we provide the client with a proposal and indicative costing. Upon acceptance of the proposal, we proceed with more detailed requirements gathering, including desired functionalities, and any specific technical considerations. We then perform a thorough analysis to estimate the effort, resources, and timelines involved. Based on this assessment, we provide a comprehensive quote that outlines the cost breakdown, payment terms, and any additional factors such as maintenance or support fees.

  • The activities may vary based on the project scope, but common methods include analysing existing systems or processes, and organising one or more workshops or brainstorming sessions with the relevant client stakeholders.

  • We strongly advise clients to appoint a single project champion with whom we prioritise clear and consistent communication channels, including regular meetings and emails. Additionally, we employ collaborative tools and project management software to track discussions, share documents, and maintain transparency throughout the process.

  • Our aim is to work with the client to maintain a strong and positive working relationship. We prioritise open and honest communication, and strive to understand and address concerns promptly through discussions, negotiations, and finding mutually agreeable solutions to maintain project progress and client satisfaction.

  • We prepare requirements documents that outline the client's needs, functional and non-functional requirements, and any specific constraints. These documents are shared with the client for review, feedback, and sign-off before proceeding to the development phase.

  • Clients are vital stakeholders and actively participate throughout the delivery process. They provide essential input during requirements gathering phase, review and provide feedback on progress, and participate in user acceptance testing (UAT) to validate the developed software.

  • We understand that requirements can evolve throughout the project. We have a change management process in place that allows clients to request changes or updates. Our team evaluates the impact of the changes on the project timeline, budget, and resources, and collaboratively discusses the options with the client.

  • We emphasise close partnership, collaboration and regular feedback loops with clients. We conduct frequent reviews and demos to ensure alignment with the client's vision. We also insist on continuous user involvement in the form of UAT to verify that the software solution meets their expectations.

  • Client data security is paramount to us and we have strict protocols and policies in place to safeguard client information. We employ secure infrastructure and industry-standard security practices to protect sensitive data.

  • Absolutely, post-production support and maintenance is vital for the long-term success of the client’s investment in the software solution. Our team can continue to partner with the client by providing bug fixes, updates, feature enhancements, and addressing any issues that may arise after deployment. We work closely with clients to ensure the software solution remains robust and aligned with their evolving needs.

Traditional Approach Advantages and Disadvantages

WATERFALL

AGILE

AGILE

Agile Approach Advantages and Disadvantages

Our WATERFALL approach

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Our AGILE Approach

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Our Products

Our financial software products are born from our client-centric approach to software delivery and a deep understanding of, and empathy with, the challenges our clients and others in the market face.

ShareTrust

Employee incentives

ShareTrust is a multi-trust, multi-company, fully customisable incentive scheme management solution for both executive and broad-based employee incentive schemes.

ShareTrust Product User Interface (UI)

Speak to us about outsourcing your incentive scheme management to us.

Tax Express

Tax services

Compute CGT (Capital Gains Tax), interest and DWT (Dividend Withholding Tax) on portfolios of financial instruments in accordance with the South African Legislation, and generate SARS Third Party reports like IT3C, IT3B, DWT submission files.

Tax Express Product User Interface (UI)

Speak to us about outsourcing your tax compliance to us.

NeoLend

Asset-backed lending

Craft an end-to-end, fully automated, integrated and scalable credit solution that caters to your unique asset-backed lending product offerings. Enable your wealth customers to leverage their substantial, hard-working investment portfolios to unlock cash flow and realise their portfolios' additional hidden value.

Neolend Product User Interface (UI)

STODAR

Broker data and reporting

STODAR (Stockbroker data and reporting application) provides a configurable environment that facilitates data importing, cleaning, enriching and warehousing, regardless of data structure or source format.

Stockbroker Data and Reporting (STODAR) Product User Interface (UI)

DevOps

Our growing expertise in CI\CD and cloud infrastructure management, enables us to streamline our software delivery and quality assurance process, helping our clients achieve faster time-to-market.

DevOps Project Blueprints and Templates

Blueprints and Templates

Our project blueprints and templates enable us to spin up a base solution of core back-end and front-end components, features and services, then rapidly and securely deploy them to the cloud so that we can focus on meeting client’s business needs.

DevOps Feature (API and UI) Libraries

Feature Libraries

Our libraries of pre-built User Interface and API features expedite development, ensure consistent design, and maintain best practice, while allowing us to deliver reliable, maintainable and scalable solutions.

DevOps Developer Tools

Developer Tools

We have built tools that enable our developers to automatically generate code, make efficient use of resources and manage test coverage, further enhancing our ability to rapidly deliver quality solutions to clients.

DevOps Fully-managed Cloud Hosting

Keep CALM and carry on

Our comprehensive application life-cycle management (CALM) service makes us a one-stop shop for both software development and fully managed cloud hosting.

FAQs

  • No, hosting is just one component of our CALM offering. Our comprehensive CALM offering includes integrated DevOps processes for application building, testing, and deployment, along with all aspects of infrastructure, licensing, monitoring, alerting, backups, secret management, certificate renewals, maintenance, security, and access control for the cloud environments and services essential for running your application. These environments are highly secure and audit-ready.

  • No, our DevOps team will take care of everything.

  • Our offering provides you with multiple environment options, including QA, UAT, Pre-Prod, and Prod. You have the flexibility to choose as many staging and production environments as required. Application updates will only be promoted through these environments once you are satisfied that your new features are functioning as expected.

  • Our service is built on top of state-of-the-art public cloud infrastructure that offers multiple levels of redundancy and auto-healing capabilities. However, in the event of a major disaster leading to a complete failure of the entire data centre, we have robust disaster recovery processes in place to ensure the rapid restoration of your application, getting it back up and running promptly.

  • No, we support many different deployment environments. If you would prefer to deploy your application on-premises or into your own cloud environment, we are happy to accommodate that. Choosing the CALM offering means that if the application encounters any issues, whether they are defects or environment/infrastructure issues, Singular will take responsibility and resolve the issue ASAP.

    Furthermore, because we have tried and tested DevOps processes integrated with our CALM offering, we can rapidly get your application into your hands for testing and then into production. This means less time and money spent building out the delivery process and more time building application features.