Bespoke Development

Certified experience

Solution Canvas offers a range of bespoke development services utilising the Microsoft .Net platform as well as the Microsoft Server range of products including SQL Server 2005, Sharepoint, and Biztalk.

We are Microsoft Gold Partners and achievers of the "Portals and Enterprise Content Management" and "Web Development" specialisations of the Information Worker competency as well as being the first company in the United Kingdom to achieve the Custom Development Solutions competency- so you can be sure that we are well placed to deliver on all of your development needs.

Delivery on time, in budget

It's not all about the technical part though. Solution Canvas utilises the highly regarded Prince2 framework for project management to help ensure that projects are delivered on time, in budget, and that they meet the expectations of our customers. Our project management team are trained to Prince2 practitioner level and all of our development projects come complete with the services of a dedicated project manager.

We have a wealth of experience delivering enterprise level soultions for both public and private sector organisations. We pride ourselves on building the trust of our customers through repeated succesful deliveries of complex projects.

Solution Canvas offers services at all stages of the project lifecycle from analysis and requirements gathering, through project initiation, development, support, and ongoing reviews. We can help your organisation to get the very best from your IT investment now and in the future.

Flexible delivery

Our .Net projects can be delivered in a variety of ways, through both on-site or off-site development. Our consultants can work with your development team on a project to provide cross-training and skills progression in the best possible way- through actually delivering software that makes a difference to your company.

SQL Server 2005 development

Our team are experts in SQL server database optimisation and as such we offer clients a a free consultation to provide a detailed analysis of your database performance and possible improvement opportunities. We are so confident that we can significantly improve your database performance that we provide this service completely free or charge.

Market leading technology

Solution Canvas was founded on a very simple premise - help business people get to the information in their systems easily and quickly. We have designed software and services to manage every phase of the information technology lifecycle: from integrating new technologies that automate business processes, to using business intelligence to improve those processes.

We are Microsoft Gold Partners and achievers of the Data Management competency with specialisation in business intelligence- so you can be sure that we are well placed to assist with all of your SQL Server development, integration, and optimisation needs.

Who are our customers?

• They need to leverage existing software and infrastructure investments
• They can't afford to wait months for critical applications to be built
• They believe business people, not programmers, should retrieve information directly
• They turn data into information and information into revenue
• They have large amounts of data...ever-increasing information demand...little time

SQL Server Reporting Services

Microsoft SQL Server includes a comprehensive reporting platform that can author, manage, and deliver both paper-oriented and interactive, web-based reports. An integrated part of the Microsoft business intelligence framework, Reporting Services combines the data management capabilities of SQL Server and Microsoft Windows Server™ with familiar and powerful Microsoft Office System applications to deliver real-time information to support daily operations and decisions. SQL Server Reporting Services combines integrated analytics including online analytical processing (OLAP); data mining; data warehousing; extract, transform, load (ETL) tools; and data warehousing and reporting functionality.

Analysis Services

SQL Server Analysis Services provides fast access to data warehouse data by creating multidimensional cubes from information in the data warehouse fact and dimension tables. Microsoft SQL Server OLAP Services provides architecture for access to multidimensional data. This data is summarised, organised, and stored in multidimensional structures for rapid response to user queries. Through OLE DB for OLAP, a PivotTable Service provides client access to this multidimensional online analytical processing (OLAP) data. For expressing queries to this data, OLE DB for OLAP employs fully-fledged, highly functional expression syntax and multidimensional expressions (MDX).

SQL Server Integration Services

SQL Server 2005 brings with it a completely redesigned system for managing the migration and transformation of data between SQL Servers and other data stores (such as Oracle, XML, or flat files). SQL Server Integration Services replace the Data Transformation Services (DTS) found in SQL Server 2000 and offer unprecedented power and flexibility to organisations wishing to manage the integration of large volumes of data.