Applying experience in breadth and depth
Services
Systems Analysis and Product Specification
Our broad experience across business areas and technologies provides valuable insights to understand client challenges and identify essential requirements.
Software Architecture
In-depth experience deploying a wide range of technologies from embedded systems to industrial scale data-driven apps allows us to deliver powerful solutions on a short timeline.
Software Development
We'll provide full solutions or augment client teams. Client satisfaction is more important to us than driving our own tech-agenda. Rely on our flexibility.
Systems Deployment
If you have your own development team but lack ops support, we can help there, too. We show small teams how to use development and deployment tools to speed delivery and scale-up.
Open Source
Most of our work involves development using Open Source code. We encourage contributions to open source development.
Business areas
Marketing tech
We deliver custom solutions to reach communicate via mailshots, dynamic web-content, self-service forms, and powerful workflow systems.
Example: Flexible multilingual surveys
We provided the concept, design, and implementation of a system to capture structural information about Switzerland's national emergency services.
Video surveillance
We developed a system for capturing, processing, and storing hundreds of high-resolution security video streams, while identifying objects of interest.
Back-office
A recent example addressed the needs of a security company wanting to reliably track and handle security events with a full audit-trail for their customers.
Robotics
From biomedical assay automation to robots that navigate a factory, we provide the insights and implementation, the skills and the experience.
Topia met us where we were!
Example : Critical Microservice Apps
Maturity and Flexibility
We consulted with a UK government department developing elements of a critical microservice application that collects £6Bn tax revenue annually. When development and test stalled due to Ops delays in building test, staging, and production environments, we proposed and delivered the first Kubernetes-based solution in that organisation. We had the service running quickly at a fraction of the original cost, in a fraction of the time. Test teams were suddenly able to make progress with their test automation, while developers were able to gain early user feedback. Kubernetes is now key to deployment in UK government.
Definitely not rocket-science, but this demonstrates one benefit of using a team with a broad background, driven by the desire to deliver.
Example : Rapid Product Prototyping
On schedule & to budget
We developed a content-scraping application for a business-intelligence customer. Clever use of Google's Cloud Platform, rapid development of Dockerized components, and experience in careful web-scraping for a range of applications allowed us to deliver a big-data solution in a week, meeting the client's budget and schedule needs.
We creatively employ affordable modern cloud services, APIs, and Open-Source tools.