Any App by CK Solutions

The spreadsheet that runs your business deserves better.

Any App turns the processes you've outgrown into a proper cloud application, built around the way your business actually works.

Custom software flexibility with SaaS simplicity. You subscribe to your application and use it, and we look after the platform underneath. No servers, infrastructure or software project to manage.

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An Any App application on a phone: receipting items against a job, with counts, rate and unreceipted stock

CMS 2.0 — a quality and compliance application built on the CK Solutions platform — CMS 2.0 — concrete testing, spec compliance and plant registers across five plants. One of ours.

Most businesses have a process that no product was built for.

Off-the-shelf software doesn't quite fit. Traditional custom development is expensive and slow. So the gap gets filled with whatever is at hand.

Off-the-shelf doesn't fit

You end up changing how the business works to suit the software, and living with the parts it can't do at all.

Building from scratch is a project

A bespoke system means budgets, specifications, servers, source code and a maintenance burden that never ends.

So the gap gets patched

Important work quietly ends up in spreadsheets, paper and systems that only one person really understands.

Still running an important business process in…

Excel Access Paper forms Shared folders An ageing internal application Several disconnected systems

That's exactly what Any App is for.

What Any App is

Custom software flexibility, with SaaS simplicity.

We already own and run the application platform. We work with you to understand your business, then build your application on top of it. You subscribe to the result and use it. Commercially, think Xero rather than a software project.

Off-the-shelf SaaS

Fits how the vendor thinks you work
Change requests go on a roadmap
Simple to buy and run
Cheap to start with

Any App

Built around your actual workflows
New functionality added as you need it
A simple SaaS subscription, nothing to run
No platform to build or maintain

Built from scratch

Fits exactly, eventually
You fund every change
You own servers, code and upkeep
Expensive and slow to start

What you get

Built around your business

Your workflows, your terminology, your rules and forms. You don't redesign the business to suit generic software.

Faster to deliver

We don't start from an empty project. The foundations every business application needs are already there, so effort goes into what's unique to you.

Delivered as SaaS

You subscribe to your application. Hosting, backups, security, platform updates and support are part of the service, not line items.

Evolves with you

Nothing is frozen at launch. New workflows, reports and integrations get added as the business changes.

A proven foundation

The platform underneath is the latest generation of something we've been building and running for real businesses for years.

Connects to what you already run

Any App works alongside your ERP, accounting package, databases and APIs. It doesn't have to replace everything.

How we work

We don't expect you to write a giant specification before we start. Interactive prototypes are how we find out what the system actually needs to do.

Understand

We learn how the business actually works today: the software, the spreadsheets, the forms and the manual steps in between.

Prototype

We build interfaces and workflows quickly, so you can see and click through the proposed application rather than read about it.

Refine

The people who know the process test it. Assumptions and edge cases get resolved before anyone spends money building the wrong thing.

Build & connect

We implement the agreed functionality, business rules, integrations and data connections.

Launch

The application becomes your production system, running as your SaaS subscription.

Evolve

Requirements change. New functionality is scoped, agreed and added to the application you already use.

One subscription, not a software project.

Any App is delivered as SaaS. Here's what that means in practice.

No big software project up front

We work out what your application needs to do with you. Prototyping lets us get the workflows right before unnecessary development begins.

One SaaS subscription

Your subscription covers your application and the platform required to run it. No separate hosting, infrastructure or maintenance contracts.

Change it as your business changes

Need something new later? We scope and estimate additional functionality, integrations and enhancements as you need them.

Real applications, running real businesses

Very different businesses, very different problems, all built on the same platform.

Concrete manufacturing

Quality & compliance across five plants

Break testing, spec compliance, contractor and equipment registers and quality audit, replacing a set of spreadsheets shared between sites.

Agriculture & horticulture

Harvest data, from the block to the report

Volumes captured in the field on a phone, reconciled against what actually arrives, and reported by block, variety and season without anyone rekeying a spreadsheet.

Investment

A portfolio tracker with live market data

Holdings and debt added and edited by hand, priced against real-time ticker feeds, and measured against the targets the business actually sets.

Businesses we've built for

Computer Dynamics Datacom Fletcher Building Permobil Firth

Custom software, without owning a software project.

You get an application shaped around the way your business works. We look after the platform it runs on.

CK Solutions already has the platform, so you don't have to commission, own and maintain one.

You Use the application, and decide what gets built next.

We Run and continuously maintain the platform behind your application.

Cost A SaaS subscription, rather than a capital project and a maintenance contract.

Have a business process that doesn't fit off-the-shelf software?

Let's talk about turning it into an App. A short conversation is usually enough to tell whether Any App is the right fit.

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