We are Purple Crane, software developers who create bespoke software products for SMEs. These products and applications improve what our customers do and how they do it. With decades of experience – and happy customers – behind, and a future of constant innovation ahead, there’s just one problem. How to describe what we do...
We make creating sell-on software simple.
Spring has sprung (as it always does) alongside a new budget year's (similarly inevitable) arrival. So, as SMEs set budgets for the next Q and beyond, where should they focus technology spend? There is no one size fits all solution, but our ideas – and next steps – could inform your discussions.
The development process is an iterative process riddled with more snakes than ladders. But maintaining your standards matters more when you’re a stakeholder in the solution’s success. You care because it’s yours. So, why do so many independent software vendors (ISV) outsource to external providers? This month’s blog considers a few reasons – and adds a few more…
Excel and Google Sheets are great, aren’t they? As popular with receptionists as researchers, and students as statisticians. Supported by MS or Google, what could possibly go wrong? Funny you should ask.
Technology has been at the sharp end of much of mankind’s progress. While most have benefited us as a race, too many have been to the detriment of our shared home – the Earth. So, it is logical that tech should help redress the balance.
The UK economy is heading south, and taking the British Pound with it, just as energy costs travel in the opposite direction. This is all happening as a perfect storm of Kwasi Kwarteng trying his luck and global pressures around conflict and Covid rages above smaller business owners looking for a steer on future directions. We can offer at least one.
Regular readers of our blog will know that a visit to Olympia, London, and the London Climate Technology Show 2022 was a must. Here’s what we found.
In the battle for the planet, software is both part of the solution, and the problem. It harvests the data that helps us predict what is coming next, while simultaneously adding to the behaviours that got us in this mess to begin with. So, what is to be done?
Do you have the software idea that could save us all? Did you suddenly dream up the tech that could pull us back from the climate abyss? Are you wondering what to do about it? Tell us! There’s no time to waste…
Sometimes, no matter how transferable the innovation behind many applications or software solutions may be, it’s difficult to imagine them in another context, or industry. But that risks missing an opportunity to add value to what you do, whatever your line of business.
At Purple Crane we recently implemented a Quality Management System for our business. Whilst we are proud to have achieved ISO 9001 accreditation, more importantly, we believe that the process has already improved the service we offer to our customers and will benefit our business and the people who work in it for years to come.