BACKGROUND
Secret Orange is a ambitious, quality driven Internet development company based in the
centre of Glasgow, Scotland.
The energy behind Secret Orange is provided by
Lee Gunn, a Microsoft Qualified Solution Developer.
Lee has worked within the industry for over seven years, gaining a wide and complementary range of experience.
Secret Orange works with a small pool of professional freelance developers and designers, allowing teams to
readily expand or contract dependant on project size.
Business Background
Originating from a business background (BA Hons Business Studies) helps Secret Orange
maintain customer focus and deliver quality solutions that address the business needs in question.
Secret Orange appreciates that software is built for a purpose,
as a means to obtaining a goal and that the success of a project is not only determined by its technical
abilities or design but more importantly by the degree in which it satisfies the original business requirements.
Quality Matters
There is undoubtedly an abundance of agencies on the market each offering comparable
skills and services.
A distinguishing characteristic of software development which Secret Orange endeavours
to continually build upon is "Quality". Secret Orange
continually challenges, not only other peoples, but it's own methodologies, reshaping them as it's knowledge grows
and technology moves forward.
Working Smarter
As the Internet matures, Secret Orange realises that customers require a greater level of sophistication
and functionality from their websites. In order to meet these growing demands
Secret Orange strives to work smarter.
Working smarter includes: keeping abreast of modern more productive technologies, investing quality time and effort into producing detailed accurate project definitions
and development plans.
Secret Orange has also invested a great amount of time into developing a common Solution Framework. The
framework is an abstract, reusable piece of software (written with ASP.NET, C#) which can be used "straight out of the box" or with minimal customisation to facilitate a number of
common website requirements. Requirements such as: e-commerce, role based content management and newsletter management.
Secret Orange realises that abstract, reusable software is key to providing professional, functionality rich,
solutions at competitive prices. The degree to which the software has been abstracted contributes greatly to its reusability. It allows the same piece
of software to be used in a number of different scenarios. This benefits both the customer and also Secret Orange.
The main benefits include:
- A high quality, bug free, solution due to extensive testing and refining of software over time
- A feature rich solution
- Development time is greatly reduced which in turn reduces the time to market
- Overall projects costs are minimalised