Consultancy & Software Development Services
We craft software making the world work better.
We believe that any digital transformation success is built on the foundation of mutual understanding and trust.
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Makimo delivered a rapid, creative solution to our problem, on-time and under-budget.
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Consulting & Workshops
When you want to digitally transform your company, you should never walk alone.
A decision to implement new digital solutions in your organization is always a bold one — whether it is your first time or you are an old hand at it. Either way, introducing new software is important not only due to the cost and time spent on the deployment process, but most of all — it might deeply affect the way your company works — for better or worse. If it is not suited well to your needs, it might lead straight to a disaster.
Therefore, you need somebody who will help you get through it. Someone who will say ‘no’ if your ideas wander off in the wrong direction, but who will also not rest until you get what is best for you. A consultant in the name, yet a partner in reality.
Just like a versatile musician knows what to play at the wedding and at the funeral, we, as consultants, have plenty of aces up our sleeves. From UX discovery & product design workshops, through business feasibility studies or initial research, up to prototyping of possible software solutions, including quick-yet-promising AI prototypes. Whatever the tool we choose, your business goal and needs are always the things that matter the most.
In other words, we always try to bring the real value to your company that exceeds any investment you might commit in the process.
Custom software development
So you know you need the software in your organization. One of the biggest decisions to be made is whether you’ll go with an existing off-the-shelf solution (you’ve certainly heard the term SaaS, haven’t you?) or with custom, bespoke software, tailored for your needs?
In the first case, you’re limited to what the market currently offers. It forces you to compete with others on equal terms dictated by the software of your choosing. Custom-made software lets you stand out and differentiate from the market, giving you an edge and, in consequence, provides your business with unique advantages that can be then exploited for more value. However, you need to be prepared to take the bitter with the sweet since this approach often comes with higher costs at the beginning, compared to off-the-shelf solutions. On the other hand, as the time goes by, bespoke software will eventually become cheaper for you own it and you don’t need to pay for more licenses to the SaaS provider. As often, everything here is a game of numbers.
In Makimo, we strongly believe in a hybrid approach in which we try to use external, ready-to-use services whenever possible, and connect them with carefully crafted software corresponding to your core business domain. We mainly focus on:
- Integration services, connecting APIs, SaaS and custom-made software to create additional business value
- Building Packaged Business Capabilities that can be composed with services that you already use
- Cloud infrastructure and DevOps, enabling resiliency and shortening time-to-market
- Digital transformation — augmentation of existing business processes with technology
The choice of technology is tailored to business needs, however, we excel in technologies such as Python, JavaScript, AWS, and have worked with Clojure, Java, PHP, Kotlin, Moodle. See below for more information about our areas of expertise.
Team augmentation
We live in an era when acquiring IT professionals to your company becomes difficult, especially in the case of talented software developers. Even if you already have an existing team of well-adjusted engineers, further expansion and finding the right people for the job might become close to impossible.
In Makimo we don’t believe that simply adding a new person to an existing team is enough. Therefore, we prefer augmenting you not with just individuals but rather small teams (between 1–2 FTE/month, with 2–3 usually involved in the process) that have already worked together in the past. That way your managers will only need to manage integrity between the two teams and the bottom line is that the resulting team will perform faster, at the same time keeping costs at bay, with minimal overhead on the management.
Furthermore, our company culture empowers each team to tap into additional areas of expertise within the company when it proves beneficial to the client. We support and encourage knowledge transfer so that teams do not become siloed working on a particular project for a longer period of time. In consequence, it helps us deliver more consistent results to our clients.
Our strength comes from a careful act of balancing quality with delivery time, depending on your business goals and needs.
Why us?
Helping UN fight AIDS
Makimo’s team has worked impressively to match our varied and evolving needs.
Throughout the years and our joint projects, the Makimo team has been involved in supporting UNAIDS in timely delivery of the Global AIDS Monitoring tools. These tools are needed to gather and visualize relevant data from the 193 UN members states around the world. Despite the tight timelines and working under pressure, they’ve never missed a deadline.
Makimo has proven to have both technical experts as well as consultants to match our needs. Their domain knowledge has grown every year, as they have been proactive in discovering and understanding the goals and processes in UNAIDS work. The platform improvements have been indispensable, and I highly value their approach to working with us, which has proven to be a great partnership.
Over the years, Makimo has helped us improve the time we spend in processing the data to a final data set and worked tirelessly to help us improve the quality assurance in our process.
Taavi Erkkola
Chief, Capacity and Dissemination team at UNAIDS
Coordinating Global AIDS Monitoring efforts
Taavi Erkkola
Chief, Capacity and Dissemination team at UNAIDS
Coordinating Global AIDS Monitoring efforts
What we’ve done is a service package consisting of:
- programming services required to deploy GAM tools each year
- support and maintenance services
- consulting services to implement improvements in the process, working closely with software users and stakeholders
Our partners trust us with their needs.
To gain an edge over the competition, use software that will adjust to your needs — not the other way around.
Our partners praise us and stay with us for many years, but our mutual history usually began with a thoughtful consultancy.
The right tools
You can trust us to solve the right problems with the right tools.
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