Secret Orange is a creative Internet
development company based in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland.
The drive behind Secret Orange comes
from Lee Gunn, a
Microsoft Qualified Solution Developer. Lee has worked within the
industry for over ten years, gaining a wide and complementary range
of skills.
Secret Orange works with a small pool of
professional freelance developers and designers, allowing teams to
readily expand or contract dependant on project size.
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.
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.
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