IT Consulting Services - South Croft Partners

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Build the right product. Deliver it right with our expert IT consulting services.

As a UK product and technology consultancy, we specialize in product strategy and discovery, offering market validation, value propositions, lean business cases, roadmaps, and OKRs to align stakeholders and funding effectively.

Our delivery leadership focuses on outcome-driven delivery, agile governance, risk and dependency management, and vendor orchestration to ensure seamless project execution.

In the realm of systems and integrations, we emphasize API-first design, ERP/finance integrations (e.g., Oracle Fusion), robust data engineering, data pipelines, reporting, and controls, all tailored to enhance your cloud services.

Our scale-up advisory services cover team design, build vs buy decisions, platform choices, cloud cost controls, and security baselines to ensure you are UK GDPR-ready.

Proof you can trust: Access to over 200 engineers across multiple stacks and clouds through our partner network allows for rapid scaling and access to specialist skills on demand.

With teams boasting 8+ years of experience and having served over 300 clients globally, from startups to enterprises, we are equipped to handle your IT consulting needs. Our expertise includes specialist DevOps, NGINX+ SI, Kafka/Flink data engineering, and private cloud capabilities.

Our services flex to your stage: advisory-only, squad augmentation, or end-to-end delivery with clear SLAs, perfectly suited for IT consulting needs.  

1) Team Augmentation (remote, UK or near-UK time zones)  

Senior engineers integrated into your rituals (stand-ups, Jira, PR flow) within 1–2 weeks, ensuring your cloud services and development processes remain efficient.  

Maintain velocity while hiring; scale up or down quickly.  

Proven trial-to-hire and high retention (93%) from partner talent programs.  

2) Dedicated Delivery Squads  

Cross-functional pods (PM/BA, UX, FE/BE, QA, DevOps) to enhance your product strategy.  

Outcome-based plans: roadmap, milestones, demo cadence, acceptance criteria.  

Post-launch run & improve (SLOs, error budgets, backlog hygiene).  

3) End-to-End Product Build  

Discovery → UX/UI → architecture → build → test → launch → optimize, leveraging data engineering principles.  

Reference strengths: React/Next/Vue, Spring/Node/.NET, PostgreSQL/MySQL/Mongo, microservices, CI/CD on Docker/Kubernetes.  

4) Cloud & DevOps  

AWS and multi-cloud expertise, CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions), infrastructure as code, observability (Grafana/ELK), Kubernetes operations.  

Private cloud on OpenStack and NGINX+ API ecosystem delivery where needed.  

5) Data & Platforms  

Event streaming (Kafka/Flink), data lakes/warehouses, LAKEHOUSE patterns, BI dashboards; secure access control (Keycloak/Ory).

Offer ready-to-deploy or customizable cloud services platforms you’re authorized to sell in the UK. Position them as “accelerators” with UK hosting and GDPR readiness. 

Document Workflow & Approvals (eDocFlow)

Secure document archive, real-time tracking, automated approvals, paperless operations, collaboration tools. Proven in enterprise contexts. Use cases include contracts, vendor onboarding, and policy management, demonstrating effective data engineering outcomes such as faster cycle time, better audit trails, and fewer errors.

Payroll & Tax Management (Payconz)

Payroll automation, personal/employee tax calculation, settlements, and incentives management. Used by global brands’ country operations, showcasing IT consulting expertise. Use cases cover country payrolls, multi-entity groups, and finance operations, leading to compliance, accuracy, and significant time savings.

API Gateway & NGINX+ Delivery (API Ecosystem)

API strategy, gateway rollout, security baselines, monitoring, and developer portals, all delivered by a sole SI partner for NGINX+ capability. Use cases modernize legacy services and enable platform/API monetization. The outcomes include enhanced reliability, performance, and governance.

White-Label Platforms

Multichannel e-commerce, Ed-Tech, Property Management, Games, Loyalty, Quizzing — all with multiple deployments and large active user bases. Note: Hosting options in the UK/EU are available. We align platforms to UK GDPR and modern security practices (SSO, role-based access), backed by partner stacks such as React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, and observability tooling, ensuring a robust product strategy.