Tailored advice

All our consultants have years of experience in complex and mission-critical PHP applications. They are familiar with best practices, and know exactly which areas to focus on. Whether it is scalability, performance improvements or architectural concerns, our consultants know the subject matter deeply and comprehensively.

Technical consultancy

What initially seems to be a small PHP application frequently grows into a mission-critical system. When this occurs, further development can often lack structure and lead to many problems. For example, the developer may fail to take into account a huge increase in visitors, or, due to time pressure, the code may not be structured carefully enough or documentation may fail to meet the appropriate standards. 

The development and maintenance of complex mission-critical applications requires your development team to adopt skills and working methods quite different to those needed for simple applications.

Our consultants’ experience and expertise qualify them as the best in the industry to assist you in migrating to a professional environment suited to a complex application. Ibuildings consulting covers areas including team development, architecture, implementation of source control and test-driven development. It also incorporates the implementation of productivity-enhancing tools, such as frameworks and commercial software.

Application audits

Growth and change in organisations create pressure on applications. For this reason we offer a number of pre-defined application audits that examine whether your current application meets the required standards in terms of quality, reliability, security and scalability.

Why should you outsource audits to Ibuildings rather than doing them yourself?

• Objective external review 
  An impartial examination of your application code from a ‘fresh pair of eyes’ minimises the chance that risky defects are ignored or simply not noticed.
• Audits conducted by experts 
  All Ibuildings experts conducting code audits have Zend Certification. This guarantees that the audit is structured and conducted carefully, ensuring better results in a shorter timeframe.
• Report and recommendations 
  Following the audit, you will receive a recommendations report: a detailed report clearly setting out our findings and giving practical advice for you to follow. It will both show you what the problems are and – just as importantly – advise you on the measures you can take to resolve them. In this way, you can ensure your application performs optimally. If you wish, we can implement the recommendations for you as well.