Enterprise software development services
Vention delivers enterprise software development and modernisation services for UK businesses whose systems can’t afford downtime, slow releases, or rising maintenance costs. We build resilient new platforms, upgrade legacy software, and improve existing products for stronger performance, security, scalability, and ROI.
As a software development company with over 20 years of experience, we ensure secure, transparent Agile-based execution so you can focus on business decisions and growing revenue instead of technical complexity.
Quick facts about Vention as an enterprise software development company
Client record
- 550+ clients served, including enterprise and global brands such as PayPal, PwC, Costa Coffee, and ClassPass
- 36-month average engagement, with many clients returning long-term
- 86% NPS score, reflecting high client satisfaction
- Vention’s first client, an enterprise organisation, is still with us 20 years later
AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Snowflake, and Salesforce partnerships with certified engineers on board to support versatile client needs
Code quality and security
ISO 27001-certified information security management system to maintain your data safety on our side
Team location
- London-based CTO support for technical oversight and dedicated Strategic Partner support for smooth delivery
- Nearshore Europe-based technical specialists to ensure minimal time difference
AI focus
- Internal AI Centre of Excellence led by Vention’s UK-based CTO, to explore emerging tech trends and shape AI development practices
- Governance practices in place to ensure responsible and controlled AI use
- Providing AI SDLC transformation consulting and engineering services, built on the proprietary 5-Stage AI SDLC Maturity Model and internal AI best practices
- AI discovery workshops
Vention’s software development services for enterprises
Type of service
What Vention does
Vention’s experience
Enterprise software consulting
Vention offers advisory services on enterprise software development, integration, or modernisation, helping UK companies kick off internal transformation projects with a clear strategy for the road ahead and save time and money. We help you with:
- Analysing business needs
- Defining a step-by-step software development/implementation roadmap, including product vision, technical scope, and timeline
- Estimating delivery costs
- Assessing risks and creating a risk mitigation plan
- Outlining a high-level software architecture
Vention’s product discovery workshop for Sperry Rail helped the client recognise potential risks early on and maintain smooth operations despite evolving product requirements.
Bespoke enterprise software development
Vention develops platform-based and custom enterprise software solutions for UK businesses that support business growth instead of adding operational complexity. Our teams design secure, scalable systems tailored to each organisation’s workflows, integration needs, and long-term technology goals. We develop:
- Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems
- Customer relationship management (CRM) software
- Accounting and finance solutions
- Supply chain management (SCM) systems
- BI, reporting, and analytics solutions
- Human capital management (HCM) systems
- Marketing automation software
- Document and workflow management software
- Content management systems
- Project management software
For Ascend Agency, an innovative marketing firm specialising in brand building, Vention developed a bespoke enterprise software solution that boosted transaction efficiency, improved internal workflow management, and enhanced overall team productivity.
AI enablement
Vention helps UK businesses define tangible AI use cases and adopt artificial intelligence tools for internal processes and across software delivery in a steady, graded, and secure way. This structured approach helps UK businesses reduce implementation risk, monitor progress, and measure early outcomes.
- AI readiness assessment
- AI adoption roadmap development
- AI-enabled software development
- AI in SDLC adoption
- AI integration into existing enterprise systems
For our internal legal department, Vention AI experts have built an AI-enabled platform for sourcing accurate information from 50,000+ unique documents. With the platform, Vention’s legal team now saves 50-70% of the time spent on tasks such as document summarisation, document comparison, and creating workflows from documents.
And for Kafene, Vention helped enable AI-assisted development, which improved code quality and increased team efficiency by 15-20%.
Enterprise software modernisation
Vention modernise existing enterprise software solutions and ecosystems to help UK companies improve system performance, reduce technical debt, strengthen security, and make legacy platforms easier to maintain and extend. Vention delivers:
- Performance, stability, and security improvements
- Cloud enablement and infrastructure modernisation
- Code refactoring
- Application re-platforming
- Tech stack migration
- Architecture modernisation, including monolith-to-microservices migration
- UI/UX update and redesign
- DevOps setup/optimisation
In our work with Careforth, Vention helped the client optimise the use of Salesforce Platform licenses, reducing overall licensing costs by 50%. We also enhanced Salesforce processes, which improved employee satisfaction and boosted efficiency.
And for Thomas International, Vention migrated functionality from a legacy HR system to a modern platform and upgraded tech stack to .NET microservices, React.js, AWS, Azure Cosmos DB, delivering 6 major releases in 9 months.
Enterprise application integration
Vention designs and develops secure integrations between enterprise applications, legacy systems, cloud platforms, and third-party services. As a result, you get a connected environment that improves data exchange and synchronisation and reduces silos across teams and functions. Vention provides:
- API design, development, and management
- Middleware implementation
- Legacy-to-cloud bridging
- Event-driven integration enablement
- Data harmonisation, synchronisation, and consolidation
For one of our clients, a provider of an AI-enabled CRM system in the automotive industry, Vention helped build and improve SFTP- and API-based data export services and event-driven processing using Kafka, thereby increasing the efficiency of integration pipelines and enhancing system stability and scalability.
BI and data engineering
Vention builds strong data foundations to help enterprises turn raw business data into structured datasets, powerful analytics, and data-driven insights, as well as enable real-time data processing for instant business decisions. We focus on:
- Data architecture design
- Data pipeline development
- ETL/ELT implementation
- Data warehouse and data lake setup, like Snowflake or BigQuery
- BI tools implementation, like Power BI, Tableau, or custom dashboards
- Migration and modernisation of analytics platforms
For Appodeal, a growth engine for mobile apps, Vention enhanced real-time reporting capabilities and improved data filtering and drill-down options, which allowed for viewing specific data segments. For another client, one of the world's largest automotive technology providers, Vention assembled a dedicated big data team to streamline an ETL process, taking away the pain of manual data management.
Engineering support and software maintenance
Vention provides ongoing engineering support and software maintenance services to ensure enterprise applications remain reliable, secure, and high-performing. As a result, downtime stays minimised while software value continues to grow over time. We offer:
- SLA-based support with ongoing application maintenance, bug fixing, and root cause analysis
- Security patching
- Monitoring system health and optimising code or infrastructure to prevent slowdowns as user loads increase
- Version upgrades and dependency management
- Cloud infrastructure management to balance high availability with cost-efficiency
- Feature enhancement and change requests
For one of our clients, a provider of a workplace booking solution, Vention handled ongoing system improvements, migrations to modern technologies, and integrations with multiple systems. As a result, the customer added new features and expanded into new markets.
Let’s get your enterprise project done. No surprises, just predictable results.
More examples of Vention’s case studies across industries
Vention clients value the quality of delivery, the professionalism of our teams, and a responsive, collaborative approach, which is reflected in the fact that over 30% of our clients come through referrals. The case studies below show how this approach translates into real outcomes across 30+ industries.
Testimonials: What clients say about partnership with Vention
John McGill
Product Manager at Thomas International
“Vention’s engineers are professional and capable beyond expectations. They continually deliver ahead of time and solve issues like veterans of the company.”
Bobby Gilbert
Senior Director of Digital Transformation at Sperry Rail
“My past experience was that third parties just don't 'get it. But Vention truly challenged our thinking: This PDW was the first time I've seen a complex software project finish under budget and ahead of schedule.”
Thomas Fontaine
CTO at Iziwork
“We can always count on them to partner with us at the right level. Low-key, humble and dependable. Their people are good and get the job done with no drama. I love it!”
Attia Jamil
Head of Delivery at Memrise
“Vention has provided us with a very good caliber of talent. They have excellent communication skills and are very good collaborators. They have a great mindset of getting things done. We've integrated them well with our UK permanent staff.”
Gordon Griffin
CTO at RealVNC
“Very responsive, very high-quality people. Team members provided have integrated seamlessly with our team and worked well. The account management has been great. Proactively seeking out any issues to be addressed, and providing the right people quickly when needed.”
Mary White
Software Development Manager at Sungage Financial
“Vention offers the whole package. They’re really talented and smart people who work well as a team and bring important issues to light. They know when to involve our onsite team and get our input, but they still work independently, so they always come to the table at the right time. Moreover, Vention’s business manager has been fantastic, nice, and helpful.”
Modern technologies that Vention helps UK enterprises excel at
Artificial intelligence
Vention develops and securely integrates AI- and ML-powered tools that enable enterprises to increase efficiency and optimise operational costs. Our AI solutions for enterprises:
- Automate complex business operations
- Reduce employee workload with routine tasks
- Analyse complex data
- Suggest decision-ready insights
Cloud
We help large-scale organisations in the UK optimise existing cloud usage costs or go cloud-native in a secure and controlled way. Vention partners with industry-leading cloud providers to ensure our clients leverage safe and trusted cloud services:
- AWS
- Microsof Azure
- Google Cloud
- Salesforce
- Snowflake
Big data
Vention helps UK companies drive thoughtful leadership insights from processing and analysing large sets of business data. We know how efficient data usage can help stand out from the competition. Vention offers:
- Robust data pipelines set up for smooth data collection, processing, cleaning, and final transformation into robust insights
- Database architecting to ensure efficient organisation and storage of large data sets
- Data migration and integration with third-party tools and data services
- BI tools development, customisation, and setup
Cybersecurity
Backed by 15+ years of information security expertise and ISO 27001 certification, Vention supports UK companies in building secure enterprise applications and resilient internal IT ecosystems that firmly protect business and customer data. We ensure:
- Latest security features implementation when developing enterprise software to secure data and facilitate regulatory compliance
- Rigorous enterprise application security testing, including its source code and dependencies
- Corporate IT infrastructure, including networks, cloud, integrations, dependencies, and cybersecurity support
DevOps and CI/CD tools
Vention establishes DevOps practices to help UK companies deliver software products faster and with greater control, while reducing operational costs and accelerating innovation. We offer:
- DevOps strategy consulting
- CI/CD setup and release automation
- Deployment process optimisation
- Containerization and orchestration
- IaaC setup
IoT
Vention empowers UK businesses with modern IoT systems that securely sync sensors, smart devices, and enterprise software and enable data visibility and real-time operational insights. We build IoT systems that are stable and predictable, and serve for:
- Smart building and smart workplace
- Asset tracking
- Supply chain and cold chain monitoring
- Connected fleet and transportation visibility
- Remote equipment monitoring
- Security and surveillance
- Retail IoT
- Healthcare IoT
- Industrial IoT and predictive maintenance
AR/VR
Vention helps enterprises move from experimenting with AR/VR to making the technology an essential tool that increases efficiency, whether through AR-assisted surgery, VR-based staff training, virtual shops, or immersive real estate tours. We develop AR/VR-based solutions for:
- Retail and ecommerce
- Manufacturing and equipment maintenance
- Logistics and warehouse management
- Healthcare training
- Remote collaboration
- Immersive education, training, and simulation
Vention expert insights: enterprise AI adoption starts with data and human readiness
Vention expert insights: enterprise AI adoption starts with data and human readiness
“Most AI adoption programmes don't fail because of the model chosen or even the data quality. They fail because the organisation isn't ready to change how it works.
Data readiness is essential: you need to know what data you have, where it lives, and whether it's fit for purpose before you integrate anything. But equally important for the successful AI adoption is human readiness: getting teams to trust AI outputs, restructuring workflows around new capabilities, and bringing leaders along before they feel threatened by what they've deployed. The technical work is the easier half.”
Custom enterprise software solutions for every industry
Vention builds enterprise applications to meet the specific needs of clients across UK industries. Our hands-on experience delivering bespoke software across 30+ sectors helps us quickly understand domain requirements and select technologies that support faster innovation with engineering peace of mind.
Manufacturing
Transportation and logistics
Get tailored enterprise solutions that create lasting value
Vention helps enterprise teams solve high-stakes technology challenges with less risk, stronger delivery, and clearer business outcomes.
How Vention delivers enterprise software development projects
Discover
At Vention, every project we undertake starts with discovery and analysis. Vention business analysts and tech experts dive deep into your existing processes and software systems to catch requirements for the future solution from every stakeholder.
Plan and design
Next, Vention team architects the entire system, maps user journeys and data flow, and visualises your solution through mockups and prototypes. We also plan for the resources required to bring your enterprise application to life and define timelines for phased software delivery, so you always stay in control.
Develop and integrate
When the groundwork is completed, Vention builds your enterprise solution, following Agile software development practices and ensuring every line of code is written for security, performance, and scalability. We also integrate your enterprise app with existing systems, third-party tools, and databases to create a connected software ecosystem.
Test
Vention QA engineers thoroughly test your software to make sure it performs reliably in real-world business conditions. That includes functionality and usability checks, as well as security and performance testing to identify and resolve potential issues as early as possible and help you reduce risk and launch with engineering peace of mind.
We also apply test automation to enable agile testing at scale and accelerate product time-to-market.
Deploy
Vention carefully sets your enterprise application live. Whether rolling out the entire solution at once or in phases, we ensure a smooth transition to production and minimise disruption to your business operations.
Evolve
Upon request, Vention will continue to support and evolve your solution after launch. We can add new features and improve security and performance, so your enterprise application keeps pace with your business.
Vention’s approach to custom enterprise software development in the UK:
How we deliver on our “Peace of Mind Promise”Vention ensures predictable software delivery through transparent project governance and defined quality gates at every stage. Partnering with Vention, clients always know what results to expect and when. That is what we guarantee with our “Peace of Mind Promise”.
No drifting timelines or long hiring cycles
Vention begins work within 14 days of contract signature, because timing is critical in software development. Project delays start to increase the risk of missed deadlines and lost market opportunities. With Vention, delivery times are always predictable.
Dedicated support throughout delivery
Vention appoints two dedicated contacts to manage delivery and keep the project running smoothly. A Delivery Manager oversees the technical side of the process, while a UK-based Strategic Partner ensures clear communication and transparent workflows.
Simple scaling without slowing you down
Vention enables frictionless scaling with pre-vetted experts when additional support is needed. Experience across all stages of growth, from Fortune 500 companies to SMBs and Series C startups, ensures scaling remains controlled and manageable.
Quality guaranteed from the start
Vention embeds quality at every stage of the software delivery process. Clear scoping, a Dedicated Quality Assessment at the outset, and strong engineering practices throughout ensure consistently high standards across the product.
Engagement models Vention offers
Cooperation model
Best for
What you get
- Testing new ideas and validating MVPs
- Aligning stakeholders on the project vision
- Assessing risks before committing a full budget for a complex project
- Validated product idea and roadmap
- A clickable prototype
- Technical architecture blueprint
- Refined user personas and user journey maps
- Budget and timeline estimates for product delivery
- Addressing existing capacity or skill gaps
- Fast scaling without full-time commitment
- Covering peak resource needs when local hiring is too slow
- Access to hard-to-find engineering specialists without the overhead of long-term employment
- CVs in 24 hours
- Possibility to scale talents up or down based on your needs without slowing down the delivery
- Project control stays on your side with managing daily tasks and delivery
- When you need a software development team that requires minimal supervision while remaining highly efficient
- Required expertise in one team that already knows how to work together
- Daily management rests on the team; you control the results
- Projects with fixed scope, when you have clear requirements and need a guaranteed delivery date
- Lack of internal resources (including managing capacity) to handle the entire initiative
- Engineering peace of mind with the entire product development managed by Vention
- Clear milestones reached on schedule
- A fully tested solution ready to go on the market after launch
Technologies Vention uses for enterprise software development
Vention’s enterprise software developers are proficient in 30+ technology directions, which allows us to stay independent of specific technologies and select the tools that best fit your needs, integrate with your systems, and support scalability.
Programming languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Dart, Reason, Flow, Elm, CoffeeScript, Less
Frameworks and libraries: React, Angular, Vue, Ember, jQuery, Socket.IO, Next, Rx, Angular.js, Blazor, Apollo Client, Ext.js, Nuxt.js, Svelte, Three.js
Styling and UI libraries: CSS, Bootstrap, Ant Design, Tailwind, Material UI, Styled Components, PostCSS, Materialize, Radium, JSS
APIs and data management: GraphQL, WebSocket, REST, SOAP
Languages: C#, Ruby, Golang, Elixir, PHP, Scala, Java, Python, .NET
Frameworks: Django, Spring, Meteor.js, Express.js, Ruby on Rails, Symfony, Play Framework, .NET Framework, .NET Core
Runtime environment: Node.js
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DynamoDB, Cassandra
API architectures: REST, GraphQL, SOAP, microservices
API protocols and standards: HTTP/HTTPS, WebSocket
Platforms: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Heroku, Snowflake
Serverless computing: AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, Google Cloud Run
Container orchestration: Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Nomad
Services: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
iOS: Swift, SwiftUI, SwiftData, ARKit, Objective-C, Core Data
Android: Kotlin, Java
Cross-platform: React Native, Flutter, Xamarin
Design: Figma, Zeplin, Sketch, Adobe XD, Marvel, Balsamiq, Principle
Research: Maze, Miro, Hotjar, Google Analytics
Animation: Adobe After Effects, Cinema 4D, Blender, CapCut
Graphic design: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Frameworks and libraries: Selenium, Selenide, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Cucumber, NUnit, TestNG, Mocha, Chai, Pytest, REST Assured, MSTest, xUnit
Performance testing: Apache JMeter, .NET Profiler
Reporting and BDD tools: Allure, Serenity, Cucumber, SpecFlow, ReportPortal
API testing: Graph API, Swagger, HttpClient, RestSharp, Postman
Continuous integration: TeamCity, Atlassian Bamboo, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Microsoft Visual Studio TFS, Azure DevOps (Pipelines)
DevOps
Version control: Git, GitHub, GitLab
CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Travis CI, CircleCI, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline, Concourse
Containerization tools: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Google Cloud Run, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Scripting and automation tools: Bash scripting, Python scripting, PowerShell, GoLang
IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation
Monitoring: Datadog, Amazon MSK, Prometheus
Security: SAST, DAST, IAST, OWASP, NIST
Security, identity, and access management
Web application and API protection: AWS WAF, Cloudflare WAF
Identity and access management: Okta, Keycloak, AWS Cognito, SSO, MFA, Least-privilege IAM
Application-level security: Spring Security
Secrets and configuration security: Vault, Doppler, Secrets management
Data privacy and protection: Skyflow, Tokenisation
Infrastructure/network isolation: Private networking
Programming languages: Python, R, C++
ML & AI frameworks: TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Keras, XGBoost, LightGBM
Natural language processing: NLTK, spaCy, Transformers (by Hugging Face), Gensim
Computer vision: OpenCV, Detectron2, YOLO, Mask R-CNN
Data analysis and visualisation: Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Tableau
Vention makes complex enterprise solutions feel intuitive for your users.
Looking for expert enterprise software development services in London? We’d be glad to discuss your next project at our London office or in an online meeting, whichever works best for you.
+44 207 117 2842
Churchill Place
London E14 5RE, UK
contact@ventionteams.com
FAQs
Can Vention integrate a new solution with our legacy on-premises systems?
Yes. Vention always goes for bridging the gap rather than forcing a complete system replacement. Vention chooses:
- An API-first approach that enables modern web and mobile applications to seamlessly connect with your legacy systems without risking data integrity.
- Hybrid cloud architectures that keep sensitive data on your local hardware (for compliance or latency) while leveraging the cloud for better scaling or AI enablement.
How does Vention make enterprise software scalable and reliable under high traffic or data loads?
To ensure the required scalability and system stability under high load, Vention designs cloud-native architectures, optimises databases and APIs, uses microservices and event-driven patterns where appropriate, adds observability, and validates performance under production-like conditions.
For example, for Dialogue, Vention supported a 5x demand surge during COVID-19 and reduced heavy-query latency from 60 seconds to under 30 milliseconds. Vention also deployed a multi-account AWS environment for centralised, secure workload control.
And for Kafene, Vention built AWS infrastructure that supported month-over-month growth and could accommodate more than 10x current growth. The platform used EKS, Aurora, S3, CloudFront, ALB, Lambda, AWS Batch, automated CI/CD, and controlled promotion across environments.
How does Vention ensure data consistency across connected enterprise systems, including the new ones?
Before implementing any integration layers, Vention audits the existing IT landscape, documents integration requirements, identifies data-sharing parameters, and selects the right architecture. Whether it's API-led integration, middleware, message brokers, hub-and-spoke, ESB, or event-driven patterns, a bespoke approach helps every connected system speak the same language while reducing duplicate data, workflow gaps, and manual reconciliation.
For instance, in our work with Alight, Vention migrated and merged customer data from a legacy system, automated CRM workflows, built KPI reporting, and resolved data inconsistencies using Azure Data Lake.
How does Vention handle unclear or changing enterprise requirements?
At Vention, we kick off projects with discovery workshops, stakeholder interviews, technical analysis, and prototypes to catch early requirements. To address unclear or changing requirements throughout the delivery process, we follow Agile principles with regular feedback loops, which allows us to stay flexible for changes halfway through.
How do you handle Intellectual property ownership?
You pay for it, so you own it. Vention ensures full legal transparency by transferring the IP rights (for all custom code, designs, and documentation we deliver) to your business.
Are your custom enterprise software development services IR35 compliant?
Vention software development services sit clearly outside IR35. Vention operates as a software development services partner, so we do not hire contractors who work through their own limited companies or other intermediaries, nor do we use agencies or staffing partners to supply such contractors.
What time-to-value can we expect?
The time-to-value will differ for each client, depending on the software type Vention delivers, the complexity of integrations, and the need for AI integration. We always place much focus on the discovery phase of the project to ensure the highest precision in our time and resource estimates for delivery.