Buildmaster Services

Buildmasters is a team of highly skilled software consultants with a proven abilityt to deliver. If you would like to discuss your development requirements with us then please use the contact page and one of our team will be in touch.

Eagle PACE Development

The Buildmasters development Team has two years of Eagle PACE development experience having built the Operational Data Store (ODS) components of a massive front and middle office change program at one of Autralia’s biggest funds management companies. We have applied our Continuous Integration and SCRUM development methodology to great effect, delivering an incredibly robust solution, which includes... Read more »

Custom Development

Custom Web and Windows application is our bread and butter. Each of our consultants has over 10 years of experience in the many areas of software development, specializing in the Microsoft technology stack (.Net, SQL Server, SSIS, SSAS) as the core and utilizing numerous open source tools around the periphery as part of our ‘Continuous Build and Deploy’ approach. Perhaps the most important... Read more »

Quality Assurance - QA all the way!

I am amazed at how often organisations will not place a strong enough focus on QA. For the small amount of time spent on this task there are a number of major benefits. These include: Bugs can be found earlier, where it is much cheaper and quicker to fix them It is easier to enforce coding standards to give the code base a common style and pattern usage. Poor programming techniques or inadequacies... Read more »

Deployment Process

A major benefit of using a build and deployment process is that it simplifies deployments and ensures consistency of code through all environments, from development and test environments right through to the production and disaster recovery environments. The code base is deployed with a single-click approach where the application, version number and environment is specified.  Because there is... Read more »

Enterprise Reporting

After conquering the challenges of the Operational Data Store (ODS) our next logical hurdle was always going to be dealing with the inevitable Reporting requirements that would follow. To make things more complicated there always seems to be more than one ODS involved, as well as numerous legacy data sources that need to be brought into the picture. We have been fortunate enough to be able to work... Read more »

ETL Components

Buildmasters have been involved with moving data from A to B for a number of years and have seen all manner of ETL architectures and designs. One thing we have learnt is that no implementation is ever the same, however there are a series of common principles that should be applied in any ETL project in order to guarantee success and avoid delivering something into production that is a monster to support. The... Read more »

Build Process

The heartbeat of any Buildmasters project is our continuous build process. This combination of technologies allows a team of developers to develop and unit test the code confidently and in isolation whilst the entire process of integrating the completed components is automated on our ‘Build Machine’. Each time a developer checks in a piece of code the Build Machine detects the change in... Read more »