Speaking Truth Unto Power
Helping to lead across teams, gently and effectively.
Speaking truth unto power, with integrity. Delivering outcomes with patience and dedication. These things are not second to technology, but necessary precursors.
Mobile App Design & Development
Glow have pioneered mobile apps and software for clients including, NHS, National Rail and a few multi £billion global corporations who value our discretion.
These clients also value our agility, pragmatism, flexibility and experience, which gives them the edge they need to operationalise complex and innovative systems across divisions, which sometimes do not align.
Pencils & Swiss Army Knives
Some of the more successful mobile apps have one clear, defined single purpose.
They tend to do one thing extraordinarily well, much like a pencil. Of course, there are others which are more like swiss army knives, but lacking specialization tend to be average at a range of tasks.
The NGPod app
View the case studyMobile App Distributed Architecture
Most serious apps involve many separate pieces of software, all tied together in some way.
For example, enterprise apps often rely on four mobile apps eg. (iOS:Customer, iOS:Staff, Android:Customer, Android:Staff), AND middleware, ASP.NET web system, plus integrations to third party systems such as Patient Records, Geo Positioning, FinTech or proprietary Internet of Things (IoT) Booking hardware.
Bringing these elements together in the best way is what we mean by mobile app architecture.
Choosing Glow as your enterprise mobile app developer brings you a team experienced in planning and delivering architecture at this level, bringing interoperability and confidence that it will continue to work at scale.
Mobile App, Software, Data and Hosting Security
Security rarely gets more vital than medical information or financial records and we’re used to working with both.
Choosing solutions appropriate for your needs requires experience and judgment. Clients rely on our guidance to get this right over the long term.
Validation
Sometimes it’s desirable to involve third party validation experts.
Depending on the scale of your ambition, we’re quite used to independent validation, for example, working with The National Physical Laboratory who run the UK’s atomic clock, in validating the speed and effectiveness of our software.
Image used with Lind permission of National Physical Laboratory (NPL).
Software Quality Assurance & Quality Control
Glow takes pride in rigorous quality control which we apply to all releases we ship.
Whilst not all clients wish to budget for the same degree of testing (and not all projects require it), our basic QA delivers outstanding quality and we’re happy to fit in with your scale and ambition, whatever it might be.
Native / HTML Mobile Apps
There’s two ways of developing mobile apps. The simplest is to create the mobile app in a similar way to a website, then wrap it up as an app and deploy it into the various App stores, which is cost effective, limited and best suited to simpler mobile app development.
Where time and budget allow, fully “native” mobile apps will always be more powerful, robust and generally more usable. They’re quicker, more stable and more powerful. Bear in mind that this approach means developing a totally separate app for each platform eg. Android App, iPhone App, Blackberry App. There’s more information about Mobile App Development in our infographic.
Do you need help in deciding which is best for you?
Frictionless payment
Pre-authorised card payments
Push notifications
Create a new channel direct to device
Touchscreen
Natural, easy to use interface
Great audio
Smartphones are now a default music device
Great video
Apps can use live video from the device
Channel to market
App stores make publishing easy, with access to millions
Personal
Smartphones are as personal as it gets
Accelerometer
app knows device orientation / movement
Great photos
Cameras can capture geotagged photo direct to app / web
Processing
Typical smartphones are powerful enough even for real-time video manipulation
All our Services
We’re proud of our work and proud of our clients.
Here is a small selection of what we do and who we work with.