In the current economic climate, businesses across Australia are facing unprecedented challenges, prompting a top down approach to cost management while preserving operational effectiveness.
With many companies looking to reduce cost and budget, finding ways to reduce operational costs is paramount.
As a trusted software consultancy, Bilue understands these concerns and offers innovative solutions to help businesses navigate these uncertain times and remain able to service their customers all while minimising costs.
1. Streamlining Support and Maintenance
One significant area where businesses can realise cost savings is through optimising their support and maintenance processes. Instead of maintaining a full-time team of engineers dedicated to static product maintenance, companies can leverage Bilue's expertise to ensure their applications remain operational efficiently and substantially reduce costs.
At Bilue, we offer a shared service model that proactively monitors your apps, providing comprehensive monthly reports containing valuable insights from user reviews and feedback, crash details, and app download metrics. Our team ensures your applications remain compatible with the latest updates from platforms like React Native, Flutter, iOS, and Android, minimising the risk of compatibility issues and downtime. Our goal is to reduce costs and keep your apps safe and up to date for your users.
Our competitive pricing model caters specifically to your support and maintenance requirements, allowing you to allocate costs more efficiently and focus on strategic initiatives without the overhead of a full-time team.
Should you require small features to be added on an ad-hoc basis, our teams can scale up and down to meet your needs, and when you’re ready to return to normal, we can happily be in a position to hand backover to your internal teams.
2. Enhancing Development Team Productivity with Automated Quality Assurance (AQuA)
Another effective way to reduce technology operation costs is by maximising the productivity of your development team. Manual testing and debugging can consume significant resources and hinder the speed of software development cycles. By investing in Automated Quality Assurance (AQuA), businesses can streamline their testing processes, allowing developers to focus more on coding and development.
Bilue's AQuA framework offers a comprehensive solution for creating automation test suites, including core libraries, a compiler, and other tools to streamline testing processes. By automating repetitive testing tasks, AQuA enables faster software development cycles and improves time-to-market, ultimately reducing operational costs and enhancing efficiency.
Our framework combines smoke tests and regression testing to identify and rectify defects at an early stage, preventing loss of momentum and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software. Built on a maintainable and mature open technology stack, AQuA seamlessly integrates with existing tooling, providing a scalable solution tailored to your organisation's needs.
Bilue offers consulting services to review your existing testing practices and develop a tailored strategy for adopting AQuA, enabling your organisation to realise tangible benefits and cost savings.
By embracing innovative solutions like streamlined support and maintenance and Automated Quality Assurance, Australian businesses can effectively reduce their technology operation costs while maintaining the robust quality of their digital assets, navigating the current economic challenges and emerging stronger into FY25 and beyond.
When we think ‘beyond’ the need for cost reduction, businesses must also consider the challenges of assembling and maintaining delivery teams in the near future. As the economic landscape improves, the competition for skilled designers and developers will intensify, making it increasingly difficult once again to find and retain talent. Bilue understands these challenges and offers a solution to help businesses navigate these impending talent pressures.
Our team not only provides support and maintenance services but also offers a breadth of expertise in design, development and testing. Whether you need to scale your team up or down, Bilue can provide the people you need to stay competitive in a rapidly changing market.
By partnering with Bilue, businesses can access a wealth of talent and experience, ensuring that they are well-positioned to tackle the challenges of tomorrow. Let us help you build and maintain a high-performing delivery team, so you can focus on driving sustainability and growth in your business.
