Internal applications,
engineered as products.
Portals, workflow platforms, operational systems and low-code accelerators, engineered for reliability, security and long-term maintainability, with SLOs and observability the same way customer-facing systems get.
A complete enterprise-apps practice, engineered end to end.
From portfolio strategy through portals, workflow, operational systems, low-code, modernisation and managed run, our practice covers the full delivery surface of internal applications.
Application strategy & portfolio
Portfolio rationalisation, capability mapping and per-application disposition, grounded in usage, run-cost and business criticality, not in an inventory spreadsheet.
Employee & partner portals
Portals engineered as products, identity, permissions, personalisation and content, with real information architecture rather than an intranet dumping ground.
Workflow & case-management apps
Long-running workflows, approvals and case management on Camunda, Temporal or custom, with typed state, timers, retries and audit trails engineered in from the start.
Operational & back-office systems
Custom operational systems for finance, HR, supply, service and operations, where the packaged option is a poor fit and the process is a genuine differentiator.
Low-code & citizen platforms
Power Platform, OutSystems, Mendix and Retool, used where the ROI is real, with guardrails so the estate doesn't collapse under its own maintenance in year three.
Application modernisation
Refactoring, re-platforming and rebuilding legacy applications, with tests, contracts and observability engineered before the code moves.
Integration & data flow
APIs, events, iPaaS and typed contracts between applications, designed against actual traffic and change patterns, not against a stale architecture diagram.
Collaboration & content
SharePoint, Confluence and modern collaboration platforms, designed as information systems with permissions and lifecycle, not as file dumps.
Employee experience & workspace
Front-door experience across HR, IT service, learning and productivity, engineered so employees don't have to memorise the org chart to find a form.
Operational reporting
Reports and dashboards inside operational apps, modelled off the same governed data as the rest of analytics, so the number on the form matches the number on the dashboard.
Reliability & quality
SLOs, monitoring, incident response and test discipline treated as first-class for internal apps, because 'internal' is not the same as 'unimportant'.
Managed run & continuous improvement
Post-launch operations, quarterly release adoption and continuous improvement, so applications stay fit for purpose instead of drifting away from it.
Pick per capability. Ship in waves.
A delivery model that decides low-code, custom or COTS per capability, and lands each system with tests, contracts, integrations and rollback.
Frame
Portfolio, usage, users, run-cost and pain points mapped. Output: a phased plan built on real evidence, not on a wish list.
Design
Target architecture, information architecture, integrations and controls designed end-to-end. Low-code, custom or COTS is decided per capability, not up-front.
Deliver
Iterative delivery with tests, contracts, integration and reconciled data. Roll-outs stage by cohort, with rollback ready.
Operate
Reliability, adoption, cost and change cadence monitored as ongoing engineering. Continuous improvement is designed in, not appended after go-live.
A pragmatic application toolchain.
Framework and platform selection is driven by the estate, skills and 7-year economics, not by a preferred vendor.
TypeScript
React
Next.js
.NET
Java
Node.js
Python
Postgres
SQL Server
MongoDB
RedisCCamundaTTemporalPPPower PlatformOOutSystemsMMendixRRetoolSharePointCConfluence
GraphQLRREST
KafkaMMuleSoftBBoomi
Kubernetes
AWSAzure
GCPProgrammes delivered on this practice.
What prospective clients ask us first.
If your question isn't addressed here, please reach us at hello@tekansa.com.
01Low-code, custom or COTS, how do you decide?
Per capability, on evidence. Packaged software wins where the process is a commodity and the vendor's roadmap is faster than yours. Low-code wins where the process is real but not differentiating, and the estate is small enough that the platform tax is worth it. Custom earns its place where the process is genuinely a differentiator or the packaged options fit poorly. We produce a per-capability disposition rather than an all-or-nothing verdict.
02How do you approach low-code without creating a shadow-IT problem?
By designing guardrails first, environments, source control, review, security scanning, lifecycle management and clear thresholds for when a low-code artefact graduates into a supported system. Citizen developers are a real productivity multiplier, but only when the platform team gives them a paved road. Otherwise you end up with a 200-app estate no one can safely retire.
03How do you handle modernisation of legacy internal apps?
As rolling waves, never big-bangs. We stand up the target, run it alongside the legacy, reconcile behaviour and data, and cut users over in scoped cohorts with rollback. Some apps are retired outright once the disposition analysis is done'no users, no criticality' is a legitimate answer and often overlooked.
04How do you keep integrations from becoming spaghetti?
Integration is a first-class engineering surface with contracts, ownership, versioning and monitoring. Point-to-point connections are considered technical debt from day one; iPaaS, event streams and typed APIs live behind clear ownership. Fewer, better-shaped seams outperform many convenient ones over any real time horizon.
05How do you decide between building on Microsoft, on open source, or on cloud-native platforms?
By working backwards from the estate you already have, the skills your team can maintain, and the licence/support economics on a 7-year horizon. Microsoft is often the right answer where the estate is already there; open cloud-native is often the right answer where the estate is heterogeneous or the workload benefits from portability. We pick per system, not as an ideology.
06How do you keep internal apps reliable, secure and useful over time?
By treating them the same way we treat customer-facing systems, SLOs, monitoring, incident response, security posture, adoption metrics, cost attribution and a live improvement backlog. 'Internal' is not the same as 'unimportant'. The apps that get this discipline compound in value; the ones that don't quietly become the reason nobody trusts IT.
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