We are a software development company that specialise in providing bespoke services for small to medium businesses and collaborating with design and branding companies for full workflow delivery.
In a world of rapidly expanding, complex and developing technologies, we have the expertise to translate technological requirements into real world, plain English for our clients which results in top quality solution focused technical deliveries.
We create web sites either ourselves or in collaboration for a diverse range of clients from digital agencies to feature film effects editors, from public relations gurus to HR departments. From site design to implementation, we utilise the most effective technologies for the situation, be it a simple Wordpress customisation or a full J2EE enterprise stack.
We also provide bespoke web development services, providing private intranets and corporations distributed tools crucial to the day to day functioning and management of their businesses.
We have exceptional expertise in delivering Android solutions from Gingerbread up to Lollipop, and Apple iOS solutions for all form factors. Call for details or view the projects section.
In the digital age of the web, Desktop applications appear an artform reserved for private software houses or in-house development teams. With extensive expertise, QZT can help you bring your Desktop projects to life, with solutions built in Visual Studio, Java, Qt or Cocoa.
QZT has extensive experience building and developing embedded systems, in particular Linux. We can help you put together your own bespoke Operating System using adapted kernel configurations, customised X11 server environments and more.
QZT has a great deal of experience working with innovation technology and startup businesses, where proof of concept and Intellectual Property protection is essential.
We can rapidly prototype, benchmark and test new ideas to help prove or disprove your concept, help you gain funding and investment and help you test your applications in the field and refine your requirements before moving forward to a production quality build.
Working with our partners we can provide you with the legal protection your ideas deserve.
In an ever evolving field undertaking any project can be a difficult and risky undertaking. QZT ensure that you are fully aware of all risks, challenges and obstacles facing your project, and can deliver management for all stages from initial design and prototyping through to final delivery.
In delivering solutions we work with top designers and design companies in order to deliver complete workflows, from initial brand concept to sending that first company email. Our partners have decades of industry experience and provide some of the most dynamic and cutting edge designs and brands imaginable.
We also provide digital services to digital design companies who are a rapidly growing part of our expanding client base.
In an industry of spiralling costs, missed deadlines and insecure returns on investment, we believe integrity and accountability are key in developing and maintaining strong client relationships and delivering quality software solutions.
We undertake careful and experienced planning, milestones and risk management to ensure projects are most likely to meet their return on investment and we can comprehensively justify cost and delivery at all times.
Maintaining a dynamic and flexible approach to software development is critical. We use industry standard methodologies to ensure rapid delivery through quick and quantifiable iterations of your project.
We ensure in every case that we adapt our approaches to you and your project and never the other way round.
QZT specialize in small to medium business projects, utilizing open source software developed by tens of thousands of the world's best developers, ensuring low development costs while maintaining high-quality delivery.
At QZT we pride ourselves on not just understanding how to use technologies, but also how they fundamentally work.
This translates into an ability to build our sites and systems from the ground up, utilising frameworks and libraries where necessary and cost-effective but never merely for the sake of being seen developing in the 'next big thing'.
We will always select and utilise the most appropriate and cost-efficient technologies for your solution, and where choices may be available we translate these into plain English in order to help you make any decisions that may be required.
HTML5 is a revision of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and is a standard markup language for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web.
CSS3 is the latest standard for developing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and is used to describe the layout and formatting of a website to a web browser.
RWD means Responsive Web Design and is an approach designed to optimise the viewing possibilities of a particular website over multiple different devices and platforms.
QZT implement the latest standards of HTML5, CSS3 and RWD in order to provide slick, functional and modern web browsing experiences over a number of different devices, mediums and formats while keeping pace with developments in the technology. We also provide Javascript and jQuery solutions in order to provide excellent front to back integration and user experience.
PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, and was created to provide basic server-side scripting support for simple web development.
It now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, and according to w3techs.com as of April 2015 is responsible for 82% of websites using a server-side programming language. PHP and CMS frameworks such as Wordpress and Symfony have hugely accelerated it's use.
QZT have extensive experience in developing with PHP, and leveraging, adapting or implementing existing frameworks. We have developed customised Wordpress themes and plugins, integrating and leveraging Wordpress' excellent features and capabilites. We have also developed simple and extensible sites with bespoke MySQL and PHP integration, for websites that require simplicity rather than overly complex implementation for cost-effective solutions. We have also built and adapted our own frameworks from existing technologies such as Symfony in order to allow integration of some of the best industry standard components while allowing projects to integrate with client's existing workflows. We can also build or maintain systems from any of the popular frameworks: Symfony, Zend, Drupal, CodeIgniter or Laravel.
iOS is Apple's mobile phone Operating System, which allows for coding and developing in the Objective C and the newer Swift programming languages for use on the iPhone and iPad systems.
Android is a Linux based OS currently supported and developed by Google and is also used in numerous electronic systems aside from mobile phones.
Windows Phone is Microsoft's mobile solution, launched in 2010 as a competitor to the Apple and Google technologies.
Mobile phone technologies are expanding and accelerating at a phenomenal rate, and keeping up to speed with these technologies is one of the challenges QZT embraces. We keep up to speed with the latest developments from Apple and code and update iOS apps where required, and have provided bespoke Android solutions, from Froyo through to JellyBean, for our clients. We are currently looking to expand and develop our clientbase in the exciting new technologies of Windows Phone.
Java was originally released in 1995 as a successor to existing programming languages, with the WORA (Write Once, Run Anywhere) philosophy allowing a single code base to run on any platform via use of the JVM (Java Virtual Machine).
J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) is an extension to Java designed to run server side Servlets and JSP (Java Server Pages) technology on the world wide web and is used on many high-end sites such as YouTube, Amazon and eBay.
QZT implement the latest standards of Java and J2EE development, from UI Swing and SWT to Hibernate, JDBC and EJB solutions. We have experience in a number of Java techonologies, and have run sites on JBoss, Tomcat, IBM Websphere and others.
HTML5 is a revision of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and is a standard markup language for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web.
CSS3 is the latest standard for developing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and is used to describe the layout and formatting of a website to a web browser.
RWD means Responsive Web Design and is an approach designed to optimise the viewing possibilities of a particular website over multiple different devices and platforms.
QZT implement the latest standards of HTML5, CSS3 and RWD in order to provide slick, functional and modern web browsing experiences over a number of different devices, mediums and formats while keeping pace with developments in the technology. We also provide Javascript and jQuery solutions in order to provide excellent front to back integration and user experience.
PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, and was created to provide basic server-side scripting support for simple web development.
It now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, and according to w3techs.com as of April 2015 is responsible for 82% of websites using a server-side programming language. PHP and CMS frameworks such as Wordpress and Symfony have hugely accelerated it's use.
QZT have extensive experience in developing with PHP, and leveraging, adapting or implementing existing frameworks. We have developed customised Wordpress themes and plugins, integrating and leveraging Wordpress' excellent features and capabilites. We have also developed simple and extensible sites with bespoke MySQL and PHP integration, for websites that require simplicity rather than overly complex implementation for cost-effective solutions. We have also built and adapted our own frameworks from existing technologies such as Symfony in order to allow integration of some of the best industry standard components while allowing projects to integrate with client's existing workflows. We can also build or maintain systems from any of the popular frameworks: Symfony, Zend, Drupal, CodeIgniter or Laravel.
iOS is Apple's mobile phone Operating System, which allows for coding and developing in the Objective C programming language for use on the iPhone and iPad systems.
Android is a Linux based OS currently supported and developed by Google and is also used in numerous electronic systems aside from mobile phones.
Windows Phone is Microsoft's mobile solution, launched in 2010 as a competitor to the Apple and Google technologies.
Mobile phone technologies are expanding and accelerating at a phenomenal rate, and keeping up to speed with these technologies is one of the challenges QZT embraces. We keep up to speed with the latest developments from Apple and code and update iOS apps where required, and have provided bespoke Android solutions, from Froyo through to JellyBean, for our clients. We are currently looking to expand and develop our clientbase in the exciting new technologies of Windows Phone.
Java was originally released in 1995 as a successor to existing programming languages, with the WORA (Write Once, Run Anywhere) philosophy allowing a single code base to run on any platform via use of the JVM (Java Virtual Machine).
J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) is an extension to Java designed to run server side Servlets and JSP (Java Server Pages) technology on the world wide web and is used on many high-end sites such as YouTube, Amazon and eBay.
QZT implement the latest standards of Java and J2EE development, from UI Swing and SWT to Hibernate, JDBC and EJB solutions. We have experience in a number of Java techonologies, and have run sites on JBoss, Tomcat, IBM Websphere and others.
The free and open source collaborations that have led to the creation of Linux and Unix have provided us with the foundations of the internet and the world-wide web with around 67% of server systems running Linux or Unix (w3techs.com), with Unix also provides the foundation of the Mac OS system while Linux is the basis for Android.
Therefore a fundamental understanding of these systems and technologies is essential in order to work well with these technologies, and QZT has this extensively.
Whether carrying out the complex server-administration tasks such as setting up web-servers, cron jobs, backups or shell-scripting, or building a from scratch Linux distribution for an embedded system, QZT has the expertise and the technical know how to provide this.
Modern database design is one of the most critical parts of any software or distributed development. Without the data, the site cannot function, and while any code base can be restored badly implemented table and relationship design will cripple your application and cannot easily be recovered from.
QZT has extensive experience in designing and implementing SQL databases, and working with a number of different database providers from Oracle and DB2 through to MySQL. We also have extensive experience in implementing ORM technologies such as Hibernate or Doctrine in order to provide not only extensive abstraction from your data source but also a much higher level of security.
C and C++ are some of the older yet most powerful technologies available to modern day developers. They are used for system programming but also in performance critical applications, desktop systems and server systems. GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection, developed under the Free Software Foundation for creating bespoke C and C++ applications.
QZT have developed and used these technologies for a variety of different solutions, utilising common C and C++ libraries such as boost, glib, dlib and gtk.
We have also provided Desktop solutions using Nokia's Qt framework, our framework of choice for developing native Desktop applications that will run on multiple platforms.
.Net is a software framework developed by Microsoft that runs on Microsoft Windows. It allows developers to create solutions in Visual C++, C# and Visual Basic as well as ASP.NET.
QZT have extensive experience maintaining and delivering solutions in Visual C++, while we have relationships with Software Development Partners who specialise in the use of C# and ASP technologies.
The free and open source collaborations that have led to the creation of Linux and Unix have provided us with the foundations of the internet and the world-wide web with around 67% of server systems running Linux or Unix (w3techs.com), with Unix also provides the foundation of the Mac OS system while Linux is the basis for Android.
Therefore a fundamental understanding of these systems and technologies is essential in order to work well with these technologies, and QZT has this extensively.
Whether carrying out the complex server-administration tasks such as setting up web-servers, cron jobs, backups or shell-scripting, or building a from scratch Linux distribution for an embedded system, QZT has the expertise and the technical know how to provide this.
Modern database design is one of the most critical parts of any software or distributed development. Without the data, the site cannot function, and while any code base can be restored badly implemented table and relationship design will cripple your application and cannot easily be recovered from.
QZT has extensive experience in designing and implementing SQL databases, and working with a number of different database providers from Oracle and DB2 through to MySQL. We also have extensive experience in implementing ORM technologies such as Hibernate or Doctrine in order to provide not only extensive abstraction from your data source but also a much higher level of security.
C and C++ are some of the older yet most powerful technologies available to modern day developers. They are used for system programming but also in performance critical applications, desktop systems and server systems. GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection, developed under the Free Software Foundation for creating bespoke C and C++ applications.
QZT have developed and used these technologies for a variety of different solutions, utilising common C and C++ libraries such as boost, glib, dlib and gtk.
We have also provided Desktop solutions using Nokia's Qt framework, our framework of choice for developing native Desktop applications that will run on multiple platforms.
.Net is a software framework developed by Microsoft that runs on Microsoft Windows. It allows developers to create solutions in Visual C++, C# and Visual Basic as well as ASP.NET.
QZT have extensive experience maintaining and delivering solutions in Visual C++, while we have relationships with Software Development Partners who specialise in the use of C# and ASP technologies.
Collaboration is at the heart of what we do. We work closely with our clients to understand and develop the most optimal results, and with other agencies and design houses to provide the best possible expertise in the delivery of your solution.
Below is a selection of some of our recent clients, collaborators and system users: