C&C Group

Cross Sector

Not a utility or pharmaceutical company? You may find that C&C Group is the right choice for you rather than the vanilla configure-me ‘big brand’ packaged ERP & CRM systems, or an internal project using resources on non-core business.

It’s a fact that our products, subject matter expertise, working methodologies, and delivery skills are strategically concentrated in utilities and pharmaceuticals, yet they often find applications in other industries. We can mobilise a project team and a pre-built and tested code-base quickly and cost-effectively for any sector. That's because we engineer our technology for systematic re-use, adopting modular development guided by the Service Orientated Application design patterns which our Technical Leads have designed, developed, and refined over many years. The core solution delivery framework used at C&C Group is our CRADLE application envelope. CRADLE is built in .NET and has a data layer compatible with all the leading RDBMS products (Oracle, SQL, etc). It is a SOA patterned application delivery shell  de-coupled from the industry model specifics. We built it this way so that we could use it across any industry specialty without customisation, using a meta-data configuration approach.

Within CRADLE you find a configurable Data Capture Form Builder and a Business Rules Inference Engine, both driven by database repository meta-data. CRADLE is first and foremost configurable and can generate data capture functionality and reporting features which meet the core requirements and parameters of your sector / process mix. However as a company specialising in competitive advantage through technology differentiation we did not want to limit our clients to using the same solution as every other competitor so we created a standard for customisation (our own SOA Open System Architecture Pattern - OSAP). OSAP supports the requirements specific to your proprietary business process which you have designed specifically for competitive advantage through functional differentiation

The benefit of this approach is that we can deploy innovative enterprise solutions quickly (6 weeks in some cases), with a 100% match between function and requirement, and a history of completing User Acceptance Testing with zero issues raised. And because we have CRADLE we can repeat this for your business, delivering diagonally across the horizontal and the vertical, supplying the entire industry / business process service-chain mix in your organisation.

Although we cannot claim that the our people will be 100% familiar with the machinations of your sector prior to your project initiation, you can still bet your bottom dollar that by day 5 they will be asking questions and developing answers which will drive value throughout the project lifecycle. In fact we even defined and named this life skill and we have a dedicated assessment for this ability during our recruitment process. At C&C Group we call this the adept-itude test and we only employ people who show high scores in this evaluation.