Tier 2 Consulting are full-stack java developers, middleware consultants and integration experts, and we’re very, very good at what we do - we are the UK & Ireland’s first Red Hat Premier Middleware Partner, an award based solely on accredited skills and experience.
Tier 2 works in partnership with our customers to understand their business challenges, and deliver custom software solutions using modern, open-source, cloud-native technology and an agile project approach.
Tier 2 Consulting are experienced, skilled, technical experts. Our team holds formal accreditations in Red Hat Middleware, OpenShift and Ansible technologies, and are recognised as experts in their chosen technologies.
We provide high quality middleware consultancy, best-practice Red Hat development advice and advanced training and support. Our accredited Red Hat consultants and developers are highly skilled and highly regarded – with two of our senior team voted #1 and #2 in the Red Hat EMEA Training Awards.
Our project development teams work closely with our customers to deliver software using an agile approach, based on SCRUM, and adapted to meet the governance requirements of many organisations.
We are award-winning, and have been twice voted #1 in the Red Hat EMEA training awards, and awarded Red Hat ‘Stronger Together’ award, to recognise our approach to collaborative working.
If you have any software development or Red Hat queries, please get in touch.
Tier 2 Consulting became the first Red Hat Premier Middleware Partner for the UK & Ireland in 2014, an award based on proven skills and experience. We pride ourselves on being the best in our chosen disciplines, evidenced by our Red Hat Premier Partner award for the 7th consecutive year.
We recently (2021) earned the Red Hat Container
We have proven expertise in the most popular Red Hat® technologies, including:
Find out more about our premier partnership, and the consultancy and support services we offer around Red Hat products and solutions.
We base our standard project delivery approach on ‘Scrum’ - an agile methodology based on iterative and incremental development. We have extensive experience in using and adapting this approach to fit your business needs. For example, we are able to meet the typical governance needs of commercial organisations and can support software development in regulated environments (including biotech).
Working closely with our customers, we gather high-level requirements to determine an overall solutions architecture, and define, estimate and plan future project phases.
The Discovery phase does exactly that - it’s all about discovering your requirements, and how we can support you to deliver this. Tailored to your specific needs, Discovery provides an overview of your project profile by delivering:
Discovery will help you determine what you want to do, and how to achieve it, focusing on three elements –
Have you got a requirement - but are not sure where to start?
The Discovery process will provide a high-level project profile tailor-made to your needs, and is a great way to get to know us too – with no commitment to move the project further than this first stage. Get in touch.
Next steps: What comes after the Discovery phase?
We’d love you to continue to work with us on a Discovered Project, but there is no obligation. The Discovery deliverables can be used for a variety of purposes, including preparing budgets, and detail for tender processes.
If you are interested in moving forward with us, here’s what we do next: Custom Software Development. Find out more about how we deliver custom software in a series of agile sprints, using industry standard Java & UI technologies and frameworks.
Discover how we can help you
Find out how we can support your project to get started with Discovery, and get in touch with us today.
We deliver custom software in a series of agile sprints, using industry standard Java & UI technologies and frameworks.
At Tier 2, we make extensive use of modern software architectures, adopting processes optimised for agility and automation. As a way of building new applications - and modernising existing applications - we use cloud-native techniques, based on cloud principles.
Industry-Standard technology
Basing our development stack on industry-standard Java / UI technologies and frameworks, such as;
We often deploy within Red Hat Middleware technologies such as JBoss EAP and Red Hat Fuse, and other popular open-source platforms including WildFly and Tomcat.
We follow the recommended coding practices and guidelines for all of the given frameworks within a project when developing Java backing services, and ensure a high degree of unit test coverage. This way, we can ensure all code is delivered to a high industry standard, is both testable and tested, and is easy to maintain for future updates or amendments.
Understanding the user journey - or just UI / UX
We take great care to understand the user experience and interface when designing web applications. Using storyboarding techniques throughout, with page mock-ups approved by customers, we take great care to understand the required user journey, and deliver an optimum user experience.
We provide a clear, clean, and easy to use applications, built as single-page applications (SPA) with the Angular framework, and calling secure REST endpoints to obtain and manipulate data. Implementing the latest HTML5 & CSS 3 standards/techniques in a responsive manner, we ensure the page will dynamically adapt to the size of the device being used.
Accessibility
We are experienced in developing 'programmatically accessible' applications up to the highest standard, AAA – as set by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Compliance at this level makes your site accessible to the maximum number of users. Put simply, we offer the gold standard when it comes to accessibility, ensuring your content is clean and easy to navigate.
We ensure that the design, development, and testing of our applications are tailored to the end users. For example, we can adapt or develop content to allow people to zoom in, or use ‘assistive technologies’ such as screen readers – allowing people who are blind, visually impaired, or have disabilities to access the content. We welcome any opportunity to ensure our applications are inclusive for all users.
Testing
We have a skilled, dedicated team of ISTQB certified testers, who use manual and automated techniques. Ensuring high-quality software, our testers plan and execute test scenarios against functional and non-functional requirements - for example, performance and volume. Additionally, we provide support for customer test teams during the various acceptance test phases, including user, PVT, and integration.
Getting started with Software Development
Find out how we can deliver Software Development - custom to your needs. Please get in touch with us today.
We provide post-implementation support & maintenance services, all with defined service levels (SLAs) based on incident severity.
From the outset of every project, we work closely with our customers to define how our support and maintenance service will look. You will know exactly what to expect from us, from project beginning to end.
Our support and maintenance service provides first-line technical support of the custom software. We can also perform a structured hand-over to your application support team, and continue to provide an ad hoc ‘backstop’ if required.
In the discovery phase, we will agree on the particular aspects of what the support service will cover, including the level of availability and responsibilities. Communicating this mutual understanding of performance standards ensures quality service and a positive experience for all involved parties.
We will lay out metrics to measure and achieve the agreed-on service levels - and we will deliver what we promise every time.
First-line technical support for your project
Get in touch today to find out more about our Support & Maintenance services.
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Mobile Applications for UK's largest network of independent estate agents
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Building your own Identity Management Solution is easy, right?
Think again.
Tier 2 has just been awarded Red Hat Container Platform Specialist status, an award which extends its existing Red Hat Premier Partnership.
Tier 2 is pleased to announce it has recently become one of the first Auth0 partners in the UK to provide both application development and consultancy capability within the Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) space. Auth0 allows organisations to rapidly integrate authentication and authorization services within web, mobile, and legacy applications.
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Tier 2 Consulting has helped Ed Broking create TradEd, a revolutionary digital platform for the broking industry that’s enabling change across the globe.
In this BPM webinar, Tier 2 Consulting introduces Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite, a technology which empowers you to build flexible, smart business process applications for optimising and scheduling business resources.
Following a major contract win to support the government's roll-out of smart meters, EDMI Europe needed to enhance its IT capabilities to track forward logistics in its supply chain, generate related contractual reports, and communicate these reports to its suppliers and end customers. With an estimated 10 million devices being shipped over the next 5 years, this represented a significant...
Stevenage-based Tier 2 Consulting now offers Cloud Software Support and technical services around the Red Hat OpenShift Container Management Platform (PaaS) on the G-Cloud 9 procurement portal, which went live on May 22nd.
If your organisation is looking to create an agile DevOps environment to accelerate application delivery, then the OpenShift Kickstarter Program from Tier 2 Consulting in Stevenage is the ideal way to explore the potential.
Great news for Tier 2 Consulting in Stevenage - it has just received confirmation from global open source technology giant Red Hat, that its Premier Partner status is renewed, marking three successive years as the only JBoss Middleware Solutions Partner in the UK and Ireland with this level of accredited technical expertise.
Stevenage based Tier 2 Consulting kicked off 2017 with a number of substantial projects for both new and existing clients commissioning bespoke business software and extending support contracts.
Move With Us wanted to ‘externalise’ their data to create iOS tablet-based sales support applications for their primary sales channels – firstly their network of independent estate agents and secondly their house building partners running on-site marketing offices.
Motability Operations Ltd is the biggest car leasing business in the UK, with over 600,000 customers. As the company's business has increased, the number and complexity of its IT systems has also grown. As part of its effort to more efficiently lease vehicles to the disabled community, Motability Operations needed to modernize its lease management and customer relationship management systems...
Tier 2 has significant experience of implementing systems to comply with the FDA’s 21 CFR Part 11, of which Computer System Validation (CSV) is one key part.
Open source middleware experts Tier 2 Consulting have announced the continuation of their Red Hat Premier Partner accreditation – which maintains Tier 2’s position as the only Middleware Solutions Premier Partner in the UK & Ireland.
Timely decision-making and operational agility sit at the heart of successful businesses. When one of the UK's most successful recruitment consultants went looking for a solution that could provide a secure, searchable repository of contracts and facilitate management information reporting with ease, they found Tier 2's ARENA ticked all the boxes.
Tier 2 Consulting is helping Lloyd's provide e-learning modules covering the prevention of money laundering, sanctions and bribery as part of their compliance procedures.
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