Smarter systems, built around your business

We help growing businesses remove admin, improve visibility, and make faster decisions — with systems designed around how your team actually works.

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We build bespoke software systems to address business needs.

We help you build your strategies, through good communication, understanding and improved workflow processes to help digitally transform your business with a bespoke software solution that saves you time and improves your profitability.

Our analysis produces enables us to document and design a bespoke software solution for your business, improving performance, efficiency and overall effectiveness of your team whilst reducing your costs.

Turn manual processes into intelligent workflows with custom software.

We help growing businesses remove admin, improve visibility, and make faster decisions — with systems designed around how your team actually works.

Workflow Automation

Remove repetitive admin and streamline how work gets done.

We design workflow automation systems that help you eliminate manual tasks, reduce double data entry, and connect your systems so information flows automatically, saving time across your team and reducing costly errors.

Dashboards & Reporting

From spreadsheets to real-time insight.

We create real-time dashboards and reporting systems that bring your data together into a single source of truth — helping you track performance, spot issues early, and make confident decisions.

Compliance & Digital Workflows

We build digital workflows and compliance systems that embed approvals, audit trails, and governance directly into your processes.  So, everything is tracked, consistent, and easy to manage without slowing your business down.

Artificial Intelligence

The future is here today.

Integrating the latest AI tools to enable a deeper understanding of your data, enabling you to make more informed decisions quicker.

Utilising our own AI machines we ensure your data is only available and utilised by you for the better understanding of your business and data.

What this means for your business

When your systems work properly, your team works differently.

  • Less time spent on admin and manual tasks
  • More accurate, reliable data across the business
  • Faster approvals and fewer bottlenecks
  • Clear visibility to support better decisions

Small changes in how your systems work can create a significant impact across your entire operation, reducing wasted time, costs and increasing value within the business.

Real improvements, not just new systems

Our focus is always on outcomes — not just technology.

Small improvements in business process automation can create a significant impact.  For one client, we redesigned a slow, inefficient workflow used daily by their team:

  • System load time reduced from 20 seconds to under 1 second
  • Waiting time cut from around 40 minutes a day to just minutes
  • A smoother, faster experience for every user

The result? More time, less frustration, and a system people actually want to use.

Case Studies

Compass Data are here to deliver for you and your business, through our insightful guidance considered advice, as well as our extensive experience and passion for delivering for our partners

Project tracking and management for an Exhibitions company

Compass Data were asked to develop a FileMaker project tracking system to interface with Sage 200 to replace the plethora of other systems used for expenses tracking and other ancillary cost capture.

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A book publishers image management system 

This multinational publishing company uses a large quantity of images procured from a wide variety of sources. These need to be tracked and recorded.

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Asset tracking for a Theatre Prop supplier.

This theatre supply company needed a system to manage their assets, tracking these assets against the shows or performances that they are used in. They also needed a catalogue of items to show prospective clients.

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If your systems feel like hard work, you’re not alone

We regularly work with businesses dealing with:

  • Re-entering the same data in multiple places
  • Chasing approvals through emails and spreadsheets
  • Slow systems that waste time every day
  • Reports that are already out of date by the time they’re shared

These are common signs your business processes need automating or modernising.

Keeping it simple

Translating technical terms into plain English is what we do

Planning

Collaboration, goals and deadlines are all agreed upfront for each phase of your project.

Goals

Solving your business problems is what we excel at

Targets

Clear goals and timelines are defined at the outset

Budgets

Budgets are clearly defined and agreed in advance for all work

Partnership

Working in partnership with you to build, deliver and support your business & solution

How we work

A consultative approach that delivers results.

The best systems start with understanding your business.

We work closely with your team to uncover how your processes really work. Identifying inefficiencies, simplifying complexity, and designing solutions that fit naturally into your day-to-day operations.

Because the right system isn’t just built well, it’s adopted, used, and relied on.

Not off-the-shelf – Not overcomplicated.

Off-the-shelf software often forces you to change how you and not for the better.

Large enterprise systems can be expensive, complex, and slow to adapt.

Compass Data offers a more practical approach.  Tailored solutions that give you flexibility, control, and long-term value without unnecessary complexity.

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Trusted to deliver the right solution for you.

We work with a wide variety of clients in both the public and private sectors, building custom applications to improve workflow, integration and profitability.

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