Peace of mind
Important technical information you'll no doubt want to know
Our Approach To Development
CMAP's production team use the scrum methodology to plan the upgrades that are released into the product at the end of each "sprint".
What's a sprint? A sprint is a two-week cycle, during which the team create, build and ultimately release a new version of the product that all CMAP clients move to automatically.
This two-week sprint cycle repeats over and over, ad infinitum.
The methodology requires that you break planned upgrades out into their component parts. These smaller chunks are then "pointed" based on their difficulty and likely timeframe.
We calculate a realistic number of points to achieve across a sprint based on how many people we have for that period e.g. factoring in time off & professional development.
It allows us to get a super-accurate view of what we're building and when it's going to be built, weeks & months out into the future.
The end result is clients benefit from a product that's continually getting harder, better, faster, stronger.
Security & Disaster Recovery
Gone are the days where software needs to be locally installed on expensive on-premise servers, where a freak flood or fire could totally wipe out all of your data and literally leave you "down".
Of course, the argument for
CMAP is hosted on the Microsoft Azure platform, offering all of the benefits you would expect e.g. geo-redundancy.
Due to the nature of the cloud, the CMAP application, database and document storage are backed up and stored across multiple servers in multiple locations. We can run point-in-time restore to any point within the last 35 days.
Data is encrypted between the server and
In short: it's robust. If you need to know more, get in touch!
Sandbox Environment
The cloud brings other, potentially unexpected benefits.
Every CMAP user has access to the "live" instance, which you use to run your company.
We're also able to grant approved users access to a "sandbox" environment, which is a recent copy of your live instance.
This gives you a whole host of uses, e.g.:
- Trial optional features somewhere safe & private before you decide to enable them in your live instance, or not
- Alter your structure or configuration in sandbox first to validate the change, before doing it for real and updating your live environment
Self-Serve with Powerful Admin Tools
We don't want to be a blocker. It's very rare you'll need to come to us to make changes to your system, other than core structural ones.
CMAP's self-serve set up combines the tailored benefits of a bespoke solution with the flexibility of the cloud.
All of the crucial finance and admin tools are available for you to tweak as needed, including settings for:
- Roles, rate cards and cost rates
- Creating custom fields and pages
- System currencies and FX rates
- Security and user access
- And many more!
”“I’m obsessed with the possibilities of CMAP. The whole thing is a revelation to our management team. I love customizing reports for them and seeing their smiles!””
– Kay Anderson, Finance Manager, CCD Design
”From a management perspective, we can now generate all our reports from within CMAP; whereas before it was coming from various spreadsheets. Now we have full confidence in our reporting.”
– Mark Camidge, Director, Chaplin Farrant
”“I wanted a system where I could think, ‘What’s the progress of this? Are we making money on that?’ click a button and get the answer. CMAP conveys it all & give us insights we wouldn’t get otherwise.”
– Robert Dodds, Director, BDRC Group
