1st Consulting

General information

Businesses can save a lot of time and money by improving their processes. 1st Consulting write applications with this in mind.

1st Consulting are a Microsoft Independent Software Vendor (ISV) who write applications using the latest technology such as Silverlight and SQL. All the staff have many years of experience in Solution architecture, Microsoft Technologies or User Interface Design to ensure any applications built look good as well as fulfil the functional requirements.

1st Consulting provide software for a wide range of businesses, whose sectors include; telecoms, food, retail, charity, logistics and insurance just to mention a few.

With state of the art facilities and friendly staff, 1st Consulting is able to offer a range of services to help a company improve their processes and so saving money. These include IT Strategy, Process review and specific engagements to help resolve key issues for a business.

1st Consulting also provide hosting, application management and support services for the applications they build for clients.

1st Consulting don't only write software for other people. They offer an IT support software called MyInstantHelpdesk, which is perfect for the both the SME and SMB markets. This targets customer satisfaction to help repeat business, by keeping the customer informed of how issues are progressing as well as keeping reporting of issues simple by making email a key channel. More details can be found on the products below.

With fully qualified staff, 1st Consulting has database designers, user interface designers and solution architects that they can field to resolve client issues.

1st Consulting Ltd has a growing network of clients, situated throughout the UK, including ASPone (telecoms), Best Go Private (independent insurance brokers), Helpage International (international charity), International Trading Exhibitions (ITE Plc. ), SpLD Assessment Standards Committee (SASC), Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation (Thurrock Council) and many more.

The company is managed by Peter Bannister who has over 25 years in the IT industry in many different sectors including Retail, Logistics, Insurance and Telecommunications.
Before starting 1st Consulting, Peter was a senior manager at marchFirst looking after the JDE department of 90 consultants, so he is equally comfortable speaking techno-babble as he is discussing business strategy.