Software Start-Up Platform45 Seeks To Assist Businesses Grow Faster Through Collaborative Efforts
Software Start-Up Platform45 Seeks To Assist Businesses Grow Faster Through Collaborative Efforts. Platform45 promotes ideation, the company collaborates and above all, it builds things that matter.
More and more people are seeing software becoming an integral part of any business wanting to do better, grow faster, and offer their customers “one source of truth”. The company knows the power of incredible software and the potential it has to change the world. It been at it since 2008, building platforms for FinTech start-ups, mining giants, pioneering entrepreneurs and telecom companies.
Behind its culture is an all encompassing passion to share the agony and the ecstasy in building its client’s vision. The company’s greatest stories started out as an idea and a dream. Those dreams became market leaders such as Howler and Resource Guru. It’s name hints at ‘The Singularity’ – the moment that will trigger an explosion in technological advancement. It is its silent-nod to push the tech-envelope every single day as it wants more for its clients. Because it believes in the power of technology and its capacity to unleash change that can make the world a better place. People are everything at Platform45 and with offices in Cape Town, Joburg and London the Platform45 culture is as unique as the projects it builds. The company’s Showcase events inspire ideas that may one day become a feature in its client’s product.
The company builds its products incrementally; testing and delivering after each Sprint, iterating where necessary, pivoting, questioning, re-questioning, and re-testing. Every step is thought-through and stress-tested with real-users. Its human-centered product development process is grounded in the Principles of Design Thinking, because at the end of the day, it believes that it doesn’t matter how good the execution is, the users sell the story.
