Enabling strategic change

Our approach

CDS is an agency that enables strategic change in organisations and businesses to create and build better services to meet the evolving needs of customers, employees and citizens.

Change requires knowing where to start, what to fix first, and how to get back on track when things are not going according to plan. We simplify complexity so that you can make informed decisions and quickly gain value by improving user engagement and experience.

Our subject matter experts deliver cloud and infrastructure, operational transformation, experience transformation and business process outsourcing. We cover everything from digital to insight and print challenges in the pursuit of improved outcomes throughout the value chain. As a result, many of the largest and most complex organisations in the UK trust CDS to deliver solutions that improve health, wealth and safety in our society.

 

Umbraco is well suited to our approach of building a toolkit of components to support rapid development and iteration through the agile process. We deliver speed to value – every time.

 

CDS is an independent digital agency with an agnostic technology approach. We will only implement a solution if we believe it is the right one for you.

Case study 

For Social Work England, CDS designed a versatile digital toolkit in Umbraco to handle various content types. We developed page templates and navigational devices to deliver content responsively for mobile devices, and accessibly to WCAG 2.1 AA standards. We implemented Surface/API Controllers for federated identity (with Azure AD), GOV.UK Pay and Appian API, embedded interfaces for secure MyAccount content and implemented an online forms engine. We delivered user-friendly interactions with the public register, site and news searches, vacancies and approved courses. We are further integrating front-end and back-end systems to provide the first complete end-to-end digital platform for a regulatory body. Find out more about our groundbreaking digital projects on cds.co.uk 

Awards and contributions

CDS is a multi-award winning agency.

Full details can be found on https://www.cds.co.uk/who-we-are/awards