Extend your enterprise experience with modern applications and cloud services.
Para builds modern applications where portals and packaged platforms need to go further. We connect them to your existing systems through APIs and cloud-ready patterns.
We focus on the parts of the business problem that existing platforms cannot handle cleanly. We do this without adding another disconnected technology layer.
Para's enterprise services include Custom Apps & APIs, which covers modern applications and the APIs that connect them. They also include Cloud & Integration, which covers hybrid deployment and application modernization.
We build modern web and mobile applications and connect them to your enterprise systems. We shape the architecture around the business need.
Let the right platform carry the shared capability. Use custom applications to close the gaps that still matter to the business.
Why This Matters
Collaboration and experience programs often hit needs that no single platform can solve cleanly.
You may already have a strong set of enterprise platforms. You may still need a capability that does not fit any of them.
This raises an architecture decision:
Should you extend an existing platform, or build something new?
Para's wider skills span modern .NET, React, and open-source development, along with cloud and integration work.
We focus on extending your enterprise architecture without creating another isolated tool.
This means asking:
- Which capabilities already exist?
- Which platforms should stay the system of record?
- Where is integration better than duplication?
- Where is a custom application truly needed?
- How should identity and access work across the experience?
- Who should own and maintain the data?
- How do applications talk through APIs and integration services?
- How will you support and grow the solution after launch?
This matches Para's wider principle of architecture before build. Make the key design choices before you start building.
What the Work Looks Like
We set the application boundary first. We decide which capabilities should stay in existing platforms and which to integrate. We decide which to extend and which truly need custom software.
This stops custom development from becoming the default answer to every need.
Define the role of the application
Para assesses the business capability the application must support and who will use it. We also look at how it relates to your existing platforms.
The result is a clearer line between:
Configure → Extend → Integrate → Build → Modernize
Each need is no longer treated as a stand-alone application project.
Design the application around enterprise context
Para then designs the application and its integrations around your enterprise identity and security. We also plan for long-term support.
This can include:
- Modern web applications.
- Mobile experiences.
- Enterprise portals.
- Purpose-built business applications.
- APIs and integration services.
- SaaS connectivity.
- Identity and access integration.
- Data and system integration.
- Enterprise UX patterns.
Para's proven skills include cloud applications built with .NET Core and React. We also build mobile applications for iOS and Android.
Connect rather than duplicate
Para's past integration work includes bringing enterprise system context into collaboration and experience spaces.
Today, we set clear APIs and data ownership. We avoid copying data and business logic across many applications.
This matches Para's architecture material. It names point-to-point integrations as a source of growing complexity and recommends reusable patterns instead.
Modernize where the current architecture holds you back
Modern applications can also offer a way past the limits of legacy applications.
Para's architecture approach assesses each application on its business value and technical condition. We then decide whether to keep, modernize, or retire it.
Use cloud and SaaS deliberately
We use cloud and SaaS when they make delivery or operations better, not by default.
When we introduce cloud, the solution needs a matching approach to:
- Deployment.
- Security.
- Integration.
- Monitoring.
- Support.
- Lifecycle management.
- Ownership.
- Future modernization.
Para Point of View
So Para's approach is neither custom-first nor platform-first. It is business-first and architecture-first.
Use the platform where it fits
Keep common enterprise capabilities in the platforms built to provide them, as long as those platforms meet the need.
Build where differentiation or fit requires it
A custom application makes sense when no existing platform can meet the need.
Integration is part of the application
An application that works alone may solve a local need while creating an enterprise problem. So its integrations form part of the solution architecture.
Information ownership matters
Applications should read and update information according to clearly defined ownership. They should not create competing versions of enterprise data.
Design for operation from the beginning
Plan how you will deploy, support, and secure the application before it goes live.
Custom software creates value when it closes a real business gap without creating a new integration problem.
What You Get
Application and platform boundary assessment
A clear view of what should stay in existing platforms and what you should integrate or extend. It also shows where a custom application makes sense.
Modern application and API architecture
A target architecture for the application and its services. It also shows how the solution relates to your existing enterprise platforms.
SaaS and enterprise integration design
An integration approach that connects the application to your other systems through reusable patterns.
Identity and security dependency map
A view of the access and security needs that shape the application.
Cloud-ready deployment and operating factors
Direction for deployment and support where the target architecture includes cloud delivery.
Phased build and modernization roadmap
An ordered path from architecture into build and long-term support.
These outputs match Para's wider advisory approach. It moves from assessing the current state and its gaps to a target architecture and a ranked roadmap. Governance and delivery handover follow.
Where It Fits
Modern Apps & Cloud extends the platforms you already use, from Sitecore to Microsoft 365.
It also offers a delivery path for:
- B2B portals.
- Mobile experiences.
- Customer applications.
- Employee applications.
- Enterprise integration services.
- API-enabled services.
- Purpose-built business applications.
- SaaS-connected solutions.
- Modernization of existing applications.
The capability links directly to Para's wider enterprise services model:
Digital Experience → Applications → APIs & Integration → Data → Cloud/Platform Services → Operations
Para's enterprise services portfolio places Custom Apps & APIs alongside the rest of our platform services, from Microsoft 365 to Cloud & Integration.
Explore how Modern Apps & Cloud can support your next enterprise initiative.
Talk to Para about the business need, current environment and the practical next step from assessment into delivery.
Whether the requirement is to extend an existing platform, modernize a legacy application, build a customer or employee application, connect SaaS services, introduce APIs, enable a mobile experience or establish a more connected application architecture, Para can help determine what should be configured, integrated, extended or built.
The path can move from architecture and application-boundary decisions into application development, APIs, integration, cloud-enabled delivery and managed application support, depending on the target state.
Para's managed application support capability includes application support, SLA management, health checks, releases and continuous improvement, allowing the delivery relationship to continue beyond implementation.