The Suddensource ethos - delivering software solutions as specified
Suddensource is a company that provides boutique software development and support for Supply Chain Management to small and medium-sized businesses. We strive to deliver a high quality service to meet our customers' specifications and expectations and offer adaptable systems that can be tailored to our customers' processes and procedures.
Suddensource Ltd was founded in 1996 by John and Pippa Walton to offer reliable software development and support. The company is staffed by people who are knowledgable, flexible and helpful in their approaches to customers' requirements. We devote our time and attention to solving our customers' problems.
Between us we have many years of providing software and services to answer our customers' needs and we also have a good understanding of business requirements through many years of running our own businesses, and helping others run theirs. We are therefore excellent at understanding needs and being able to streamline software and procedures to cut time and effort.
We aim to provide a rapid development time for our customers, and give clear indications of the time each stage of development will take.
Our prices are realistic, understanding that the average SME does not have money to burn employing expensive consultants.
We are based in Berkshire, but have customers throughout the UK (and in times past in mainland Europe). Our customers come from many different sectors, from pharmaceuticals to entertainment venues, from financial institutions to manufacturers.
Our areas of expertise
- Software and database design
- Process design
- Data handling
- MS Office and MS Access
- Mobile applications design
- Web application design
Please see further information about our experience here
Company Milestones
- 1996: Phillippa started freelancing
- 2000: John joined the company
- 2002: Developed Data Mining product
- 2003: Acquired support for Proactis 2
- 2003: Acquired support for one major application
- 2003: Acquired two other major applications
- 2005: Started working with a well known athletics magazine
- 2008: Started writing Proactis Extra
- 2009: Started hosting
- 2010: Acquired Chapelfield Systems Ltd
- 2016: Parted company with Chapelfield Systems
- 2022: Acquired two non-software clients
- 2025: Closed the software business down