planA Technologies designs, builds and operates IT systems for small and medium-sized companies — with the discipline, controls and operational thinking typically found in large international environments.
International, local and on-premises deployments
01 Services
We don't separate building from running. Whoever builds a system is also answerable for it in daily use — and that changes how it gets built.
Enterprise software, backend systems, and the integrations that connect complicated organisations. We work especially with Java, high-load application logic, API design, and system integration — with the focus on maintainable, reliable software that still works years later.
Designing, building and securing the environment your applications run in. We connect application delivery with platform operations, including automation, deployment pipelines, and resilient infrastructure that scales with the business.
Monitoring, patching and fault handling within an agreed scope. Fixed response times, a named contact, no ticket queue to disappear into.
Practical assessments to identify vulnerabilities, technical risks and gaps in your IT environment — from infrastructure and access controls to backup, recovery, monitoring and system hardening. We provide the technical assessment and implementation. Legal interpretation remains with your legal or data-protection adviser.
02 Security
We come from environments where infrastructure is audited: large financial institutions, regulated systems, estates of several thousand servers. We know what auditors look for, where they find gaps, and what “good enough” actually means when someone is checking.
We bring that standard to smaller companies. We look at the solution you already run and tell you where it is fragile, where it will not hold up, and what to do about it. Whether you then buy software or build it yourself is your decision.
Large institutions buy commercial products with vendor support. Smaller companies will not pay for that and generally run free or self-written tools instead. That is a legitimate choice, and it is not what we sell against. What transfers is not the tooling — it is knowing the requirements those tools exist to satisfy, and being able to measure any solution against them. Procurement decisions stay with you.
A fixed-price assessment of your existing environment against the security requirements applied to regulated organisations. Delivered as a findings report with prioritised remediation steps: what is critical, what matters, what can wait. Defined scope, defined price, no open-ended engagement.
03 Track record
planA Technologies was founded in 2019. The experience behind it is older: a career in software engineering, IT consulting and DevOps across enterprise environments, system integration and CI/CD automation. We bring that same discipline to smaller teams that still need reliable, scalable and maintainable systems.
The thread that runs the length of that career. First administering it, then replacing an in-house system for administrative account access with CyberArk as deputy project manager, then leading operations for the platform. Today, architecting certificate-based SSH trust to replace static key distribution entirely.
Changing one thing on several thousand machines without breaking any of them. Preparation, testing and automated deployment — plus the identity and permission groundwork that has to exist before any of it can run.
Infrastructure described as code and delivered through a pipeline rather than assembled by hand. Designed once and delivered to more than one client — a portable architecture, not a one-off build.
Years inside the operations function of a major financial services client: several thousand Red Hat servers and several hundred Solaris systems, clustered systems included. Hardware faults, upgrades, file system growth and estate-wide change programmes.
04 Approach
We work in short, visible increments. Some activities happen in parallel, because smaller teams need speed and because a lot of the real requirements only become clear while the system is being built.
An inventory of systems, processes and dependencies, measured against the requirements regulated organisations have to meet. The result is a written finding: what is critical, what matters, what can wait. Fixed scope, fixed price, commissioned on its own and committing you to nothing further.
Architecture, interfaces, data handling and the operating concept are defined early, but they are not treated as frozen forever. We keep the design open to change where the real-world use shows a better option, and we make that change visible in the plan rather than hiding it in the code.
Delivery in two-week increments, each ending in something that runs. Source code, configuration and documentation live in your repository from day one, not ours. This is where many requirements become visible for the first time, and we respond to that without pretending the plan was fixed from the start.
Improvement continues after the first version is live, and in practice it can start earlier than that. We review behaviour, adjust boundaries, tighten controls, and improve the operation as the system settles into real use. The right answer is not a one-time launch, but a system that keeps getting better as its purpose becomes clearer.
05 Technology
We choose tools by whether they will still be maintained in five years and whether you can hire for them.
06 Location
For many clients the deciding question is not how a system is built, but where the data sits and who has jurisdiction if something goes wrong. There is a short answer to that here.
07 Contact
Write a few lines about the situation. You get an answer within one working day, from a person rather than an autoresponder. A first 30-minute conversation costs nothing.
info@plana.technology