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Welcome to Cloudaura

We specialise in IT products for the retail sector , multi-domain strategy and technology consulting, and the ideation and incubation of software products

Retail Innovation

Next generation holistic click & click products with innovation, reliability and usability at the core
Consultancy

A-list technology consultants with a passion for delivery and a credible alternative to the “Big 4”
Omni-channel Logistics

Take control of communications, leverage your network investment, and drive value from BigData
Ideas Factory

Generation and incubation of concepts through to delivery of powerful products

About Cloudaura

Cloudaura cut its teeth in the retail market, we have seen first hand the bloatware that dominates the marketplace. Here at Cloudaura we think differently – clean, well designed, simple yet effective software developed by people who understand your business. The perfect antidote.

Simple and Intuitive – all of the features you need and none of the complexity you don't.
Always on, in an instant - turn-key solutions delivered in the cloud that grow with your business.
Customer centric - the very latest web and mobile technologies delivering an engaging, clean and graphically rich user experience.

We pride ourselves on our no-nonsense and pragmatic approach to everything we do, whether that be in our software products or our architecture consultancy services.

Our Products

All of our products are aimed squarely at retail clients who know the value of innovative offerings that provide them with real competitive advantage in a complex and challenging landscape

Scan, Pay and Go

QBuster offers your customers a modern, frictionless in store shopping experience. Featuring geo-location, simply and complex promotions, offline mode, AI/ML vision tech, wallet payments, loyalty card support, digital receipts and much more. Our companion loss prevention app comes with innovative light touch tools to help you minimise shrink.

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Click & Collect

Innovative in-store multi-product click and collect solution which leverages customer mobile device and comodity compatible mobile colleague application to minimise client infrastructure investment and provide best in class, market defining capabilities.

Services we offer

You can put your mind at rest when choosing our experienced consultants with a proven track record of delivery across a broad range of architecture disciplines for some of the biggest clients in the industry

Strategy

We apply proven Enterprise Architecture techniques to help you build an IT strategy for your organisation. We'll model your business, understand the IT capabilities that drive it and the maturity of those capabilities to meet your business goals. Above all we'll think outside the box to bring new ideas to the table, “best source” IT solutions and deliver a roadmap to inform your project and procurement pipeline.
Governance

Well implemented Architecture governance is a fantastic tool to manage IT cost of ownership. Our experienced team know how to make it work. We'll get you up and running with proven and pragmatic processes, all the resources you'll need to operate and train your BAU teams to deliver it long after we've gone.
Project

We lead solution architecture on projects. We’ll immerse ourselves in your business processes, we understand the architecture patterns that work, we've got vast experience on £multi-million programmes, we deliver results...fast. Working within your development lifecycle, our consultants are just as well versed in powerpoint, talking to your C-level stakeholders as they are managing the detail with your developers.

Meet our team

Our fantastic team here at Cloudaura have the skills, ideas and delivery focus to make market leading products and to augment your organisation through our many years working across multiple domains

An innovative and experienced IT professional with a passion for delivery and exceptional design

James Shackleton
Co-Founder
Specialising in breaking the most complex challenges into easy to implement solutions

JUSTIN WOOD
Co-founder
A creative problem solver and design thinker that aligns UX and business strategies

STEPHEN WARREN-WOOD
Product Designer

Recent portfolio

Cloudaura works with clients big and small including some major household names. We are renowned for the quality of our services and our ability to deliver the right outcomes for your business.

Cloudaura took the lead on a complex £multi-million programme delivering cross-functional change across the organisation, completely overhauling the parcel fulfilment processes and enabling the new B2C collection and returns service “ToYou”. We were involved throughout the programme lifecycle defining the end-end solution architecture as well as managing client's 3rd party developers to deliver against the design.
Aviva are the second largest insurance company in the UK and sixth largest in the world. Cloudaura are undertaking detailed strategy and consultancy work to articulate the as-is landscape, target state and recommendation transitional states for the data domain horizontal. We have also been entrusted to undertake the delivery of the data strategy for the UK Life business.
N Brown Group is a multi-channel retailer with major brands such as JD Williams, Simply Be, and Jacamo, and is currently undergoing a major technology refresh with new front end and merchandising platforms. Cloudaura is helping them land the supply chain changes in the current programme as well as developing a future strategy for Order and Warehouse Management systems.
The Yorkshire Building Society Group are the second largest building society in the UK, and have mortgages at the heart of their product offerings. Cloudaura successfully delivered a drains up deep dive into their mortgage landscape, articulating the current state as well as identifying a number of initiatives to remove complexity, cut costs and improve customer experience ahead of a multi million pound investment in modernising their mortgage platforms.
Sheffield Hallam is one of the largest universities in the UK with an annual turnover of £450million. Cloudaura supported the newly appointed CIO to deliver an applications and infrastructure strategy as part of a major IT transformation. Our strategy focussed on delivering scalable and configurable enterprise platforms, replacing numerous small point solutions, reducing TCO and leveraging cloud based platform and infrastructure services.

What people say about us

Cloudaura’s competency and quiet efficiency ensured that they quickly became an integral part of the team and ensured that their engagement was extended a number of times

Desmond Massey-Hicks

Programme Director

Cloudaura deliver value-for-money utilising the most up-to-date technology, and are constantly driving to do things better, faster, & more efficiently. Every day working with Cloudaura is a learning experience.