Episode 3Varda Energy: the quiet migration4:12Grown with KIASA
The people who run the systems we helped build tell the story in their own words. A short film series from the field, hosted by our managing partner.
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Grown, not bolted on
Most technology programs fail quietly, after the launch. KIASA designs, builds and runs digital systems alongside the people who will own them, so the change is still working years later.
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Announcement
KIASA launches Canopy, a managed platform team for mid-size enterprises
Canopy gives companies without a large engineering department a standing team that runs their cloud platform, keeps it secure and reports back each month in plain language.
Perspective
Why the second year of a cloud migration matters more than the first
The move itself is the easy part. Costs, habits and ownership settle in year two, and that is where most of the promised value is won or lost.
Research report
The maintenance dividend
We asked 140 engineering leaders where their budgets go. On average, 61% is spent keeping existing systems running. The best performers spend half that, and reinvest the rest.
Research report
AI in the back office: where the first real savings are showing up
Forget the demos. Across 60 finance, claims and supply teams, the returns so far come from four unglamorous tasks. We name them, with numbers.
Case study
How Halden Mutual settles claims in two days, not nine
A 90-year-old insurer replaced its claims core without a freeze, one product line at a time. Its customers noticed only that things got faster.
Research report
Platform pulse: what engineering leaders will fund in 2027
Budgets are flat; expectations are not. Our annual survey of 320 technology leaders shows where the money moves next year, and what is being cut to pay for it.
Perspective
Green software is mostly just good software
The code that wastes the least energy is usually the code that is simplest to run. A practical look at carbon as an engineering measure.
Research report
Security debt: the quiet risk on the balance sheet
Unpatched systems behave like unpaid loans: the interest compounds. A way to measure the exposure, and a plan for paying it down.
“A system is finished when the people who run it no longer need us. We plan for that day from the first week.”
Client spotlight
Recognition and awards
A partner clients keep
Nine in ten of the clients we worked with in 2023 are still working with us today, and 94% say they would recommend KIASA to a peer.
See related awardsA good place to do good work
Named one of the best mid-size technology workplaces for the third year running, on the strength of what our own people say about us.
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Rated a Leader for application modernization services by independent analysts, with the highest score of any firm for delivery.
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Careers
Grow alongside people who take the craft seriously
Small senior teams, real ownership and time set aside to learn. Come and do work you will still be proud of in ten years.
Join usKIASA news
- KIASA launches Canopy, a managed platform team for mid-size enterprises
- KIASA and Halden Mutual extend their partnership through 2030
- KIASA completes an independent security audit of its managed services
- New research: engineering leaders spend 61% of their budgets keeping systems running
- KIASA appoints Daniel Okafor as Chief Delivery Officer
- KIASA publishes its first sustainability report
- KIASA opens a second engineering studio