After a flurry of activity getting our Decentralised Share Register live, we’ve been working on various new DSR reporting tools this fortnight, to help businesses gain greater insight into their investor database.

To enable us to keep working at such a rapid pace, we’ve also been looking into our working processes, and how we can develop, test and deploy new functionality quickly without compromising the software that’s already live. Read on to discover how we’ve achieved this…

What we’ve been up to — our key developments in summary

Architecture and dev-ops

Moving applications to the new front-end theme

Process automation

Decentralised Share Register (DSR)

White-label design features

Campaign selection reporter

Quorum reports

Public reports

Responsive development

One interesting practical change we’ve made in recent weeks is moving applications over to our new front-end theme. This enables our application to be more responsive and ensures it works on different devices such as desktop computers, laptops and mobile phones.

We’re making sure to use standard components in our architecture for flexible development, which in turn will increase throughput from the front-end team — so we can get new functionality out to our community faster.

Process automation

Another area we’ve been working on recently is improvements on our deployment process, automating elements to speed up the roll-out of new functions. We now use an approach called container-based deployment, where we package up the whole run-time environment our application needs to run.

This deployment methodology is an efficient way of releasing new updates. As everything the application needs is packaged in one container, it is less prone to errors. This also means that there is no downtime for our existing technology, because everything we need to deploy is in one place.

Our technology, your brand

Our Decentralised Share Register (DSR) has attracted a lot of interest since its launch a few weeks ago, and we’re continually adding features to help market operators and businesses build closer relationships with their investors.

One of the biggest updates this fortnight is the ability to white-label our DSR platform. This means our clients (market operators) can customise key visual elements of the application — including the colours and fonts and company logo — so that it has the same feel as their brand website. This way, when investors log on to check their share information, they feel that they are in familiar trusted surroundings.

New investor engagement tools

In another important update, we’ve just rolled out two new reports, which will help businesses to better understand and engage with their investors.

Our campaign selection report enables companies to break down their investor database using key differentiators such as age, gender, location and holding. This information can then be exported into a CSV file or excel spreadsheet for segmented marketing campaign purposes.