Client story Accelerating Digital Learning for Bud Systems
CLIENT STORY
Accelerating digital learning: Insight AI empowers Bud Systems’ training platform
Client
Bud Systems, a UK-based education technology provider, sought to enhance its training management platform for independent training providers, universities, colleges and employers. With an ambitious product backlog and tight delivery timelines, Bud partnered with Insight AI to accelerate development while maintaining code quality and streamlining operations.
Industry: Education
Challenge
In late 2021, with ambitious growth plans and an increasing development backlog, Bud Systems faced the challenge of how to meet its delivery plans within the timescales the business required.
To support these timelines, Bud needed a flexible, scalable solution that could integrate seamlessly with its existing processes and help it achieve its objectives within budget and regulatory constraints.
Outcomes
The addition of the Insight AI team’s expertise led to the successful delivery of key backlog items and more frequent releases, while maintaining delivery quality. The platform’s flexibility allowed Bud to scale its development team as needed, supporting business scale-up with readiness for future growth.
Insight AI was selected for its commitment to quality standards and deep expertise in Microsoft technologies
Insight AI’s ability to integrate seamlessly with Bud’s team, adapt to its processes and provide flexible, scalable support made it the ideal partner for this education sector project. The team’s collaborative approach and focus on delivering tangible results enabled Bud to overcome its development challenges and achieve its business objectives.
Our solution
Insight AI provided a dedicated team of professionals who quickly integrated with Bud’s existing development team, working under the client’s management using the Scrum framework. The team was actively involved in maintaining the system and implementing new functionality.
In addition to building new platform features, the team focused on upgrading Angular, refactoring code, updating documentation and recommending new technologies.
Key highlights:
- Team: A dedicated team of Insight AI professionals, fully integrated into Bud’s processes and working in Scrum
- Technology: Upgrades to Angular and the .NET version, with the platform’s flexibility and scalability enhanced
- Architecture: A custom-built solution supporting significant user volumes, using Azure cloud hosting and a microservices architecture, with CQRS, data replication and real-time processing for high performance and scalability
- Quality: Code reviews, recommendations and ongoing support, with comprehensive code refactoring and documentation updates
- Integration and compliance: Integration with legacy systems managed by adhering to Bud’s established processes, with security and compliance maintained throughout
Benefits and outcomes
The collaboration helped Bud Systems overcome its backlog and accelerate delivery of a robust, compliant platform.
- Backlog delivery: Successful delivery of key backlog items
- Faster releases: More frequent releases, while maintaining delivery quality
- Scalability: A flexible platform that allowed Bud to scale its development team as needed
- Readiness for growth: Support for business scale-up, with readiness for future growth
- Client feedback: Positive feedback highlighting the professionalism and impact of Insight AI team members, particularly in the successful release of major Angular upgrades
“ Insight AI were an ideal partner choice for Bud, with representation locally and a depth of strong relevant technical expertise remotely, we were able to augment our delivery capability in way that was both effective and flexible, adapting to our changing needs throughout the project. The team and supporting leadership were a pleasure to work with, facilitating strong collaboration at all levels to deliver on our goals.”
Mark McGrath,
CTO,
Bud Systems.
By Insight UK / 3 Nov 2026
