Web and software development for Sharjah businesses
Sharjah is the industrial emirate, and it is where our Indian manufacturing experience transfers most directly in the UAE. Budgets are smaller than Dubai and the problems are considerably more interesting.
Sharjah has a far higher density of factories, workshops, building-materials suppliers and family-run trading businesses than Dubai, and markedly less attention from technology suppliers. Most of the agencies in the UAE are selling websites and marketing into Dubai. Comparatively few are building the systems a Sharjah manufacturer actually needs.
Those needs are familiar to us. A workshop in one of the Sharjah industrial areas running job work for multiple customers, costing it retrospectively, tracking stock on a spreadsheet and invoicing three days after despatch, has the same problem as a Howrah fabricator. We have built that system many times.
Sharjah businesses are also price-sensitive in a way Dubai ones are not, which suits a supplier who publishes rates rather than pricing off the buyer apparent budget. The conversation here starts with what it costs and what it does.
The Sharjah sectors we work in
Sharjah businesses are price-sensitive in a way Dubai ones are not, and they are running the same operational problems as our Howrah clients: job costing on spreadsheets, stock nobody trusts, and invoicing that takes three days. The web work is secondary; the internal systems work is where the value sits.
Areas and precincts we serve
Remote delivery, so geography inside Sharjah makes no difference to what we can do. Listed because buyers ask.
Job work, costing and the retrospective margin problem
The characteristic Sharjah engagement is a manufacturer or job-work operation that cannot tell you what a job cost until well after it shipped.
The mechanics recur. Labour is recorded on paper or not at all. Material issue against a job is reconciled monthly, by argument. Machine time is estimated. Subcontracted processes are tracked in someone notebook. The result is a costing that is assembled after the fact from partial records, and a quoted price for the next job that is based on a number nobody fully trusts.
The system that fixes it is not complicated. It is exacting, because the value lies entirely in the exceptions: the customer who always revises after the first week, the material grade that gets substituted, the job that gets split across two shops. Those rules live in people heads and do not appear in a requirements workshop, because nobody mentions what they consider obvious.
We find them by watching the work across a full cycle rather than by running a workshop, and we would rather demonstrate that on one module than describe it in a proposal.
In practice
Every engagement starts with a conversation, not a proposal template.
Thirty minutes with a senior engineer. You leave with an architecture sketch and an honest cost range, whether or not you hire us.
Stock, and why the spreadsheet always diverges
The second universal Sharjah problem is inventory that is accurate on the day it is counted and wrong within a month.
The cause is almost never carelessness. It is that the spreadsheet records what was supposed to happen and the warehouse records what did. Returns that were never entered. Material issued against the wrong job. A short delivery accepted and noted on the delivery note but not in the system. Samples taken. Each is small and the accumulated divergence is what makes the number untrustworthy.
The fix is capture at the point the event happens, by the person it happens to, on an interface that takes less time than not doing it. That last constraint is the one that determines success. A form requiring ninety seconds where the current process takes twenty will be bypassed, and the bypass will be attributed to resistance to change rather than to the design.
We test these interfaces on the floor with the people who will use them, in the conditions they work in, before the build is finished.
Every engagement starts with a conversation, not a proposal template.
Thirty minutes with a senior engineer. You leave with an architecture sketch and an honest cost range, whether or not you hire us.
What we cost
Sharjah budgets are realistic and we price accordingly. Indicative bands for original work.
Start with one module
We scope the first module separately and deliberately small, because the honest way to judge an industrial software supplier is to watch them deliver one thing and see whether the people who have to use it actually do. If they do, the next module is an easy decision. If they do not, you have spent a limited amount finding out.
| Project | Typical UAE supplier | With us |
|---|---|---|
| Business website | AED 12,000 - 35,000 | AED 2,000 - 5,000 |
| Inventory and stock system | AED 60,000 - 250,000 | AED 8,000 - 45,000 |
| Job costing system | AED 80,000 - 350,000 | AED 10,000 - 65,000 |
| Full production and trading ERP | AED 200,000 - 800,000 | AED 25,000 - 160,000 |
| Support and maintenance | AED 2,000 - 7,000/mo | AED 300 - 1,500/mo |
8 hours a day where we are both at a desk
This is the closest working relationship we have with any overseas market. Gulf Standard Time is just an hour and a half behind India and there is no daylight saving, so our 09:30-19:30 IST day covers 08:00-18:00 in Dubai almost exactly. Your entire working day sits inside ours. Live calls happen at normal hours for both sides, daily standups are trivial, and a question asked at eleven in the morning is answered within minutes rather than tomorrow.
Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on Personal Data Protection
The federal PDPL follows GDPR principles closely: lawful basis, purpose limitation, data minimisation and conditions on cross-border transfer. Free zones complicate it usefully rather than badly, since DIFC and ADGM operate their own data protection regimes that are in several respects more mature than the federal one. If your entity sits in DIFC or ADGM, tell us at the outset because the applicable regime and therefore the contract differs.
Regulator: UAE Data Office
What Sharjah buyers ask
We will tell you in the first conversation if we are a poor fit for what you are describing, including when the time difference makes us the wrong choice.
Yes, and it is our strongest fit in the UAE. The problems are the ones we have solved repeatedly for Indian industrial clients: retrospective job costing, material issue reconciled monthly by argument, machine time estimated rather than captured, and stock that diverges from the spreadsheet within a month. We build one module at a time and run it in parallel before the old method stops.
Typically AED 60,000 to 250,000 from a UAE supplier and AED 8,000 to 45,000 with us. A full production and trading ERP is AED 200,000 to 800,000 against AED 25,000 to 160,000. We scope the first module separately and small so you can judge delivery before committing to the rest.
Because the spreadsheet records what was supposed to happen and the warehouse records what did. Returns never entered, material issued against the wrong job, short deliveries noted on the delivery note but not in the system, samples taken. Each is small; the accumulated divergence is what makes the number untrustworthy. The fix is capture at the point the event happens, on an interface faster than not doing it.
That is the question that decides the project, and it is a design problem rather than an engineering one. The interface has to be faster than the current process measured with a stopwatch, tolerate gloves and poor light, and work one-handed. We test on the floor with the people who will use it, in the conditions they work in, before the build is finished.
No. We have no UAE trade licence, office or local representative anywhere in the Emirates, and we will not list an address we have never occupied. Every engineer is in Kolkata. The ninety-minute time difference means we are available throughout your working day regardless.
Elsewhere in United Arab Emirates
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