30 Jul 2025
TL;DR
LDC Via prevents single-vendor risk in complex IT projects by serving as trusted technical arbiters and integration specialists within larger corporations, from household names like the BBC to global giants like Allianz.
Our team: 20+ years average experience
LDC Via is intentionally small, ensuring each consultant brings over two decades of focused expertise. Each team member possesses core senior IT competencies, plus unique specialisations:
- Matt: Stakeholder management expertise that has salvaged stalled enterprise projects
- Mark: Infrastructure and cloud integration specialist who reduces migration timelines through proven methodologies
- Ben: Code quality standards that prevent post-deployment issues
- Julian: Unparalleled breadth of specialist industry experience across sectors
This diverse, complementary skill set eliminates single points of failure while ensuring consistent, tailored expertise from project start to finish.
How we add value
We embed as specialists within larger projects, serving as subject matter experts at management or architectural levels. Our roles include:
- Managing complex vendor relationships and fostering productive collaboration
- Setting technical standards and establishing robust infrastructure
- Leading critical integration efforts that require independent oversight
- Providing balanced perspective against major vendor recommendations
Why multi-vendor strategies work
Our clients have learned that engaging multiple specialist vendors mitigates risk and ensures comprehensive expertise across project requirements. We bridge gaps between vendors using broad industry experience and deep technical knowledge, preventing the pitfalls of placing entire projects with single, large outsourcing partners.
Our established reputation means companies frequently recognise and trust us from previous collaborations. Many clients return repeatedly, appreciating our independence and focussed expertise that delivers consistent results across assignments.
Ready to reduce project risk?
Join our clients who trust LDC Via to bridge vendor gaps and deliver results. Let’s discuss how we can support your next critical project and provide the independent expertise your complex integration demands.
20 Jul 2025
Now that we’re over halfway through 2025, it’s probably just about time for a site update wouldn’t you say? Let’s run the risk of saturating our public with LDC Via content, and tell you what’s been happening.
Behind the scenes our consultancy services remain at full-stretch. As in our last post (almost eight months ago…), we are currently engaged with an insurance client, aviation fuel managers, classical music sales, and more. One of our clients in the education sector is working on a huge upgrade, which we are supporting from hosting platform and application development perspectives.
It’s all go I tell you.
Incoming content alert
In the meantime, we decided that is is high time the website had a refresh. Both the site and this blog have been in existence in their current form for around a decade. We even have some new pieces of content to post in the blog, so look out for that imminently.
Now, we can anticipate your reaction:
I say, this is all a bit much you know. A complete site revamp and some new content?! Crazy, impetuous fools!
Yup! Watch this space.
06 Dec 2024
We’re still here! We can’t believe that our last post was in April, we are a collective disgrace. Nearing the end of 2024, what has been happening in the cloistered (hah) halls of LDC Via Towers?
As usual, it’s all go. Our consultancy services are at full-stretch, spread across things like the insurance sector, food retail logistics, an insolvency practice, aviation fuel management, classical music, and more. Phew. We’d like to lift our eyes from screens and whiteboards, and wish everyone a very merry Christmas, happy holidays, and a restful break. Looking forward to seeing what 2025 brings!
The LDC Via gang
23 Apr 2024
As I type, here in sunny old England (!), the opening general session of Engage 2024 is almost upon us. As always, Engage boasts an impressive range of sessions and speakers. LDC Via is in attendance (well, three quarters of us) and we’d be delighted to meet up and chat with any fellow attendees: hopefully we will see some of you over the next couple of days.
Incidentally, this conference is number fifteen, and it’s Theo’s last as organiser. We wish him well, and can’t thank him enough for all that he’s done over the years: we hope you enjoy your wee gift Theo!
11 Jan 2024
The Concert (1623) by Gerard van Honthorst, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. online collection (public domain).
Oh my, it’s 2024 already. So, erm, happy new year? I think we can still say that despite it being the 11th…
Life proceeds apace, busy and eventful as ever, at LDC Towers. Yet again we find ourselves apologising for the radio silence on this site: we are terrible bloggers, no question (well, apart from the Wookiee).
As the year rolls over – LDC Via turns ten in 2024! – we find ourselves embroiled in the technology behind supply chains, fuel pricing, insurance, financial services, insolvency practitioners, amongst other things. Languages and platforms proliferate: Salesforce, Google, AWS, Azure, MongoDB, vector databases, SQL databases, node, Javascript, Lotusscript (LOL), and much, much more. Some of us even do management stuff (again, looking at the Wookiee).
It’s never dull eh. We wish you, and your loved ones, a happy, healthy and stress-free 2024: make that extra day count, and we will see you at Engage!
