LIVEX SOFTWARE

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About LIVEX SOFTWARE

LIVEX is one of the leading software development companies in South Africa with our Headquarters based in Pretoria. We specialize in proving custom software development, websites and online business solutions to increase your business productivity.

Let us help you build your brand and grow your business by tapping into our years of experience in every aspect of software development. Get the software development and services you need to take your business to a whole new level without having to worry about costly IT expenses.

Our software development fees are 37% lower than the market average and even though we offer a much lower costing structure we always deliver the highest quality products and services all of which comes with our satisfaction guarantee.

Services

Mobile App Development Web Development Custom Software Development Web Design Social Media Marketing SEO Android App Development

Industries Served

Legal Services Energy & Utilities Healthcare

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Distributed ledger that finally solved a trust problem we had spent three years arguing about

Ji-Woo Park / VP of Engineering - Seoul Digital Corp
Verified
Feb 13, 2026

Project summary: Our client portal had been built in 2017 and had not received meaningful investment since. Clients were contrasting it unfavourably with the portals of our competitors in pitches.

Six months after go-live our platform is processing three times the transaction volume we specified in the original brief. The architecture choices made during discovery accommodated that growth without remediation work. That is the difference between a team that designs for what you tell them and a team that designs for what you are likely to need. We are in conversation about a Phase 2 engagement and I expect to be using this partnership for several years.

PROS

Deep domain knowledge that reduced the discovery overhead significantly, proactive risk identification before issues became incidents, delivery cadence that our stakeholders found reassuring

CONS

Their insistence on a detailed functional specification before development began felt like friction at the time. In retrospect, it was the reason the development phase ran without the ambiguity that has derailed similar projects for us previously

5.0
Overall
5.0
Quality
4.5
Schedule
5.0
Cost
5.0
Communication
Project TypeBlockchain Development
IndustryLegal Services
Project CostLess than $10,000
DurationMar 2025 – Jan 2026

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
Seoul Digital Corp operates in the Legal Services sector with headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. In my role as VP of Engineering I am accountable for the full technology agenda — infrastructure, product, and vendor relationships. We are a commercially driven organisation and every technology decision is evaluated against a clear business case before it is approved.
What specific problem or business challenge led you to hire this company?
Regulatory requirements in our Legal Services segment had changed and the compliance timeline was set by our regulator, not by us. The Blockchain Development changes required were significant enough to justify engaging a specialist partner rather than diverting our internal team from the product roadmap.
What services did the company provide for your project?
End-to-end Blockchain Development delivery with particular depth in the integration and data migration components, which were the highest-risk elements of the programme. They supplemented this with a dedicated QA resource throughout development and a documented runbook for our operations team at handover.
Why did you choose this company over other providers you considered?
We ran a structured shortlisting process across five vendors. The technical evaluation eliminated two immediately. Of the remaining three, this team's proposal was differentiated by the specificity of their Blockchain Development approach and the evidence base they provided — reference projects in Legal Services contexts, not generic case studies. The reference calls confirmed a track record that the proposal had described accurately.
How clearly did the company understand your requirements and business goals?
Extremely well, in part because they had relevant Legal Services experience that reduced the context-setting overhead significantly. They understood the domain vocabulary, asked the right questions, and translated business requirements into technical specifications with a fidelity that meant the development phase had very few clarification cycles.
How was your overall experience with their communication and project management?
The project management framework was the most structured I have experienced with an external vendor. Sprint planning was tight, acceptance criteria were specific, retrospectives were honest and acted on. The project manager treated the shared backlog as a live document and the risk register as an operational tool rather than a compliance artefact. I never had to ask for a status update.
Did the company deliver the project on time and within your expected budget?
On time and within the approved budget. The estimation accuracy was notable — they had broken the work down in sufficient detail during discovery that their forecast proved reliable throughout, rather than being a number that shifted with every change in scope. We received one change request and it was for scope we had introduced ourselves.
What tangible results or business impact have you seen since the project was completed?
Quantifying the impact precisely is complicated by other variables in our business, but the metrics we can attribute directly to the Blockchain Development work are meaningful: session duration up, conversion rate up, error rate down, and our NPS for the digital touchpoint has improved by eleven points. Our account managers report that the new capability is coming up positively in client conversations.
What did you like most about working with this company?
The willingness to be direct. When our requirements were unclear they said so. When our priorities were contradictory they explained why. When a technical approach we had assumed was the right one turned out to have significant downsides, they told us before we had committed to it. That kind of intellectual honesty is what I look for in a long-term technology partner.
Would you recommend this company to others, and would you work with them again?
Unreservedly. We are in active scoping conversations for a second engagement and I expect this to develop into a multi-year partnership. For any organisation in the Legal Services sector looking for Blockchain Development expertise combined with genuine delivery discipline, I would put this team at the top of the evaluation list.

Distributed ledger that finally solved a trust problem we had spent three years arguing about

Marcus Holloway / SVP of Engineering - Vertex Cloud Dynamics
Verified
Jan 29, 2026

Project summary: Grid modernisation funding required us to demonstrate demand-response capability. The machine learning models existed on paper; we needed an engineering partner to build and productionise them.

What made the most difference in practice was the quality of the engineering judgment on this team. Not the ability to execute a specification — that is a baseline expectation. The ability to recognise when a specification was suboptimal, explain why, propose an alternative, and support the client in making a decision about it. That consultative dimension elevated the output beyond what the brief described and resulted in a product that is more fit for purpose than the one we had originally specified.

PROS

Architectural decisions designed for longevity rather than just the current brief, thorough automated test coverage, post-launch stability that validated every technical choice made during discovery

CONS

Their discovery process is more rigorous than we were accustomed to and required more preparation from our side than we had initially allocated — but the quality of what followed justified every hour of it

5.0
Overall
5.0
Quality
5.0
Schedule
5.0
Cost
4.5
Communication
Project TypeBlockchain Development
IndustryEnergy & Utilities
Project Cost$150,000 to $499,999
DurationMay 2025 – Oct 2025

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
Vertex Cloud Dynamics is an established Energy & Utilities organisation headquartered in Austin, USA. My role as SVP of Engineering covers both strategic planning and operational technology delivery. We maintain high standards for our vendors because our clients hold us to high standards — a bar we expect our partners to meet.
What specific problem or business challenge led you to hire this company?
The immediate problem was that our Blockchain Development capability had become the bottleneck limiting our ability to grow. Every feature request, every new client requirement, every internal initiative was delayed by a platform that had been extended beyond its original design. We needed a rebuild, not a patch.
What services did the company provide for your project?
The core engagement was Blockchain Development delivery, though their scope expanded to include technical consultancy during discovery that materially improved our requirements. They also took ownership of the third-party integration workstream that had been a coordination challenge in previous projects, removing that complexity from our internal team entirely.
Why did you choose this company over other providers you considered?
We had a failed engagement behind us and were more rigorous in our selection process as a result. We asked detailed questions about how they managed scope change, how they handled estimation, and how they communicated problems. The answers were specific, evidenced, and consistent across the team members we spoke to. That gave us confidence that the process was real rather than rehearsed.
How clearly did the company understand your requirements and business goals?
Better than we managed ourselves going in. The workshops they facilitated surfaced assumptions we had not examined and exposed three requirements that were in direct conflict with each other. Resolving those before development began saved us what would certainly have been significant rework later in the project.
How was your overall experience with their communication and project management?
The project management framework was the most structured I have experienced with an external vendor. Sprint planning was tight, acceptance criteria were specific, retrospectives were honest and acted on. The project manager treated the shared backlog as a live document and the risk register as an operational tool rather than a compliance artefact. I never had to ask for a status update.
Did the company deliver the project on time and within your expected budget?
Yes to both. There was a single sprint where a dependency on a third-party API introduced a one-week delay. The team identified it three weeks in advance, presented two mitigation options, and we agreed on an approach that recovered the schedule within the same sprint cycle. That level of foresight is what separates good project management from reactive problem management.
What tangible results or business impact have you seen since the project was completed?
Quantifying the impact precisely is complicated by other variables in our business, but the metrics we can attribute directly to the Blockchain Development work are meaningful: session duration up, conversion rate up, error rate down, and our NPS for the digital touchpoint has improved by eleven points. Our account managers report that the new capability is coming up positively in client conversations.
What did you like most about working with this company?
The continuity of the team. The engineers who participated in the discovery sessions were the engineers who built the system. That consistency of institutional knowledge across a six-month project has a value that is difficult to quantify but easy to notice when it is absent. Every conversation built on the previous ones.
Would you recommend this company to others, and would you work with them again?
Yes. I would add the context that this is not the cheapest option in the market and they are selective about the engagements they take on. If your primary criterion is price, there are alternatives. If you want a technology partner who can be trusted with a complex Blockchain Development programme in the Energy & Utilities space and will deliver against a serious brief, this is the team.

Technology strategy that aligned our board, our CTO, and our engineering team for the first time

Fatima Al-Suwaidi / Head of Digital Strategy - Gulf FinTech Holdings
Verified
Jan 17, 2026

Project summary: Remote care had gone from an experiment to a core service line and our technology had not kept pace. We needed a robust, compliant telehealth platform in a timeline that the market would not wait for.

The project brief was ambitious and we had received proposals ranging from two to five times our eventual budget from other vendors. This team came back with a proposal that was commercially realistic and technically credible — and then delivered against it. That alignment between proposal and outcome is not something I take for granted. I have been on the other side of it enough times to know it requires both honesty in the sales process and discipline in delivery. We experienced both.

PROS

Senior-level engineering presence throughout the entire project, not just during the pitch, honest and commercially fair handling of scope changes, codebase that our internal team praised on review

CONS

Pipeline availability for kickoff required a few weeks of lead time — in hindsight that selection pressure means you are working with a team that is in demand for the right reasons

5.0
Overall
5.0
Quality
4.5
Schedule
5.0
Cost
5.0
Communication
Project TypeIT Consulting
IndustryHealthcare
Project Cost$500,000+
DurationApr 2025 – Oct 2025

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
Gulf FinTech Holdings operates in the Healthcare sector with headquarters in Abu Dhabi, UAE. In my role as Head of Digital Strategy I am accountable for the full technology agenda — infrastructure, product, and vendor relationships. We are a commercially driven organisation and every technology decision is evaluated against a clear business case before it is approved.
What specific problem or business challenge led you to hire this company?
We had a defined product vision for our next phase of growth in the Healthcare market but lacked the engineering depth internally to execute it. The IT Consulting requirements in particular required specialist experience that we could not realistically recruit for on the timeline our business plan required.
What services did the company provide for your project?
The core engagement was IT Consulting delivery, though their scope expanded to include technical consultancy during discovery that materially improved our requirements. They also took ownership of the third-party integration workstream that had been a coordination challenge in previous projects, removing that complexity from our internal team entirely.
Why did you choose this company over other providers you considered?
We ran a structured shortlisting process across five vendors. The technical evaluation eliminated two immediately. Of the remaining three, this team's proposal was differentiated by the specificity of their IT Consulting approach and the evidence base they provided — reference projects in Healthcare contexts, not generic case studies. The reference calls confirmed a track record that the proposal had described accurately.
How clearly did the company understand your requirements and business goals?
Comprehensively. The discovery phase they ran was more thorough than anything we had experienced with previous vendors. They challenged requirements that were vague or contradictory, proposed alternatives where our initial thinking was limiting, and produced a functional specification that our internal stakeholders agreed was the clearest articulation of the product they had seen written down.
How was your overall experience with their communication and project management?
Outstanding. The discipline around asynchronous communication was particularly effective given the time zones involved between Abu Dhabi, UAE and the delivery team. Written updates were specific and consistent, response times were same-day for anything that required a decision, and nothing fell through the cracks across a six-month engagement.
Did the company deliver the project on time and within your expected budget?
Yes. I had privately built a contingency expectation into my planning given the project complexity and the number of integrations involved. None of that contingency was needed. The delivery landed on the agreed date and the final invoice matched the approved budget to within a fraction of a percent. That outcome is rarer than the industry acknowledges.
What tangible results or business impact have you seen since the project was completed?
The most direct measure is the performance of the system in production. In the five months since go-live we have had zero P1 incidents, our page performance scores have improved across every Core Web Vitals metric, and two enterprise clients who had cited our previous platform limitations during contract negotiations have since renewed without that objection arising.
What did you like most about working with this company?
The continuity of the team. The engineers who participated in the discovery sessions were the engineers who built the system. That consistency of institutional knowledge across a six-month project has a value that is difficult to quantify but easy to notice when it is absent. Every conversation built on the previous ones.
Would you recommend this company to others, and would you work with them again?
Absolutely. With a specific note that the value starts in the discovery phase — clients who approach that process with seriousness will get the most from the engagement. We invested appropriately at the front end and the returns are evident in what was delivered.

FAQs

What services does LIVEX SOFTWARE offer?
LIVEX SOFTWARE provides software development services that may include mobile app development, web development, custom software development, UI/UX design, cloud solutions, AI development, and enterprise application development. Its core focus areas include SEO, Mobile App Development, Custom Software Development, Android App Development and Social Media Marketing.
Which industries does LIVEX SOFTWARE serve?
LIVEX SOFTWARE has experience working with businesses across multiple industries, including Insurance, Aerospace & Defense, Construction, Healthcare, Fashion & Apparel and Energy & Utilities.
Is LIVEX SOFTWARE suitable for startups?
Yes. Many startups choose companies like LIVEX SOFTWARE because they offer MVP development, product consulting, scalable architecture, and dedicated development teams that help launch products quickly while managing development costs. For context, its listed capabilities span SEO, Mobile App Development, Custom Software Development, Android App Development and Social Media Marketing, and its typical hourly rate is around N/A.
What technologies does LIVEX SOFTWARE specialize in?
Depending on the project requirements, LIVEX SOFTWARE may work with technologies such as React, Angular, Vue.js, Node.js, Python, .NET, Java, PHP, Flutter, React Native, iOS, Android, AWS, Azure, AI, and cloud platforms. For context, it has experience across industries such as Insurance, Aerospace & Defense, Construction, Healthcare, Fashion & Apparel and Energy & Utilities, and it reports a team size of 2 - 9 professionals.
Does LIVEX SOFTWARE provide post-launch support and maintenance?
Many software development companies, including LIVEX SOFTWARE, offer ongoing maintenance, bug fixes, performance optimization, security updates, feature enhancements, and technical support after project deployment. For context, it has served clients in South-africa, and its listed capabilities span SEO, Mobile App Development, Custom Software Development, Android App Development and Social Media Marketing.
How do I choose the right software development company?
When selecting a software development company like LIVEX SOFTWARE, consider its portfolio, client reviews, industry expertise, technical capabilities, communication process, pricing model, project management approach, and post-launch support. For context, it has served clients in South-africa, and it reports a team size of 2 - 9 professionals.
Is LIVEX SOFTWARE an offshore software development company?
LIVEX SOFTWARE may operate as an offshore, onshore, or hybrid software development company depending on its location and the markets it serves. For context, it has served clients in South-africa, and it has experience across industries such as Insurance, Aerospace & Defense, Construction, Healthcare, Fashion & Apparel and Energy & Utilities.
Can LIVEX SOFTWARE build AI-powered applications?
Many modern software development companies, including LIVEX SOFTWARE, offer AI and machine learning integration services such as chatbots, predictive analytics, computer vision, and intelligent automation. For context, its listed capabilities span SEO, Mobile App Development, Custom Software Development, Android App Development and Social Media Marketing, and its average project cost is reported at $2500000+.
Can LIVEX SOFTWARE modernize legacy software?
LIVEX SOFTWARE may provide legacy software modernization services, including re-platforming, code refactoring, and migration to modern frameworks or cloud infrastructure to improve performance and maintainability. For context, it has served clients in South-africa, and it reports a team size of 2 - 9 professionals.
How do I request a proposal from LIVEX SOFTWARE?
You can request a proposal from LIVEX SOFTWARE by submitting your project requirements through its website contact form, email, or by reaching out directly to discuss your business goals and receive a tailored development estimate. For context, it has experience across industries such as Insurance, Aerospace & Defense, Construction, Healthcare, Fashion & Apparel and Energy & Utilities, and its listed capabilities span SEO, Mobile App Development, Custom Software Development, Android App Development and Social Media Marketing.

Company Info

Founded 2016
Employees 2 - 9
Hourly Rate N/A
Avg. Project Cost $10,000+
Client Rating 4.7/5 (13 reviews)

Rating Breakdown

Quality
4.7
Schedule
4.6
Cost
4.7
Communication
4.5