Our partners
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Technology partners
Cloudflare
EMEA's first Authorised Service Delivery Partner
We were early backers of Cloudflare, and we've stayed exclusive to it for the security and performance challenges it solves best. As one of Cloudflare's most certified partners and a Powered+ partner, we've deployed and managed it for organisations across government, finance, retail and media, including critical national platforms where downtime isn't an option.
That track record is why Cloudflare made us its first Authorised Service Delivery Partner in EMEA. In practice, it means free technical assessments before you commit, proof-of-value delivery in your own environment, and 24/7 managed service once you're live — covering everything from Zero Trust access to edge compute and AI security.
Appian
UK low-code partner
Appian lets us build and deploy business applications up to 20 times faster than traditional development — combining business process management, AI and robotic process automation into a single low-code platform. We use it to replace ageing case management systems, connect legacy platforms as "digital glue," and build new applications from scratch.
It's the platform behind Social Work England's single digital home for 96,000 social workers — built to tight deadlines and now the exemplar other regulators look to.
Optimizely
Gold Solution Partner
Optimizely has been named a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms five years running, and we're one of the few ISO 20000-certified Gold Partners delivering it. We use it to build content-managed, personalised digital experiences — from Single Online Home, the national policing platform recognised with an EMEA Digital Social Impact Award, to Insight Investment's re-platformed public site.
Umbraco
Gold Partner
Umbraco is an open-source CMS that powers over 730,000 websites, and we've been working with content platforms like it for 20 years. As a Gold Partner, we help clients build new sites on it, migrate away from underperforming agencies, and run health-checks on existing implementations. It's the platform behind Social Work England's case management system and Yorkshire Water's customer-facing site, serving 5 million customers.
Microsoft Azure
Cloud hosting, Azure DevOps, and app services
As Microsoft Partners, we are experienced in implementing Microsoft technologies and developing microservices and API-based architecture. We offer a range of cloud hosting options, with expertise in designing and managing scalable cloud hosting services on various platforms, such as Microsoft Azure for Social Work England and Single Online Home for police services.
Our Azure certified architects will assist you with cloud-readiness assessments, technology recommendations, infrastructure design, cyber security and migration strategies. By using Microsoft Azure DevOps, we can automate testing and deployment processes, ensuring streamlined development. Azure allows you to build and deploy apps quickly and efficiently while meeting all your security and compliance requirements.
Business partners
Softcat
Reseller Partner
Softcat is the UK's leading technology reseller, who help ensure their customers have the right technologies to meet their business objectives, and a way of easily managing vendors and their investment. Ensuring customers maximise the value of their investment in technology is critical. For Softcat, that means partnering with best in class service partners.
As a leading vendor, there is significant demand for Cloudflare across Softcat's customer base. To help customers confidently progress their journey with Cloudflare, Softcat has partnered with CDS as their only Cloudflare services partner. As the first Authorised Service Deliver Partner for Cloudflare in EMEA, and with a range of critical deployments under our belt, we are best positioned to provide value to their Cloudflare customers.
How we choose partners
Every one of the relationships above exists because it lets us deliver something a client actually needed -faster development, better security, a platform that scales. If a client's problem is better solved another way, we'll say so.