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Application Modernisation

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Mobile Application

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App Development

Innovative Tech Solutions Built for Marketing and Digital Leaders

What We Do
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Website Design and Development

Whether you’re building a simple landing page or a complex, custom website, the right blend of responsive design and web development can set you apart.

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Custom Software Development

Whether you're looking for a web app, mobile app or an update to an existing application our developers will bring your software project to life.
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Managed Services and Support

With our managed application services, we forge a partnership. We align technology with your evolving goals through ongoing support.
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Artificial Intelligence

Discover how AI can create a competitive edge for your business. Our AI-driven solutions empower your teams to innovate faster, and operate more efficiently.
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Data and Analytics

Transform your data into actionable insights. Explore our Data and Analytics solutions for reporting, visualisation and smarter business decisions.
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Modern Workplaces

Our solutions bring together the right tools, secure systems, and smart automation to help your team collaborate in a flexible digital environment.

27 Years in Business

36 Awards and Finalist Positions Earned

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Award-Winning Microsoft Partner

From Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Winner to our Analytics on Microsoft Azure Specialisation, we deliver projects that matter. Microsoft trusts us with innovative work like data journalism for their enterprise clients.

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Success Stories

We've helped businesses like yours cut costs, boost efficiency, and grow faster. Here's how we did it.

Our Work
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    CARTERS: Trade App

    Transforming CARTERS from a web based trade portal to a comprehensive mobile application to eliminate friction and provide seamless, always on access for tens of thousands of trade customers across New Zealand's building supply network.

    • 5-star rating on both app stores after 1 year
    • Downloaded more than 4,000 times
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    Litter Intelligence: Data Visualisation

    Transforming Sustainable Coastlines' complex marine litter data from overwhelming Power BI reports into an intuitive timeline and map based visualisation platform to make environmental data more engaging and accessible.

    • Created intuitive data visualisations empowering communities and informing policy makers
    • Transformed complex marine litter data into accessible, engaging website insights
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    Unison: Website Design and Development

    Transforming Unison from limited outage communication to a comprehensive responsive website outages tool to provide customers with easily accessible, real time power outage information.

    • 8,000
      Users in first 6 months
    • 20%
      Decrease in fault calls
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Powering Innovation Together

Whether you're a startup finding your feet or an established business scaling up, our clients come from all backgrounds. Here's how we've helped teams like yours succeed.

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We really wanted the mobile app to be a great experience for our customers. Enlighten Designs were a clear front-runner when we were selecting a partner due to their approach of going out into the field with customers and understanding their problems.

Mike Lambert
CARTERS IT Manager

Our whānau are scattered around the world and having an easy way for them to connect with their hapū has been incredibly positive.

Marama Royal
Chairman for Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Trust

Enlighten Designs has helped CCA to deliver a powerful, precise solution for analyzing our survey data. The insights we’re uncovering are highly valuable, and we're excited to see how further refinements will enhance our processes.

Donna Shepherd
Creating Communities Australia (CCA)

We understood the importance of the discovery and design phase and Enlighten’s expertise helped us get this crucial part of the project right.

Greg Palmer
WEL Networks Business Communications Partner

Wintec wanted a partner that would spend time with us, learn our culture, intuitively understand our needs and become a real contributor to our strategy. Enlighten does just that.

Brad Vines
Director, Information Technology at Wintec

Our new website is a huge improvement on the old one and it's great when you hear this from customers as well as internal stakeholders. The user experience is much better for customers especially when it comes to forms and site responsiveness, plus our own user experience is also vastly improved with greater autonomy.

Greg Palmer
WEL Networks Business Communications Partner

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    How Can Non-profits Connect Their Data?

    Doug Wilman

    Behind New Zealand's largest predator-proof fence, a conservation team was drowning in disconnected data. We helped Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari go from nine siloed systems to one unified platform. No big-bang rollout, just steady, proven progress. It's a story about data meeting mission, and it's not unique to conservation.

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    Does AI Make Software Delivery Faster? Part 1: What We Learned in Nov 2025

    Verne Roberts
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    Enlighten Acquires ROMS: A New Chapter for Research Management Software in New Zealand

    Catherine Lindner
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