Changing the Rules of Software Development
Core Technology | Consensus Software Award Winner 2010
Some software solves business problems.
The most influential software changes how software itself is created.
When Core Technology received a Consensus Software Award in 2010 for Aviarc, enterprise software development was often slow, expensive and heavily reliant on traditional coding. Businesses needed applications that could adapt quickly to changing requirements, but conventional development methods struggled to keep pace.
Aviarc challenged that model.
Developed in New Zealand, Aviarc was a model-driven application platform that enabled organisations to build sophisticated enterprise software with significantly less custom code. By automating much of the development process, it helped businesses deliver applications faster, adapt more easily to change and reduce the complexity traditionally associated with enterprise software projects.
The Consensus Software Awards recognised both the technical innovation behind the platform and its potential to reshape the way organisations approached software development.
That vision proved to be ahead of its time.
As businesses increasingly embraced digital transformation, low-code and model-driven development evolved from niche concepts into mainstream enterprise technology strategies. Aviarc had anticipated that shift years earlier, demonstrating that powerful business applications could be delivered faster and maintained more efficiently without sacrificing flexibility.
The platform continued to evolve, attracting customers across New Zealand and internationally while establishing Core Technology as a recognised innovator in enterprise software development.
In 2016, Core Technology entered its next chapter when it was acquired by Certus Solutions, bringing Aviarc into a larger enterprise software business and enabling the platform to continue supporting organisations through an expanded portfolio of digital transformation solutions.
For Consensus, Aviarc represents another example of recognising innovation before the broader market fully understood its significance.
The company didn't simply build another software product.
It challenged one of the software industry's longest-held assumptions—that enterprise applications had to be built through traditional development methods.
Its journey demonstrates that some of the greatest innovations don't just create better software.
They change how software gets built.