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SOLID 2026: Disciplined Innovation. Deliberate Investment.
For over 20 years, SOLID has been embedded in the operational core of the businesses we support. That experience – and the responsibility that comes with it – continues to shape how we invest in the platform.
In 2025, our focus was on expanding operational control and refining high-impact workflows across key areas of the system.
In 2026, that focus deepens. The roadmap reflects deliberate investment in infrastructure upgrades, security strengthening, expanded regression coverage and practical AI integration – the elements that determine whether platforms simply function, or scale reliably under pressure.
This isn’t feature expansion for its own sake.
It’s focused investment in the areas that improve stability, support growth and reduce operational risk.
Why This Matters
Sustainable scale depends on more than features.
It relies on stable infrastructure, strong testing coverage and controlled change. Our 2026 roadmap is intentionally weighted toward those priorities.
- For customers, that translates into:
- Greater platform stability as you scale
- Reduced disruption when updates are introduced
- Faster iteration supported by stronger safeguards
- Continued alignment with supported infrastructure standards
- Practical innovation that strengthens – not destabilises – operations
This is investment designed to protect momentum – and extend it.
2026: A Year of Structural Investment
With that objective clear, this year’s roadmap reflects focused investment across the areas that matter most when platforms operate at scale.
- Infrastructure Strengthening
Upgrades across hosting architecture, database platforms, operating systems and core components ensure SOLID remains secure, supported and scalable.
This work reduces technical risk and improves long-term maintainability across customer environments.
- Deeper Regression & Platform Stability
As complexity increases, the importance of testing depth grows with it.
The expansion of automated regression coverage and AI-assisted testing workflows strengthens how change is introduced – increasing visibility into platform health and reducing the likelihood of production disruption.
This is structural reinforcement of platform reliability.
- Structured AI Integration
AI remains a strategic focus – not as a headline feature, but as a practical capability embedded into development and support workflows.
From AI-assisted ticket summaries to deeper integration within development environments, the objective is clear: improve efficiency, surface better insight and accelerate resolution without compromising oversight.
Innovation, applied responsibly.
- Security & Compliance Readiness
Credential hardening, encrypted data handling, automated patching and VAT e-invoicing readiness form a core part of 2026 investment.
Security is not reactive maintenance.
It is sustained protection.
- Continued Customer-Facing Enhancement
While the foundations are strengthened, customer-facing capability continues to evolve – including enhancements to messaging, mobile functionality and expanded payment flexibility.
Operational efficiency remains important.
But it now sits alongside infrastructure resilience and quality depth as equal priorities.
Built for What’s Next
SOLID’s roadmap is not shaped by short-term trends. It is shaped by long-term responsibility.
The transition from 2025 into 2026 reflects a platform operating at a more advanced phase – one where stability, control and intelligent scale are central.
We are building for what’s next.
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