Custom Application Development (BLOG)

Custom Application Development is the designing of software applications for a specific user or group of users within an organization. This custom software is designed to address specific needs within an organization as opposed to more traditional, standard software used by the masses. 

Here are six benefits of custom application development compared to off-the-shelf software:

• Custom software is tailor made for your business and eliminates the need to change your business procedures to fit a pre-developed software product.
• The software fits perfectly with your existing business software system ecosystem and usually eliminates the need to use multiple applications for specific business functions.
• You can generally save on hardware acquisition costs as the solution is designed with your infrastructure in mind and does not carry unused features that increase hardware requirements.
• You have full access to the original development team so any issues that arise can be resolved quickly and efficiently.
• Having custom built software reduces external threats to your business as there is much lower incentive for hackers to try to break into a system used by only one company and no public documentation provided to shed light on possible attack vectors.
• You own the intellectual property rights of the software and can continue to use and enhance the application as needed even if the original software developer is no longer able to maintain the software.

We take a consultative and collaborative approach to custom application development while following best practices to ensure your final solutions meets all of your business requirements and is secure and reliable. Your custom application will be put through an extensive quality assurance (QA) testing process to ensure our software components are stable, error free and optimized for performance . We also conduct user training and provide ongoing post-implementation support to make sure your solution is well received and all issues are resolved in a timely manner. 

Services Of Custom Application Development

Business Requirements Analysis- Every new activity, every new product, every new project in the workplace is created in response to a business need. Yet we often find ourselves in situations where, despite spending tremendous time and resources, there's a mismatch between what has been designed and what is actually needed. A focused and detailed business requirements analysis can help you avoid problems like these. This is the process of discovering, analyzing, defining, and documenting the requirements that are related to a specific business objective. 

Feasibility Study- A feasibility study includes an estimate of the level of expertise required for a project and who can provide it, quantitative and qualitative assessments of other essential resources, identification of critical points, a general timetable, and a general cost estimate . Whether a project is viable or not, i.e. whether it can generate an equal or a higher rate of return during its lifetime requires a thorough investigation of the investment per se as well as the level of current expenditure.

Testing- In general, testing is finding out how well something works. In terms of human beings, testing tells what level of knowledge or skill has been acquired. In computer hardware and software development, testing is used at key checkpoints in the overall process to determine whether objectives are being met. For example, in software development, product objectives are sometimes tested by product user representatives.