When a business is not convinced that an off-the-shelf software package is the right fit for their organization, they will often think that developing a custom software application will be too expensive.
Today's rapid application development (RAD) technologies have significantly reduced the cost of developing custom software. Small companies with limited budgets can now develop affordable leading-edge custom software solutions that maximize the payback from their technology investment.
The following are the five areas that should be considered when deciding between an off-the-shelf software package and a customized software solution:
SUITABILITY
A custom software solution is designed specifically to address a company's unique set of business requirements and goals. The company only pays for the features that are needed, thereby maximizing the return on its investment.
Custom software can also be tightly integrated with a company's existing software, thereby leveraging past technology expenditures and creating an integrated solution that eliminates redundancies and maximizes efficiencies.
ADOPTION
Custom software solutions are designed to maximize application usability in order to ensure rapid adoption by company employees. We employ design strategies that reduce the user learning curve in order to ensure the success of the solution implementation. These include getting feedback from frontline users during the design process and, where appropriate, retaining features of software being replaced.
FLEXIBILITY
Because business is constantly changing, a software application must be flexible in order to guarantee the continued payback of a company's technology investment. As business requirements and related software needs change and grow over time, custom software can be modified in a timely cost-effective manner in order to continue to meet the requirements of the business.
With a customized solution, changes to business requirements will never render the software obsolete.
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