Custom software is an efficient way to streamline your company’s operations, cut costs, improve employee satisfaction, reduce manual work, and much more. At Entrance, we help B2B organizations take the lead in their competitive industry and enjoy multiple benefits of high-quality software.
Over the past years, we’ve developed a variety of B2B custom software solutions in several niches. Our development team is ready to share its experience and expertise to help your company gain a competitive edge and take a huge step toward becoming an industry leader.
While the off-the-shelf software you are using right now may be effective, their efficiency is likely to be around 10 times lower than what custom-built software can provide. Solutions that we build suit the B2B organization’s needs perfectly.
If you are interested in B2B custom software development, our team is here to help.
Why Choose B2B Custom Software Development for Your Company
The benefits of choosing custom software for B2B companies are numerous. While it may take a while for an organization to make a decision about custom software development, the advantages become obvious almost immediately. Here are just a few of them.
Unique Features for Your Business
While companies in the same niche may have similar needs, each B2B organization is unique. Off-the-shelf software doesn’t cater to these unique features, forcing your team to adjust to the available options. This usually takes extra time and doesn’t yield the highest efficiency.
Custom software considers all unique features, needs, and requirements of your business. This allows you to streamline company operations without trying to leverage numerous different programs.
Flexibility
As your company grows, so do its unique needs and requirements. Off-the-shelf solutions lack the design to cater to the changing needs of your business. As it grows or scales, the company faces the need to get new apps.
Besides being expensive, this process often involves integration issues, a significant learning curve, and, in many cases, downtime.
Custom software grows and scales together with your business. So, you don’t have to worry about regular expenses and adjustments.
Integration
Each new software solution could cause integration problems for your company. Since businesses usually juggle several programs, making sure they work together seamlessly is a task that’s nearly impossible to accomplish.
When you opt for a custom software, developers consider all your current apps and ensure a smooth integration process.
Excellent Security and Data Protection
As a B2B company, you are likely to work with vast amounts of data. Keeping it protected is top priority, especially if you are in certain sectors, such as education or healthcare.
Custom solutions that are built with secure programming languages, such as JavaScript or PHP allow you to enjoy a high level of security. You can get an opportunity to restrict users, gate content, implement multiple-tier authentication, and much more.
With the right approach to security and protection, you can get a solution that’s virtually hacker-proof. Meanwhile, it will be fully compliant with your industry’s security requirements.
Every B2B company experiences challenges that are both unique to its organization and type of industry. Whether it’s labor shortages, fragmented patient data, or falling Math and reading scores, the complexity of challenges often keeps industry stakeholders up at night. In light of this, custom B2B software offers a means of achieving organizational integrity and operational excellence.
Industrial/Manufacturing Challenges
1. Industrial/Manufacturing Labor Shortages
The pandemic has brought the skilled labor shortage to the fore, setting off critical challenges in the midst of double-digit unemployment. According to Deloitte, two million skilled jobs will go unfilled between 2015 and 2025. In addition, roughly 25% of the manufacturing workforce comprises workers above 55 years of age.
Despite apprenticeship opportunities and fast-track training programs at colleges, the industrial/manufacturing sector continues to lack skilled workers.
However, B2B custom software allow manufacturing/industrial businesses to track and manage a contingent workforce in light of labor shortages. And, in particular, workforce management software facilitates a seamless experience across a diversity of channels. Workers get visibility into timesheets, attendance records, shift changes, and weekly income from tablets, mobile devices, and desktops.
Customized B2B software promote flexibility, transparency, and workforce optimization, a plus for the manufacturing/industrial sectors during this critical time.
2. Managing Multiple Industrial Job Sites
B2B software can transform job site management. Knowing where your assets are, from company trucks to heavy equipment, allows you to make better logistics decisions. You’ll be able to place the right equipment and the right operators at the right locations, without having to duplicate equipment across multiple job sites.
That same B2B software can remind operators to perform critical maintenance tasks or bring their equipment in for maintenance at specific intervals.
Worried about the cost? Software customized to manage your assets can pay for itself in the first year simply by reducing maintenance and replacement costs. In fact, the global workforce management software market is expected to increase to more than $3 trillion by 2026 and grow at a CAGR of 4.21% between 2021 and 2026. The trend towards remote working has only increased the need for flexibility, workforce optimization, and operational agility.
If you’re looking for answers to unique challenges, see Entrance Consulting’s past transformational work on creating customized software solutions for the industrial/manufacturing sector.
Healthcare Challenges
3. Managing a Patient’s Care Across the Spectrum
The fact is that healthcare organizations continue to struggle with data siloes, relying on manual processes to glean needed information. When you add paper health records in physician offices, and testing facilities, assessing real-time data becomes a nearly impossible task. All things considered, the cost of extracting data from isolated platforms may prove prohibitive to institutions already struggling with limited resources.
But, there’s hope.
B2B custom software facilitates data migration and integration from disparate sources. This results in improved patient care and fewer errors on the part of healthcare practitioners.
If you’re interested in how custom software can assist your organization, please see Entrance Consulting’s work for the healthcare industry.
Education Challenges
4. Reaching the At-Risk Student Before It’s Too Late
Making sure students get what they need on an individual basis has always been a challenge. Unquestionably, schools collect large amounts of data pertaining to attendance, classroom performance, and behavioral assessments. However, siloed data prevents educators from getting an integrated picture of student needs.
Custom B2B software that integrate all available data can reveal important trends. In turn, teachers can implement changes long before the student drops out. With custom software, educators receive a more granular view of student performance.
For example, have students experienced cataclysmic changes in academic performance? Do attendance records and grades point to a need for intervention? Custom software development solutions can help educators access and leverage data effectively to increase student motivation and engagement.
B2B Custom Software FAQ
What are B2B custom software?
B2B custom software are software applications that are developed specifically for businesses to meet their unique needs and requirements. They are designed to improve efficiency, productivity, and profitability in a range of industries.
Which industries can benefit from B2B custom software?
B2B custom software can benefit a variety of industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, finance, and retail. These solutions can help businesses in these industries streamline their processes, improve customer experiences, and make better use of data and technology.
What are some of the benefits of using B2B custom software?
B2B custom software offers a range of benefits, including increased efficiency and productivity, improved customer experiences, and better data management and analysis. They can also help businesses stay ahead of their competitors and remain relevant in a rapidly changing marketplace.