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Working with a bespoke software development company doesn’t have to be complicated.
With an experienced development team by your side, you can improve your company’s efficiency, steal market share, and grow or scale at any time.
Bespoke software is software made specifically to suit particular business requirements. Unlike off-the-shelf solutions, custom software is more efficient, better supported, and highly adaptive.
At Entrance Consulting, we take on bespoke software development projects of various complexity. Our experienced team of qualified developers works closely together with your representatives to ensure 100% satisfaction with the final product.
Overall, bespoke software is like custom clothing. While off-the-shelf suits may look fine, they never fit as perfectly as bespoke business suits do.
Taking advantage of custom tailored software can help your business stay on top of the other companies and improve its bottom line.
At Entrance, we can help you obtain top-notch bespoke software solutions for your business. Our dedicated team offers the following set of services aimed at achieving 100% satisfaction.
Mobile applications are a significant part of success in many industries, including oil & gas, manufacturing, and healthcare. When you decide to take full advantage of mobile development and mobile apps, our professional team is here to help.
Bespoke web applications can help your company meet a variety of goals. These apps can also improve employee satisfaction by giving your team members comprehensive access to data on the go. We assist with creating customer portals that play a major role in customer satisfaction for many companies.
Even though everyone is currently online, offline apps are highly important for many industries, especially oil & gas since drilling sites are often in remote locations. We build bespoke mobile software that can work without an internet connection.
With cloud technologies becoming an important part of business processes across the world, adding cloud applications to your technology stack is an excellent way to improve your company’s efficiency. At Entrance, we specialize in cloud app and software development for your company’s needs.
Working in the Windows environments is often essential to fulfilling your business needs. From automation to modernization, we handle all the aspects of bespoke software development in Windows. Even though Windows apps aren’t as popular as they used to be, they are great for improving the customer experience for clients who prefer this OS over other options.
SaaS applications are highly popular in many industries that need mobile online commercial software to be available online 24/7. SaaS apps are an excellent addition to your current software offering, helping you increase the satisfaction of your target audience. They can also replace your legacy systems and take the company to a new level.
Overall, at Entrance, we are developing bespoke software solutions of all shapes and sizes. If you are looking for a perfect solution that can increase productivity for your company, you need bespoke software services.
The benefits of custom software development are overwhelming. When you hire a software development company to work on your application, you take a huge step toward improving business efficiency.
By answering the following questions, you can figure out whether you are ready for bespoke software solutions:
If you are spending too much on off-the-shelf solutions that don’t offer comprehensive assistance and take a toll on your employees, you are ready to start working with a custom software development company.
Our custom software development process is unique for each client. We work closely with each company to evaluate its needs and come up with the best bespoke solution.
We stay in contact with our clients throughout the entire process to make changes if necessary. Our development methods are flexible enough to ensure full satisfaction while maintaining top custom software integrity.
Entrance is one of the leading bespoke software development companies in Houston, Dallas, and Denver. Our unique approach to bespoke development coupled with highly experienced professionals allows us to provide top-notch results to companies across many industries.
Industry expertise that we’ve gained over the past decades helps dive straight into the development process without taking the time to study industry requirements.
If you want a detailed, professional, and unique approach to bespoke app development, we are here to help.
At Entrance, we adjust the software development process to the needs of our clients. As soon as you provide project details and company requirements, we can evaluate the data and come up with the most useful software development methodology for your business case.
In the majority of cases, we recommend using Agile methodology. It’s an adaptable framework that often fits the bill when we don’t know the full requirements at the beginning of the project. The methodology allows us to make course corrections to the requirements when the project is already running.
During the development process, our clients can learn more about the technology solutions they need based on their experience and testing with the in-development system. We make adjustments according to the new input without disrupting the development process.
This is possible because the Agile methodology development process is divided into smaller phases called sprints.
Between the sprints, we discuss and demonstrate the work completed during the previous sprint and evaluate the features to be added during the next one. Any changes to the requirements based on new information or changing business requirements are added at that time, just before the feature is implemented.
Agile methodology allows our development team to work together with the client to ensure transparency into our process and reduce risk throughout the development life-cycle.
The waterfall methodology is a classic way to develop software for our clients. While this approach is not popular today and lacks Agile’s flexibility, it can yield excellent results. If the client provides extensive details up front about the software they need, we can save time by designing and developing the product with linear project management.
Unlike the Agile methodology which divides the development process into stages, the Waterfall approach creates a full-scale project plan to suit the initial requirements and completes the development cycle accordingly.
With this method, the development team doesn’t collaborate with the client closely since one stage of the project organically cascades into the next one (hence, the name waterfall). When the software is ready, the development team launches it as a finished product and gathers feedback.
At this point, a second project can be started to create the next version of the program, with new or adjusted features, also planned and designed as a complete, discrete product change.
At Entrance, we can also practice a highly efficient MVP (minimum viable product) approach. This framework iinvolves building a product that satisfies the most basic needs of the target audience and launching it for our clients.
Once the software starts running, we collect valuable feedback about its operation and make relevant changes in real time. Taking advantage of the MVP approach cuts the costs of software development significantly.
Since you are making smaller changes according to the feedback all along the way , you avoid the high costs of redeveloping the final product. MVP allows you to maximize the efficiency of the application and achieve faster results.
At Entrance, we stay on top of the latest software development technologies and implement them according to the needs of our clients. Some of the current technologies that we employ include:
Software development network that allows us to build software for Windows. This includes ASP.Net, WCF, MauiS
A comprehensive set of technologies that help us build databases, create web apps, develop mobile apps, and create interconnected services all living in the cloud and running on hardware and software managed by a dedicated staff of Microsoft employees.
Tools that assist with comprehensive database development.
We closely monitor the needs of our clients and the available technologies with the goal of developing efficient apps across many industries.
At Entrance, we have experience working with businesses of different sizes across many industries, including:
Regardless of the industry you are in, you need custom software that takes care of your core business operations. Even if you have a less-than-perfect understanding of what your business needs from a custom app, you can still start the development process.
Our software development experts have extensive experience with software in many industries. They can make valuable suggestions and guide you through the process smoothly.
Custom software is where software is created specifically for an organization’s needs. It helps prioritize the specific issues they’re faced with and often provides a more specialized and effective solution that’s flexible to changing needs.
While most businesses rely heavily on standardized, off-the-shelf software to handle a variety of operations (known as line of business or LoB applications), when an organization needs software that isn’t readily available, they’ll turn to custom software development services to develop a tool that’s tailored to their unique requirements.
Alternately, organizations may want to create and deploy a client-facing tool for either desktop or mobile, one that delivers a customer experience unique to that business. Or, the business model itself may center around the sales of the particular application, and they’ll need a particular software engineering skillset to design and create it.
In recent years, organizations have increasingly chosen to create custom software that is unique to their needs.
A study by IDC found that the average cost for custom development work was $176,000, but the average return on investment for those projects was $4 million. And in 2022, with the rise in the use of Kubernetes-led container technology to facilitate computing platforms, over 62% of financial services and telecommunications companies are investing heavily in developing their own proprietary applications.
Custom software is developed to fulfill the unique needs of a business. It could be a mobile application, enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, industry-specific, or a cloud-based application, to name a few.
These applications do just one thing, and they do it well. Examples include payroll management, inventory control, and customer relationship management (CRM) systems.
These are more sophisticated, but they still fit within a single overall category. Some examples include accounting and employee scheduling systems.
These combine features from both single-purpose and multipurpose applications. They may have basic features for a variety of purposes or highly sophisticated features for one purpose that works in conjunction with other software programs.
Many industries have unique regulatory, logistical, or operational requirements that govern how they’ll operate. Because of this, it’s often more efficient for say, an engineering or construction firm to have software developed from the ground up that is able to handle their particular workflows. For that reason, the developer will usually have extensive experience within the industry and will apply that knowledge when creating the application(s).
While most organizations are online 24/7, there may be times when data needs to be able to synchronize seamlessly when an internet connection isn’t available. To that end, offline data synchronization is a growing area of need, with businesses wanting to ensure that data and reporting are always up-to-date.
More and more businesses are opting to use cloud-based environments, which is why cloud-based apps are growing exponentially. These are typically designed to work with cloud frameworks such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure.
Some other examples of areas where custom software is commonly used include:
There are many reasons why a business might want to develop custom software. Here are the most common:
Custom software development is a highly technical process, with a wide array of variables affecting the cost. Some of the primary factors that will influence the cost of custom software development include:
Typically, custom software development costs can range anywhere from a low of $30,000 to $40,000 with an upper limit in the hundreds of thousands depending on the scope of the project.
Custom software development is the process of designing, writing, testing, and debugging applications. It is highly flexible and separated into various iterative methodologies such as Agile or Waterfall. Development is a collaborative process in which the customer and the custom software development team work together throughout the project lifecycle.
The method that works best for your project depends on the size of the team, the available schedule, and whether you’re building a new application from scratch or customizing an existing one.
The process of custom software development at Entrance follows several stages: Envision, Plan, Build, Stabilize, Deploy
A project starts with defining the client’s needs. This stage involves gathering requirements, business analysis, and technical analysis to create the first draft of a product specification document.
Once the specification document has been approved by the client, it is used as the blueprint for creating a working prototype. The product owner and developers work together to create a feature-complete, but non-functional application.
Once all features are developed and tested, they are integrated into a full application that can be evaluated by the client. At this stage, all issues should be fixed and corrected before moving on to the next phase of testing.
This stage includes packaging and delivering of application to clients, training users on its usage, support for users, bug fixes, and maintenance updates.
It’s critically important to consider the following factors when deciding which type of software is best suited for your business:
Businesses that are looking for custom software development services can choose several avenues. Hiring a dedicated in-house developer is an excellent option for businesses that are looking for high-end software solutions with great functionality, and don’t have the time or resources to manage the project in a hands-on fashion.
Alternatively, going with an in-house team can allow businesses to control every aspect of the process, from design to development. While it’s a much more hands-on approach, if the right personnel are in place and it’s a well-managed project, it can ultimately, save money.
However, hiring an in-house team may not be a viable option depending on the size and complexity of the project. As such, outsourcing custom software development work might be a better option for most businesses. The cost savings associated with outsourcing coupled with the ease of use and control that comes with having an external team handle all aspects of the project could be a win-win
At the end of the day, custom software development is not for every business. There’s much to consider before deciding to choose a tailored software solution versus an off-the-shelf application. However, if your business is constrained by industry-specific requirements, hardware limitations, or requires a specialized set of functions, a custom software solution from Entrance Consulting may be the way route to choose.
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