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Custom software is software that is specially developed for some specific organization or other user. Custom software is a computer program that is developed for a specific user or group of users within a company.
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Agenda • Custom software • Custom software development • Advantages of custom software development • Disadvantages of custom software development • Phases of custom software development process
What is Custom software • Custom software is software that is specially developed for some specific organization or other user. • Custom software is a computer program that is developed for a specific user or group of users within a company. • Custom software is also known as bespoke software and tailor-made software.
Custom software development • Custom software development is defined as designing of the software applications for a specific user or group of users within an organization. • This custom software is typically designed for that specific entity by a third-party by contract or in-house group of developers and is not packaged for reselling. • These days the role of custom software development has increased and every company tries its best to keep up a friendly relationship with clients.
Advantages of custom software development • The most important benefit is that it is tailor-made by developers to your specifications in order to best serve your business' needs. • Custom software development can help protect business from external threads. • This custom software is more scalable as compared to off-the-shelf software packages. • Custom software development help save on hardware acquisition costs. • It is easy to make changes in custom software if business changes or altered to further improve its performance. • This software is designed to meet customer’s requirements and needs.
Advantages of custom software development • The bespoke application is specific to your business and unavailable to your competition. • The investment of custom software is unique to your business and the property of the business so it is also an asset of your business adding value to the company.
Disadvantages of custom software development • You are the sole entity funding the development of the application and so the investment required is much higher. • Selecting the appropriate developers is extremely difficult as there area high number of inexperienced, unprofessional and unscrupulous programmers around. • If you do not have a copy of the source code for your application you are dependent on the developers and should they become unavailable your business could be exposed to significant risk.
Phases of custom software development process Custom software development combines benefits from several standards development process model. • Requirement analysis/ definition • Preliminary design • Detailed design • Implementation • Testing • Maintenance