Custom Applications

Most commercial software is purchased as a package of well-defined processes and features that are designed and built for the masses. These types of products are known in the industry as Commercial Off-The Shelf (COTS) software. The manufacturer of a COTS package determines the platform, features, functionality, and the overall look and feel of the product. Each customer of a COTS package gets the same product, and the customer fits the business around the software. The customer of a COTS package usually pays for upgrades and/or yearly licensing fees. Custom software is the opposite of a COTS package. Custom software is designed, built, and tailored for a single customer or business. The customer usually owns the software that is developed.

Building a custom software application is an expensive high-risk, high-reward endeavor. Getting it right, can offer an organization a huge advantage over it's competition. In fact, many of the world's largest businesses were built and thrive around custom-built proprietary software systems. These companies took the leap of faith and are now reaping the rewards of getting it right.

The downside of developing custom software, is the very strong possibility of failure. Building software from scratch is not an easy thing to accomplish. The list of things that can go wrong during a development project can make even the strongest of executives shake in their boots. Acquiring and retaining a team of technical talent that is needed to pull off a large new development effort is an organization's first challenge. That team must then interact effectively with the company's business experts, to identify and document the business requirements and use cases which must be satisfied by the application. Missing requirements will delay, if not doom a project. If a company can acquire the technical talent and can nail the requirements, it has a chance to succeed. From that point, the team simply has to work in harmony to architect a technically viable solution, while overcoming the unexpected technical challenges that will certainly arise, while writing perfect code. Not simple, not likely.

The payoff from investing in a custom solution can be an absolutely enormous, game changing advantage for your business. RadDude has the talent, experience, and methodology to successfully deliver custom applications that fit your business perfectly.