As business needs continue to evolve, IT departments are finding it more difficult to meet the diverse demands of their companies. As leading business journalist Heather Clancy noted in a TechTarget article, this trend has shifted business focus to custom application development. According to Clancy, “The days of standalone customer relationship management application implementations appear [...]

In a recent article for Forbes, contributor David Amerland detailed how the BYOD trend and bigdata are changing the face of business. As more people climb aboard the BYOD train, business practices will likely see significant change. The web is run entirely on data, Amerland explained, and this supports the idea that organizations can find substantial value through analysis via an online database application. “As the [...]

While consumers are turning to applications for a wide variety of tasks, enterprises are also increasingly eager to leverage the power of apps. And more companies are seeking to build custom applications that are specifically tailored to their business needs and objectives, according to a recent InformationWeek article. InformationWeek cited a Society for Information Management [...]

In a recent blog post for Bostinno, contributor Sebastian Vaduva argued that businesses should not constrain themselves to stock software design template, stressing the benefits from a custom application.

HOPE Safehouse, an animal shelter in Racine, Wisconsin, is abandoning the stacks of files and documents laying around the office and upgrading to a customizable online database, according to The Journal Times. The organization’s employees expressed their frustration with the outdated system and decided to upload digital versions of their documents to an online database [...]

The Pareto Principle states that in any given situation 80% of the result is produced by 20% of the input. The value of this principle in software development is often overlooked, but if it’s applied correctly, it can be extremely useful throughout the development process of a custom application. From the initial setup processes to [...]

Most of us realize by now that off-the-shelf, generically packaged software will not provide you with a complete solution to accommodate your unique business’s requirements. If you happen to use multiple applications to complete one process, then investing in a custom application for your business can be one of the best decisions you can make, [...]

Business owners are increasingly becoming aware of the fact that packaged software is not always a complete solution for every business. Since every business has different requirements, it is very difficult for one product to accommodate multiple simultaneously. A custom application is a product that is designed to cater for your business’s needs, so it [...]

I kicked off a meeting the other day by proclaiming, “business software sucks.” My boss always get a little uncomfortable when I say this, particularly in front of people who either make software or invest in software companies. But I believe it’s true. It’s not that I think business software or business SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications [...]