Custom software development refers to the creation of tailor-made software intended to address the specific needs of a business or user(s).

Investing in custom software positions yourself for greater success as it improves your operational efficiency, cost-effectiveness, profitability, and independence in terms of using and maintaining the software for future needs.

Unlike the commercial off-the-shelf software or the free and open source software developed for the mass market, custom software is designed to accommodate a customer’s particular preferences and expectations.

Customized software saves your IT expenditure by offering subscription-based pricing and reduces your maintenance costs. Custom application development enhances your operational efficiency, saves your labor and training costs, and offers you the ability to scale with the market needs.

A property management portal/application that allows field agents/ brokers to coordinate between buyers and sellers is an example of customized software in real estate.

An example of customized software in the healthcare sector will be an Appointment Management System that enables clinics or hospitals to track patient appointments.

Custom software can scale with your business needs to accommodate new changes or processes. If you need to subscribe to additional licenses or packaged applications, it can eat up your IT budget. This is where custom software comes to your rescue as it offers the advantage of lower integration costs. Custom software development can either replace or consolidate your existing solutions to achieve greater productivity, thus improving your competitive advantage.

Custom software allows you to build a system around your current processes. It will keep your business up-to-date, eliminates tedious paper-based and manual processes, and reduces the risk of human errors.

Custom solutions can speed up deployment as well as user adoption as it does not demand extensive technical know-how to use and manage a custom application.

It’s tough to estimate the exact development cost of custom software because every piece of software is tailor-made and unique. No two custom-built applications are the same. Hence, sharing an approximation of general costs without understanding the project’s specific requirements is difficult.

There are numerous aspects that contribute to the costs of custom software development which include the size of the software (the number of pages/ screens), the complexity of the software, design specifications, integration with other systems, migration of existing data, usage patterns, and so on.

• if you have to re-enter the same data into multiple applications,
• if you need to accelerate your speed of response to customer queries,
• if you want to send regular notifications to your clients automatically,
• if you have to perform tedious calculations periodically to get up-to-date information about your business activities, and
• finally to automate a large number of your business processes to enhance your efficiency.

In certain cases, it is possible to do so. Fingent’s software architects will guide you by analyzing the needs, scalability, and supportability of your older app and offer you the appropriate recommendations. Integrating your existing application to a newer application is also dependent upon the level of access that we have to your older app’s fundamental functions or if an API is made available by the app. (API or Application Programming Interface is a built-in feature that allows external connection to an app’s data).

A number of factors weigh into this decision including scalability, existing platforms, client’s existing infrastructure, data types, and so on. Primarily, the decision should be based on your specific business needs and set of features expected out of the application.

For instance, Microsoft .NET is a highly versatile framework that can be used for nearly every solution, while certain demands can be better executed using a PHP/MySQL stack or a specific similar technology. Fingent’s Development Team is well-versed in nearly all available development technologies and applies the appropriate technology to the appropriate solution.

Yes, we provide technical support and service to the software apps we have developed. We can also further develop your software product if you need to implement new features or integrate third-party services.