Custom software development

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Custom software development, also known as custom software engineering, defines omitting of predeveloped (template or boxed) solutions and views. If a customer wants to believe that their favour is unique and putting their ideas into practice, custom software development technologies are custom approaches to solving their problems. Finding new creative decisions in order to meet the specific requirements and preferences of the customer as quickly as possible may be achieved with custom software development.

A goal of custom software solutions may be to develop not for the mass auditorium (users), but rather developed to be unique, for a single customer (user) or a group. Custom developed software is encouraged to take under one hat the most progressive technologies alone with preferences and expectations of the customer. Custom developed software may be designed in stage by stage processes, allowing all nuances and possible hidden dangers to be taken into account, including issues which were not mentioned in the specifications.

Pre-developed software packages, in most cases, may not be modifiable or customized to ones needs; and are usually available to all unrelated users or groups of users. For example, software designed for a cell phone manufacturer would be 'custom,' even though there could be thousands of individual users. Software written for use by many other manufacturers would be packaged, even if there were only a single user in each factory.

Software Development Companies Worldwide provide custom programming and software engineering services. Most of the companies have a wide experience in custom database programming, distributed website and web application development, etc.

[edit] Potential Problems

Underlying potential problems, risks and unavoidable costs may occur regarding custom software development. Custom developed software implies both high cost and high risk. When a customer purchases custom developed software, he might face the fact that there are some certain problems with installing the software and adopting it to that customer's needs and purposes. Sometimes it takes time to manage these issues, causing losses of time, efforts and money. But it can be called a "force majeure" as no software solution will ever be able to predict every possible complication.

Custom developed software is often an expensive undertaking. However, it is rare that a pre-developed solution will be able to meet all of a particular customer's preferences and requirements as much as a customized software solution.