Custom Software Development
Software shaped around the way your business already works, instead of a packaged product you have to reorganise around.
Software development company
What to actually check before choosing one — and the questions that separate a partner from a vendor.
About Software development company
Searches for a software development company are usually made at the very start, before anyone has decided what to build. At that stage the important questions are not technical. They are whether you will own what is built, who you will actually talk to, and whether the firm will still be answering the phone in two years.
Our answers are on the about page and they are deliberately unglamorous: you own the source code, you talk directly to the people writing it, and support is a written arrangement rather than a favour.
Services that cover this
Digital Transformation
Moving a business off paper and spreadsheets without stopping the business to do it.
Software Maintenance
Keeping working systems working — including ones built by somebody else.
Enterprise Software Development
Systems for organisations where several departments, sites and approval chains all have to work from the same data.
Technologies we use for it
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Common questions
Ask who owns the code, who you will speak to week to week, what happens when the project ends, and what they would refuse to build. The answers to the last two are the most revealing.
Yes. A first website or a single internal tool is a normal starting point, and often a better test of a working relationship than committing to a large system immediately.
Related topics
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