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7 Signs Your Business Needs Custom Software
What is Custom Software?
Software that is specially developed for a specific organization or user.
In contrast with typical, off-the-shelf software, which is developed for the mass market in mind.
Why Choose Custom Software?
✓ Can accommodate your company’s specific preferences and expectations.
✓ Can be developed in a step-by-step, iterative processes to minimize the risk of bugs or ending up with the “wrong” software in the end.
✓ Can help your business run more efficiently
✓ Could be just the answer you’ve been looking for
Signs That Your Business Could Benefit From a
Custom Software Application.
1. You’re Using Spreadsheets to Handle Multiple Business Processes
Spreadsheets should be reserved for its intended use - for accounting and financial data.
Storing and accessing any other information through spreadsheets is inefficient and convoluted.
● E-mails can easily:○ Be overlooked○ Make communication
more difficult across a large team
○ Make it hard to determine a project’s status
● Project management is best handled through a dedicated tool, not email.
2. Large Projects Being Managed By E-mail
3. Tasks That Could Be Automated Are Being Handled Manually Automating tasks is always more efficient and cheaper over the long run. Spending costly man hours on a process that could easily be automated just doesn’t make good fiscal sense. Your employees should be working on tasks that a computer can’t handle.
4. You’re Entering the Same Data in Multiple Places● Custom software can be
created which allows your software to “talk” to each other.
If your employees are doing the same job twice, it means something isn’t being done right the first time.
5. You’re Adapting How You Do Business So It Fits Your SoftwareCustom software can be built to address any of your business process allowing you to adapt your applications to fit your business needs instead of the other way around.
6. Your Software Isn’t Communicating
● Your software should communicate with each other. You should be able to generate a report from multiple sources with the click of a button.
● Working from multiple spreadsheets or databases that need constant updating can be costly and can easily lead to mistakes or missed information.
7. Vital Information Saved on Desktop Databases
• Storing vital company information on a desktop database can lead to major problems!• Hard drives are easily
corrupted and damaged. • Storing info in the cloud can
simplify updating & backing up your data and can be more secure.
Get Out of the Trap
• If your business is falling into any of these costly, time consuming traps it’s time to start considering whether custom software might be a good option for your company.
1. Managing one or more business processes using Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Access and have outgrown this setup.
2. Using a variety of software tools that don’t “talk” to each other.3. Staff is unable to do higher level work because they’re stuck doing
tasks manually which could be automated, especially tasks that involve entering the same information in multiple places or using multiple software tools.
4. One or more of their current business processes take too long, are too tedious or are otherwise “painful” to deal with, yet have to be done frequently.
Our Best Custom Software Clients are Business Owners Experiencing at Least 3 of the Following Problems:
5. Unable to find off-the-shelf software that fits how they do business.6. Looking for ways to streamline their business to give them a
competitive advantage and/or to make their business more valuable for an eventual sale.
7. Frustrated with their current software because its too hard to use or lacks critical features.
8. Want to systemize and streamline how they do business, making delivering services to their customers more predictable and consistent.
9. Looking to launch a startup web application and need technical help to take their concept from idea to working code
Our Best Custom Software Clients are Business Owners Experiencing at Least 3 of the Following Problems:
✓ Sells complex products or services.
✓ Has numerous or complex processes necessary for delivering
products or services to your customers.
✓ Has at least $1M/year in revenue or the potential to reach this
level in the near-term.
✓ Is looking for a way to differentiate themselves from competitors.
✓ Has a budget to invest in a custom software solution.
✓ Believes a custom software solution could solve key problems in
their business...or at least wants to consider this as an option.
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