What is it a custom software?
A custom software is a solution specifically developed according to your needs. It is a system completely capable of incorporating each one of the functionalities you have inside your head, with a design always oriented to assure the best user experience to guarantee your product success.
Having a system tailored to your business may ensure you have a unique and innovative product. Every company is unique, every customer is special and, therefore, the needs and wishes are different. Every audience is peculiar; every business has its own ideal user. A custom software allows you to answer to that user in a precise way.
How can I have a custom software?
The first step to have the project of your dreams is to visualize the idea. You may don’t have it clear; it doesn’t matter. But you surely know what you want to do or achieve. Visualize it. Put yourself in your ideal user shoes. ¿What does he need? ¿Who is your ideal user? ¿What do you want to get with this project?
Once you have the idea in your mind, although you don’t exactly know yet what it must incorporate to achieve your goals, you can contact us. Through a series of meetings that we will hold by Skype or face-to-face, we will help you with the details to boost your idea, in order to assure you the success and make your users loyal.
On the contrary, if you have your idea visualized clearly and you know exactly what you want plus what your business needs, if you have your goals well defined and how the project contributes to your ideal customer, then it is the moment to make a research about your competence or other similar sites/apps you like the design. Remember that the more information you provide, the faster you will get your product finished and put it online, ready for being boosted.
Once all this initial phase is done, we come into play to analyze your idea thoroughly and put our design and development teams to work, so that you will have your project as you need it.
Advantages of the custom software
You may ask why to use a custom software instead of platforms like WordPress or Drupal, giving the fact that many sites are built with these portals. It is all reduced to one little thing: your needs.
It is true that a website made by WordPress or any CMS is faster to be online and, we have to say it, cheaper, at least that is what it seems. However, not always it can have all the functionalities you need and, on the other hand, nothing assures you that another user won’t have a similar website. As we told you in this post, websites built with these platforms are based on pre-formatted templates.
While the main disadvantages of having a custom website is the time to be online and its initial cost, the advantages overcome a lot these details. In the long term, it ends up reducing costs, because if the system is robust –like the ones we develop in ABCD Solutions-, you only should focus on servers and hosting funds instead of wasting money on templates, modules or plugins you should install to adapt your system, etc.
On the other hand, the time is also reduced, as you will have the speed you need for every action. Remember that the custom software is that, a system which will include everything you need. In a CMS there are external factors you can’t control, unless you modify the code, and that is like having your own Frankenstein’s creature.
With a custom software, you will have the guarantee of, if anything fails, as you are the owner of the code, we will be able to repair it without any cost or delay. For a CMS it’s different. If anything fails, you will be able neither to have control nor adapt the solution to the exact design and functionalities you need.
So, if you have time and capital to invest, don’t doubt it. The custom software is your best choice. Besides, it can store and manage a large amount of data. But if you don’t have any of these two factors, you have also two options:
- You can opt for a CMS to begin with and then migrate to a custom software.
- Talk to us to know all the financial ways we offer for you to have the project just as you wish it from the very first moment.
Don’t forget it! Our main motivation is to help you, even if you don’t count with the necessary resources. Contact us and know more!