When to use bespoke softwareSmall to medium business owners often think that custom software developmentwould cost more than they can afford. And, until recently they would probably have been right. For this reason many companies allow their staff to waste countless hours performing brain numbing repetitive tasks when those people could have been generating new business. Worse still, the lack of efficiency often becomes apparent to their customers causing frustration and tarnishing reputations. Off the shelf software.Nobody in their right mind would try to write their own company specificwordprocessor or spreadsheet. It can take hundreds of man years to develop complex software packages and it makes sense to spread that cost around. Most companies use a variety of off the shelf packages to accomplish their work and this makes perfect sense. Off the shelf software is fine most of the time, but a little bit of custom software can go a long way. |
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