Custom Application Development
 A
Successful In-House Programming Project
Businesses today are often faced with difficult choices when purchasing
software. They can consider developing the custom application in-house,
outsourcing (custom application development), or purchasing a Commercial Off-the-shelf Program (COTS).
These choices are not as mutually exclusive as they might seem,
however, with the advent of Web Services, Web 2.0 and the component-based
systems being touted by Microsoft and IBM.
One attractive approach available to businesses is to outsource
the preliminary aspects of custom application development, such as requirements
gathering, prototyping, and interface design. By doing so, the enterprise
is ensuring that the correct solution will be developed, thus facilitating
the buy-in of primary stakeholders
Another benefit of outsourcing custom application development pre-development tasks is that programming
decisions, such as whether to build the application internally or
to outsource, become much simpler. Clearly-defined requirements
documentation resulting from the initial stages can be utilized
effectively in either development scenario.
Oxclove Workshop Ltd. (O\W) is in the business of full life-cycle
web-based software design and production. In our custom application
development, we are committed to specific methodologies, tools,
and platforms that we believe are the best in the industry. Nonetheless,
we are aware that there are certain scenarios where other tools
and technologies are required, such as the use of a development
platform that we do not support.
In a mature web-based custom software development process, however, programming
is only part of the job. While the success of a custom application
development project is dependent on the proficiency of the developers
working on it, there are many other critical and easily overlooked
requirements for success. Being well-versed in all portions of
the development lifecycle, O\W can contribute great value to any
software project, at any point in the project lifecycle.
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