Debunking 10 Myths about Custom Software Development

Custom software's work well for businesses because as the name suggests, they are custom designed to fit the needs of the recipient businesses. They work better than off the shelf software's available in the market but due to several misconceptions, businesses often refrain themselves from investing in custom software's and settle for commercially available ones. Here we are debunking 10 myths about custom software's to tell you why you should choose them.

1.      Cost

The popular belief is that custom built software's will blow a hole in your pocket and hence businesses will have to spend way more than what they would be spending on a commercial software. But fact of the matter is that custom built software's are highly competitive and hence competitively priced. They also perform better than commercial software's saving you money as well as effort on several fronts.

2.      Trend

Its basic human tendency to do what everyone else is doing. Same happens with businesses. There is a prevalent notion that since most of the businesses is opting for commercial software; they somehow ought to be better. But they aren’t.  Contrary to popular belief, businesses do much better with a custom built software than a commercial software.

3.      Trust

Custom built software's are treated with more skepticism than warranted. Errors which arise as a result of improper training and usage are often blamed on the software being buggy and incomplete.

4.      Outsourcing

Businesses believe that outsourcing custom software development is counterproductive as a remote team working for an in-house project will not be lucid about the working environments as well as in-depth requirements but usually, this type of development is just as effective as having an in-house team as any remote development team worth their salt will just as involved and careful.

5.      Development & Input

Providing new requirements and changing current ones is commonplace in any businesses but providing constant changes and having too many developers work on a single project doesn’t make the project complete faster. As the saying goes “too many cooks spoil the broth”, it will hamper the smooth development process and the end result is bound to be far from satisfactory.

6.      Issue Resolve

Custom software development isn’t magic. There is work involved and as any software, it only works for those requirements that it was designed to work for. Expecting custom software to fulfill all your requirements including the ones it was not designed for is foolish.

7.      Purpose

There is a popular belief that custom software are only useful for some special kind of niche industries and not the general ones, when in fact this is false. Custom software's can help everyone whether you are a startup or a multi chain enterprise.

8.      Risk

Since most of the industries go for commercial software's, there’s a popular belief that custom software's are better built, have greater customer support and included lesser risk. This is just a misconception as the quality depends upon how well it’s made and most software developers provide exhaustive support to ensure longevity of their product.

9.      Time

Development of software does take time. Yes. But that is true for all software's. Regardless, if the proper requirements and development plans and laid down on the table, a good custom software development process will not take more time than a commercial one.

10.  Support and Maintenance

It is a very common myth that custom software's wear out rather quickly and the companies don’t provide proper support and maintenance while in reality, this just isn’t true. Custom built software's are similar to commercial ones on every aspect and provide great support post release.