Filling the Holes in Your ERP System with Custom Solutions
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are the backbone of many modern businesses, serving as a central hub for various operational processes. They are designed to organize everything from [...]
Why You Should Keep Your Legacy System
As a custom software development company, you’d expect us to encourage you to replace your legacy system, because, of course, we can build you something better! But that’s not always the best [...]
The Crucial Role of Detailed Proposals in Software Development: A Look Inside Unstoppable Software’s Approach
In outsourced software development projects, the absence of a comprehensive requirements and design document can lead to all sorts of problems. Picture this scenario: you receive quotes from [...]
My first experience with low-code
I’ve heard a lot about Low-Code over the past couple years. I actually wrote the post below about 10 years ago but never published it. Much of it still applies. My first project at [...]
Manufacturing Exec’s Guide to DevOps: Is it Worth the Investment?
Is DevOps Worth the Investment for Manufacturing Companies? A little background. As a custom software development team, we often have (and prefer) long-term partnerships with our [...]
Lessons in Security – What We’ve Learned from 15+ Years of Remote Development
There are many reasons why more and more development teams are going fully remote: the increasingly mature and expansive capabilities of cloud tools and development environments and team [...]
How to Use Custom Software to Increase the Enterprise Value of Your Company
When assessing the value of a company, an investor or valuation expert is going to look at more than just the company’s revenue, debt, and cash-on-hand. They’ll also look at its assets, including [...]
When NOT to Invest in Custom Software
Custom-developed software is not always the best option. Seriously. And there are plenty of instances that we have turned down work that we didn’t believe would be a good fit for the customer. [...]
How IT Managers Can Maintain Service Quality On a Tight Budget
In any situation, maintaining service quality for a department or company is an uphill battle. Across industries, in this digital era, a company’s tech needs are only growing more complex. But [...]
How to Implement Predictive Analytics For a Manufacturing Environment: Top Tips
Predictive analytics is a term that refers to using machine learning to analyze business data and make predictions about future events. This is a powerful technique that is currently on the rise, [...]
What Employee Tasks Should we Automate With a Software Development Partner?
(If YouTube is blocked for you, you can access this video here) Recently someone asked me, “How do we decide what kinds of work we want to try to automate with software when we’re [...]
Current Trends in GIS Technologies
Combining data and real-world locations through GIS technologies is a powerful way to gain customer and user insight. It tells businesses where to apply their resources, lets researchers discover [...]
How Unit Testing Helps Software Development
Good software is reliable software. It rarely crashes or does strange things to the user. Making sure it’s reliable takes more than running the finished product through its paces. There are [...]
5 Best Practices for Writing Fantastic Software User Guides
Software is useless without the customers that must use it. And if a customer can’t figure out how to interact with their new business application, say goodbye to repeat business. [...]
Choosing a Software Stack for Your Project
When selecting a software stack for a project we are about to engage in (i.e. a “stack”), we look at several main factors: Cost of Development Ease of Maintenance Quality of Platform [...]
7 Steps to Creating More User-Friendly Software Systems
How to Boost Profit Margins With Practical Custom Software Development
How Off-The-Shelf Software Can Destroy Business Value – Tech Corner Episode #1
Autodesk Inventor API Adventures – Friday
(Sometimes as a developer you get to be a super hero and overcome incredible odds. Of course, it helps if you have the skills to pull off magic – in this week-long story we paint a [...]