Custom Software Development Projects

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Recently I created a software project estimation sheet in Excel, and I wanted to share it with our blog readers. This tool captures some of the thought processes I use when I’m going about [...]

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 [...]

Often, one of the hardest goals to achieve in software development is to create user-friendly software systems that delight users. Over the years, there are a few key things we’ve noticed make [...]

If you’re a manager, you know that ultimately, every action you take on a day-to-day basis needs to be adding to the bottom line of your business. To add to the bottom line, you need to do [...]

[convertkit form=4947872] Welcome to the Tech Corner – where business managers learn how to scale their business models using technology. Today I wanted to discuss how off-the-shelf [...]

We often talk to clients who are wanting to build a custom app for their businesses – usually to either expand into a new market, or to reduce the cost of a cumbersome manual process. We [...]

(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 [...]

(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 [...]