Custom Software FAQ

What Is Custom Software?

Custom software, a unique and exclusive solution crafted specifically for your business, stands in stark contrast to generic software, which is usually shipped with an operating system or provided with other standard tools as part of a suite. Custom software developed by a software company RALLEN, allows you and your team to implement unique ideas and approaches that your team is using. Such software becomes the glue that connects your clients with your team and with your business activities. Professionally designed custom software can significantly improve your business performance by removing manual steps, automating repetitive tasks, eliminating errors, and providing your team with up-to-date information about every process and step.

What Are The Benefits Of A Custom Software?

Custom software is the opposite of generic software, which offers a wide range of functionality that a company may rarely or never need. Custom software is focused on solving your business's specific problems. This focused approach to software development helps narrow the software's functionality to what matters and excludes features your company doesn’t need. This guarantees that the software is designed to address your unique challenges, giving you confidence in its optimisation and effectiveness. With custom software created by the software company RALLEN, your team can focus on your mission instead of being distracted by generic software features irrelevant to your daily tasks.

How RALLEN Builds Custom Software?

Depending on the project size or system that needs to be built, this process can have fewer or more steps. We usually start by analysing specific business needs and processes and designing a system to support and improve these processes. During the initial stages, we have one or a few workshop sessions with our clients and their teams to understand how they perform day-to-day tasks and what they consist of. We are identifying steps and actions that can take a significant amount of time, introduce errors, or are simply repetitive and can be done by software instead. We are also looking at optimising processes that require team members to use multiple systems to perform an action or copy/re-enter data in numerous places. Our software architects analyse all these steps to identify and shape the new solution to replace these activities with a streamlined software workflow.

How RALLEN Ensures High Quality Of Software?

We ensure the high quality of our custom software by leveraging specific methodologies and approaches that help to reduce errors and bugs in the design and software development stages. For example, we use design patterns and best practices in software architecture to guarantee software robustness, performance, and scalability. We continuously learn and utilise the latest technologies and approaches to reduce faulty code and dramatically improve systems reliability and availability. Additionally, we use unit, functional, integrational, and manual testing on all stages to validate software functionality and look across all supported platforms and devices. After deployment, we use integrated logging and monitoring systems to ensure the new system's reliability.

How Much Custom Software Cost?

Usually, custom software is expensive. However, we are proud to offer highly competitive prices compared to other software development companies. For example, we can start a small software development project costing just over $1000. We made such pricing possible by leveraging our performance and expertise. Our experience and knowledge allow us to reduce the time needed to analyse the project, shape its architecture, and implement it. Additionally, our expertise will enable us to predict and avoid typical issues that other teams may experience during deployment and go-live stages. We are making fewer mistakes at every stage and saving your budget and time by knowing how to do things better simply because we have done such activities many times before.

How Long Does Custom Software Development Take?

Each project is different, and its duration will largely depend on its size, number of features, and functionality. While a tiny project can take one day, designing and implementing a system similar to Uber can take months. Every custom software project is designed, and its delivery timeline is scheduled according to how it is better matched to the client’s calendar. Once the timeline is defined, it is shared with the client, and after approval, the project starts. We understand that our clients usually want the new system to go live as soon as possible, and we speed up the software development process whenever possible and reduce the time it takes to go live without sacrificing quality, which is our utmost priority.

Why Is Custom Software Usually Expensive?

Custom software development is usually expensive because the learning curve of a software engineer is generally complex and lengthy. It may take months and, in some cases, years to master a particular technology or concept. It requires a tremendous amount of effort and dedication to change the way of thinking and be able to quickly design complex systems. Various technologies, platforms, and programming tools make this process even more complicated because engineers need to identify the right tool for a specific scenario. There could be combinations of tens to hundreds of tools and technologies in one large project. We at RALLEN Software Engineering leverage 30 years of experience to make processes faster and smoother. This allows us to be flexible and deliver complex systems relatively fast, significantly decreasing the cost of development and saving you money. Contact us today to discuss your project.