How to Pick the Best Custom Software Development Company

Custom software development involves a significant investment in terms of time and money. Your relationship with the developer doesn’t stop once the software is delivered; it goes on for many months (and possibly years). So when choosing a custom software development company, you want to find a team that can be a long-term partner instead—one that you can truly collaborate with. You need a firm that can help you implement, maintain, troubleshoot, and adjust the software as you requirements change. How do you find such a company? Here are some tips.

1. Choose a software developer with a reliable process.

Building software involves a lot of moving pieces and several hundred steps. Your project will be more successful if you partner with a developer that has a well-defined, road-tested, and proven effective process that clearly defines what needs to be done, who should do it, how changes are handled, how risks are managed, how quality is checked, etc. Ask your prospective developer about their process. They should be able to explain it clearly.

Agile development methodology using the scrum process is one of the popular methods of building quality software. This reduces risk, reduces time to market and ensure clarity for the customer. A company that has experience in doing Agile development would be preferred over others who do not have this expertize.

You also want to choose a company that works fast. Quality testing can add months to a custom software development project. To reduce your time-to-market and stay within your budget, you need a developer that seamlessly integrates QA and engineering while ensuring a solution that is secure and scalable.

2. Choose a company with experience in UX and UI design.

If you’re serious about making your custom software easy to use and future proof, then you need to choose a developer that can deliver engaging, current, and empowering solutions that appeal to your users.

3. Choose a company that will take the time to understand your business.

During your initial consultation with a prospective custom software development provider, take note of the questions they ask you. You want a team that is genuinely interested in how your business works and what you want to accomplish with the software—not a company that rushes to hand you a quote and proposal. After all, your business is unique. You want a software company that takes time to understand your needs so that they can build a solution that addresses those requirements and helps you achieve your goals.

You can’t go wrong with Pulse Tech Solutions. Our team will work closely with yours to maximize your ROI, identify possible bottlenecks, and prevent surprise costs. You can count on us to provide a roadmap based on clear expectations and feasibility assessments before the project begins, as well as timely reports along the way to ensure that you’re always in the loop. Then, we stay on board to maintain and/or make changes to your software as your requirements change and your user base grows.

Software Development Technologies We Use

.Net Core

.NET Core is a cross-platform, high-performance, open-source framework for building modern, cloud-enabled, Internet-connected apps.

MSSQL/MySQL

The relational database is the backbone of any web and mobile application. We have deep experience managing complex and large databases. We developed many systems which are part of the multi-tenant and single tenant database systems.

Bigdata

Big data is a term that describes the large volume of data – both structured and unstructured – that inundates a business on a day-to-day basis.

PHP

The PHP web development platform is the most widely used open source framework to design, develop & run dynamic websites & web applications for your business.

Android

Android is the fastest growing mobile platform on the planet. Whether you need an app to sell in Google marketplace or one that suits your internal business needs, we have you covered.

iOS

From iPhone Apps to enterprise licensed iPad business applications, our iOS development team provides full design and development from concept to creation.

Azure/AWS

It is an enterprise-grade security service to safeguard your hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments. We have experience in building with open source technologies like LAMP on AWS and with Microsoft centric .Net framework on Azure.

jQuery

jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers.