I recently attended a panel discussion where representatives from software businesses and web service organizations discussed their unique need to continue to satisfy customers, and anticipate changing requirements while keeping down costs related to staffing, training and development, support and roll-out of products.
Technologies in software development are myriad and many! It is nearly impossible for the average business to keep all the training and skills up to date for an internal IT team and still focus on the core business of the organization and the day-to-day challenges of maintaining a robust technology environment.
So much testing and so little time. Whether you are planning to create a business application or you are doing software product development for the market, testing is critical to success and will protect your reputation and ensure that you mitigate risk of legal action, privacy or security violation.
Big data and cloud development services can be daunting. Technologies, frameworks, platforms, languages and techniques can include Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Hadoop, Amazon Redshift, Spark, Cassandra, Parquet and others. If your internal IT team is undertaking big data and cloud development, the organization may find itself mired in complex collections of technologies.
Every business has an IT team (or at least one IT pro on premises). If you are a start-up, your IT pro may have other tasks to perform and if you are a small or medium sized business, your IT team is probably overwhelmed with your growing need for hardware, network, support, reports, database management, and other tasks.
If you have been in business a long time, you might remember the popularity of the ‘temp’; a person who came in to add resources when you had a big project or to fill in for an employee on vacation. If you are unfamiliar with IT staff augmentation, you might think of it as temp services for IT projects, or you might find that you have a need for ongoing IT staff augmentation services that will provide support for software development projects, maintenance and support, requirements planning, mobile app development, integration, configuration and growth across the enterprise, analytics or any one of a number of other types of one-time or ongoing support needs.
The most common mistake a business makes when it contemplates creating a software product for the market is choosing a partner that has never created a product for market. Trust me when I say that software application development and software product development are NOT the same thing. While some of the required skills and expertise are the same, there are numerous crucial differences and if a business does not acknowledge and accommodate these differences, its product and project is likely to fail.
Content Management Systems (CMS) are nothing new! CMS solutions have been around a long time and whether your business is making its first CMS framework selection, looking for web content management solutions, planning CMS integration with other solutions or data from other sources or migrating or upgrading portal development, it can be difficult to juggle this type of project with existing IT teams or to pursue the project with CMS Development Services that do not include specific expertise or skill in this area.
If your business has a great idea to build a mobile app, it might be wise to hire a mobile app developer. You may have some great in-house talent and you may have developed applications and solutions for your customers or for your business use but when it comes to mobile application design or smartwatch app development, the skills and experience required are quite specific.
There are many reasons to employ application development services. Your IT team may be too busy to engage in software application development, or your team may not have the skills to complete the app development. Perhaps, the project involves software application reengineering or requires application modernization services.
