Is your business trying to achieve digital transformation? And, just what the heck IS digital transformation anyway? Digital Transformation is the use of new, fast and f changing digital technology to solve business problems. It leverages cloud computing and other cutting-edge technologies to decrease reliance on hardware owned by the business and lean more heavily on subscription services and other shared resources.
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.
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.
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.
If you have a great idea for software product development for the consumer market or for the business market, you may be wondering how to transform that idea into a reality. While your IT team may be great at satisfying the day-to-day needs and helping you support your growth strategy, when it comes to custom application development, your team probably does not have the time to help you and may not have the skills ore expertise to take on custom app development.
When you own or manage a small or medium business, you are always weighing cost and accessibility of services against your current and future needs. Your business may grow quickly or slowly, or it may stay about the same over a period of time. But, one thing is for certain, as a small or medium sized business manager, you know that your needs are not small. You have all the same business and technology issues a large enterprise has but you probably don’t have the budget or the technology resources to satisfy your needs (especially if you want to play in a larger market).
I’ve got a friend who is often frustrated by vendor services and his frustration does not come from the fact that his expectations are unreasonable. His frustration comes from the fact that the vendors his business engages often misunderstand the needs of a public sector company or a government agency type of business. Private business is one thing! Public sector and government agencies is quite another thing. There are different compliance issues, regulations and standards and these are not negotiable!
If your business is a software development company or a web agency providing products and services to the market, you have probably spent a lot of time researching your customer demographic and your competition. You know your business. You know your strengths and unique offerings.
Your business may be a start-up, a small, medium or large enterprise. Size and industry are not important. What is important is market innovation, customer satisfaction and a focus on product and service excellence. But not every business can satisfy the need for resources, specialized skills or support for growth, special projects or even sometimes, ongoing support.
Small businesses envy large enterprises for the budget and resources they have. Large businesses envy small and medium businesses because their business is smaller and less complex. But, no matter the size of the business, one thing is common across all sizes and types of business.
