The success of any business depends largely on its ability to cater to the changing needs of its customers by streamlining, standardizing and simplifying its processes. The same is true to every business that has its own online presence. When you had first started your business online, all you would have wanted is to have a website. However, as your business is growing, it is imperative that you begin to simplify your processes and refine your systems so that you meet your business requirements.
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Standard Vs. Custom
There are basically two approaches to web application development – standard and customized. Standard applications are, well, just basic applications that cater to the general needs of businesses. There are a number of standard web applications that are great for your business; however, standard applications are more of a one-size-fits-all kind of a deal.
On the other hand, a custom web application is tailor-made to your specific requirements and needs. Contrary to popular belief, custom applications are way cheaper and more effective than standard applications. In fact, standard apps would require time in tweaking its code, tampering with its existing programming system as opposed to a custom web app developed from scratch.
Used primarily through a web browser, a custom web application helps in standardizing tasks and improving employee efficiency. In order to improve efficiency and increase profits, most IT companies these days are concentrating on developing customized web applications for their businesses.
Scalability and compatibility across other devices and platforms
One of the major pain points of businesses is scalability and compatibility issues they face with new technologies and systems. Whether you are a startup or an established business, there are specific points you might be looking forward to in a web application.
Established businesses, having an existing application in place, will know the difficulties of getting their standard applications work across platforms. That is the reason why getting the right people develop your own web application from scratch will give you more chances of seamless integration with existing systems. No matter how great the standard app looks on paper, you will only be able to trust it completely when it works, glitch free, after you plug in all your existing pages and programs into it. However with a custom-made web application, designed by experienced developers, you can enjoy its full features and functionalities from the word go.
A custom web application will give businesses – both experienced and startups – the ability to integrate their existing systems with the web app for a seamless multi-platform user experience.
Data sharing by managing geographically spread teams
For large well-established businesses, data sharing between teams and between customers and employees is an integral part of their business process. Following the traditional methods of sharing data is going to be cumbersome and time consuming. These methods make a dent on decision making. That is the reason why a custom web application that helps manage teams working from various locations is going to be a winner. Moreover, gathering information about customers, retrieving information for report generations, inventory and operations management, scheduling and data management is possible with enterprise intranet portals, collaboration platforms, discussion forums and more.
Employee scheduling
One of the most mundane but important tasks that help in running a business smoothly is employee time-keeping and scheduling.
A proper and efficient system that simplifies and streamlines the scheduling, payroll and time-keeping is of paramount importance. A custom web application helps regularize and remove redundant tasks in time-keeping, payroll, attendance, employee costs, employment records, total working hours schedules and more. While standard web applications help to a certain extent, customized applications go a step forward by making sure you get personalized features that solve your business needs. Since custom applications are built for a company-specific purpose, they can be built in house or on the cloud.
Paperless offices
With more and more brick and mortar forms of business transforming themselves into an online web space, the need for paperless offices that are fast, efficient and reliable are gaining importance. Web application development has easily replaced the traditional forms of running businesses – replacing paper forms into eforms, conference room meetings into video conferencing. A custom web application nicely integrated into your system can help your employees access a single window to gain large amounts of information.
A custom web application has solutions for your business-specific issues. You can develop applications for your specific needs and scale it up depending on future demands. The effectiveness, success and value of the web application depend largely on the time, budget and the objectives you have decided to achieve using the application. Besides these, the success of your web application depends on the person developing it for you. Call us right away to know more about transforming your business ideas and requirements into solid workable web applications custom-made especially for you.
