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What is custom (bespoke) software?

Custom software is software developed for a specific entity's requirement. These packages can be developed to suit the identical requirements for the customer without the customer requiring to modify their own business logic.

With custom software, as your business grows, the software can grow with you. Custom software can give your business the competitive edge over your competitors. Using this form of software, your staff can focus on the core business and let technology do the tracking, planning, scheduling and monitoring for you.

There are different types of custom software:

1. Open source code used as a base and customizations are added.

2. Software that integrates existing "off the shelf" packages

3. Software developed for an industry that is customized to its users' more specific requirements

4. Software developed for company that is not used elsewhere