Custom Software Development
We can provide a Bespoke Software Development Service for web, mobile, serverless cloud, desktop
Software Development Company
Bespoke Software Development
We've been developing Software for Web, Desktop and Mobile for many years.
Metatec offer a bespoke software development service covering web, mobile, cloud, desktop and server. No matter what your trying to do, we can usually write software to help you accomplish it. That includes building and connecting all the databases and data sources you need.
Whether you're looking to build a website, mobile app, automate a task, start or enhance your digital presence, build API's or need help integrating applications, we can help.
Amongst the many applications our people have built, here are just a few examples
- Internet Facing payment gateway using open standards for real-time transaction processing
- Standards based web API's for customer identity, transaction management and card processing
- Ecommerce websites using off the shelf software packages or custom written
- Cloud automation tasks on Azure
- Service Bus and Messaging
Software Application Development services
We can work with any technology and language you need as our developers love a challenge. Given a choice for Software Application development we mainly work with Microsoft .NET, and more recently use .NET Core for most of the software we build. The reason we like .NET Core is its ability to write code that can run natively on Windows and Linux and be effective across so many platforms, whether its software for the web, an API or an Enterprise solution.
Mobile App Development
What is custom software development?
Custom software development is the process of designing and deploying a bespoke piece of software around a specific, defined set of requirements. Unlike commercially developed “Off The Shelf” software (which is typically built for the mass market), custom software is entirely designed, developed, deployed, managed and maintained around the needs of a particular end user, business or function.
Competitive advantage
Often how you work is what will mean the difference between you and the competition. Whether you’re looking to do customer service better or improve your processes to make you more efficient, developing custom software can improve how you do business and give you access to an advantage the rest of the market doesn’t have.
Schedule a session with Metatec to discuss your Business goals and ideas and how our Bespoke Software Development service can help you and your business.
Custom Software Development for Mobile
Android
With around 51% market share in the UK, Android is a very large audience to cater for. Some consider it the World's most popular mobile OS. Android runs on many platforms from phones and watches to cars and TV's representing a great platform for your idea.
Full Lifecycle
Metatec will help you build your mobile apps from initial conception, through analysing requirements, building software, testing it, publishing it and managing it ongoing.
iOS
With just under 50% market share in the UK, iOS from Apple is another major platform to cater for. Running on phones, watches, TV's and cars, iOS offers a wide variety of devices for your idea to run on.
Fully tested
We've got our own specialist testing people who excel at structured and unstructured testing, ensuring we focus the right amount of time on happy path and edge case.
Mobile App Development
We listen to you and your goals and ideas and we transform them into mobile apps your customers will enjoy.
Working with languages such as Swift, Objective C, Java or tools such as Xamarin, we can build apps for iOS and Android.
Once the apps are built, we'll work with you to ensure their tested to your satisfaction and once ready, publish them through the app store for you if you prefer.
It's rare for an app to standalone, so where needed we can build the supporting software and systems integrations and microservices and api's to ensure you have the end to end experience you need.
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What benefits could I get from custom software?
Developing custom software for your organisation can have a number of key benefits that you can’t experience from relying on Off the Shelf alternatives:
Continual development
Unlike commercial software, custom software can be continually developed, maintained and updated at the speed you need. Any issues can be identified and fixed quickly, and further customisations can be built in as you understand how the custom software fits into your business.
Better integration
If your organisation is reliant on multiple systems and processes, trying to shoehorn commercial software into your business can often lead to problems as these separate systems aren’t designed to fit together.
Custom software can be easily integrated into your business and built around the processes you’re trying to develop. Rather than trying to build your processes around software that hasn’t been built with you in mind.
Scale your software as you grow
As your company grows, you need software that scales with you and potentially deal with more complex requirements. Relying on commercial software can often be costly and leave you shopping for separate, expensive solutions.
Custom software can be built with scalability in mind from the beginning, allowing you to build on top of it as and when you need in a more efficient, cost effective way.
Future proof
Custom software development requires an initial investment but in the long run you remove your reliance on additional add-ons and updates. Without the long term costs of commercial software licenses you can invest your money in your future growth instead.
Improved security
Sometimes you have stricter, more complex security requirements from your software than you can find from a commercial solution. Maybe your company deals with sensitive information and requires more complex security protocols or you have a mobile workforce that can’t rely on generic desktop security.
Better integration
If your organisation is reliant on multiple systems and processes, trying to shoehorn commercial software into your business can often lead to problems as these separate systems aren’t designed to fit together.
Custom software can be easily integrated into your business and built around the processes you’re trying to develop. Rather than trying to build your processes around software that hasn’t been built with you in mind.
Custom software development today
Custom software development (sometimes called bespoke software development) has become much more prevalent in the last decade as businesses across all sizes and industries become more reliant on technology for day-to-day operations.
While it takes many of its key principles from commercial software development - from requirement research, to coding, to deploying, testing and maintenance - custom software development will require a much better understanding of your organisation’s specific needs.
From “traditional” industries like manufacturing and banking, through to newer industries like ecommerce, all the way to massive national organisations like health services, custom software development is enabling organisations of all sizes to build efficient processes, and build software around their business, rather than building their business around commercial software.
Building Custom Software
Scalable custom software development in the cloud
Building software in the cloud has completely changed the business of custom software development and the delivery of services.
Using public and private cloud services, it is possible to develop bespoke software that meets all your business’ specific needs quickly, and in a way that is secure, easily scalable and more cost effective for you.
No more time sourcing and maintaining servers and developing environments to develop, test and produce bespoke software ahead of deployment.
To compliment our Software Development Service, we offer an Azure Cloud Infrastructure Managed Service that ranges from re-selling Azure to fully managing the whole environment.
Choosing the right custom software development partner
If you’re investing in custom software, choosing the right development partner is one of the biggest choices you face.
What experience does your potential partner have? Have they developed custom software in your (or a similar) industry before? Who do they work with to make sure you’re getting the best solution?
Remember, you’re choosing more than a short-term software developer, you’re choosing a long-term partner for your business who will support you through the initial project and longer term as you optimise and scale the solution.
We’ve worked hard over the years to build our partnerships base so that we’re able to build the best, most flexible custom software for our customers.
Bespoke software development from Metatec
We have more than 15 years’ experience behind us developing custom software for business of all sizes, across all kinds of different industries.
If you choose Metatec as your software development partner we don’t just create your software in a silo, we’ll work with you to design and develop software that meets the needs of your users, just as much as your business, to make sure you get the most out of your new solution.
We’ve optimised our software development strategy over the years.
You’ll be in the loop every step of the way from the initial ideation and requirement research, through to design and testing and finally the launch of your custom software.
We’re always open and honest about our fees and what you can expect to pay depending on your needs.
Schedule a session with Metatec to discuss your Business goals and ideas and how our Bespoke Software Development service can help you and your business.