Today’s Standard in Custom Software Deployment

First Line Software hosted a webinar in May of 2021 that shared their experience of how utilizing developed Accelerators can immensely benefit custom software solutions in today’s technology environment. Here’s a highlight from the event…

Forrester has defined Solutions Accelerators as predeveloped software that technology services firms use to automate a particular business process or aspect of product development, where 30% to 70% of the code can be reused across clients.

Custom Software has traditionally come with the higher cost of anything called, “custom”. Off-the-shelf-software solutions may be considered a cost-effective alternative, but are fraught with compromises in flexibility, longevity, and most importantly today… security.

Software development companies have innovated to solve this problem by creating solutions that encompass business processes, methodologies, best practices, resources organization, and of course, software applications and components.

The results of integrating this Business Intelligence into custom software design has created a new paradigm in the form of Solutions Accelerators.

Forrester has defined Solutions Accelerators as predeveloped software that technology services firms use to automate a particular business process or aspect of product development, where 30% to 70% of the code can be reused across clients.

Solutions Accelerators and the efficiencies they have achieved have come through a form of crowdsourcing where clients mutually benefit by allocating existing BI components with other clients.

Dashboards are one of many existing and evolving accelerators that developers have created that offer complete systems integration infrastructure, technical infrastructure, experienced resources, and well-defined methodology.

These innovative Accelerator solutions introduce the option of custom software development for a whole new segment of clients that may have once believed it was not possible due to budget constraints; while still optimizing the flexibility and integration of bespoke, custom software for existing companies regardless of resources.