Commercial or off-the-shelf software solutions are NOT built to solve the specific problems that a business has - that’s when that particular business requires custom or bespoke software solutions. Let’s look at an example of customized software - suppose a car manufacturing start-up in Japan has encountered a unique business problem. Their steady flow of revenue has faced a significant drop in the recent fiscal years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The problem became more complex as their commercial or off-the-shelf software solution doesn't have any sales forecast option. That's why building proper campaigns and plans are difficult as there is no quantitative or qualitative data on sales forecasts. So elaborate excel sheets don't work for the company anymore. Instead, they need a custom-built software solution that specifically caters to their business's requirements.

The key benefit of custom software design and development is that it automates and integrates all the business processes in one platform. Also, its scalability makes it more investment-worthy to business owners. Here is a quick demonstration of the core benefits of bespoke or custom software solutions - Custom Software Solutions Meet the Specific Requirements of the Business No two businesses have the same goals - that is to say that their core product or services may have the same elements and outputs, yet their vision, mission, and requirements differ significantly. Therefore, off-the-shelf, general-purpose, or built-for-all software doesn't solve the business's particular needs. That's why every business with unique value propositions needs custom software solutions.

Suppose there is a company in Germany that produces construction machinery - the company has hired two individuals to manage all the raw and produced materials in the factory. But only if the company got a custom software solution for its business, it would have saved the surplus cost of hiring extra resources to do the manual labour. The bespoke software would have tracked all the raw and produced materials separately by a barcode scanner and showed all the data in an integrated dashboard.

As time passes by, the business grows. Unfortunately, commercial software solutions don't change as per the necessity of the growing business. That's why every business needs a custom software solution that can be adapted to its business's present and possible future needs.

Malware like ransomware, spy, and phishing bots can destroy a company's internal data security in no time. Untrustworthy sources can modify the free or low-cost open-source off-the-shelf software services at any time; all anyone has to do is click the "update now" button of the open-source software to install possible malicious bots that can sabotage the entire business.

In a 2017 Everest Group research, it was revealed that Bangladesh produces approximately 15,000 IT or IT-related tertiary graduates per year. Also, the country offers offshore IT services at an affordable cost (at less than 20-30% cost compared to India and the Philippines). So, Bangladesh is indeed the world's most promising offshore hub for quality custom software design and development. Also, it's attracting all the valuable leads and prospects to its largest offshore software development centers. BJIT is a global offshore software development company founded 20 years ago in 2001. It is a joint venture of Japan and Bangladesh which was formed during the initial phase of the Bangladesh IT industry. The company is one of the pioneers of outsourcing IT services in Bangladesh. It has emerged as the promising visionary idea of taking the lead in providing cutting-edge IT solutions and elevating Asian talents towards modernized IT skills. After 20 years, BJIT has grown into an industry leader and evolved with an excellent adaptation of diverse methodology for a better workforce.

Agile methodology is the best custom software development process. Moreover, the most-qualitative benefit of the agile development process is - it benefits everyone - from developers to clients. Developers enjoy the work as it is more interactive, and clients also get to be fully involved in the entire process. It's more transparent, interactive, and collaborative than the waterfall method.

In the first stage, the custom software development company will understand the client’s requirements and make a plan by integrating all of them.

The goal of custom software is to solve a business's specific problems. Therefore, in the second stage, the initial planning directives are tested to see if they solve the problem, for which the client approached the custom software development company in the first place.

At this stage, all the expert people come together to finish the initial design of the software. Stakeholders and clients get an initial idea of how the software would function after it’s made.

After the designing part is done, developers come together to build the software's first version (or prototype). The agile method works the best at this stage - the perfect integration and seamless workflow between developers and clients help put the best effort and build something extraordinary.

As the development process closes to an end, the testing part begins. After the all-ticks from the QA team, the integration process starts. After the successful ending of the integration process, the project is finally deployed to the client's end.

The story is not over yet. If the client faces any issue regarding the software, the development company provides support and maintenance as per the initial contract by both parties.

The offshore custom software development scope (for Bangladesh) has developed immensely in recent years. Now Bangladesh has skilled resources to put out their best work. Here are some of the demonstration of services BJIT is offering to its customer and contributing towards the growth of custom software design and development in Bangladesh

A custom-built mobile application solves a lot of business problems in one go. Bangladesh has the skilled resources to build quality custom mobile applications even for the toughest business requirements.

The world's business arena has seen a rising demand for customized web apps and cloud platform solutions. Bangladesh has skilled resources to provide offshore web apps and cloud services worldwide.

Every enterprise has unique needs. That’s why all enterprises need stand-alone custom ERP solutions to run their business smoothly.

Legacy software means a type of software that doesn't serve the needs of the business, enterprise, or individual anymore. Bangladesh has been offering offshore legacy software modernizing services to the world.

Software as a service or SaaS solutions is one of the most desired customized software solutions worldwide. Bangladesh has skillful offshore software development centers that build powerful SaaS solutions.