Custom Development
OpenCrowd provides a knowledgeable and experienced team for developing customized applications using open and closed source technologies.
Our development methodology is a combination of proven best practices and new collaborative techniques which enable us to quickly develop cost effective solutions based on our clients unique requirements.
Our methodology includes a rigorous product evaluation process to choose the right open or closed source software component for the job. We leverage our relations with the open source project communities to develop extensible, component based architectures that support open standards.
This unique blend of experience and methodology has enabled us to successfully deliver applications in several business verticals like Financial Services, Retail, Healthcare and Pharmaceutical, Media and Entertainment, and Telecommunications.
Our clients have used our development services to reduce the cost and risk of developing application using open source technologies. Our services have also helped them accelerate time to market of new applications.
Challenges of developing using open source
Organizations are continuously challenged to deliver more, faster and for less. Open source software is viewed as a viable option to reduce the cost and time of application development. Encouraged with their early success, more and more organizations are looking to adopt open source software in their development and production environment.
However, organizations recognize that there are challenges in using open source software. Some of the challenges are:
- Choosing the right open source software that meets their needs and will be a viable product
- Finding knowledgeable open source resources and support
- License concerns in integrating open source software with their existing software portfolio
- Working with open source products with frequent software releases
Organizations need to carefully evaluate and overcome these challenges before using open source.
How OpenCrowd can help
OpenCrowd understands and helps our clients overcome these challenges. We have created a flexible and adaptive project implementation approach for using open source software.
Our approach blends our years of implementation and project management experience with our extensive knowledge of using open source software. We believe that a strict approach that relies purely on process will not ensure the best results for our clients. Hence, our approach is centered around motivated people who we trust "to get the job done" and an implementation process that can be customized to meet our client's needs.
Core tenets of our approach to using open source software and development methodology are:
- Our project implementation methodology is flexible to adapt to client and project needs
- Our integrated onshore offshore delivery team works as one unit whether the resources are supplied by us or our clients
- Our project teams operate in a collaborative environment, enabling us to share our best practices and open source knowledge within the client environment
- We take advantage of the frequent release cycles of open source projects, so that we can use the latest stable product features and code
- Our relationships with the open source project community and insight into the product roadmaps helps us develop extensible and flexible architectures based on open standards
- We follow a well disciplined approach to software testing that starts at the application requirements phase and continues through application rollout
By using our development services our clients have successfully developed applications using open source technologies.
For more information on our Custom Development Services, please contact our sales team.
