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We take a holistic approach to custom business software development because just as no business is an island, no software application is an island – or at least shouldn’t be. Undertaking any software development project without a thorough understanding of an organization's entire information management structure, its business objectives, and the business itself will invariably reduce the application's useful lifetime and increase its total cost of ownership.

There are software development firms that do outstanding work, and there's everyone else. Any firm that would begin constructing an application having only been given a description of what functionality needs to be in the final product is to be avoided at all costs. There's a reason the software development industry has appropriated many of the terms used in the construction industry - there's a clear and undeniable parallel between the two fields. Just as you'd not expect an architectural firm that designs high-end residential homes to be able to successfully design a baseball stadium simply because they've been told "it must accomodate 50,000 people and have plenty of bathrooms," you'd not expect a software development firm that knows little or nothing about air traffic control systems to successfully design a new system without first undertaking significant up-front work.

Rest assured that whether we’re developing a custom order scheduling application, an inventory management system, or a secure and automated business-to-business file transfer mechanism, we'll always do the appropriate up-front work before writing even a single line of code because not doing so would all but guarantee to end up costing you more in the long term.

Contact us to find out more. We have offices in Ann Arbor and Royal Oak, and we serve all of Detroit and Southeastern Michigan.

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