Replace Custom Hardware with Custom Software

There was a time when new hardware represented a major shift for enterprises who once paralleled fast, reliable, hardware with productivity and planned their architecture and budgets around these opportunities for advancement. In today's increasingly technology-driven world that boasts big data and cloud computing, the paradigm has shifted from custom hardware to custom software being the driving force behind optimal functionality in enterprise systems.

Prominent enterprises that excel in their respective industries have the ability to accurately eliminate their weaknesses, identify beneficial opportunities, and successfully implement those solutions to stay current and maximize their potential. When making the decision to update their IT infrastructures, costs are often allocated for installations of new and expensive application-specific hardware when they should be pointed towards maximizing their existing systems with robust software.

Today's technologies offer solutions to quickly streamline supply chain management processes with custom software development and the standardization of the shipment of goods to optimize manufacturing jobs, reducing scrap and error while increasing efficiency.

Healthcare providers are hard pressed to give exceptional and personalized care to patients and have noted that a critical success factor in the optimization of patient care is based on consumers' expectations that improved healthcare features truly patient-centric business models. Focusing on both provider and patient engagement before, during, and after appointments will prove to be the deciding factor in patient satisfaction and can prove to reduce healthcare costs.

The release of Windows 10 on July 29 across 90 countries and in over 100 languages has been highly anticipated by both consumers and enterprises that will be able to download an array of editions of Windows 10 that have been catered to the needs of different devices while streamlining its look and feel, promising to be on over 1 billion devices by 2018. With its seamless implementation of an interoperable API stack that enables developers to deploy their Android and iOS applications to the Universal Windows Platform, the new Microsoft Edge web browser, and new security layer coined as Windows Hello, it seems that Microsoft's Windows 10 is poised for success.

Microsoft has reigned supreme in desktop user experience by bringing Windows to enterprises, educational institutions, and homes. Microsoft's mobile market is not making the same impact, to say the least, and…

Today's high-performance computing vendors Texas Instruments, IBM, Cray, Nvidia, and AMD hold stakes in a $21 billion market that specialize in customization of hardware systems that optimize generic hardware architectures for enterprises, tailoring hardware to their specific needs and goals, from big data analytics to cloud computing services. Forward-thinking, IT-intensive, companies have successfully incorporated big data into their IT infrastructure from the core and throughout the stack by coupling ever-innovative high-performance computing solutions with custom software as middleware to serve as a strong foundation for big data processing.

Quite often, a company realizes that their business needs are so unique that no existing software or combination of software packages will optimize them. Performing analysis of an organization’s business goals and processes without getting distorted by legacy systems or becoming corrupted by commercial offerings, is much more difficult than most folks understand. Assessing enterprise software carries several risks, with most of the common problems we see among our customers highlighted in this article.

Engineering an enterprise application with custom software to update a legacy system, improve productivity, or meet other business goals is optimal for most all companies. Realizing the importance of communication, understanding, and effort are paramount to its success.