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Oct. 30, 2006 at 1:04pm
Why We Build Our Stuff from Scratch
It's never the same twice.
I had an interesting conversation with a potential client last Friday and it prompted me to think or at least explain our development rational. He was looking to hire SiteCrafting to assemble a robust application for his client consisting of a design he came up with as well as some "open-source" technologies, and a few custom scripts generated by us. Long and the short of it...it seemed a disaster in the making.
I mentioned to him that SiteCrafting builds our Web applications from the ground up, for each customer as an individual. We do not offer one-size fits all solutions, because just like anything one-size fits all it never fits anyone quite right.
Using pre-built software in these instances can on the surface seem to be a cost-savings, but in fact it will most likely cost more money trying to piece technology together. A system built on workarounds from a variety of technologies will consistently need to be tweaked and modified.
At SiteCrafting, we design our solutions to fit the organization perfectly, not just most of the time, all of the time. Our process is simple, we learn about a project, we design a solution, we build, test and deploy.
The result is custom application built for you...not for the masses. Very few people utilize all of the features in an off the shelf solution like Microsoft Word or PowerPoint, but everyone pays for all of the features. Our model is different, establish a secure, scalable foundation, build what you need and will use, and pay for only that. When needs change in the future our flexible systems will be able to grow with you to adapt to your organizations needs.
Posted in Deep Thoughts, From the Workbench, Horn Tooting by Brian Forth
Comments (1)
Amen my friend. This kind of thing happens quite a bit. Just say no to kludge!
1 | Left by RR Anderson | Oct. 31, 2006 at 11:49am