In today’s world of ever-growing software needs, companies have several options for procuring or developing their IT solutions. Companies typically are faced with choosing between in-house development or purchasing generic software products and subsequently hiring consultants to “make the shoe fit”.
When systems are designed in-house, there is always a risk of dependency on the people who develop the software as their critical know-how is lost when they leave, such a loss can be drastic and can result in a costly IT overhaul which may also lead to operational consequences.
When cookie-cutter, pre-defined applications are used, your company will be bound by a set of parameterized systems. Using these systems requires that your company adjust its operations to suit the rigidity of the purchased software package. This may result in costly operational inefficiencies which may increase your company’s overhead costs. Many companies selling these generic systems do allow clients to purchase additional modules which may be customized. However, these additions require the reconciliation of information between modules thus making the data entry/date use process cumbersome. These solutions make real-time data access nearly impossible. They also increase management costs as well as processing times. The rigidity of these generic systems makes it difficult for companies to be agile and adapt to new needs. The result is employees resorting to downloading data to Excel and managing their reporting needs via workarounds.
What we propose is an integrated system that works in real-time and is customized to your company’s needs. This result in an impressive flexibility in your systems’ capabilities, thus allowing the system to adapt to your company’s specific needs as it changes over time, rather than the other way around, in which your company is forced to adapt to the parameters of the system currently in place.-
Customized IT solutions have the potential to drastically improve operational efficiency and financial margins. In order to ensure a seamless and successful transition, it is critical to have senior management support from the outset. As these solutions will result in various operations changes, front-line staff members may, at times, resist changes to their day-to-day work flow process, even this means a better, easier process for this same staff.
To maintain their competitiveness, companies must adapt to new business demands as well as advances in information technologies taking place within the marketplace. These changes often require a company to change its behaviors and to adapt to new ways of thinking. Responding nimbly in this manner allows managers to have a more competitive and dynamic control of their business.
Customizing a company’s information technology system, gives managers improved flexibility and control over their business, thus allowing them to maintain their competitive edge. Users are commonly surprised by the vast company financial improvements resulting from modest IT modifications, as they previously may not have been able to imagine that these options existed.
We can document the data flow from the systems to have a general idea of how the information is treated.
But when we reach the level of coding it is practically impossible to document it. Many companies do it, but nobody understands such a documentation.
Our programming policy is to follow standards that allow us to understand the coding work of any of our programmers, that is, what one does, everyone understands.
Even so, due to the complexity of the systems, it is necessary to keep the staff motivated.
This is paramount. Many companies want to make major changes, but nobody can understand the logic of their actual systems, which can damage or duplicate system processes unnecessarily.
Costoia has developed an innovative Form System, designed to help your company automate, collect and control its records.