Software Customization in India
The software systems today are being built to meet the ever increasing demands of the users and businessman. Each company has different sets of users or clients and their preferences of using multiple platforms and skills may be different hence the software must be customizable and generic to work in multi environment. The very first step in this direction is to gather requirements of the software and define tasks to achieve the set preferences. The user preferences should be taken as the target goals to make the software easily adaptable and acceptable.
There are many software development services around the world but India has its reputation for providing quality based and cost effective services for all domains. A World Bank survey concluded that more and more vendors in US prefer to develop their software in India due to the availability of customized quality software and cost benefit. Indian companies today provide their customers with personalized solutions to increase the efficiency of their work .They develop web applications that enable the customers to access their business information across the different network locations.
The website designing in India provides interactive information and e- commerce features for online selling and buying and is designed using latest technologies like .net, dot ASP, ASP, PHP and other scripting languages. These websites can be further enhanced according to the user’s needs and usage. There are a number of companies in India offering customized website designing services at reasonable prices. The software application development services follow a strict approach to SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and the requirement specifications given by the client. The customer requirements are marked and accordingly the softwares are developed with the client’s demands and with the option that they can be further modified and enhanced.
The customization in India has certainly advanced with space for further changing or updating various software used by modifying the coding or other functions. The process involves not only designing the software but also testing it to meet the end user requirements. The customized software aims to increase the efficiency of the clients business.
Today India exports software services to nearly 95 countries in the world. Due to the availability of reduced cost and high quality the growth rate of outsourcing the customized software has been more than fifty percent over the years. Rather than just providing plenty of inexpensive labor, Indian IT companies are offering valuable services to their foreign customers.
In the last few years outsourcing of software development has also increased due the Indian government encouraging foreign investments in the field of IT. The local demand for software services is quite less and exports are the main source of revenue for this industry. So customization according to the client’s demands forms an important facet for the growth of the IT industry.
By: Manoj Salwani