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With experience from 3,300 IT projects for 30+ industries, ScienceSoft delivers powerful software solutions for businesses of any size – fast and with the closest attention to quality, ROI, and your users.

Custom Software Development – ScienceSoft
Custom Software Development – ScienceSoft

Custom software development is a way to design and build software solutions that address unique needs of a specific organization.

Why Entrust Your Project to ScienceSoft?

ScienceSoft is a trusted custom software development company that helps mid-sized and large companies drive digital transformation and make software the source of tangible enterprise-wide business value.

  • A quality-first approach that means you’ll get tangible business value from your IT investments with ScienceSoft, enjoy healthy project processes, professional and motivated teams, effective communication between ScienceSoft, your teams, and stakeholders, have no unmanaged risks and no unplanned expenditures.
  • ISO 27001-certified security management based on comprehensive policies and processes, advanced security technology, and skilled professionals.
  • 33 years

    in custom software development

  • 3,300+ projects

    successfully completed

  • 700+ employees

    covering a full software development lifecycle

  • HQ in the US

    offices in Europe and the Middle East

Our awards

Our partnerships

Software consulting

We gather and analyze your business needs, conceptualize software to cover them, and help you get the best value from its development.

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Web development

In web development since 1999, we create all kinds of customer-facing and corporate web-based apps.

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Mobile development

Building on the expertise from 300+ completed mobile projects, we can deliver mobile apps for any platform and cover industry specifics (e.g., for telehealth or mCommerce apps).

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Desktop development

We develop desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux in C++/Qt, .NET and Python programming languages.

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Database development

We help you organize raw data in the most efficient way for analysis and decision-making.

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Cloud development

Developing cloud apps, we ensure a rational use of cloud resources to avoid over- and under-provisioning.

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SaaS development

We can assist with both product management and development of SaaS apps.

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API development and software integration

We employ API-driven development to seamlessly integrate custom software with corporate and third-party systems and services.

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Software modernization

We improve the usability, refactor code and optimize the maintenance cost of legacy software.

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The Financial Times Includes ScienceSoft USA Corporation in the List of Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies 2022

ScienceSoft is one of 500 companies with the highest compound annual growth rate in revenue. This achievement is a result of our unfailing commitment to provide high-quality IT services and find best-value solutions to clients' needs.

Creating Unique Solutions across Business Verticals

ScienceSoft as an experienced technology partner pieces together the core functionality for the business process in focus and enhance the software with unique software features and capabilities for your individual requirements.

Proven industry expertise

Software for different business needs

We enable centralized management of day-to-day business activities via a single software system.

We create software for

  • Project & task management
  • Resource & workload management
  • HR & talent management
  • Sales & marketing automation
  • Risk management
  • Compliance management
  • Document management

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Customer-centered software

We target business users or individual consumers and take into account audience specifics in user experience design.

Software we create

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Supply chain software is used to automate and coordinate all activities connected with product movement from sourcing/manufacturing to distribution.

Knowledge & productivity

We create a convenient digital environment for employees and provide tools for their performance monitoring.

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We enable different levels of analytics depending on your business needs.

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We create software ecosystems where physical objects are empowered to transfer information regarding their state or environment into the data center.

Connected solutions we create

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We provide universal tools to manage financial data and help incorporate it into a high-level decision-making process.

Enterprise financial activities we cover

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We provide solutions to maintain ongoing security of the IT environment and business continuity amid emergency events.

Solutions we deliver

  • Emergency response, incident management
  • Information security
  • Secure communicators and messengers
  • Secure videoconferencing
  • Video surveillance

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Software for different management levels

Enterprise-wide software

Large, integrated solutions that serve as centralized storage for corporate data and a source of insights or enable a seamless flow of processes and data between departments, e.g., ERP, SCM.

Departmental software

Apps that cover the needs of a particular department, e.g., PIM, inventory management, HR and talent management, CRM, RIS, PACS.

Business process management software

Apps that support business-unique and industry-specific workflows and data structures, e.g., price management software, clinical decision support app.

Our Pricing Models and Costs

Fixed price

You pay the price established by a contract.

Best for: Feasibility study, PoC, small software development projects with clear and stable requirements.

Time & Material, Time & Material with a cap

You pay for hours reported per month. In case of T&M with a cap, an upper limit on the costs gets established to keep the budget under strict control.

Best for: advisory activities (business analysis, architecture design, project planning, etc.), agile software development, evolution/modernization of existing software.

Examples of apps within certain cost ranges

Below we provide the ballpark estimations for different types of custom software development projects.

$30,000–$70,000

A mobile field service, booking apps; mCommerce.

$150,000+

A mobile banking app / mobile telehealth app.

~$200,000–$400,000

Operations management software of average complexity.

~$200,000–$400,000

Automated accounting solution of average complexity.

~$250,000–$400,000

Inventory software for a large enterprise.

~$250,000

 

An ecommerce portal for a mid-market company.

~$300,000

Digital process automation solution.

~$800,000–$4M

Big data solution with AI and ML.

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* The estimates provided are not ScienceSoft's official pricing/rates for the software development projects. We calculate the cost of each project individually, based on our customers' specific situations and needs.

Our Featured Projects

We have delivered custom application development services to companies with diverse software needs.

Operations Management Software for a Pharma Manufacturer

Operations Management Software for a Pharma Manufacturer

Challenge: To improve the cumbersome document management workflow and digitize a paper-based registration process.

Result: ScienceSoft built integrated customer registration and document management software, an ecommerce solution to replace paper-based registration, and an order management system. Also, we created and integrated a warehouse management tool to automate the control over available medicinal plants.

Inventory Management Software for a Provider of Medicinal Herbs

Inventory Management Software for a Provider of Medicinal Herbs

Challenge: To track and manage the medicinal herbs down to the exact milligram at the stages of harvesting, processing, and internal packaging, and across the entire inventory.

Result: In 3 weeks, ScienceSoft's team delivered a ready-to-go web inventory management system that ensured convenient and efficient control over the inventory operations and helped to better set sales and distribution goals.

Well Log Data Tracking Software

Well Log Data Tracking Software

Challenge: To simplify the well development process and facilitate reporting of well data to the regulatory authorities.

Result: ScienceSoft created a system of two modules. The first module offered setting the requirements and enabled administrators to define the entire development workflow. The second module monitored the actual well development process and ensured users were always up-to-date on task statuses.

Care Team Coordination Web Application for 120+ Caregivers

Care Team Coordination Web Application for 120+ Caregivers

Challenge: To connect patients with care teams to get quick medical help.

Result: ScienceSoft delivered a web application for care teams to receive in near real-time and manage notifications about their patients' health and well-being status to ensure quick response.

Trade Marketing Planning Software an FMCG Company with 82K Employees

Trade Marketing Planning Software an FMCG Company with 82K Employees

Challenge: To boost worldwide sales.

Result: ScienceSoft built a field planning tool and a market integrated platform, which are now applied in 60+ countries. These two applications helped improve the alignment between the regional planning and territorial execution.

Online and Mobile Banking Software for an Asian Bank with 3M+ Customers

Online and Mobile Banking Software for an Asian Bank with 3M+ Customers

Challenge: To enhance customer experience and loyalty.

Result: ScienceSoft delivered ‌new online and mobile banking software ‌that supported ‌money‌ ‌transfers‌ ‌using‌ ‌unique‌ ‌generated‌ ‌code,‌ ‌split‌ ‌payments,‌ ‌creating‌ ‌virtual‌ ‌cards‌ ‌and‌ ‌more. It helped the Customer to engage more customers, win their loyalty and gain leadership on the market.

Field Audit Mobile App for Burger King, KFC and Friday's

Field Audit Mobile App for Burger King, KFC and Friday's

Challenge: To facilitate regular regular field audits.

Result: In the course of 1.5 months, ScienceSoft delivered an app with 15 types of customizable questions for checklists. Each question can be enriched with an intuitive tool to collect strategic metrics.

Data Analytics Platform for a US Telecom Company

Data Analytics Platform for a US Telecom Company

Challenge: To understand and forecast customer behavior.

Result: ScienceSoft built a data analytics platform with Apache Kafka and Amazon Redshift at the core to analyze historical data from 10+ sources and enable forecasting and ad hoc reporting.

Employee Performance Management Software for a US Telecom Provider

Employee Performance Management Software for a US Telecom Provider

Challenge: To optimize employee performance review.

Result: Organized and transparent performance review. The system contains questionnaires for employee assessment, forms to set performance goals, and performance improvement plans for managers.

Online Bond Portfolio Management Software for a News Agency

Online Bond Portfolio Management Software for a News Agency

Challenge: To streamline and automate the portfolio management process for investors.

Result: A tool that helps financial and investment professionals to buy bonds, track their portfolio and acquire reports via a convenient, integrated interface.

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Rely on a Tech Stack for Long-Term Software Evolution

Our software engineers employ the proven combination of the latest and classic trusted technologies, having the following technology stack as the basis:

Back-end programming languages

Microsoft .NET
Practice
Practice 19 years

Projects

Projects 200+
Workforce
Workforce 60+

Our .NET developers can build sustainable and high-performing apps up to 2x faster due to outstanding .NET proficiency and high productivity.

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Java
Practice
Practice 25 years

Projects

Projects 110+
Workforce
Workforce 40+

ScienceSoft's Java developers build secure, resilient and efficient cloud-native and cloud-only software of any complexity and successfully modernize legacy software solutions.

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Python
Practice
Practice 10 years

Projects

Projects 50+
Workforce
Workforce 30

ScienceSoft's Python developers and data scientists excel at building general-purpose Python apps, big data and IoT platforms, AI and ML-based apps, and BI solutions.

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Node.js
Practice
Practice 10 years
Workforce
Workforce 100

ScienceSoft delivers cloud-native, real-time web and mobile apps, web servers, and custom APIs ~1.5–2x faster than other software developers.

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PHP
Practice
Practice 16 years

Projects

Projects 170
Workforce
Workforce 55

ScienceSoft's PHP developers helped to build Viber. Their recent projects: an IoT fleet management solution used by 2,000+ corporate clients and an award-winning remote patient monitoring solution.

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Golang
Practice
Practice 4 years

ScienceSoft's developers use Go to build robust cloud-native, microservices-based applications that leverage advanced techs — IoT, big data, AI, ML, blockchain.

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Front-end programming languages

Languages

JavaScript frameworks

Angular JS
Practice
Practice 13 years
Workforce
Workforce 100+

ScienceSoft leverages code reusability Angular is notable for to create large-scale apps. We chose Angular for a banking app with 3M+ users.

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React JS
Workforce
Workforce 80+

ScienceSoft achieves 20–50% faster React development and 50–90% fewer front-end performance issues due to smart implementation of reusable components and strict adherence to coding best practices.

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Mobile

iOS
Practice
Practice 16 years

Projects

Projects 150+
Workforce
Workforce 50+

ScienceSoft’s achieves 20–50% cost reduction for iOS projects due to excellent self-management and Agile skills of the team. The quality is never compromised — our iOS apps are highly rated.

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Android
Practice
Practice 14 years

Projects

Projects 200+
Workforce
Workforce 50+

There are award-winning Android apps in ScienceSoft’s portfolio. Among the most prominent projects is the 5-year-long development of Viber, a messaging and VoIP app for 1.8B users.

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Xamarin
Practice
Practice 11 years

Projects

Projects 85+
Workforce
Workforce 10+

ScienceSoft cuts the cost of mobile projects twice by building functional and user-friendly cross-platform apps with Xamarin.

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React Native
Practice
Practice 8 years

Projects

Projects 300+

ScienceSoft reduces up to 50% of project costs and time by creating cross-platform apps that run smoothly on web, Android and iOS.

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Desktop

C++
Practice
Practice 34 years
Workforce
Workforce 40

ScienceSoft's C++ developers created the desktop version of Viber and an award-winning imaging application for a global leader in image processing.

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Qt
Practice
Practice 4 years
Workforce
Workforce 40

ScienceSoft uses Qt to create cost-effective, sophisticated software with intuitive UI for image analysis, image and video processing, IoT, VR/AR apps.

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C#
Practice
Practice 19 years

Projects

Projects 200+
Workforce
Workforce 60

Our C# developers created the world’s largest PLM software. Their recent projects: development of SaaS for vCIO services management and underwriting software for a global aviation insurer.

Python
Practice
Practice 10 years

Projects

Projects 50+
Workforce
Workforce 30

ScienceSoft's Python developers and data scientists excel at building general-purpose Python apps, big data and IoT platforms, AI and ML-based apps, and BI solutions.

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Databases / data storages

Cloud databases, warehouses and storage

Google Cloud Platform

Platforms

Microsoft Dynamics 365
Practice
Practice 14 years

Projects

Projects 25+
Workforce
Workforce 10+

A certified Microsoft partner, ScienceSoft creates CRM and ERP solutions powered by Dynamics 365 and optimizes most effectively a range of business operations.

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Salesforce

Projects

Projects 10+

ScienceSoft achieves at least 20% increase in sales and 30% improvement in case resolution with well-thought-out and business-tailored Salesforce solutions.

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Adobe Commerce
Practice
Practice 11 years

Projects

Projects 20+
Workforce
Workforce 10+

A certified Adobe Solution Partner, ScienceSoft builds on robust functionality of Adobe Commerce to create highly automated and scalable ecommerce solutions.

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SharePoint
Practice
Practice 15 years

Projects

Projects 100+
Workforce
Workforce 20+

Solid expertise in SharePoint services has earned ScienceSoft a place in Clutch’s list of Top SharePoint Developers in 2023.

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ServiceNow
Practice
Practice 12 years

A certified ServiceNow partner, ScienceSoft offers a proprietary 4-level implementation model that helps deliver the best value from ServiceNow adoption.

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Power BI
Practice
Practice 7 years

ScienceSoft sets up Power BI to process data from any source and report on data findings in a user-friendly format.

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DevOps

Containerization

Automation

CI/CD tools

Monitoring

Delivery of Custom Apps: Step by Step

Custom application development is the process of creating from-scratch solutions to address specific needs of an organization. Here’s how we usually build bespoke software at ScienceSoft:

1. Discovery (if you don’t have requirements specification yet)

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Duration: 1 – 3 months.

A dedicated business analyst (BA) or a BA team:

  • Explores the specific business needs and opportunities, documents key processes that need to be covered with future software, considers relevant regulatory constraints.
  • Elicits, gathers, processes opinions, expectations and concerns of all stakeholders.
  • Structures and prioritizes the requirements for future software based on business value.
  • Analyzes risks.

2. Project planning

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Duration: ~ 2 weeks.

A project manager:

  • Provides time and budget estimations.
  • Conducts cost-benefit analysis, estimates NVP, ROI.
  • Draws up a project roadmap.
  • Prepares a risk management strategy.

3. Architecture, UX and UI design

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Duration: 2 weeks – 3 months.

The team:

  • Defines architecture, data flows, and integration points.
  • (optionally) Defines software parts of your existing software that can be re-used.
  • Conducts UX research, designs wireframes, prototypes, and interface mockups.

4. MVP launch (upon request)

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Duration: 4 – 8 months (for the first working version of enterprise software of medium complexity).

5. Development and testing

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Duration: 2 weeks – 6 months for each release.

The team:

  • Ensures safe continuous releases via automated CI/CD pipelines.
  • Tests software to verify its proper functioning, performance, and security.
  • (wherever reasonable) Employs test automation to decrease testing time and costs.

6. Deployment and setup

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The team:

  • Deploys the software. (optionally) A trial implementation can be conducted for a limited number of users and with technical support. The trial stage usually takes up to 1-3 months.
  • Performs knowledge transfer to your internal team/outsourced support team (if any).
  • (if needed) Shows your internal users how to use it.

7. After-release maintenance

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Duration: 1 – 3 months.

The team:

  • Answers your and users’ after-release questions, resolve user issues (if any).
  • Manages incidents, configuration changes and updates.

8. Continuous application support (on demand)

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Upon agreement, we can continue taking care of the enhanced performance, stability and evolution of your application after the warranty support is over.

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