Custom Software Development Services
Software for your business-specific requirements
With experience from over 3,600 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.
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Custom software development is a way to deliver tailored functionality for specific users, business functions or organizations. With over 20 years in custom software development, ScienceSoft is a reliable tech partner to quickly design, develop, integrate, test, and deploy high-quality custom apps.
Why Entrust Your Project to ScienceSoft?
ScienceSoft is a leading custom software development company that helps companies drive digital transformation and make software the source of tangible 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.
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Find Diverse Skills and Experience at ScienceSoft
Software consulting
We gather and analyze your business needs, conceptualize software to cover them, and help you get the best value from its development.
Web development
In web development since 1999, we create all kinds of customer-facing and corporate web-based apps.
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).
Desktop development
We develop desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux in C++/Qt, .NET and Python programming languages.
Database development
We help you organize raw data in the most efficient way for analysis and decision-making.
Cloud development
Developing cloud apps, we ensure a rational use of cloud resources to avoid over- and under-provisioning.
SaaS development
We can assist with both product management and development of SaaS apps.
API development and software integration
We employ API-driven development to seamlessly integrate custom software with corporate and third-party systems and services.
Software modernization
We improve the usability, refactor code and optimize the maintenance cost of legacy software.
The Financial Times Includes ScienceSoft USA Corporation in the List of the Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies 2023
For the second year in a row, ScienceSoft USA Corporation ranks among 500 American companies with the highest revenue growth. This achievement is the result of our unfailing commitment to provide high-quality IT services and create best-value solutions that meet and even exceed our clients’ expectations.
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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.
Customer-centered software
We target business users or individual consumers and take into account audience specifics in user experience design.
Supply chain software is used to automate and coordinate all activities connected with product movement from sourcing/manufacturing to distribution.
We provide universal tools to manage financial data and help incorporate it into a high-level decision-making process.
Knowledge & productivity
We create a convenient digital environment for employees and provide tools for their performance monitoring.
We enable different levels of analytics depending on your business needs.
We create software ecosystems where physical objects are empowered to transfer information regarding their state or environment into the data center.
We provide solutions to maintain ongoing security of the IT environment and business continuity amid emergency events.
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.
~$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 Selected Projects
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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:
Custom Software Development: 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)
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
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
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)
Duration: 4 – 8 months (for the first working version of enterprise software of medium complexity).
5
Development and testing
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
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
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)
Upon agreement, we can continue taking care of the enhanced performance, stability and evolution of your application after the warranty support is over.
ScienceSoft Answers Frequent Questions
Is custom software worth the investment?
The major reason to opt for custom software is that mass-market and free tools are often unable to meet unique business needs, don’t support specific integrations, offer limited or costly scalability, and may be more expensive in the long run.
At ScienceSoft, we analyze the financial feasibility of custom software development on a case-by-case basis and consider prioritized options with stakeholders.
How much does it cost to develop custom software?
The cost of custom software development depends on your project’s scale and complexity shaped by multiple factors, such as:
- Software type and a number of platforms supported (web, mobile, desktop).
- Number and complexity of software features.
- Custom software design uniqueness and complexity.
- Number and complexity of integrations with other software systems.
- Infrastructure requirements (availability, performance, security, latent capacity and scalability).
You can request free project cost calculation from ScienceSoft if you need to assess planned software.
What cooperation model is better for custom development?
It depends on the development resources you have in-house. If none, you will have to assemble a dedicated team and fully outsource your project to a vendor. If you have a team but lack specific competencies, go for a team augmentation model.
Who decides on the development methodology?
It’s not necessary as your software development vendor will advise on an optimal methodology. However, if you want to know the fundamental difference, here is our brief overview:
- At ScienceSoft, we use Agile (Scrum, Kanban, XP) to enable fast releases and easy changes.
- In case accurately predictable budgets/timelines or adherence to industry regulations are in demand, we employ Waterfall.
- We offer the Iterative model when a customer wants both project flexibility and predictability.
Why should I entrust my project to ScienceSoft?
ScienceSoft is a trusted, reliable software development company with a team of proactive, energetic experts that are laser-focused on bringing tangible, measurable business value.
We know how to keep our customers happy: 62% of our revenue is coming from customers we serve for more than 2 years.
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As a custom application development company, ScienceSoft can help you plan and implement custom software in line with your business needs. Please outline briefly software you need, and our rep will get back to you shortly to get the conversation going.