Bespoke Software Development Company

Projects are generally paid for weekly, based on the technical resources being utilised and features being built within a specific development phase. As we work in an agile manner, we are flexible, ensuring you remain in control of priorities, and where development effort is being directed at all times.

Bespoke software is Bespoke-developed software designed to cater to the specific requirements of a business or an organization. Unlike off-the-shelf software, bespoke software development focuses on creating solutions that fit like a glove, addressing specific challenges and leveraging unique opportunities within your business.

As a bespoke software development company, Assemblysoft brings a wealth of experience and expertise to your project. Our team of bespoke software developers works closely with you to understand your vision, ensuring that the final product not only meets but exceeds your expectations.

1: Unique Customer Experience: Providing a unique user experience is crucial for standing out in a competitive market. Bespoke software enables businesses to offer this distinct experience, helping to attract new customers and maintain a leading position in their industry.

2: Data Control and Security: For businesses where software is integral to operations, relying on third-party products can pose risks regarding control and data access. Bespoke software reduces this risk by ensuring complete control is in the hands of the business, offering greater security and peace of mind.

3: Customisation of Business Processes: Bespoke software can be tailored to align perfectly with specific business processes, enhancing operational efficiency, reducing costs, and giving businesses a competitive edge to attract more clients.

4: Filling Niche Requirements: Businesses with niche needs often find that off-the-shelf products do not sufficiently meet their specific requirements, which are typically designed for a broader, more general market.

5: Integration with Existing Systems: Bespoke software offers the flexibility to seamlessly integrate with other third-party products, maximizing the utility and value of the existing software ecosystem.

6: Innovation and Distinctiveness: Customers may aim to develop an innovative and unique product to differentiate themselves from competitors and open up new revenue opportunities. Bespoke software allows for this distinctiveness and innovation.

1: Tailored Efficiency: Bespoke software is uniquely designed to align with your ideal business processes, significantly enhancing operational efficiency.

2: Exclusive Features: It offers specialized functionality that is not available in standard off-the-shelf products, ensuring your business stands out with its unique capabilities.

3: Focused Functionality: With Bespoke software, you invest only in the features you need, avoiding the unnecessary expense of developing unused functionalities.

4: Comprehensive Customization: Beyond just the visible functionalities, Bespoke software can be developed considering all your specific needs including security, hosting, reporting, scalability, performance, and integration.

5: Collaborative Development: A close relationship with the software provider allows for a collaborative and interactive development process, ensuring the final product closely matches your vision.

6: Intellectual Property Security: Bespoke software development ensures that source code and intellectual property rights are secure and protected.

7: Personalized Service Levels: Service and support levels can be customized to meet the unique requirements of your business, offering more flexibility and targeted assistance.

While off-the-shelf software might seem like a value-for-money option due to its high functionality at a relatively low cost, and the potential to expand into additional functionalities later, there are notable limitations. These include the probability of encountering pre-resolved edge case scenarios due to a large customer base and the quick deployment time since the software is pre-written. However, the standard service levels provided with these products may not meet the specific needs of your business.

1: You may find yourself having to adapt your business processes to fit the software's functionality. It's likely that manual workarounds will be needed at various stages.

2: The software is likely to include functionality that isn't needed, with the development costs of these features reflected in the product's price.

3: Should new business needs emerge in the future, they may not be compatible with the software's functionality, leading to operational challenges.

4: The software's future development trajectory may not align with your business goals or needs.

5: Typically, the relationship with the vendor is distant, which can result in unexpected issues.

6: Transferring data from one product to another can be both challenging and expensive.

7: All source code and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are owned by the vendor, which could pose a problem if the vendor goes into liquidation.

Given these considerations, bespoke software emerges as a more fitting solution. Bespoke software development ensures that every aspect, from functionality to service level agreements, is tailored specifically to meet the unique requirements and aspirations of your business. This customization leads to greater efficiency and alignment with your business goals, making bespoke software a more advantageous choice over off-the-shelf alternatives.

We pride ourselves in building and maintaining firm relationships with our clients, working in an honest, transparent way, while delivering expert services.

Throughout the project you'll be provided with a talented team who are both technical and engaging for you and your clients. We ensure each hand-picked expert fits right in with your culture from day one.

• Technical Project Manager who will be your day to day point of reference for updates and priorities.
• Development Team comprising a perfect blend of technical skills and communication to perfectly design and build your solution.
• Client Engagement Manager ensuring alignment with your roadmap and business vision.

Projects are generally paid for weekly, based on the technical resources being utilised and features being built within a specific development phase. As we work in an agile manner, we are flexible, ensuring you remain in control of priorities, and where development effort is being directed at all times.

We share a 'live' project development plan with you, which is updated regularly, providing you with a clear understanding of cost versus benefit.

Our terms of payment are flexible and can be adapted to suit you.

Yes, to ensure the success of projects we'll provide demonstrations and supporting documentation as required to nominated individuals within your business.

Yes. We can operate as a one stop shop or work with your designer.

We can produce stunning mock designs, based on your vision. We can turn a design into a working prototype.

We can integrate your design into the application code base, to deliver a user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) that compliments your brand, providing delight to your users.

We know the responsiveness, look and feel, and branding, represent you and your business, which is why we take meticulous care ensuring we present your business as if it were our own.

In short, the combination of Blazor and Azure offers a powerful, scalable, and efficient platform for building and deploying modern web applications with robust back-end capabilities, seamless integration, enhanced security, and streamlined development processes.

1: Seamless Integration: Blazor, a web framework from Microsoft for building interactive web UIs using C# instead of JavaScript, integrates seamlessly with Azure services. This integration enables developers to leverage the full range of Azure capabilities, such as Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, and Azure SQL, enhancing the functionality and scalability of web applications.

2: Server-Side Processing with Azure: Blazor can run on the server-side with Blazor Server. Azure provides a robust and scalable environment for hosting Blazor Server applications, ensuring high performance and reliability.We can integrate your design into the application code base, to deliver a user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) that compliments your brand, providing delight to your users.

3: Client-Side WebAssembly with Azure Static Web Apps: For Blazor WebAssembly applications, Azure Static Web Apps is a perfect hosting solution. It allows for client-side Blazor applications to be served efficiently, along with other static assets, while also providing features like serverless APIs, automated CI/CD, and global distribution.

4: Security and Identity Services: Azure Active Directory and Azure AD B2C can be easily integrated with Blazor applications for authentication and authorization, providing secure access control.

5: Development and Deployment Efficiency: Azure DevOps services can be used to automate the build, test, and deployment processes of Blazor applications. This integration streamlines the development lifecycle, making it more efficient and error-resistant.

6: Scalability and Performance: Azure provides the ability to scale applications as needed. Blazor applications, especially when combined with Azure's cloud capabilities, can handle increased loads and traffic efficiently, ensuring smooth performance.

7: Comprehensive Ecosystem: The combination benefits from the comprehensive ecosystem of tools, libraries, and resources available from both Blazor and Azure. This ecosystem simplifies the development process and provides extensive support for various application requirements.

We work across the board, from large organisations, medium sized businesses and startups but the majority of our work is with SMEs.

What all our clients have in common is an ambitious goal to deliver a well-architected, secure, robust and performant solution that users and machines love using to fulfil business requirements.

We are fullstack. Most of the team come from an enterprise software development and architecture background. Although we have experience with almost every technology and programming language known to man, we specialise in Microsoft Azure and Blazor.

• Microsoft Cloud. Although we fully support AWS and Google Cloud, we are certified Azure Solutions Architects and Developers.
• .NET Blazor. Real world experience having delivered commercial applications using Blazor Server, Blazor WebAssembly and .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid. We know and love Blazor.
• Azure DevOps Services.
• Cross-Platform Mobile Development. .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid application targeting iOS, Android and Windows.
• Web Application Development. DotNet applications and Services that provide the robust and responsive business solutions you require.
• ASP.NET Core WebAPIs. APIs to support your business needs.
• Windows Desktop Development. UWP, WPF and Windows Forms desktop application that your business relies on.
• .NET Core. DotNet Core Framework that we leverage for all types of workloads to provide you with a consistent, clean code architecture.
• .NET Aspire. Simplifying Cloud-Native is often a quick route to market. We have the know-how to utilise out of the box Azure Solutions and also roll our own when more complexity is required.