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 Ready-made software solutions won’t always meet the unique needs of your growing business. As companies evolve, their software also needs to adapt. That’s where custom software development comes into play. Tailored specifically to the business’s processes, challenges and goals, custom software helps organizations scale efficiently and react fast to their challenges while maintaining a competitive edge. 

In this guide, we’ll explore four key reasons why custom software development is essential for business growth and how it can help your company stay competitive. 

In today’s companies, most IT teams are responsible for monitoring systems and all other infrastructure and tools that keep the company's digital side running.

This increases pressure and generally leads to overwork, which means these teams can’t focus on improving their company’s systems, which would increase their productivity. Instead, they’re forced to focus mostly on solving more immediate issues, negatively impacting the business when something goes wrong. 

Read on to learn how to stop wasting resources and transform your IT management today.

Ask a colleague about their vacations, and they will probably greet you with an empathic: “Short!" Time flies when you're having fun.

That's a typical conversation between colleagues after returning from vacation. You're living on a permanent Sunday, and suddenly, Monday slaps you in the face. You need to switch from waking up to sunlight on your face to the sound of an alarm clock (the worst sound ever, in my opinion).

You must trade cocktails and ice creams for coffee on the office balcony and your flip-flops and jams for traffic jams. It’s a lot to handle, and these feelings are more common than you think.

To begin our journey into DevOps project management, we must clearly understand what DevOps is.

DevOps combines the practices of software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) to improve collaboration, speed up software delivery, and guarantee the quality and reliability of the product.

DevOps requires a cultural transformation within the organization. It integrates people, processes, and tools to make an application's life cycle faster and more predictable. This cultural change must start at the top of the hierarchy and spread effectively throughout the organization, promoting adopting the DevOps culture.

Nearshore and Outsourcing are two strategies that come up when we're talking about cost reductions or boosting operational efficiency. But what about sustainability?

As unlikely as it may sound, these practices can contribute to decreasing the carbon footprint of companies worldwide and become part of a broad-reaching strategy to promote sustainability.