Custom Development

When evaluating the best software solution for a company’s Business challenges the best Business Case can in certain specific situations be the Business Case of a custom development project. When a company has developed a unique business concept with unique functionality and sometimes also has the development and software maintenance resources at hand, we often discover that the Custom Development Business Case becomes more attractive than a packaged application.

In addition to a sound global Project Management Methodology, Custom Development projects require specific techniques of functional design, detailed analysis and data modeling that are perfectly mastered by the Trilogy professionals.

TRILOGY has developed a pragmatic approach that can be applied to projects involving up to a dozen of developers. This approach has been integrated in Trilogy’s TriStar methodology.

Showcase: Foire de Libramont

The legacy systems of de « Foire de Libramont » (the largest agricultural fair of Belgium) were about to become unsupported in the short term. The unique offering of the Fair was not supported by any existing application package and as consequence, the custom development was the best option.

The Fair has decided to involve Trilogy to go through the following stages of the project:

• Detailed design and analysis using the TriStar methodology
• Request for proposal for a development vendor leading to a development contract
• Follow up of the developments and leading of the internal software acceptance proceedings