3fifteen has for a number of years been one of the strongest Microsoft Gold partners in the custom development space. With the market full of “off the shelf” applications that focused on generic offerings, there exists a large space where specific solutions are needed.

In order to meet the specific needs of our clients, we at 3fifteen spend a substantial amount of time with the customer’s stakeholders to understand and design the intended solution. Every engagement is based on sound methodologies and the approach is well practised. 3fifteen offers its customers the benefit of a dynamic approach to delivering the best fit solution for the business.

It is important to realise that Custom Development can have many advantages such as:

• A competitive advantage by building a system that is not easily replicated.
  
  
• An “off the shelf” product would require costly and timely business changes to be adopted by the end user. Whereas a custom application could be tailored to bridge the gap between business process/functionality and what is technically possible.
  
  
• Custom development is also an extremely valuable approach to employ where customers require their disparate various line-of-business applications to integrate seamlessly, but no integration tools suited to this task exist [link to integration services].
  
  
• This approach is also the best model where customers intend to harness their best practices with the intention of packaging and selling their solution (to potentially creating new revenue streams) or to extend applications to new platforms or new technologies, for example extending an application to enable mobile computing, RFID in their supply chain or simply link the accounting and HR systems.

3fifteen has consistently achieved successful custom development applications by leveraging Microsoft technologies and applying best practices.

In line with Microsoft’s ‘agile approach’ that brings tools embedded into Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition and the supporting Team Foundation server to support many agile practices, including automated unit testing, refactoring, build automation and regression testing, 3fifteen has adopted appropriate agile practices and makes use of these, depending on the needs of the system under development.