Custom Web Application Development, Simplified

Finding the right technology partner for your custom web application development can ensure your apps are always working, stay updated, and your technology partner is always working to maintain these apps.

If you are planning for custom web application development, here are some steps that you and your development agency will have to follow

• Understand your business strategy and define your requirement. This will require you to have a few rounds of discussion and brainstorming with your users, business leaders, and IT team. Spell out a clear business strategy on the objectives of this customization investment and jot down KPI you will track.
• Design the wireframe, prototype the customization, and sign off on the UI/UX. This is a lot of work as the application that is being customized needs to have a user-friendly and pleasant look and feel. Applications look smarter and better these days and something as simple as a drab colour on your application may result in reluctant users.

  Some of the tools that can be used to design the wireframe and UI/UX of the application are Adobe Illustrator, InVision, Sketch, and others. A number of companies may choose to get their technology provider to develop a minimum viable product (MVP) to ensure they can experience a working prototype before the whole product is built at a considerable time and cost. An MVP is especially beneficial when the customization could take many weeks, and cost a hefty packet.

• Code, integrate via APIs, test, quality analysis, and debug the app. This is where your extremely skilled technology partner will ensure your application is built on the right technology so that it is future-ready, that it is correctly integrated to work with your other applications, and will not crash every time there is an update. They will also ensure your integration is secure and hacker-proof.
• There are a host of frameworks, platforms, and databases that you and your technology partner need to acquaint yourselves with before developing a custom application. Some of these are AngularJS, HTML, CSS, JX, React, PWA, .net, Laravel, MongoDB, Drupal, and more.
• Deploy the custom application and migrate data into it. Data migration can be a herculean task depending on how much legacy data you have. If you have errors and duplicates in your data, your technology partner is going to want to prepare the data, and ensure it is in the correct format, clean of errors and duplicates, and ready for migration. Some of the tools that can be used to deploy a web application are GitHub, BitBucket, Beanstalk App, and FileZilla.
• Go live, maintain, and support the app. Now that the custom web app is live, it needs to be maintained by adding new features that the business may want and supported every time there is a new software update. Ensure your custom app development partner is reliable and someone you can build a rapport with, someone who can support you 24/7 so that business applications are working seamlessly.