Custom Software Development Services

When your company needs personalized software, Emergent Software is here to help. Our custom software development services meet a critical need as a solution to a wide range of complex business challenges. If you have a problem, we want to work with your team to create the perfect solution.

We are a Minneapolis-based custom software development company with an emphasis on client collaboration, communication, and passion for building quality customized software applications. With our software engineering and continuous development teams, you have a software development partner for the long haul. We work as part of your team and prioritize ongoing collaboration. Check out the custom software development services we offer below or read more about our approach to building custom software solutions.

What Is Custom Software Development

Custom software development is the process of designing, creating, and maintaining software applications tailored to meet the specific needs of your business. Unlike off-the-shelf software, custom software is built from the ground-up to meet your unique requirements and help your organization succeed. Pre-built software is designed for mass market use and comes with a set of predefined features, which can limit modification. Our approach to custom software development ensures that the software integrates seamlessly with your existing systems, supports specific workflows, and provides the functionality needed.

Our custom development process typically involves close collaboration between our developers and your team to define the software’s requirements, design the user interface, and build the application. We work as a part of your team to make sure that your software has the flexibility and scalability you need, and that the software can be adapted and expanded as your business grows or changes.

Is Custom Software Right For Your Company?

Custom software development is ideal for businesses with specialized needs that cannot be fully met by standard software solutions. It’s also perfect for your organization if you’re looking to gain a competitive advantage by having technology that is perfectly aligned with your operational processes. We’ll work with you to help your company succeed. We win when you win.

Why Choose Emergent For Your Custom Software Needs?

When you have a need for a unique piece of software, look no further than Emergent Software. These are the advantages we provide your team:

Engineering-Focused Custom Software Development Solutions

We're a custom software development company, not your typical web design agency. That means we're software engineering focused and have years of industry experience. We make sure your custom software solution is built with quality custom programming and architecture. When you work with our expert team, your customized software is scalable, extendable, and maintainable.

Passion For Quality Custom Programming

Our custom software developers, architects, project managers, business analysts, and quality assurance specialists have a passion for building quality custom applications. Everyone on our teams aims to solve complex business problems with user-friendly custom web applications, systems integrations using modern restful API services, automation of business processes, and more. Our experience includes developing large, enterprise-class line-of-business applications and architecting multi-tenanted, scalable solutions for SaaS offerings. It’s what inspires us to come to work each day!

Agile Custom Software Development

We follow the agile custom software development process tailored to the project size and client preferences. Our software development projects begin with the discovery phase, which involves senior software architects and business analysts on our team who evaluate and document the technical and business requirements for your company. With that information, we'll devise a delivery plan and cost estimate for the overall project.

Once approved, we assemble a group of software engineers, project managers, quality assurance engineers, and others organized into scrum teams. From there, work is broken down further into user stories and tasks which are organized into sprints of work (usually two weeks at a time) to be completed by the engineering team. Custom programming is regularly committed to code repositories and continuously integrated and deployed into development and test environments. This process allows the work to be delivered and deployed into production efficiently, getting it in front of users as quickly as possible. This also allows for changes to be incorporated early and saves refactoring work and money in the long run.

Proven Track Record Building Custom Software Solutions

We have developed many custom software solutions over our history. In fact, we have over 20 years of development experience. We have a track record that proves our skills and what your company can gain from partnering with us. You don’t have to take our word for it. We have positive reviews and testimonials from our long-term clients, awards from many online publications, and inclusion on the Minnesota Fast 50 multiple years in a row. This is all evidence of our commitment to offering the best custom software development services available.

Ready to dive into our custom software development offerings? These are some of the services we provide for your organizational needs:

Custom Business Applications

When your unique business model is your competitive advantage, you cannot rely on out-of-the-box software to efficiently manage your processes. With customized software designed to fit the way you do things, you can streamline your core business functions, increase productivity, and enhance your competitive edge. With our approach to continuous development, your custom line of business application quickly grows and changes with you.

Production Support & Continuous Development

With our services, you have a dedicated team that maintains and supports your applications, databases, websites, and system integrations. We monitor your custom applications 24x7 and respond to issues within minutes, keeping your websites and critical applications running and your business operating smoothly. No more submitting a feature request and hoping your vendor responds in a timely manner. In addition to regular maintenance such as software framework and component updates, you can rely on security vulnerability testing and fixes, continually improving your custom software with new feature enhancements and modules.

Custom API & System Integrations

Your digital world is full of web services and integration points that are likely not talking to each other. Your most important custom software solutions are not always fancy web applications or mobile apps, but the behind-the-scenes glue that integrates your systems and helps you run your business efficiently. That’s what Emergent Software brings to your company. Our experienced team’s understanding of the principles behind integrations can help you bridge the gap between the systems you’re using and the functionality you want, utilizing APIs to help you stay connected as a business.

Cloud-Native Software Development & Enablement

Scale your custom software and business with Microsoft Azure. As a Microsoft Cloud Platform Gold partner, our software team develops cloud-ready applications that take advantage of the power of Azure including auto-scaling capabilities and geo-redundant disaster recovery configuration. We also cloud-enable existing custom developed software to utilize a serverless infrastructure or lift and shift legacy software into Azure’s IaaS services to reduce your on-premises support and maintenance headaches.

Mobile App Development

Bring your business on-the-go and deliver a consistent experience across devices with a custom mobile app. For customer facing mobile experiences available in the Apple & Google Play stores, native mobile app development is best to achieve high performance and maximize user experience. However, developing separate mobile app versions of internal business applications for every device is a thing of the past. With cross-platform options like Xamarin, React Native, and Progressive Web Apps, we build cost-efficient custom software solutions for your entire workforce even in disconnected situations.

Business Process Automation

Automating business processes frees up your most valuable resource: time. Our team of business analysts, software architects, and engineers can design and build custom workflow solutions that eliminate tedious tasks, making your company more efficient and profitable, and improving employee morale. From custom programming the execution of legacy software packages, clicking buttons, and validating results, to fully custom workflow user interfaces to support complex approval processes, our customized software development services can meet your needs.

SaaS Product Development

The primary business innovation of our era is arguably the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, and investors agree, often paying multiples on recurring revenue that are well above traditional service profits. If you’re a startup or have an internal custom solution that could be marketed to others in your industry, our senior architects can craft a custom software design that supports multi-tenancy, scalable cloud infrastructure, and security compliance, helping to propel your SaaS product and rocket market valuation to the moon.

Sitecore OrderCloud & Four51 Storefront

Our many-years long partnership with Four51 (now part of Sitecore) puts us in the perfect position to help you build your enterprise custom B2B ecommerce solution using the OrderCloud headless ecommerce platform. For those print & promo suppliers running the legacy Four51 Storefront product, we offer SAML-based SSO middleware called Storefront Connect and we implement integrations with your existing back-office or ERP software.