Custom Software Developer (CSD) is a business term for companies or individuals specializing in creating made-to-order software for specific customers and applications. The resultant software is not usually a product in the conventional sense of being marketed and sold to a general audience. Rather, it is provided under contract solely to a specific buyer and often cannot be sold or otherwise provided to other buyers.
Custom software is supposed to deliver specialized and/or unique user interfaces, workflow, and system interconnects that provide the buyer with more benefits and resultant value than off-the-shelf applications offer.
Famous quotes containing the word custom:
“The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People reciprocally profess wishes which they seldom form and concern which they seldom feel.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)