THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF

CUSTOMISING SOFTWARE

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Customising Software

Most software can be customised to suit the requirements of the user. There are a number of reasons why we might to use customising software. To name a few:

To make a feature easier to use, maybe to the users needs.

To help make a complex feature quicker and easier with minimum effort from the user.

To help insure the information entered by the user is correct.

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Advantages for the Company

Grow the system as your business grows. As your company grows using the customising software will make is

faster and easier to do your work, plus software is all ways updating making your tasks you need to do easier for you and your employee’s.

Accuracy. Excel is use to enter data, it is important that the information that the

user is entering it correct. By entering customised data entry facilities to validate the input data, you can reduced the chance of entering the incorrect data.

Improve security. Control who has access to what and when. Using customised software you can make sure a certain person can only

enter a certain computer or block a person from using the computer.

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Disadvantages for the Company

It costs money to make the change, often significant.

The change may not be compatible with the next release.

Companies will often charge you to port it to a new release.

Introduces risk. The change make add bugs to the software which have to get fixed

and may not be found until the product is rolled out.

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Advantages for the Employees

The software will be better designed to meet your needs For example, extending the application to support your phone number

format, or allow entry of employee ID's, etc.

Can save your work. If you export data to create a custom report in Excel reports. If you

customize the software to create the report then you save the extra steps.

Increase efficiency, productivity and quality. It allows you work at your best constantly, increasingly becoming more

and more efficient for the users needs.

Learn and use the system with ease because it’s built around your own working practices.

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Disadvantages for the Employees

Takes Training. Some user might need to be trained probably in order to use the software to its highest

standards. If a person goes to the training his or hers work would fall onto a other employee which means that the employee has to work extra hours and more work. This is also a disadvantage for the company because the company have to use more money to bring out people who will teach their employees.

Increased complexity . With some customising software customising can make the application its self more

complicated to control. This causes the software to slow down which means the employee can’t do the work they have been given because they don’t have the software to do it.

Support needs. Some customising software has to be tested again and again to see if any problems come

up when the systems is being used so they can see if they can solve the problems before it hits the shelves. Some of these problems might occur is the user has no experience with the software.

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