Many organizations are finding it very advantageous to focus on their major competitive advantage and to outsource other functions like custom development. As solution development continues to become more complex and businesses sense the need to maximize their efficiency and effectiveness, outsourcing makes sense to an increasing number of companies. We can provide the outsourced development ourselves if appropriate or we can help to locate the appropriate company that best fits your needs. In addition to Custom Application Development, we provide Feasibility Studies and Vendor Selection and Oversight.

When you know that 'there must be a way to automate that', but you are not sure of the best approach, we can help. We provide feasibility studies involving a team of engineers with a broad range of experience. This team will provide a short term, highly focused review to determine the costs, risks, benefits, and return on investment (ROI). We can also provide an overview and estimate for several alternative approaches. This provides you with the information you need.

If you have an existing project that seems to not be producing the results it should we can provide you with an independent analysis and review. We provide you with the information you need to manage costs and to keep your projects focused in the most effective direction possible.

We also provide 'right sourcing' analysis to help you to determine the most effective way to develop your custom application. We review the focus and direction of your company along with the availability of individuals with appropriate skills and experience. We also review the requirements of the custom application in the short and long term. This covers the development, system support, hardware, telecommunications provisioning and experience managing similar projects. Many 'soft' factors can go into making projects succeed or fail. We try to provide as much information as possible in order to have the greatest success possible with your projects.

Our Custom Application Development capability provides significant benefits for many companies. If you have budget allocated for even a few engineers, you may find that you can have access to a whole team with a wide complement of skills. We can provide access to engineers that would be very hard to find or to afford otherwise. In addition to the extensive skills of our U.S. team, we have highly skilled developers in other near-source and overseas locations. This can provide tremendous capability very affordably. We have worked through the many challenges of these international teams as well as all the other complexities of software development in general. We provide you with a local project manager who understands you and your business.

There are several advantages to having Agilize develop your custom solution for you. Most importantly, we are committed to providing you with the maximum results and the minimum hassle. You are freed to focus on your business instead of the complexities of software development. Furthermore, we have a tremendous set of pre-built and pre-tested building blocks available. This greatly reduces your cost and risk. As enhancements are made to these building blocks, they are automatically available to you.

Agilize provides professional, objective consultation to help you select and manage information technology vendors. We have extensive experience in quickly cutting through the marketing promises to find what each vendor has to offer you. We bring experience in a wide range of technologies from telephony equipment to database technologies and many others. We understand enough of the underlying technologies to be able to advise you on how various options will work for your organization in the short and long term.