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Bespoke software advantages and disadvantages

By making a decision to go forward with a bespoke software solution for your business, you can be giving your company a platform to grow, develop, and expand. However, many companies don’t invest in custom-made software, tailored for their specific needs and instead settle for off-the-shelf products.

Let’s find out whether or not they are the making the right decision.

Disadvantages Of Bespoke Software
In our experience, there are two main reasons that companies don’t always choose a custom software solution:

1) Initial Costs

The up-front cost is usually the biggest disadvantage associated with custom-tailored programs. Bespoke software projects often cost more than off-the-shelf solutions, due to the amount of time and effort needed to create masterpieces. Eventually, however, the benefits such software gives you can bring you much more money than you spend on it.

2) Waiting Time

Since bespoke software is created from scratch, you will need to wait some time for your developers to build it. However, as it is the perfect fit for your business, it is (in our opinion) worth the wait.

Advantages Of Bespoke Software
There are, on the other hand, numerous advantages of having your own bespoke software developed.

At Make IT Simple, our software developers have created programs that solve business problems, that improve efficiency and productivity, that improve business intelligence and performance measurement, and that help get a competitive edge. In many cases, the software we have developed has become the product for our clients, which is simply not possible with an off-the-shelf solution.

Here’s why many businesses choose to go with this option:

1) Individually Crafted Solution

Bespoke software is similar to a custom-tailored suit. It fits your parameters perfectly. Meanwhile, the suit you buy at a discount shop usually needs some adjustments to look good. The same is true for off-the-shelf products. They are an all-purpose solution, which can be used by many companies, and often you end up trying to change your business to fit the technology rather than fitting the technology to your business.

2) Return On Investment

While bespoke software development involves investment, you can often start experiencing financial benefits almost immediately. When it is well planned and well built, the time/human resource savings can quickly pay for themselves, as can the competitive edge you can gain from developing better systems than your rivals. Bespoke software also forms part of your company’s IP and can add value to the business.

3) Better Security

Common off-the-shelf products have one huge disadvantage: Hackers know all the ins and outs of such programs and often take advantage of the weaknesses. That’s why you can’t feel 100% secure when using such software. Meanwhile, custom-made programs are only exploited by your business, cutting the chances of hacks and break-ins to a minimum. It also reduces the incentive for hacking – with an off-the-shelf product, if you are successful in hacking one system you can potentially access thousands more.

4) Scalability

If your company grows or expands to cover other market sectors, the off-the-shelf solution may not cope – and you have little or no input in the way the system develops over time. Bespoke software can develop and grow together with your business. Make IT Simple offers lifetime product support to help you change the program whenever needed.

5) Time-Saving

Jim Rohn once said “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money but you can’t get more time.” We create products that save you an impressive amount of time on software integration and employee training as well as automating and speeding up critical business processes.

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Joint Pains In Children

A Pediatric Rheumatologist is a specialist who deals with children suffering from arthritis and other connective tissue diseases. Most of these diseases are autoimmune in origin, a condition where our immune system attacks our tissues!

Parents of young children often worry about joint and limb pains in their children and are not sure, whether medical attention is needed. Some of these children may have arthritis and such parents must seek an opinion from a Pediatric Rheumatologist.

Here are some common questions asked to a Pediatric Rheumatologist:

Do we have to take our child for some tests when they complain of joint & leg pain?
Do we need to get an X-ray done to identify the problem?
My child finds it difficult to walk around and his gait seems different. What should I do?
Does my child have arthritis?
When should I be worried about my child’s joint pain problems as a parent?
This article would attempt to address these questions. This will minimize unwarranted anxiety in parents to some extent, and also guide parents as to when should they seek early and effective consultation with the Pediatrician/Rheumatologist for the Best Joint Pain Treatment For Kids In Bangalore.

Growing Pains

During the evening hours, when children are back from school, they frequently complain of limb pains. Throughout the day, they are otherwise active. These children often become cranky during the sleeping hours and continue to shift their legs restlessly. When their legs are massaged, they feel comforted. When they wake up in the morning, they do not have any complaints. No swelling is seen in any of the joints. These signs point to what we refer to as “growing pains.”

These are pains noted in growing children, as the name suggests. They are a part and parcel of the normal development of many kids. Some of these children may have a Vitamin D deficiency which a pediatrician can easily treat. When kids mature into their teens, these pains subside. For these children, any blood test or x-ray is not necessary.

Arthritis

It is important to know when it is urgent to obtain advice about joint pain. If a child has the following joint pain issues, they must be treated as “warning signs” and urgent consultation and proper assessment are required.

Joint swelling: If the child reports of pain and there is joint swelling/ warmth across the joints.
Morning stiffness: It is difficult for a child to move in the early morning hours when he/she wakes up with joint pains or limps while walking, but gets better as the day passes.
Fever with joint pain: Fever and joint pain may be caused by a viral infection (dengue/chikungunya). However, it may sometime be due to a sinister underlying disease (blood cancer).
Joint pain with skin rashes: These needs urgent evaluation. This may be due to a simple viral fever or occasionally due to an underlying disease affecting blood vessels (called ‘vasculitis’ in medical terms).
Loss of weight or poor appetite.
Children can also develop rheumatoid arthritis (inflammatory arthritis) in the same way as adults, which may cause permanent joint damage. We call it “Juvenile Arthritis” in children. These kids complain of joint pain and often have one or more joints that swell. Pain and stiffness in the morning hours are worse. They develop deformities if not treated in time. It is important to note that parents frequently seek an orthopedic opinion on such issues, though there is no orthopedic problem. These children must be properly assessed by Paediatricians and Paediatric Rheumatologists. Further, they should get blood tests and need long term medical attention.

Few health tips to keep your child’s joints and muscles strong:

Vitamins and minerals rich food: Diet must include fresh fruits and vegetables. For those who consume a non-vegetarian diet, fish liver oil is a good source of vitamins required for bone health. Let your child consume them daily.
Drink plenty of water: It is good to have 1-2 litres of water every day, it helps avoid muscle aches. Further, this helps in proper digestion and limits constipation; thus water is crucial for a healthy living.
30 min walk/ jog daily for a minimum of 5 days/week.
Developing healthy habits in the daily routines from childhood will help keep your child fit for years.

Get in touch with Aster CMI Bangalore to seek medical help from the Best Pediatric Immunologist and Rheumatologist in Bangalore.

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Embracing payments as a platform for the future of mobile money

Most recently, Apple Pay service was launched in Europe for the first time. Only eminent bank MasterCard holders have this option so far, but soon the option became available to most users. A similar service was available for some users of the Android system. At the same time, the security of such services, and indeed the principle of electronic payments, still raises concerns – we have studied the history and current state of things in this area.

The basis of the work of payment applications from mobile manufacturers was started with NFC (Near Field Communication) system. It is it that is used in cards with a contactless payment method – when you simply bring your card to the payment terminal without using a chip or magnetic strip – and that is what it is in the latest versions of smartphones. In MasterCard cards, this technology is called PayPass, in Visa cards – payWave.

The principle of operation of the Apple Pay service and its analogues: “copying” a user’s card to the phone’s memory, after which it is possible to make payments using NFC, but without using a card, as his phone now acts as a physical identifier for the client.

The main harbinger of the era of digital payments can be considered PayPal as a mobile money solution. Using this service, the user could create a virtual wallet and send money to other wallets or pay with it in online stores. Now it was not necessary to go to a bank branch to send money for many kilometers, and a wide variety of purchases could be made without leaving home in a couple of clicks.

Now that the functions of instant payment or money transfer are built into almost every second application on a mobile device, it doesn’t seem like an accomplishment, but PayPal made a real revolution in the early 2000s that helped in mobile financial solutions. However, PayPal has regularly become a source of vulnerability news throughout its history. As a result of using one of the last For example, you can bypass two-factor authorization and access your account in minutes.

Now the most common type of electronic payments is payments using bank payment cards. Due to the convenience, payment cards crowd out cash, but remain very vulnerable to cybercriminals. Despite the existence of the Swift interbank settlement system, there are still many places where user data (and, accordingly, their money) can be compromised.

The security issue concerns not only the cardholder who pays for goods in the online store, but also the online store, the acquirer, and the issuer, and most of all – payment systems that invest huge amounts of money to ensure secure payments and protect against fraud.
Numerous attempts by international payment systems to make payments in the field of electronic commerce as safe as possible led to the emergence of the 3-D Secure protocol developed by Visa International.

3-D Secure technology is a cardholder authentication digital payment solution when making purchases on the Internet, designed to ensure the security of Internet payments: identity verification is carried out online.

3-D Secure technology is implemented on the basis of three domains (which is inherent in its name), in which the transaction life cycle begins and ends. This is the issuer’s domain in which the holder is authenticated, the acquirer’s domain, which includes the acquirer bank and the online store, and, finally, the interaction domain, which contains the services and services of the payment system.

The 3-D Secure security chain consists of links such as:

verification of the identity of the cardholder in real time, which begins after entering the card number on the payment page of the electronic store, from where the buyer is redirected to the server of his issuing bank. For verification, a password is used that is known only to the cardholder and the bank
- formation by the issuing bank based on the results of the verification of the response message that the issuing bank protects against unauthorized changes using a digital signature;
- protection of user’s confidential information, for example, card number, which uses secure pages of the payment server on which the entered information is stored. The payee – an electronic store – does not have access to this information, which protects against its theft.
Note that if a fraudulent transaction has passed through an online store that uses 3-D Secure digital money transfer software, the issuer will be liable for it, according to the rules of payment systems, and it does not matter if the issuer uses 3-D Secure or not.

Thus, digital payment trend not only ensures the safe conduct of the payment, but also delimits the risks of the participants of the transaction due to a clear separation of functions when processing the payment transaction: the issuing bank verifies the identity of the card holder, since it is he who has information about the client, and the acquirer automatically organizes communication with the issuer’s authentication system using the services of payment systems.

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