If you are having a tough time to decide whether to use bespoke software development services and have a tailor made software for your company or business or to just go ahead with any software currently available in the market which fits the requirements you have, be it payroll management or file sharing like SharePoint applications, here are a few pointers that will help you understand the difference better and make an informed decision.
If you buy any existing software from the market that is currently being used by many companies and has a rapport with its users, it might be comparatively cheaper than having a company create a specific software for you which would in the end serve the same purpose.
An already successful product or software will have the benefit of saved cost in training as your employees would know how to use it (Excel, Word, Photoshop, etc..)whereas a customized software would have to have the professionals who would be using it trained thoroughly and given enough time to be acquainted well enough with it.
The amount of resources that can be saved if you use an established software or program, both in terms of money and time as you would not have to have workforce testing it for several days and then constantly working towards the betterment of it or fixing problems that would occur in the first few months.
A bespoke software would have specific sections designed to take care of certain specific needs of your business such as inventory management (as per the product or service you deal in), database control or as a matter of fact anything and on the other hand if you use an established product there is no way you can make desired changes just to make work for your employees easier.