Company Background
Software’s Next Leap
This makes life difficult for IT departments who need to deploy applications to serve these virtual stakeholders. Compounding the problem is an increased pace of business and increased pressure on IT to do more with less.
Today’s challenge is to deliver complex cross-functional applications faster and cheaper to a constituency that becomes more virtual every day.
The status quo – packaged software – no longer meets the modern organization’s needs. First, because packaged “groupware” is complex, implementation, training and support are too time consuming. Second, while packaged software has extensive features, it is hard to customize and rarely meets the exact needs of the organization.
To attack the “doesn’t fit our needs” problem, companies often turn to large scale applications that are custom-fit to an organizations needs. Both enterprise software and custom in-house development projects promise better customer fit, but are slow to deploy and complex to train and support. Often, by the time the organization deploys the solution the needs have changed!
So, many companies turn to “on-demand” applications or business process outsourcing. These solutions are faster to deploy and easier to manage, but they tend to be one-size-fits all and not fit user needs very well.
What organizations need are solutions that combine the agility of traditional on-demand applications with the custom fit of enterprise software.
And that is precisely what DreamFactory was formed to deliver.
Agile, Customer Powered Products
Before DreamFactory, organizations had to choose between bloated, expensive, complex packaged software applications and thin on-demand applications that did not fully meet their needs. DreamFactory provides a third option that offers the agility of on-demand software with the functionality of packaged software.
A key ingredient to delivering highly adaptive applications is DreamFactory’s Customer Driven Innovation (CDI) practice. For example, a simple yet powerful “suggestion box” technology is integral in every DreamFactory application allowing companies to communicate desired changes easily and quickly to our services. As a result, DreamFactory applications are continually improving, powered by CDI.
Because DreamFactory applications are built using an on-demand model, enhancements are distributed rapidly and seamlessly to the user.
The customer driven innovation model allows DreamFactory to deliver applications in a radically different manner. Instead of guessing ahead of time what users want, DreamFactory instead delivers a “seed application” with basic features and asks users for their immediate and continuous feedback.
This frictionless improvement cycle allows the seed application to mature very quickly to a product that fully meets the customers needs – often within weeks. As an added benefit, the application does not become bloated with unwanted and unused features based on the development team’s “guesses” as to what the customer wanted.
The result is an agile application that is custom fit to the users needs.
