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Custom Software Is Even
More Expensive Than You Think
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Custom software development is increasingly expensive.
The increasing costs are driven by spiraling increases in salaries
and application complexity, compounded by the fast pace of
technological change in operating systems, platforms, databases
and industry standards. Despite all the hype about "software
reusability", narrowly focused customer-driven solutions
still require too much custom software and there is no relief
in sight.
Custom Software Makes Too Many Compromises
The reason why a user chooses the custom
software approach is to get it exactly the way they want,
with no compromises. But the high costs and delays of custom
software development almost inevitably result in quite painful
compromises. In order to get a reasonable delivery, the features,
reliability or costs are sacrificed. In order to get a reasonable
cost, the delivery schedule, features or reliability are
often sacrificed. In such projects, "Phase II" is often a synonym for "Never".
Custom Software Is Unreliable
Custom software is, by definition, not shared among a large
base of users like more general software is. The user is the
alpha tester for new software, rather than benefiting from
the previous testing performed by countless other users of
a general software package. Since there is no continuity of
support and enhancement for customer software, the bugs that
the user finds are fixed slowly, if at all.
DocuTran - Eliminates 99% Of The Custom Code
Tangent Systems, Inc. has been providing high speed document
processing technologies and solutions worldwide since 1984.
DocuTran from Tangent Systems is a powerful parameter-driven
document processing environment that supports an amazingly
wide range of applications, processing methodologies and MICR/OCR/Image
transports.
Sophisticated imaging applications can be developed in a matter
of hours or days. DocuTran applications will support the Recognition
T4100 or UT series transports and BTI/BancTec 9xxxx/5xxx transports
without change, or in mixed configurations for customers with
varied site volumes. The parameters still allow the use of
custom code in extreme cases to extend or override the operation
of the parameters, but the resulting custom code is small,
portable, transport-independent and version-independent.
DocuTran Handles Many High Volume Applications Around The
Globe
Whether the application is image remittance, check processing,
coupon redemption, fulfillment or any number of other applications,
DocuTran provides the same proven, professional capabilities.
The common elements of all image document processing applications
are distilled into a comprehensive parameter set, covering
the full gamut of transport control, reader control, validation,
image data entry, balancing, reporting and host transmission
requirements.
Whether the location is New York City,
Tokyo, London, Mexico City, Toronto, São Paolo or
Taipei, DocuTran is readily adapted to local language, character
set, terminology and processing conventions.
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