CBSE Class 9 Computer Applications
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What is Bespoke Software ? What are its advantages and disadvantages ?
Bespoke software is a tailor-made software according to a user's requirements. This type of software is developed to meet all the requirements specified by the user. Such a software is customized according to the users' needs.
The advantages of bespoke software are:
- The company will get the exact software/system that they need.
- The software will work exactly how they want it to work.
- The software will only have the features that they specifically need in their business.
The disadvantages of bespoke software are:
- It takes a long time to develop such a system, between a few months to years.
- It costs a great deal of money to develop such a system.
- The company may need to employ a team of people such as business analysts, programmers, testers etc.
- There will be little in the way of user support and online help.
- These cannot be directly installed at other user's workplace as the requirements may wary.