Explore Our Software Development Offering
At ScienceSoft, we are ready to offer end-to-end development that covers everything from business analysis to software delivery and support, help modernize your legacy software, or provide expert advisory at any stage of SDLC.
Software consulting
We combine deep multi-domain expertise, client-centric thinking, and an innovative approach to design and plan reliable solutions that perfectly fit the needs and behavior of their users.
Custom software development
We create software with long-term business value – tailored uniquely to your business processes and adjustable to future needs.
Enterprise software development
We build multi-faceted enterprise solutions that easily withstand the highest loads, scale up as your business grows, and flexibly accommodate functional extensions.
Software product development
We create resilient SaaS, mobile, and desktop software products with great UX and drive fast-paced development – MVP launch in 1–4 months and consequent releases every 2–4 weeks.
Cloud application development
We design and deliver scalable, portable, and secure cloud applications and help migrate apps of any complexity from on-premises infrastructures to the cloud.
Legacy software modernization
We redesign and upgrade your existing software to help you get a modern solution at an optimal cost and with minimal disruption to business workflows.
Software support and maintenance
We ensure the smooth functioning and relevancy of your software via ongoing performance monitoring, proactive optimization, fast issue resolution, delivery of new features and integrations.
Different Collaboration Scenarios for Your Software Development
We create software with long-term business value – tailored uniquely to your business processes and adjustable to future needs.
Full software development outsourcing
We assemble fully managed development teams to implement software projects end to end. Our team takes 100% responsibility for project planning, collaboration, and risk management. You get top-quality software promptly and at a 1.5–2.5x lower cost.
We compose dedicated teams with all necessary competencies to take over particular tasks (e.g., coding, QA, integration). With a high-performing team focused solely on your project, you can efficiently address skill gaps and speed up development.
We ramp up your team with our best talents (from 0.5 to 150+ FTEs): back-end, front-end, and mobile developers, architects, testing engineers, DevOps engineers, data scientists, and more. You get quick and budget-friendly access to the needed skills.
Costs of Software Development Services at Cilestials Group
Major cost factors:
- Application type (web, mobile, desktop); number of platforms and OS versions supported.
- The number and complexity of application features.
- The number of user roles.
- The number and complexity of integrations with third-party systems.
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- Application availability, performance, security, latent capacity and scalability requirements.
- Special features required (e.g., ML-based).
- Uniqueness and complexity of the UI design.
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What Helps Us Run Software Development Projects Smoothly
Software quality controls
We adhere to coding standards and employ all-round software testing to maintain a quality management system at the level required by ISO 9001.
We carefully analyze customer requirements to define the expected deliverables and accurately scope the project.
We factor in software complexity, tech stack sophistication, team’s expertise, and risks to introduce precise and objective estimates of the project’s duration and cost.
Mature risk management practices
We openly discuss potential risks and quickly tweak the development process to minimize schedule variations and waste.
Transparent service delivery
We set a tailored KPI system to objectively evaluate cooperation efficiency and regularly report on the project progress.
Cultivation of software improvements
We proactively advise on new features, UX and UI improvements, competitive advantages to make the software your best investment.
Timely and exhaustive documentation
We thoroughly document the development process and software and consistently share the all the necessary documents with your stakeholders.
We vary the frequency, means, level of detail, and format of communication depending on your stakeholders’ preferences.
Check Out Our Software Development Steps
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Planning
It takes from 2 weeks to:
- Document key business processes and how they’re covered with existing software.
- Elicit business needs and concerns.
- Evaluate risks of new software introduction, e.g., impact on business processes, and plan risk mitigation measures.
- Draw up high-level functional and technical software requirements.
- Prepare the list of software features and integrations.
- Draw up a project roadmap and major milestones.
For commercial software products, it additionally takes from 3 weeks to:
- Conduct competition analysis (competitors’ product features, pricing & monetization models, customer feedback analysis, customer acquisition strategy analysis, product efficiencies and drawbacks).
- Analyze the needs and wants of the target audience and create a product concept.
- Define product differentiation and formulate a unique selling proposition for a product to stand out from the competition.
- Describe obstacles that can hinder entering a given market or industry sectors (including regulatory barriers) and decide how to address them.
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Business case composition
It takes from 1 week to conduct cost-benefit analysis, estimate NVP, ROI.
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Architecture, UX and UI design
It takes from 2 weeks to 3 months to:
- Define app architecture, techs, data flow and integration points.
Note: If possible, ScienceSoft will re-use parts of your existing enterprise systems rather than develop new software modules, for lower cost and higher reliability of your software.
- Conduct UX research, outline personas and key user scenarios, prepare user journey maps.
- Create wireframes and clickable prototypes.
- Conduct visual identity analysis, prepare design concept, create a branded UI kit with ready-to-use components (icons, buttons, colors, fonts, etc.), animations, specifications and assets for developers.
Note: We recommend investing in the unique, sophisticated UI design only if the design is a competitive product advantage. Otherwise, we use simple themes and focus on software functionality.
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MVP launch (upon request)
The delivery of the first working version of enterprise software takes from 1 month. The first working version of software product can be delivered in ~ 2 months.
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Development and testing
- Agile delivery of new software parts in 2-week releases. Continuous safe minor releases via automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Analysis of emerging needs and the release planning.
- Approving the release scope.
- Delivering and reviewing mockups.
- Developing and testing the approved software part, migrating the developed software part to the staging and production environment.
- Getting feedback from a project sponsor and users on the results of the release.
- Reviewing the results of the completed release and approving the scope of the next release.
Note: Small, well-defined projects can be delivered in a linear mode with one major release.
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Deployment (and 3-month maintenance)
- Conducting user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Establishing software monitoring processes.
- Defining new roles and responsibilities for application support in your and our teams.
Note: ScienceSoft recommends trial implementation for a limited number of users to minimize possible downtimes in production. Trial stages usually take up to 1-3 months.
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Project handover / continuous support (on demand)
- Conducting project evaluation.
- Performing knowledge transfer to your in-house IT team/other vendors.
- Providing the final report and requesting your confirmation for the project closure.
