How Do SaaS and PaaS Impact Bespoke Applications in the Enterprise?
Bespoke applications are used only within an organization and not marketed or sold externally to customers. They are usually developed by an internal software development team but organization may also hire external resources to build a bespoke app. In my career, I have worked with bespoke applications for asset management, ticket management, etc. that were intentionally developed for internal-only use. I have also come across application that were developed with the intent to be sold to customers, or came from acquisitions but again with the intent to commercialize the acquired technology. Then priorities change, external customers move on to other vendors, and when the dust settles, only one internally deployed instance of the application remains: a bespoke application. The key benefit of a bespoke application is that it only follows organization’s own requirements and is therefore customized to the specific needs of the organization: it connects to other bespoke components, uses i