Cyrus Innovation develops user-centered custom software specifically for financial service firms. Our smart approach accelerates ROI and lowers risk by delivering:
- Quick results in solutions deployed every two weeks.
- Control over what you need, when you need it.
- Flexibility to seize market opportunity by changing features as you go.
- Make us more competitive? That's a pretty big claim.
- We focus on developing the highest priority features first and delivering them in a matter of weeks. This can help you beat your competition by getting to market faster with a better product. The Cyrus way increases value while reducing the overall cost of development.
- How can the software be any good if you deliver it in "a matter of weeks"?
- The software we deliver is valuable, first, because we deliver solutions to your most pressing problems in a matter of weeks. Secondly, in terms of technical quality, we define tests beforehand for each group of features. We automate the tests and run them hundreds of times a day as we develop. (Other software companies wait until the end, months later, and test the entire system.) Our tests prove we're working on features you need and that the features in fact work.
- Why not just buy off-the-shelf software systems?
- You can. But having the same software as everyone else can't help you be competitive. By definition, off-the-shelf software cannot reflect what distinguishes you in the marketplace. It just gives you parity. To make off-the-shelf really fit your business, you have to pay to customize it.
- Isn't custom software expensive?
- Custom software can seem expensive if you look only at the sticker price. Given what you'd spend on customization, maintaining features you don't really need and other compromises and limitations of pre-built solutions, custom software from Cyrus is much more cost-effective. We deliver really fast, in two-week intervals. And our software gives you an edge in the market by providing features competitors probably will not benefit from as quickly.
- What's the big deal with "user-centered"?
- Software works only if your users - executives, managers, employees, clients, consultants, all of them - actually use it. Think "logical" and "easy" vs. "what's this for" and "I'll learn it tomorrow." Cyrus develops custom software that users want to use because we understand what they need. We put them at the center of the process throughout development. Users define priorities, functionalities, features; users give us feedback. All of which we apply to development, making sure the software fulfills their needs.