Build the application your business needs when packaged tools leave an important gap.

Para designs and builds applications around the way your business really works.

We build web and mobile applications, along with the services that connect them to your other systems. The result is an application that fits your wider technology, not one that only works on its own.

Para's published capabilities include custom application development and SharePoint solutions.

Perspective

Custom software adds the most value when a need is strategic and no existing product serves it well.

The choice is never just build or buy. Para starts by learning what you want to achieve and what your current platforms already do. We find the gaps and decide which capabilities truly need a custom build.

Sometimes the right answer is a custom application. Sometimes it is customizing an existing platform. Sometimes you need to modernize a legacy application or add a new experience layer over systems that must stay.

The goal is to build only what creates value. Whatever we build must fit into your enterprise setup and grow with it.

Para's published material treats customization, modernization, and ongoing management as three parts of one software lifecycle.

Solve the gap

Custom development should close a real business or technology gap.

Use it where a packaged product cannot fully support the process. Do not rebuild features that established platforms already do well.

Design for the enterprise

A successful application must fit more than the user's screen.

Plan security and integration from the start, along with how you will support it.

Para's long experience across the Microsoft platform supports this wider enterprise view.

Build to operate

An application is not finished when the first version ships.

How you deploy, monitor, and update it shapes its long-term value.

Para's published service includes application management, from updates to service desk support.

What We Help Solve

Organizations often turn to custom development when existing tools start to limit how the business runs.

Para can help in situations like these:

• Critical business processes rely on spreadsheets and email.
• Existing enterprise applications lack the workflow or user experience the business needs.
• Several back-end systems need to appear as one clear experience.
• Employees or customers must move through several systems to complete one journey.
• Legacy applications still matter to operations but have outdated or hard-to-use screens.
• Packaged products need heavy customization to support a very specific process.
• Mobile or field users need a task-focused experience linked to enterprise data.
• The business needs its own portal for customers or partners.
• You need to extend an existing Microsoft or SharePoint setup without replacing the wider platform.
• You need reports built directly into an application.
• Teams have built disconnected tools that are now critical to daily operations.
• Digital teams need more control over features and release cycles.
• A legacy application needs some functions modernized without a full replacement right away.
• The business needs a solution that can grow as the process changes.

What the Solution Contains

Para's custom application work covers everything from the screen users see to the support behind it.

Web & Portal Applications

Build web experiences for customers, partners, and employees.

Applications can bring content and business processes together into one clear experience.

Para's proven portfolio includes enterprise portals and SharePoint applications.

Mobile & Field Applications

Create focused mobile experiences for people who work away from a desk.

Mobile apps let field teams see their tasks and update status on the move.

Para lists native app development among its core skills. Our KhedmetCom product also shows an enterprise field service model that links service requests to field operations.

Workflow & Business Applications

Turn business processes into structured digital experiences.

Custom applications can wrap a defined process with forms and approvals.

This matters most when the application must run a process, not just show a static screen.

API & Backend Services

Build the services that connect the application to your enterprise systems.

These services link the front end to the data and applications you already have.

The aim is to make the application part of the enterprise architecture, not another isolated system.

Platform Customization & Extensions

Extend established enterprise platforms when they offer a strong base but need more capability.

This often means custom features for platforms such as SharePoint.

Para lists SharePoint custom web parts and solutions in its public product portfolio. We have also built SharePoint enterprise portals.

Modernization & Rebuild

Modernize parts of an application when the old system becomes hard to maintain.

This can mean a new interface or a gradual rebuild of outdated parts.

This gives you a way forward without assuming you must replace every legacy system at once.

Para's published custom application service lists application modernization as one of its core skills.

Application Management & Support Readiness

Prepare the application for real production use.

Plan how you will deploy, monitor, and support it as part of delivery.

The goal is an application you can run and improve after launch, not one you demo and hand over.

How It Works

Custom application delivery should link business intent to technical execution through an iterative process.

1. Frame the product

Start with the business problem.

Clarify who will use the application and what result you want. Map the process and the systems it must work with.

Decide what to build and what existing platforms should keep doing.

2. Design the experience and architecture

Turn the need into one clear application model.

Design the user journeys and screens. Plan the integrations and security behind them.

The goal is enough clarity to make sound build decisions. We avoid over-engineering before we understand the business need.

3. Build iteratively

Build working features in manageable steps.

Involve business users early and test assumptions. Refine the experience and fix technical issues before they become costly late changes.

Iterative delivery keeps the application tied to the real business need.

4. Integrate and harden

Move from working features to production readiness.

Finish the integrations and security controls. Then test how the application runs under real conditions.

Confirm that the application works in normal cases. Also confirm it copes when something unexpected happens.

5. Operate and evolve

Treat launch as the start of the application's life.

Monitor the application and support its users. Add enhancements as business needs change.

A successful application should become a base that can grow, not another legacy system.

Business Outcomes

Judge custom applications by the business problem they solve, not by the amount of code they contain.

Organizations can use custom applications to gain:

• A better fit with business processes that generic products cannot fully support.
• A simpler user experience across complex processes and many back-end systems.
• Less reliance on spreadsheets and manual workarounds for important tasks.
• Better integration, with information and actions brought into one clear experience.
• More freedom to adapt the application as business needs change.
• Easier maintenance through modern application and integration patterns.
• More control over features and releases when the business needs ownership beyond a packaged product.
• A stronger base for automation, because the process now runs digitally.
• Better support for mobile and field workers through task-focused experiences.
• A path to modernize legacy systems that closes high-value gaps without a full replacement right away.
• A clear long-term plan for support.

The value does not come from customization for its own sake. It comes from a digital capability that fits the business well enough to improve how people work. It must also stay disciplined enough to run within your enterprise setup.

Typical Use Cases

Custom applications can serve customers, employees, or specialized industry needs.

Customer and partner portals

Create external experiences where customers can serve themselves.

Connect each portal to the enterprise systems behind it.

Para's published success stories include public banking portals and other customer-facing digital experiences.

Employee applications

Digitize internal requests and services.

Give employees one focused place to submit requests and track their status.

Para's proven portfolio includes intranet and enterprise portal solutions for internal users.

Field and workforce applications

Support mobile teams who receive and complete work away from a desk.

Applications can link field work to the office systems behind it.

KhedmetCom shows Para's approach to an enterprise field service product. It combines service workflows with tools built for the field.

Operational tools

Replace the spreadsheets that have quietly become critical to daily operations.

A custom application gives the process structure, access control, and reporting.

Legacy front-end modernization

Add a modern user experience without replacing the enterprise system underneath right away.

A new application layer can make existing features easier to use. It also opens a more manageable path to future modernization.

Industry-specific applications

Build focused capabilities when a process is too specific for standard software.

Para's published portfolio shows this model in action. Examples include a banking loyalty system and a field service platform.

Connected Para Capabilities

Custom applications add more value when they connect to the wider skills needed to build and run enterprise solutions.

Enterprise Architecture & Roadmapping

Decide where a custom application belongs in your wider technology landscape.

The application then strengthens your enterprise architecture instead of adding another isolated technology stack.

Portals & Collaboration

Build applications that bring people and information together.

Para's SharePoint expertise has long covered portals and collaboration.

SaaS & System Integration

Connect the application to the SaaS tools and business systems you already use.

Integration lets the application sit on top of existing systems instead of copying their features.

Automation

Build automated tasks into the application.

The application gives users a clean experience while automation handles repetitive work behind the scenes.

Para's wider portfolio combines custom development with business process automation.

Data Analytics

Link applications to reports so daily activity becomes measurable insight.

When you design it in, application data can feed dashboards and decisions.

Para's portfolio includes Power BI alongside custom applications.

Managed Application Support

Support the application after launch and keep improving it.

This carries our work beyond first development. It gives the application a path to grow with your organization.

Para's published custom application service includes application management alongside customization and modernization.

Have a business need that does not fit neatly into an existing product?

The right answer may not be another packaged tool. It may be a focused application built on the systems your organization already relies on.

Talk to Para about shaping a custom application that fits your business. We will take it from first concept through delivery and ongoing improvement.

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