The workflow does not fit the product
Staff are adapting the business around fixed software, duplicating work or managing exceptions outside the system.
Custom & bespoke software development
Galvia designs and builds custom and bespoke software for organisations that have outgrown off-the-shelf tools or need capability existing systems cannot provide. We work across web, mobile, cloud, data and integration, with the engineering needed to take a defined problem through to a maintainable release.
Belfast-based custom software development for organisations across the UK and Ireland.
The useful question is not “what features can we build?” It is “what software capability does the business actually need?”
Some of our clients
When this becomes useful
A custom build becomes sensible when work is being forced around tools, important capability is missing or the cost of manual work and workarounds is becoming harder to justify.
Staff are adapting the business around fixed software, duplicating work or managing exceptions outside the system.
The application needs to sit between existing data, APIs, devices, CRM, ERP or operational tools rather than replace everything.
A customer experience, operational workflow or product feature is commercially important but not available off the shelf.
How we start
We start with the business outcome, users, current systems and constraints. That lets us decide what should be built, what should be integrated and what should stay exactly as it is.
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Clarify the work the software needs to support, who will use it and what would make the project commercially worthwhile.
Identify integrations, access, data movement, security, device, cloud and operational requirements before they become late surprises.
Build a bounded first phase, test it against the real workflow and leave clear ownership, documentation and a sensible next step.
Discovery, prototypes and implementation are scoped according to the risk in the project. We do not assume every idea needs a large up-front specification.
Relevant work
These public examples show Galvia working around existing systems, hardware and operational constraints rather than forcing a greenfield rebuild.
Galvia modernised freight-customs software into a browser-based application with automated updates and a reusable component approach, while enabling the client team to keep developing the product.
View the ASM case studyGalvia built a shared mobile SDK, demo application and supporting integration layer across Android and iOS for hardware-integrated barcode scanning.
View the Stimare case study
Talk to the people behind the work
Martin and the Galvia team can help separate the real business requirement from the feature list, identify integration and delivery risk, and work out whether the right first step is a build, prototype, integration or modernisation project.
What we can take on
Custom software rarely sits in one neat box. Galvia can cover the application itself and the engineering around it.
Operational portals, customer-facing applications and internal systems designed around a defined business process.
Cross-platform and platform-specific applications, including offline workflows and hardware integration.
Connect the application to existing services, data and operational systems. See API Development and API Integration.
Build on suitable cloud and data foundations or extend valuable legacy systems rather than replacing them by default. See Cloud Migration and Legacy Modernisation.
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Custom Software Project Scoping Brief
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Before you enquire
It is software designed around a specific organisation, workflow, product or customer need rather than configuring a standard product to do roughly the same job.
Usually when the workflow is commercially important, existing products create substantial workarounds, integration is central or the capability itself is part of the organisation's differentiation.
Yes. Many projects are partly an integration problem. We can build around existing APIs, databases, cloud services, operational platforms and useful legacy software.
Yes. Galvia works across web, mobile, backend, APIs, cloud and data, including applications that need to interact with devices or existing business systems.
Yes, where source code, access and operational context are available. If the application is unstable or poorly documented, a takeover or rescue phase may be needed first.
It depends on scope, integrations, risk, security and delivery model. We prefer to define the first useful phase and the main technical unknowns before pretending there is a precise number.
Tell us what the software needs to do
Tell us about the workflow, users, existing systems and the outcome you are trying to create. A rough description is enough for the first review.
Commercial conversations are led by Martin Naughton, Galvia's founder and solution architect. Meet Martin.
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