Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize a SaaS, ASP or cloud-based solution, or embark upon developing a custom application?
When you create a custom application, you then get exactly what you want in a way that you cannot get from any other source.
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Microsoft threw in a little OLE automation and ended up with a massive, unstable, difficult to maintain custom application that can barely get out of its own way.
Front-facing HD camera for taking photos or making video calls, including a custom Skype application for free video calling from around the world.
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The two decided to take a shot at designing a custom web application for farmers based on some of the feedback that they received from the community.
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This seemed like a good, custom iPhone application.
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The custom e-mail application installed here also makes good use of both screens.
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Four preset modes are included to ensure the color settings are ideal for any application: Custom (user-determined settings), EyeCare, Text, and sRGB.
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The controller is the same four-beamed multi-button affair we've seen before, but now with a custom version of the aforementioned DJ application to call its own, and make the set-up a cinch.
Unlike FireEye, Deep Discovery can host multiple, custom, versions of operating systems and application configurations.
Cloud may be a workable approach, however, if only one of these elements (hardware, operating system, or application layer) are based on custom technology.
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If you wanted to do only one task and do it the same way every time, you would do better with a custom chip design -- what the engineers call an application specific integrated circuit.
At the core of Project SHIELD is the world's fastest mobile processor, the new NVIDIA Tegra 4, which delivers enormous power from its custom 72-core GeForce GPU and the first quad-core application of ARM's most advanced CPU core, the Cortex-A15.
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This software is compatible with all application processors and can be optimized for power consumption and increased performance via custom hardware blocks, such as the DOC advanced hardware image processing (AHIP) embedded in Fujitsu's discrete image signal processors (ISPs).
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