Development Phases of Enterprise Software

Enterprise software (ES) is capable of performing all the operations related to the organizations or businesses. Organizations need to be careful and be involved thoroughly in the development of the software to make sure that it is designed to operate efficiently and is well suitable for the business.
   
Here are some important steps to follow by the organization while developing the software for their enterprise. 

Requirement gathering

This is the first and most important phase of development of enterprise software. Requirements provided to the developer must be brief, sharp and complete. The organization must have total clarity on how the software should be and what operations of their business it has to perform.

Care should be taken that any unwanted or extra operations should not be provided to the developer. This makes the software complex and expensive for the organization.

There should be a good communication between the organization and the developer.

Creating an outline

Once the requirements are given to the developer. They should understand them well and create an outline of the ES which they are going to develop. It should be explained to the organization and get the approval from them before they start.

Organization must go through the outline thoroughly and see if it covers all the operations of their business before they give approval to start developing the actual ES.

Implementation

After the approval of the organization, developers starts the coding of actual software. This phase of ES development cycle is time taking. The development time varies with the size of the business and their requirements.

This phase involves a group of people proficient in developing the ES according to the requirements given by the organization.

It is the responsibility of the organization in following up the status of the development process.

Trial before deploying

When the actual software is developed, before it is installed in the organization's server it should be executed first and demonstrate to the organization people.

Feedback from the members of the organization should be encouraged and perform modifications for better performance of the ES.

Training should be provided to the people of the organization who are going to work on that ES for enterprise operations.

Installing

After the proper execution of the ES during the trial and making required modifications to it, the ES is installed in the server of the organization/business.

Organization now owns the software which performs all their activities in an efficient way and provide security to their information.

People of the enterprise who are working on the ES must be trained properly so that the ES is not crashed.

Updates/Modifications

After the ES is delivered to the organizations and they using it for some period, it may be required to do some modifications. This may be because of the changes in the business or change in the functionality of the business.
   
In this case, the developers would do the changes in the ES and add or remove some operations as requested by the organization. Developers may charge or do it for free depending on the modifications.