Most likely, software applications have become a critical component in your overall business strategy to differentiate capabilities, improve productivity, increase efficiency, elevate customer satisfaction, and boost profits. However, in this day of rapid technology innovation, the world of custom software development has become increasingly complex and difficult to navigate. By partnering with BHMI, you can focus on your core business while having access to some of the highest quality application development resources in the world today. Also, since long-term client relationships have been key factors in BHMI's success, you can rest easy knowing you have selected a custom business software development partner with a vested interest in the technical and commercial success of your business.

BHMI's hallmark is creating enterprise-class custom business software applications. These applications may be large or small, but regardless of size, the software is central to the way your business operates. They directly support the main line of activity of your business. As a result, the software must be easy to use, continuously available, capable of supporting multiple business units simultaneously without any adverse affects, and highly scalable to accommodate future processing and business growth.

Due to the importance of software to your business, you will want the highest quality software solution at the best price. The software application should not only meet your performance expectations, but it should be on time and within your allocated budget. By choosing BHMI as your software development partner, that's exactly what you will get - no surprises.

BHMI uses a proven software development methodology that establishes deliverables, costs and timeframes upfront. After you approve an external specification document, BHMI will set a pricing commitment for your custom software development project. If BHMI exceeds the capped estimate, BHMI takes responsibility for the overage, not you.

If you want custom software that fits your business like a glove, you have two options - develop the software in-house or outsource your application development to a company that specializes in software engineering. Many businesses naturally gravitate toward in-house custom software development. However, in-house software development requires a great deal of time, a highly skilled staff and expensive programs and equipment. A viable and cost-effective alternative to in-house software development is outsourcing. By partnering with BHMI on your software development projects, you will maintain many of the benefits that in-house software provides, such as:

• You can maintain overall project management control
• You can own the application source code
• You can provide ongoing in-house support for the application
• Your project costs will be affordable and capped

Furthermore, since BHMI is not tied to a specific hardware platform, programming language, relational database or web interface, the needs of your business dictate the technology employed by BHMI in the development process. Your business will also benefit from the fact that BHMI develops applications for other businesses in your industry as well as other industries. BHMI architects software applications in a way that enables them to be quickly and easily ported from one technical platform to another. This provides you with the maximum amount of flexibility as your business technology roadmap continues to evolve over time. In essence, your software will remain "your way" even if "your way" changes in the future.