What is Bespoke Software ? What are its advantages and disadvantages ?

Bespoke software is a tailor-made software according to a user's requirements. This type of software is developed to meet all the requirements specified by the user. Such a software is customized according to the users' needs.

The advantages of bespoke software are:

1. The company will get the exact software/system that they need.
2. The software will work exactly how they want it to work.
3. The software will only have the features that they specifically need in their business.

The disadvantages of bespoke software are:

1. It takes a long time to develop such a system, between a few months to years.
2. It costs a great deal of money to develop such a system.
3. The company may need to employ a team of people such as business analysts, programmers, testers etc.
4. There will be little in the way of user support and online help.
5. These cannot be directly installed at other user's workplace as the requirements may vary.