InspiringApps Enterprise Services

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Much is needed to keep businesses running efficiently and generating revenue—and mobile and web apps have transformed how business is done. Still, devoting resources to develop an enterprise app can be a challenge. Even companies that have internal development teams often need an outside expert who can focus solely on app design and development. 

Furthermore, enterprise app development is complex. You need a partner with the reputation and experience you can trust to deliver a solution that fits perfectly with your business needs while saving you time and increasing ROI.

InspiringApps is an expert in designing and building solutions for enterprise clients that improve operational efficiency, inform important business decisions, and create a lasting impression with their customers. Every enterprise is different, and our approach to enterprise app development services reflects that.

We work as an extension of your team to understand your business, iterate through agile development, meet rigorous quality standards, and deliver a custom digital solution. Choose one or more of the following services that are right for your business.

App Development

Clean code and fast, efficient programming are only the beginning of what our app development team adds to your project. The InspiringApps team includes experts in custom iOS, Android, and web development, applying the latest technology trends to deliver custom software development solutions that delight and engage millions of users.

Mobile Application Development

Mobile apps have been a part of our digital world since Nokia built the “Snake” arcade game into their first phones in 1997. Since then, mobile applications have reached every aspect of our lives: cooking, traveling, gaming, learning, reading, networking, and everything in between. 

There are many reasons to build a mobile app. A mobile app can enrich and improve your customer’s experience and connect your clients to your brand—all while they’re on the go. Discover our mobile solutions in iOS and Android app development:

  • Our pure native solutions offer superior design, performance, security, and compliance, using Java for Android app development and Swift for iOS app development.
  • Our hybrid app solutions apply frontend code (Javascript and CSS) traditionally used in web apps but packaged for the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. 
  • Our cross-platform app solutions use the latest tools like Flutter and Dart to deliver full features and functionality quickly.

Web Application Development

InspiringApps’ web expertise runs deep. It’s been an integral part of our business since our founding over 15 years ago. Our team of developers has designed and delivered end-to-end web solutions for browsers and the cloud. Our custom solutions are modular, scalable, and robust. We build web apps that:

  • Use responsive web design.
  • Feature a custom content management system (CMS). 
  • Interact with servers using NodeJS for development.
  • Use cloud infrastructures—like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
  • Improve how clients handle data, maintaining large relational and non-relational databases for complex systems.

Whether you need an integration with enterprise systems like Salesforce or an encrypted, HIPAA-compliant solution for your most sensitive information, we will create a solution that meets your goals.

App Design

InspiringApps has collaborated with clients from a wide variety of industries. But a unifying quality of our diverse portfolio is creating experiences that delight users. We’ll work closely with you to understand your users and brand mission with the goal of converting this information into unparalleled web and mobile app design. Our app design services include:

  • Digital Product Strategy
  • UX Research
  • UI/UX Design
  • Brand Identity Design

Our team’s ability to merge behavioral science and creativity in our app design approach will help you captivate users in a new way.

Concept Feasibility

The InspiringApps team is here to help you determine if a project is viable. Our concept feasibility analysis incorporates factors that are critical to the digital product lifecycle. We review the following key areas:

  • Technical Considerations: How will you build features into your app that address security, performance, and other important technical qualities?
  • Product Economics: Does your product meet the needs of today’s users?
  • Legal Issues: What legal considerations should you be aware of in order to protect your project’s authorship and revenue?
  • Operational & Logistical Factors: Can you efficiently produce your app within the constraints of your project?

Our team reviews the impact of these interrelated factors on your project. This information, in turn, makes it easy to decide if a new opportunity is right for you.

Process Audit

Our process audits save teams time and money by identifying hidden inefficiencies. Our audit services include providing independent validation of your testing features, communicating with members of your organization to ensure that quality assurance protocols are optimized, and conducting skills assessments of your IT team. 

What’s more, our experience developing a wide range of digital products can help your team implement processes that achieve excellence in app standards, even in highly regulated industries. In short, we’ll prevent workflow problems before they occur so that users continue to love and trust your product.

Technical Risk Analysis

Anticipating technical risks within a rapidly evolving mobile app market is challenging to say the least. InspiringApps has a proven track record of giving clients tools to sidestep common pitfalls and launch mobile apps with ease.

Our team has extensive experience evaluating risk pertaining to platform rejections, security breaches, and feature overload (to name a few). We’ll help you approach technical concerns proactively so that you can stay focused on delivering an exceptional app.

Architecture Assistance

Web and mobile app architectures are essential to your product’s success. Not only that but fixing a foundational problem can quickly drain valuable resources, especially when an outsider’s perspective isn’t considered. 

InspiringApps has the expertise necessary to implement architecture solutions at all development lifecycle stages. We’ll work with your team to integrate the presentation, business, and data layers of your product to create a fully structured app. This helps to avoid costly maintenance issues down the road.

Accessibility Best Practices

Our team has extensive experience developing B2B and B2C apps that embody the highest accessibility standards. We love applying our expertise in creating products that all individuals can understand and use to help clients create inclusive apps. 

We’ll help you take a research-based approach to design web, Android, and iOS apps with accessibility in mind. Our services consistently result in accessible apps that align with industry guidelines and create more opportunities for user engagement.

Code Review & Audit

Our code audits relieve clients of glitches and vulnerabilities in their products and enable them to deliver a secure, healthy app to their users. We’ll apply our experience writing 6 million lines of code (and counting) toward identifying structural problems in your code and strategizing efficient ways to address them. Our tailored audits include deep code reviews and analyses that will allow you to keep your project moving forward.

Internet of Things & Augmented Reality

Although developing mobile apps for IoT and AR devices is relatively new, InspiringApps has extensive experience in this area. We continue to develop outstanding apps that work well with cutting-edge devices. We’ll collaborate with your team to ensure that critical features of IoT and AR apps—seamless design, perfect device pairing, and high performance, among others—are embodied in your digital product.

SaaS Integrations

The InspiringApps team has the expertise necessary to build exceptional mobile apps for your SaaS brand. We’ll collaborate with you to create a plan for developing an app that meets the needs of your end users. We’ll then help you update your product in a way that reflects operational excellence and provides on-demand access to the SaaS services your users value most.

Executive Consulting

The InspiringApps team has designed and built innovative apps for some of the largest organizations in the world. While tech companies often prefer to rely on the expertise of in-house developers, our experience building hundreds of apps can provide a fresh perspective on your project. Our team can work with your executive leadership to analyze risk and strategize ways to deliver top digital products.

Tangible ROI

Our design and development considerations streamline both functionality and user experience with tangible ROI

  • Companies like Coors and Toyota partnered with InspiringApps on enterprise apps that increased sales. 
  • The award-winning app for our client Smartwool cut reporting time in half and improved retail service. 
  • For Gulfstream, we built an immersive in-app experience for prospective customers that garnered multiple awards. 
  • The Explore Orion app showcased space-grade technology—designed and developed by InspiringApps.

Innovative functionality and design are within reach. Whether it is a complex data solution, a custom integration, an internal app for employees, or an app that will deliver messages to the Moon, InspiringApps provides intelligent digital products that delight clients and end users with transformative results. 

Let’s move your business forward together. Speak with our experts in enterprise solutions.

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