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10. A cautious business climate

This is at the bottom of the list for reason. If your goal is to get folks to understand and possibly early adopt your great new software idea, there may be stronger climates. However, here’s the lesser-known corollary: People in this region are more comfortable doing business with other people in this region than they are with some unknown salesperson from a far-away place. If you are honest and trustworthy, you just might win over some loyal clients to your new idea.

9. Universities

There are a lot of things people do in the course of a work day that can only ever be done by a human.

Human tasks often seem too complicated to automate in a piece of software. As a result, businesses are forced to run inefficiently when compared with, for example, an assembly line.

But businesses that can operate more like an assembly line have a clear and sizeable competitive advantage. Just look at your typical fast-food chain, or a high-volume call center.

Originally posted on the Central Penn Business Journal

As a Web application development company, we frequently encounter people seeking to produce software to address a specific need. In some cases, those needs are relatively common and in others they are unique.

In all cases, the stated goal of the customized software is to automate processes to make a process more efficient so a business can be more profitable.