Compare
CustomView vs a custom build
Building your own 360 platform is an appealing idea right up to the point where you price the second year of it.
The bottom line
A custom build usually means six to twelve months before anyone can use it, a significant sum up front, and a maintenance bill that never stops arriving. CustomView is a platform that already works, branded to you in weeks, built by people who have spent thirty years on 360 feedback.
Side by side
What each route actually asks of you.
Custom Development
Design, build, testing and project management, all before you see anything
Requirements, build, QA and iteration, before your first program
Hosting, maintenance, bug fixes, security updates, developer retainer
Developers rarely arrive knowing assessments or psychometrics
New requirements? New invoices. Budget for ongoing development.
Project delays, scope creep, agency goes out of business, key developer leaves
You become a tech company whether you wanted to or not
CustomView
Scoped to your competency model, branding, reports and translations
We build and brand your assessment, reports, and portal. You review and refine.
Hosting, maintenance, support, and platform updates all included
Psychometric practice and participant experience already worked out
Platform improvements roll out to all clients at no extra charge
Hundreds of consultancies and thousands of programs have run on it
Stay a consultancy. We handle the technology.
The true cost
What custom development really costs
The quote covers the build. These are the lines that follow it.
Custom Development
Plus opportunity cost of 6-12 month delay before your first program
CustomView
Live in weeks, costs aligned to revenue
Worth considering
The hidden complexity of 360 software
Timelines extend
Software projects routinely run past their estimate, and every month of overrun is a program you cannot deliver.
360 has deep edge cases
Anonymity thresholds, rater-type scoring, multi-language reports, nomination approvals. Each one is a year of getting it wrong before it is right.
Knowledge concentration risk
When the developer who understands your system moves on, you're left with code and no context.
Security and compliance are ongoing
Enterprise clients expect ISO 27001, GDPR compliance and audit trails. Reaching that standard is work; staying there is somebody's job.
Norms and psychometrics
A 360 report only means something if the norms and scoring rules behind it were built by assessment specialists rather than by whoever was free.
Maintenance never stops
Security patches, browser updates, framework upgrades, the next client's requirement. The build is the cheap part.
"Envisia gives us confidence in our products, a deeper sales opportunity, and competitive advantage."Jill Jenkinson Chief Executive, T-Three Group
Thirty years of refinement
Everything you would have to build, already running
Capabilities that took decades to get right, waiting for your branding.
Talk through your use case
Bring us the build you are considering and we'll show you what it looks like on a platform that already runs it. We'll walk you through the capabilities and help you evaluate the fit.
