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Custom software development for critical operations

DNA Solutions designs and builds custom software around your business processes. Our engineers work with your team from scoping through production, combining development with knowledge transfer so your team can maintain and evolve the platform.

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When custom software is the right choice

Custom software is useful when your processes or integration needs go beyond what an existing product supports. We clarify those requirements with your team, compare what can be reused and define the work that needs to be built.

Development, architecture and operations are considered together, with regular reviews of working software and decisions about the next step.

DNA Solutions by the numbers

We design technology that lands on your bottom line. European enterprises trust us with extreme data volumes and critical financial pipelines.

A senior team of engineers and consultants across Europe.

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€1M

Annual savings across European clients

Software licensing savings of up to €1M per year for some of our clients.

€300M

Monthly audited transactions

We built and maintain a Deloitte-audited billing platform processing €300M in audited transactions every month.

6 years

Long-term client relationships

Several clients have worked with DNA Solutions for six years. We continue to develop and support their software as their needs evolve.

How DNA Solutions builds custom software

Software for a critical operation has to outlive its first release. Our build process is designed for the years after launch.

Microservices architecture

We use microservices where independent deployment or scaling serves the project. Service boundaries, communication patterns and recovery behaviour are chosen around the workload. We review failure scenarios and integration tests with your team before relying on the architecture in production.

API-first platform design

We define and document the interfaces needed to connect the platform to your existing systems. Agreeing API contracts early helps teams develop and test integrations. The design also considers how your engineers will maintain those interfaces as the software evolves.

High-availability cloud deployments

We plan deployment around the availability target, data-residency requirements and operating environment. Monitoring, redundancy and recovery procedures are scoped to those constraints and tested with the team responsible for production. We document these choices so your team understands the operating requirements and remaining risks.

Testing, observability and operations

We test critical paths and instrument the software so the team can investigate problems in operation. Monitoring and regular reviews inform maintenance and performance work. We agree responsibilities for support and share the documentation needed for your team to continue that work.

What DNA Solutions builds for operations teams

We engineer complete bespoke platforms for operations that no packaged product can model. From the data model to the deployment, our team designs the software around how the business actually runs.

What We Build

Microservices architecture

We split platforms into independent services so a fault in one path does not take down the rest. Event-driven communication, isolated failure domains and per-service deployment keep high-volume operations running.

API-first platform design

Every platform exposes a documented API before any interface is built. This lets the software connect to ERPs, payment systems, and partner platforms without rework, and lets client teams build on top of it.

High-availability cloud deployments

We deploy on cloud infrastructure sized for the availability target the operation requires. Redundancy, monitoring, and automated recovery, on AWS, Azure, or the client's existing environment.

What clients and partners value about DNA Solutions

Selected reviews from clients and partners about working with DNA Solutions.

"Professionalism, speed, commitment to customer success, deep technical expertise."
Steve AndreassendManaging Director, Critical Missions BVSortlist · 2026-01-28
"The quality of the people I worked with and the rigour of the project management. The company's very human side is also remarkable."
Renaud DwelshauversDirector, Dwel Consulting · Consulting partnerSortlist · 2025-11-29
"The real connection between sales and project delivery. Most IT companies have salespeople who communicate poorly or not at all with the people who actually build the solution; at DNA, that is really not the case."
Pierre LecomteConsultant, Lecomte ConsultingSortlist · 2026-01-29

Questions about custom software development

What teams ask before commissioning a platform built from scratch.

When does custom software make more sense than an off-the-shelf product?

When the operation has logic no packaged product models, custom software is usually the right answer: real-time multi-country pricing, fleet coordination across hundreds of sites, or availability targets a generic SaaS cannot meet. A packaged product asks the business to bend to its assumptions. For a critical operation, that often means manual workarounds, data living in spreadsheets next to the official system, and a process the software never fully captures. We build custom platforms specifically for these cases and integrate them with the systems already in place, so the software follows how the business actually runs rather than the other way round. Where part of the need is genuinely standard, we say so and reuse what exists instead of rebuilding it.

How do you choose the software architecture?

Architecture and the operating environment depend on your existing systems, requirements and the team that will maintain the software. We discuss the maintenance needs and dependencies of each option with you. Decisions are reviewed as the project provides new information.

Can you integrate a custom platform with our existing ERP?

Yes. We connect ERP and business applications through an integration layer. Data validation, format translation and traceable exception handling support consistent records and reduce manual transfers.

Who owns the software, and what happens at handover?

You own the platform we build for you: the source code, the data model, the infrastructure configuration and the technical documentation. We favor open technologies and deploy on your own cloud account or environment, so nothing essential is tied to a license only we can renew. At handover we run a structured knowledge transfer with your engineers, walking through the architecture, the deployment pipeline and the day-to-day operations, so your team can run and extend the platform on its own. Many clients then choose to keep us operating the software in production, with monitoring, automated recovery and ongoing maintenance, but that stays a decision you make, never a dependency built into the platform on purpose.

Can DNA Solutions work with our internal development team?

Yes. We can work with an existing team on the parts of the project that need additional engineering capacity. We agree responsibilities and priorities together, review the software as it develops and share knowledge throughout the work. The scope can include development, data engineering, architecture and preparation for production.

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