Decide whether an off-the-shelf package will be sufficient, or whether it is worth investing in a bespoke system tailored to your particular industry and supply chain.

The fund manager had customized this software agent from an off-the-shelf package especially to monitor Tye's personal shareholdings and other investments.

It's not all tied up in a single off-the-shelf package like TFS, so if you want code review, you'd need to install something like gerrit (the one that I'm familiar with from Android dev, but I'm sure there are lots of other good choices too).

Most off-the-shelf packages are proprietary software.

Further, to allow the application to be sold to the widest possible market, commercial off-the-shelf packages are generally configured for each customer using metadata.

With West as chairman, and managing director Nally its driving force, the company would go on to redefine the sports business industry by pioneering the offering to 'blue chip' companies of exclusive, off-the-shelf packages of sponsorship rights to the world's largest sports tournaments on behalf of the world's leading sports federations.

Software can be custom written for a particular application or an off-the-shelf package such as Wonder Ware, Labtech Notebook or LabView can be used to provide a base level of programming.

It needed one or two modifications, but because I was working with a more or less off-the-shelf package it was a lot quicker than starting from scratch.

If a fabricator operates machines from more than one vendor, they may prefer to use an off-the-shelf nesting package from a third-party vendor.