Features > No Design Bloat Ever - Forever
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ZAP Accounting Software was designed in a modular, open source fashion that fully eliminates software bloat, and you really need to understand that long term benefit to you, the user, with absolute clarity.
ALL cloud based software solutions offered as "Software As A Service" (SAAS) and all desktop and server based solutions that came prior CAN'T NOT bloat -- it's the nature of the beast -- and the sooner you understand that, the faster you will come to appreciate this solution and this DIY Software Club approach for all of your downstream data needs.
All software will reach an ideal state of symbiosis fairly quickly. The core user group will be satisfied with the functionality and the engineers with or without some design support will all be proud of their work -- but then what happens? Take a look at the Software Development Life-Cycle model below and your understanding of Software Bloat will be complete...
All Commercial Software Development Life-Cycle Models Lead to Bloat...
At this point, true creative motion has slowed if not stopped completely, but the investors and business owner's can't let everyone go because they need people to man the maintenance posts -- but are the truly "creative" types who got them here the best for manning the maintenance posts?
And Guess What?
ZAP Software represents a refreshing approach to this entire game that will make many smile.
No more software bloat ever, forever, with ZAP Accounting Software. Your software is now fully in your control.
ZAP Accounting Software was designed in a modular, open source fashion that fully eliminates software bloat, and you really need to understand that long term benefit to you, the user, with absolute clarity.
ALL cloud based software solutions offered as "Software As A Service" (SAAS) and all desktop and server based solutions that came prior CAN'T NOT bloat -- it's the nature of the beast -- and the sooner you understand that, the faster you will come to appreciate this solution and this DIY Software Club approach for all of your downstream data needs.
All software will reach an ideal state of symbiosis fairly quickly. The core user group will be satisfied with the functionality and the engineers with or without some design support will all be proud of their work -- but then what happens? Take a look at the Software Development Life-Cycle model below and your understanding of Software Bloat will be complete...
All Commercial Software Development Life-Cycle Models Lead to Bloat...
- One or a few guys or girls has an idea.
- They start building it.
- They grass roots their way to the marketplace, or worse yet, they get VC capital
- Engineers almost always lead, but at some point, graphic designers typically get involved and that's when the real chaos picks up and design flexibility drops dramatically... (first stage of bloat and gridlock)
- User count goes up, security demands go up, more people get involved (second stage of bloat and gridlock)
- More people and more technology get added to keep things functional and safe (third stage of bloat and gridlock)
At this point, true creative motion has slowed if not stopped completely, but the investors and business owner's can't let everyone go because they need people to man the maintenance posts -- but are the truly "creative" types who got them here the best for manning the maintenance posts?
- Few will voluntarily leave a place where they were a part of a beautiful and creative process. That's just not natural...
- Thus, you end up with creatives trying to create in a space that really should be turned over to the maintenance crew -- a crew that enjoys maintenance more than creative whims -- but that seldom happens, and what you end up with is "creative types" with too much time on their hands and an endless loop of smaller, less significant changes that are cool to them, but typically troublesome and annoying to users.
- And then there's the sales and money people -- when maintenance mode should be sought with a realistic market cap put on a project -- they then decide to include "another user group" in the marketing, "because they are almost like our target group" and from those decisions you get scope creep, software bloat, and less happy users as time goes on.
And Guess What?
ZAP Software represents a refreshing approach to this entire game that will make many smile.
No more software bloat ever, forever, with ZAP Accounting Software. Your software is now fully in your control.