Why ELFO
Every day, we work to push the innovation horizon for our clients, starting from their growth objectives.
WHO WE SERVE
Our Clients
Our clients are medium-large to large companies with an international structure, often operating in complex organizational environments.
Their main need is to create, modify, integrate, improve, or innovate a software application in a way that is unique and specifically designed to achieve their goals.
ELFO’s clients value ongoing collaboration with a reliable partner who combines deep technical expertise with a thorough understanding of process, production, and service dynamics.
Unique Needs, Unique Services!
Our clients have specific and unique requirements. Over the years, we have honed our ability to deliver tailored solutions.
We have knowledge and expertise across various domains, including:
Architectural Design
Adoption of Innovative Technologies and Methodologies
Development and Deployment Environments
Cloud Platform Solutions
Performance Monitoring and Optimization
Cybersecurity
We know how to select and apply the right tools and strategies
necessary to achieve the often "unique" goals of our clients.
Do you have an idea, a project, or a specific need?
Within 72 hours, we’ll present a project proposal and the roadmap we’ve designed to help you achieve your goals.
What sets us apart?
Our Added Value
Thanks to the experience gained through years of collaboration and partnership with both SMEs and large international companies, we represent a solution to the problems of the companies and we can satisfy the needs at the basis of the custom requirements.
We don't "reinvent the wheel"
With automation tools, libraries and frameworks, we can quickly develop significant portions of applications, without reinventing the wheel every time. This means less implementation time and lower project costs.
Minimized time to value
Our organizational and production model allows us to minimize time to value.
Using the Agile Methodology and the company’s own software production tools, the time needed to build and deploy an MVP is usually just few months (3-5).
No dependency on supplier
We believe that we will be chosen again thank to our skills, our expertise, the success of our work, not because we create dependencies.
The code produced within our partnerships is always conferred to the client.
No need for over budget
The budget is spent where it creates value to the end-user, since the customer decides the design and implementation process. The result is to deliver value iteratively and incrementally, defining from time to time what to develop and how.
Take care policy
Our secret ingredient!
A modular package of hours to spend for small changes development, additional reports and features, etc … This gives fast and timely answers to business needs. Unused time is not billed. Since this time is managed within a specific area of our organization, these additional requests are always placed on a fast track, which avoids waiting for scheduled production activities to be completed.
Are always present:
Expertise
Presence
Innovation
Cost/Value
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
ELFO highlights
Why choose ELFO over an offshore software house?
ELFO pays off when you look at the total project cost, not the lowest hourly quote: software tied to your processes only matters if it ships and actually works. The hourly rate is a small piece. The rest comes from deep context, fast feedback and continuity over time. You work with a team that speaks your language, understands how manufacturing companies operate and talks directly to production, quality, engineering and sales: fewer misunderstandings, less rework, shorter alignment cycles. Add geographic proximity, in-person meetings and European regulations. Your code always stays yours, with no vendor lock-in. We do more than just write software: we are a long-term partner, with clients who have stayed with us for over 10 years.
Why choose ELFO over a standard ERP?
A standard ERP handles common processes well, but forces the business to adapt to its modules exactly where your processes are differentiating. ELFO builds custom software that adapts to how you work and, instead of replacing the ERP, integrates with it: the ERP stays the data backbone, the custom layer covers what the ERP does poorly. Often the choice is not ERP or custom, but ERP plus a tailored extension where it counts.
Why has ELFO worked for over 15 years with clients like Ferrero and Emerson?
Relationships lasting more than 15 years, with companies like Ferrero and Emerson, are the most concrete proof of reliability: you keep a software supplier that long only if it keeps its promises, evolves the systems over time and deeply understands your processes. For ELFO it means team continuity on the project and knowledge that does not restart from scratch at every engagement, an advantage over large system integrators where staff turnover wipes out accumulated experience.
How do you reduce project risk?
Risk drops when you deliver value early and often: with the Agile method ELFO ships an MVP typically in 3-5 months, then usable increments at every sprint, so you see the software working before the whole budget is spent. The client decides iteratively where to invest, the code stays yours (no lock-in), and the Take Care Policy covers small changes with modular hours, billing only those actually used. Less tunnel effect, more control across the whole project.
What happens if requirements change during development?
It is expected. ELFO works in Agile precisely where requirements evolve: at each sprint priorities are re-planned, so a change becomes the next thing to build rather than a contractual problem. The Time & Material model gives the flexibility to move effort where it is really needed, while Waterfall is kept for stable, regulated scopes. The point is not to freeze requirements, but to have a method that absorbs change without blowing up time and cost.
Do you provide support after release?
Yes. Software in production is covered by an AMS (Application Management Services) contract: support and maintenance with defined SLAs, from response time to resolution, written into the contract rather than promised on a call. It includes ongoing enhancements and continuous improvement, so the software grows with your business instead of aging. And one firm rule: bug fixes are always on ELFO, at no extra cost to you. For us, go-live opens the relationship, it does not close it.
Can you take over software built by someone else?
Yes, and it happens more often than you’d think: if the vendor who built your software has vanished, slowed down or stopped answering, you are not stuck. For ELFO, adapting to existing code and processes is routine work: the typical path is a review of code and documentation, stabilization, then development picks up where it left off, modernizing legacy software step by step. And from there the rules change: with ELFO the code is always yours. No vendor lock-in: this is the last time you’ll need to ask this question.