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Pharos Production develops custom Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems that unify your business operations - finance, HR, procurement, inventory, manufacturing and project management - into a single integrated platform.

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Last reviewed July 6, 2026 by Dmytro Nasyrov, Founder and CTO. Content reflects Pharos Production delivery data as of the review date. Editorial policy.
Dmytro Nasyrov - Founder and CTO of Pharos Production

Reviewed by Dmytro Nasyrov

Founder and CTO

23+ years in custom software development. Led 110+ projects across FinTech, healthcare, Web3 and enterprise, ISO 27001-aligned team.

What is ERP development?

ERP development is the customization, integration or (rarely) full build of enterprise resource planning systems that bind together finance, inventory, sales, HR and operations. Most engagements are customization and integration, not green-field builds.
Authoritative citations 12 sources
  1. DORA State of DevOps Report The Google DORA State of DevOps annual report defines the four key software delivery metrics (deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to restore, change failure rate) that we instrument on every production engagement to benchmark delivery performance. dora.dev
  2. Stack Overflow Developer Survey The Stack Overflow Developer Survey documents language, framework, database and tooling adoption across tens of thousands of engineers annually, and we use the trend lines to validate stack choices against hiring pool depth for each client. survey.stackoverflow.co
  3. ThoughtWorks Technology Radar The ThoughtWorks Technology Radar tracks tools, platforms, techniques and languages across adopt, trial, assess and hold rings twice yearly, and is a cross-check we use to validate architectural recommendations against industry consensus. thoughtworks.com
  4. Google SRE Book The Google SRE book codifies service-level objectives, error budgets, incident response and postmortem culture that our production readiness gates adopt directly when handing over a platform to a client operations team. sre.google
  5. Martin Fowler bliki Martin Fowler's bliki is the most cited reference for enterprise architecture patterns including microservices, strangler fig, CQRS, event sourcing and refactoring, which shapes how we describe and implement architecture decisions in ADRs on every client engagement. martinfowler.com
  6. Gartner Custom Application Services Magic Quadrant Gartner publishes multiple Magic Quadrant reports covering custom application services, digital engineering and outsourced development that identify market leaders, completeness of vision and niche specialists across the global software services industry. gartner.com
  7. ISO 27001 Information Security Standard ISO 27001:2022 defines the internationally recognized information security management system requirements that Pharos Production operates under, shaping the control framework we inherit and extend for client software engagements. iso.org
  8. OWASP Top 10 The OWASP Top 10 ranks the highest-impact web application security risks and is the single most cited threat reference for application security programs, which every Pharos build is reviewed against before production release. owasp.org
  9. NIST Secure Software Development Framework NIST SSDF SP 800-218 defines secure development practices including threat modelling, SBOM generation, vulnerability disclosure and supply chain controls, which we treat as the baseline Software Development Lifecycle checklist on every client engagement. csrc.nist.gov
  10. CNCF Cloud Native Landscape The CNCF Cloud Native Landscape maps the full cloud-native ecosystem across orchestration, runtime, observability, security and database categories, useful reference material we consult when validating platform choices for client Kubernetes and service mesh engagements. landscape.cncf.io
  11. Accelerate by Forsgren, Humble, Kim Accelerate distills the multi-year DORA research program into the book-length case for DevOps practices correlated with high-performance software delivery, and is the single most cited academic reference for the delivery metrics we ship inside every client engagement. itrevolution.com
  12. IEEE SWEBOK The IEEE Software Engineering Body of Knowledge codifies the professional knowledge areas covering requirements, design, construction, testing, maintenance, configuration management and engineering economics that underpin every professional software services engagement. computer.org
What we do not do
  • Reselling or reimplementing off-the-shelf ERP suites (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics) end-to-end
  • Multi-year big-bang ERP rollouts without slicing
  • Engagements where the client has not agreed on a single source of truth
  • Projects without named finance, operations and engineering owners
  • Replacement of working ERPs purely for cosmetic modernization

ERP engagements at Pharos at a glance

  • Engagements: 25+ ERP integration and customization engagements since 2016 across manufacturing, distribution, retail and B2B services
  • Platforms: NetSuite, Dynamics 365, Odoo, Microsoft Business Central; custom integrations against SAP and Oracle
  • Typical scope: Integrations, custom modules, workflow automation, data migration, reporting layers
  • Pricing: Integration engagements from $60,000; customization projects $80,000-$500,000; migration cutovers priced after discovery
  • Duration: Most engagements 8-24 weeks; multi-phase programs up to 12 months with quarterly value slices
  • Team: Engineers with platform certifications plus a solution architect; finance SME on call when required
  • Honest scope: We recommend integrations over replacement whenever the existing ERP is operational

ERP customization vs replacement: the honest comparison

Factor Customization and integration Full replacement
Budget $60K-$500K typical $1M-$10M+ typical
Timeline 8-24 weeks 9-24 months
Business risk Low to moderate High (cutover is the failure point)
When it fits Current ERP is operational Current ERP is end-of-life or blocking
Rollback Possible with feature flags Expensive and painful

How we handle ERP projects without the usual disasters

Pharos Verified Delivery applied to ERP means every engagement is sliced by business outcome. We ship a working integration or customization every 2-3 weeks, never once at the end of a 9-month plan.

Pharos Verified Delivery 4-phase methodology with typical durations and deliverables
  1. Phase 01 / 04

    Paid Discovery

    2-4 weeks
    • Technical validation
    • Architecture proposal
    • Scope refined estimate
    82% on-schedule with discovery
  2. Phase 02 / 04

    Iterative Build

    2-week sprints
    • Working demos every sprint
    • CTO review at milestones
    • ADRs documented
    Transparent progress tracking
  3. Phase 03 / 04

    Production Readiness

    • Monitoring and alerting
    • Security audit Pen test
    • Runbooks and rollback
    ISO 27001 aligned
  4. Phase 04 / 04

    Support

    Ongoing
    • Security patches
    • Performance tuning
    • 4h SLA response
    Continuous improvement

Pharos Verified Delivery applied to 110+ production applications since 2013

ERP engagements that did not become horror stories

ERP projects fail loudly when they fail. Each engagement below shipped working value inside one quarter, not inside one year.

Finance+inventory sync (Q3 2024) Q3 2024 · Manufacturing, EU
Before

Client running Dynamics 365 for finance and a legacy in-house inventory system with nightly CSV exports and a 14-hour reporting lag.

After

Built a near-real-time integration service with idempotent event handling and reconciliation reports. Reporting lag dropped from 14 hours to under 5 minutes.

We did not replace either system. Replacement would have been a 14-month project; integration was a 10-week project with the same business outcome.

Custom procurement workflow (Q1 2025) Q1 2025 · Distribution, US
Before

NetSuite in place but approval workflows built via 240 brittle SuiteScript snippets; 6-week delivery on any change.

After

Rebuilt the procurement workflow as an external service with versioned rules and replaced the brittle scripts. Change lead time cut to 2 days.

Customizing inside an ERP is expensive and fragile past a certain point. We moved the rules out of the ERP and the rest got easier.

ERP migration cutover (Q4 2024) Q4 2024 · Retail, US
Before

Legacy ERP with 11 years of customization, planned cutover to a modern platform with 6 failed attempts.

After

Parallel-run approach with read-only shadow for 8 weeks before write cutover. Cutover completed without a rollback.

We never switched systems on a weekend without a shadow run. Big-bang cutovers are where ERP careers go to die.

Client names anonymized under NDA. Full case studies at /cases/.

When ERP development is the wrong investment

We decline roughly 30% of RFPs we receive. Forcing a bad fit costs both sides 3-6 months and damages outcomes. Here is how we think about scope:

Projects we decline
  • You have an ERP that works and the new ERP is purely cosmetic
  • Leadership wants to consolidate systems before agreeing on the source of truth
  • Scope includes both ERP and a full data platform rebuild as one project
  • The target ERP was chosen before business requirements were documented
  • Implementation is expected to finish before anyone has measured the current state
Cheaper alternatives we recommend

If the real problem is specific workflows or reporting, a targeted integration or data warehouse project is usually 10-20% of the cost of ERP replacement and solves the same business problem. We will say that out loud instead of quoting a multi-year rewrite.

Pharos Production ERP portfolio observations

Observations from 13 ERP engagements delivered 2019-2026 across manufacturing, FinTech, logistics and healthcare.

  • Engagements with compliance-first role design passed external audit on first review in 9 of 9 cases; retrofit compliance triggered rework in 3 of 4.

  • Build-vs-buy discipline (custom limited to under 30 percent of modules) delivered on time in 11 of 13 cases; full-custom or over 60 percent custom triggered 3 of 3 delays.

  • Dual-run migrations over 60 days caught reconciliation defects in 10 of 12 engagements; shorter dual-runs missed defects in 3 of 4 cases.

  • Teams of 6 to 12 engineers plus 1 functional consultant plus 1 audit lead shipped ERP extensions in 6 to 12 months depending on integration scope.

ERP development outlook 2026-2027

ERP in 2026 has bifurcated into two markets: mid-market SaaS platforms (NetSuite, Odoo, Dynamics 365, SAP S/4HANA Cloud) absorbing standard workflows and custom or extended builds solving business-specific processes that commodity platforms cannot. Successful custom ERP engagements extend platform APIs rather than rebuilding core accounting, inventory or HR modules.

  • Gartner Magic Quadrant defines the ERP platform market

    Gartner 2024 Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP confirms the top 4 platforms (SAP, Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft, Workday) cover 70 percent of mid-market deals; custom ERP serves the remaining 30 percent where workflow specificity is strategic[6].

  • ISO 27001 and compliance define the baseline

    ISO 27001 and industry addendums (HIPAA, SOX, PCI DSS) define the compliance baseline for ERP handling employee, financial or customer data[7].

  • Martin Fowler patterns guide ERP architecture

    Martin Fowler's patterns for bounded context, event-sourcing and CQRS remain the canonical reference for custom ERP architecture decisions[5].

  • DORA metrics separate fast ERP platforms from slow ones

    DORA 2024 confirms ERP platforms that deploy monthly or slower produce lower DORA metrics; modern custom ERPs ship weekly or daily via independent module deployment[1].

How to evaluate an ERP build before go-live

Before cutting over to a custom or extended ERP, run this 8-point gate. Partial readiness triggers 2-4 quarters of remediation work post go-live.

  1. Build-vs-buy decision documented

    Custom scope limited to business-specific workflows; commodity modules use platform or SaaS core[6].

  2. Integration contracts tested

    Accounting, HR, CRM and WMS integrations covered by consumer-driven contract tests.

  3. Data migration validated

    Dual-run validated for at least 60 days; reconciliation reports at 0.01 percent variance.

  4. Security and compliance

    ISO 27001, SOX segregation-of-duties, GDPR data residency mapped per module[7].

  5. Audit trail complete

    Full event log for every financial transaction, user action and configuration change; retention policy aligned with regulator.

  6. Performance under load

    Month-end close completes within budget window; reports load under 5 seconds P95 on peak volume.

  7. User training plan

    Role-based training modules delivered; power users certified before cutover.

  8. Rollback plan

    Documented rollback from go-live to legacy executable within 1 business day for first 30 days.

Lesson from production: the silent SOX violation

A manufacturing customer migrated from legacy ERP to a custom-extended NetSuite build in 2023. Go-live was clean; external auditor review 4 months later flagged a SOX segregation-of-duties violation: the same user role could approve purchase orders and create vendor records. Root cause: role design focused on business workflow convenience without a SOX compliance review. Remediation required retroactive audit of 14,000 transactions and a 6-week re-architecture of the access model. We now gate every ERP role design through an explicit SOX or regulator compliance review before go-live, not after. No further compliance findings in post-2024 ERP engagements. The lesson: ERP access control is a compliance deliverable, not a usability decision; regulator review must precede user training.

ERP discipline
No ERP engagement starts without a written source of truth for each entity (customer, product, invoice), a named business owner per domain and a measurable baseline for cycle time or cost. Without those three things, the project drifts. Last reviewed: July 2026. Editorial policy.

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  • Core Scientific
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About the founder and CTO

Dmytro Nasyrov

Dmytro Nasyrov

Founder and CTO Pharos Production

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I design and build reliable software solutions - from lightweight apps to high-load distributed systems and blockchain platforms.

PhD in Artificial Intelligence, MSc in Computer Science (with honors), MSc in Electronics & Precision Mechanics.

  • 13 years in architecture of great software solutions tailored to customer needs for startups and enterprises

  • 23 years of practical enterprise customized software production experience

  • Lecturer at the National Kyiv Polytechnic University

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Artificial Intelligence

  • Master's degree in Computer Science, completed with excellence

  • Master's degree in Electronics and precision mechanics engineering

Choose your cooperation model

Pharos Production offers three project models, MVP, Full-fledged Production and Full-cycle Development, priced from $10,000 to $80,000. An MVP prototype takes about 3 months.

Suitable for the project test
MVP

Core software architecture, initial UI/UX, working prototype in 3 months

$11,000 - $27,000
Popular choice
Suitable in 9 out of 10 cases
Full-fledged Production

Software architecture, UI/UX, customized software development, manual and automated testing, cloud deployment

$27,000 - $55,000
Turnkey development
Full-cycle Development

Comprehensive software architecture and documentation, UI/UX design layouts, UI kit, clickable prototypes, cloud deployment, continuous integration, as well as automated monitoring and notifications.

$50,000 - $80,000

Prices vary based on project scope, complexity, timeline and requirements. Hourly rates range from $35 to $75 depending on role and seniority. Contact us for a personalized estimate.

Interaction models for staff augmentation, dedicated teams and outsourcing

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187+ technologies

Technologies, tools and frameworks we use

Our engineers work with 187+ technologies across blockchain, backend, frontend, mobile and DevOps - chosen for production reliability and performance.

Our engineers work with 187+ technologies across 10 categories: Frameworks, AI, Blockchains, DevOps, Clouds, Databases, Brokers, Tests, Programming, UI/UX.

  • Frameworks: Spring Boot, Erlang OTP, NodeJS, Phoenix, NestJS, Django, FastAPI, Express.js, React, Next.JS, Svelte, Angular, Vue.js, Remix, Astro, Nuxt.js, iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native, Capacitors, Ionic, Swift, Kotlin, Java, Dart
  • AI: OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Meta Llama, Mistral AI, Cohere, Ollama, xAI Grok, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Hugging Face, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, LlamaIndex, Keras, XGBoost, LightGBM, OpenCV, spaCy, ONNX Runtime, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Chroma, pgvector, Milvus, FAISS, MLflow, Weights & Biases, DVC, Kubeflow, AWS SageMaker, Azure ML, Google Vertex AI, NVIDIA Triton, Airflow, Ray Serve, vLLM, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude MCP, Semantic Kernel, Haystack
  • Blockchains: Ethereum, TON, Corda, Tron, Hedera, Stellar, Consensys GoQuorum, Solana, Arbitrum, Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Sei, Celo, Hyperledger, MultiversX, IOTA, Polkadot, Aptos, Neo, Flow, Algorand, Avalanche, EOS, Optimism, Polygon, Cosmos, Sui, Tezos, Ontology, Fantom, NEAR Protocol, VeChain, Base, IPFS, Amazon Managed Blockchain, Amazon QLDB, IBM Blockchain, Oracle Blockchain
  • DevOps: Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Ansible, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Pulumi, Datadog, New Relic, Vault
  • Clouds: Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud, Cloudflare, Vercel, DigitalOcean
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL MariaDB, Redis, Cassandra, Neo4J, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Solr, Ignite, ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, DynamoDB, Supabase, CockroachDB, ScyllaDB
  • Brokers: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Flink, Apache Pulsar, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, NATS
  • Tests: Postman, Appium, Cucumber, Selenium, JMeter, Cypress
  • Programming: Solidity, FunC, Rust, GoLang, Elixir, Erlang, C++, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Scala, Python, C#, .NET, PHP, Ruby, Dart, SQL
  • UI/UX: Figma, Zeplin, InVision, Sketch, Miro, Marvel, Balsamiq, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, After Effects, Corel Draw

Frameworks

Backend Frameworks 8

Spring Boot
Spring Boot
Erlang OTP
Erlang OTP
NodeJS
NodeJS
Phoenix
Phoenix
NestJS
NestJS
Django
FastAPI
Express.js

Front End Frameworks 8

React
React
Next.JS
Next.JS
Svelte
Svelte
Angular
Angular
Vue.js
Remix
Astro
Nuxt.js
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An approach to the development cycle

The Pharos Delivery Framework divides every project into 2-week sprints. After each sprint we hold a retrospective, deliver a progress report and plan the next sprint. This methodology is why agile projects are 3x more likely to succeed than waterfall (Standish Group CHAOS Report, 2024).
  1. Team Assembly

    Our company starts and assembles an entire project specialists with the perfect blend of skills and experience to start the work.

  2. MVP

    We'll design, build and launch your MVP, ensuring it meets the core requirements of your software solution.

  3. Production

    We'll create a complete software solution that is custom-made to meet your exact specifications.

  4. Ongoing

    Continuous Support

    Our company will be right there with you, keeping your software solution running smoothly, fixing issues and rolling out updates.

ERP engineering insights

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ERP Development Glossary 7

ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning software that unifies core business functions such as finance, HR, inventory and procurement on a shared data model and single system of record.
Module
A self-contained ERP component covering one functional area, such as finance or manufacturing, that shares data with other modules through the common platform.
Data Migration
The process of extracting, cleansing, mapping and loading records from legacy systems into a new ERP, validated against source totals before go-live.
RBAC
Role-Based Access Control, a model that grants ERP permissions to roles rather than individuals, enforcing least privilege and segregation of duties.
System of Record
The authoritative data source for a given entity, such as customers or inventory, that other systems treat as the single trusted version of the truth.
MRP
Material Requirements Planning, an ERP capability that calculates the materials, quantities and timing needed to meet production schedules and demand.
Audit Trail
A chronological, tamper-evident log of every change in the ERP, recording who altered what and when to support compliance and internal control.

Frequently asked questions about ERP Development Services

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    Custom ERP development typically ranges from $120,000 for a few core modules to $600,000 or more for a full multi-module suite covering finance, HR, procurement, inventory and manufacturing. Cost scales with the number of modules, depth of data migration, third-party integrations and how much existing business logic must be reimplemented rather than configured.

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    A focused ERP with two or three modules usually takes 5 to 8 months, while a full suite spanning finance, HR, procurement, inventory, manufacturing and projects can run 12 to 20 months. Phased rollouts let early modules go live while later ones are built, shortening time to first value considerably.

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    Custom ERP fits your exact processes instead of forcing them into a vendor's predefined model, while avoiding per-seat licensing that scales painfully with headcount. You own the codebase, control the roadmap and integrate freely. It suits companies whose workflows are a competitive advantage that packaged SAP, Oracle or Dynamics suites cannot fully accommodate.

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    A custom ERP can include finance and accounting, human resources, procurement, inventory and warehouse management, manufacturing and production planning and project management. Each module is designed around your actual workflows and shares a common data model, so reporting and automation work across modules instead of living in disconnected systems.

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    Data migration starts with profiling and cleansing your existing records, then mapping fields to the new ERP's data model. We build repeatable migration scripts, run trial loads into a staging environment and reconcile totals against the source before cutover. Validation checks and a rollback plan reduce the risk of corrupted or missing records at go-live.

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    Access is governed by role-based access control, where permissions attach to roles such as accountant, warehouse lead or HR manager rather than individuals. The system enforces least-privilege access, segregation of duties for sensitive financial actions and full audit logging, so every change is traceable to a user for compliance and internal control.

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    Yes. Custom ERP integrates with CRMs, payment gateways, e-commerce platforms, banking APIs, payroll providers and warehouse hardware through REST APIs, webhooks and message queues. Because we control the codebase, integrations are built to your real data flows rather than constrained by a vendor's connector marketplace, keeping systems synchronized in near real time.

The Pharos takeaway on ERP delivery

ERP engineering in 2026 is measurable: build-vs-buy discipline, compliance-first role design, tested integrations and documented rollback. Pharos Production builds ERP extensions that pass audit and go live without remediation cycles, because compliance gates precede user experience.

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