Maximizing Efficiency with Minimal Resources: NetSistemas Transforms Their Development Process Using ComponentOne
Case Study | Feb 3, 2025 | NetSistemas
Industry Context
NetSistemas, a community-oriented development company in northern Spain, embodies the adage “less is more” with a modest team comprised of a single developer. Despite the small nature of this group, NetSistemas has spent more than two decades serving a local niche market with practical and efficient solutions that simplify even the most complex processes, recognizing that “more” is not always “more” even when corporate sentiments are contrary. By focusing on a select group of clients, NetSistemas ensures that each customer receives the attention and support they deserve.
As the sole developer on his team, Roberto Alonso explains, “We believe in serving a few clients well to ensure their complete satisfaction rather than serving many poorly.”
Known for offering a complete enterprise resource planning tool (ERP), NetSistemas prioritizes quality and individualized attention to clients over massive expansion. While developing this software for business management, it was important to them to build programs that adapt to their clients’ work requirements instead of programs with limitations their clients would have to adapt to. Focused on building effective and professional solutions from their inception, maximizing efficiency has always been at the forefront for the NetSistemas team.

The Challenge
However, in the high-stakes software development realm, smaller teams are often met with unique challenges that simply don’t pose a threat to more extensive teams. Most of Roberto’s clients search for the business solutions they need among local service providers, seeking support from a trusted source when they face unavoidable technical challenges. Delivering high-quality, feature-rich applications with limited resources can prove to be a hurdle so high, though, that it knocks some developers out of the ring for more complex projects altogether.
“From the first moment, I decided to use professional tools to reduce unnecessary workloads,” Roberto reveals.
Understanding the potential demands his team would surely face, Roberto knew that finding reliable, feature-rich tools would be crucial to alleviate the burden that limited resources would impose on his operation. For NetSistemas, a highly specialized but smaller-scale software company, finding an extensive toolkit of UI controls wasn’t the only consideration to be made. Like the majority of small business owners throughout any industry, Roberto had to consider budget and knew that affordability would be key.
The Solution
So, Roberto met these challenges head-on by leveraging the power and support of ComponentOne's .NET UI controls. Though, initially, the company’s journey began building Visual Basic 6.0 applications with ActiveX controls, they soon made the strategic decision to migrate to .NET Windows Forms development. This transition led them to invest in ComponentOne’s suite of controls—a decision that would dramatically streamline their development process. Through their flagship business management software, FACTUNET, Roberto was able to build a tool that was not only ideal for complete enterprise resource planning but also featured superior functionality with an elevated appearance, all within the confines of his budget.
“The initial investment was difficult to face.” Roberto continues, “I was not sure if it was worth it, but the truth is that it was a great decision.”
Tailored to the unique needs of their local market, FACTUNET is not just another run-of-the-mill business management program but is touted as a comprehensive set of services and tools, intelligently offering its users productive solutions for their own enterprises. Equipping them with capabilities to manage personnel, initiate delivery notifications, generate invoices and orders, perform accounting, and track warehouses and inventory, NetSistemas’ software is a cornerstone for many industries throughout its community.
Two components, in particular, have proven invaluable in delivering such a dynamic solution. ComponentOne's FlexGrid for WinForms is Roberto's go-to control for displaying complex data with high-quality formatting while customizing elements like color, text, and icons. Throughout this application, Roberto has implemented custom ‘color’ functions, embedded RTF controls in cells to customize the appearance of text, and much more.

To address his clients’ need to generate powerful reports with ease, Roberto utilizes ComponentOne’s FlexReport Designer. Where other reporting engines weighed down his projects, FlexReport’s lightweight approach to code-free report building was the exact solution to achieve the desired results while investing minimal development time.

When detailing his experience working with ComponentOne controls, Roberto notes that although the tools alone are impressive, what stands out the most is the attentive technical support he receives from the C1 team.
“I have been able to do all of this thanks to their support, which ALWAYS responds to me in less than 24 hours,” he further maintains, “I think this is arguably the best technical support.”
The Result
With just a single developer at the helm, NetSistemas has successfully delivered between 30 and 50 .NET applications over the past 23 years—largely thanks to the efficiency and functionality provided by ComponentOne's robust controls. Despite evaluating alternative options early on, Roberto remains loyal to these components and sees no cause to search for replacements.
“I know what you offer, and I have complete confidence,” he shares.
With ComponentOne's tools, NetSistemas can deliver sophisticated software solutions efficiently without the need for a large development team. The superior support provided by ComponentOne has been crucial in helping the company overcome technical hurdles and continue delivering exceptional software—allowing them to serve their clients in a way that would not otherwise be possible. Though Roberto admits that ComponentOne’s tools have undoubtedly saved him countless development hours, he elaborates that the value isn’t only in the time saved.
“It is not a question of the time saved, but of whether I could have done everything I have done, and the answer is ‘No.’ The results would not even be similar,” he reveals, “It’s doing much more with less time.”
While affordability may have been a primary concern in Roberto’s early decision-making, the ultimate value that ComponentOne has added to his development workflow has far surpassed the initial investment. Having a dependable toolkit of components and controls has served as a pivotal asset for a team of NetSistemas’ size.
“Over the years, I realize that it was not an expense but an effective investment,” Roberto observes—an investment that not only benefits NetSistemas but also positively impacts their clients, to whom they are providing quality development services in a timely fashion at an attractive price point. Roberto relies on the ComponentOne WinForms libraries to complete his projects—one of which includes 74 ComponentOne control libraries.
Roberto concludes, “Buying this product has been one of the best decisions I made and one that I stand by.”

About ComponentOne
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