The most obvious advantages of going with a packaged application solution
over custom developed software are:
- faster time to market
- reduced risk of failure
- lower total cost of ownership
- packaged software typically implements established business practices
In most organizations, software development is not a core competency. With
our economy increasingly pushing business toward specialization, my guess is
that more and more companies with adopt a buy over build software
development policy.
I point you back to Mike Glendenning's excellent original post in this
thread regarding the business motivations related to software acquisition:
1) What will you do for me (the service)?
2) How will this help my business?
3) How much will it cost?
I can't imagine a company seriously considering implementing an ERP, HR, or
CRM application from scratch at this point.
Anne
On 6/18/07, Jan Algermissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday, June 18, 2007, at 12:26PM, "Mike Glendinning" <
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mikeg%40dulciana.com>> wrote:
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>The packaged applications and software infrastructure from SAP, IBM,
>Oracle et al. are already delivered with, if not based around WS-
>Everything technology.
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>To ignore this and forego the benefits of these packages would, I feel,
>be folly for most enterprises.
Umm....what exactly are the benefits of such packages?
One of the major advantages of going the Web-way is, IMHO, to *avoid* the
WS-*
complexity overhead.
Jan
>My argument really is that diversity is necessary and that you need to
>find a place for "novel" approaches as well as traditional ones. With
>an appropriate partitioning of your architecture you can achieve this
>whilst minimising the risks.
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>Regards,
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>-Mike Glendinning.
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