Stuart Barr analyses the growing trend for organisations
to select cloud-based off-the-shelf systems instead of building their
own in-house solutions.
In these tricky economic times with downward pressure on internal budgets, alternative fee-arrangements and an expectation from clients to deliver ever more value, there are difficult decisions to be made about the best way to provide new client facing services. This inevitably involves technology and needs to be put in place quickly and efficiently.
Until fairly recently, the installation of new systems has required an army of developers, system administrators, additional data centres, a long lead time and large budgets to build and run applications in-house. Now off the shelf cloud-based software offers a real alternative that has some potentially massive advantages read more.
In these tricky economic times with downward pressure on internal budgets, alternative fee-arrangements and an expectation from clients to deliver ever more value, there are difficult decisions to be made about the best way to provide new client facing services. This inevitably involves technology and needs to be put in place quickly and efficiently.
Until fairly recently, the installation of new systems has required an army of developers, system administrators, additional data centres, a long lead time and large budgets to build and run applications in-house. Now off the shelf cloud-based software offers a real alternative that has some potentially massive advantages read more.
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