Showing posts with label TCO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TCO. Show all posts

Friday, October 2, 2009

What are the most common issues with existing software vendors

As a professional, an employee, a business owner we all have at some point in our work used software. For enterprise software we (or the IT department) in most cases have to purchase it from a software vendor. So in your experience what are the issues in purchasing enterprise software? I have listed my personal bad experience below:
* High CAPEX and very high TCO (total cost of ownership)
* Vendor lock-in
* Only around 10% of the features and functionalities are actually used
* Users can not integrate their data and way of working to the platform
* Lack of customisability resulting to unused software
* Lack of flexibility and scalability
* Software becomes outdated once requirement changes