While mature, enterprise-grade configurable software packages are solutions of choice for typical usage scenarios of global, international companies, especially in the context of ERP, F&C and corrsesponding functions, on many occassions it is evident that dedicated software solution model is often more adequate within certain scenarios and processes (for example: specific to certain market or trade). It allows organization to mitigate high license costs, IPR issues and solution design lock-up where system requirements change over time.
While considering an investment, IT decision makers could and should take into considerations the following aspects of implementation business case:
- Implementation & deployment time
- Initial deployment cost
- Initial licensing cost
- 3/5 year full TCO including direct and indirect costs
- Flexibility/ease and time required to implement customizations
- Availability/scarcity & cost of technology on the market
- Cost of organization alignment
- Degree of requirements coverage (consulting stadies that is not effective to deploy product solution if does not cover at least 85% of major critical requirements due to expotentially growing customization costs)
- Requiremenst for application availability and resillience
- Alignment of IT infrastructure
- Number of concurrent/total users and usage profile (global/local/remote/mobile access)
- Solution maturity
