Standardizing implementations

20. August 2009 by admin.

In the quest to cut implementation costs, some IT vendors are coming up with standardized solutions.  However “standardized solution” is just another name for the con-game that SAP foisted on the unsuspecting - “world’s best practice”.  What is world’s best practice?  Sorry, that’s not the real question.  The real question is “What isn’t world’s best practice” and the answer to that is “Whatever our software lacks in functionality”.  However, vendors mean well (as my mother used to retort, “So did Adolph Hitler”) and they’re forever seeking ways to appear to reduce the implementation pain so you’ll buy their software.

The latest to join in is Computer Associates (CA).  As part of its larger Lean IT strategy, CA is rolling out 17 new and upgraded Standardized Services designed to make the deployment and implementation of CA software projects easier, faster and more efficient. CA offers more than 70 such Standardized Services, which offer repeatable methods for implementation, which lead to faster ROI and greater IT value, according to CA officials. The new services touch on such areas as application performance management, infrastructure management and mainframes.

Not, you will notice, complex software like utility billing.

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