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Picture this for your Start up company. The market potential is large, your sales targets are ambitious but doable and you’ve secured some early funding. Your business plan calls for a highly efficient, focased workforce using technology to drive through sales performace whilst minimizing costs.
Now you start the process of evaluating your technology system options and you come across a local software vendor, who appears to have some sort of solution for you. During this engagement you tell the vendor what you “beleive” are your unique requirements and he keeps on advising you that he can provide with a “customized” solution. You both get caught up in the “custom made” solution disscussion and then proceed to go ahead with authorizing the start of a project.

Sometime in the future you start to discover the following:

• You were not in operation when you finalized your requirements, so there were quite a few assumptions. Now your requirements are been refined, but your vendor cannot go back to the drawing board and start the “coding” again.
• The vendor does not really have the skills or experience to actually write an application that can get you up and running.
• The tools that the vendor uses are obsolete and in some cases even discontinued by the tools developer.
• The vendor builds software but does not have the project management experience or methodology to actually implement the software in an organization.

If you are a small start up company with limited capital you certainly cannot afford a slow, painful and chaotic implementation from a local vendor custome made software solution. There are some excellent “off the shelf’ packaged software systems, eg.Dynamics GP, which can, with a little bit of effort take you far beyond what any local software vendor can provide.