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Enterprise Software: Not for Me!

By Dick Weisinger

Forrester Research is recommending that customers ditch any software labeled as ‘enterprise’.  Why?  Software bloat and myriads of features that many customers don’t use.  Not only that, Forrester says that brand-name software from big vendors is often overpriced and overly complex.

Part of the problem has come about because of the recent wave of software vendor mergers and consolidation.  Vendors often try to meld multiple products together that came from different roots and that were developed with very different styles and approaches.  The resultant new app may have features, but can be burdened with twists and quirks that were made to make the underlying software work together.

As vendors add ever more features to their products, there is also a tendency to lose focus on the original intent of the software product.
Forrester says vendors should consider adopting agile development methods and be more focused in delivering smaller and meaner apps.

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