Appirio, shafting the global SIs

The shafting is now going the other way ...: The thing that makes it so difficult for the established SI is that some of the the major premises of SaaS/PaaS are so completely different to the classic enterprise world.

As an example in our business we like to say "easily defined, quickly built (or configured), delivered as a service, all of which bears little relation to the enterprise software world, which is mired in; business case, use case, specifications, resource allocations, coding etc. all built around a specialist person(s) for nearly every one of those tasks.

It is just a world in which they cannot compete without literally breaking the entire mold and unfortunately the mold is so big that breaking it probably kills the whole business.

It's the same reason that people have found it difficult for large software companies to create SaaS products, it is just a profoundly different operating environment where virtually every aspect of success has a different measure.

Ed Loessi
www.faulknertechnologies.com
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