The Insider's Guide to Next-Generation BPM
By Eric Berridge, Co-Founder, Bluewolf , 01/15/2010
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Death of the dinosaurs
Until recently, the software consulting industry was almost entirely filled with dinosaurs. The rise of disruptive technologies, such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), has in affect, killed the dinosaurs. How?
In today's fast-paced economy, businesses must continually embrace the new value offered by next-generation network infrastructure and applications. Companies making investments into critical business process or customer relationship management (CRM) solutions must continually evaluate and fine tune their applications in order to improve their business methods.
SaaS has empowered companies, freeing them from the complications and drawbacks of custom development and bloated, expensive enterprise software packages. SaaS applications are updated at a regular, almost blinding pace to help companies increase operational efficiency. The old, traditional style of consulting, which advocates slow, methodical steps, is simply not suited to help companies manage the rapid and easy cadence of change promoted by SaaS.
By leveraging this new, agile approach, companies can ensure their business applications grow along with them and continually evolve to meet changing needs of both business and user requirements.
New evolution: the agile consulting model
The promise of next generation business applications enable companies of all sizes to utilize first-class, proven business applications, while allowing them to avoid the headaches and expenses of custom development, deployment, and management.
Yet even though SaaS solutions are dramatically more cost-effective and simple to maintain than custom or off-the-shelf software installations, many businesses have discovered that it is not sufficient to simply implement SaaS and hope for the best. Most companies find that they must perform some level of ongoing maintenance, training, and user support in order to keep pace with organizational changes, mergers and acquisitions, or evolving product/service offerings.
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