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We have over 30 years' experience each in consulting on and designing many hundreds of projects for business clients - liaising with 3rd parties and managing the deployment and testing of systems, typically developing bespoke / customised software components, integrating major packages and datasets, and providing the training, procedures development, and support required for success.
We have over 30 years' experience each in consulting on and designing many hundreds of projects for business clients - liaising with 3rd parties and managing the deployment and testing of systems, typically developing bespoke / customised software components, and providing the training, procedures development, and support required for success.
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Maximising the lifetime of the system provides return over a longer period.\\
Minimising the cost of change lengthens the lifespan and minimises maintenance costs.\\
Minimising the cost of change allows you to start with a small working system,\\
responding to requirements and feedback in steps towards the ultimate goal.\\ \\
Maximising the lifetime of the system provides return over a longer period and minimising the cost of incremental change lengthens the lifespan and minimises maintenance costs.
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The issues with platform evolution (changes to the stack over time) and eventual end of life are critical to tackle if you want to maximise return on investment in business systems software.
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The service lifetime of a software program depends on:
The issues with platform evolution (changes to the stack over time) and eventual end of life are critical to tackle if you want to maximise return on investment in business systems software. All software will eventually see its last user.
The length of time it takes to get there depends on:
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\\If you do it right, it is possible to avoid the trap that most software falls afoul of - the inability to adapt. \\ \\Requirements change constantly. Software has to keep up or it has to be replaced.
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If the future maintenance of the system is of lower priority than features, the costs per adaptation increases exponentially over the software's lifetime, until the software cannot be economically adapted and must be replaced (the end of returns on that investment).
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If you do it right, it is possible to avoid the trap that most software falls foul of - the inability to adapt. Requirements change constantly. Software has to keep up or it has to be replaced. If the future maintenance of the system is of lower priority than features, the costs per adaptation increases exponentially over time, until the software cannot be economically adapted and must be replaced.
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