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What incentives lead companies to adopt heavyweight, vendor-specific platforms for core business functions... and then outsource all the operation and support o
by ethbr1 2y ago
What incentives lead companies to adopt heavyweight, vendor-specific platforms for core business functions... and then outsource all the operation and support of it?
I've seen this with a ton of Salesforce/adjacent platforms, and it's always confused me.
For something that critical, doesn't it make sense to have inhouse expertise?
- theandrewbailey 2y agoFor most companies, there are in-house people there who are trained on the vendor specific platform, and understand (at least at a high-level) how it works. When they want to make big changes, they start talking to their partners/outsourcing companies about it, so that they, themselves, won't have to hire more people just for this one project. (afterwards, what will they be doing?)
- delfinom 2y ago>“The reason most enterprise software is so expensive is because it takes so many steak dinners to put it in your hand,” Shopify Chief Operating Officer Kaz Nejatian said in an interview. This is why. "Lobbying" aka "business dinners" aka "kickbacks" and more.