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Absolutely sell/license the portable component. Doesn't have to be a consultancy thing (although it might have to be in the beginning). Either as a library or a
by mseebach 14y ago
Absolutely sell/license the portable component. Doesn't have to be a consultancy thing (although it might have to be in the beginning). Either as a library or as a standalone server like Solr. 99.99% of data in the world that this is relevant for (sales/revenue numbers, finance etc) is locked away and you are never, ever, going to get access to it on servers you control.
- thom 14y agoYup, you're right. Thanks everyone who's focused on this issue.
- petercooper 14y agoYeah, this is the model that I had in mind. There's a giant enterprise (and government!) market for this sort of stuff who rarely venture out into places as cool as HN ;-) (They can be tricky to sell to though given the time involved and even finding them in the first place.)
- thom 14y agoThe issue we have with that market is twofold: 1) they often have sprawling, disparate data sources, with schemas designed by deranged people in the 80s or 90s. The cleaner (and admittedly smaller) your data, the easier you can integrate, and to be honest, there's probably a hard limit at some point beyond which we couldn't provide value without doing bespoke customisation. 2) there are some fearsome competitors at the higher level of the market, who offer wider business intelligence suites. This may be fear-based thinking though.
- mseebach 14y agoIf you're not afraid, you're doing it wrong. 1) The more sprawling and disparate the data sources, the more deranged the schemas, the more money to be had making sense of it. 2) Enterprise consultancies are ripe for disruption. There exist exactly zero satistifed customers of these companies.