| Led by ERP giants Oracle, SAP, Microsoft,
and IBM, the market consolidation in the software and IT
services sectors has accelerated once again. For you, the
customer of these high-tech giants and their acquisitions,
this market consolidation can lead to a devastating investment
loss. If the giants don’t continue to develop and
improve the products of the companies they acquire—products for which you may have already invested heavily—you
could face a devastating obsolescence of a product upon
which you rely. At the very least, consolidation can mean
a real and significant increase in your maintenance budget,
putting pressure on your discretionary spending and lowering the dollars available to you for
new innovation.
This reduction in your discretionary spending results from the necessary reallocation of budget monies
from the innovation side to the maintenance side as the
larger vendors gobble up smaller vendors and sunset their
products, leaving you with some hard decisions. Will you
choose to scrap the now-obsolete product for something
new that you’ll have to pay innovation monies for,
or will you pay the increasingly expensive maintenance
costs charged by the giants to keep the product up-to-date?
Either way, you lose.
But if you have a global service provider that can temporarily
fill the product gaps with custom software and IT services
solutions, you can mitigate the loss, keep your maintenance
costs in check, and preserve your budget for innovation.
CTE is just that provider. CTE can cost-effectively manage,
support, and host your newly-procured “legacy”
applications and then support you in implementing any
new ERP implementation—thereby protecting your previous
investment and your future innovation dollars.
As a global service provider with delivery centers across
the globe, CTE can provide you the right cost resources,
as you need them. CTE, a midsize CMMi Level 5 company,
has deep process maturity to ensure that custom application
development stays on budget and on schedule. And with
its Cambridge Center of Innovation, located just off the
campus of MIT, CTE can help you transform your business
in ways that today you can’t even imagine.
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