PeopleSoft Projects 2.0: Done “Lite”
In this thorny economy CIO’s are evidently doing some critical thinking about alternates to big bulky projects: Corporate IT done ‘lite’: open source, Web 2.0 gain appeal as budgets shrink.
CIOs are turning to cheap, lightweight tools to get the job done fast
“What’s in is “IT lite,” which includes Web 2.0 technologies and services that are cheaper and easier to implement, mix and match. It also includes software from no-name, up-and-coming vendors; open-source tools and applications; and an ever-widening variety of tools for mapping, chat and more that are available for free on the Internet.“
In my previous post on PeopleSoft Projects 2.0 my basic message was that structuring your project in an innovative way could be less risky and less costly than the standard alternative of outsourcing everything to a single large vendor. It appears that a number of CIOs are now coming to the same conclusion.
“One of the biggest reasons people are willing to go to small vendors today is, the risk associated with having a project fail is much smaller financially,” explains Barron. “With implementations involving large enterprise software vendors, a lot of times you don’t understand if you failed until you’re a year and a half into the project. Because it has so many intricacies and takes so much collaboration between IT groups, it can take four months to gear up for the project, then seven months to implement, and by then it has taken a lot of money.”
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