IT PROCUREMENT
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WE WEIGH UP THE BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES OF TWO APPROACHES TO DEVELOPING IT INFRASTRUCTURE , TO UNDERSTAND THE SITUATIONS IN WHICH EACH IS APPROPRIATE
It ’ s fair to say that the ‘ buy versus build ’ debate has been thoroughly upended by the emergence of cloud software offered on a softwareas-a-service ( SaaS ) basis .
The opportunity represented by that model involves replacing capital expenditure with an operational alternative , trading expensive startup costs for a proven product on a subscription basis .
The ground is muddied somewhat by the presence of open-source
NOVEMBER 2020