Apr 4, 2018
Richard Neale
“Should we build or buy?” is perhaps the diamond of enterprise IT: a question with at least 57 facets, each unique to a particular organization. In the past, your company may have made build-or-buy decisions when weighing options for enterprise software suites or departmental applications. Today, as more and more organizations look to data monetization to tap new revenue streams – IDC predicts that by 2020, in over half of Global 2000 firms, revenue growth from information-based products and services will be twice the growth rate of the balance of the product/service portfolio – the question emerges anew: should you build or buy your data product?