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Article: Affordable Software: The Rise of Application Hosting and Application Service Providers.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Government Finance Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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Organizations spend roughly $17 billion on the implementation of new packaged software applications each year, and 80 percent of those costs come after the purchase of the software.
The price of implementation, in addition to other factors like shortages of the IT workers needed for implementation, often prohibits many small and medium-sized governments from utilizing enterprise technologies altogether. Large governments that can afford the applications often find themselves focusing on the technology to such lengths that their core business products and functions are neglected. In short, the costs of these applications are often prohibitive and can have adverse ...