7 Rules when choosing a commercial off-the-shelf software product(COTS)
by GemBox Birmingham Handmade JewelleryToday almost every business of every size will be using a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) product in one of their business processes. But COTS products are not necessarily appropriate for every system.
In this blog, we provide some information to help guide decisions about when commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products are an appropriate solution—and when they are not. When purchasing a COTS-based system purchasers have high expectation in terms of value and the effort required to successfully deliver that value. This makes it difficult to make the necessary decisions.
Rule 1: Find the ways in which
COTS products can help you.
Rule 2: Determine the regulatory,
statutory, and policy constraints
on your system to decide
whether they make the use of
COTS products are infeasible.
Rule 3: Establish whether your
the system is subject to extreme
performance requirements (e.g.,
security, safety, real-time) and
whether they exceed the
capabilities of the COTS
products.
Rule 4: Decide whether the
requirements and users’
business processes are flexible
enough to accommodate COTS
products.
Rule 5: Determine your ability to
leverage the marketplace.
Rule 6: If you are developing
your COTS-based system by
evolving an existing architecture,
examine that architecture for its
resiliency and its ability to keep
on evolving.
Rule 7: Generate a gross
cost/benefit analysis.
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