Application Assembly Approach vs. Packaged Solutions

Reduced software license costs

• Open source products and components eliminate software license costs

Speed of acquisition

• It is faster to acquire the software and test it without financial commitment

Flexibility

• Assembled applications are more agile and capable of change
• Standards-based, assembled architecture facilitates upgrading at the component level as superior components emerge
• Greater ability to evolve flexibly because you can change the system and are not locked in to licensing agreements
• You do not need to fear making the wrong product selection – no license cost and standards-based components leads to a low “cost of switching”

End user efficiency and productivity

• “Best fit” solution is built according the specific needs of end users. You can architect solutions that best fit your needs rather than fitting to an architecture to reduce expensive licensing fees for middleware components.
• The solution can be adapted to the end users´ standard processes, resulting in a low training and change management effort

Reduced support and maintenance costs

• It is faster to make bug fixes and enhancements because the source code is available and vendor approval is not needed