John Adams is the chief information officer of Global Consultants (GC), a very l

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John Adams is the chief information officer of Global Consultants (GC), a very large consulting firm with offices in more 100 countries around the world. GC is about to purchase a set of several Internet-based financial software packages that will be installed in all of their offices. There are no standards at the application layer for financial software but several software companies that sell financial software (call them group A) use one standard to enable their software to work with one another's software. However, another group of financial companies (call them group B) use a different standard. Although both groups have software packages that GC could use, GC would really prefer to buy one package from group A for one type of financial analysis and one package from group B for a different type of financial analysis. The problem is that then the two packages cannot communicate and GCs staff would end up having to type of same data into both packages. The alternative is to buy two packages from the same group—so that data could be easily shared but that would mean having to settle for second best for one of the packages. Although there have been some reports in the press about the two groups of companies working together to develop one common standard that will enable software to work together, there is no firm agreement yet. What advice would you give Adams?

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The best solution I would like to give ,a software source would stick to the actual standards of either Group (A) or(B) and attempt to negotiate the development of a new and satisfactory version of the financial analysis task considered to be not enough.

so, it would not work because no business organization could be found that would agree to develop a new version of its software or because GC would be expected to support high development costs to meet its specific need.Most of the firms are not willing to modify the software development shedule for the convinience of single client.

If no software company is going to provide the software source for the resonable cost then I would suggest that the GC to start the project of new software that will meet all the needs. The project should be done within the orgination or by taking a outsourcing organization. This is the best plan and if the new software that you developed is highly successfull for GC,it might become a marketable product for the firm.

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