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Balancing build vs buy decisions in a post-boom world

The question of whether to build software in-house or rely on third-party vendors is more fraught than ever, as budgets come under scrutiny and internal teams get stretched after waves of layoffs.
October 12, 2023

The question of whether to build software in-house or rely on third-party vendors is more fraught than ever, as budgets come under scrutiny and internal teams get stretched after waves of layoffs.

Powering every corporation is a suite of enterprise software applications, from off-the-shelf staples like Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop, to highly specialized homegrown solutions.

As the software industry has grown to “eat the world”, more and more vendors aim to offer solutions to a wide variety of business requirements, reducing the need for cumbersome bespoke software, but that doesn’t mean the world’s biggest companies don’t still run on their own applications.

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