"Buying vs Building Software"

Respond to the following:

· Identify the factors, other than price, an organization must consider when evaluating whether to build or buy a software package to track inventory. Of the factors you have identified, determine the most critical to consider and justify why they carry more significance than others.

· Software vendors often have scaled levels of support, depending on the purchased software package. Discuss some of the more important support features that would be required for a system that is going to be used 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by over 500,000 users per day.

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