Comments on: So what's this "IT" thing anyway? http://www.techiteasy.org/2008/10/04/so-whats-this-it-thing-anyway/ A Technology and Business Weblog provided to You by a Global Group of Friends. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:21:26 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kari Silvennoinen http://www.techiteasy.org/2008/10/04/so-whats-this-it-thing-anyway/#comment-4165 Kari Silvennoinen Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:24:57 +0000 http://techiteasy.org/?p=1271#comment-4165 Well, the traditional wisdom is that you need consultants to customize enterprise solutions to fit a company's strategies and business processes. I think this wisdom is kept alive by consultants themselves. The reason everything is not done in the cloud is simple, companies' data is one of the most valuable or is the most valuable assets. They will not want to put that up to the cloud. Oh, and the other reason is that the only way to defend your IT business in the long run is to lock your customers in. It just doesn't make any sense for enterprise solution providers to commoditize their products. Well, the traditional wisdom is that you need consultants to customize enterprise solutions to fit a company’s strategies and business processes. I think this wisdom is kept alive by consultants themselves.

The reason everything is not done in the cloud is simple, companies’ data is one of the most valuable or is the most valuable assets. They will not want to put that up to the cloud.

Oh, and the other reason is that the only way to defend your IT business in the long run is to lock your customers in. It just doesn’t make any sense for enterprise solution providers to commoditize their products.

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