Factors impacting whether to develop or acquire a system include;
• The date the system needs to be functional
• The cost to develop the system as opposed to buying it
• The resources, staff (availability and skill sets) and hardware
required to develop the system or implement a vendor solution
* In a vendor system, the license characteristics (e.g., yearly
renewal, perpetual) and maintenance costs
• The other systems needing to supply information to or use
information from the vendor system that will need the ability to
interface with the system
• Compatibility with strategic business plans
• Compatibility with the organizationIs IT infrastructure
* Likely fiittu-e requirements for changes to functionality offered
by the system