Many commentators compare the current state of IT to the latter days of the Industrial Revolution.
Even up to the first quarter of the 20th century, to generate electrical power for industrial processing, factory owners would have to build their own power plants because mass generation and efficient distribution of electricity had not been developed.
Once commercial-grade generation and distribution became widely available, it became more cost-efficient to purchase electricity from the local generating company than to build and maintain an internal power plant.
For the last fifty years, companies of all sizes have been building their own IT power plants because there was no efficient and cost-effective alternative. If a company wanted to run multi-user applications such as accounting and inventory systems, an internal IT power plant was the only answer.
Frequently this meant buying hardware that needed frequent replenishment and software that required the company to employ specialist IT technologists who spoke in jargon. This added a great deal of cost and complexity.
The catalyst for the move from local to distributed electrical power was the development of AC power which made possible the development of large electricity generating plants sited long distances from customers.
Similarly the development of a fast, affordable, public, secure and standards-based computer network is the catalyst for the death of IT power plants. The network in question is called the Internet.
Now companies of all shapes and sizes can buy all the computing power and applications that they need from a new breed of IT distribution companies who use the Internet to supply customers with world class computing resources. For many companies, the only investment that they will need to make in IT is a laptop and a standard Internet browser. No more expensive, noisy, maintenance intensive hardware. No more expensive licensed software to buy and track. No more expensive geeks sitting in darkened rooms.
SalesAgility.com, located in Denny, central Scotland, specialising in Sales Force Automation and Customer Relationship Management, is one such specialist IT distribution company.
Greg Soper, md, said, ?We offer the Perfect Storm for customers. It's the end of IT as we know it. No software, no maintenance and hugely reduced budget requirements. We deliver world-class, award-winning software to our customers and back that up with dedicated support services. And the icing on the cake is that because our solution is open source, it delivers functionality that was previously only affordable by the largest companies, at a price that is completely affordable by the smallest of companies.?
SalesAgility.com are Alliance Partners for SugarCRM, the world?s largest commercial Open Source CRM company.
SalesAgility.com Limited, based in Denny, central Scotland, is an IT company providing professional services to public and private sector clients. The company has particular expertise in Sales Force Automation and Customer Relationship Management applications and technical expertise in Open Source tools and solutions, especially PHP, MySQL, SugarCRM, Joomla and Linux.
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