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Anyone still remembers the pearl of wisdom that a development tool which advertises to "reduces your project costs by 50%" can be nothing but a silver bullet - simply because of the fact that the act of software development only accounts for a small percentage when compared with the total costs for a project? Let's say development accounts for 30% of the project's costs, even if the tool slashes this by 50%, the whole project only saves around 15%.
Today, CNET.COM published an interview with Tom Siebel, the CEO of Siebel Systems. The funny thing is, he doesn't announce a 50% cost savings, he actually goes for a 99% savings: "It lowers the cost of application integration by probably a factor of 100. We've built a very elegant architecture that reduces the effort involved in application integration by an order of magnitude."
Isn't this brilliant? ;-)
Let's say you calculated the cost for application integration at around 2.000 person days. Using Siebel instead of your current CRM package will slash this down to 20 person days.
Hmmm ... I remember a project where we've been doing integration workshops taking several days with around 5 to 10 people in the meetings. I guess following the Siebel approach, we must have been finished before even writing the first specification as we already spent around 20 person days in the first three days of meetings.
Heck, this is great! We really should have used Siebel. ;-)
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