Taybridge Consulting

Selecting software to perform a business requirement can be a daunting and challenging task. It can also be expensive.

It used to be that no one was fired for buying IBM and then more recently no one was fired for selecting Microsoft. Those days are changing, especially with the abundance of Open source products and Cloud Computing and Software as a Service or SaaS, not to be confused with airlines from Scandinavia.

Microsoft Windows and Office still dominate the workplace and represent the majority of the profits for the Redmond based firm. The Apple platform: Mac, iPhones and iPad are making Apple a very worthwhile replacement for those old Dell and HP machines. With MS Office for MAC the days of file interchange problems are long gone. The power and quality of Google Docs is tempting more and more customers away from Office.

You need to consider the options open to you.

Have you upgraded to Windows 7? Are you moving to Office 2010? Have you looked at SharePoint for Document Management?

Should you upgrade to Microsoft Exchange Server 2011 or have you considered outsourcing Email to a hosting company. Or even have you considered in Microsoft is still the best horse in town. Other vendors such as Google have compelling products that compete directly with MS Office and are available as hosted solutions at attractive price levels.

The open source solutions are increasing in sophistication, just look at WordPress or Joomla and Apache for blogs and websites and point solutions such as Alfresco for Document Management.

Taybridge has experience in vendor and product selection and helps clients develop and implement strategic IT plans.