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Embracing the flexibility of new federal acquisition systems
Limiting your search to COTS products will exclude the new generation of systems. These highly flexible solutions technically aren’t off-the-shelf – although the platforms they are built upon are.
Federal IT failures are often caused by force-fitting commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications to make them fit government needs. This is particularly true with the acquisition and contract writing systems in use throughout the Federal government. Today, some companies have created flexible platforms for Federal acquisition and contract writing systems. The components of these platforms are: Business Process Management (BPM) Platform – These new solutions offer a codeless development environment with drag-and-drop icons to create software...
