Key Concept Archive
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How to Evaluate a Vendor
Unless you've done a full discovery process, generic vendor-provided survey/ROI reports are fairly meaningless. One of the ways that I've found to really learn about a product is to try to get enough funding to take one of the vendor's…
- Key Concepts: best practices, single-sourcing, techcomm tools
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Avoiding Vendor Lock-in
The goal of object-oriented tool development is to avoid vendor lock-in. Lock-in is not determined by the cost of the application but by the method of its implementation. The level of integrated customization determines the level of vendor lock-in. One-of-a-kind…
- Key Concepts: best practices, techcomm tools
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Tight-vs-Loose Integration
Updated: 2017 I started working with XML and single-sourcing systems in 1999. Although both SGML and XML had been around a long time, vendors were still figuring out a lot about how the overall process should work because every implementation…
- Key Concepts: best practices, single-sourcing, techcomm tools
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