Have you heard of the phrase "Software Industrial Complex". Whatever the phraseology, the concept refers to the relentless pursuit of vendor lock-in and exorbitant profits made by a few Silicon Valley oligarchs and their Enterprise software packages and platforms. The Enterprise Architecture building blocks necessary to run mission critical business processes and workflows historically have been some of the most notoriously delayed, overly costly, and inflexible. Big Tech is mentioned with increased frequency these days, mostly discussed as a negative issue within politics with anti-trust attention becoming more and more pronounced. Less frequently discussed are other forms of equally detrimental competitive practices from "Big Consultancies". Together, "Big Tech" and "Big Consultancies" have a monopoly over the delivery of large software intensive systems. Ironically however, just being big doesn't translate into good outcomes. In a game of rotating chairs, the same players continually show up in the news at the center of large software program failures. Curiously, memories run short when it comes to these repeat offenders. Along with their big package vendor partners, the same crap keeps getting foisted upon large enterprises year after year.With the advent of Generative AI, this is about to drastically change. Not only is the supply chain about to be dis-intermediated, vendor lock-in is about to be broken. With the ability to create generic versions of Big Tech software packages, and the ability to install them without an army of consultants, the cash cow that is large scale software programs is about to be disrupted.
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The alure of what used to be termed "COTS - Commercial Off-The-Shelf" software is high-order reuse and therefore much shorter time-to-value at less cost. The truth is that this is the furthest from the truth. Worse, draining the moats of these behemoth vendors has been next to impossible. Just look at 1960's Cobol/CICS applications that still run more than 60% of the worlds transactional business applications. Until now that is.
With the help of a combination of Generative AI and Declarative AI, our SoftwareFactory.ai capabilities can produce "generic" Enterprise Application Software in many orders of magnitude shorter timeframes, and at a fraction of the costs. Typically the biggest impediment to such modernization has been the switching costs to rip and replace. But what if a technology could produce a replica in such a fashion that the latent costs, disruption and business risk was negligible? Wouldn't it be compelling to re-patriate your software footprint and reign in the runaway licensing and fat-cat consulting costs that deliver less than stellar results? With an entirely different software supply-chain configuration, what if you could drastically elevate the value proposition of your entire enterprise IT organization at a fraction of the cost? This is the promise of our "HyperAgility™" way-of-working.
What this represents for enterprises is the ability to embark upon large software projects with far more certainty, effectively de-risking such investments. It also represents insurance against technology obsolescence, late stage economic duress, and massive schedule overruns. SoftwareFactory.ai can radically transform your software engineering operations and yield radical productivity improvements.
What this represents for smaller software consultancies - the little guy - is a level playing field. The ability to deliver value to your customers who place trust in your hard fought relationships is now available with the force multiplier capabilities of SoftwareFactory.ai.
Continue exploring how our capabilities can be used to disrupt your competitors and deliver huge value to your customers. Start by learning why our capabilities are beyond hype, and how they are grounded in state-of-the-practice architecture principles, delivering on the promise of large-order reuse. If you come away with a sense that the capabilities of SoftwareFactory.ai are credible and trustworthy, continue to explore our new way-of-working called HyperAgility™ and the AI realization within our Advisor™ AI Platform. Contact us today to arrange for a demonstration of our industry leading strategy and capabilities. While there is quite a crowed field of startups building out IDE-centric code completion, code co-pilot and code-oriented AI Agents, we stand alone with our blue ocean strategy of applying Agentic AI to software architecture and AI-OTS large order reuse.