Once upon a time, obtaining applications in large enterprises was a straightforward affair. Users in various lines of business (LoBs) would come up with their requirements and hand them to IT. The people in IT, in turn, would analyze those requirements to make build-vs.-buy decisions.
In many cases, they would find a commercial product that partly met the needs of the business. They would purchase the application and either hire consultants or assign internal resources to modify it to meet the requirements.
In other cases, no commercial product would do, so the same consultants and/or internal developers would hand-craft a bespoke solution and deliver it to the business.
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