Finding the Best Tools

The search for better tools has centered around an ongoing question: Do you buy the best-of-breed tools and suffer integration problems, or do you buy an integrated set of adequate tools? Do you go for the best functionality, or do you settle for something with less functionality that is easier to deploy and operate?

Current industry trends give you help in answering these questions. Considerable consolidation is occurring within the management industry. Economic difficulties are forcing smaller companies to look at being acquired as a means of ensuring survival. Larger companies may gain the advantages of faster time to market and a broader portfolio of products when they acquire a startup instead of developing new products ...

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