Posts Tagged ‘point solutions’

Raul Valdes-Perez

Why Point Solutions Miss the Point

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

I believe that some purchasers of enterprise search are making a mistake, understandable as it may be, which they don’t make in other purchasing decisions: they go for point solutions which will prove inadequate soon after deployment.

A point solution solves an immediate, specific need. Now, what could be wrong with that??

Let’s consider point solutions in daily life that few people would find satisfactory:

  • Starting work at a company that will go out of business shortly.
  • Buying a thumb drive that only stores 5Mb because it will store your current PPT presentation. But it won’t store three of them.