That's fine so long as the money flows nice, but if/when things get tougher, they will have to scramble to find a solution.
There's 2 sides to this business -- the technical/development side, and the business side. The business side should very much care about not wasting money unnecessarily, even during the good times.
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But it's not just about saving money -- the company has almost zero flexibility when using all 3rd party solutions. If a vendor pushes an update tomorrow and it radically changes the product and causes a large disruption (it happens), or a vendor goes under tomorrow, or [insert dooms-day scenario here], the company will be left scrambling.
Using 3rd party services also forces the company to build business routines/practices around their current inflexible environment -- so if they do have to switch vendors at some point, they will have to likely reinvent business routines/practices too. For some companies/services, that is not a problem -- for others, well, some companies have gone under during major core software changes (imagine your warehouse management system having to change suddenly and unexpectedly).
Just like software engineers try to minimize external dependencies unless the dependency is absolutely necessary -- businesses should too.
There's 2 sides to this business -- the technical/development side, and the business side. The business side should very much care about not wasting money unnecessarily, even during the good times.
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But it's not just about saving money -- the company has almost zero flexibility when using all 3rd party solutions. If a vendor pushes an update tomorrow and it radically changes the product and causes a large disruption (it happens), or a vendor goes under tomorrow, or [insert dooms-day scenario here], the company will be left scrambling.
Using 3rd party services also forces the company to build business routines/practices around their current inflexible environment -- so if they do have to switch vendors at some point, they will have to likely reinvent business routines/practices too. For some companies/services, that is not a problem -- for others, well, some companies have gone under during major core software changes (imagine your warehouse management system having to change suddenly and unexpectedly).
Just like software engineers try to minimize external dependencies unless the dependency is absolutely necessary -- businesses should too.