Once features are determined, what is the optimal mixture of new and in-house technology? Which products, tools, and technology exists that support the given requirements? What are the gaps and overlaps provided by using these products and technology? Gaps exposed by implementing the third-party products require either that the requirement be waived, or that the feature somehow be developed internally.

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Identify Internal Assets

What are the technology assets that are currently in place that may be used to develop new technology? Will you use existing designs, tools, software code and assets such as servers & databases? Reusing existing assets may have obvious cost advantages but do those assets satisfy the business requirements? The first step to answering this question is to inventory what is in place and to determine its utility. AnalysisPlus considers and weighs existing technology assets against new assets and provides a functional and financial comparisons so that purchase decisions can be made intelligently using hard data.

Identify Third-party Tools and Technologies

Who are the suppliers of products and/or technology that can provide the needed feature? For those that can, how are their capabilities different?

Gap & Overlap Analysis

Once the needs of the market segments are verified and the ability of COTS products to support those needs is determined, what mix of products support the needs of the business? To answer that question, a gap and overlap analysis is performed.