An organisation built its own system instead of licensing one.
- $450k+
- in annual licence fees avoided
- About 4 days
- to build, on the team's first attempt
- In production
- replacing the licensed product
The situation
After a tender, the closest off-the-shelf product cost nearly half a million dollars a year and met only about 60% of the organisation's requirements.
The approach
The organisation built its own application with the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle, using a few days of one specialist's time, a laptop, and its own subject-matter experts.
The outcome
The application now does the job the licensed product was bought to do, and the organisation owns it outright.
- More than $450,000 saved every year. No licence fees, and no renewal price rises to negotiate.
- Built to its own requirements. Not the 60% an off-the-shelf product could offer, and no workarounds to cover the gap.
- Enhancements on its own timeline. A change is made and rolled out when the business needs it, not raised as a request and left waiting for a provider to maybe add it to their roadmap.
- No vendor lock-in. The organisation owns the code and its data, and decides how the system connects to everything else it runs.
- No per-user licensing. The system can be rolled out to as many people as need it, at no extra licence cost.
- Knowledge stays in-house. The organisation's own experts shaped the system, understand it, and can keep improving it.