CMO COMPLIANCE™ versus Custom, In-House Solutions
(Toebreaker August 2008)

Developing a custom solution in-house requires a great deal of investment, company resources and management time, and will imply high associated costs such as research & development costs, building the IT infrastructure, implementation & application costs, user training costs, and host server & storage costs. The ongoing cost for support, including software updates and maintenance, is the most costly part of developing a custom solution in-house, and according to Gartner, Inc., five years of maintenance and support can result in costs as high as, or higher than, the original license fees for software products such as CMO COMPLIANCE™.

The price of CMO COMPLIANCE™, the Leading Audit, Risk & Compliance Software solution, includes configuration, implementation, maintenance, support & training, and hence enables organisations to significantly reduce costs associated with these aspects in comparison to developing a custom solution in-house.

CMO COMPLIANCE™ will add value instantly to your organisation in terms of the complete solution that it brings - something that would require a great amount of resources/investment for organisations to replicate.

According to IBM, developing in-house custom solutions can involve a high level of risk, since they are new solutions and hence have not been previously tested, making them more difficult to manage and typically will not evolve with global best practise.