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by fluxit

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Many companies are adopting the approach of not coding anything. They cite that for years they operated without coding why must they start now. They state that everything must be off the shelf and canned.

Yet Spreadsheets, Databases, and data mining tools such as Crystal Reports or Monarch require some understanding of coding and data structures.

Business managers refuse to learn the tools and reject perfectly good packages because they have no desire to learn these things. They want things handed to them on a silver platter or feed to them with a silver spoon.

What are IT people to do? How can these packages become useful if no one wants to learn and the IT people become over burdened with other peoples work?

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by http://stobie.home.sprynet.com/work/

Many off the shelf products, except things such as Spreadsheets, word processing, drawing, actually require more IT resources to integrate across the enterprise and keep functioning. Most of these products use proprietary and unflexible databases creating an integration nightmare and when implemented, are lacking functionally.

They appeal to the some users for the pretty GUI's, and the users do not understand the integration effort or that to get the functions they need integrated with the enterprise more will be spent with the off-the-shelf product than would have been with internal development.

by fluxit

Is that many workers choose not to advance thier technology skills and burden IT with doing the job they should be learning to do.

A business manager should learn how to code a spreadsheet or understand data structures to use crystal reports. It is important that they be able to generate thier own reports and organize information in newer ways without asking someone to do it for them. Afterall they learn these tools in college but fail to implement them on the job.

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