Estimating the Cost & Schedule of Packaged Software Deployments

Packages (such as ERP systems, payroll systems, etc) can be great cost savings to organizations, offloading most of the development and maintenance.  But they are not a panacea and many deployments fail.  About two thirds of the cost of a large package deployment is not the software itself, but the IT infrastructure and other services.  SEER for IT covers all those other two thirds of the cost along with SEER for Software (SEER-SEM) which  handles all the software development and COTS cognition associated with such a program.  Thus a complete package deployment can be estimated, planned and controlled.

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