When is it beneficial to be a late adopter of a new technology?
Chief Information Officer in Manufacturing, 10,001+ employees
It comes down to the needs of the business whether early adoption of an innovative technology makes sense. I've usually waited for the first SP to be released before early adoption to catch the major bugs before adoption. Director of IT in Software, 201 - 500 employees
You can learn from the mistakes of others, especially with implementation and configuration. There will likely be more use cases and best practices available. The technology will be more mature, and you will be in a more stable version, there will be more MSPs and partners that can help you in the implementation or day-to-day administration.Content you might like
Always12%
Often56%
Sometimes23%
Rarely5%
Never4%
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CTO in Software, 201 - 500 employees
Without a doubt - Technical Debt! It's a ball and chain that creates an ever increasing drag on any organization, stifles innovation, and prevents transformation.Very likely6%
Likely63%
Moderately likely20%
Moderately unlikely5%
Unlikely4%
Very unlikely1%
Unsure1%
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Director Global Network / Security Architecture and Automation in Finance (non-banking), 10,001+ employees
Nothing ever dies in Enterprise. Why did Broadcom Software buy Symantec and VMWare, why did SDX Central post a story today about MPLS and how it lives on. Why is the hot news about cloud repatriation becuase a terrible app ...read more
We quickly worked out that, to some extent, there are benefits to moving to cloud, but software as a service (SaaS) and the subscription-based business model is also a money grab. So we actively pushed back, consolidated our own data centers, waited for five years and didn't go cloud. That was a huge help to us because we were not locked into subscription-based contracts that were growing 15% to 20% annually.