Indeed. Standardizing certain components may reduce some potential innovation, however I've long thought that the public sector would be better off buying modular systems with well-defined interfaces rather than the behemoths do-it-all oh-so-often fail.
At work we're a small team, providing a B2B application to perform a small, but very important task for our customers. We integrate with tons of other systems, at our largest customer we talk to 30 other systems. We're highly specialized and we rely on being good at exchanging data with other systems that are good at what they do.
This allows us to innovate and provide great value for our niche, while the other systems can focus on getting better at what they do, rather than implementing a half-assed solution because it's not their core focus.
At work we're a small team, providing a B2B application to perform a small, but very important task for our customers. We integrate with tons of other systems, at our largest customer we talk to 30 other systems. We're highly specialized and we rely on being good at exchanging data with other systems that are good at what they do.
This allows us to innovate and provide great value for our niche, while the other systems can focus on getting better at what they do, rather than implementing a half-assed solution because it's not their core focus.