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Does the downvoter care to explain?

I have spent a good chunk of my life explaining companies why they don't need any special hand rolled platform - leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars on the table.

I guess parroting buzzwords is always more popular in this industry.

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Managers in an organization often have more incentive to make the problems they work on look difficult, and therefore important, rather than fixing their problems quickly, cheaply, and reliably, which can make them look less valuable to leadership.

If they are professional and honest, the individual team is still the expert on the requirements, including on whether or not custom software development is needed at all.

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