Before You Commit to a Vendor, Consider Your Exit Strategy

Baan Alsinawi, president and founder of TalaTek

Vendor lock-in. What is it? Vendor lock-in occurs when you adopt a product or service for your business, and then find yourself locked in, unable to easily transition to a competitor's product or service. Vendor lock-in is becoming more prevalent as we migrate from legacy IT models to the plethora of sophisticated cloud services offering rapid scalability and elasticity, while fueling creativity and minimizing costs …