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What is the practicality of asking vendor to not include a specially developed feature in their standard package offering
Having been on the other side of this, I can say the following:
This feature will require on-going maintenance, so the quote you have is most likely lowballing the actual cost to the vendor of ...
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What is the practicality of asking vendor to not include a specially developed feature in their standard package offering
On the technical side, it all depends on how integrated the desired feature is within the other features, and how extensible the package is.
If it is an isolated feature (e.g. an additional report, ...
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One resource per business object or many resources for many purposes?
I would add server side code to the server hosting your website.
Have this server side code accept the client request, call the api or apis, transform and combine the models into your view model and ...
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What is the practicality of asking vendor to not include a specially developed feature in their standard package offering
Developing a feature is expensive. Developing a feature specifically for you is very, very expensive.
The cost is the development cost, calculated in a realistic way (say £1,500 per developer day), ...
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