Solutions significantly customized out of necessity can become too expensive and untenable to maintain impeding the viability of the agency to achieve a sustainable lifetime ownership model.

COTS+ Solutions like our POSSE PLS Solution are the best of both worlds, providing the off-the-shelf feature maturity of a traditional COTS product with the underlying configuration flexibility of custom-built software. For all but the most complex software implementations, a COTS+ solution like POSSE PLS works elegantly to maintain cost- efficiency throughout its entire lifecycle, avoiding the precipitous spike of traditional COTS solutions lacking underlying configuration flexibility, while also tracking as significantly more efficient than cost-prohibitive custom-built solutions. For more information, refer to the article, How COTS+ Solves the ‘Buy vs Build’ Conundrum.