Advantages of end user development software?


 Advantages
  • Frees IS resources for higher priority projects
  • May help reduce the hidden backlog
  • Faster design/implementation cycle
  • More acceptable to users
  • Reduces communications problems between users and IS
  • Encourages innovation and creative solutions
Disadvantages
  • Duplication or effort and waste of resources
  • Greatly increased costs
  • Loss of control over data
  • Loss of control of quality in both programs and data
  • Incompatibles prevent sharing
  • Can be used to circumvent control processes, such as the steering committee
  • Generally produces narrow, inflexible systems with short lives

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