As technology changes quickly, organisations often have to choose how to adopt new cloud, data or AI solutions. This means building something from scratch or buying a third-party solution off the shelf.

Each option has its benefits and drawbacks, with build options enabling customisation at the expense of time and resources, and buy options allowing fast implementation but possibly compromising on competitive advantage and reducing flexibility.

The usual choice of "build or buy" is now joined by another alternative: the use of technical accelerators.

Build or Buy: The Conventional Crossroads

In the area of technical accelerators, BJSS’s accelerator framework, is a powerful tool for transformation designed to bridge the gap between buy and build.

We see the following benefits of using accelerators:

  1. Speed to Market: Accelerators significantly reduce development time, enabling organisations to respond quickly to market changes and opportunities.
  2. Cost-Effectiveness: They offer a cost-efficient way to explore and develop use cases with demonstrable business value before all in commitment.
  3. Expertise and Innovation: The heavy lifting has already been done and access to specialised knowledge and cutting-edge technology ensures that solutions are not only current but also forward-thinking.
  4. Customisation with Guidance: Unlike off-the-shelf products, accelerators allow for tailored solutions with the benefit of expert oversight, blending the best of both build and buy models.

We have packaged our accelerators under the EXP Blueprint offer. It’s a tried and tested approach to accelerating digital transformation and drive value from data, AI, and cloud technologies. EXP Blueprints are especially useful in the early stages of significant and complex transformation initiatives as it brings a helpful structure to identify pain points, valuable initiatives, and create a robust roadmap that enable organisation to deliver value at pace.

Expertise and customisation comes in the form of our Professional Services team who lead this innovative approach, offering attractive alternatives to traditional methods.

The team has created and deployed technical accelerators in areas such as cloud platform build and management, delivering rapid data insight solutions that can help prove out a strategy in near real time, and AI production ready services, removing the uncertainty and doubt associated with the vast benefits that AI promises to deliver.

The team has invested upfront in achieving specific mission outcomes that handle the hard work involved in the build process and eliminate the uncertainty and risk from the buy process, providing a faster time to value realisation.

For example, our data accelerator blueprint, Data EXP, offers a flexible framework that eases the technical challenges of data migration and analytics. It enables organisations to show the value of data-driven solutions quickly and cost-effectively, ensuring secure and scalable integration into business processes.

Our AI accelerator blueprint, AI EXP, follows the same approach but helps the enterprise navigate the complex choices in the use and application of AI.

Our cloud accelerator blueprint, Cloud EXP, takes care of the cloud platform build process to exacting well architected standards with built in guardrails, through to operations, so the enterprise can focus on how the cloud is used to support new data or AI initiatives to improve competitive advantage.

Conclusion

As organisations navigate the complexities of digital transformation, the choice between building, buying, or leveraging technical accelerators is critical. Technical accelerators present a unique opportunity to combine the benefits of both traditional options while mitigating their respective drawbacks. With its EXP accelerator suite within the EXP Service Blueprint framework, BJSS is at the forefront of cloud deployment, data development, insight and applied AI.

Contact me for further conversation or you can find out more on the EXP Blueprint offer on the AWS Marketplace.