Beyond Whiteboarding: Creating Expert System Architecture Diagrams

Re:Beyond Whiteboarding: Creating Expert System Architecture... by tda on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @09:55AM (#29094572)

Yay, 13USD x team size to keep a simple architecture diagram up to date. Enterprises are rich, I get it, but tools like this should cost max 0.50USD/user/month. Or even better, someone should bundle several tens of these kind of tools and sell them for a single enterprise license. Effectively that is what M$ is doing of course, it offers all of github/devops/azure in a single subscription, so that is what I get to use.

Even though I might prefer pivotal tracker or zenhub, codecov, readthedocs or whatever, no way I am going through the hassle of getting all these 5-15/USD/user/month services paid for one by one. But if they were all bundled in a single subscription I might reconsider

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Re:Beyond Whiteboarding: Creating Expert System Architecture... by fnord123 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @10:15AM (#29094883)

> someone should bundle sever tens of these kind of tools and sell them for a single enterprise license

Yes. Humble Startup Bundle is a startup waiting to be started and explode.

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Re:Beyond Whiteboarding: Creating Expert System Architecture... by handrous on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @02:15PM (#29098378)

I think that'd be hard to navigate, as far as negotiating with the services you're re-selling. For one thing, they're services, not one-off purchases, so it requires an ongoing relationship. For another, lots of these companies' paths to profitability (well, actually selling out to a BigCo, but whatever) hinges on "owning" the user to steer them into future products, or, for the ones that aren't doing that, they'd have to fear getting edged out by other bundled services applying that tactic against their product.

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