Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Software Solution

Innovation and technology are inextricably linked in modern enterprises.  Unfortunately, all-too-common siloed, home-grown, and inflexible legacy systems do not provide the agility that social services organizations require to drive innovation by quickly adapting or introducing new processes and redeploying resources.

Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions specifically designed for social enterprises provide a proven technology roadmap that allows organizations to align policy objectives to technology initiatives.

These COTS solutions provide all of the benefits of more “traditional” COTS solutions for financial management, human resources, and supply chain management, but also support the unique business processes commonly found in social enterprises.  Since these modern solutions require significantly less customization than legacy systems, they speed time to value and offer lower IT management costs and burden moving forward.

The Value of COTS

  • Low risk solution deployment – Delivers common, best-practice functionality and leverages proven implementation methodologies
  • Low Cost – Significantly reduces development efforts, enabling customers to focus on tailored extensions to meet their unique business requirements
  • Inherent Best Practices – Incorporates the knowledge obtained by working on dozens of social enterprise solution implementations  

 

Why Cúram COTS Solutions?

Cúram’s COTS enterprise solutions incorporate an extensive and industry-proven set of best practices, business processes, and service delivery models from social enterprises worldwide.  The Cúram solution deliver industry-specific business and technology components built on a modular enterprise architecture that provide agencies with deep functionality and fast, flexible deployment without limiting them to a specific systems integration partner or technology platform.  

Cúram is the acknowledged leader for Social Enterprise Management (SEM) software:

  • Cúram consistently supports the largest SEM R&D investment in the industry
  • More than 60 implementations globally representing over 100 different social and employment programs
  • Offers the most flexible deployment options available by a COTS application including SI independence, technology independence, and phased implementation approaches to meet the unique needs of each organization

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“The benefits of having selected a COTS system were immediately realized. There was an enormous amount of back and forth and reworking to accommodate government standards that would drive outcomes-based transformation. If we had decided to build a custom system, it would have been impossible to keep up with the rapid evolution. We needed tremendous flexibility, and we got it with Cúram.”

Jeanette Lewis, Executive Director, OACAS