"下面的信息来源于美国科罗拉多州的一个生物制药公司在建立研发信息系统上面的经历与经验，最终这家生物制药公司使用了一种混合模式的开发方式成功的在18个月内部署完成了药物研发的七个信息子系统，Following information comes from Array BioPharma (Boulder, Colorado, USA) for answering the question of Build Vs. Buy Vs. a Hybrid approach". Array BioPharma used a hybrid approach to develop and deploy seven major drug discovery informatics sub-systems in 18 months. Please email us at info@twist2.com for further information.

An Optimized Compromise Defined

如果您采用了内部自行开发的方式，尽管您的公司可以直接控制这个过程，拥有最后这个系统，但是这种开发方式相当的昂贵，而且失败的概率相当的大，而且需要的人力，技术资源往往是在公司的核心业务之外。统计表明超过80%的这样的内部开发最终以失败而告终，这个系统永远没有被使用或者最后使用的系统的功能远远小于项目启动时候的预期的功能。

如果您购买货架上的企业软件产品的话，您会发现，后期的费用将会很快的超过软件产品的价格，而且您的企业的运作牢牢的被这个产品的功能所锁住，随着时间的推移，弊端会越来越明显。

对于一个企业级的信息系统来说，最初的实施费用仅仅占有总体软件成本的20%，甚至更低，80%以上的软件总体成本来源于后期的维护与升级，所以怎样降低系统维护与升级费用是降低总体软件成本的最直接的方式。

"Build" can be defined as using internal resources or hired external resources to develop the software system from the beginning, performing all stages of software development including analysis, design, testing, deployment and maintenance. Larger companies tend to lean toward build solutions because they have adequate resources to undertake large projects, such as developing an entire informatics system from the ground up. By internally building software solutions, the company can directly control the process, own the resulting system. However, internally built systems also can be extremely costly, frequently fail and require a resource investment that is outside the core business focus of the company. A standish group (West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, USA) report showed that in 1994, approximately 80% of all internal software projects were challenged or failed completely. In other words, the software either delivered curtailed functionality or never delivered at all.

"Buy" can be defined as purchasing products and services from an external party to deploy, integrate and maintain a software system. Smaller companies tend to buy software systems to minimize the up-front implementation costs. Bought systems quickly yield a broad array of features but make the company beholden to the vendor for business-critical system enhancements, often requiring expensive, vendor-implemented customization. As a result, the down-stream costs of the bought system can grow while the costs of converting to a more cost-effective system remain prohibitive. Thus, companies that have bought systems can find themselves locked into a contractual arrangement that becomes less and less advantageous over time. Furthermore, a company that buys a discovery informatics infrastructure can find itself adapting to the software limitations rather than tailoring the systems to fit their growing and changing needs.

"Both" can be defined as purchasing products from an external party and using local resources to employ those products in the development and deployment of the software system.

By some estimates, 80% of software costs is incurred while maintaining it, while only 20% are in the initial implementation.

Through the Both approach, the company acquires local resources that primarily are responsible for the software needs of the company; thus, the company can exert control over those resources and set priorities accordingly. Furthermore, these benefits are acquired without also assuming all the costs of developing a system and, more importantly, without committing to long-term system maintenance costs.

In fact, by some estimates, 80% of the costs of software are incurred while maintaining the software, while only 20% of the costs are in the initial implementation. Because the costs of system maintenance are shares, a company pursuing a Both approach only will incur a subset of the maintenance costs, thereby reaping continuous benefits throughout the software system's useful life cycle.

Twist2 dedicates to provide China Local Customers high-quality software, high-quality service, fast-to-respond support and a subset of the system costs compared with oversea vendors.

双旋将用极有竞争力的价格，竭诚为中国的客户提供高质量的软件，优质的服务，快速响应的技术支持。