To date, many enterprises have been reluctant to adopt mobile application platforms due to vendor lock-in or missing features.

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One implication of this strategy is that it makes the lock-in to Salesforce stronger than for a packaged application.

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Since USACE was already budgetarily hard-pressed to maintain the very valuable lock and dam infrastructure and no third party would build a network for a single application, we went back to the drawing board.

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