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Since people often say one thing and do another, we look instead at the consensus of measurable actions sales, employee retention, vendor terms, risk management, and other outcomes of corporate governance as indicators of reputational strength and value.
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One risk management vendor reported that GPU processors had a core application speedup of 100 times.
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Only one thing will eliminate or reduce the risk of vendor lock-in in the long run: if end-user customers start demanding standardization and interoperability, just as they have in the past with on-premises applications.
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The effect is pervasive: Many internal personnel, exposed to vendor solutions for so long, may have highly risk-averse frames of reference, and will continue to recommend the same vendor solutions.
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The retailer even executes a transaction flagged off by the fraud detection vendor as possible fraud if the risk involved is small and the customer is loyal.
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For a vendor, the move to cloud is fraught with risk going from guaranteed streams of license revenue to lower-cost monthly subscription rates, for example.
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