Costs, Flexibility and training are the big hurdles. Two new technical advancements are quickly changing the situation. Team members are accepting e-mail as the new mode of communication. Telephone bandwidth is being improved to make communicating over the phone lines a reality. Just as the telefax machine was adopted in the mid-eighties, the tools today are Outlook and Internet explorer are now intertwined into how we communicate.
Few companies can afford the backup power and redundancy to safely house the data.
It is difficult to support the technical staff to constantly update the systems. Users are demanding that the glitches are corrected in a timely fashion. I have been comparing them against the fuctionality of Expedition and Prolog. Recently, I have been testing systems which I am finding are the most user friendly, They are very intuitive and require fewer steps to track the important data. Ironspire s jobsite and the soon to be released Vista 2020 by Marketstreet are examples of these new tools.