DECISION GUIDES

Each guide opens with the decision rule, then the evidence. Where the honest answer is 'it depends', we say on what - and where one option is usually right, we say that too.

01

CDP vs Data Catalog

Catalog first if the pain is trust/findability; CDP first only if the pain is specifically a fragmented customer view.

02

Build vs Buy - AI agent platform

Buy the governance plane; build the agents that encode your edge.

03

Rewrite vs Strangler-fig

Strangle by default; full rewrites only for genuinely end-of-life runtimes with small, well-specified scope.

04

Kubernetes vs simpler platforms

K8s pays at fleet scale and multi-team topology; below that, managed containers/serverless win on ops burden.

05

RPA vs API integration

RPA is a bridge for API-less systems with an explicit replacement plan - never the destination architecture.

06

Off-the-shelf ERP vs custom build

Product core for commodity processes, custom modules where you actually differentiate - hybrids win.

07

ERP migrate vs replace

Strangle the living core when it still closes books; full replace only when the platform path is end-of-life and scope is provably bounded.

08

Cloud rehost vs re-architect

Rehost low-change systems for speed; re-architect high-change or cost-sensitive workloads - mix both in one waved program with FinOps from day one.