Today’s software systems are advancing faster than any other time in history. Each is going in different directions. The competition is not necessarily with the software company that creates and sells a specific software such as a calibration or quality management solution—the real differences are the platforms behind the scenes.
There is a war going on and it is presently being fought in the cloud and by cloud providers by both the main players like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, and many others. Each development platform offers a different pricing and billing structure and a completely different backbone and approach to programming. So the software company wanting to build an app and offer it to their clients must first buy into one of these programming systems.