What type of inventory used by software company?

Answer 1

In the infancy of the IT world its been data and the means to deliver it. Think when AOL first came out all those CD's for free install in the mail was rampant in the 1980's. A software company it's a process of servers, blades for increasing more data storage, the workstation computers, CD's and Floppies. Then came the Zip files that enabled large volume of data to be shared before the download. There was mass equipment to manufacture the CD production of data. It was boards, drive blades or internal memory to expand........

Today the need for vast space and inventory most newer developers of software are relying on independent server operators or clouds .............as today's laptops and desktops along with the internet has enabled this industry to be more lean as some are choosing to vie out of the classic CD disks but strictly downloads. App market is key example where the software development industry will go.

Only larger more established companies will have a mass inventory such as it's own servers to protect it's rights for distribution at a higher level then any upstart. This will continue as a vital function for operating systems software operation and yes will continue with some form of physical backups but most are utilizing cloud computing backup systems for their clients.

Yet still there are cheaper resources to start with mini server units as data volume is the key building tool as well as laptops and desktops for work stations. As most are creating service software as a start-up leasing data storage and then slowly intergrat to owned server operations upon client based service software.

The trend now is instead of full out right owned software diskettes of the past or bought programs per use it is all slowly moving towards pay per service or service right agreements of use operations - creating a leaner industry. Such as the apps use of pay per month agreements as more consumers are seeking flexibility and upgrades or even customization for required use. So again data storage use and maintaining variances of key foundation software is the primary inventory in fact many upstarts the key essential taxed in some regions is units of data volume compacity as many are negotiating volume of data capabilities or access agreements.

This includes seen in some app markets negotiations for restrictions of data apps per bloatware access agreements with some cell providers as well third party rate data agreements. Have seen many start-ups where the primary taxable inventory is computer (user input) additional hard drives (storage data medium) both internal and external are physical but seen the slow development to data volume (units) measures as most are using secure leased network clouds........as time goes along then it's physical units with replaceable blades and grids data analysis tools and etc pending the size of the software provider either from and individual startup to large corporate it varies. With large software firms maintaining own servers the inventory is vast with component chips, connection grids, fiber optic connectors and more..........and yes including burners for those sill demanding the cd but most are pushing consumers to generate their own data back up reboot options with either cloud or external hard drives so software manufacturing is getting ever leaner on the software developer.