What does the 'Enterprise Ready' mean?

Question

What do you mean by saying that something is 'Enterprise Ready'?

Answer 1

Depends where it's coming from. If its a vendor than it generally means "We haven't tested this in an environment anywhere near as large and complex as yours but we are crossing our fingers and hoping it will scale to your requirements". If it comes from your own IT department it generally means "We've tested this as much as we can in a few of our qa environments and it didn't completely blow up. We would like to test it in your production environment please"

Answer 2

Enterprise Ready, in my interpretation which lies far from experienced with a project that claims it, is a marketing lingo for saying that software is robust enough to be deployed to a large environment: hundreds, thousands, or hundreds of thousands of users. This also includes the ability to support a large user base so that the software is does not disrupt business [for long] in the event that something is not right.

Ultimately, I think it's a buzz word to provide entry into markets with large corporations and increase the cost associated with a product.

Answer 3

Normally it means that it is expensive.

On a more serious note:

• Secure
• Scalable
• Stable
• easy to run in production

Answer 4

There is no "industry standard" definition for this phrase. For my money, it is a null-phrase used by marketers to impress the easily impressed.