Software Selection Services
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Selecting the right ERP or enterprise software for your organization can be challenging. How can you ensure you choose the best system from a vast array of options? And how do you successfully navigate the complex landscape of channel partners and systems integrators? As independent ERP selection consultants, we offer unbiased guidance backed by deep industry expertise, a rigorous approach, and extensive knowledge of the ERP market across systems and sectors.
Choosing the right software and service partners requires balancing many factors that often conflict. We have the experience to help you evaluate, compare, and select ERP and enterprise software, saving you time and money while minimizing risks. We guide you in defining clear objectives, creating a tailored due diligence plan, and evaluating both software and service providers. Our goal is to empower you to make smart technology choices that align with your unique needs and drive your business’s success.
Key tasks in the planning and selection phase include:
- Assessing business requirements
- Creating a Request for Proposal (RFP)
- Establishing ERP selection criteria
- Participating in demos and evaluations
- Offering recommendations based on your needs and system capabilities
Your business success starts with the right ERP selection. Let us help you make the right choice.
OUR DIFFERENTIATORS
We offer a unique approach backed by experience and data
Leveraging online surveys.
The traditional approach is to conduct weeks of interviews with stakeholders to understand the business. Our approach is to supplement our interviews with online surveys to collect feedback from a larger number of users to identify their unmet needs.
Analyzing business processes
Rather than conducing an exhaustive exercise in business process mapping, our current state assessment begins with business process framing to evaluate current processes, comparing them to better business practices, and understanding what the new system must do to support the future business.
Focusing on key issues
In understanding business requirements, our software selection consultants focus on differentiators: things that make your organization different from others and things that make software vendors different from one another. We use these key requirements to drive the Market Scan to identify those vendors who are the best fit.
Considering alternatives
Sometimes, the best way forward is not clear. Should an entire legacy system be replaced, or should parts of it be upgraded and extended. Is an integrated suite the best choice, or is a best-of-breed strategy recommended? Our IT strategy consultants consider multiple alternatives in Phase 1 before going on to the sourcing transaction in Phase
Getting to a short list efficiently
Many buyers make the mistake of starting their software selection projects by talking to vendors. Our software selection consultants, on the other hand, use formal proposal evaluation and vendor selection criteria, together with software selection process best practices to shorten the list of candidate vendors in a three-step qualification funnel that gets you to the right solution quickly and efficiently.
Evaluating implementation consultants as well as software vendors.
Too many software projects fail, not because the customer chooses the wrong system but because the implementation consulting firm is not qualified. Our process places as much weight on selecting the right service provider as choosing the right software vendor.
Absolute and total independence
Our software selection consultants have the independence and objectivity necessary to give unbiased advice. We sit on your side of the table only.
Our software consulting services do not end with vendor selection. With our implementation project management, organizational change management, project management governance, and process improvement services, we can continue our engagement through implementation of the chosen system employing our outsourcing governance framework.