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Reviews to Make
Better Decisions, Faster

Accelerate and Improve Your Software Selection Process

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Software Selection Engagement

Five Advisory Calls Over a Five-Week Period to Accelerate Your Selection Process

  • Expert analyst guidance over five weeks on average to select and negotiate software
  • Save money, align stakeholders, speed up the process, and make better decisions
  • Use a repeatable, formal methodology to improve your application selection process
Week 1
1
hour
call
Weekly
Advisory
Touchpoint
Phase 1
Awareness
Week 2
1
hour
call
Weekly
Advisory
Touchpoint
Phase 2
Education & Discovery
Week 3
1
hour
call
Weekly
Advisory
Touchpoint
Phase 3
Evaluation
Week 4
1
hour
call
Weekly
Advisory
Touchpoint
Phase 4
Selection
Week 5
1
hour
call
Weekly
Advisory
Touchpoint
Phase 5
Negotiation & Configuration

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The World Has Changed. Has Your Approach to Software Selection Kept Up?

  • Explosion of SaaS Vendors and Technology Categories

    Impossible to keep up with pace of change and available options

  • Scaling Demand to Deploy Technology

    Growth of rogue and shadow IT

  • Antiquated ERP Software Selection Methods

    Long, painfully inefficient selection processes

  • Sprawling, Incompatible Software Portfolio

    Portfolio overlap, inefficiency, and support and integration costs

Accelerate and Improve Your
Software Selection Process

  • Use our tier-based selection process
  • 18-step framework to select better software, faster
  • Align stakeholders and rapidly reach a better selection outcome
  • Optimize your process to improve the outcome
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Fact-Based, Comprehensive,
Unbiased Technology Reviews

  • Use fact-based evaluation and comparison data to differentiate vendors
  • Save time from duplicating existing market research
  • Use a comprehensive data set
  • Don't rely on gut instinct, "magic," or a simple five-star rating and comment
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Better, Faster, Cheaper,
Measurably Improved
Selection Results

  • Reduce the time it takes to make a software selection decision
  • Improve application satisfaction and alignment
  • Save money from the initially quoted list price
  • Spend time on high-impact, high-value selection activities

Primary Software Selection Metrics

Selection Process
Elapsed Time

45 Days

Weeks Not Months

A simple measurement of the number of days from intake to decision

Faster

Selection & Implementation
Project Satisfaction

Measurable Results, not hidden frustation

Utilize our Project Satisfaction tool to measure stakeholder project satisfaction

Better

Application Portfolio
Satisfaction Score

Satisfaction Awareness

Utilize Application Portfolio Assessment tool to annually measure application satisfaction

Better

Dollars Saved from
Initial Quote

$100K

Hard Savings not List Price

Utilize our Contract Review Service to benchmark and optimize your technology spending

Cheaper

Insight and Data Visualization That Keeps Your Selection Team Aligned

  • Provide stakeholders with a clear selection process and graphical reports
  • Use focus groups to accelerate the selection process and build an aligned view of the marketplace
  • Save time on tedious demos and focus on key issues
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Comprehensive Software Reviews to Make Better IT Decisions

We collect and analyze the most detailed reviews on enterprise software from real users to give you an unprecedented view into the product and vendor before you buy.

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Fact-based reviews of business software from IT professionals


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Product and category reports with state of the art data visualization


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User experience insight that reveals the intangibles of working with a vendor

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Software Selection Workshops

40 Hours of Advisory Assistance Delivered Online.
Select Better Software, Faster.

  • 40 hours of expert analyst guidance
  • Project and stakeholder management assistance
  • Save money, align stakeholders, speed up the process, and make better decisions
Week 1
5 Hours
of Advisory
Assistance
Phase 1
Awareness
Week 2
10 Hours
of Advisory
Assistance
Phase 2
Education & Discovery
Week 3
10 Hours
of Advisory
Assistance
Phase 3
Evaluation
Week 4
10 Hours
of Advisory
Assistance
Phase 4
Selection
Week 5
5 Hours
of Advisory
Assistance
Phase 5
Negotiation & Configuration

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