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Application Package Implementation Success Factors

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These tips from the trenches offer valuable advice for any project team about to implement an application package.

Business Objectives

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Should you implement an application package? Will it meet your business objectives, deliver what you want, benefit your business and provide value in the process? Spell it out with this spreadsheet.

Package Evaluation Approach

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Which application packages and vendors are right for your project and how will you go about finding that out? This comprehensive list of evaluation activities and approach methods guides you through conducting the package evaluation process and choosing the finalists.

Candidate Vendor Directory

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A handy directory for cataloging and referencing application package suppliers and their product offerings.

Organizational Impact Assessment

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What impact will your project have on your organization? This assessment will help you and your stakeholders understand various types of impacts and better prepare to deal with them.

Package Evaluation Team Roles

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Defining project team roles and responsibilities ahead of time will save everyone's sanity. Here's a sample role/responsibility assignment matrix.

Package and Vendor Profile

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Here's an at-a-glance reference that itemizes what those application packages can do and how well their representative vendors stand up to your requirements.

Statement of Principles

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What is our purpose in acquiring and using an application package and what compromises are permissible? Determine the key business drivers, must-haves and tradeoffs before you begin the acquisition and implementation process. This information is critical to making a business case for a packaged application business solution.

System Scope

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This matrix will help you determine which systems and their components will be replaced, changed or impacted by the new application package.

Application Package Technical Environment

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Know the technical foundation on which you will be setting up your application package -- do a gap assessment of the existing and new technical environment.