36 items found

Page: 1 2 3 4 next>

Package Vendor Alliance Template

deliverable

Use this template for tracking your package vendor relationships.

Sample RFP for Replacing an Information System

deliverable

Is your company about to select and implement a new information system? This sample RFP, taken from real life, was originally designed to address the current and future financial, trading and distribution operations needs of a large international company dealing with foreign countries, languages and currencies. But even if you don't have a large, international business, you'll find lots of good ideas on how to write your own killer RFP.

Software Vendor Selection Criteria

deliverable

by Vyom Bhuta

How do you weed out the vendors among hundreds of products, philosophies and promises? How can you make the right choice? This template provides you with six criteria to evaluate package software vendor solutions.

An Approach to Quantitative Decision-Making: Analytical Hierarchy Process

deliverable

by Vyom Bhuta

The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a quantitative decision-making methodology that uses pair-wise comparisons to determine the importance of relative evaluation criteria and the relative strengths of decision alternatives. This document is a crash-course in AHP and is designed to help get you making difficult project decisions (particularly package software-related ones) quickly, confidentally and rationally.

Application Package Implementation Success Factors

deliverable

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

Application Package Vendor RFI

deliverable

This is not a typical request for information that goes on forever in boring text, putting you and your potential vendors in a coma. It is a useful matrix that succinctly itemizes nearly every criterion for selecting an application vendor.

Sample RM Package Vendor RFI

deliverable

Are you about to select a commercial Relationship Management application? State exactly what you need. This thoroughly constructed sample RFI to solicit application package information from vendors will save you hours of work. Modify it to suit your requirements.

Vendor Benchmarks

deliverable

How do you decide which application package vendors are suitable candidates for your project? Make sure industry and in-house benchmark standards factor into the mix.

Test Plan

deliverable

What tests do you need to perform on the new system and when before moving it into production? Here's a comprehensive test plan to help you cover all the bases and stay on schedule.

Business Objectives

deliverable

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.

Page: 1 2 3 4 next>