Software System Selection Research

Need a Quick Way to Gather Thousands of System Requirements and Build RFI’s/RFP’s?

Visit Quick-to-Use “System Requirements RFI/RFP Checklists” for:

• Accounting
• CRM
• HR
• Payroll
• HR + Payroll

System selection information

IT Proposal

• 30 reasons for changing your system
• Project scope checklist
• IT project proposal
• Proposal format
• Basic ROI calculation
• Return on investment calculator
• Maximising software project ROI
• Software project budget
• Hidden costs of acquiring new software
• Project budget template
• Proposal evaluation sheet
• Software selection acronyms

Selection process

• Key selection steps
• Stakeholder analysis form
• Project stakeholder management
• Sample project plan
• RACI matrix
• Project initiation checklist
• How not to select new software
• Critical success factors
• Software selection time saving tips
• Project issue log
• Requirements gathering techniques
• Reasons to write a good system requirements specification
• System design review
• Risk assessment form
• Risk assessment worksheet
• Using prototyping in software selection
• Project reporting form
• Software selection warning signs

RFI guidance

• Reviewing RFI responses
• RFI response comparison chart

RFP guidance

• RFP / RFI
• Most important points on RFP
• Tips for improving your RFP process
• How to avoid a poor RFP response
• RFP / RFI evaluation
• RFP scoring guidelines
• Rating criteria for rfp
• More complex RFP scoring

SLA guidance

• Tips for writing a better SLA
• SLA Metrics
• SLA Checklist

Due Diligence

• Due diligence checklist - vendor support
• Due diligence checklist for implementation methodology
• Reference site visit checklist
• Due diligence checklist - supplier financials
• Due diligence checklist - supplier personnel
• Due diligence checklist for a vendor’s software product development
• Software payment terms compared
• Making the final software decision
• Negotiating software agreements checklist

Download - Free IT proposal / software system selection tools available for download

Accounting CRM HR Payroll information

Trends

• Accounting software trends
• CRM software trends
• HR software trends
• Payroll software trends
• Cloud computing pros and cons
• Cloud computing and security
• Software vendor consolidation

Software criteria

• Accounting software criteria
• CRM software criteria
• HR software criteria
• Payroll software criteria
• Software efficiency criteria
• Software vendor criteria

Exhibitions, events, conferences,  expos - for Accounting, CRM, HR and Payroll systems

• Events in USA and Canada
• Events in the UK
• Events in Europe, Middle East and Africa
• Events in Asia and Pacific Region

Selecting software vendors

• Where to find software vendors
• Vendor selection process
• Vendor selection check sheet
• Software vendor evaluation questions
• Software vendor meeting
• Software quality checklist

Software demonstrations

• Vendor software demonstrations compared
• Software demonstration tips
• More software demo tips
• Software demonstration checklist
• How to quickly create a software demo script