Make smarter software decisions
faster with our Vendor Application Software Evaluation & Selection
Playbook. This comprehensive playbook provides 80+ customizable templates,
content guides, and digital assets designed to streamline your vendor selection
process.
One example is the Chart Momentum
Matrix, a customer experience framework that helps your team assess if
existing vendor customers are experiencing service improvements. The Momentum
Matrix also generates a Momentum Score, directly measuring the
proportion of satisfied customers and those seeing improvements.
What the Playbook Offers
The Playbook is your essential tool
to jumpstart your vendor software decision process:
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80+ Assets: Get access to over 80 Excel
templates, content guides, and digital assets.
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80/20 Framework: We provide 80% of the
evaluation and selection framework, allowing you to easily add the
remaining 20% that's unique to your project.
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Time and Cost Savings: Save hundreds of hours and
optimize your vendor investment decisions.
Playbook Structure
Initiation
Prepare your project for success by defining its
mission, organization, milestones, guiding principles, draft scoring methods,
and management processes.
Diligence
Research vendor software,
focusing on your vital needs. Network with peer organizations and
customers of target vendors to measure their satisfaction. Finalize vendor
minimums, evaluation processes, question design, and scoring methods. Narrow your vendor pool to the most viable solutions.
Scoring Process
Enter your scoring basis, decision factors and weights, question
weights, and question scoring scale into a robust scoring model.
Solution Needs Brief-RFP
Collaborate with your
Procurement team to create a comprehensive Brief or Request for Proposal
(RFP). Develop questionnaires to gather essential vendor information,
including technical, infrastructure, and security capabilities, vendor and third party profiles, vital solution needs, and total cost of ownership including one-time and
recurring solution costs.
Evaluation & Selection
Prepare and conduct agile
evaluation and negotiation summits for each vendor. Alternatively, you can
follow a more traditional evaluation process by stage, encompassing
proposal reviews, interview-demos, customer references, sandbox demos,
field visits, final recommendations, and negotiations.
Resources
Leverage AI, advanced search
criteria, digital assets, and other methods and techniques to accelerate
your project outcomes.
The Vendor Application Software Evaluation & Selection Playbook, created by Prosultant.com, Inc., is considered copyrighted works under the United States and other copyright laws and is the property of Prosultant.com, Inc.