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Software Selection

Understanding market, licensing, risks and requirements to select appropriate business software.

Pemrose adopt an industry standard model for the identifcation and selection of appropriate business software to meet your requirements :-
  • Identify critical success factors - weighted priorities for what the system "must-be-able-to" and "would-be-nice-if-it-could" achieve.
  • Managing risks and understanding budget, platform, infrastructure, cultural and deployment contraints.
  • Modelling business processes on paper and improving or adapting to suit an automated or managed system. If it can't work on paper, it won't work as a computerized system.
  • Getting employee involvement - the insight and low-level understanding of those who will utilize the system is often more valuable than a high-level understanding of the challenge to be solved.
  • Both employees and management must "buy-in" to the concept of the system and approve its role within the organization.
  • Identifying and ratifying vendors who provide solutions to the challenge. Understanding the marketplace they operate in (vertical - specific industry or horizontal - generic solutions).
  • Demonstrations, training and hands-on experience with the solutions available.
  • Assess and compare solutions to identify which most closely meet your critical success factors.
  • Is this a software solution or platform you're buying into? Can it be customised?
  • Understand the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) - how are the licenses charged? Are they perpetual? Purchased in blocks? Can the solution scale easily and affordably with growth? Does it depend on other software solutions that must be purchased (eg database engines)?
  • Negotiate price. It's ALWAYS flexible since there are many vendors to choose from!

Our Consultants can help you manage the change when selecting new software for use in your organization. We have experience with a wide range of vendors and will help to create a management plan or project manage the entire process to ensure successful delivery or an appropriate software solution.

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