Your Guide to Enterprise Software Selection: Part Two
Bill Carson - December 28, 2007

How to Assess and Evaluate Software

The output from Phase 1 is a detailed list of functional requirements. Phase 2 covers the assessment and evaluation of all available solutions on the market. Solutions should be compared on a level playing field so that decisions can be made intelligently and fairly. This also means that all the vendors you’re considering can clearly understand the functionality required and respond accordingly. The following steps will describe Technology Evaluation Centers’ (TEC’s) methodology for software assessment and evaluation, and the ideal way of selecting two or three of the best solutions for the final assessment. At this point, a selection team should be appointed by management, comprised of key members of the project team...