Software Selection Services for Public Sector and Large Enterprises

Public sector organizations and large multinational enterprises are under constant pressure to improve efficiency while providing greater accountability and transparency. These organizations need to ensure that their software selection projects are justifiable, cost-effective, auditable, and compliant with local, national, and international regulatory and safety standards.

TEC offers self-directed and analyst-supported software selection services that can help your organization

• accurately compare enterprise software solutions
• adapt our best-practice software selection methodology to your existing procurement processes
• offer clear financial justifications for enterprise software expenditures
• shorten your project timelines and streamline your budgeting processes
• ensure regulatory compliance
• maintain a clear audit trail for your software purchase decisions

Subscribe to the TEC Research Portal

TEC's Research Portals are designed to help large organizations conduct ongoing, self-directed research, evaluation, and software selection projects in order to streamline operations, reduce costs, and phase out redundant or underused technology.

A one-year subscription gives you access to our vast knowledge bases and our online decision support software, eBestMatch^TM.

Your subscription includes:

• A secure corporate portal where you can maintain a detailed history of your organization's ongoing software selection and optimization projects
• Unlimited access to one or more TEC Evaluation Centers which include
  • industry articles
  • white papers
  • vendor and product information
  • industry best practice RFI templates and stored vendor responses
• Access to eBestMatch, TEC's patented decision support software
• Access to TEC's decision methodology
• Analyst-supported access to our industry-specific project knowledge bases
• 16 hours of expert support to help you set up your corporate portal, customize reports, etc.
• 16 hours of eBestMatch training and support, provided by TEC analysts
• Unlimited standard evaluation & selection projects
• Up to five extended evaluation and selection projects, customized to include your specific requirements
• Access to all standard graphs and reports

Advisory Services for Public Sector and Large Enterprises

At any point in your selection project, you can engage TEC's experts to guide you through the process. Using a best-practice methodology developed over hundreds of software selection projects, the TEC team can help you choose the best solution for your business—quickly, impartially, and cost-effectively.

Click here for a list of TEC's Advisory Services.

Software Architecture Lifecycle Management

Once your software selection or implementation project is complete, TEC recommends adopting a software architecture lifecycle management strategy.

Your selection project will have provided you with an up-to-date snapshot of your company's IT infrastructure—complete with detailed lists of features and functionality. In adopting a lifecycle management strategy, you can use that snapshot to clearly identify the systems that are driving your business, pinpoint redundancies, and take a cost-effective, rationalized approach to optimizing your enterprise software systems.

For large businesses running dozens of interdependent products concurrently, maintaining up-to-date information about your IT infrastructure allows you to

• handle future selection projects more effectively
• determine whether it is most cost-effective to upgrade, replace, consolidate existing systems, or introduce new technologies
• remain in compliance with government regulations

TEC can help you leverage the results of your selection projects to develop you software architecture lifecycle management initiatives.

To subscribe to TEC's Research Portal, or to learn more about our selection services for public sector and large enterprises, contact us or call (1-800) 496-1303 ext. 404 in North America, and +1 514-954-3665 ext. 404 outside of North America.