Software Selection Services for Midsized Businesses

If you run a typical midsized business, you're likely to face many of the same challenges as your Fortune 500 counterparts, from stiff global competition to increased regulatory compliance requirements. To stay competitive, you need IT infrastructure that can help you run your business efficiently. In addition to self-directed research and analysis tools like our research library, customizable reports, and templates, TEC offers midsized businesses like yours analyst-supported resources to help you choose the best enterprise software solutions for your business.

Project Portal for Midsized Businesses

A midsized business project portal gives you the resources to research enterprise software solutions, and store the results of your evaluation and selection projects in a convenient online location.

Your portal gives you access to eBestMatch^TM, TEC's online decision support software. Using eBestMatch, you can research software solutions and compare your business requirements to vendors' support for thousands of functional and technical criteria. You can display the results as interactive graphs and charts, and easily generate reports.

Analyst support helps you customize your decision model to include requirements specific to your business, and to include extended criteria in the evaluation and selection process.

A subscription to a standard midsized business project portal includes a range of resources and services:

• A secure online portal for your company
• Access to the eBestMatch Evaluation Center of your choice for two months
• Expert support from a TEC project manager
• Four hours of eBestMatch training delivered by one of our analysts
• Access to all graphs and reports
• Market data to help you get a complete picture of each vendor under consideration
• Reference check guidelines help you judge each vendor's references
• Demo script guidelines to help ensure that vendor demos fully address your concerns
• User trial guidelines to help you get quantifiable results from end-user testing

It also includes analyst support at several crucial phases of the software selection process.

• Defining a working list of vendor solutions
• Customizing and completing RFP template prioritizations
• Distributing RFPs to vendors
• Analyzing features and functions
• Analyzing and scoring "extended" criteria like assessments of vendor demonstrations, reference checks, user trials, and stored vendor market data

Advisory Services for Midsized Businesses

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.

To sign up for a midsized business portal, or to learn more about TEC's selection services for midsized businesses, contact us or call (1-800) 496-1303 ext. 404 in North America, and +1 514-954-3665 ext. 404 outside of North America.