eBestMatch: Enhancing the Software Selection Process

eBestMatch is TEC's online decision support system (DSS). Every day, companies like yours rely on eBestMatch to help them make rational, justifiable enterprise software selections by organizing, quantifying, ranking, and analyzing potential solutions.

No matter where you are in the software selection process, eBestMatch can help you

• review industry-specific functionality, licensing, support, infrastructure compatibility, and pricing for a number of different enterprise software solutions
• compare your business requirements to vendors' support for thousands of functional and technical criteria
• build "soft" criteria like ease-of-use and comfort level into your decision model
• display the results of your research as interactive graphs and charts
• easily generate detailed reports to communicate your findings to stakeholders and justify your decision

Try eBestMatch for free, or keep reading to learn more.

How It Works

eBestMatch helps you define your business needs by ranking your functional and technical requirements, including industry-specific functionality, licensing, support, infrastructure compatibility, pricing, and more.

Once you've prioritized your requirements, you can compare them to vendors' level of support for thousands of criteria, and then develop a short list of potential solutions for more in-depth evaluation.

You can compare short-listed solutions in real time, analyze their respective strengths and weaknesses, and test them using what-if scenarios and sensitivity analyses.

The results of your research are displayed in detailed graphs and reports that you can use to keep stakeholders up to date and justify your decision.

Why eBestMatch

Here are just a few of the reasons that eBestMatch is the most effective DSS for enterprise software selection.

eBestMatch Is Designed for Software Selection

Plugged into TEC's Evaluation Centers, eBestMatch contains up-to-date information and vendor responses gathered over hundreds of real-world selection projects. Our Evaluation Centers cover hundreds of vendor solutions in dozens of industries, so you can be sure you're making your decision based on the best information available.

eBestMatch Is Collaborative

Because it's web-based, eBestMatch makes it easy for any number of stakeholders to securely access, share, and revise data any time, anywhere. All you need is a web browser.

eBestMatch Helps You Avoid Human Error

From an organization's preference for a particular vendor to personal preferences for a certain user interface, human bias can easily skew the results of a selection project. That's why eBestMatch builds "soft" factors, like your comfort level with a solution after an on-site demo, into your decision model. By rationalizing the human side of group decision making, eBestMatch helps you avoid human error.

eBestMatch Goes Beyond Weighted Averages

Most DSS applications rely on weighted averages to rank solutions, but weighted averages can be skewed by drastic under- or overperformance on only a few criteria. eBestMatch supplements weighted averages with the BestMatchFactor, a patented algorithm that computes not only how well each solution address your requirements, but also how consistently it matches your priorities, so you can clearly identify the best-fit solution.

eBestMatch Analyzes What Other DSSs Don't

While traditional DSSs analyze cost and performance separately, eBestMatch combines them in a unique value analysis that calculates each solution's cost for each point scored during the evaluation process. This analysis clearly shows you which solution presents the best value proposition—information that you can take to the negotiation table to help you get the best price.

Try eBestMatch for Free, or Contact TEC to Find Out More

To start your free eBestMatch trial, click here.

To learn more about eBestMatch, contact us or call (1-800) 496-1303 ext. 404 in North America, and +1 514-954-3665 ext. 404 outside of North America.