Application Selection
Choosing the right core business software applications are critical to your firm's success. Selecting the wrong
system can cripple your business instead of setting the
foundation for profitable growth. It is the age old problem:
choose well and be rewarded; choose poorly and pay the price.
How do you avoid choosing the wrong software package?
Reduce your risks by leveraging the expertise and
established methodology of a firm that has performed many
successful selection engagements over the past 20 years.
Key steps include:
- Gain project buy-in from all affected business units
- Include key business units in the selection team from
inception
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Develop
comprehensive, in-depth requirements - business, staffing,
technical, and operational
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Utilize a formal
request for proposal process to gather "apples to apples"
cost and implementation information
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Perform
comprehensive due diligence on the finalists - financial,
technical, managerial, etc.
RondoTech has helped many clients with their system selection
projects. Our consultants have helped clients select enterprise
resource planning systems, loan origination systems, and
manufacturing and warehouse systems for companies ranging from small family-owned
firms to multi-billion dollar banks.
Contact us today for a free Mission
Critical System Selection paper.
Sample Projects
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Breaking these
rules of thumb will lead to major issues with the
vendor, system, implementation, and success of the
project:
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The vendor
is as important as the system.
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Functionality is more important than technology
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Don’t
assume that if it can do "that", it can do it all.…
it is highly unlikely you are going to find one
product that perfectly meets all of your practice
needs
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Don’t base
a decision on a sales rep demo
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Beware of
Vaporware
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Get
everything in writing
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