SOFTWARE EVALUATION FORM FOR BUSINESS SOFTWARE COMPARISON (A FREE RESOURCE)
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED! NO FEE REQUIRED!
This is the Software Evaluation Centre's online evaluation form service. If you need help with finding business software or if you need to know how to evaluate software applications by selection and comparison browse these pages.
(Software Evaluation: find, evaluate, compare and select any software application here ensuring you select "Best of Breed" Software)
Software
Evaluation and Selection can become an emotive issue in some companies.
Those tasked with finding software or those involved in the software
selection and comparison process or
software
requirements specification often base their selection on the fact
that they like "the
look" of
a particular software application. Whilst the range of features available in modern business software applications can be overwhelming this approach is clearly wrong. Your approach to the process of selecting software must be measured and scientific. You must list the features that you require and check to ensure that the applications you are considering can effectively provide them.
Your decision on the selection of business or enterprise software applications can seriously affect the way you run your company. Get it wrong and the consequences of failure could be very serious. There have been recorded instances of failed business or ERP software implementations actually causing companies to go into liquidation.
SME's (Small and Medium Enterprises) must be able to tell the business software vendors exactly what they want because their expectations may differ from what is actually being offered as a solution. We offer you one way of ensuring that your software requirements are clearly defined and that your choice of software is based on these requirements.
You can use our sample software evaluation form and free spreadsheet for comparing and evaluating your business and ERP applications. There are no annoying registration forms that require you to submit all your personal details before you get access to it. The Software Evaluation Form (a Spreadsheet) gives you decision support and takes the subjectivity out of your business software purchase. It ensures that all the criteria and factors that are important to you in your software selection are compared or weighted to reflect this and to ensure that you choose the "best of breed software" that best matches your requirements.
How do you Specify Software Evaluation Criteria, Find and Evaluate a Software Application?
It's really quite straightforward. This website includes an embedded software evaluation form on a comparison spreadsheet. It lists lots of the criteria that are common to all software applications and which you should be checking for suitability. It also includes fields that allow you to enter your own details for each of the software applications you are considering. You may want to compare or evaluate ERP systems, business systems, management systems, accounting or payroll software applications. The software comparison spreadsheet can be used for any of these software packages.
Software Comparison Matrix (Rubric)
Your software requirements specification and evaluation spreadsheet is basically a matrix, or software comparison tool. It allows you to provide a weighting factor for the standard criteria and also for the features you include yourself. A weighting factor is used to ensure that the criteria that are important to you are correctly scored according to their weight of importance.
I
will confess that I am no expert in the evaluation of all types of software applications
and individual requirements make it difficult to provide a method of choosing
software that suits everyone. Our software
selection spreadsheet gets pretty close to this.
That's also why user defined fields are provided on the spreadsheet. They let you include scoring on the features that are of most importance to you. You may also want to look at the information on finding, comparing and selecting business software systems through the links on the right.
For example if you are seeking to find and evaluate CAD software 3D modeling may be important. You can add this to the list of features to be compared and evaluated. There are a few user defined fields available but should you require your own copy of the software evaluation spreadsheet you can purchase a copy here.
If you are evaluating content management software or CRM (Customer Relationship Management) you may be particularly interested in its capability with being integrated to other systems, for example Your ERP Software or a financial or accounting system. If you are interested in ecommerce software evaluation one of your main priorities may be the inventory software it includes or its stock control functionality.
With our Software Evaluation Spreadsheet (rubric system) you can create your software requirements specification and evaluate any business application you choose.
ENJOY YOUR VISIT!
