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Understanding the Software Selection Process

Enterprise Companies all over the world have traditionally leaned on “Requests for Proposal” (RFP)s to aid their business in a software selection process. However, enterprise software has evolved tremendously in recent history rendering RFPs no longer idealistic for making software selection or partnership decisions. Offerings are often times non-comparable, pricing isn’t always feature-specific, and customization can be difficult to estimate in a matter of days or weeks.

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Today’s modern businesses must look at solving specific business problems rather than simple features. Only then will organizations be able to tie a software to their prioritized problem, and in turn, understand its true value. With the help of robust Microsoft programs, Avantiico helps customers in their selection of enterprise and SMB software. Through comprehensive workshops, business value assessments, and envisioning sessions, Avantiico facilitates selection and enables company alignment on business challenges and priorities.

A study by InformationWeek reported that “nearly half (49%) of enterprise software selection projects take longer than six months to complete”

(InformationWeek, 2018).

The Importance of Selecting the Right Microsoft Partner

Organizations across the globe are in a never-ending state of digital evolution- increasing their reliance on cloud software. Mature and modern businesses don’t rely on a single enterprise application to meet the needs of all departments. Instead, organizations make cohesive decisions around a suite of products that will enable certain personas and roles in the company in an agile way. For this reason, selecting a Microsoft Partner who is familiar with your business model and/or industry represents an opportunity for stronger alignment. A Microsoft Partner can help customers scale with Microsoft technology to meet their ever-changing needs. Long before a Microsoft Partner implements or deploys software, they play an advisory role that helps customers envision new solutions and validate opportunities for digital transformation. This can mean formulating a Business Value Assessment (BVA) to justify cost, assessing a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to project cost, or conducting Envisioning Workshops to create comprehensive roadmaps. As a Microsoft Partner, Avantiico’s focus is the needs of our customers at every stage of their transformation journey.

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Considerations of Enterprise Software Selection

When it comes to selecting enterprise cloud software, there are a few key considerations to keep in mind in order to select the best possible option for your business. The first and most important step is to understand your objective in what you are looking for the software to accomplish. You cannot be successful in your search for solutions without understanding what you are looking for. A Microsoft Partner can help you understand current processes, and pain points. Even more importantly, a partner can help you quantify the strategic benefits, cost savings and time savings of new solutions. Once you understand your why, leveraging your business users’ knowledge of the business, you’ll want to put together a comprehensive list of requirements. A Microsoft Partner can help capture functional, usability, budgetary, technological, reporting, scalability and vendor requirements and prioritize their value to the organization.

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Through pre-defined assessments, envisioning workshops, and modernization workshops, a Microsoft partner can help you offset the cost of making Microsoft technology and licensing decisions. These funding opportunities can help you reduce your software investment and uncover ways to fund your Microsoft technology usage. A Microsoft Partner can:

Ensure you have access to all available funding programs
Accelerate your time to value for technology investments
Remove the barrier of time to value for solution investments
Provide information about relevant assessments and workshops to help determine which is right for your business
Aid with right-sizing your agreements through discussions with licensing experts