• Establish Project Administration and Evaluation Criteria:
  HPD Business Solutions provides leading practice project management processes and tools for project control and process documentation so that information collected as part of the process analysis and software evaluation can be standardized and reused as a basis for requirements documentation, communication with partners, business case development, implementation planning and training.
  
  
• Prepare and Conduct Structured Software Evaluation:
  HPD Business Solutions can serve as an independent, objective observer of the evaluation proceeding, coordinate vendor demonstrations and/or facilitate vendor review and assessment sessions. In addition to extensive facilitation experience, HPD Business Solutions has extensive experience working with software vendors, understands the critical information that needs to be gathered as part of the evaluation process and can assist you with asking the right questions during the process.
  
  
• Assess Technology Infrastructure:
  Our alliance partners have the certified resources (in all of the major network and operating system platform areas) necessary to assess your current technology infrastructure for the purpose of integrating a new critical business platform.
  
  
• System Selection and Implementation Planning:
  Properly structuring the relationship, implementation plan, support and other obligations can have a significant impact on achieving the desired solution and realizing the benefits defined as part of the business case. While ultimate responsibility for software/vendor selection and contract negotiations lies with your company, HPD Business Solutions can provide advice regarding contract negotiation points, implementation risks and structuring of performance incentives.
  
  

The transition to new business software and systems represents a significant investment for your company. In order to realize substantial cost savings and a significant ROI, it is essential that you adopt a structured approach to process improvement, technology evaluation, business case development and partner evaluation.

Our experience and expertise assisting other companies who have engaged in similar projects has added value in the following ways:

• Identification of short-term process and technology improvement opportunities through introduction of leading practices during process and technology review sessions.
• Definition of key requirements for basis of evaluation and implementation planning when reviewing commercial software package options.
• Optimization of IT infrastructure and procedures for application support and network management.
• Consensus-building among key project stakeholders.
• Development of business case and performance measurements as criteria to evaluate project success and support informed decision-making regarding development and implementation effort.
• Achievement of substantial cost saving during structuring/negotiation of vendor/partner contracts, including establishment of performance and reference program incentives.