Enterprise IT solutions are increasingly reliant upon a diverse range of offerings from independent software vendors. Economies of scale and vendor consolidation of multiple customers’ needs have created broad and very complex solution suites spanning all domains of operations within the enterprise.

The process of selecting a vendor product and implementing it successfully can be fraught with risks and challenges. SIBRIDGE offers support for vendor selection and implementation through a comprehensive approach to the problem. From Selection to Implementation we can engage in either part of the process, or both together, with a systematic and rigorous approach.

	Vendor Selection Services (COTS) solution identification RFI/RFP evaluation and scoring. Demonstration review and scoring Contract and Master Service Agreement (MSA) negotiation License and Maintenance Agreement negotiation Statement of Work (SOW) creation

Vendor Management & Selection

Vendors aggressively frame the problem in a manner that best reflects their products’ capabilities. This often results in distortions, misguided answers or misrepresented capabilities, leading to confusion in the selection process – and possibly a poor fit for the client.

SIBRIDGE can help by managing the vendor, rather than letting the vendor manage the process.

SIBRIDGE experience and integrity ensure that a systematic, dispassionate and impartial analysis of vendor strengths and weaknesses, as mapped against customer requirements and financial needs, will drive the selection of the package that best fits the needs of the enterprise.

	Implementation Services Program management Vendor oversight Business and Systems requirements Application Interface requirements gathering and design Traceability matrices Data Migration Organizational design Reporting capabilities, requirements, and content definition Change management Environment preparation Testing Configuration management Post production contract management (warranty)

Package Implementation

Selecting a vendor solution is half the problem. Implementing it successfully is no less a challenge than any in-house IT development effort, fraught with many of the same risks and pitfalls.

SIBRIDGE supports package implementation by systematically managing the process through steps very similar to a nominal software development lifecycle, managing to risks and requirements, and emphasizing rigorous and traceable approaches to extracting the most functionality from a vendor solution at the least cost.

SIBRIDGE involvement in the vendor implementation process provides a critical and impartial third party point of view to vendor claims, contractual obligations, an alternative implementation options.

Contact us today to learn more about how SIBRIDGE can help with your vendor selection and implementation problems.