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Identify top 2 to 3 vendors. |
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Ranked list of vendors (as completed in
Step 4: Meet & Greet). |
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See how the vendor's product works in a live
setting. |
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Site visit. Schedule a site visit with a company
that had similar objectives to yours, evaluate how well the product met those
objectives. |
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Evaluate how the vendor's product would work in
in your company under real world conditions. |
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Develop a "Test Script" using your
company's real data and scenarios; ask vendors to prepare a demonstration based
on this material. |
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Using the Criteria Grid, rate each vendor after
the scripted demo. |
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Criteria Grid (as first defined in
Step 3: Define the Requirements). |
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Rank each vendor. |
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The $100 Test. Each team member gets a
theoretical $100 to spend on any combination of vendors. The vendor with the
most dollars allocated to it is the highest voted vendor. |
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