Choosing between platforms is a high-stakes decision with no neutral reference point inside most vendor relationships. This service exists to give you one: an objective evaluation of the real options, scored against criteria you agree to before any vendor conversation happens.
Before any vendor is named, we agree the criteria the decision will be scored against - cost, fit to your operating model, implementation risk, local support and data residency among them - so the evaluation cannot be quietly steered toward a preferred answer after the fact.
We compare options across our own technology partner network and, where a better fit sits outside it, we name that option too. The partner network exists to give you delivery capacity once a decision is made, not to limit what gets considered before one is.
A weighted evaluation of each realistic option against your own criteria, a documented worked example of the trade-offs, and a final recommendation with the reasoning behind it made explicit rather than asserted. This typically takes 2-4 weeks, depending on the number of vendors under consideration and how much internal alignment is needed on the evaluation criteria first.
Take a common scenario: two ERP platforms score almost identically on functional fit, but one carries a lower licence cost and the other a lower total implementation risk because your team already has experience with its ecosystem. A vendor selling either platform has an incentive to lead with the number that favours them. Our evaluation weights licence cost, implementation risk, local support and long-term total cost of ownership together, against criteria you agreed before either platform was named, so the recommendation reflects the actual trade-off rather than whichever number a reseller chose to emphasise.
No. The evaluation is priced as an advisory engagement, independent of which option is ultimately chosen.
We say so. The evaluation criteria are set before vendors are named, precisely so the answer is not constrained to who we already work with.