Schedule an Analyst Advisory Session

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During an Analyst Advisory Session, you will receive instant feedback from one of our analyst experts. These telephone-based sessions are designed to tackle your specific questions, challenges, or strategies.

Common Advisory Topics Include...

  • Sense-checking your strategy
  • Validating a long list or short list of prospective vendors
  • Reviewing an RFI / RFP / Tender
  • Deep dive on a particular vendor (everything that could possibly go wrong)
  • Comparing and contrasting a few vendors or products in detail
  • General Education -- overview of a technology landscape
  • Strategies to optimize vendor demo sessions
  • Operational or staffing review
  • Advice on pricing and contract negotiation
  • Informing build-vs-buy decisions
  • Understanding what types of technology solve your business problem
  • Brainstorming your particular technology challenge
  • Sanity-checking your approach at a key project milestone
  • Education on partnership landscape for consulting and integration firms
  • Proof-of-concept testing strategies
  • Reviewing technology and marketplace trends
  • Comparing your approach to industry best practices
  • SaaS, Cloud or On-premise implementations: which is best for you? When should you move from one to the other?
  • Information Governance model ideas and suggestions
  • Mobile strategy - technical and end-user approaches
  • Reviewing and helping to craft job descriptions to support your project
  • Integration touch points - how your enterprise technologies need to work together to achieve particular goals
  • Master data design - how taxonomies and metadata may be helping or hindering your project(s)
  • Information security and role & group management - how do you decide who should access what and when?
  • Digital Workplace - what types of tools and technologies are needed for better enterprise collaboration beyond what you currently have?
  • Under general education - not just technology landscape but also basic 101 stuff for new staff or project team members
  • Any other advice you need to make better decisions...