The current process of finding software is broken. Organizations utilize search engines, high-level catalogs, reviews, sit through countless demos & at the end of their vetting process, jump into an agreement where stones (requirements) may still be left unturned and the agreement may end up feeling like a leap of faith.
Let’s examine further…
Search Engines. Talk about information overload. If you search ‘Top Budgeting Solution’, you’re left with websites that do nothing but gather outdated reviews from paid customers (or from the vendors themselves, YIKES) or you’re left with the software companies themselves and their well-funded and clever advertisements selling to you. After looking a software site for awhile, you then jump into the next step…
Countless Demos. It could be the first demo or it could be the tenth demo that you ultimately move to the next step with. The point is that time is wasted on all fronts with unnecessary “canned” demos from sales teams that don’t know your business, your challenges or your actual requirements. Great.
There Are So Many to Choose From. In each category, there are dozens and dozens of solutions and they all have different approaches, different targets, different features & fit different types of customers. You can ‘t possibly vet them all to find the best fit and can’t afford to end up selecting the wrong solution. Purchasing software isn’t like buying a new laptop; you can’t just take it back or trade it in for another if you’re unhappy. The costs to switch after you’ve started a project (even when you do find there’s a better solution for you) are simply too great.
Referrals. Referrals are great and should always be utilized when the right one is found. However, what does a referral typically look like? You’ve requested one from a vendor and they provide you with the contact information of one of their biggest fans OR you find a referral from a more trusted source but that referral still ultimately doesn’t have the same requirements as you do…
Half-Vetted Solutions Turned Agreements. How often do you have every single process and requirement hashed out with the vendor to ensure there’s a fit EVERYWHERE before you ink the dotted line? There isn’t a large enough sales force in the world that has time to sit with all prospects in the pre-sales process to go through every fine detail. What typically happens is that the agreement is signed & then these requirements are hashed out (or found to be misses) as the implementation / go-live proceeds. Not good.
Let’s take a look at finding software using a smarter approach. Let’s take a look at Solugence.
Solugence is a software matching platform where you build a “software profile” that entails what your business requirements are for a particular software category (let’s say a Budgeting/Forecasting & Financial reporting tool) and then Solugence’s software matching algorithm identifies the best solutions that FIT YOU and provides you with a detailed breakdown on why the match. The days of countless demos, endless Google searches, spending weeks—>months trying to vet out software are finished! Oh and Solugence is 100% free!
The best part about Solugence is that its originating roots come from the Dynamics GP world so many of the categories deployed, the solutions that are being matched against, and even the profiles themselves have the specific requirements of a typical GP customer in mind.
Simply put, if you’re looking for software in any of the following live categories, you HAVE to consider using Solugence to help you find the best fit. Solugence will save you time, money and is the smartest way to finding the right software that fits you.
“Live” Categories on Solugence
Budgeting, Forecasting & Financial Reporting (which Management Reporter replacement is the best fit for you?)
Lease Accounting (ASC 842 is upon us and it’s crystal clear that this is not something we’ll find in GP or any ERP system for that matter)
Expense Reporting (Did you know that there are over 50 EXPENSE REPORTING SOLUTIONS in the marketplace? Solugence will help you find what fits you best and integrates with GP)
A/P Automation (GP has made some strides in this category with their workflows and document attachments, however, full A/P Automation solutions are incredibly beneficial to organizations running GP).
Fixed Assets (GP has a simple fixed assets solution that will suit some with some patience and oversight; there are dozens of other great solutions that focus solely on Fixed Assets available)
Learn more & get to finding smarter @ https://solugence.com.
