Payroll system vendor solutions were shortlisted based on General Solutions' research of their websites and White papers regarding their ability to fulfill all the functional and non-functional requirements of the proposed payroll system solution for Company X, especially in terms of reducing salary compensation processing times.

Major factor considered were also considered, such as cloud capabilities, IT security, etc., protecting them from real-life disasters such as earthquakes and fires, as well as other threats such as hacks and on-premise stealing of physical data stores.

The payroll compensation will only take hours instead of days to accomplish, freeing Company X's employees to do other requirements and improving their quality of life. Also, less overtime pay will be spent because payroll compensation will no longer take a long amount of time to accomplish.

Finally, shifting to a secure, cloud-based payroll system solution ensures far more protection against costly disasters such earthquakes and fires, as well as other financially devastating events such as hacks into the company's IT systems.

The opinion of past and current customers of shortlisted payroll system vendor solutions were compiled to give a more clearer picture on whether they can fulfill a company's payroll system needs or not.

In the end, it will be Company X who will be using the new payroll system software solution. Therefore, it is important to gauge their perspective on whether the shortlisted payroll system vendor solutions fulfill their payroll system business needs or not.