To maximize success ensure you have identified a person from each one of these major stakeholder groups that can guide and lead you through their respective processes:

• Sourcing / Procurement

• IT Asset Management

• Enterprise Architecture

• Governance, Risk and Controls / Security

• Compliance / Privacy

• Law

The Checklist can be found here...

Analyst Call template

What to Look For

When selecting a new Solution there are certain considerations to think about:

• Ability for the end user to be as self-reliant/ self-serve as possible

• The solution is configurable without impact upgrades

• Multi-tenant cloud is better than on-premise individual instance

• Ability for the application to be interoperable/ loosely coupled with the existing architecture/ other solutions

• The solution takes into account security and privacy by design

• The following leverages solutions outside of the application:

  • Integration. Need a way to get in/out of the application using published APIs and using integration orchestration from an enterprise tool

  • Data & Analytics (enterprise reporting is consolidated outside of the application). Production reporting sits within the application.

  • Identity and Access Management can be leveraged from outside the application