How Important Is The Right Information System?

Information systems help you provide quality customer service, make strategic decisions, and achieve operational efficiency. If your computer systems don’t provide the information your managers need to make sound decisions to effectively manage your operations, your operational results could suffer. Implementing the right computer hardware and software is a key factor in your organization’s success.

We developed the Summit Business Solutions System Selection process to help you minimize the risk of selecting an inappropriate information system. Even if your current systems include many desirable features and functions, they may lack some needed capabilities or the ability to grow as your business grows. Our system selection methodology identifies your business information and processing requirements—and helps ensure that the hardware and software selected will satisfy those requirements.

The Summit Business Solutions Approach

We review your current systems capabilities and then, through discussions with your people, perform a structured needs analysis to determine additional management information and functional requirements. Next, we develop and prioritize a list of system requirements and provide this information to prequalified vendors who provide systems that appear to match your requirements.

We compare your requirements to vendor-proposed solutions based on application software capabilities, hardware features and capacity, quality of documentation, availability of training and installation support, and other relevant criteria.

We then present our analysis of vendor proposals to your management team and work with you to select the system that best satisfies your requirements.