Product Data Technology Assessment & Evaluation
Your business wants to evaluate and design the best solution architecture to meet your product data requirements
Your Goals
You want to establish a flexible, scalable and future proof technology architecture to support your business strategy and outcomes around product data
You want to evaluate and procure the most suitable, future proof and cost effective PIM technologies on the market
You want to bridge your product data management architecture with your enterprise architecture strategy
Our Method
1. Product Data Technology Familiarisation
- Introduce your business to foundational architecture principles and concepts relating to data onboarding, product data mastery and product data syndication
- Introduce your business to the types of platforms on the market, and the use cases they fulfil
2. Technology Maturity Assessment
- Assess existing, if any, product data management architecture and solutions that exist today
- Assess how business-oriented your existing architecture and solutions are are in relation to creating customer value and business outcomes
3. Opportunities & Value Mapping
- Create technology solutions architecture opportunities backlog, mapped against maturity assessment
- Assignment of potential business value, feasibility and prioritisation of backlog
3. Technology Evaluation & Procurement
- Evaluate market leading solutions to fit your technology opportunities and requirements
- Independently recommend the best solutions based on quantitative scoring process
- Support procurement of these solutions
What We Deliver
Workshops
Facilitated workshops will involve stakeholders from across your organisation, from executive level down to business users. Through interactive workshops we will understand your existing product data technology maturity, through white boarding & discussion.
Technology and Solutions Opportunities Backlog
We will deliver a backlog of technology and solution opportunities, linked to each subject area, to create a backlog to prioritise – each item linked to KPIs and value.
Technology Maturity Documents
A technology maturity assessment is a single source of information to show stakeholders, leadership or board all aspects of your technology maturity, opportunities and feasibility. We can deliver this in excel format and also provide supporting visual documentation to show technology impact on the product data value chain.
Technology Roadmap
A roadmap of opportunities, prioritised by business value and feasibility and divided into subject areas, to take your technology project into implementation.
RFP, Solution Evaluation Templates & Reports
e will run your RFP process and evaluate software vendors using templates and produce quantitative summary reports
Find out more
If you would like to find out more about how product data management, PIM and MDM can create value for your business, we’d love to hear from you – Ben Adams, CEO Start with Data