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The Brightwork Research & Analysis Rating and Risk forSAS Demand Driven Forecasting

Executive Summary This is the Brightwork Research & Analysis software rating series. We rate both the software and estimate the risk of implementing each application. MUFI Rating & Risk for SAS Demand Driven Forecasting MUFI: Maintainability, Usability, Functionality, Implement ability Vendor: SAS (Select For Vendor Profile) Introduction SAS has over 6500 forecasting customers. Secondly, this is one…

The Brightwork Research & Analysis Rating and Risk for ToolsGroup SO99 (Forecasting)

Executive Summary This is the Brightwork Research & Analysis software rating series. We rate both the software and estimate the risk of implementing each application. MUFI Rating & Risk for ToolsGroup SO99 (Forecasting) MUFI: Maintainability, Usability, Functionality, Implement ability Vendor: ToolsGroup (Select For Vendor Profile) Introduction ToolsGroup is a software vendor mainly known for its inventory optimization…

The Brightwork Research & Analysis Rating and Risk for Forecast Pro TRAK

Executive Summary This is the Brightwork Research & Analysis software rating series. We rate both the software and estimate the risk of implementing each application. MUFI Rating & Risk for Forecast Pro TRAK MUFI: Maintainability, Usability, Functionality, Implement ability Vendor: Business Forecast Systems (Select For Vendor Profile) Introduction Forecast Pro TRAK is the top of the line…

The Brightwork Research & Analysis Rating and Risk for SAP APO DP

Executive Summary This is the Brightwork Research & Analysis software rating series. We rate both the software and estimate the risk of implementing each application. MUFI Rating & Risk for SAP APO DP MUFI: Maintainability, Usability, Functionality, Implement ability Vendor: SAP (Select For Vendor Profile) Introduction This is SAP’s demand planning application, which is out of the…

The Brightwork Research & Analysis Honest Vendor Rating for JDA

Executive Summary This article is part of our honest vendor series, which is one of the only ratings of vendors rather than applications. Introduction JDA began their life in Canada, and in the retail software business before relocating to Phoenix, AZ in the 1980s and are still one of the few software companies based in…

The Preparedness of the Buyer’s Implementation Team

Usage Part of the Brightwork Research & Analysis enterprise software risk model, and a criterion of software measurement and part of the Software Selection Package. Definition The buyer must assign both the right resources and for the right amount of time. And this in nearly all cases not done, and the company’s employees are pulled in…

The Preparedness of External Implementing Entities

Usage Part of the Brightwork Research & Analysis enterprise software risk model, and a criterion of software measurement and part of the Software Selection Package. Definition It is challenging to obtain excellent consulting support outside of software vendors. The major consulting companies generally only have resources, which are trained on the software from the most…

The Complexity of Specific Functionality to be Implemented

Usage Part of the Brightwork Research & Analysis enterprise software risk model, and a criterion of software measurement and part of the Software Selection Package. Definition Applications in every enterprise software category can be implemented using any amount of its functionality. Accessing more advanced areas of functionality increases project risk from at least two dimensions….

Software Functionality Definition

Usage Part of the Brightwork Research & Analysis enterprise software risk model, and a criterion of software measurement and part of the Software Selection Package. Definition This is how well the functionality of the application has the potential to match the business process as well as the functionality’s reliability. This is itself a composite score…

Software Implementability Definition

Usage Part of the Brightwork Research & Analysis enterprise software risk model, and a criterion of software measurement and part of the Software Selection Package. Definition Any application can be scored for how easily it can be implemented. Many factors go into this. One is master data parameter maintenance; another is how hard or painful…