Technology Assessment
Unlock value through a comprehensive digital strategy
Today’s business world demands both speed and flexibility. A rapidly changing business climate, coupled with unique challenges in your industry and an ever-changing digital landscape, elevates the strategic demands on your business applications to deliver value to your customers. While the opportunities in digital technology are continually increasing, with that comes additional pressure to rapidly understand, plan, prototype and deploy new technology into your organization.
The modern enterprise application landscape leaves more options than ever for businesses of all sizes and in every industry. Baker Tilly Digital sits at the intersection of where business needs meet technological capability for a wide variety of business applications and solutions. This, combined with a holistic understanding of how these applications impact vision and strategy, enables us to provide guidance on software decisions that work for your entire organization — from IT teams to management.
A process-driven approach to enable success
Baker Tilly brings an independent and agnostic approach to the technology assessment process. Over the past 20 years, we have completed numerous enterprise system evaluations, including the evaluation of organizational change management needs. This experience helps ensure that any solutions we recommend are tailored to meet your organization’s functional and technical needs.
A deep knowledge of software vendor capabilities and limitations, combined with strategic relationships with some of the leading cloud software providers, enables us to provide cutting-edge insight and innovation. The result is a comprehensive analysis of the vendor landscape based on your particular needs to accelerate the evaluation process and help inform the decision that is right for your business.
With a fundamental understanding of the state of your business, competition, technologies, opportunities and overall business goals — along with potential barriers to achieving them — we collaborate with your team to assess your business application options across all dimensions of strategy, process, human capital, technology and risk management.
Technology assessment methodology
Our technology assessment takes a process-driven approach to align the appropriate custom digital solutions to fit your specific needs. Understanding your critical and unique needs allows us to create a tailored approach to enable your digital road map. The benefit of our approach extends beyond the assessment phase by:
Phase 1
Initiate project
- Confirm objectives/schedule
- Understand long-term strategic goals
- Project kickoff and team organization
- Conduct stakeholder analysis and develop support structure
Phase 2
Plan and design
- Conduct software landscape education
- Process walk-throughs
- Confirm critical needs
- Identify vendor options
- Issue request for proposal (RFP) and analyze responses
- Choose vendors for customized demos
- Executive checkpoint
Phase 3
Evaluate vendors
- Plan demonstration(s)
- Review costs, implementation
- Vendor due diligence
- Choose vendor
- Leadership checkpoint
Phase 4
Finalize evaluation
- Contract negotiation coaching
- Conduct high-level implementation planning
Featured insights
The ERP refresh – a guide to replacing the key software to power your business
Today’s business world demands both speed and flexibility. This e-book provides insight and tips to help a company determine if it is time to replace their ERP system, a broad view of the commitment needed in people, time and resources for a successful ERP evaluation and key considerations when choosing a vendor to help with the evaluation.
ERP software evaluation positions Server Products to undertake and execute business transformation and process improvements
A U.S. based manufacturer of progressive and innovative dispensing, serving and point-of-use equipment for food service operators, needed to update its aging system in order to gather key metrics and fulfill customer demands to customize products.
Mid-size manufacturer accomplishes ERP software evaluation and vendor demonstrations in under 10 weeks
An 85 year old company that designs, engineers, prototypes, and manufactures retail fixture, display and signage programs for top national brand marketers and chain retailers, was operating multiple ERP systems due to acquisitions over the past 10 years. They needed new systems to close data gaps and improve future processes and utilization.
Midwest spring manufacturer accelerates into ERP vendor negotiations and implementation planning with Baker Tilly's software evaluation project approach
A world leader in the manufacture of highly engineered springs, specialty fasteners, machined parts and other precision components, was in need of new and additional software due to business acquisitions, to increase process efficiency and standardization.
Cookware manufacturer identifies process improvement and cost savings opportunities during ERP software evaluation process
Baker Tilly helps manufacturer identify process improvement and cost savings opportunities during ERP software evaluation process.
Baker Tilly Digital is here to help
Baker Tilly Digital’s digital strategy expertise can help you understand how a cultivated and tactical digital plan enables your goals and better prepares you for digital transformation. Our digital strategy team is here to guide your team with a structured approach to enable organizational change, streamline operations and drive greater return from achieving your transformation goals.