Software Self-Assessment Tool

Our Software Self-Assessment Tool is a downloadable questionnaire and results-assessment that will help you score your organization’s effectiveness to negotiate software licenses, as well as support and maintenance agreements.

Sofware Self-Assessment Tool Screenshot

What Do You Get?

The TechSpend Software Self-Assessment Tool is an 8-tab Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with more than 100 thought-provoking questions, a weighting scale designed by our analysts, and a Results Analysis Page that allows you to compare your company’s score with our benchmark.

This downloadable tool includes:

  • Instructions
  • A demographics section that helps you examine your company’s key IT spending ratios
  • Pricing — Best practices for negotiating pricing on offshore development and services deals
  • Performance — Guidelines for measuring the performance of your vendor(s) against service level agreements (SLAs)
  • Portfolio — Best practices for managing your company’s suite of offshore support services
  • Procurement — Key contract provisions that you should be including in your offshore agreements
  • Process — Policy and procedure best practices for managing offshore service procurement
  • Results Analysis to see how you score — and what you need to do to improve the buying and vendor management process