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.

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


