Software Selection Process for Choosing Accounting Software

Step 1: Create Your Needs Definition

• You can install the analysis program and create your first needs definition in less than one hour.
• Install the needs analysis program in less than 1 minute.
• Open one of several template needs definitions that will help you define your requirements more rapidly.
• Define your requirements by selecting from a comprehensive list of features, functions and reports.
• Every question contains its own help file so you will understand exactly what the question means.
• The consultants' edition contains a demonstration version that can be installed on your client's computer.
• Assign a value from 1-9 to indicate which features are more important than others.
• You do not have to answer all of the questions; just those in which you have an interest.
• Specify critical requirements that must be met or the product will be eliminated by the program.

Step 2: Specify Analysis Options

• The real power of The Accounting Software Library lies in how the program compares your unique requirements against each product in the database.
• Define how the vendor's responses will be interpreted by the program.
• Restrict the analysis to only those products in which you have a specific interest.

Step 3: Generate and Analyze Reports

• The Accounting Software Library contains a comprehensive reporting system that helps you determine which products come closest to meeting your requirements, their relative and specific functional strengths and weaknesses, and how they compare against each other.
• Needs Definition Report: Review and verify your needs prior to running the analysis.
• Basic Ranking Report: The program will rank each product according to how well it meets your needs.
• Module and Subsection Report: The program will determine not just the percentage of needs met for each product but how well each module and significant areas within each module meet your needs.
• Question Report: You can compare your needs line by line against selected products and determine exactly how each product meets each requirement.
• Features Absent Report: Ask the program to show you the needs that selected products cannot meet.
• Eliminated Product Report: Ask the program to show you why specific products were eliminated because they did not meet requirements you had identified as critical.
• Product Report: Examine all of the features for a single specified product or compare two or more products side by side (no needs definition required).
• Vendor Information Report: Obviously we will provide you with detailed contact information for each product and vendor.