Our implementation planning and control process provides the software tools, methodologies, and experience you need to manage massive changes, increase project success, and enhance software usage. Specifically, we offer: 

• A proven process you can trust—developed from the wisdom and best practices of more than 1800 enterprise software improvement projects

• Project planning and execution software that enables you and your managers to actually monitor performance measures that show your initial readiness for implementation and the health and momentum of your project (this is currently a market-leading and unique element of our offering)

• Control and structure that significantly mitigates risk and eliminates the need to place your destiny in the hands of outside contractors

The initial result is that your enterprise systems are substantially implemented on the first effort, with minimal pain. More importantly, your firm more quickly reaches the day in which impressive tangible and long-term strategic benefits may start accruing from the well installed system. Finally, our process provides a framework and plan for continued system optimization.

Project Data and Change Management Toolset
Prioritized business objectives and obstacles to success are rarely controlled well. This is the largest reason for implementation chaos and poor results. Engleman Associates has built a specialized toolset that complements our overall approach to solve this problem. This system offers methods and features to:

• Record requirements, issues, tasks and project personnel, and link them together for prioritized management throughout the implementation process across multiple business units 

• Conduct a pre-implementation audit of all requirements, which locates and reconciles discrepancies between your business and the software before proceeding to the actual implementation

• Produce statistical analysis that shows the readiness of departments, business units, and/or the entire business to proceed with the implementation 

• Produce system status reports that detail software potential and utilization level by functional area and financial benefits for the best improvement actions

Risk Mitigation
Numerous reports from industry research organizations indicate that up to 80% of all enterprise software projects fail to achieve their objectives; many fail outright. The SoftSelect process has been refined in over 1800 projects and we have numerous success stories to review and references who can be interviewed. When an experienced team follows this process, risk factors are significantly eliminated. This process will help your team reach immediate project objects and the very valuable ultimate goal of a highly implemented system, which is still elusive to most companies.

Benefits of the SoftSelect Process

ü   Gaining commitment and support from all involved: With the SoftSelect approach, you achieve coordination and commitment from management, users, and the vendor—down to the requirement level.

ü   Overcoming obstacles: Our tested methodology identifies and removes primary obstacles to success, including lack of internal staff availability, skills or training, selection objectivity, inter-company differences, and systemic process problems. 

ü   Saving money on expensive vendor and system integrator support: Without detailed knowledge of your business and tight control of requirements, implementers waste large amounts of billable time. The SoftSelect process handles this detail work to complement the software expert's general implementation plan.

ü   Getting your software up and running sooner: The sooner it is up, the sooner you start seeing a return on your investment. With SoftSelect processes and tools, you tightly control project details, enabling implementation to occur much faster, saving months, even years, of valuable time.

ü   Getting all that you paid for: With SoftSelect tools and methods, you track vendor commitments and promises at the requirement level and tightly track performance and discrepancies.  

ü   Proactively and continuously improving systems after implementation: There are always latent functionality and new process changes that justify paying close attention to Enterprise Software. Done correctly, this is a new strategic advantage for companies.  

ü   More complete implementation—the ultimate goal: Yearly benefits from a more complete implementation than otherwise would have been achieved, resulting from SoftSelect methods/tools emphasis on issues and obstacle management during the selection process.  

Just-the-facts Webinar

It’s difficult to convey the strength of this offering via the written word. Therefore, please join our introductory webinar on enterprise software selection, implementation readiness planning, and system optimization. Further, the briefing shows how our process focuses on preparing your business and complements the necessary work of systems integrators or software implementers. This webinar takes one hour and I assure you that this will be time well spent as we expose many best practices and good ideas. Finally, numerous reference sites throughout the United States and Canada can confirm that this process works very well.