Cloud Vendor Evaluation & Selection Services

In spite of the momentum we’ve seen in the cloud computing market over the past few years, it is still maturing and highly dynamic. The cloud computing vendor pool and product capabilities are constantly evolving. How do you ensure your evaluation of cloud products was based on an up-to-date view of the market? How do you distinguish marketing hype from real capabilities? How do you wade through dozens of competing products to hone in on their key differentiators within a reasonable timeframe?

Perficient actively monitors and maintains a database of the vendors, products and services in the cloud computing market, including hands-on assessments of their capabilities, limitations and lessons learned. Perficient’s Cloud Vendor Evaluation & Selection offering leverages this database to accelerate the identification and screening of candidate vendors in our four-step vendor evaluation and selection process:

• Prepare:  Capture and prioritize the evaluation criteria, including functional, non-functional, implementability, supportability and cost requirements.
• Narrow:  Identify a candidate list of vendors. Screen out obvious mismatches with evaluation criteria. Optionally perform an RFI and further screen the candidate vendor list to a manageable list of 2-5 for more detailed evaluation.
• Evaluate:  Analyze and score each vendor solution’s ability to meet each evaluation criterion individually. Optionally perform a bake-off to further vet a solution’s fit as necessary.
• Select:  Based on the priority-weighted score of each solution’s fit and anecdotal analysis notes, select the desired solution. Optionally perform a proof-of-concept to validate the selection.

Benefits include:

• Provides detailed traceability and due diligence that clearly and confidently justifies your conclusions
• Leverages a scientific approach that separates evaluation criteria priorities from evaluation scoring reducing evaluation bias and facilitating what-if analysis by adjusting priorities after the completed evaluation
• Perficient’s cloud computing vendor database accelerates solution identification and evaluation while ensuring the evaluation is based on the most up-to-date market information and Perficient insight