How does one go about choosing a software vendor after having seen many presentations from many software vendors, from a user preference perspective?
I ask this question on behalf of a friend who has been put in charge of making such an evaluation, without any prior experience. I thought the experience of the SO community might generate something considerably more useful than a bit of googling.
Domain specificity is not important, but if it helps at all the systems currently being evaluated are Treasury systems and ERP (Electronic Resource Planning).
Thanks in advance for any help/ideas offered.
See if you can find existing users of the packages either through people you actually know or through forums online. See what the pain points and advantages are. Also, you should press the vendors with questions about your specific usage scenario and demand real answers and not just sales/marketing spin; you're trying to see if the package will actually solve your problem.