Unlike most of the consulting firms focused in Business Intelligence or Performance Management, Strafford chose to remain TECHNOLOGY VENDOR INDEPENDENT. While this can be a lonely stance, it truly empowers our teams to help clients pick the right technology, not solely the ones we like to work with.
As an independent advisor to many firms evaluating Performance Management technology, Strafford has a proven approach to properly evaluate and select the best tool for the job at hand. Not simply an organization out to create endless Requests for Proposals (RFP), our teams truly live the business problem and implicitly understand the methods by which many distinct technology firms address these challenges.
We follow a requirement driven process centered on mutual discovery and education. Unlike many organizations that work to complicate the selection process, our focus is building true insight within the decision making team. Most technology solutions approach business problems with a common theme – in fact, often over 70% of requirements in even the most rigid RFP process are met by every vendor in the process. Our approach focuses the buying team on the 30% that is distinct and often deterministic. Nothing else matters.
Why waste precious time and energy educating yourself toward a technology selection process you will likely only work once a decade?