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Section

Topic

Question

Product Usage

Number of users

How many people in your organization use the product? What business functions do they represent?

Ongoing support requirement

How many people do you have in-house to support the product on an on-going basis?  Describe the types of people or skills required to support the product.

Business processes

What are the 3-5 most important use cases for this product in your organization?

Innovative uses

What are some unexpected or innovative ways that your organization has been able to use this product?

Future uses

What are some additional ways that your organization might be able to use this product in the future?

Likelihood to renew rating

On a scale of 1-10, how likely are you to renew your use of this product?

Product Selection

Previous software package

Did this product replace another product in your organization? What products did you replace and why did you want to replace them?

Decision factors

Which factors were most important in your decision to purchase this product? Can you elaborate on the single most important factor in your decision?

Recommendations

If you had to do it again, how might you change your evaluation and selection process?

Implementation

Type of implementation

How did your organization implement this product? If you used a professional services company, what company performed the implementation?

Phased implementation

Was the implementation broken up into phases? Describe the phases of the implementation.

Change management

Was organizational change management a big part of the implementation? What lessons regarding change management did you take away from implementing this product?

Implementation issues

What were the most significant issues encountered during implementation?

Implementation rating

On a scale of 1-10, how satisfied were you with the implementation? Do you have any key insights regarding implementation of the product?






Training

Types of training

What kind of training did your organization get on the product?

In-person training rating

On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the in-person training? Why do you give it this rating?

Online training rating

On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the online training? Why do you give it this rating?

No training

Was the product easy to learn without training?  Would you recommend this approach to others?


Configuration

Configurability rating

On a scale of 1-10, how configurable is the product? Do you think that the product's configurability is too limited, too extensive or complex, or just right for this type of product?

Configuration recommendations

Do you have specific recommendations or "best practices" for configuring this product?

Customized UI

Have you customized the user interface? If so, why and how easy was it to do?

Custom code

Have you added any custom code to this product? If so why and how easy was it to do?

Final thoughts

Any additional configuration or customization that you did for this product that you want to mention?

Support

Customer support (likert)

Please rate customer support for the product for each of these factors ...

Premium support

If available, do you pay for premium support? Why or why not?

Support rating

On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the overall support for this product? Why do you give it this rating?

Bug reports

Have you ever reported a bug with this product? If so, was it resolved to your satisfaction and in a timely fashion?

Great support

Can you describe a time when the vendor provided you with exceptional support for this product?

Usability

System usability scale (likert)

Please rate the product for each of the factors on the System Usability Scale …

Easy functions

What functions are particularly easy or elegant to perform using this product?

Difficult functions

What functions are particularly difficult or cumbersome to perform using this product?

Mobile UI

Does the product provide a mobile interface? How well does the mobile interface work?

Usability rating

On  a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the product's overall usability? Why do you give it this rating?

Reliability

Product scalability rating

On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the product's overall scalability? Why do you give it this rating?

Availability rating

On a scale of 1-10 (10 being best), how would you rate this product's availability? In other words, is the product available when you need it? Availability issues might include things like application errors or unplanned outages. Why do you give it this rating?

Performance rating

On a scale of 1-10 (10 being best), how would you rate this product's performance? For example, do pages load quickly? Do reports complete in a reasonable time frame, given their complexity?  If the product integrates with any other software or systems, does it tend to slow them down? Why do you give it this rating?

Integration

Systems integrated

What systems have you integrated or attempted to integrate with?  What is the depth of integration and how difficult was it to achieve?

Desired integrations

Are there systems that you would like to integrate with or plan to integrate with?  To your knowledge, do the vendors support or plan to support this integration?

Integration technologies

Which of these integration technologies have you used with this product? Any others that we missed?

Ease of integration rating

On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate this product for ease of integration?  Why do you give it this rating?


Integration advice

What advice do you have regarding integration with this product?

Vendor Relationship

Vendor pre-sale rating

On a scale of 1-10, how easy was the vendor to work with during the sales process? Why do you give them this rating?

Vendor post-sale rating

On a scale of 1-10, how easy was the vendor to work with after the sale? Why do you give them this rating?

Negotiable terms

What were the principal terms that you were able to negotiate with the vendor?

Vendor advice

Do you have any tips or advice for more effectively dealing with the vendor?

Upgrading

New release experience

Have you been through the process of upgrading to a new release of this product? Did the new release go smoothly with minimal down time?  Were there any unexpected impacts of the new release?

Last upgrade benefits

What were the major benefits to your organization of the most recent upgrade?

Next upgrade benefits

What benefits are you expecting from the next upgrade?

Changed edition

Have you ever changed your edition (e.g from free to paid or professional to enterprise) of this product? Why did you choose to change editions?  How did the change go?

Might change edition

Are you considering moving to a different edition of this product (e.g. from free to paid or from professional to enterprise)? Why are you considering the change?