Comments on: "Why don't you just tell me which system to buy?" https://effectivedatabase.com/why-dont-you-just-tell-me-which-system-to-buy/ Making data management a revenue generator Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:43:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: Wes Trochlil https://effectivedatabase.com/why-dont-you-just-tell-me-which-system-to-buy/#comment-932 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:17:42 +0000 http://effectivedatabase.com/2008/02/28/why-dont-you-just-tell-me-which-system-to-buy/#comment-932 Thanks for your thoughts, Mark. I agree there are better packages, but I think there are also “classes” of software. That is, there are packages appropriate for really large organizations (like yours) and others that are more appropriate for smaller organizations. Thus my position that there is no easy answer to “which system is best?”

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By: Mark https://effectivedatabase.com/why-dont-you-just-tell-me-which-system-to-buy/#comment-931 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:46:29 +0000 http://effectivedatabase.com/2008/02/28/why-dont-you-just-tell-me-which-system-to-buy/#comment-931 There really are better packages. Face it consultants make a living, sometimes even better then the software vendors, from facilitating the selection process. And associations typically want to use an “independant consultant” instead of an informed staff member making a sole decision.

If you are buying a car you can get viable research from Consumer Reports, JD Powers, Edmunds, etc to narrow the choices down real fast.

Software in this class is vastly different as there is little if any true independant research such as Forrester, Gartner, Yankee and little if any worthwhile industry news. So your left with sifting through promised functionality and a consultant who has seen it before should be able to offer up biased opinion based upon their insight and experiences.

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