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Does your company have a formal process for identifying, sourcing, testing, negotiating, and evaluating the functionality of a new software package? Do you blindly purchase any product that the software industry dubs “standard”? Do you purchase hardware that the hardware builder has arbitrarily loaded up with software? Do you carefully control and monitor the entire acquisition process to ensure a good investment and positive business value return? Here is a checklist that an effective asset manager might follow to maximize the quality of a given IT purchase.
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