4. Budget is available

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It is a fundamental variable: before starting any negotiations you need to keep in mind the total budget that you have available for software acquisition (both for the software and for the man-hour costs required for the selection activity). To establish the actual amount, some have a benchmark of solutions already acquired by the company, others rely on the word of mouth of colleagues in the same sector (or from the same industrial group). Checking how much has been spent previously for similar solutions simplifies the software selection process.

"You need to keep in mind the overall budget available to you for software acquisition switzerland rcs data : checking how much has been spent previously for similar solutions actually makes the software selection process easier."

Of course, the price of enterprise-level software is a direct result not only of its intrinsic quality, but also of the work done by the supplier for its design and development: to maximize costs, there are flexible forms of acquisition (we will see them in point 6).