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• Independence
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• Annual license
• Free report
• Access to selected reports

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The cost of the annual license amounts to a mere few days of a senior professional's salary

The cost of the annual license that enables executives to fully access the Yphise research amounts to a mere few days of a senior professional's salary.

• The license guarantees effective monitoring and decisions during an entire year at a price clearly below the cost of conducting the research required to complete a single report.
• The benefits of just one good idea or decision resulting from the use of our research greatly exceed the cost of the annual license.
• Finally, the annual license provides IT executives with results extremely difficult to attain by internal teams.

Independent research since 1985

Yphise is an independent company that conducts ongoing research for helping IT executives making sound strategic, operational and investment decisions. Our independence since 1985 proves our unparalleled expertise in helping the IT executives stand back from operational pressure and arrive at sound decisions focused on the issues of large companies. Thousands of IT decisions have used Yphise research since 1985. ISO 9001:2000-certification is evidence of this unique independence and expertise.

The portfolio of valuable software projects for consideration by IT executives

Yphise independent research program continuously monitors the strategies and solutions of all successful software vendors in order to select valuable and high-priority projects for improving the business performance. Each year, Yphise research draws up the portfolio of valuable projects that the IT executives of each large company should consider when making investment decisions.

Yphise puts forth investment recommendations on software solutions based on accurate assessment according to valuable business cases. Yphise transforms high-level strategies or complicated problems in concrete projects with accurate benefits and valuable software solutions, backed by the demonstrated commitment of the vendor and by useful strengths.

Yphise research covers all IT missions in order to guarantee consistent strategies: IT Governance and Management (GM), Information System management (IS), Conducting Projects (PR), Service and Operations management (SO).

Yphise expertise covers all IT missions

GM IT Governance and Management - Method and quality management - IT financial and asset management - IT risk control - Outsourcing strategies - Business partnership management - Demands and project portfolio mngt

IS Information System Management - Architecture - Industrializing - Security

PR Conducting Projects - Conducting projects - Architecture - Industrializing - Security - Testing - Maintainance - Service continuity - Service level management

SO Service and Operations Management - Change and release management - Environnement delivery - Operations - Help desk, incidents, problems - Service continuity - Service level management

Yphise annual license for IT executives

The Yphise annual license provides IT executives with the useful results in order to guarantee effective investment decisions and software projects. This license includes online access to the following reports.

• The Software Investment & Project Planning (SIPP) report (25 pages) and the 4 updates to be released in the next 12 months

  The SIPP report provides executives with accurate understanding of the software market opportunities in a single and thought-provoking document. A five-minute review of each update allows each executive to appreciate the new valuable and high-priority projects selected by Yphise, to stand back from operational difficulties or conflicts, or to reevaluate the existing or requested projects in order to increase business performance. The SIPP report provides unparalleled value for helping the IT executives arrive at sound decisions.

• + The available EXECUTIVE volumes (20 pages) and the 12 EXECUTIVE volumes to be released in the next 12 months

  Our detailed conclusions on each project opportunity in the SIPP report are released in the corresponding EXECUTIVE volume. Each EXECUTIVE volume provides executives with accurate assessment of the corresponding software project opportunity. It establishes the benefits, scope, key requirements, as well as a final short list of solutions with proven strengths and demonstrated commitment of the vendors. Finally, it ranks the shortlisted solutions after their in-depth ISO 9001:2000-certified assessment.

• [+] [-] The corresponding detailed assessment reports (about 150 pages) aimed at project leaders.

  Each detailed assessment includes two volumes:

  • The REQUIREMENTS volume (30 pages) provides accurate understanding of the business and IT benefits for proving the investment opportunity. It identifies the useful list of requirements in order to accurately focus the project according to benefits and to score each shortlisted solution. This reference list of functional and technical requirements is practical, in order to evaluate the capacity of the solutions to provide an adequate return on investment. It is also proactive, in order to appreciate the upcoming perspectives.
  • The ASSESSMENT volume (150 pages) provides our selective short list of valuable solutions with demonstrated commitment of the vendor and useful strengths. It outlines our opinion on each shortlisted solution, our final ranking, as well as the detailed comparative assessment. The detailed assessment of each solution includes accurate tables and comments for detailed comparison of the strengths and weaknesses.

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Access to selected reports

The license is the most effective way of gaining the best value from Yphise unique research. But you can also buy access to selected reports at software-assessment.yphise.com.