Technology Fast Track
If you’re investing in taxonomy to improve findability, now is the time to assess your taxonomy management, tagging, content management, and search technologies to assure they will put your taxonomy to work for you. The Earley & Associates Technology Selection Fast Track service rapidly defines the right technology at the right price to meet the needs of your taxonomy project, analyzing your business goals and current state in terms of people, process, technology, and content.
Specifying Requirements for Taxonomy Management Tools
Investing in a taxonomy creates value – but only if it can be created, maintained, and deployed effectively. The right technology can help simplify the task of taxonomy creation and management, and can extend the capabilities that your current IT infrastructure provides.
Having expert advice on technology selection helps maximize the investment you’ve already made in content technologies and minimizes the costs of change – and assures that your taxonomy project will achieve its goals as well.
How Much Technology Do You Really Need?
When it comes time to select the right technologies to implement your taxonomy, you may find that the options are daunting and the vendor landscape confusing. Earley & Associates can help you avoid getting bogged down with the “analysis paralysis” that usually results when developing detailed technology requirements:
- How can you better leverage your existing technology investment?
- What are the features that will really drive business results?
- Which vendors should you consider?
- Can you get this done in less than a month?
Steps in the Technology Fast Track - Click to enlarge
Insightful Management of the Technology Selection Process
Technology selection is a quick project that can be done with minimal business stakeholder involvement. We will evaluate your existing technology, your business goals, and your taxonomy development and end-user requirements. We assess the capabilities and gaps of your current infrastructure for taxonomy management, tagging, and search – and which vendors and products are most likely to meet your needs. Detailed feature requirements are defined for search, content management, tagging, and taxonomy management for the scenario that’s right for your organization. And we manage the vendor RFIs and demonstrations for up to six technology providers, ensuring an insightful, rigorous selection process.
Vendor Selection “Speed Dating”
Our holistic view of taxonomy technology keeps the focus of the project on your business success. Our experts help you identify the technology usage scenarios that matter to your business. Scenarios help us rapidly identify a short list of the relevant vendors, and map business benefits to the scenarios, not the features.
And it’s fast, too. Think of it as “speed dating” for vendor selection and cost-benefit analysis. One thing we promise — working with Earley & Associates will assure that the technology you select will meet the goals of your taxonomy project.
