The ReqMan™ value proposition for IT Procurement consist of more than just the platform that includes a wide range of tools for defining your requirements and going through the Request For Proposal (RFP) or Request For Information (RFI) process collecting prices and compliance information from your suppliers. We also deliver best-practice approaches within the following key areas:

• Structure - Predefined specifications and questionnaires
• Content - Predefined IT requirements
• Workflow - Electronic support for your business processes

These key areas for best practices will ensure that you get the best possible start to your project and are able to get started quickly and you will be assisted throughout the project lifecycle towards achieving project success.

Structure

ReqMan™ is all about structure and reuse. Templates are extensively used on the ReqMan platform. Templates in your IT project consist of structure for your specifications, for example use standards like IEEE, ISO and CMMI that include table of contents and definition of custom fields such as priorities, cost estimates and test status. This ensures that your stakeholders define requirement more completely and that your potential suppliers more easily get an understanding of what you are asking for.

There are also questionnaire templates available to be used for requirement gathering and asking suppliers for information. The supplier questionnaires include various question and answer formats that can be modified by the user for example: price, configurable or requires development, comments and reservations.

All templates can be maintained by the project administrator and can easily be modified to suit any specialized needs. All templates can be saved and reused in existing or new projects ensuring consistency in the way your organization manage requirements and will help you achieve compliance.

Content

ReqMan™ is all about providing, managing and reusing content. The core content on the ReqMan™ platform is requirements. It can be a daunting task to start on a new project especially when you start gathering requirements from your stakeholders and start formalizing them. How do you make sure that you get all the angles covered and that your requirements are consistent?

ReqMan™ helps you reuse requirements from your existing projects or you can create a requirement bank containing standardized requirements that your organization can reuse for new projects. 

In addition RequirementOne has pioneered community developed requirements via the WikiRequirements.com portal where our users can publish and share their requirements with the community which in turn can seamlessly be copied and used in your local projects.

Workflow

ReqMan™ is all about processes and our workflows will assist you all the way. The ReqMan™ Workflow Module consists of a powerful and flexible workflow engine. Business processes support range from a simple process for making sure that stakeholders reply to requirement gathering questionnaire within a given time to complex decision and preview processes.

A complex business process could entail submitting different parts of an RFP/RFI to different suppliers and monitoring individual deadlines with automated follow-up and preliminary analysis of responses. RequirementOne Professional Services can help you implement workflows according to your needs.

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