Database Product Assessment Questions

Database Product Assessment Questions

[Product Name]: Product Assessment

Prepared for CompuMentor by [Name]

[Date]

General Product Information

Name of product:

Date of first release:

Current release version:

Licensing issues:

General description of product: 

Target audience for product:

Desktop or web application:  

Size of user community:

Percentage of nonprofit/government/for-profit users:  

Users of product among CompuMentor’s clients:

Other related products:  

Independent reviews or case studies of product: 

 

 Costs

Core product deliverables and cost:

Add-on modules and cost: 

Support deliverables and cost:

 

Vendor Information

Name of vendor:

Address/phone of sales department:

Web site:

 If open source, notes about development community:

 

Support Options

Vendor support:

Bay Area consultants that work with product:

Training options:  

Online documentation:

Online support forums/email lists:

 

Features

(For each feature, provide two types of assessment: general description of feature, and general notes on usability and usefulness)

Configuration/customization options:

 ·         

 Data input features:

·         

 Search features:

 ·         

Reporting features:

 ·         

 ·         

 Mail features (labels, mail merges):

 ·         

 Email features:

 ·         

 Other office automation (with desktop email, calendaring, etc.):

 ·         

 User level/security/permissions features:

 ·         

 Backup and recovery features:

 ·         

 New features planned for upcoming releases:

 ·         

 Importing and exporting data:Search features:

Technical Considerations

Development platform:

Can application source or data structure be modified?

Hardware requirements:

Software requirements:

Maximum number of records:

Scalability issues:

Can product be used in a multi-user environment?

Maximum number of simultaneous users:

Known bugs:

Known issues with upgrades from version to version: