
1) Project delivery history
2) Skilled resource availability
3) Business health of the implementation partner
4) Domain expertise
Assessing these factors is difficult, but with the right RFP/RFQ and industry knowledge not impossible
Here is a bit of industry gossip around resourcing to get you started:
ATG - Been around for years, Oracle owned, not seeing much delivery activity in the Melbourne market, maybe suited to bigger retail than we have here
Websphere - Also been around for years, lead the early adoption in B2B and B2C, seems to be a very serious shortfall in top end configuration skills, A quick query in seek shows 150 jobs available. Unless you have a guru here ( not Bangalore ) its going to take a year to deliver a project
Demandware - Hosted cloud model means less to worry about, Growing presence in Australia, would be on my short list
Hybris - Just purchased by SAP, Again winning some high profile clients. Would also be on my short list, eventually may suffer the same fate as websphere, Good Java dev-ops resources are already $750/day and are hard to get.
Magneto - Half the digital agencies in Australia seems to be claiming a competency in Magneto, watch out for shallow experience. Defiantly the popular pick at the moment. Again good to have on the short list but speed issues and buggy extensions are a minefield for the inexperienced
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