Find the right technology for your data, your users, and your organization.
Selecting the right DAM, MAM, digital preservation, or AI tool can be daunting.
We take a people-first approach to help you connect humans and data. Uncover users’ needs, goals, and behaviors to articulate your requirements, prioritize needs, and identify solutions. Put AVP’s experience and expertise to work for you, and make important technology investment decisions with confidence.
Selecting the right DAM, MAM, digital preservation system, or AI tool can be daunting. We take the view that technology serves people and that successful selection is enabled by a deep understanding of users’ needs, goals, and behaviors. We can help you articulate your requirements, prioritize needs, identify potential solutions, and find the perfect fit for your organization.
For DAM, MAM, and DPS selection, we offer three different options of Direct technology selection service, depending on your needs and goals:
| Package 1 | Package 2 | Package 3 | |
| Stakeholder alignment workshop | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Discovery interviews | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Requirements & usage scenarios documentation | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Potential solutions shortlist | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| RFP creation | ✔ | ✔ | |
| RFP distribution support and vendor Q&A | ✔ | ||
| Detailed proposal analysis | ✔ | ||
| Vendor demo coordination & attendance | ✔ |
For AI evaluation and selection services, we follow a similar process, but instead of RFPs and system demos, we establish ground truth data and test available solutions to evaluate suitability for your needs.
Looking to build a custom tool and want help finding the right service provider? We can help draft specifications, requirements, RFx, and evaluate proposals.
You have the right team assembled and are ready to look for a new solution, but could benefit from some guidance on what steps to take.
Let our experienced consultants train you in our proven technology selection process. Over the course of three sessions with your team, we will cover everything you need to know to find the right fit. Training sessions cover
- The role and composition of the selection team
- Identifying and prioritizing needs, stakeholders, and scope
- Interviewing stakeholders
- Creating your most powerful selection tool — usage scenarios
- Documenting and prioritizing functional, technical, performance, and data requirements
- Creating an effective RFx*
- Shortlisting candidate solutions/vendors
- Apples-to-apples proposal evaluation
- Demonstrations that actually work
- Preparing for implementation
After completing the training, you will receive:
- Recordings of all three sessions
- Slides from all presentations
- A comprehensive set of templates and checklists
- Access to exercise outcomes created during the training sessions
This service also includes additional coaching time, so that we can check-in and answer questions as you move forward.
