RE: change management software

Apologies to Mark and to Softlanding if my reply gave a poor impression of 
Softlanding's product or pricing.  At the time we evaluated all the packages, 
Softlanding's offering was quite a bit more than the others.  Now this may have 
been because we could pare down the features of the other products and could 
not do the same with Softlanding or it may have been just the competitor's 
willingness to undercut others' prices or perhaps some other reason I cannot 
recall.  My reply reflects only my experience and that experience was several 
years ago.
 
I'd encourage anyone looking in to making an investment in CM software to take 
the recommendations from this group and perform your own evaluations to come to 
your own conclusions.
 
Regards,
Brian

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: Mark Phippard [mailto:MarkP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
        Sent: Wed 12/3/2003 9:00 AM 
        To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion 
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        Subject: RE: change management software
        
        

        I was not planning to join this thread because I am not sure it is
        appropriate, but I just wanted to comment on one point mentioned in this
        post, because I have now seen it repeated in speculation in another 
post.
        
        TurnOver (SoftLanding's product) is not nearly double the cost of the
        other products.  I actually believe that we are the least expensive of 
the
        three mentioned, but I am not initimately familiar with everyone's price
        lists either.  I do believe, however, that if you were to compare the 
List
        price of each of the three products they would all be within 10% of each
        other, probably closer to 5%.
        
        Thanks
        
        Mark Phippard
        Director of Development
        SoftLanding Systems
        
        
        
        
        
        
        "Brian Eckenrod" <beckenrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
        Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
        12/02/2003 04:36 PM
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        A few years ago I headed a project to choose change management software
        for my employer.  We reviewed all the major players at the time:  
Silvon,
        Aldon, Softlanding, perhaps some others I cannot remember.
        
        The basic outcome was that Softlanding was, by far, the superior product
        when comparing features and fuctions, but was also nearly double the 
cost
        of the others.  I believe our second choice, just based on features and
        function was Silvon's product.  I do have proctical experience with
        Softlanding and Silvon and would choose Softlanding based on that
        experience as well.
        
        As it turned out, we did not purchase anything as the AS400 group was
        absorbed in to an SAP implementation, but that's a story for another
        day....
        
        This was a couple years ago, so I'm sure the features of each have
        changed, but that's my experience.
        
        HTH,
        Brian
        
                         -----Original Message-----
                         From: McBride, Catherine [mailto:CMcbride@xxxxxxxxx]
                         Sent: Tue 12/2/2003 2:31 PM
                         To: 'midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
                         Cc:
                         Subject: change management software
        
        
        
                         We are evaluating change management software for 
ISeries,
        and would enjoy
                         hearing what products you might be using.  Any info
        you're willing to share
                         will be much much appreciated!
                                                                         Kind
        Regards,
         Cathy McBride
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