Vendor selection
Vendor selection is an operations and risk decision wearing a sales process. Argumont compares named vendors, including the incumbent and 'build a thin internal...
question
Which vendor, and what would make you switch later?
A vendor decision is not a beauty contest among decks. It is a bet on implementation, support, price after discount, and how painful it is to leave.
What evidence matters
Reference customers who look like you, not logos from another industry. Security questionnaires with dates. Price including overage. An implementation plan with named people.
A demo is a claim that the product can do a thing in a controlled room. It is not proof it will do that thing in yours.
How Argumont treats it
Each vendor is an option. Criteria and weights are frozen before scoring. Missing security or reference evidence should lower confidence, not be papered over with 'we'll figure it out.'
Related pages
Compare vendors
A vendor is a dependency you will operate, pay, and possibly sue. Argumont compares the shortlist, the incumbent, and delay.
Procurement
Vendor selection fails when the RFP theater is mistaken for evidence. Argumont compares suppliers on total cost, switching difficulty, and whether claimed capab...
Compare options
When you already have two or more serious alternatives, Compare Options keeps the contest on criteria rather than on which story is more charismatic.
Questions
These pages answer a search the way an operator would: what the question hides, what evidence is needed, and how to run it in Argumont.
Compare your vendors
Argumont challenges assumptions, researches evidence, compares competing approaches, and identifies the strongest decision.
Compare your vendors