CIO’s Guide to Creating Sound Software Contracts
Writing a comprehensive software contract is challenging, especially when you’re dealing with a large, complex deployment, writes Paul Korzeniowski in a commentary published by InformationWeek.
“Crafting comprehensive requirement documents, monitoring the licensing terms, and being aware of potential gotchas will help ensure a contract works for you, your business, and the vendor with which you’ve chosen to engage. It’s important for you to start the procurement process by outlining the desired features of a software system in a requirements document. Knowing which features are important to your business, and which are not, is vital to the process,” he explains.
The article describes how CIOs need to understand where potential contract potholes lie and steer around them.
