Build Your AI Solution Selection Criteria

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The age of AI is here. You have been asked by the business to go shopping for AI capabilities that support key business goals, possibly including:

Platforms to fast-track the delivery of AI capabilities with canned AI models and data engineering capabilities available out-of-the-box.
Enterprise software with integrated AI capabilities.
Infrastructure to support AI capabilities in your organization.

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Critical Insight

What buyers are looking for is evolving, and what's offered in the market is changing daily. Differentiation between AI platforms and solutions becomes most visible and stable when viewed through the lens of the well-prepared buyer.

Impact and Result

Use Info-Tech’s practical methodology to:

Ensure you have a view of expected value before you start to build selection criteria.
Evaluate your buyer profile and identify key influences on your buying decision.
Highlight the key capabilities that matter most to delivering on your high-value AI use cases.
Evaluate solutions in the market to identify key differentiated solution capabilities.

Build Your AI Solution Selection Criteria Research & Tools

1. Build Your AI Solution Selection Criteria Storyboard – Select an AI platform vendor for your organization.

A step-by-step document that walks you through how to select an AI platform vendor that best aligns with your organization.

2. AI Buyer Assessment Tool – A tool to explore and define the current attitudes and positions within your organization regarding AI adoption and vendor experience.

Use this tool to build your understanding of the current attitudes and positions within your organization regarding AI adoption and vendor experience. This will help focus and support your organization's efforts to select an AI vendor platform provider.

3. AI Reference Architecture – a starting point to help you conceptualize, document, communicate, and validate AI solution designs.

Use our AI Reference Architecture Template to identify key technical capabilities required to support high-value AI use cases.

4. AI Software Capability Comparison Tool – A tool to support your initial research into AI vendor and software capabilities.

Use this tool to structure your initial research into AI vendor and software capabilities. It is intended to be used as part of Info-Tech's methodology, Build Enterprise AI Selection Criteria.

5. AI Vendor Questionnaire – examples of open-ended questions to help structure conversations with prospective AI vendors.

Tailor the questions in this template to reflect your own high-value use cases and required capabilities. Use the questions support focused, high-value vendor interviews.

6. AI Vendor Selection Criteria Tool – a structure and example content to support an accelerated or formal selection processes.

Use this tool to document detailed selection criteria you can use in an accelerated or highly formal software selection process.

Build Your AI Solution Selection Criteria visualization

Get to the right questions with a look through the buyer’s lens.

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