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 This Buying Guide provides a checklist of questions to ask in order to create a requirements specification for buying Cloud / Hosting services. Selecting the right service is entirely dependent on your requirement, and selecting the wrong model can be costly. This Buying Guide outlines the information you should provide, and the questions you should ask to validate a supplier's responses when going through the Buying process.

The second in the Buying Guide series features Telephony / Voice focussed questions to enable you to create an accurate requirements specification when buying Telephony / Voice services. Sourcing the right provider is based on a number of specialist requirements which are covered in this guide.

This Buying Guide provides a checklist of questions to ask in order to create a requirements specification for buying Office 365 (Technical, Operational and Commercial), questions you should ask to validate a supplier's responses, and suggestions on how to find a good quality supplier of services.

This is a simple scoring matrix to help perform a weighted assessment of suppliers in a procurement exercise.  Feel free to use for a small subset of categories (maximum 6) with a 100% weighting across categories.  Some Excel skills required to manipulate to cater for addtional suppliers or categories.