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Find the right software for your project management requirements. On one of Europe’s biggest evaluation platforms.



Introducing a project management software usually incurs high investment amounts. And not just costs for licences, maintenance, and services provided by the software manufacturer, but also internal opportunity costs: a software implementation is a project that ties up the involved employees mostly for weeks and months at a time.
This alone puts the implementation project decision-makers under enormous pressure to succeed. One of the particular challenges is that the experience to be gained by having successfully achieved implementation is actually already required at the start of the project.
As a manufacturer-independent consulting company, we are an important partner for our clients at this stage. We bring in the required experience for securing the success of an evaluation and implementation project. And with the help of our corporation partner Trovarit, we provide one of the biggest software evaluation platforms there is: pmToolfinder enables us to match your requirements to a suitable manufacturer.


PM Toolfinder

What do we do differently?
One of our core service promises is to bring consultancy and implementation together. Depending on our mandate, we not only support the evaluation process but take on responsibility in the subsequent implementation phase. Our experience in handling numerous implementation projects is a significant value added for our clients.
Make your Evaluation using one of the Biggest Platforms in Europe
pmToolfinder is based on Trovarit’s IT-Matchmaker®. This solution covers over 1,600 software products and more than 15,000 reference projects, making it Germany’s market leader and one of the biggest evaluation platforms in Europe. Around 25% of all new investments in business software in Germany are made via this platform.
Based on a methodical and structured approach and sound expert support – e.g. via set performance requirement standards – pmToolfinder is a key tool in finding the right solution in a vast and overwhelming market of software applications.
Guaranteed Independence from any Manufacturer
Consultancies are occasionally said to show an affinity for certain manufacturers, despite all claims of impartiality. Particularly manufacturers whose products have already been tried and tested are given preference in such cases.
Evaluations via the pmToolfinder platform are systemically prevented from taking such “preferences” into consideration. This guarantees provider impartiality.
In addition, those in charge of evaluation projects at Le Bihan also ensure impartiality. In this respect we cooperate with Prof. Dr. Kreitel and consultant Wolfram Ott who is certified as a Project Director Level A (CPM GPM). Apart from our independence, we can hence also guarantee a high degree of quality and experience.
Our Services
The objective of an evaluation is to find a software that is the best possible match for a company’s requirements. To ensure a successful evaluation it is not sufficient to gather together requirements and search for the software with the greatest range of matching features within an agreed cost budget. This kind of evaluation would probably give insufficient consideration to factors such as corporate culture or maturity.
Many features considered “must have” in the evaluation phase proved to be irrelevant when the software is subsequently deployed. At the same time other functions considered unimportant in the evaluation phase are later sorely missed.
In addition to pmToolfinder, we offer in-depth experience gained from more than 25 years of managing evaluation projects. Set out in detail, we offer support in the following fields:

• Strategic Consultancy and Analysis
• Organisational Development and Change Management
• Process Analysis and Reorganisation
• Requirements Analysis
• Drafting of Specifications Documentation
• Market Research
• Invitations to Tender, incl. drafting of RFIs, RFPs, etc.
• Preparing and conducting Provider/Product Presentations
• Decision-Making (Long List, Short List)
• Pilot Testing
• Contractual Negotiations
• Steering in the Implementation Phase
• Review and Optimisation