For Business Process & Applications Professionals (Length: 12 pages)

July 2, 2004

Put Enterprise Applications To The Usability Test

Usability Drives Adoption, Productivity, And Project ROI

by John Ragsdale

with Erin Kinikin, Liz Herbert, Bruce D. Temkin


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Enterprise applications, whether packaged from software vendors or internally developed, have historically lacked an end user focus for user interface (UI) design. Strong application usability encourages user adoption, increases employee productivity and data accuracy, and contributes to project ROI. Before buying or building a new software application — or when making a decision about overhauling an existing implementation — evaluate application usability as a critical component, right along with technology, architecture, and functional breadth and depth. Forrester's Enterprise Application Usability Evaluation provides an objective view of a vendor's packaged application as well as internally developed applications, allowing companies to identify usability strengths and weakness prior to launching the software to end users.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemDefining The Business Problem: A Bad UI Is Expensive

itemUI Design Has Been An Art, Not A Science

itemThe Cost Of A Bad User Interface Is High

itemHow To Design Usable Applications: Start With A Plan

itemEvaluating Application Usability

itemEase Of Use: Practical And Intuitive

itemReliability

itemSophistication

recommendations

itemAdding Usability Reviews To The Product Cycle

itemSupplemental Material

Forrester interviewed 10 vendor and user companies, including: Cooper, EnvoyWorldWide, Mental Models, PeopleSoft, and Remedy, a BMC Software company.

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