{"id":57699,"date":"2009-11-17T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmswatch.com\/Trends\/1739-RFI-as-Asset?source=RSS"},"modified":"2009-11-17T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T19:33:00","slug":"rfi-as-rich-asset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/57699","title":{"rendered":"RFI as rich asset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with one of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmswatch.com\/CMS\/Report\/\">Web CMS Report<\/a> subscribers today, someone who is leading a state government&#8217;s effort to modernize its WCM system. The question arose as to how to keep vendors from giving softball answers to hardball questions when submitting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmswatch.com\/SiteSearch\/?query=rfi&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\">Request for Information<\/a>. I proposed a simple expedient: Require screenshots.<\/p>\n<p>If a product supports a certain type of functionality via a graphical user interface, the vendor should have no qualms about showing the UI in question, doing the operation in question. It&#8217;s one thing to be told &quot;Yes, our admin interface supports restricting a user&#8217;s right to Copy or Move a file&quot; (for example), but a picture, as they say, is worth a thousand workarounds.<\/p>\n<p>What about when the vendor comes back with &quot;This functionality is easily implemented via changes to a configuration file&quot; (or via an API call)? Very well: In that case, let&#8217;s see the relevant XML fragment (or code snippet) with the changes highlighted. Demand to see the relevant lines of code. Is that so much to ask?<\/p>\n<p>Hey, the worst that could happen is that the vendor will skip past a few of your harder questions &#8212; or complain that your RFI process is just too burdensome. In which case, you&#8217;ve already learned a great deal indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with one of our Web CMS Report subscribers today, someone who is leading a state government&#8217;s effort to modernize its WCM system. The question arose as to how to keep vendors from giving softball answers to hardball questions when submitting a Request for Information. I proposed a simple expedient: Require screenshots. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}