Organization-Guide/Processes/Purchase/Key Supplier Evaluation.md

Key Supplier Evaluation

Name	Products & Services	Description	Annual amount	Type	Dependency risk	Alternative evaluation	Quality evaluation	Last evaluated by	Last evaluated
Oracle	VirtualBox	Machine virtualization	0 EUR	single purchase	very low	Alternative solutions such as VMWare or KVM don't provide any significant benefits for the general use case. Customers can still choose a different solution regardless.	No significant issues	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
PHPOffice	PhpSpereadsheet, PHPWord, PHPPresentation	Office software	0 EUR	single purchase	medium	No alternative supplier could be found which combines all three products and same functionality. Solutions which cover a single aspect are available but more inconvenient to use.	No significant issues but the performance (e.g. memory usage) limits the use cases and requires parallelizing certain tasks.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
mPDF	mPDF	PDF renderer	0 EUR	single purchase	low	Alternative solutions don't provide the same level of html/css rendering capabilities. Alternatives are also available through PHPWord or tcpdf.	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
Tecnick	tcpdf	PDF renderer	0 EUR	single purchase	low	Fastest php pdf renderer. Alternatives are also available through PHPWord or mpdf.	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
TeamViewer	TeamViewer	Remote desktop connection		subscription	very low	No alternative is as conveniently to use or is as broadly implemented (works on many different OS). It is the most well established remote desktop connection tool for support purposes. Alternatives VNC solutions could work as a fall back in a worst case situation.	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
Microsoft	github	Source code version control	0 EUR	subscription	very low	The closest alternative is gitlab. However, github is the most established solution which is simple to use and provides the necessary functionality. It's also possible to host alternative solutions on the company servers in a worst case situation.	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01

Single purchase can also mean one time download for software without any dependency on other services.

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