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, Hyper-V 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 (backend)	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 (backend)	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 (backend)	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
Mozilla	PDF.js	PDF renderer (frontend)	0 EUR	single purchase	low	Simple pdf frontend renderer. Alternatives are available but not implemented (e.g. PDFium, PSPDFKit, PDFTron, ...).	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
TeamViewer	TeamViewer	Remote desktop connection	219.50 EUR per month	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 Visual Studio Express Visual Studio Code	Source code version control Programming IDE Programming Editor	0 EUR 0 EUR 0 EUR	subscription single purchase single purchase	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. For Visual Studio many alternatives exist out of which some are already provided (i.e. Visual Studio Code, Sublime)	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
PHP	PHP	Programming language	0 EUR	single purchase	very high	Alternative solutions exist (e.g. node/javascript or C#) but would require substantial efforts in re-writing the application and it's modules	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
MariaDB	MariaDB	Database	0 EUR	single purchase	very low	Alternative solutions are already implemented and ready for use.	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
Oracle	MySQL	Database	not purchased	single purchase	very low	Alternative solutions are already implemented and ready for use.	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Postgresql	Database	0 EUR	single purchase	very low	Alternative solutions are already implemented and ready for use.	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
Microsoft	SQLSrv	Database	0 EUR	single purchase	very low	Alternative solutions are already implemented and ready for use.	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
SQLite	SQLite	Database	0 EUR	single purchase	very low	Alternative solutions are already implemented and ready for use.	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
Memcached	Memcached	Memory cache	0 EUR	single purchase	very low	A alternative solution is already implemented and ready for use. This software is also not necessary and only provides improved performance.	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
Redis Ltd.	Redis	Memory cache	0 EUR	single purchase	very low	A alternative solution is already implemented and ready for use. This software is also not necessary and only provides improved performance.	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
The Apache Software Foundation	Apache2	Web server	0 EUR	single purchase	very low	A alternative solution is already implemented and ready for use.	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
F5, Inc.	nginx	Web server	0 EUR	single purchase	very low	A alternative solution is already implemented and ready for use.	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
Tesseract	tesseract-ocr	OCR	0 EUR	single purchase	high	Alternative solutions exist but are more expensive to implement (e.g. TensorFlow, Google Cloud Vision, Amazon Rekognition)	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
Fonticons, Inc.	Font Awesome	Icon font	0 EUR	single purchase	very low	Alternative solutions are already implemented and ready for use.	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
Roonas	Linearicons	Icon font	0 EUR	single purchase	very low	Alternative solutions are already implemented and ready for use.	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
Lineicons	Lineicons	Icon font	0 EUR	single purchase	very low	Alternative solutions are already implemented and ready for use.	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
ispOne business GmbH	Hosting	Website hosting	49.41 EUR per year	subscription	very low	Alternative solutions exist and can be implemented within 1 day.	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01
Namecheap, Inc.	Domain	Domain provider	13.24 EUR per year	subscription	medium	Alternatvie solutions exist however losing the domain name would hurt the marketing.	No significant issues.	Dennis Eichhorn	2022-01-01

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

Consider to update the Approved Customer Software when changing this table.

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