Evaluate utility of software or hardware technologies
Most of the output can be produced by software today.
Software can pull the data, run the comparison and write up what it found. The accuracy depends almost entirely on whether it is wired into the real system of record rather than a stale copy, which is the problem the tools and auth layer exists to solve.
| How automatable | Mostly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Analysis and evaluation work |
| Jobs that do it | 14 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Builders, Tools and auth |
| O*NET activity | Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People (4.A.2.a.1) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 14 occupations that perform it.
- Identify, evaluate, or procure hardware or software for implementing online marketing campaigns.
- Assess the usefulness of pre-developed application packages and adapt them to a user environment.
- Design, develop, select, test, implement, and evaluate new or modified informatics solutions, data structures, and decision-support mechanisms to support patients, health care professionals, and their information management and human-computer and human-technology interactions within health care contexts.
- Prepare evaluations of software or hardware, and recommend improvements or upgrades.
- Identify, evaluate and recommend hardware or software technologies to achieve desired database performance.
- Evaluate or recommend software for testing or bug tracking.
- Evaluate or recommend server hardware or software.
- Assess the quality of security controls, using performance indicators.
- Evaluate blockchain processes or risks based on security assessments or control matrix reviews.
- Evaluate current or emerging technologies to consider factors such as cost, portability, compatibility, or usability.
- Submit project deliverables, ensuring adherence to quality standards.
- Evaluate processes and technologies, and suggest revisions to increase productivity and efficiency.
- Evaluate new emerging media or technologies and make recommendations for their application within Internet marketing or search marketing campaigns.
- Develop, implement, or evaluate health information technology applications, tools, processes, or structures to assist nurses with data management.
- Investigate system component suitability for specified purposes, and make recommendations regarding component use.
- Analyze computer and information technologies to determine applicability to nursing practice, education, administration, and research.
- Evaluate existing systems to determine effectiveness, and suggest changes to meet organizational requirements.
What we would actually use
One recommendation rather than a shortlist, because a shortlist is just your problem handed back. This is what we would buy for analysis and evaluation work, and what it costs.
Start in the assistant with an export of the real data, because the accuracy problem here is a stale copy rather than a weak model. Make, at $9 a month, is the cheapest way to put the pull on a schedule once the analysis is worth repeating.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
14 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Blockchain Engineers
- Clinical Data Managers
- Computer Systems Analysts
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects
- Computer User Support Specialists
- Database Administrators
- Database Architects
- Health Informatics Specialists
- Information Security Engineers
- Information Technology Project Managers
- Search Marketing Strategists
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
- Web Administrators
- Web Developers
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Evaluate the characteristics, usefulness, or performance of products or technologies”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.