Abstract: A process for analyzing financial data associated with deploying a software product to aid an organization in a purchase evaluation of the software product is provided. The process provides a knowledge base having a first set of information representative of criteria that have been empirically determined to provide a financial analysis of the software product. The process then collects, in a form of a user response to a set of questions, a second set of information representative of factors involved in the deployment the software product to aid in the financial analysis. The first and second sets of information are thereafter processed to generate a result representative of the financial analysis.