Depending on the requirements, the 360 performance evaluation software can be either a simple web-based software or it can be customized into a specific evaluation system. Web-based Software offers a number of benefits and make the employee performance evaluation accessible from anywhere, using the web. Usually, such software work by storing all the information on a secure web server. Custom solution software on the other hand allows one to configure the evaluation according to the needs of an organization or business.

As the evaluation process may not be taken kindly by certain employees, who react in a defensive manner, or it might be considered partial, thus it is important to keep the employees in the loop while using any such software in the organization. Giving the employees a set of detailed goals and explaining the motive behind such appraisals, putting forth more challenging but realistic goals, giving workable deadlines to employees, remembering to judge the work and not the personality of an employee are some the things to be kept in mind while performing such a survey.