Security Platform

The organisation I work for is rationalising it's security product set across the globe. At present we have silo IT Security organisations with different products in different countries. We have elected to simplify licensing and support by rationalising onto common products and processes, all of which is pretty obvious and straight forward.

My question (as my team will have to define the platform) : what are the primary considerations we should keep in mind when we select the products? My current focus is on ease of administration, ease of integration, cost reductions - but that really is based on the premise that the products will work equally well.

Thoughts?